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  • SOCIETY AND TRADE IN SOUTH ARABIA
    R.B. SERJEANT / G. REX SMITH
    This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B. Serjeant's articles on the trade, commerce and society of South Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade; customary law is the next subject represented with social history and one or two incidental articles completing the volume. ...

    $1,040.00

  • WISDOM CHRISTOLOGY IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN
    DUSTIN R. SMITH
    This volume contends that the Gospel of John presents the most thorough and robust Wisdom Christology of all the New Testament books. Wisdom Christology—the christological concept that applies the roles, characteristics, and functions of God’s personified wisdom to the man Jesus Christ—is displayed to be skillfully interwoven throughout all twenty-one chapters of the Fourth Gos...

    $657.00

  • PREDISPOSED
    JOHN R. HIBBING / KEVIN B. SMITH / JOHN R. ALFORD
    This thoughtfully updated revision of a classic text sheds new light on the potential sociological and biological differences that result in deep, seemingly unbridgeable political divisions. Renowned social scientists and experts in biopolitics, John R. Hibbing, Kevin B. Smith, and John R. Alford present overwhelming evidence that political opinion is shaped not just by cultura...

    $860.00

  • STRATEGIC HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT IN ASIA
    RICHARD R. SMITH
    Asia continues to ascend as an economic powerhouse and a strategic priority for business leaders around the world, yet there is often limited understanding of the human capital systems that fuel the economic engines of the region. This book brings together the perspectives from economics, sociology, and management to highlight the business implications of human capital developm...

    $1,240.00

  • FLORA OF TROPICAL EAST AFRICA - EUPHORBIAC V2 (1988)
    SUSAN CARTER / A. R. SMITH
    This volume focuses on the family Euphorbiaceae. They are well defined tribe which includes ten other small genera of tropical and sub-tropical regions. Euphorbia are annual, biennial or perennial herbs, shrubs or trees, sometimes succulent and unarmed or spiny, with a milky usually caustic latex. ...

    $1,600.00

  • STATISTICS OF QUALITY
    SUBIR GHOSH / ‎WILLIAM R. SCHUCANY / ‎WILLIAM B. SMITH
    Explains the role of statistics in improving the quality of collecting and analyzing information for a wide variety of applications. The book examines the function of statisticians in quality improvement. It discusses statistical process control, quality statistical tables, and quality and warranty; quality standards in medicine and public health; Taguchi robust designs and sur...

    $1,900.00

  • BROADCAST ANNOUNCING WORKTEXT
    ALAN R. STEPHENSON / REED SMITH / MARY E. BEADLE
    Broadcast Announcing Worktext, now in its fifth edition, remains one of the best resources for those looking to gain the skills, techniques, and procedures necessary to enter the competitive field of broadcast performance. Written accessibly, with easy-to-digest modules and practice projects, this book encourages active participation from readers to help develop their talent on...

    $2,120.00

  • BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND OVERVIEWS
    ANTHONY P. R. HOWATT / ‎ANTHONY HOWATT / ‎RICHARD C. SMITH
    This volume forms part of a five volume set charting the progress of the nineteenth century movement, which was instrumental in establishing international guidelines for the teaching of modern languages. It was during this period that for the first time, co-operation between phoneticians and teachers culminated in the publication of works that were instrumental in establishing ...

    $11,700.00

  • WHY WE KILL
    NANCY LOUCKS / ‎SALLY SMITH HOLT / ‎JOANNA R. ADLER
    Capital punishment, serial killings, war, terrorism, abortion, honour killings, euthanasia, suicide bombings, war, and genocide: all involve the taking of life. Put most simply, all involve killing other people. However, cultural context heavily influences heavily how people perceive these acts, and most people reading this paragraph will likely disagree on the extent to which ...

    $1,240.00

  • EARTH AND THE HUMAN FUTURE
    KIRK R SMITH
    During the second half of the twentieth century, great changes have occurred in the natural sciences, spawned by the leap forward in physics during the war years and the growth in understanding of earth's history and place in the cosmos. Also, with the new and terrible consequences of full-fledged war, the nuclear age has brought to the fore the ne ...

