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  • VIGOR MORTIS
    BRUCE, SCOTT G.
    This volume explores the enduring presence and participation of the dead in the lives of premodern people from the Carolingian period to the end of the Middle Ages. Unlike modern states, which erect barriers to separate the dying and the deceased from their families, friends, and associates, premodern societies in western Europe fostered an on-going relationship between the liv...

    $1,480.00

  • THE POLICE MANAGER
    EGAN K. GREEN / RONALD G. LYNCH / SCOTT R. LYNCH
    The Police Manager provides a roadmap for the challenges that police administrators face in their day-to-day duties, including considerations for dealing with subordinate officers and for interacting with the public. Covering a wide range of topics, from fiscal management to use-of-force policies, this text prepares readers for the tasks that police managers are confronted with...

    $1,420.00

  • DESETTLERING AS RE-SUBJECTIFICATION OF THE SETTLER SUBJECT
    KATHLEEN S.G. SKOTT-MYHRE / HANS A. SKOTT-MYHRE / JEFFREY GALVIN SMITH / SCOTT KOURI
    This book offers an intervention into the process of decolonization through the re-subjectification of the settler subject. The authors draw on what Deleuze and Guattari call minor threads of philosophy, pedagogy, spirituality, and healing practices rooted in neglected lineages of European thought and ceremony. The book proposes a methodology for unontologizing the settler subj...

    $1,200.00

  • CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
    DONALD J. TREFFINGER / SCOTT G. ISAKSEN / K. BRIAN STEAD-DORVAL
    Creative Problem Solving is a process that allows people to apply both creative and critical thinking to find solutions to everyday problems. Creative Problem Solving eliminates the tendency to approach problems in a haphazard manner and, consequently, prevents surprises and/or disappointment with the solution. Used by thousands of group leaders seeking a friendly introduction ...

    $580.00

  • CITIZENSHIP AFTER TRUMP
    BRADLEY S. KLEIN / SCOTT G. NELSON
    In Citizenship After Trump, political theorists Bradley S. Klein and Scott G. Nelson explore the meaning of community in the context of intense political polarization, the surge of far-right nationalism and deepening divisions during the coronavirus pandemic. With both Trumpism and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic greatly testing American democracy, the authors examine the poli...

    $1,120.00

  • CULTURAL ICONS
    KEYAN G. TOMASELLI AND DAVID SCOTT
    The Eiffel Tower—this symbol of industrial development and the French Republic is now associated with a romantic vacation in Paris. Nelson Mandela—the hero of the struggle against apartheid was featured in a British Airways magazine article called “The Power of Brand Mandela.” This book explores these and other contemporary cultural icons that, over time, have been endowed with...

    $1,120.00

  • DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION
    H. LEE WILLIS AND WALTER G. SCOTT
    In the view of many power experts, distributed power generation represents the paradigm of the future. Distributed Power Generation: Planning and Evaluation explores the preparation and analysis of distributed generators (DGs) for residential, commercial and industrial, as well as electric utility applications. It examines distributed generation versus traditional, centralized ...

    $5,600.00

  • ONCOLOGÍA GINECOLÓGICA CLÍNICA
    PHILIP J. DISAIA / WILLIAM T. CREASMAN / ROBERT S MANNEL / D. SCOTT MCMEEKIN / DAVID G MUTCH
    Este título proporciona las herramientas para establecer los tratamientos más adecuados a los pacientes con cáncer ginecológico, lo que la convierte en la referencia imprescindible para el diagnóstico y tratamiento de los cánceres ginecológicos, además de ayudar a mejorar los resultados y proporcionar un cuidado más eficaz. Cubre hot topics como las pruebas genéticas multip...

    $1,203.31

  • CULTURES OF DEFIANCE AND RESISTANCE
    SCOTT G. MCNALL
    How does one achieve a sense of freedom and meaning in a confusing, over-bureaucratized, and unequal world? Scott McNall offers the compelling case that we do so by taking a stand to protect our identities and values, and by taking further steps to create a sense of community with like-minded people. Modern social movements have sprung up on the right and left, to provide this ...

    $1,120.00

  • CREATING A CULTURALLY INCLUSIVE CAMPUS
    BARBARA J. HOEKJE / SCOTT G. STEVENS
    Colleges and universities increasingly recruit international students yet may lack the systems to foster these students' academic success and identity as valued members of the campus community. Sharing case studies of students and examples of innovative initiatives, this book explores strategies and key recommendations for universities to re-conceptualize their programs to bett...

    $1,060.00

  • RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA
    SCOTT A. WALDRON / COLIN G. BROWN
    This title was first published in 2003. The greatest challenge facing China today is to curb the growing economic divide between urban and rural people. Achieving this requires that the rural economy in general, and rural industries in particular, transform rapid growth into sustained development. However, policy makers are struggling to modernise rural industries, such as the ...

    $980.00

  • LEARNING AND MOTIVATION IN THE CLASSROOM
    SCOTT G. PARIS
    Throughout the twentieth century there had been substantial links between scientific psychology and education. Binet, Dewey, Thorndike, and other early pioneers were strongly interested in both realms. Taking advantage of a period of enthusiasm, this title, originally published in 1983, looks at the amalgamation of the recent advances at the time in theory and research in educa...

    $1,100.00

  • THE PROBLEM OF SOCIAL INEQUALITY
    SCOTT G. MCNALL
    Within and among nations, rising levels of social inequality threaten our collective future. Currently, upwards of 80% of people’s life chances are determined by factors over which they have absolutely no control. Social inequality threatens the democratic project because it destroys the trust on which governments depend, and it gives rise to corrupt political and economic inst...

