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  • CONFLICTING IMAGES
    STUART ALLAN / TOM ALLBESON
    In contrast with historical examinations centring the evolving role of the war correspondent, Conflicting Images focuses on the contribution of photographers and photojournalists, providing an evaluative appraisal of war photography in the news and its development from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Stuart Allan and Tom Allbeson critically explore diverse g...

    $979.00

  • THREE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTION “WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY?”
    STUART DALTON
    Philosophy is like a party that started over 2,500 years ago and is still going strong. When you take a philosophy class, you're invited to join this party; but walking into a party 2,500 years late can feel a little awkward. This book is meant to solve that problem. The best way to feel welcome is to focus on how funny philosophy is, simply because its ideals are so high that ...

    $763.00

  • REINTRODUCING HARRIET MARTINEAU
    STUART HOBDAY / GABY WEINER
    This book explores the innovative, sociological approach adopted by Harriet Martineau in her efforts to develop a ‘scientific’ approach to understanding social and societal change. With attention to her focus on the key social structures and societal issues of her day – the economy, education, the condition of women and the evils of slavery – the authors highlight her creation ...

    $999.00

  • MAKING SENSE OF CONSTRUCTION IMPROVEMENT
    STUART GREEN
    Making Sense of Construction Improvement provides a critical evaluation of the construction improvement debate from the end of the Second World War through to the modern era. The book offers unique insights into the way the UK construction sector is continuously shaped and re-shaped in accordance with changes in the prevailing political economy. This second edition brings the b...

    $1,179.00

  • LAND-USE MANAGEMENT TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABLE SETTLEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA
    VERNA NEL / STUART PAUL DENOON-STEVENS
    This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa. It presents an overview of alternative land use management system for South African municipalities that is economically, socially, and environmentally more sustainable than many of the land use schemes in effect at present. Land use management is a ...

    $1,099.00

  • ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE
    STUART K. ALLISON
    Ecological Restoration and Environmental Change presents an introduction to the practice of renewing and restoring degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment. The book addresses and challenges key issues which question the core values of the science and practice of restoration ecology. The author explains that the process of restoration has alway...

    $979.00

  • THE COMMONWEALTH, SOUTH AFRICA AND APARTHEID
    STUART MOLE
    This book explores the role of the modern Commonwealth in the international campaign against apartheid in South Africa. Spanning the period of South Africa’s apartheid state, from its foundation in 1948 until its ending in April 1994, the author demonstrates that, after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre and South Africa’s subsequent exclusion from the Commonwealth, the organisation...

    $1,099.00

  • MR T DOES PRIMARY HISTORY
    STUART TIFFANY
    Whose stories do we tell in primary history? Are we really teaching history? This new book from Mr T helps supports you to: *Bring new stories and voices into your history curriculum *Focus on teaching history *Support children to develop a knowledge rich understanding of a period, event or person *Plan properly sequenced lessons for trackable skills development *Work through f...

    $475.26

  • PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, LOGIC AND MATHEMATICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY
    STUART G. SHANKER
    The twentieth century witnessed the birth of analytic philosophy. This volume covers some of its key movements and philosophers, including Frege and Wittgenstein's Tractatus. ...

    $1,039.00

  • JAMES SMITH
    LURLINE STUART
    James Smith (1989) is study of this hitherto-neglected maker of colonial culture, and traces the rise and decline of the transplanted ideas and values that Smith and many of his fellow immigrants to Australia upheld. It reveals the remarkable vigour with which Smith set about making a new society out of the legacy of the old, and which saw the transformation of Melbourne from g...

    $1,339.00

  • HANDBOOK OF MATCHING AND WEIGHTING ADJUSTMENTS FOR CAUSAL INFERENCE
    STUART, ELIZABETH A.
    An observational study infers the effects caused by a treatment, policy, program, intervention, or exposure in a context in which randomized experimentation is unethical or impractical. One task in an observational study is to adjust for visible pretreatment differences between the treated and control groups. Multivariate matching and weighting are two modern forms of adjustmen...

    $5,000.00

  • TANK COMMANDER
    STUART CRAWFORD
    Stuart Crawford’s personal memoir traces a military career of 20 years in the 4th Royal Tank Regiment (Scotland’s Own). The narrative records his experiences between joining his Regiment as a young troop leader in West Germany though to his eventual resignation of his commission to stand for the Scottish Parliament when it was reinstated in 1999. In between times he attended tw...

    $383.99

  • OFFSHORE FLOATING PRODUCTION
    STUART BEADNALL
    This is the first book to focus on the law and practice relating to offshore oil and gas floating production. It deals with all legal and commercial risk management issues from initial concept through design, construction, modification, installation, acceptance, production and offloading, including ancillary legal topics; JV/consortiums, financing, insurance, decommissioning an...

    $10,000.00

  • SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS GALLERY
    STUART DAVIES
    At its peak, the South Wales railway network was one of the most complex in the world. Its primary purpose was to transport Coal from source to point of consumption or export via the various docks. To this was added the other raw materials necessary for making Iron and ultimately Steel, together with the respective products of that industry. True, there was no glory in this day...

    $329.00

  • THE SEVEN STAIRS
    STUART BRENT
    The Seven Stairs is Stuart Brent's exuberant memoir reveals the strategies and beliefs that made him one of the nation's most colorful and revered independent booksellers. (Amazon) ...

    $39.70

  • THE CORPORATION OF THE FUTURE
    STUART ORR AND PAUL HUNTER
    Although largely unseen, the industrial revolution taking place before us is picking up steam ─ dramatically. Dissolution of traditional global trading partnerships, the effect of COVID-19 on supply chains and the formation of new trading blocks, such as China’s Belt and Road initiatives, are creating turmoil and rapid change in the international business domain. Continual adva...

