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  • THE LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT HANDBOOK
    MICHELLE PARRY-SLATER
    The skills needed in today's business world are not the same as they used to be. As a result companies must embrace upskilling, reskilling and developing staff to achieve the productivity, performance, personal well-being and revenue benefits that come from effective learning. Workplace learning works best when it is collaborative, accessible and immediate. The Learning and Dev...

    $929.00

  • THE COLLECTED PAPERS OF BERTRAND RUSSELL, VOLUME 9
    JOHN G. SLATER
    This volume contains Russell's reviews of and introductions to other philosophical works including his famous introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. ...

    $7,900.00

  • HORIZONS OF THE FUTURE
    GRAHAM B. SLATER
    Horizons of the Future: Science Fiction, Utopian Imagination, and the Politics of Education examines the relationship between science fiction, education, and social change in the 21st century. Global capitalism is ecologically unsustainable and ethically indefensible; time is running out to alter the course of history if humanity is to have hope of a livable future beyond the n...

    $1,040.00

  • TROPES AND THE LITERARY-SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
    MICHAEL SLATER
    Tropes and the Literary-Scientific Revolution: Forms of Proof argues that the rise of mechanical science in the seventeenth century had a profound impact on both language and literature. To the extent that new ideas about things were accompanied by new attitudes toward words, what we commonly regard as the “scientific revolution” inevitably bore literary dimensions as well. Lit...

    $1,240.00

  • FAMILY LIFE IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
    MIRIAM SLATER
    The great issues and conflicts of the early seventeenth century were played out not only on the stages of the Court and Parliament, and, latterly, on the battlefield, but within the confines of the family. Originally published in 1984, in this pioneering study of the Verney family, based on more than 10,000 family letters and papers, Professor Miriam Slater shows how a family o...

    $840.00

  • BAYESIAN METHODS IN STATISTICS
    MEL SLATER
    This book walks you through learning probability and statistics from a Bayesian point of view.  From an introduction to probability theory through to frameworks for doing rigorous calculations of probability, it discusses Bayes’ Theorem before illustrating how to use it in a variety of different situations with data addressing social and psychological issues. The book also: Equ...

    $1,538.06

  • THE INTERNET
    DANIEL MILLER / DON SLATER
    This pathbreaking book is the first to provide a rigorous and comprehensive examination of Internet culture and consumption. A rich ethnography of Internet use, the book offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the social, political and cultural contexts which account for the contemporary Internet experience. From cybercafes to businesses, from middle class h...

    $1,000.00

  • ORIGIN AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL (RLE SOCIAL THEORY)
    PHIL SLATER
    The term 'Frankfurt School' is used widely, but sometimes loosely, to describe both a group of intellectuals and a specific social theory. Focusing on the formative and most radical years of the Frankfurt School, during the 1930s, this study concentrates on the Frankfurt School's most original contributions made to the work on a 'critical theory of society' by the philosophers ...

    $1,320.00

  • THE PROFESSIONALISATION OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    RUTH ELIZABETH SLATER
    Evolving economies, the emergence of new technologies and organisational forms are all features of late capitalism. Among this milieu, a marked feature has been the emergence and recognition in society of new occupations. The claim upon a body of knowledge and practice, and a societal domain in which to exercise expertise characterise these occupations. Status and recognition m...

    $1,200.00

  • A LEVEL MEDIA STUDIES
    PETE BENNETT / SARAH CASEY BENYAHIA / JERRY SLATER
    A Level Media Studies is a comprehensive guide to the subject content of AS and A Level Media Studies, across all examining boards. It is specifically designed to meet the needs of both students and teachers with an accessible writing style, helpful notes on key theories and theorists and a range of learning exercises. The book’s overall approach is gradual immersion, assuming ...

    $1,100.00

  • EASING TRANSITION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
    CHARLES C. SLATER
    In response to the volatile political, social, and economic situation in Southern Africa, this book provides a new framework for the difficult task of policy planning in times of stress and radical transition. The authors report on two complementary research methodologies--channel mapping and simulation modeling--and their combination to form a pow ...

