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  • AUTOMATING DATA QUALITY MONITORING
    JEREMY STANLEY / PAIGE SCHWARTZ
    The world's businesses ingest a combined 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day. But how much of this vast amount of data--used to build products, power AI systems, and drive business decisions--is poor quality or just plain bad? This practical book shows you how to ensure that the data your organization relies on contains only high-quality records. Most data engineers, data a...

    $681.00

  • THE ARTS AND THE BIBLE
    STANLEY E. PORTER
    Throughout its history, the Christian church has had a troubled relationship with the arts, whether literature, poetry, music, visual arts, or other forms of artistic expression. This volume is not designed to resolve the issues, but it is designed to present a number of different statements about various dimensions of the arts in their relationship to the Bible. The Bible is t...

    $1,171.00

  • KAFKA CONNECT
    MICKAEL MAISON / KATE STANLEY
    Used by more than 80% of Fortune 100 companies, Apache Kafka has become the de facto event streaming platform. Kafka Connect is a key component of Kafka that lets you flow data between your existing systems and Kafka to process data in real time. With this practical guide, authors Mickael Maison and Kate Stanley show data engineers, site reliability engineers, and application d...

    $801.00

  • STUDIES IN THE PRINTING, PUBLISHING AND PERFORMANCE OF MUSIC IN THE 16TH CENTURY
    STANLEY BOORMAN
    The emergence of music printing and publishing in the early 16th century radically changed how music was circulated, and how the musical source (printed or manuscript) was perceived, and used in performance. This series of close studies of the structure and content of 16th-century and early 17th-century editions (and some manuscripts) of music draws conclusions in a number of a...

    $1,199.00

  • THE FUTURE RESTORATION OF ISRAEL
    STANLEY E. PORTER
    This volume is the most extensive of its kind as a major set of collected essays from a wide range of scholars on the question of the promises of God to Israel. These essays put forward the position that unconditional promises were given to Israel, which have not been fulfilled in the church or any other entity. At the consummation, there will be a continuing role for the Jews,...

    $976.00

  • ECONOMIC EQUALITY IN THE CO-OPERATIVE COMMONWEALTH
    H. STANLEY JEVONS
    Originally published in 1933 in the midst of the Great Depression, this book discussed the possibility of a new and orderly economic system to realize social justice. The author argued that nothing but the complete equality of reward could ensure a stable order. Although utopian in its outlook, the book addressed many of the concerns of the (then) existing order. The book expla...

    $1,339.00

  • FALKLANDS/MALVINAS 1982
    MARÍA INÉS TATO / PETER STANLEY / LUIS ESTEBAN DALLA FONTANA / ROB MCLAUGHLIN
    After four decades from the 1982 war between Britain and Argentina over possession of the Falklands/Malvinas islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, this book allows for a new and rounded reading of the causes, course and consequences of the war. It provides a comprehensive overview of the Falkland/Malvinas War by integrating the military history of the conflict into the diplomati...

    $1,039.00

  • THE WAR OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, 1763-1783
    STANLEY D. M. CARPENTER / KEVIN J. DELAMER / JAMES R. MCINTYRE / ANDREW T. ZWILLING
    The War of American Independence, 1763–1783: Falling Dominoes addresses the military, maritime and naval, economic, key personalities, key societal groups, political, imperial rivalry, and diplomatic dynamics and events from the post-Seven Years’ War era in Great Britain’s North American colonies through the end of the War of American Independence. Beginning in 1763 and moving ...

    $979.00

  • BLACK ICONOGRAPHY AND COLONIAL (RE)PRODUCTION AT THE ICC
    STANLEY MWANGI WANJIRU
    This book explores the reproduction of colonialism at the International Criminal Court (ICC) and examines international criminal law (ICL) vs the black body through an immersive format of art, music, poetry, and architecture and post-colonial/critical race theory lens. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, the book interrogates the operationalisation of the Rome Statute to deta...

    $1,099.00

  • REINTRODUCING OLIVE SCHREINER
    LIZ STANLEY
    This book explores the thought of Olive Schreiner, the internationally famous writer, feminist theorist, social critic, opponent of imperialism and nationalism, and analyst of violence and war, best known for her novels and short stories, articles and critical commentaries, and her feminist treatise, Women and Labour. Expounding her groundbreaking ideas and analyses to a new ge...

