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  • GREEK AND ROMAN GOLD AND SILVER PLATE
    D.E. STRONG
    Greek and Roman Gold and Silver Plate (1966) examines the history of ancient plate in the period from the Bronze Age to the fifth century A.D. It describes in detail the development of gold and silver plate throughout this long period, and looks at the civilizations where this complicated craft flourished. ...

    $840.00

  • GENDER IN CROSS-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE
    ADRIENNE E. STRONG
    This fully updated new edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender. With two new editors and new authors from the Global South and underrepresented communities, it combines theoretically and ethnographically based chapters to examine gender roles and ideology around the ...

    $1,100.00

  • INTERROGATING POPULAR MUSIC AND THE CITY
    SHANE HOMAN, CATHERINE STRONG, SEAMUS O'HANLON, JOHN TEBBUTT
    How does popular music influence the culture and reputation of a city, and what does a city do to popular music? Interrogating Popular Music and the City examines the ways in which urban environments and music cultures intersect in various locales around the globe. Music and cities have been partners in an often clumsy, sometimes accidental but always exciting dance. Heritage a...

    $1,240.00

  • ENGLISH DOMESTIC LIFE DURING THE LAST 200 YEARS
    L.A. G. STRONG
    First Published in 1942, English Domestic Life presents an anthology that gives as complete a picture as possible of the English domestic scene during the last 200 years. With Fielding we accompany an eighteenth-century family to the theatre to see Mr Garrick in Hamlet; with Thackeray we see Mrs Rawdon Crawley going to Court; with Meredith we taste the delights of wine; with Ga...

    $840.00

  • THE SACRED RIVER
    L.A.G. STRONG
    First Published in 1949, The Sacred River attempts to present a survey of James Joyce’s work. In 1932 Mr Strong published an essay in the course of which he suggested that Work in Progress was the first full scale application to the novel of twentieth century ideas on space and time, demanding from the reader a radical change in practice. The essay was read by Joyce, and the th...

    $840.00

  • RESTORING JUSTICE
    DANIEL W. VAN NESS / KAREN HEETDERKS STRONG / JONATHAN DERBY / L. LYNETTE PARKER
    Restoring Justice: An Introduction to Restorative Justice, Sixth Edition, offers a clear and convincing explanation of restorative justice, a movement within criminal justice with ongoing worldwide influence. The book explores the broad appeal of this vision and offers a brief history of its roots and development as an alternative to an impersonal justice system focused narrowl...

    $1,600.00

  • NETWORKING AND KUBERNETES
    JAMES STRONG / VALLERY LANCEY
    Kubernetes has become an essential part of the daily work for most system, network, and cluster administrators today. But to work effectively together on a production-scale Kubernetes system, they must be able to speak the same language. This book provides a clear guide to the layers of complexity and abstraction that come with running a Kubernetes network. Authors James Strong...

    $681.00

  • TEACHERS’ ETHICAL SELF-ENCOUNTERS WITH COUNTER-STORIES IN THE CLASSROOM
    TERESA STRONG-WILSON
    Offering unique theoretical perspectives, autobiographical insights and narrative accounts from elementary and secondary educators, this monograph illustrates the need for teachers to engage critically with counter-stories as they teach to issues including colonization, war, and genocide. Juxtaposing Pinar’s concept of ethical self-encounters with theories of subjective reconst...

    $1,100.00

  • CAPTIVE SELVES, CAPTIVATING OTHERS
    PAULINE TURNER STRONG
    This book considers two key typifications within the Anglo-American captivity tradition: the Captive Self and the Captivating Other. It analyzes a hegemonic tradition of representation and illuminates the processes through which typifications are constructed, made authoritative, and transformed. ...

    $1,340.00

  • THE CEREMONIAL ORDER OF THE CLINIC
    P.M. STRONG / ROBERT DINGWALL
    This title was first published in 2001. A classic ethnographic study of the interactions between paediatricians and parents of children thought to be neurologically handicapped. Strong used this work to systematize the often chaotic ideas of Erving Goffman, to explore the connections between micro and macro analysis in sociology and to reflect on the nature of medical practice ...

