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  • GENDER AND FIREARMS
    PETER SQUIRES
    Private gun ownership for self-defense remains a major personal and public issue in the United States, driven by concerns about crime, vulnerability and a range of ‘ideological’ factors, including race and gender. As media attention centres upon the extent to which women are taking up firearms, with the gun lobby and firearms manufacturers celebrating the ‘new armed woman’, and...

    $1,120.00

  • CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT
    BRIAN GREENHALGH / GRAHAM SQUIRES / ABDUL-MAJEED MAHAMADU
    This book is an easy-to-read introduction to the principles and methods of building procurement and is aimed at first year students or non-cognate graduates starting out on a career in construction, property, quantity surveying and construction management. The book starts with a brief introduction to the construction industry, including how the industry is organised into contra...

    $1,420.00

  • THE ECONOMICS OF PROPERTY AND PLANNING
    GRAHAM SQUIRES
    This book introduces the interlocking disciplines of property and planning to economic theory and practice. Unlike any other available textbook, The Economics of Property and Planning skilfully introduces the reader to the interplay between property and planning using an economic lens. As resources become scarce, there is a growing need for students to understand the principles...

    $1,380.00

  • GRASSLANDS OF THE WORLD
    VICTOR R. SQUIRES
    This book begins with a brief account of the extraordinary sequence of events that led to emergence of grasslands as major vegetation formations that now occupy some of the driest and hottest and the highest and coldest on earth as well as vast steppes and prairies in more temperate climes. It is the story of grasses successfully competing with forests and woodlands, aided and ...

    $1,360.00

  • AN ANTIETAM VETERAN'S MONTANA JOURNEY
    KATHARINE SEATON SQUIRES
    In this recently unearthed memoir, Civil War veteran James Howard Lowell offers a firsthand account of his brutal journey west on a wagon train attacked by Indian Dog Soldiers. The Boston Yank staggers snow blind through a Laramie Plains blizzard to reach Salt Lake City, where he meets Brigham Young. In Montana, he joins an old forty-niner to work a mining claim, practices "tom...

    $229.00

  • YOUNG PEOPLE AND COMMUNITY SAFETY
    LYNDA MEASOR / PETER SQUIRES
    This title was first published in 2000: Effective service provisions for young people are often said to be the key to Community Safety planning yet research frequently shows young people as over-controlled yet under-protected. Taking up this dilemma, this work draws upon a large survey of young people's attitudes towards the opportunities facing them and the communities in whic...

    $1,060.00

  • ECONOMICS FOR FISHERIES MANAGEMENT
    R. QUENTIN GRAFTON / JAMES KIRKLEY / DALE SQUIRES
    Many of the world's fisheries face major challenges including overfishing, overcapacity and low returns. Using recent developments in microeconomic theory and with numerous case studies and examples, this book shows how to measure efficiency, productivity, profitability, capacity of fishing fleets and how to improve fisheries management. The book will prove invaluable to resear...

    $1,360.00

  • HALOPHYTIC AND SALT-TOLERANT FEEDSTUFFS
    HASSAN M. EL SHAER / VICTOR ROY SQUIRES
    Naturally occurring salt tolerant and halophytic plants (trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs) have always been utilized by livestock as a supplement or drought reserve. Salt tolerant forage and fodder crops are now being planted over wide areas. Increasingly, large-scale production of fodder on formerly abandoned irrigated cropland has allowed salt t ...

    $1,800.00

  • EQUINE EMBRYO TRANSFER
    PATRICK M. MCCUE / EDWARD L. SQUIRES
    This book briefly reviews the history of equine embryo transfer, covering in clinically practical terms the techniques, equipment, and management protocols currently in use. Embryo transfer has become a big business, especially for breeding racing stock (horses and camels), and is therefore a very important aspect of equine practice. Ed Squires and ...

    $1,740.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF SECONDARY SCIENCE
    ROSALIND DRIVER / ANN SQUIRES / PETER RUSHWORTH / VALERIE WOOD-ROBINSON
    What ideas do children hold about the natural world? How do these ideas affect their learning of science? Young learners bring to the classroom knowledge and ideas about many aspects of the natural world constructed from their experiences of education and from outside school. These ideas contribute to subsequent learning, and research has shown that teaching of science is unlik...

    $1,520.00

  • KEY PERSPECTIVES ON DYSLEXIA
    DAVID ARMSTRONG / GARRY SQUIRES
    This indispensable book critically sets out the skills and knowledge required by a specialist educator for students who present with dyslexia. The British Dyslexia Association Professional Criteria (BDA, 2012) provides an anchor throughout for this book’s content. Chapters are explicitly mapped to specific professional criteria, offering the reader confidence that guidance in K...

    $1,100.00

  • INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES TO REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
    SQUIRES, GRAHAM / HEURKENS, ERWIN
    An international approach to the study and teaching of real estate is increasingly important in today’s global market. With chapters covering numerous countries and every continent, International Approaches to Real Estate Development introduces real estate development theory and practice to students and professionals in the comparative international context. The book provides r...

    $1,460.00

  • RIVER BASIN MANAGEMENT IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
    VICTOR ROY SQUIRES
    Worldwide development of agriculture and industry creates burgeoning demands on natural resources. Management of the rivers and the surrounding landscape is one of the important tasks for today and for the foreseeable future. Lessons learned from centuries of management (and mismanagement) have been distilled into principles and practices which for ...

