Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: swain

42 resultados

swain Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS RESEARCH AND POLICY
    ebook
    ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF THE UN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS RESEARCH AND POLICY
    RANJULA BALI SWAIN
    This handbook brings together a collection of seminal research on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and investigates the effectiveness of the 17 goals for achieving transformative change toward sustainable development. As a collection of inter- and transdisciplinary research from around the world, this volume explores the applications, implications, and best practices of...

    $1,380.00

    Ver detalle
  • HARNESSING THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING
    ebook
    HARNESSING THE SCIENCE OF LEARNING
    NATHANIEL SWAIN
    Drawing together the worlds of classroom practice, school leadership and scientific research, this is an essential how-to guide for initiating and maintaining a school improvement journey based on the science of learning. What we now know about learning and teaching is vast; yet often, wading through the thousands of articles and books on this subject can leave even the most se...

    $700.00

    Ver detalle
  • SURFACE ENGINEERING OF BIOMATERIALS
    ebook
    SURFACE ENGINEERING OF BIOMATERIALS
    AJIT BEHERA, DEBASIS NAYAK, BISWAJIT KUMAR SWAIN
    Surface engineering provides one of the most important means of engineering product differentiation in terms of quality, performance, and lifecycle cost. It is essential to achieve predetermined functional properties of materials such as mechanical strength, biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, wear resistance, and heat and oxidation resistance. Surface Engineering of Biomat...

    $1,480.00

    Ver detalle
  • HEALTH AND NUTRITION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN EMPOWERED ACTION GROUP STATES OF INDIA
    ebook
    HEALTH AND NUTRITION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN EMPOWERED ACTION GROUP STATES OF INDIA
    SANDHYA R MAHAPATRO, UDAYA S MISHRA AND SHUBH SWAIN
    This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health (MCH)—part of SDG3—in empowered action group states in India. It lays bare regional disparities and unfolds a range of issues relating to inequalities in access to MCH services, complex dynamics behind poor nutrition, health expenditure and impoverishment, structural bottlenecks of health system that hinder effective im...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE INFORMAL SECTOR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    ebook
    THE INFORMAL SECTOR AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    BALI SWAIN, RANJULA
    The informal economy – broadly defined as economic activity that is not subject to government regulation or taxation – sustains a large part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse, complex and growing area of activity. However, being largely unregulated, its impact on the environment has not been closely scrutinised or analysed. This edited volume demonstrates that the infor...

    $1,100.00

    Ver detalle
  • EXAMINING THE PAST AND SHAPING THE FUTURE
    ebook
    EXAMINING THE PAST AND SHAPING THE FUTURE
    KATIE WRIGHT, SHURLEE SWAIN AND KATHLEEN MCPHILLIPS
    The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013– 17) was one of the largest public inquiries in Australian history and one of the most important investigations into child abuse internationally. It facilitated a national conversation about justice for victims and survivors and how to improve child safety in the future. Through the examination of pra...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • BRING BACK MY BRAIN! AND DARK DESTINY
    ebook
    BRING BACK MY BRAIN! AND DARK DESTINY
    DWIGHT V. SWAIN
    Two Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Bring Back My Brain!", and "Dark Destiny", both by Dwight V. Swain. ...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • HENRY HORN'S X-RAY EYE GLASSES AND THREE MORE STORIES
    ebook
    HENRY HORN'S X-RAY EYE GLASSES AND THREE MORE STORIES
    DWIGHT V. SWAIN
    Four Classic Short Stories from The Golden Age of Science Fiction. Featured here: "Henry Horn's X-Ray Eye Glasses", "Battle Out of Time", "You Can`t Buy Eternity", and "Cry Chaos!", all by Dwight V. Swain. ...

