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  • ΨΥΧΟΦΎΛΑΚΑΣ
    BRIAN SIMONS
    Ένας κατεστραμμένος διακομιστής, ένας δολοφονικός NPC και μια αδύνατη αποστολή: Να σωθεί το παιχνίδι. Με κάθε κόστος. Η Κόραλ μπαίνει στο βιντεοπαιχνίδι εικονικής πραγματικότητας Μόχθος Ονλάιν επειδή η δουλειά της ως σερβιτόρα, όπως και τόσες άλλες δουλειές, αυτοματοποιείται από δυναμικά ρομπότ. Ξεκινά ως Ράφτρα, ελπίζοντας να φτιάξει ρούχα στο παιχνίδι για να τα πουλήσει έναντ...

    $59.00

  • STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION IN RUSSIA’S PROVINCES
    SIMONS, GREG
    This book examines the contemporary communicational practices of journalists and media outlets and the consumption and reception patterns of audiences in Russia’s provinces with an emphasis on the intergenerational transmission of culture and memory. Investigating the interaction and issues of contemporary identity, culture, audiences and journalism in a rapidly changing and ev...

    $1,200.00

  • UNITS OF INSTRUCTION FOR GIFTED LEARNERS
    DIANA BRIGHAM / JESSICA FELL / CONSTANCE SIMONS
    Looking for innovative, successful, and engaging units to use in your gifted elementary classroom or pull-out program? Look no further than Units of Instruction, the latest in Prufrock's collection of easy-to-apply units for the classroom. Developed by seasoned teachers in the field of gifted education, the five in-depth units of study in this book cover everything from element...

    $680.00

  • BEHAVIOR THEORY IN PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE AND RESEARCH
    BRUCE SIMONS-MORTON / MARC LODYGA
    Written by experienced behavioral scientists with substantial experience teaching public health students, Behavior Theory in Public Health Practice and Research, Second Edition offers a comprehensive study of health behavior theories that are the foundation of all health education and promotion programs. After presenting the rationale for behavioral science in public health pr...

    $402.91

  • LEADING, MANAGING, CARING: UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE
    SARA MACKIAN / JOAN SIMONS
    Effective leadership and management in health and social care are built on good practice, strong relationships and a critical understanding of the wider context in which care takes place. Leading, Managing, Caring illustrates how leadership and management work in everyday settings, providing invaluable support to those practising or studying in the area. The book introduces the...

    $4,500.00

  • BRITANNIA AIRWAYS
    GRAHAM M. SIMONS
    A history of the British airline company, featuring details on the aircrafts, routes, and operations, as well as stories from the crews and staff. Founded in 1961 as Euravia by British businessman Ted Langton and aviation consultant J.E.D. Walker, at a time of considerable turmoil for the independent sector of the British air operators' industry, Britannia Airways went on to be...

    $274.00

  • THE IMAGE OF ISLAM IN RUSSIA
    GREG SIMONS
    This book covers the developing and important issue of the role and place of Islam in the increasingly complex dynamics of Russian politics. It is achieved by examining various aspects of Islam and Muslims in Russia from a multidisciplinary perspective. Islam and Muslims are currently at the forefront of popular culture, mass media and political imaginations in the age of the ‘...

    $1,200.00

  • CHANGING THE GAME
    LUCAS SIMONS / ANDRE NIJHOF
    We are at the beginning of the sustainability era. The biggest challenge of our generation is to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. For this we must be willing to understand and change the root causes that create these challenges in the first place. The system itself needs to change. But how to do that? This ground-breaking book Changing the Game reveals the missing insig...

    $960.00

  • LANGUAGE EDUCATION AND EMOTIONS
    TOM F. H. SMITS / MATHEA SIMONS
    Language Education and Emotions presents innovative, empirical research into the influence of emotions and affective factors in language education, both in L1 and in foreign language education. It offers a comprehensive overview of studies authored and co-authored by researchers from all over the world. The volume opens and ends with "backbone" contributions by two of the disci...