    $5,300.00

  • GUN CRIME IN GLOBAL CONTEXTS
    PETER SQUIRES
    Every year around three-quarters of a million people die (directly or indirectly) as a result of gun violence, with most deaths occurring in the poorest, yet also most highly weaponized parts of the world. Firearm proliferation -- 875 million global firearms -- is a direct contributor to both regional conflicts and to crime. This book attempts to understand the inter-related dy...

    $1,460.00

  • MANAGING YOUR LEARNING
    GEOFFREY SQUIRES
    This book is about analysing, understanding and managing the way you learn. Whether you are working towards a formal qualification, are undertaking work-related training or are learning informally by yourself, Managing Your Learning will help you to assess and build on your strengths, and identify and improve your weaknesses. You can use this book by yourself or in an organised...

    $860.00

  • ROUGHER JUSTICE
    PETER SQUIRES / DAWN STEPHEN
    Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy. Yet anti-social behaviour as a concept has been little studied, and the notion has often been accepted uncritically. This book aims to meet this need, providing a critique of the government's use of the concept of anti-social behaviour...

    $1,160.00

  • THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A NATURAL DISASTER
    GREGORY SQUIRES
    There is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster is the first comprehensive critical book on the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans. The disaster will go down on record as one of the worst in American history, not least because of the government’s inept and cavalier response. But it is also a huge story for other reasons; the impact of the hurricane was uneven,...

    $1,200.00

  • GUN CULTURE OR GUN CONTROL?
    PETER SQUIRES
    n 1996 the shooting and killing of 16 young children in a Dunblane primary school provoked wide reaching parliamentary reform to British gun laws. Within months virtually all privately owned handguns had been outlawed. Gun Culture or Gun Control? presents the first substantial analysis of the social and political reactions to events in Dunblane and also examines many of the wid...

    $1,420.00

  • URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
    GRAHAM SQUIRES
    The importance of the built environment to environmental protection is well established, with strict environmental regulations now a feature of the working lives of planners, contractors, building designers, and quantity surveyors alike. Those new to, or preparing to join this industry must have an understanding of how their environmental responsibilities relate to their profes...

    $1,420.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO BUILDING PROCUREMENT
    BRIAN GREENHALGH / GRAHAM SQUIRES
    The procurement stage of the building process is critical to the success of any building project, and as such must be understood by everybody entering the industry. Introduction to Building Procurement is designed to familiarize the novice with the principles and methods of building procurement, starting at the most basic level. With chapter summaries and tutorial questions pro...

    $1,420.00

  • TEACHING AS A PROFESSIONAL DISCIPLINE
    DR GEOFFREY SQUIRES / GEOFFREY SQUIRES
    First Published in 2004. This book addresses one of the most basic but problematic questions in education- what do teachers do? After reviewing various paradigms of teaching- as common sense, art, craft, competence and so on- Squires goes onto to develop a theory of professional disciplines based on three common characteristics: instrumentality, contingency and procedural. He ...

    $1,280.00

  • CONSCIOUS MIND IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD
    E.J SQUIRES
    We have seen remarkable progress in our detailed understanding of the physical world, from the smallest constituents of atoms to the remotest distances seen by telescopes. However, we have yet to explore the phenomenon of consciousness. Can physical things be conscious or is consciousness something else, forever outside the range of physics? And ho ...

    $1,800.00

  • THE PELAGIAN CONTROVERSY
    STUART SQUIRES
    The Pelagian Controversy (411–431) was one of the most important theological controversies in the history of Christianity. It was a bitter and messy affair in the evening of the Roman Empire that addressed some of the most important questions that we ask about ourselves: Who are we? What does it mean to be a human being? Are we good, or are we evil? Are we burdened by an uncont...

    $727.00

  • STOCK & STATION AGENTS' HANDBOOK
    SQUIRES, ALAN / EMMS, KEN
    This accessible and authoritive text has been written for students undertaking programs of study in stock and station agency practice, and for practising stock and station agents who will find this an invaluable reference work. Care has been taken toensure that the information contained within this book is not only accurate, but follows the syllabus provided for in the nationa...

    $1,004.00

  • HEALING THE NATION
    L. ASHLEY SQUIRES
    A surprising history of how Christian Science swept through America, reflected in literature of the time by Twain, Dreiser, Cather, and more. Exploring the surprising presence of Christian Science in American literature at the turn of the twentieth century, L. Ashley Squires reveals the rich and complex connections between religion and literature in American culture. Mary Baker...

    $251.00

  • COOLHAUS ICE CREAM BOOK
    NATASHA CASE / FREYA ESTRELLER / KATHLEEN SQUIRES
    From a beat-up postal van turned food truck, Coolhaus has rocketed to a national brand. Yahoo! called it "the best ice cream in America." The inventive sandwiches, named after famous architects, are sold in supermarkets across the country, as well as from trucks in Los Angeles, New York, Austin, and Dallas. Coolhaus has drawn accolades from the New York Times, Every Day with Ra...

    $455.99

  • ANATOMIA Y FISIOLOGIA EJERCICIOS 1ª EDIC.
    SQUIRES
    Agotado

    $62.00

  • ENDOCRINOLOGÍA ANIMAL APLICADA
    E. J. SQUIRES
    Prólogo – Dedicatoria – Agradecimientos – Abreviaturas – Hormona y receptor. Estructura y función – Métodos en endocrinología – Manipulación del crecimiento y composición de la canal – Efectos endocrinos en los productos de origen animal – Manipulación endocrina de la reproducción –Efectos sobre el comportamiento, salud y bienestar animal – Índice alfabético. ...
    Agotado

    $1,110.00

  • COMO ELEGIR Y UTILIZAR SOFTWARE EDUC.
    SQUIRES
    Agotado

    $575.00