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  • BEYOND ILLIBERALISM
    ROBERT SHEPHERD
    Arguing that there has never been a consensus on which rights all people are entitled, Beyond Illiberalism: Rights, Rhetoric, and Reality in a Pluralistic World traces how the concept of human rights is tied to a global project rooted in colonialism and grounded in nineteenth-century liberalism and post-World War II social democratic principles. This book contends that human ri...

    $1,240.00

  • PRACTICE LONG CASES FOR THE PART B FINAL FRCR EXAMINATION
    JENNIFER DAVIDSON / BETH SHEPHERD / SUNDERARAJAN JAYARAMAN
    The FRCR Part 2B is a demanding examination consisting of an oral examination, a rapid reporting session and a reporting session (also known as the 'long cases'). Preparation can prove very stressful - the multiple parts of the examination rely on different and distinct techniques. This succinct examination guide and DVD contain over 4700 radiological images allowing for many m...

    $960.00

  • THE FIXING OF WAGES IN GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT
    E. COLSTON SHEPHERD
    Originally published in 1923, this thorough and critical volume collected and analysed material bearing on the UK Government practice during the early part of the 20th Century in settling wages in 4 key government departments. A substantial introduction indicates the constitutional aspect of the problem and its relation to economic theory on the subject of wages. The book discu...

    $860.00

  • THE LIFE OF POGGIO BRACCIOLINI
    WILLIAM SHEPHERD
    Excerpt: "When I first began to collect materials for the writing of the life of Poggio Bracciolini, I was much indebted to the kindness of my late friends Mr. Roscoe and Mr. William Clarke, who liberally allowed me the free use of the scarce books which they possessed, illustrative of the revival of letters in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From various passages which...

    $39.70

  • THE MESSIAH OF THE TARGUMS
    MICHAEL B. SHEPHERD
    This book explores how the ancient Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible known as Targums are in part designed to guide readers to see the messianism of the biblical text. The interpreters who produced the Targums were careful readers of Scripture and were in many cases prompted by the finer details of the biblical text itself to produce their messianic renderings. The Targu...

    $426.00

  • THE ENGLISH THEATRICAL AVANT-GARDE 1900-1925
    SIMON SHEPHERD
    The English Theatrical Avant-Garde, 1900–1925 unearths an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices. In doing so it reveals some of the well-known figures of the early twentieth-century English theatre in a strikingly new light. It fluently describes an intensity of innovation and experiment that together made the Edwardian theatre rather more radical, ...

    $1,000.00

  • ECONOMIC CRIME
    MARK BUTTON / BRANISLAV HOCK / DAVID SHEPHERD
    This book is the first attempt to establish 'economic crime' as a new sub-discipline within criminology. Fraud, corruption, bribery, money laundering, price-fixing cartels and intellectual property crimes pursued typically for financial and professional gain, have devastating consequences for the prosperity of economic life. While most police forces in the UK and the USA have a...

    $1,100.00

  • TRICKING POWER INTO PERFORMING ACTS OF LOVE
    SHEPHERD SIEGEL
    Tricking Power into Performing Acts of Lovetells the history of tricksters who challenged the boundaries of doctrine to light the way to a more peaceful and playful society. ...

    $119.00

  • THE WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA
    LAURA J. SHEPHERD
    The Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda is comprised of the policies, protocols and practices enacted by a wide range of actors inspired by, or under the auspices, of the UN Security Council resolutions adopted under the title of ‘women and peace and security’. Since the adoption of the first resolution in 2000, resolution 1325, there have been nine others, each of which ela...

    $1,200.00

  • THE EU SECURITY CONTINUUM
    ALISTAIR J.K. SHEPHERD
    This book examines how internal and external security are blurring at the EU level, and the implications this has for EU security governance and the EU as a security actor. The EU claims that ‘internal and external security are inseparable’ and requires a more integrated approach. This book critically assesses this claim in relation to the threats facing the EU, its responses t...