    $1,099.00

  • DIVINE ENVY, JEALOUSY, AND VENGEFULNESS IN ANCIENT ISRAEL AND GREECE
    STUART LASINE
    This book is the first in-depth comparative analysis of envy, jealousy, and vengefulness experienced by divine personalities in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Greek texts and the functions served by attributing negative emotions and traits to one’s gods. Readers are informed about the vigorous debates concerning the nature of emotion, a field with rapidly growing interest, includ...

    $1,099.00

  • MOTHERHOOD, RESPECTABILITY AND BABY-FARMING IN VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN LONDON
    JOSHUA STUART-BENNETT
    Motherhood, Respectability and Baby-Farming in Victorian and Edwardian London explores a largely obscured marketplace of motherhood that provided ways for women to manage the stigma of illegitimacy and their respectable identities within Victorian and Edwardian society. It focuses on the extent of women’s ‘dirty work’, when maternal problem management was fundamental to the gen...

    $1,099.00

  • REPUTATION IN BUSINESS
    STUART THOMSON
    A compelling mix of reputation management, crisis leadership and the role of politics in business, this book provides unique practical steps that leaders can take to protect their reputations and those of the organisations they head in an ever more open social media-led world. Although leaders increasingly recognise the vital intangible asset that reputation represents, too man...

    $899.00

  • AMAZING STORIES VOLUME 120
    A. R. STUART
    Amazing Stories Volume 120 is a great collection of action short stories from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here are six short stories by different authors: "Beer-Trust Busters", by A. R. Stuart, "Raiders of the Second Moon" by Gene Ellermant, "Space-Trap At Banya Tor" by W. J. Matthews, "The Bloodhounds of Zirth" by Lloyd Palmer, "Spacemen Are Borny" by Bolling...

    $39.70

  • RESEARCHING LOCAL HISTORY
    STUART A. RAYMOND
    How has the place we live in changed, developed, and grown over the centuries? That is the basic question local historians seek to answer. The answer is to be found in the sources of information that previous generations have left us. The records of parish, county, and diocesan administration, of the courts, of the national government, and of private estates, all have something...

    $329.00

  • THE MEDIEVAL CROSSBOW
    STUART ELLIS-GORMAN
    An in-depth, illustrated history and technical study of this iconic weapon of the Middle Ages.   The crossbow is an iconic weapon of the Middle Ages and, alongside the longbow, one of the most effective ranged weapons of the pre-gunpowder era. Unfortunately, despite its general fame it has been decades since an in-depth history of the medieval crossbow has been published, which...

    $249.00

  • A HISTORY OF ITALY 1700-1860
    STUART WOOLF
    First Published in 1979, A History of Italy 1700-1860 provides a comprehensive overview of Italy’s political history from 1700-1860. Divided in five parts it deals with themes like the re-emergence of Italy; Italy as the ‘pawn’ of European diplomacy; social physiognomy of the Italian states; problems of the government; enlightenment and despotism (1760-90); the offensive agains...

    $1,339.00

  • HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL POLITICAL POLICY
    STUART NAGEL
    The latest in the six-volume set of global policy handbooks, this reference utilizes a cross-national, cross-policy approach to examine the public policy of six different regions around the world. Combining actual and theoretical perspectives, the book compares and presents nonideological resolutions to current political conditions worldwide. With contributions from over 30 int...

    $4,800.00

  • HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL LEGAL POLICY
    STUART S. NAGEL
    Featuring a pragmatic approach to coping with the legal complications surrounding pretrial release, drug-related crime, and freedom of religion, among other issues, this timely reference presents a host of legal policy problems in diverse political and cultural settings throughout the world. Contributors bridge the academic gulf between worldwide and public policy studies, as w...

    $4,800.00

  • WOMEN AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM
    KATHERINE STUART VAN WORMER / CLEMENS BARTOLLAS
    This book presents an up-to-date analysis of women as victims of crime, as individuals under justice system supervision, and as professionals in the field. The text features an empowerment approach that is unified by underlying themes of the intersection of gender, race, and class; and evidence-based research. Personal narratives supplement research and statistics to help stude...

    $2,100.00

  • OFFSHORE CONSTRUCTION
    STUART BEADNALL / SIMON MOORE
    This updated book provides practical guidance on avoiding and resolving disputes in the construction of offshore units and vessels, including FPSOs, drilling units, OSVs, FLNG, FSRU and fixed platforms. Written by a leading team at Stephenson Harwood, it covers the entire construction process from initial concept right through to installation, at each stage commenting on typica...

    $10,500.00

  • THE SPIRIT OF DESIGN
    STUART WALKER
    Imaginative design will be a crucial factor in enacting sustainability in people's daily lives. Yet current design practice is trapped in consumerist cycles of innovation and production, making it difficult to imagine how we might develop a more meaningful and sustainable rendition of material culture. Through fundamental design research, The Spirit of Design challenges a host ...

    $1,339.00

  • COLLAPSE AND SURVIVAL
    ROBERT BALLANCE / STUART SINCLAIR
    First published in 1983, Collapse and Survival was written as an examination of the position of industry worldwide at the time of publication. The book looks at the post-war growth of output and the policies adopted in advanced countries, socialist countries, and LDCs to bolster and shape this growth. It explores in detail the experience of firms across several of the industrie...

    $799.00

  • IMMUNIZATION AND STATES
    STUART BLUME
    Globally, there has been a move away from national public sector vaccine development over the past 30 years. Immunization and States: The Politics of Making Vaccines explores vaccine geopolitics, analyzing why, and how this move happened, before looking at the ramifications in the context of Covid-19. This unique book uses eight country studies – looking at Croatia, India, Iran...

    $1,059.00