    $979.00

  • CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE UK
    SELWYN STANLEY
    Social problems are endemic to all societies. The UK is no exception and is grappling with a plethora of issues including poverty, family breakdown, domestic violence, teenage pregnancy, child abuse and neglect, youth offending, alcohol and drug misuse, mental health issues, homelessness, and ethnic and religious discrimination. These problems have huge implications for the ind...

    $979.00

  • STAMPS, NATIONALISM AND POLITICAL TRANSITION
    STANLEY D. BRUNN
    This book explores how states in political transition use stamps to promote a new visual nationalism. Stamps as products of the state and provide small pieces of information about a state’s heritage, culture, economies and place in the world. These depictions change over time, reflecting political and cultural changes and developments. The volume explores the transition times i...

    $1,099.00

  • MANAGING LOGISTICS AND TRANSPORTATION IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
    DARIN L. MATTHEWS / LINDA L. STANLEY
    Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector, Second Edition thoroughly examines the world of transportation as it relates to public procurement, stressing the importance of not only procuring the right goods, materials, and services, but also ensuring their proper delivery to their final destination. Designed to educate the public procurement professional on ways...

    $2,400.00

  • THE POINT OF VIEW AND FOUR MORE STORIES
    STANLEY G. WEINBAUM
    Excerpt: ""My dear child, the bromide of sodium (if that's what you call it) proved perfectly useless. I don't mean that it did me no good, but that I never had occasion to take the bottle out of my bag. It might have done wonders for me if I had needed it; but I didn't, simply because I have been a wonder myself. Will you believe that I have spent the whole voyage on deck, in ...

    $39.70

  • THE DARK OTHER
    STANLEY G. WEINBAUM
    The Dark Other is a sci-fi horror novel by Stanley G. Weinbaum. It was first published in 1950 by Fantasy Publishing Company, Inc. in an edition of 700 copies. The novel concerns Patricia Lane who is in love with Nicholas Devine, a quiet and gentle writer. Devine undergoes sudden changes, becoming cold and calculating. Frightened by this, Lane consults psychologist Dr. Carl Hor...

    $39.70

  • ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY
    STANLEY E MANAHAN
    With clear explanations, real-world examples and updated ancillary material, the 11th edition of Environmental Chemistry emphasizes the concepts essential to the practice of environmental science, technology and chemistry. The format and organization popular in preceding editions is used, including an approach based upon the five environmental spheres and the relationship of en...

    $2,300.00

  • CROWDS
    GERALD STANLEY LEE
    This book, first published in 1913, examines early twentieth century thinking on crowds and human nature. The imagination of crowds and the desire to be good, to be happy and successful, together with the wish for the new are all considered along with the changes in the politics and industry of the time. ...

    $1,119.00

  • RELIGION AFTER DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY
    TIMOTHY STANLEY
    Religion after Deliberative Democracy responds to gaps exposed by the case of religion in deliberative democratic theory. Religion's persistent visibility in political life has called for new solutions for healing deeply divided societies. In response, the author begins with Jeffrey Stout’s pragmatist vision of democracy before providing a series of supplements in subsequent ch...

    $1,099.00

  • PERYMEDES THE BLACKSMITH AND PANDOSTO BY ROBERT GREENE
    STANLEY WELLS
    First published in 1988, Perymedes and the Blacksmith and Pandosto by Robert Greene: A Critical Edition considers two prose works by Robert Greene - Perymedes the Blacksmith and Pandosto - alongisde a critical commentary, including, in relation to Perymedes the Blacksmith, an examination of Perymedes as a framework tale and an exploration of the poems, and, in relation to Pando...

    $1,259.00

  • WORK AND RETIREMENT
    STANLEY PARKER
    In the early 1980s world recession and widespread unemployment had accentuated an existing trend – more people retiring from work early and living longer after doing so. Some were adequately prepared for a life of well-earned ‘leisure’ in retirement, but too many were not. The policies of employers, unions and governments on retirement needed to be challenged in societies where...