    $1,240.00

  • RELIGION AND JUSTICE IN THE WAR OVER BOSNIA
    G. SCOTT DAVIS
    This volume brings together a distinguished group of thinkers, working in ethics, religion and history, to explore moral and religious issues that underlie the violence in Bosnia. ********************************************************* This volume brings together a distinguished group of thinkers to explore the moral and religious issues that underlie the violence and atrocit...

    $1,600.00

  • SOVEREIGNTY AND THE LIMITS OF THE LIBERAL IMAGINATION
    SCOTT G NELSON
    This volume examines and critiques several of the classical theoretical foundations of domestic and international organization, concentrating on the contestable conceptions of community, order, justice, freedom, responsibility and wealth developed by the major political theorists of the modern epoch. Nelson argues that the accepted discourses of world politics are constructed b...

    $1,320.00

  • FROM KNOWLEDGE TO INTELLIGENCE
    HELEN ROTHBERG / G. SCOTT ERICKSON
    In the New Economy, intelligence will be essential for firms to gain competitive advantage—not just information or knowledge. Competitive intelligence, or the strategic gathering of knowledge about competitors, climate, trends, new products, has a long and successful history of generating competitive advantage. In this book, Rothberg and Erickson demonstrate how corporations ca...

    $1,420.00

  • PERSPECTIVES ON OBJECT-CENTERED LEARNING IN MUSEUMS
    PARIS, SCOTT G.
    Originating in a recent NSF conference held at the University of Michigan, this book examines the latest ideas about how children interact with objects and through that interaction acquire new understandings, attitudes, and feelings. Although museum education provides the primary setting within which object-centered learning is explored, the analyses apply to a wide range of le...

    $4,500.00

  • ON THE ORIGIN OF CONSCIOUSNESS
    SCOTT D. G. VENTUREYRA
    Have you ever thought about how self-consciousness (self-awareness) originated in the universe? Understanding consciousness is one of the toughest "nuts to crack." In recent years, scientists and philosophers have attempted to provide an answer to this mystery. The reason for this is simply because it cannot be confined to solely a materialistic interpretation of the world. Som...

    $621.00

  • DID JESUS SPEAK GREEK?
    G. SCOTT GLEAVES
    Did Jesus speak Greek? An affirmative answer to the question will no doubt challenge traditional presuppositions. The question relates directly to the historical preservation of Jesus's words and theology. Traditionally, the authenticity of Jesus's teaching has been linked to the recovery of the original Aramaic that presumably underlies the Gospels. The Aramaic Hypothesis infe...

    $515.00

  • APOSTLES TODAY
    BENJI G. MCNAIR SCOTT
    Are apostles amongst us today? According to a growing section of the church, the answer is yes. This book investigates and appraises that idea seeking answers to the following questions in the context of the church in the USA and particularly Britain: Is there a robust scriptural justification for the charismatic apostolate (CA) that most charismatic groups are proclaiming? How...

    $568.00

  • ANTIOXIDANTS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, MEDICINE AND NUTRITION
    SCOTT, G.
    The use of antioxidants is widespread throughout the rubber, plastics, food, oil and pharmaceutical industries. This book brings together information generated from research in quite separate fields of biochemical science and technology, and integrates it on a basis of the common mechanisms of peroxidation and antioxidant action. It applies present knowledge of antioxidants to ...

    $1,526.00

  • WARCRAFT AND THE FRAGILITY OF VIRTUE
    G. SCOTT DAVIS
    Recent work by Stanley Hauerwas, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Robert Bellah has brought considerable attention to bear on the ethics of virtue. Little clarity has, however, emerged from that discussion on what difference such an ethic would make in practical and political deliberations. Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue presents, for the first time, a well-developed and effective...

    $444.00

  • A FIRST COURSE IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, MODELING, AND SIMULATION
    CARLOS A. SMITH / SCOTT W. CAMPBELL / RYAN G. TOOMEY
    A First Course in Differential Equations, Modeling, and Simulation shows how differential equations arise from applying basic physical principles and experimental observations to engineering systems. Avoiding overly theoretical explanations, the textbook also discusses classical and Laplace transform methods for obtaining the analytical solution of differential equations. In ad...

    $2,540.00

  • POLICING IMMIGRANTS
    DORIS MARIE PROVINE / MONICA W. VARSANYI / PAUL G. LEWIS / SCOTT H. DECKER
    The United States deported nearly two million illegal immigrants during the first five years of the Obama presidency—more than during any previous administration. President Obama stands accused by activists of being “deporter in chief.” Yet despite efforts to rebuild what many see as a broken system, the president has not yet been able to convince Congress to pass new immigrati...

    $506.69

  • HOUSE RULES
    G.C. SCOTT
    An Englishman meets a demanding mistress in this adventurous erotic novel.   In this steamy story of bondage and abandon, Richard, an Englishman in Hamburg, discovers carnal riches beyond his imagination when Margaret Wagner introduces him to her beautiful niece, Helena, and draws him into their rituals of kink—everything from cross-dressing to sexual slavery.   Richard feels m...

    $109.00

  • AGONY AUNT
    G.C. SCOTT
    A servant turns the tables in this steamy tale of role reversals by the author of House Rules.   Harriet is a very special kind of agony aunt, helping clients live out their bizarre fantasies of bondage and domination. When her servant, Tom, finds her tied up one day, he decides to reverse roles, leaving her confused about her true desires.   When he goes to Amsterdam to learn ...

    $109.00

  • COUNSELLING FOR POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER
    MICHAEL J SCOTT / STEPHEN G STRADLING
    Counselling for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, Third Edition addresses the specifics of counselling clients who have suffered major trauma, whether recently or in the past, and includes 18 detailed case examples together with transcripts of sessions. The authors′ cognitive contextual approach translates the psychobiology of trauma responses into clinically useful analogies and...

    $1,207.14