    $820.00

  • PRIVATE FOREIGN AID
    LANDRUM R BOLLING / CRAIG SMITH
    Over the past 150 years, Americans have responded repeatedly to the needs of people in foreign lands, providing aid in times of natural disaster, in the wake of war, in the development of resources, in the eradication of disease and poverty and in the battle against hunger. This challenging task has been tackled again and again by churches, corpora ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE PHENOMENOLOGICAL HEART OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
    KATHERINE GREENBERG / BRIAN SOHN / NEIL GREENBERG / HOWARD R POLLIO / SANDRA THOMAS / JOHN SMITH
    This book presents a carefully constructed framework for teaching and learning informed by philosophical and empirical foundations of phenomenology. Based on an extensive, multi-dimensional case study focused around the ‘lived experience’ of college-level teaching preparation, classroom interaction, and students’ reflections, this book presents evidence for the claim that the w...

    $1,200.00

  • THE CENTRE-LEFT AND NEW RIGHT DIVIDE?
    STEVEN R. SMITH
    First published in 1998, this volume offers some solutions to the inherent difficulties with moving from philosophical generalities to specific policies, by exploring how a bridge might be built between political philosophy and social policy analysis. In light of these findings, Steven R. Smith evaluates the relationship between the Centre-Left and the New Right, focusing on th...

    $340.00

  • DIVERSITY-SENSITIVE PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT
    STEVEN R. SMITH
    Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment is a comprehensive guide for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client diversity—ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, nationality, religion, regionalism, socioeconomic status, and disability status—can impact assessment results, interpretation, and feedback. Chapters co-written by leading experts in the fields of dive...

    $1,280.00

  • MIDDLE RANGE THEORY FOR NURSING
    PATRICIA R. LIEHR, MARY JANE SMITH
    Three-time recipient of the AJN Book of the Year Award!Praise for the third edition:“This is an outstanding edition of this book. It has great relevance for learning about, developing, and using middle range theories. It is very user friendly, yet scholarly."Score: 90, 4 Stars-Doody's Medical ReviewsThe fourth edition of this invaluable publication on middle range theory in nur...

    $1,862.00

  • COGNITIVE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
    PHILIP J. SMITH AND ROBERT R. HOFFMAN
    This volume provides an exceptional perspective on the nature, evolution, contributions and future of the field of Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE). It is a resource to support both the teaching and practice of CSE. It accomplishes this through its organization into two complementary approaches to the topic. The first is an historical perspective: In the retrospections of l...

    $1,620.00

  • VIRTUE ETHICS AND MORAL KNOWLEDGE
    R. SCOTT SMITH
    We live in a time of moral confusion: many believe there are no overarching moral norms, and we have lost an accepted body of moral knowledge. Alasdair MacIntyre addresses this problem in his much-heralded restatement of Aristotelian and Thomistic virtue ethics; Stanley Hauerwas does so through his highly influential work in Christian ethics. Both recast virtue ethics in light...

    $1,340.00

  • POWER, NORMS, AND INFLATION
    MICHAEL R. SMITH
    Explanations for inflation had for a long time been ceded to the purview of economists. The acceleration in rates of inflation within advanced economies during the 1960s and 1970s, however, prompted sociologists and political scientists to attempt their own accounts for this phenomenon.There are two major competing explanations of the postwar inflation. One, most commonly held ...

    $1,320.00

  • BELIEFS ABOUT INEQUALITY
    JAMES R. KLUEGEL / ELIOT R. SMITH
    Motivated by the desire to explain how Americans perceive and evaluate inequality and related programs and policies, the authors conducted a national survey of beliefs about social and economic inequality in America. Here they present the results of their research on the structure, determinants, and certain political and personal consequences of these beliefs. The presentations...

    $1,240.00

  • STORIES FOR MEN
    BRUCE L.R. SMITH / CHARLES GRAYSON
    Can the reading public imagine a less likely but more needed book than Stories for Men - a seventy-five-year- old anthology edited by Charles Grayson - written in an age when such a title would scarcely raise an eyebrow! Imagine a book about men in which the featured theme is not rapists, child abusers, or men who never weep, feel little sorrow, or prefer dog fighting to baseba...

