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  • THE LAST HISTORIAN IN GALILEE
    M. M. SILVER
    What do the history and cultures of Judaism and Christianity have to say about the most urgent and complicated problems and crises of our times? Is it a logical outcome of relations between these faiths that Israel is increasingly accused of colonialism or genocide and also vociferously defended against these charges, by Christians and Jews in America and elsewhere? Is the wide...

    $692.00

  • REINVENTING EDUCATION: BEYOND THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
    ALAN WATKINS / MATT SILVER
    The need for change in the education system is obvious and overwhelming. But each stakeholder group has its own ideas about why the system is broken and how to fix it. Competing priorities, political inertia and diminishing budgets maintain the dysfunctional status quo. This essential text examines the underlying causes behind the key challenges facing schools and argues that w...

    $660.00

  • MODERN INSTRUMENTATION
    G SILVERMAN / H SILVER
    Modern science and engineering relies heavily on understanding computer hardware and software in order to make effective use of these tools in the laboratory and industrial environments. The authors of Modern Instrumentation: A Computer Approach have succeeded in producing a highly readable source that will serve both newcomers to the field as well as experienced professionals....

    $1,480.00

  • ECONOMIC STRUCTURES OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
    MORRIS SILVER
    Economic Structures of the Ancient Near East (1985) is a political economy of antiquity which applies the universal conclusions of theoretical economics to the interpretation of economic life. The first part of the book shows that the analysis of transaction costs – that is, the resources used up in exchanging ownership rights including costs of communication and of designing a...

    $840.00

  • ENGINEERING OF HUMAN TISSUES AND IMPLANTS
    FREDERICK H. SILVER
    This text presents information on biological control systems, mechanotransduction, tissue structure, and function, as well as properties that can be integrated together to provide improved implant and device designs. This information is needed to develop new diagnostic tests and instruments that provide early diagnostic tests and treatments for diseases. Engineering of Human Ti...

    $3,400.00

  • MODERN ENGLISH SOCIETY
    JUDITH RYDER / HAROLD SILVER
    First published in 1970, Modern English Society is primarily concerned with the period since the Great Exhibition of 1851. Judith Ryder and Harold Silver begin by surveying the consequences, good and ill, of industrialization, and go on to explore the changing pattern of social relationships to which it gave rise. They discuss such topics as the growth of towns and of large-sca...

    $860.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF STATISTICS FOR AVIATION RESEARCH
    MICHAEL A. GALLO / BROOKE E. WHEELER / ISAAC M. SILVER
    This is the first textbook designed to teach statistics to students in aviation courses. All examples and exercises are grounded in an aviation context, including flight instruction, air traffic control, airport management, and human factors. Structured in six parts, this book covers the key foundational topics relative to descriptive and inferential statistics, including hypot...

    $960.00

  • URBAN FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT
    CHRISTOPHER SILVER
    Like so many of the coastal cities in Southeast Asia (and other regions) established during European colonialism, there has been an ongoing challenge for decades dealing with the growing frequency and intensity of flooding. Jakarta’s flood problems since the 1990s have been nothing less than monumental and the inability of the local and national governments to mitigate flooding...

    $1,200.00

  • MEANINGFUL PARTNERSHIP AT WORK
    SETH SILVER / TIMOTHY FRANZ
    Why are some work partnerships exceptional while most are not? How can we establish and sustain an enhanced level of cohesion, connection, and collaboration in the most important work relationship, the one between a manager and team? What could remedy the high levels of isolation and anxiety so many feel at work these days? Silver and Franz explore the concept of ‘meaningful pa...

    $780.00

  • TEACHING FOR DEEPER LEARNING
    JAY MCTIGHE / HARVEY F. SILVER
    Far too often, our students attain only a superficial level of knowledge that fails to prepare them for deeper challenges in school and beyond. In Teaching for Deeper Learning, renowned educators and best-selling authors Jay McTighe and Harvey F. Silver propose a solution: teaching students to make meaning for themselves. Contending that the ability to "earn" understanding will...

    $532.00

  • THE GROWTH OF THE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY IN TANZANIA
    M. S. SILVER / M S SILVER
    Tracing the evolution of the Tanzanian manufacturing industry since the beginning of colonial rule, this book focuses on the period since independence and especially on the effects of socialist policies resulting from the 1967 Arusha Declaration. Dr. Silver develops volume indices of production for Tanzanian industry as a whole and for individual sectors. He also examines in de...

    $1,120.00

  • SILVER'S JOINT AND SOFT TISSUE INJECTION
    DAVID SILVER FRCR FRCP
    This popular and practical book is a comprehensive guide to diagnosing joint conditions and the benefits, and potential pitfalls, of steroid injections, an important tool in managing these problems used by an increasing range of practitioners. It considers all the practical aspects of injection as well as providing general information, discussing medico-legal issues and highlig...

    $980.00

  • A HIGHER EDUCATION
    HAROLD SILVER
    Originally published in 1990, A Higher Education was commissioned by the Council for National Academic Awards to commemorate its silver jubilee. The book covers the history of a period of rapid expansion in higher education outside the universities, mirrored in the growth and development of the CNAA. The Council was established with the role of awarding degree courses in polyte...

    $660.00

  • HEALTH SERVICE PUBLIC RELATIONS
    ROGER SILVER
    The first edition of this book was published at a time when the health service was less sensitive to its reputation and the effect this had on public confidence. Since then, health service reform, accountability and market forces have meant that all directors, managers, doctors and health professionals must communicate effectively, both internally and externally. This book, rev...