    $1,120.00

  • REMOTE WORK
    CHRIS DYER / KIM SHEPHERD
    How can I develop a team if they're not in the same place? How can I build a company culture that works for employees in an office, working at home and in co-work spaces? How can I maintain organizational oversight if I can't see my employees? Remote Work answers all these questions and more and provides guidance on how to build a successful remote working strategy that engages...

    $879.00

  • DEMYSTIFYING DOG BEHAVIOUR FOR THE VETERINARIAN
    KENDAL SHEPHERD
    The behaviour textbook that's been missing! - Dr Mandy Roshier, University of Nottingham, School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, UK This practical guide for busy veterinarians demystifies the apparently complex nature of canine behaviour while simultaneously emphasising its importance. Authored by acclaimed veterinary behaviour consultant Kendal Shepherd, the book provides ...

    $780.00

  • CIVIL SOCIETY, CARE LABOUR, AND THE WOMEN, PEACE AND SECURITY AGENDA
    CAITLIN HAMILTON / ANURADHA MUNDKUR / LAURA J. SHEPHERD
    This book proposes that work on the Women, Peace and Security agenda undertaken by civil society actors can be interpreted as a form of care labour that nourishes and sustains the agenda – without which the agenda could not, in fact, succeed. The care labour of civil society is thus a condition of the Women, Peace and Security agenda’s success. United Nations Security Council r...

    $540.00

  • THE POLITICS OF TRANSNATIONAL ACTORS IN LATIN AMERICA
    FREDERICK M. SHEPHERD
    The Politics of Transnational Actors in Latin America: Power from Afar explores the important issues of transnational actors and their influence on institutions and people in Latin America, raising profound questions of accountability, social justice, and sovereignty. The text focuses on four particularly significant groups that transcend national boundaries: the Catholic Churc...

    $1,100.00

  • CHALLENGING THE NEW ATHEISM
    AARON SHEPHERD
    This book presents a pragmatic response to arguments against religion made by the New Atheism movement. The author argues that analytic and empirical philosophies of religion—the mainstream approaches in contemporary philosophy of religion—are methodologically unequipped to address the “Threefold Challenge” made by popular New Atheist thinkers such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harri...

    $1,240.00

  • FOOD AND NUTRITION THROUGHOUT LIFE
    SHARON CROXFORD / CATHERINE ITSIOPOULOS / ADRIENNE FORSYTH / REGINA BELSKI / TANIA THODIS / SUE SHEPHERD /  
    Nutritional requirements vary greatly according to age and lifestyle. This evidence-based, comprehensive text is a complete guide to eating habits across age and population groups. It provides the recommendations for intakes of nutrients and foods, and diet to achieve optimum health. Chapters systematically examine the nutritional issues for individuals from preconception, preg...

    $1,120.00

  • THE BIM MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK
    DAVID SHEPHERD
    An authoritative and practical road map for those implementing and managing BIM workflows. With the 2016 deadline for BIM level 2 fast approaching and the growing realisation of the huge benefits BIM brings these skills are becoming industry essentials. Concentrating on the how rather than the why this will help you to adapt by clearly, and without jargon, explaining standard B...

    $1,179.00

  • BUILDING PEACE
    LAURA J. SHEPHERD
    Moving seamlessly from the global to the local, from the politics of institutions to the theoretical apparatus through which we analyse peace and security governance, the contributions to this volume draw attention to the operations of gendered power in peacebuilding across diverse contexts and explore the possibilities of gender-sensitive, sustainable peace. The authors have w...

    $1,320.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF GENDER AND SECURITY
    CARON E. GENTRY, LAURA J. SHEPHERD AND LAURA SJOBERG
    This handbook provides a comprehensive look at the study of gender and security in global politics. The volume is based on the core argument that gender is conceptually necessary to thinking about central questions of security; analytically important for thinking about cause and effect in security; and politically important for considering possibilities of making the world bett...

    $1,320.00

  • REVIVAL: NERVOUS AND MENTAL RE-EDUCATION (1924)
    SHEPHERD IVORY FRANZ
    The problems of readjustment, for the individual and for the business purse and for the state, which inevitably follow war are most important at the present moment. Almost five years after the end of the Great Conflict, many of these problems are still facing us, and it will take many more years before they are settled. One who is interested in the statistics of conditions will...