    $920.00

  • CLASSICS FROM PAPYRUS TO THE INTERNET
    JEFFREY M. HUNT / R. ALDEN SMITH
    A "valuable and useful" history of the efforts and innovations that have kept ancient literary classics alive through the centuries ( New England Classical Journal).   Writing down the epic tales of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus in texts that became the Iliad and the Odyssey was a defining moment in the intellectual history of the West, a moment from which many ...

    $251.00

  • POACHING, WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING AND SECURITY IN AFRICA
    CATHY HAENLEIN AND M L R SMITH
    A worldwide surge in poaching and wildlife trafficking is threatening to decimate endangered species. This crisis also threatens the security of human beings in ways ignored until recently by decision-makers slow to begin to treat what is typically viewed as a ‘conservation issue’ as serious crime. Over the past decade, as the scale and profitability of poaching and wildlife tr...

    $1,340.00

  • EXCHANGE RATES AND PRICES
    WILLIAM R. SMITH
    Originally published in 1996. This study looks at the impact of exchange rate fluctuation on the pricing practices of foreign industries that import into the United States market. It presents several studies of the pass-through behaviour of over 100 disaggregated commodity groups with bi-lateral exchange rates. The book presents analysis of specific competitors and their indivi...

    $980.00

  • HUMANITARIANS IN HOSTILE TERRITORY
    PETER W VAN ARSDALE / DERRIN R SMITH
    More than ever, humanitarian aid workers and diplomats are engaging with vulnerable populations in areas once considered too dangerous to touch. Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience in conflict environments around the world, Van Arsdale and Smith offer this important and revealing guide to the ethics, theory, and practice of work outside so-called Green Zones of safet...

    $1,120.00

  • FACILITATION AND DEBRIEFING IN AVIATION TRAINING AND OPERATIONS
    R. KEY DISMUKES / GUY M. SMITH
    This practical guide is designed to enable individual pilots, training departments and airline managers to better understand and use the techniques of facilitation. Based on extensive field studies by the editors and invited contributors, it presents an easily accessible guide to the philosophy of facilitation combined with practical applications designed to improve training a...

    $4,500.00

  • AROMATIC CHEMISTRY
    P.W.G. SMITH / A.R. TATCHELL
    Organic Chemistry for General Degree Students, Volume 2: Aromatic Chemistry presents the fundamental aspects of aromatic chemistry. This book explores the systematic study in the first instance of the chemistry of functional groups, based on their structural characteristics in aliphatic systems. Organized into 11 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the properties ...

    $970.00

  • ANALYZING SOCIAL INTERACTION
    LYNN SMITH-LOVIN / DAVID R. HEISE
    First Published in 1988. This special issue of The Journal of Mathematical Sociology reports continuing work on affect control theory — a theory of social behavior that deals with role actions such as those of doctors toward patients, with deviant behaviors such as those of muggers toward victims, and with creative responses to events such as sanctioning a misbehaved child or l...

    $1,480.00

  • NATURALISM AND OUR KNOWLEDGE OF REALITY
    R. SCOTT SMITH
    Philosophical naturalism is taken to be the preferred and reigning epistemology and metaphysics that underwrites many ideas and knowledge claims. But what if we cannot know reality on that basis? What if the institution of science is threatened by its reliance on naturalism? R. Scott Smith argues in a fresh way that we cannot know reality on the basis of naturalism. Moreover,...

    $1,240.00

  • ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF SPORT PSYCHOLOGY
    ROBERT J. SCHINKE, KERRY R, MCGANNON AND BRETT SMITH
    Contemporary sport psychology is a rapidly developing and theoretically rich discipline, and a sophisticated and challenging profession. The Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology offers a comprehensive and authoritative guide to contemporary sport psychology in all its aspects. Written by a team of world-leading researchers and practitioners from five continents,...

    $1,460.00

  • THE SON OF GOD
    CHARLES LEE IRONS / DANNY ANDRÉ DIXON / DUSTIN R. SMITH
    This is a multi-view book in which representatives of differing viewpoints make a positive statement of their case, followed by responses from the others, and concluding with a rebuttal by the original author. The topic at hand in this book is the identity of Jesus (also known as Christology). What is the meaning of Jesus's identity as "the Son of God"? Charles Lee Irons argues...

    $550.00


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