    $39.70

    Ver detalle
  • THE EMERGENCE OF FOOTBALL
    ebook
    THE EMERGENCE OF FOOTBALL
    PETER SWAIN
    The Emergence of Football fuses sports history into mainstream economic, social and cultural history, setting the development of the people’s game against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution. The book challenges conventional histories of nineteenth-century football that surrounded mass games and the public schools and extends the revisionist critique of those histories wi...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • INTERNET OF THINGS WITH RASPBERRY PI AND ARDUINO
    ebook
    INTERNET OF THINGS WITH RASPBERRY PI AND ARDUINO
    RAJESH SINGH / ANITA GEHLOT / LOVI RAJ GUPTA / BHUPENDRA SINGH / MAHENDRA SWAIN
    This book provides a platform to understand Internet of things with Raspberry Pi and the basic knowledge of the programming and interfacing of the devices and designed systems. It broadly covers introduction to Internet of Things and enabling technologies, interfacing with Raspberry Pi and Arduino and interfacing with Raspberry Pi GPIO. Internet of Things with Raspberry pi and ...

    $1,300.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE SCIENCE AND ART OF ACTING FOR THE CAMERA
    ebook
    THE SCIENCE AND ART OF ACTING FOR THE CAMERA
    JOHN HOWARD SWAIN
    The Science and Art of Acting for the Camera provides a precise yet practical approach to help unlock the mysteries of acting for film and television. Written by veteran actor, producer, and director John Howard Swain, the book offers a clear-cut, no-nonsense technique that equips aspiring or working actors with the necessary skills to succeed on camera. The technique teaches y...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • STRUGGLE AGAINST THE STATE
    ebook
    STRUGGLE AGAINST THE STATE
    ASHOK SWAIN
    Many developing countries pursue policies of rapid industrialization in order to achieve faster economic growth. Some policies cause displacement forcing many individuals to take up a fight against the state. Interestingly some of these dissenting individuals are more successful in organizing their protests than others. In this book, Ashok Swain demonstrates how displaced p...

    $980.00

    Ver detalle
  • TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE
    ebook
    TRANSBOUNDARY WATER MANAGEMENT AND THE CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE
    ANTON EARLE / ANA ELISA CASCAO / STINA HANSSON / ANDERS JÄGERSKOG / ASHOK SWAIN / JOAKIM ÖJENDAL
    Climate change has an impact on the ability of transboundary water management institutions to deliver on their respective mandates. The starting point for this book is that actors within transboundary water management institutions develop responses to the climate change debate, as distinct from the physical phenomenon of climate change. Actors respond to this debate broadly in ...

    $1,540.00

    Ver detalle
  • EFFECTIVE WRITING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
    ebook
    EFFECTIVE WRITING IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR
    JOHN W. SWAIN / KATHLEEN DOLAN SWAIN
    Intended for both students and practitioners in public administration who want to communicate more effectively with a variety of audiences, this book offers clear, easy-to-understand guidelines on how to write more clearly, concisely, and coherently, as well as correctly. It covers the basics of good English and applies those basics to general forms (such as memos, letters, and...

    $1,100.00

    Ver detalle
  • BUDGETING FOR PUBLIC MANAGERS
    ebook
    BUDGETING FOR PUBLIC MANAGERS
    JOHN W. SWAIN / B.J. REED
    Benefiting from the authors' many years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students and practitioners, here is a clear, comprehensive, practice-oriented text for public budgeting courses. Rather than presenting each budgeting concern in mind-numbing detail, the book offers a commonsensical view of public budgeting and its importance to current and future public managers. Th...

    $1,760.00

    Ver detalle
  • BILINGUALISM IN EDUCATION
    ebook
    BILINGUALISM IN EDUCATION
    JIM CUMMINS / MERRILL SWAIN
    This is a remarkably interesting and useful book...it makes a significant contribution to our knowledge and understanding of both bilingualism and education.'Journal of Education Policy ...

    $1,620.00

    Ver detalle
  • ISLAM AND VIOLENT SEPARATISM
    ebook
    ISLAM AND VIOLENT SEPARATISM
    ASHOK SWAIN
    First published in 2007. Political demands for autonomy and independence by radicalized ethnic groups have recently intensi?ed as a result of the globalization of the post-Cold War world. In addition to facing the challenges posed by democratization, development and social movements, governments everywhere are striving to manage and contain ‘political Islam’. This is particula...