    $859.00

  • ADVANCES IN FAMILY-SCHOOL-COMMUNITY PARTNERING
    GLORIA E. MILLER / AMANDA ARTHUR-STANLEY / RASHIDA BANERJEE
    Family-School-Community Partnering (FSCP) is a multidimensional process in which schools, families, and communities work together to ensure the academic, social, and emotional success of students. In this new edition, the authors evaluate advances to a multitiered model of FSCP that further incorporates community alliances. Section I covers legislative, empirical, and theoretic...

    $979.00

  • AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHY OF FITTING IN
    PHIONA STANLEY
    An Autoethnography of Fitting In: On Spinsterhood, Fatness, and Backpacker Tourism is a feminist narrative about the social rules of obedience and acquiescence to the norm – embodiment, heteronormativity, partnering – and about fitting in, or not, with those narratives. Phiona Stanley explores a period through her twenties and thirties, living and travelling alone, foreign to h...

    $1,099.00

  • THE SOCIOLOGY OF LEISURE
    STANLEY PARKER
    In the 1970s the subject of leisure was attracting interest among both social scientists and people concerned with developing recreation policies. A relative newcomer to the sociological scene at the time, leisure was beginning to compete in research effort and theory-building with the more established fields of sociology. As well as making an academic contribution, this book, ...

    $859.00

  • INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
    STANLEY TOOPS / MARK ALLEN PETERSON / WALT VANDERBUSH / NAABORLE SACKEYFIO / SHELDON ANDERSON
    This book provides a much-needed classroom text in international studies that is genuinely interdisciplinary in its approach. International Studies focuses specifically on five core disciplines; history, geography, anthropology, political science and economics, and describes them in relation to one another, as well as their individual and collective contributions to the study o...

    $1,099.00

  • A MARTIAN ODYSSEY
    STANLEY G. WEINBAUM
    Set on a Mars that never was. Dick Jarvis, one of the members of the first space ship to reach Mars sets out on a solo expedition to photograph the countryside. His Rockets engine gives out 800 miles from the ship and he is forced to walk back. Accompanied by a Martian that he saved from certain death Jarvis must face one danger after another if he is to get back home. ...

    $9.00

  • AMAZING STORIES VOLUME 81
    STANLEY MULLEN
    Amazing Stories Volume 81 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are two stories by Stanley Mullen: "Suicide Command", and "Lady Into Hell-Cat", one story by Rog Phillips: "One for the Robot -- Two for the Same", two stories by: Sam Moskowitz: "World of Mockery", and "The Way Back", and one story by Clyde Beck: "Col...

    $39.70

  • THE PRISON OF THE STARS AND TWO MORE STORIES
    STANLEY MULLEN
    Three Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction by Stanley Mullen. Featured here: "The Prison of the Stars", "Gamma is Thee!", and "Cosmic Castaway". ...

    $39.70

  • ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR TODAY
    STANLEY C. ROSS
    This exciting new introductory text offers a new perspective on teaching organizational behavior by framing the organization as the vehicle for implementing strategic management processes, while also breaking down how the different components of an organization are designed to work together. Unlike traditional OB texts, Organizational Behavior Today emphasizes a "big picture" e...

    $1,999.00

  • AMAZING STORIES VOLUME 22
    STANLEY MULLEN
    Amazing Stories Volume 22 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are five stories by Stanley Mullen: "Master of the Moondog", "Shock Treatment", "Mirage for Planet X", "S.O.S. Aphrodite!", and "Mary Anonymous", "Prisoner of the Brain-Mistress", "Savage Galahad", and "Last Call". and "The Pit of Nympthons". ...

    $39.70

  • ACTIVE HERMENEUTICS
    STANLEY E. PORTER / JASON C. ROBINSON
    Hermeneutics, as a discipline of the humanities, is often assumed to be in thrall to the same subjectivity of every interpretive method, in direct contrast to the objectivity prized by the natural sciences. This book argues that there is a false dichotomy here, and that ancient and modern ideas of knowledge can be utilized to create a new active form of hermeneutics. One capabl...

    $1,099.00