    $1,200.00

  • KENSIM SYST DEV KENYA
    CHARLES C SLATER
    This book describes KENSIM's basis in economic theory and the use of a general systems simulation model for identifying, discussing, and analyzing a spectrum of development problems facing Kenya and other societies. It provides details of the system of equations and the model's Fortran code. ...

    $1,200.00

  • CLIMATE'S IMPACT ON FOOD SUPPLIES
    LLOYD E. SLATER
    Global concern about the impact of climatic variability on food supplies has been growing since 1963 when a major crop failure in the Soviet Union ended a long period of abundant, low-cost surplus grain. Since then a number of sizable crop shortfalls and food supply emergencies throughout the world have encouraged the study of climate-food interact ...

    $1,200.00

  • DICTIONARY OF HEALTH ECONOMICS
    ALAN EARL-SLATER
    Comprehensive, concise and easily accessible, this is the first health economics dictionary of its kind and is an essential reference tool for everyone involved, or interested in, healthcare. The modern terminology of health economics and relevant terms used by economists working in the fields of epidemiology, public health, decision management and policy studies are all clearl...

    $740.00

  • AGAINST THE REALISMS OF THE AGE
    HEARTLEY SLATER
    First published in 1998, Taking on Wittgensteinianism themes, but also using, or relying on several mathematical results, Slater in this book explores the idea of realism and further argues how in a philosophical viewpoint is incorrect. Slater also surveys various philosophers in the field of logic to argue against the idea of realism. ...

    $920.00

  • ANXIETIES OF BELONGING IN SETTLER COLONIALISM
    LISA SLATER
    This book analyses the anxiety "well-intentioned" settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous politics. Drawing upon cultural theory and studies of affect and emotion, Slater argues that settler anxiety is an historical subjectivity which shapes perception and senses of belonging. Why does Indigenous political will continue to provoke and disturb? How does...

    $1,240.00

  • AN ANALYSIS OF BARUCH SPINOZA'S ETHICS
    GARY SLATER / ANDREAS VRAHIMIS
    Baruch Spinoza’s Ethics is a dense masterpiece of sustained argumentative reasoning. It earned its place as one of the most important and influential books in Western philosophy by virtue of its uncompromisingly direct arguments about the nature of God, the universe, free will, and human morals. Though it remains one of the densest and most challenging texts in the entire canon...

    $179.00

  • REVIVAL: SOUTHERN INDIA (1936)
    GILBERT SLATER
    This book deals firstly with the economic and social conditions of life among the villagers, the artisans, and other workers in cities and towns of South India, and also with the new issues raised in India during the most momentous years of its history since the mutiny – the commercial and financial disturbances following the war, the sudden appearance of aggressive Trade Union...

    $1,760.00

  • RADICAL ORTHODOXY IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD
    ANGUS M. SLATER
    Radical Orthodoxy remains an important movement within Christian theology, but does it relate effectively with an increasingly pluralist and secular Western society? Can it authentically communicate the beauty and desire of the divine to such a diverse collection of theological accounts of meaning? This book re-assesses the viability of the social model given by John Milbank, b...

    $1,240.00

  • DOMINATION IN GRAPHS
    TERESA W. HAYNES / STEPHEN HEDETNIEMI / PETER SLATER
    ""Presents the latest in graph domination by leading researchers from around the world-furnishing known results, open research problems, and proof techniques. Maintains standardized terminology and notation throughout for greater accessibility. Covers recent developments in domination in graphs and digraphs, dominating functions, combinatorial problems on chessboards, and more....

    $8,400.00

  • TOWNS IN DECLINE, AD100–1600
    TERRY SLATER
    Many European towns have experienced loss of population, degradation of physical structure and profound economic change at least once since the height of the Roman Empire. This volume is an examination of the various causes of these changes, the results which flowed from them and the reasons why some urban centres survived, revived and eventually flourished again while others f...