    $980.00

  • DIFFERENTIATED LITERACY INSTRUCTION
    SHARON WAPOLE / MICHAEL C. MCKENNA / ZOI A. PHILIPPAKOS / JOHN Z. STRONG
    The goal of this book is to answer the question What is differentiated instruction? It offers pre-service and in-service teachers the background and foundational skills they will need to understand, plan for, and achieve effective differentiated literacy instruction in their classrooms, based on individual student needs. Chapters provide essential information about how to analy...

    $1,760.00

  • MANAGING THE SKIES
    CLINTON V. OSTER / JOHN S. STRONG
    Over the past two decades, the organization and provision of air traffic control (ATC) services has been dramatically transformed. Privatization and commercialization of air navigation has become commonplace. Far-reaching reforms, under a variety of organizational structures and aviation settings, have occurred across the world, most notably in Canada, Britain, Australia, New Z...

    $1,560.00

  • PUBLIC OPINION, LEGITIMACY AND TONY BLAIR’S WAR IN IRAQ
    JAMES STRONG
    In the wake of the publication of the Chilcot report, this book reinterprets the relationship between British public opinion and the Blair government’s decision-making in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. It highlights how the government won the parliamentary vote and got its war, but never won the argument that it was the right thing to do. Understanding how, why and wi...

    $1,200.00

  • SEEDTIME FOR FASCISM
    GEORGE V. STRONG
    This study examines the political culture in Austria-Hungary in the latter half of the 19th century. It analyzes the centrifugal forces that arose from growing ethnic nationalism in the empire and that ultimately overpowered the centripetal forces which held the Austrian-Hungarian "state idea" together. The analysis is applied further to provide an historical explanation of ana...

    $1,000.00

  • MARINE COMBUSTION PRACTICE
    J. FLACK / A. J. S. BENNETT / R. STRONG
    Marine Combustion Practice reviews developments in marine combustion practice and covers topics ranging from combustion equipment for boilers to diesel injection equipment, nuclear reactors, and the use of natural gas in marine boilers. Automatic control of oil-fired marine boilers is discussed, along with fundamental types of injection pumps and factors affecting combustion in...

    $970.00

  • GRUNGE: MUSIC AND MEMORY
    CATHERINE STRONG
    Grunge has been perceived as the music that defined 'Generation X'. Twenty years after the height of the movement there is still considerable interest in its rise and fall, and its main figures such as Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love. As a form of 'retro' music it is even experiencing a resurgence, and Cobain remains an icon to many young music fans today. But what was grunge, an...

    $1,600.00

  • DEATH AND THE ROCK STAR
    CATHERINE STRONG / BARBARA LEBRUN
    The untimely deaths of Amy Winehouse (2011) and Whitney Houston (2012), and the ’resurrection’ of Tupac Shakur for a performance at the Coachella music festival in April 2012, have focused the media spotlight on the relationship between popular music, fame and death. If the phrase ’sex, drugs and rock’n’roll’ ever qualified a lifestyle, it has left many casualties in its wake, ...

    $1,240.00

  • AMERICAN INDIANS AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINARY
    PAULINE TURNER STRONG
    American Indians and the American Imaginary considers the power of representations of Native Americans in American public culture. The book's wide-ranging case studies move from colonial captivity narratives to modern film, from the camp fire to the sports arena, from legal and scholarly texts to tribally-controlled museums and cultural centres. The author's ethnographic appro...

    $1,160.00

  • JUMPSTART! GRAMMAR
    PIE CORBETT / JULIA STRONG
    Fully updated to help teachers deal with the new 2016 Grammar Tests, this second edition presents a collection of simple to use, multi-sensory games and activities that will jumpstart pupils’ understanding of grammar in action It includes coverage of the subjunctive and past progressive, selecting which tense is the most definite, identifying when a word is used as a subordinat...

    $520.00

  • DECISIONS AND DILEMMAS
    ROBERT A. STRONG
    This book's unique combination of case studies and commentaries provides the basis for a systematic discussion of the role of individual leaders and complex institutions in U.S. foreign policy making. The case studies present routine and urgent, controversial and consensus-driven decisions in nine presidential administrations--"from Harry Truman's decision to drop the atomic bo...

