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  • FOR GOD’S SAKE PAY ATTENTION
    JODY SEYMOUR
    In For God's Sake Pay Attention, Jody Seymour uses poetry, the language of the soul, to capture the attention of the would-be pilgrim on life's journey. The invitation is to "realize life while living it," rather than miss the rich offerings of everyday life. Perhaps burning bushes are more ubiquitous than one might expect.Seymour explores themes of the natural world, life and ...

    $408.00

  • INTERCONNECTING THE VIOLENCES OF MEN
    KATE SEYMOUR
    This book aims to expand and enrich understandings of violences by focusing on gendered continuities, interconnections and intersections across multiple forms and manifestations of men’s violence. In actively countering, both, the compartmentalisation of studies of violence by ‘type’ and form, and the tendency to conceptualise violence narrowly, it aims to flesh out – not delim...

    $1,060.00

  • MORALIZING THE ENVIRONMENT
    PHILIP LOWE / JUDY CLARK / SUSANNE SEYMOUR / NEIL WARD
    First published in 1997. There was a time when pollution was equated with the urban and the industrial. But things have changed. What were previously mutually exclusive cat­egories of "agriculture" and "pollution" have been brought together in a new, morally charged atmosphere. Moralizing the environment is a study of how this shift came about. It examines the emergence of the ...

    $980.00

  • RESPONDING TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    KATE SEYMOUR / SARAH WENDT / KRISTIN NATALIER
    This book reflects on the problem of domestic violence by thinking critically about policy and practice responses. Moving beyond accounts of men’s violence embedded in metaphors of ‘good’ and ‘bad men’, or as the expressions of particular structures and practices, it initiates challenging conversations concerning the ways in which our embeddedness in gendered discourses shapes ...

    $1,160.00

  • PALLIATIVE CARE IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE
    JUDI BYRNE / PENNY MCNAMARA / JANE SEYMOUR / PAM MCCLINTON
    The particular needs of people with progressive long-term neurological conditions - including Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease (MND), Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Huntington's disease - may make care delivery and planning the last stages of life ethically, practically and clinically challenging. ...

    $1,100.00

  • HE THREW THE ELEPHANT IN THE BAYOU
    JODY SEYMOUR
    He Threw the Elephant in the Bayou will bring warmth to your heart and a smile to your face. Jody Seymour's stories, drawn from his memory bank of childhood days growing up in the country between Biloxi and Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and a few from later years, will draw you in and remind you of earlier times in your own life as well. Many of the stories call to mind the reali...

    $444.00

  • MASTERING KAFKA STREAMS AND KSQLDB
    MITCH SEYMOUR
    Working with unbounded and fast-moving data streams has historically been difficult. But with Kafka Streams and ksqlDB, building stream processing applications is easy and fun. This practical guide shows data engineers how to use these tools to build highly scalable stream processing applications for moving, enriching, and transforming large amounts of data in real time. Mitch ...

    $681.00

  • DIGITAL SPORT MARKETING
    ALAN SEYMOUR / PAUL BLAKEY
    Digital sport marketing is a new, dynamic and rapidly evolving area that is having a profound impact on contemporary sport business. This is the only textbook to introduce core principles and best practice in digital sports marketing, focusing on key issues, emerging topics and practical techniques. The book surveys the new international digital landscape in sport business and ...

    $1,240.00

  • POLITICAL SYMBOLISM IN MODERN EUROPE
    SEYMOUR DRESCHER / DAVID SABEAN / ALLAN SHARLIN
    By collectively concentrating on the theme of political symbolism in modern Europe, the contributors to this volume have chosen to honor a revered teacher and colleague by developing a set of variations on one of his primary scholarly concerns. The essays deal with familiar domains in the history of European culture: religion, science, philosophy, theater, popular culture, and ...

    $1,420.00

  • TEACHING LITERATURE USING DIALOGIC LITERARY ARGUMENTATION
    MATT SEYMOUR / THERESA THANOS / GEORGE E. NEWELL / DAVID BLOOME
    Introducing a new framework for teaching and learning literature in secondary schools, this book presents Dialogic Literary Argumentation as an inquiry-based approach to engage students in communicating and exploring ideas about literature. As a process of discovery, Dialogic Literary Argumentation facilitates conversation—"arguing-to-learn"—as a method to support students’ div...