    $1,340.00

  • DEPRESSION
    GEOFF TOMLINSON / DAWN SLATER
    Based on cognitive behavioural psychotherapy, this resource book describes how to treat mild to moderate depression. Aimed at the professional with little or no experience of treating depression, it provides detailed instructions on recognising a client's profile of depression, identifying dysfunctional thinking patterns and following through the ten steps for treatment. The me...

    $1,540.00

  • THE CHURCH IN THE MEDIEVAL TOWN
    T.R. SLATER / GERVASE ROSSER
    This volume of essays explores the interaction of Church and town in the medieval period in England. Two major themes structure the book. In the first part the authors explore the social and economic dimensions of the interaction; in the second part the emphasis moves to the spaces and built forms of towns and their church buildings. The primary emphasis of the essays is upon t...

    $1,240.00

  • MEDICAL CULTURES OF THE EARLY MODERN SPANISH EMPIRE
    JOHN SLATER / MARÍALUZ LÓPEZ-TERRADA / JOSÉ PARDO-TOMÁS
    Early modern Spain was a global empire in which a startling variety of medical cultures came into contact, and occasionally conflict, with one another. Spanish soldiers, ambassadors, missionaries, sailors, and emigrants of all sorts carried with them to the farthest reaches of the monarchy their own ideas about sickness and health. These ideas were, in turn, influenced by local...

    $1,240.00

  • YOUTH AND DISABILITY
    JENNY SLATER
    In this ground-breaking book, Jenny Slater uses the lens of ’the reasonable’ to explore how normative understandings of youth, dis/ability and the intersecting identities of gender and sexuality impact upon the lives of young dis/abled people. Although youth and disability have separately been thought within socio-cultural frameworks, rarely have sociological studies of ’youth’...

    $1,380.00

  • WHAT'S IN A NAME?
    DAVID M JONES / JAN S. SLATER
    This is a completely rewritten and updated version of one of the true classic books in the field of marketing and advertising. What's in a Name? Advertising and the Concept of Brands analyzes brands from the point of view of modern marketing theory. It deals in detail with the role of advertising in creating, building, and maintaining strong brands - the lifeblood of any long-t...

    $1,420.00

  • ANATOMY OF A COLLABORATION
    JUDITH J. SLATER
    This book is a case study of a partnership between a college of education and a large urban school system in a joint project to build and sustain a collaboration for an elementary school to be built on the university campus. It provides insights into the perceptions of each party and describes the basic problems of the collaborative process. The analysis critically examines the...

    $1,380.00

  • PLAUTUS IN PERFORMANCE
    NIALL W. SLATER
    Plautus was Ancient Rome's greatest comic playwright, Shakespeare drew heavily on his plots, and his legacy is prevalent throughout modern drama. In this expanded edition of his successful book, one of America's foremost Classical scholars introduces performance criticism to the study of Plautus' ancient drama. In addition to the original detailed studies of six of the dramatis...

    $1,480.00

  • FUNDAMENTALS OF DOMINATION IN GRAPHS
    TERESA W. HAYNES / STEPHEN HEDETNIEMI / PETER SLATER
    "Provides the first comprehensive treatment of theoretical, algorithmic, and application aspects of domination in graphs-discussing fundamental results and major research accomplishments in an easy-to-understand style. Includes chapters on domination algorithms and NP-completeness as well as frameworks for domination." ...

    $7,500.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF ION EXCHANGE TECHNOLOGY
    M.J. SLATER
    The Principles of Ion Exchange Technology covers the fundamental properties of ion exchange resins and the chemical engineering principles of plant design to aid process and equipment evaluation, choice and design. This text is composed of 12 chapters and begins with a discussion of the equilibrium concept and the calculation of diffusion coefficients and mass transfer coeffi...

    $425.00


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