    $1,160.00

  • DRIVERLESS CARS, URBAN PARKING AND LAND USE
    ROBERT A. SIMONS
    The subject of driverless and even ownerless cars has the potential to be the most disruptive technology for real estate, land use, and parking since the invention of the elevator. This book includes new research and economic analysis, plus a thorough review of the current literature to pose and attempt to answer a number of important questions about the effect that driverless ...

    $1,160.00

  • NETWORKS OF DISSOLUTION
    ANNA SIMONS
    In this penetrating and timely book, Anna Simons documents Somalia's impending slide toward anarchy. How do people react to a failing yet still repressive government? What do they do when the banks run out of cash? How do they cope with unprecedented uncertainty? These are some of the questions Simons addresses as she introduces the reader to Somal ...

    $1,160.00

  • JONSON, THE POETOMACHIA, AND THE REFORMATION OF RENAISSANCE SATIRE
    JAY SIMONS
    Does satire have the ability to effect social reform? If so, what satiric style is most effective in bringing about reform? This book explores how Renaissance poet and playwright Ben Jonson negotiated contemporary pressures to forge a satiric persona and style uniquely his own. These pressures were especially intense while Jonson was engaged in the Poetomachia, or Poets’ War (1...

    $1,280.00

  • MODERATUS
    JOHN SIMONS
    This title was first published in 2002. "Moderatus" was an Elizabethan romance, probably the first published work of the 16th-century Welsh gentleman Robert Parry; it was produced in 1595 by the bookseller, publisher, and printer Richard Jones. In this volume John Simons offers in modern typography an edition of this now-scarce text, with explanatory notes and an extensive intr...

    $980.00

  • CHANGING THE FOOD GAME
    LUCAS SIMONS
    By 2050, the world’s population is estimated to grow to 10 billion. To feed everyone, we will have to double our food production, to produce more food in the next 40 years than in the whole of the last 6,000. Changing the Food Game shows how our unsustainable food production system cannot support this growth. In this prescient book, Lucas Simons argues that the biggest challeng...

    $980.00

  • THE CHANGING FACE OF WARFARE IN THE 21ST CENTURY
    GREGORY SIMONS / IULIAN CHIFU
    This study discusses salient trends demonstrated by contemporary warfare of these first years of the 21st century. The authors reinforce previous notions of Fourth Generation Warfare, but most importantly explore the workings of new components and how these have modified the theory and practice of warfare beyond the basic divisions of conventional and unconventional warfare as ...

    $1,320.00

  • ISSUES IN THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF DISJUNCTION
    MANDY SIMONS
    First published in 2000, this book is about sentences containing the word or, dealing primarily with sentences in which or conjoins clauses, but also some cases in which it conjoins expressions of other categories. The author aims to give an account of the discourse properties and felicity conditions of disjunction, and to use this account in explaining the behaviour of presupp...

    $780.00

  • GEORG KERSCHENSTEINER
    DIANE SIMONS
    This book, first published in 1966, is an introduction to the life and work of Georg Kerschensteiner, the pioneer of the modern German system of vocational education, a system which is largely responsible for Germany’s remarkable industrial recovery and advancement after the Second World War. This title will be of interest to students of education and history. ...

    $960.00

  • OPERATION LUSTY
    GRAHAM M. SIMONS
    A fascinating overview of the Allies' post-WWII program to gain access to advanced Nazi war machines and the technology they ultimately recovered.   Prior to the Allied D-Day assault on Normandy, France, rumors had already been circulating that high-tech Nazi super-weapons ( wunderwaffe) had reached or were near completion. At the war's end, a mad scramble ensued to discover th...

    $229.00

  • A SHORT COURSE IN FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
    N. E. SIMONS / B. K. MENZIES
    A Short Course in Foundation Engineering covers definitions and principles related to foundation engineering. The first two chapters discuss effective stress and shear strength with regard to their definition, nature and computation or measurement. The third chapter covers the most convenient methods currently used to estimate the magnitude of the immediate or undrained settl...

    $425.00

  • MASS MEDIA AND MODERN WARFARE
    GREG SIMONS
    Mass media are essential to democratic society; in contrast, the War on Terror has been interpreted as an assault on democracy and freedom by Islamic fundamentalists. The building and maintenance of public support is essential in modern warfare due to the increasing politicization of warfare, where losses and gains are measured in political rather than military terms. And if pr...