    $1,160.00

  • THE MULTINATIONAL CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
    HOWARD SEYMOUR
    This book, first published in 1987, outlines the motives and methods of overseas operations by international contractors. Drawing on an economic analysis of the industry and on elements of international investment and production theory the book discusses the problems of both individual enterprises and the major nationality groups in the industry ...

    $700.00

  • DECISIONS
    SEYMOUR EISEMAN / ROBERT EISEMAN
    This book represents a method by which students are assisted to make wise decisions about the use of alcohol and other drugs. Situations which are essential to effective daily living are employed to reach effective decisions. The role of parents in assisting the children toward a better understanding of the nature of drug use is also explored. Specifically, the use of alcohol a...

    $1,340.00

  • DRUG ABUSE
    SEYMOUR EISEMAN / JOSEPH WINGARD / GEORGE HUBA
    Departing from largely ineffective medically-oriented approaches to the problems of drug abuse/education, the contributors to this volume present relevant empirical findings and theoretical models within a comprehensive psychosocial framework, which draws upon recent advances in understanding the physiological, psychological, interpersonal, and social forces that are the causes...

    $2,220.00

  • CHINA RIGHTS ANNALS
    JAMES D. SEYMOUR
    Based on four visits by the journalist author to China from 1971 to 1989. He details the horrors of the Japanese Army's seizure and capture of Nanjing in December 1937. The harrowing testimony of the Chinese victims and the Japanese perpetrators are juxtaposed with PR army announcements. ...

    $1,240.00

  • U.S. POLICY IN INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
    SEYMOUR MAXWELL FINGER
    In the immediate post-war period the United States was predominant economically and could command a majority in the U.N. General Assembly; it now faces an increasingly interdependent world economy and an assembly dominated by the Third World. The essays in this book analyze the U.N. system as it functions today. Contributors stress the economic iss ...

    $1,200.00

  • MILITARY POWER AND THE ADVANCE OF TECHNOLOGY
    SEYMOUR J. DEITCHMAN
    This book deals with the basic facts of the military-industrial complex, examining its institutional dynamics and constitutional barriers to change. It shows how simplistic journalistic prescriptions and trivial observations fail to do justice to the enormous complexity of an industrial economy. ...

    $1,200.00

  • SOCIAL MOBILITY IN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
    SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET / REINHARD BENDIX
    In a careful analysis of the existing literature, the authors marshal an imposing array of evidence in support of their major argument that social mobility is an integral and continuing aspect of the process of industrialization. This classic volume continues to be a basic reference source in the field of occupational mobility. ...

    $1,320.00

  • SOCIAL STRUCTURE AND MOBILITY IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
    SEYMOUR LIPSET
    The foundation of this volume is the notion that the several processes of change constituting economic and social development are systematically interrelated. The essence of development is the appearance of rapid rates of increases in many different indices--output per capita, political participation, literacy and the like. These quantitative changes are, however, commonly acco...

    $1,320.00

  • DEMOCRACY AND THE ORGANIZATION OF POLITICAL PARTIES
    M OSTROGORSKI / SEYMOUR MARTIN LIPSET
    Democracy and the Organization of Political Parties, originally published in 1902, represented the first serious attempt to analyze the consequences of democratic suffrage by a comparative analysis of political systems. As such, Ostrogorski's two-volume study of the party system in Britain and the United States exerted profound influence on the subsequent writings of Max Weber ...

    $1,320.00

  • PATHWAYS FROM SLAVERY
    SEYMOUR DRESCHER
    Seymour Drescher’s regular, deeply-thought and carefully nuanced arguments have periodically reshaped how we think of the subject of the history of slavery itself. He has discussed the impact of economic and cultural factors on human behaviour and has shown that historical evidence does not lead to easy answers. He has changed the way in which we now look at abolitionism and ha...

