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  • HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS IN TIMES OF THE COVID-19
    SCHMID, HILLEL
    This book explores the ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis on human service organizations from an international perspective. The pandemic is described as a “disruptive extreme event” that has resulted in extensive and intolerable physical, psychological, and material consequences for members and clients within human service organizations. The chapters in this volume h...

    $1,480.00

  • DASHBOARD DESIGN
    MICHAEL BURCH / MARCO SCHMID
    Interactive visualization and visual analytics tools have been designed and developed in the past and will be developed in the future as well. In each application domain in which data is measured, generated, and recorded we see a potential candidate for an interactive visualization tool with the goal to find insights and knowledge in the data. This knowledge can be found either...

    $2,800.00

  • TEMPLES OF LUXURY
    SUSANNE SCHMID
    This two-volume collection of British primary sources examines institutions such as hotels, inns, arcades, bazaars, co-operatives, shops and department stores in the long nineteenth century, which were often coded as ‘luxurious’. This period was marked not only by an increase of individual consumerism but also by the institutionalisation of opulent, often purpose-built spaces s...

    $1,480.00

  • CHINA’S ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS
    ROLF SCHMID / XIN XIONG
    Concomitant with a rapid increase in population and an unprecedented growth of the economy, China came to endure an alarming level of environmental damgae. In response, environmental legislation was tightened and massive environmental projects were initiated. As a result, China's environment and ecosystems are begining to recover. At the same time, the country is continuing on ...

    $1,600.00

  • BIOTECH IN CHINA
    ROLF SCHMID / XIN XIONG
    In her quest for global leadership in science and technology, the People’s Republic of China has attained top ranks in the number of scientific publications, "hot papers," or national and international patent applications. However, analysis of the underlying structures and mechanisms is hindered by the sheer flood of data, stringent government control of all media, and ambiguit...

    $2,999.00

  • HANDBOOK OF META-ANALYSIS
    CHRISTOPHER H. SCHMID / THEO STIJNEN / IAN WHITE
    Meta-analysis is the application of statistics to combine results from multiple studies and draw appropriate inferences. Its use and importance have exploded over the last 25 years as the need for a robust evidence base has become clear in many scientific areas, including medicine and health, social sciences, education, psychology, ecology, and economics. Recent years have seen...

    $1,800.00

  • EVIL IN JOINT ACTION
    HANS BERNHARD SCHMID
    Joining insights from social science and philosophy, this book offers a nuanced view on the discourse of evil, which has been on the rise in the West in recent years. Exploring the famous ‘Pear Theft’ episode in St Augustine’s Confessions, it looks beyond the theological implications of the event to focus instead on the secular insights that it offers when the event is placed i...

    $1,200.00

  • UKRAINE
    ULRICH SCHMID
    Ukraine: Contested Nationhood in a European Context challenges the common view that Ukraine is a country split between a pro-European West and a pro-Russian East. The volume navigates the complicated cultural history of Ukraine and highlights the importance of regional traditions for an understanding of the current political situation. A key feature is the different politics of...

    $540.00

  • HOW TO DRINK LIKE A SPY
    ALBERT W. A. SCHMID
    You might never live the glamorous, globetrotting life of iconic foreign agents from page and screen, but you can learn to imbibe like one! Just about everyone knows James Bond's classic martini order, "shaken, not stirred," but here you will discover new favorites from beloved novels like those by Ian Fleming and Tom Clancy and big screen blockbusters like the Jason Bourne mov...

    $251.00

  • THE POLITICS OF PAIN
    RONALD D CRELINSTEN / ALEX SCHMID
    Although a wave of democratization appears to be sweeping the globe, torture persists in more than seventy-five nations. Despite widespread condemnation of torture and the efforts of international and nongovernmental organizations to end it, the "politics of pain" continues in a broad range of social and political systems. This book is one of the first to systematically examine...