    $1,200.00

  • QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS USING MAXQDA
    NICHOLAS H. WOOLF / CHRISTINA SILVER
    Software is cut-and-dried – every button you press has a predictable effect – but qualitative analysis is open-ended and unfolds in unpredictable ways. This contradiction is best resolved by separating analytic strategies – what you plan to do – from software tactics – how you plan to do it. Expert MAXQDA users have unconsciously learned to do this. The Five-Level QDA® method u...

    $1,160.00

  • INVENTORY AND PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT IN SUPPLY CHAINS
    EDWARD A. SILVER / DAVID F. PYKE / DOUGLAS J. THOMAS
    Authored by a team of experts, the new edition of this bestseller presents practical techniques for managing inventory and production throughout supply chains. It covers the current context of inventory and production management, replenishment systems for managing individual inventories within a firm, managing inventory in multiple locations and firms, and production management...

    $960.00

  • ENERGY, POWER AND PROTEST ON THE URBAN GRID
    ANDRÉS LUQUE-AYALA AND JONATHAN SILVER
    Providing a global overview of experiments around the transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social struggles associated with this change, this book explores the centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a range of globa...

    $1,420.00

  • AGITATION WITH A SMILE
    STEPHEN BIRD / ADAM SILVER / JOSHUA YESNOWITZ
    Agitation with a Smile offers a reappraisal of Howard Zinn's political thought and situates his efforts in a contemporary context, looking toward the nature of activism and dissent in the future. This is the first book to provide a substantive account and assessment of Zinn's philosophy and approach to collective action and, to a larger extent, democracy. The contributors to th...

    $1,200.00

  • COMMENTARIES
    SILVER, DONALD
    First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. ...

    $960.00

  • USING SOFTWARE IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    CHRISTINA SILVER / ANN LEWINS
    Using Software in Qualitative Research is an essential introduction to the practice and principles of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis (CAQDAS). The book will help you to choose the most appropriate package for your needs and get the most out of the software once you are using it. This book considers a wide range of tasks and processes in the data management and anal...

    $1,611.64

  • DANCING WITH CATS
    BURTON SILVER / HEATHER BUSCH
    "Marvelously silly photographs . . . in addition to those hilarious images, [there is] much helpful instruction for aspiring dancers with cats." — The New York Times Discover the mystery and magic of cat dancing with this cult classic, filled with scores of delightful and inspiring photographs of people and cats engaging in their favorite dance routines, as well as moving testi...

    $229.00

  • DECISION-MAKING GROUPS AND TEAMS
    STEVEN SILVER
    In recent years, there has been increasing implementation of group and team decision-making within organizations, much of it managed electronically, between members of what are "virtual" groups or teams. Recent research into effective team implementation emphasizes "trust" as an intermediary process, and trust must be a part of any account of team decision-making. This book pro...

    $1,320.00

  • EDUCATION AS HISTORY
    HAROLD SILVER
    Originally published 1983.This book explores the nature of the social history of education. It examines what aspects of the history of education have been neglected and why. The themes explored include the relationship between education and the emergence of social science, the reputations of educationists, expectations of higher education in the twentieth century, the use of ed...

    $1,420.00

  • A SOCIAL HISTORY OF EDUCATION IN ENGLAND
    JOHN LAWSON / HAROLD SILVER
    Originally published in 1973,this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events – such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution – have wrought on it. It examines the effect on the educational pattern of such major cultural upheavals as the Renaissance; it looks at the different pa...

    $1,420.00

  • IRREDUCIBLE TENSOR METHODS
    BRIAN L. SILVER
    Irreducible Tensor Methods: An Introduction for Chemists explains the theory and application of irreducible tensor operators. The book discusses a compact formalism to describe the effect that results on an arbitrary function of a given set of coordinates when that set is subjected to a rotation about its origin. The text also explains the concept of irreducible tensor operator...

    $970.00

  • ART AS LANGUAGE
    RAWLEY SILVER
    Through the use of case studies and more than 150 illustrations of patient artwork, this book summarizes findings of cognitive development and art therapy practices. ...

    $1,260.00

  • THE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF COLLABORATIVE LEARNING
    CINDY E. HMELO-SILVER
    Collaborative learning has become an increasingly important part of education, but the research supporting it is distributed across a wide variety of fields including social, cognitive, developmental, and educational psychology, instructional design, the learning sciences, educational technology, socio-cultural studies, and computer-supported collaborative learning. The goal of...

    $3,800.00

  • MY PARENT HAS CANCER AND IT REALLY SUCKS
    MARC SILVER / MAYA SILVER
    Real-life advice from real-life teens Currently one million American teenagers live with a parent who is fighting cancer. It's a hard blow for those already navigating high school, preparing for college, and becoming increasingly independent. My Parent Has Cancer and It Really Sucks is the first book written especially for teens to help during this tough time. Author Maya Silve...

    $223.00

  • THE EDUCATION OF THE POOR
    PAMELA SILVER / HAROLD SILVER
    Originally published 1974. Thousands of elementary schools for the children of the poor were founded during the nineteenth century, yet there is scarcely a published history of a single one of them. This volume is precisely such a history and the authors trace its story against the background of local and national change in education and society. On the basis of a unique collec...

    $1,340.00

  • THE CONCEPT OF POPULAR EDUCATION
    HAROLD SILVER
    Originally published 1965. This reprints the 1977 edition which included a new introduction. From the starting point of "popular" charity education, the book traces the dynamic of ideological and social change from the 1790s to the 1830s in terms of attitudes to education and analyzes the range of contemporary opinions on popular education. It also examines some of the channels...

    $1,420.00