    $1,240.00

  • PREDICTIVE INFERENCE
    SEYMOUR GEISSER
    The author's research has been directed towards inference involving observables rather than parameters. In this book, he brings together his views on predictive or observable inference and its advantages over parametric inference. While the book discusses a variety of approaches to prediction including those based on parametric, nonparametric, and nonstochastic statistical mo...

    $1,760.00

  • REVOLUTION AND COUNTERREVOLUTION
    SEYMOUR LIPSET
    This collection of Lipset's major essays in political sociology is in a real sense a follow-up or sequel to Political Mind and The First New Nation. It provides a broad panorama of continuing interest, developing a sociological perspective in comparative and historical analysis, with particular reference to politics, modernization, and social stratification. Robert E. Scott in ...

    $1,320.00

  • SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF MEDICAL WORK
    SEYMOUR LIPSET
    Today we face the painful reality of the prevalence of chronic, rather than acute, diseases. The technologies developed to manager long-term, incurable illnesses have radically and irrevocably altered the organizational structure of health care, presenting us with a frequently bewildering array of medical specialties. Social Organization of Medical Work offers essential insight...

    $1,360.00

  • MARKETING THE PUBLIC SECTOR
    SEYMOUR H. FINE
    The administrative officers of public and nonprofit organizations have become increasingly interested in marketing techniques during the 1990s. They reason that if commercial marketing methods can successfully move merchandise across the retail counter, those same techniques should be capable of creating a demand for such "social products" as energy conservation, women's rights...

    $1,320.00

  • PARTY COALITIONS IN THE 1980S
    SEYMOUR LIPSET
    "The election of 1980 did more than break the Democrats' control of the White House and Congress. It also shattered some important assumptions about the character of our voting coalitions and the condition of our political parties. It opened some possibilities for the remainder of the century that had not been there before." These reflections by David S. Broder in the introduct...

    $1,320.00

  • A CATALOGUE OF CHAUCER MANUSCRIPTS
    M.C. SEYMOUR
    This second volume, which completes the first comprehensive catalogue of Chaucer's manuscripts, describes the 56 extant copies and the fragments of 8 otherwise lost copies of the Canterbury Tales. These manuscripts, last examined together over 50 years ago, are here described after a fresh appraisal and in the light of modern scholarship, and some revisions of date, decoration...

    $1,480.00

  • THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF WOMEN IN ENGLAND AND AMERICA, 1865-1920
    ELIZABETH SEYMOUR ESCHBACH
    This study, first published in 1993, traces the path of women toward intellectual emancipation from eighteenth-century precedents, through the hard-won access to college education in the nineteenth-century, to the triumphs of the early 1900s. The author compares women's experiences in both the US and England, and will be of interest to students of history, education and gender ...

    $960.00

  • TIBET THROUGH DISSIDENT CHINESE EYES: ESSAYS ON SELF-DETERMINATION
    JAMES D. SEYMOUR / CAO CHANGCHING
    Although there have been numerous publications that argue the merit of Chinese rule over Tibet, and many more that argue for Tibetan self-determination, the world has not heard many Chinese voices supporting the latter view. This book exposed the reader to just that perspective from no less famous writers and activists than Wei Jingsheng, Yan Jiaqi, Shen Tong, Wang Rouwang, and...

    $1,160.00

  • INFORMATION SECURITY
    SEYMOUR GOODMAN / DETMAR W. STRAUB / RICHARD BASKERVILLE
    Information security is everyone's concern. The way we live is underwritten by information system infrastructures, most notably the Internet. The functioning of our business organizations, the management of our supply chains, and the operation of our governments depend on the secure flow of information. In an organizational environment information security is a never-ending pro...

    $1,560.00

  • DRAMATHERAPY AND AUTISM
    DEBORAH HAYTHORNE / ANNA SEYMOUR
    Using extensive examples from practice with a range of client groups, Dramatherapy and Autism confronts the assumption that people with autism are not able to function within the metaphorical realms of the imagination and creativity. It demonstrates that not only are people who function along the spectrum capable of engaging in creative exploration, but that through encounterin...

    $1,280.00


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