    $1,200.00

  • THE SOVIET UNION 1984/85
    GERTRAUD SEIDENSTECHER / KARIN SCHMID
    In 1984 and 1985, the swift succession in the USSR's leadership affected all levels of Soviet society. This eighth volume in a series of biennial reports on the Soviet Union analyzes domestic affairs, economics, and foreign policy in light of that succession. Power struggles within the highest echelons of the Soviet communist party are examined. Contributors evaluate prospects ...

    $1,200.00

  • BENEFIT-COST ANALYSIS
    A. ALLAN SCHMID
    Choice is the name of the game. Government sets the size of the public budget and decides which public projects it will invest in and which transfers and regulations it will implement. To do this systematically the government must have a procedure that displays the consequences of the alternatives. This book is an exposition of benefit-cost analysis (BCA), an analytic framework...

    $1,120.00

  • THE HOT BROWN
    ALBERT W. A. SCHMID
    The author of The Kentucky Bourbon Cookbook serves up Louisville lore and recipes that celebrate the city's delicious culinary staple. Originally created at its namesake the Brown Hotel, the Hot Brown began as turkey on bread covered in Mornay sauce and topped with tomato wedges and two slices of bacon, and has developed into an entire industry of fries, pizza, salads, and more...

    $179.00

  • PROCESSES OF LITERARY CREATION
    MARION SCHMID
    "This work examines the genetic processes that shaped two of the great literary masterpieces of modernity: Flaubert's ""L'Education Sentimentale"" and Proust's ""A la Recherche de Temps Perdu"". A detailed investigation of Flaubert's notebooks and scenarios from 1864 and 1869 and Proust's ""Cahiers"" from 1908 to 1911 reveals the almost diametrically opposed ways in which the t...

    $1,900.00

  • PROUST AT THE MOVIES
    MARTINE BEUGNET / MARION SCHMID
    Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own radical reworking of writing styles and the novelistic forms, and cinema as the ...

    $1,340.00

  • BURGOO, BARBECUE, & BOURBON
    ALBERT W.A. SCHMID
    This celebration of the Bluegrass State's cuisine and culture is "more than just a cookbook . . . a slice of Kentucky's history" ( Bowling Green Daily News). Burgoo, barbecue, and bourbon have long been acknowledged as a trinity of good taste in Kentucky. Known as the gumbo of the Bluegrass, burgoo is a savory stew that includes meat—usually smoked—from at least one "bird of th...

    $251.00

  • THE QUANTUM MECHANICAL THREE-BODY PROBLEM
    ERICH W. SCHMID / HORST ZIEĢELMANN
    The Quantum Mechanical Three-Body Problem deals with the three-body problem in quantum mechanics. Topics include the two- and three-particle problem, the Faddeev equations and their solution, separable potentials, and variational methods. This book has eight chapters; the first of which introduces the reader to the quantum mechanical three-body problem, its difficulties, and i...

    $970.00

  • URBAN REVOLUTION NOW
    CHRISTIAN SCHMID
    When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970, he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today, when this tendency has become reality, Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life, production of space, rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of soc...

    $1,460.00

  • LABOR MARKET INSTITUTIONS IN EUROPE: A SOCIOECONOMIC EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE
    GUNTHER SCHMID
    The outcome of three years of research on the role of institutions in labor markets at the research unit Labor Market Policy and Employment of the Social Science Research Center Berlin, these seven contributions were originally presented at a conference in December 1992 before a group of experts i ...

    $1,320.00

  • CONVERTING LAND FROM RURAL TO URBAN USES (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    A. ALLAN SCHMID
    This title aims to use social science research to contribute towards solving policy problems raised by the rural to urban land conversion process and by high land prices in particular. Ultimately, this book aims to develop the information useful to public decisions on zoning, taxation, public investments, transport systems, new towns, and so on, as they might affect the cost an...