    $1,460.00

  • NINIAN SMART ON WORLD RELIGIONS
    JOHN J. SHEPHERD
    Ninian Smart came to public prominence as the founding Professor of the first British university Department of Religious Studies in the late 1960s. His pioneering views on education in religion proved hugely influential at all levels, from primary schools to academic teaching and research. An unending string of publications, many of them accessible to the general public, sustai...

    $1,200.00

  • WHOSE MUSIC?
    JOHN SHEPHERD
    Whose Music? combines historical, musicological, and sociological materials and styles of analysis in ways that connect to the field of sociology. The analyses of social class systems presented here speak in translatable ways to analyses of musical forms. Not only that, both are connected to an understanding of the organizations through which works are distributed to their audi...

    $1,360.00

  • NICHOLAS KALDOR AND THE REAL WORLD
    MARJORIE SHEPHERD TURNER
    First Published in 1994. Nicholas Kaldor was born in Hungary in 1908 and died as Baron Kaldor of Newnham in the City of Cambridge, England, in 1986. The years between revealed no hint of scandal or psychological problems that might make Kaldor the subject of a novel. His life was, instead, a straight line of growth and achievement, of intellectual enjoyment and strong values. K...

    $1,480.00

  • FAITH IN HERITAGE
    ROBERT J SHEPHERD
    Using the example of China’s Wutai Shan—recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park—Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chinese applications of western notions of heritage management within a non-western framework. What does the concept of world heritage mean for a site practically unheard of outside of China, visited almost exclusively by Buddhist religio...

    $1,240.00

  • UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURE AND WORLD POLITICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE
    CAITLIN HAMILTON AND LAURA J. SHEPHERD
    The practices of world politics are now scrutinised in a way that is unprecedented, with even those previously – or conventionally assumed to be – disengaged from international affairs being drawn into world politics by social media. Interactive websites allow users to follow election results in real-time from the other side of the world, and online mapping means that the world...

    $1,200.00

  • TIN PAN ALLEY
    JOHN SHEPHERD
    In Tin Pan Alley we see the beginnings of the pop world as we now know it: commercial, constantly capturing, exploiting or even occasionally creating a public mood. The Alleymen were workers as much as artists. This book, first published in 1982, explores how the change occurred, the ways in which songwriters organised themselves to get greater control over their products, the ...

    $1,060.00

  • ARCHIVES AND ARCHIVISTS IN 20TH CENTURY ENGLAND
    ELIZABETH SHEPHERD
    'Archives have the potential to change people's lives. They are 'a fundamental bulwark of our democracy, our culture, our community and personal identity' - National Council of Archives. Archives and Archivists in 20th Century England innovatively focuses on the multifunctional reasons behind the creations of archives - they enable the conduct of business and support accounta...

    $1,120.00

  • THE SILENTS OF JESUS IN THE CINEMA (1897-1927)
    DAVID SHEPHERD
    While Jesus has attracted the sporadic interest of film-makers since the epics of the Sixties, it is often forgotten that between the advent of motion pictures in the 1890s and the close of the "silent" era at the end of the 1920s, some of the longest, most expensive and most watched films on both sides of the Atlantic were focused on the Life and Passion of the Christ. Drawing...

    $1,240.00

  • INSTITUTIONALIZING THE INSANE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND
    ANNA SHEPHERD
    The nineteenth century brought an increased awareness of mental disorder, epitomized in the Asylum Acts of 1808 and 1845. Shepherd looks at two very different institutions to provide a nuanced account of the nineteenth-century mental health system. ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE READER ON THE SOCIOLOGY OF MUSIC
    JOHN SHEPHERD
    The Routledge Reader on the Sociology of Music offers the first collection of source readings and new essays on the latest thinking in the sociology of music. Interest in music sociology has increased dramatically over the past decade, yet there is no anthology of essential and introductory readings. The volume includes a comprehensive survey of the field’s history, current sta...

    $2,420.00


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