    $1,320.00

  • EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL MANAGEMENT
    CLYDE B. STRONG / T. RICK IRVIN
    Management of hazardous chemicals and materials-particularly during emergency release situations-is a critical part of routine training required for workers and professionals in the chemical, petroleum and manufacturing industries. Proper storage of highly reactive chemical agents, correct choice of protective clothing and safety issues in confined ...

    $1,900.00

  • ONLY ONE EARTH
    FELIX DODDS / MICHAEL STRAUSS / WITH MAURICE F. STRONG
    Forty years after the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, the goal of sustainable development continues via the Rio+20 conference in 2012. This book will enable a broad readership to understand what has been achieved in the past forty years and what hasn’t. It shows the continuing threat of our present way of living to the planet. It looks to the ch...

    $1,000.00

  • ARTILLERY IN THE GREAT WAR
    PAUL STRONG / SANDERS MARBLE
    A year-by-year examination of key WWI battles and how the ongoing advances in artillery shaped strategy, tactics, and oprations; includes battlefield maps!   World War I is often said to have been an artillery war, yet the decisive role artillery played in shaping military decisions—and therefor the war itself—has rarely been examined. Artillery in the Great War traces the deve...

    $251.00

  • THE STRATEGIC TEACHER
    HARVEY F. SILVER / RICHARD W. STRONG
    Are you looking for high-impact, research-based strategies to transform your students into high-achieving and inspired learners? In The Strategic Teacher, you'll find a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today's high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into these groups of i...

    $710.00

  • THE STRATEGIC TEACHER
    HARVEY F. SILVER / RICHARD W. STRONG
    Are you looking for high-impact, research-based strategies to transform your students into high-achieving and inspired learners? In The Strategic Teacher, you'll find a repertoire of strategies designed and proven to meet today's high standards and reach diverse learners. Twenty reliable, flexible strategies (along with dozens of variations) are organized into these groups of i...

    $710.00

  • OX AGAINST THE STORM
    KENNETH STRONG
    Recounts the lifelong struggle of the 19th-century pioneer environmental conservationist. ...

    $700.00

  • WORKSHOP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
    DOUG STRONG / JESS BIELMAN
    Workshop of the Holy Spirit invites students into the exciting adventure of theological education. Many aspects of modern theological education have their historic roots in the ideas of the Enlightenment. This foundation creates compartmentalized structures and frameworks that may not lead to the thriving of theological students. In contrast, Pietist leader P. J. Spener asserte...

    $426.00

  • CHEMISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
    BAILEY, RONALD A. / CLARK, HERBERT M. / FERRIS, JAMES P. / KRAUSE, SONJA / STRONG, ROBERT L.
    Emphasizing new science essential to the practice of environmental chemistry at the beginning of the new millennium, this book describes the atmosphere as a distinct sphere of the environment and the practice of industrial ecology as it applies to chemical science. It includes extensive coverage of nuclear chemistry, covering both natural environmental sources and anthropogenic...

    $1,716.00

  • A HANDBOOK FOR BUILDING BELOVED COMMUNITY
    SHIRLEY STRONG
    This handbook is intended both as a personal reflection on the idea and hope of Beloved Community and as a resource for use by nonprofits, churches, and programs in higher education hoping to create inclusive and welcoming communities. The working definition of Beloved Community invoked here is an inclusive, interrelated consciousness based on love, justice, responsibility, sha...

    $284.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF POSTMODERN THERAPIES
    OLGA SMOLIAK, ELEFTHERIA TSELIOU, TOM STRONG, SALIHA BAVA, AND PETER MUNTIGL
    The Routledge International Handbook of Postmodern Therapies includes contributions by leading international experts to provide an invaluable resource and reference for therapy students, scholars, educators, and practitioners. Along with discussing key postmodern approaches, including collaborative-dialogic, narrative, solution focused, and open dialogue, the handbook features ...

    $1,280.00


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