    $1,240.00

  • THE MANHATTAN COCKTAIL
    ALBERT W.A. SCHMID
    History, lore, and over fifty recipes in a "compulsively readable book about a classic American cocktail" (Susan Reigler, author of Kentucky Bourbon Country). Alongside such classics as the Old Fashioned, Mint Julep, and Martini, the Manhattan has been a staple of the sophisticated bar scene since the nineteenth century. Never out of style, this iconic drink has seen a renaissa...

    $179.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE ELEMENTS
    STEVEN R. SCHMID / BERNARD J. HAMROCK / BO. O. JACOBSON
    New and Improved SI Edition-Uses SI Units Exclusively in the TextAdapting to the changing nature of the engineering profession, this third edition of Fundamentals of Machine Elements aggressively delves into the fundamentals and design of machine elements with an SI version. This latest edition includes a plethora of pedagogy, providing a greater u ...

    $3,000.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE ELEMENTS
    STEVEN R. SCHMID / BERNARD J. HAMROCK / BO. O. JACOBSON
    New and Improved SI Edition-Uses SI Units Exclusively in the TextAdapting to the changing nature of the engineering profession, this third edition of Fundamentals of Machine Elements aggressively delves into the fundamentals and design of machine elements with an SI version. This latest edition includes a plethora of pedagogy, providing a greater u ...

    $3,000.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
    FRIEDRICH UNGERER / HANS-JORG SCHMID
    Learning About Language is an exciting and ambitious series of introductions to fundamental topics in language, linguistics and related areas. The books are designed for students of linguistics and those who are studying language as part of a wider course. Cognitive Linguistics explores the idea that language reflects our experience of the world. It shows that our ability to us...

    $1,680.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE ELEMENTS
    STEVEN R. SCHMID / BERNARD J. HAMROCK / BO. O. JACOBSON
    Fundamentals of Machine Elements, Third Edition offers an in-depth understanding of both the theory and application of machine elements. Design synthesis is carefully balanced with design analysis, an approach developed through the use of case studies, worked examples, and chapter problems that address all levels of learning taxonomies. Machine des ...

    $4,900.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF MACHINE ELEMENTS
    STEVEN R. SCHMID / BERNARD J. HAMROCK / BO. O. JACOBSON
    Fundamentals of Machine Elements, Third Edition offers an in-depth understanding of both the theory and application of machine elements. Design synthesis is carefully balanced with design analysis, an approach developed through the use of case studies, worked examples, and chapter problems that address all levels of learning taxonomies. Machine des ...

    $4,900.00

  • THE OLD FASHIONED
    ALBERT W.A. SCHMID
    With recipes and historical trivia included, "this spirited guide is as bracing as that classic combination of rye whiskey, sugar, bitters and orange zest" ( Tucson Citizen). American tavern owners caused a sensation in the late eighteenth century when they mixed sugar, water, bitters, and whiskey and served the drink with rooster feather stirrers. The modern version of this "o...

    $200.00

  • ORGANIZATIONAL AND STRUCTURAL DILEMMAS IN NONPROFIT HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
    HILLEL SCHMID
    Improve your organization’s performance for the well-being of your clients! Organizational and Structural Dilemmas in Nonprofit Human Service Organizations explores the common pitfalls that plague nonprofit human service organizations and cause them to fail in their missions. In this book, leading scholars analyze and evaluate the inherent difficulties that impede effectiveness...

    $780.00

  • ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT IN HUMAN SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
    DAVID BARGAL / HILLEL SCHMID
    Through change and development, human service organizations can promote the well-being of their clients more effectively. This important book describes and analyzes recent research on organizational change and development in the social and human services. It is particularly relevant in light of the significant changes in these organizations during the last decade and the lack o...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF TERRORISM RESEARCH
    ALEX P. SCHMID
    This major new Handbook synthesises more than two decades of scholarly research, and provides a comprehensive overview of the field of terrorism studies. The content of the Handbook is based on the responses to a questionnaire by nearly 100 experts from more than 20 countries as well as the specific expertise and experience of the volume editor and the various contributors. Tog...

    $1,800.00


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