    $1,480.00

  • RELIGION, POLITICS AND NATION-BUILDING IN POST-COMMUNIST COUNTRIES
    GREG SIMONS / DAVID WESTERLUND
    The increasing significance and visibility of relationships between religion and public arenas and institutions following the fall of communism in Europe provide the core focus of this fascinating book. Leading international scholars consider the religious and political role of Christian Orthodoxy in the Russian Federation, Romania, Georgia and Ukraine alongside the revival of ...

    $1,240.00

  • FARIBAULT WOOLEN MILL
    M. BOLT SIMONS
    Established in 1865 by Carl Klemer, the Faribault Woolen Mill is an authentic example of American craftsmanship. In 150 years of business, the company's success has relied on stewardship from the Klemer, Johnson and Mooty families, as well as veteran employees. Despite a devastating fire and even a closing, today it is the oldest manufacturer in Minnesota and one of the country...

    $229.00

  • HOWARD HUGHES AND THE SPRUCE GOOSE
    GRAHAM M. SIMONS
    An in-depth, behind the scenes history of one of the twentieth century's most provocative entrepreneurs and the aircraft he tried getting off the ground. Howard Hughes' life ambition was to make a significant contribution to the field of aviation development. But the monumental folly of his endeavors on the H-KI Hercules meant that he came to be known and remembered to a great ...

    $274.00

  • THE GOVERNANCE GAP
    PENELOPE SIMONS / AUDREY MACKLIN
    This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance. The authors launch their account with a fascinating case study of Talisman Energy’s experience in Sudan, informed by their own experience as members of the 1999 Canadian Assessment Mission to ...

    $1,560.00

  • LIGHTING FITTINGS PERFORMANCE AND DESIGN
    A. R. BEAN / R. H. SIMONS
    International Series of Monographs in Electrical Engineering, Volume 1: Lighting Fittings Performance and Design details the advances in the design and prediction of the performance of lighting fittings. The title first covers luminous intensity and flux, and then proceeds to tackling illumination from line and area sources. Next, the selection deals with the direct flux, inte...

    $970.00

  • VECTOR ANALYSIS FOR MATHEMATICIANS, SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS
    S. SIMONS
    Vector Analysis for Mathematicians, Scientists and Engineers, Second Edition, provides an understanding of the methods of vector algebra and calculus to the extent that the student will readily follow those works which make use of them, and further, will be able to employ them himself in his own branch of science. New concepts and methods introduced are illustrated by examples ...

    $970.00

  • STORIES OF CHILDREN′S PAIN
    BERNIE CARTER / JOAN SIMONS
    Working with a child in pain is difficult, unavoidable and especially challenging when the child cannot explain what they are feeling. In this important book, Bernie Carter and Joan Simons bring together experience, evidence and research to deconstruct the topic and present the reality of children′s pain. Each chapter starts with a personal story from a child, a family member o...

    $1,552.04

  • GETTING TO KNOW SCHOOLS IN A DEMOCRACY
    HELEN SIMONS
    First published in 1987. The central concept of the book is that of 'democratic' evaluation, one of the most influential ideas in the development of education practice in this country since professional evaluation emerged in the 1960s. The question explored, through an examination of the theory and practice of democratic evaluation, is whether it is possible to both posit and p...

    $1,160.00

  • A SHORT COURSE IN FOUNDATION ENGINEERING
    N.E. SIMONS / B.K. MENZIES
    A Short Course in Foundation Engineering discusses methods for predicting the failure loads, and the deformations at working loads, of piled and non-piled foundations. The first chapter covers the definition, principle, and computation of effective stress. Chapter 2 discusses the nature and measurement of shear stress. Chapter 3 deals with the concerns in immediate settlements...

    $425.00

  • FOUCAULT AND THE POLITICAL
    JONATHAN SIMONS
    Michel Foucault's involvement with politics, both as an individual and a writer, has been much commented upon but until now has not been systematically reviewed. This is the first major introductory study of Michel Foucault as a political thinker.Jonathon Simons explores the importance of the political in all areas of Foucault's work and life, including important material only ...

    $1,160.00


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