    $1,320.00

    Ver detalle
  • TROTSKY
    ebook
    TROTSKY
    GEOFFREY SWAIN
    Without Trotsky there would have been no Bolshevik Revolution, but Trotsky was no Bolshevik. Providing a full account of Trotsky’s role during the Russian Civil War and concentrating on his time as an active participant in Russian revolutionary politics, rather than his ideological writings of emigration, Swain gives the student a very different picture of the Bolshevik Commiss...

    $1,420.00

    Ver detalle
  • TROTSKY AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
    ebook
    TROTSKY AND THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
    GEOFFREY SWAIN
    Supporters of Stalin saw Trotsky as a traitor and renegade. Trotsky’s own supporters saw him as the only true Leninist. In Trotsky and the Russian Revolution, Geoffrey Swain restores Trotsky to his real and central role in the Russian Revolution. In this succinct and comprehensive study, Swain contests that: In the years between 1903 and 1917, it was the ideas of Trotsky, rathe...

    $1,160.00

    Ver detalle
  • RESEARCHING PEDAGOGIC TASKS
    ebook
    RESEARCHING PEDAGOGIC TASKS
    MARTIN BYGATE / PETER SKEHAN / MERRILL SWAIN
    Researching Pedagogic Tasks brings together a series of empirical studies into the use of pedagogical tasks for second language learning, with a view to better understanding the structure of tasks, their impact on students, and their use by teachers. The volume starts with an introduction to the background and key issues in the topic area and is then organised into three sectio...

    $1,620.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE ORIGINS OF THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
    ebook
    THE ORIGINS OF THE RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
    GEOFFREY SWAIN
    Concentrating on the turbulent months from February 1917 to November 1918, Geoffrey Swain explores the origins of the Civil War against the wider background of revolutionary Russia. He examines the aims of the anti-Bolshevik insurgents themselves; but he also shows how far the fear of civil war governed the action of the Provisional Government, and even the plans of the Bolshev...

    $1,380.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE MICROFINANCE IMPACT
    ebook
    THE MICROFINANCE IMPACT
    RANJULA BALI SWAIN
    Financial inclusion through microfinance has become a powerful force in improving the living conditions of poor farmers, rural non-farm enterprises and other vulnerable groups. In its unique ability to link the existing extensive network of India’s rural bank branches with the Self Help Groups (SHG), the National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has covered up...

    $1,460.00

    Ver detalle
  • SHADOW PEOPLE
    ebook
    SHADOW PEOPLE
    JAMES SWAIN
    In Shadow People, national bestselling author James Swain's brilliant follow-up to Dark Magic, magician Peter Warlock has a dark secret. A psychic who peers into the future, he is able to use the information to alert the authorities to pending trouble. During a séance Peter is confronted by a group of evil spirits called shadow people, beings who have the power to kidnap a pers...

    $274.00

    Ver detalle
  • UNDERSTANDING EMERGING SECURITY CHALLENGES
    ebook
    UNDERSTANDING EMERGING SECURITY CHALLENGES
    ASHOK SWAIN
    This book offers an overview of emerging security challenges in the global environment in the post-Cold War era. After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent shifting of international political environment, a new broader concept of security began to gain acceptance. This concept encompassed socio-economic-environmental challenges, such as resource scarcity and climate c...

    $1,460.00

    Ver detalle
  • ENGLISH REGIONAL PLANNING 2000-2010
    ebook
    ENGLISH REGIONAL PLANNING 2000-2010
    SWAIN, CORINNE / MARSHALL, TIM / BADEN, TONY
    English Regional Planning 2000-2010 chronicles a vital feature of recent UK planning activity, during the period of the Blair and Brown Labour governments up to 2010. It deals particularly with the regional scale of planning during these years, whereby large steps forward were made, but where policy making often proved very controversial. One purpose of the book is to learn fro...

    $1,320.00

    Ver detalle
  • THE PROFESSIONAL RECRUITER'S HANDBOOK
    ebook
    THE PROFESSIONAL RECRUITER'S HANDBOOK
    JANE NEWELL BROWN / ANN SWAIN
    As recruitment becomes ever more important to a business achieving its corporate objectives, recruiters must raise their game, delivering new and innovative solutions while also doing their job well and achieving the results needed for their clients and candidates. The Professional Recruiter's Handbook, second edition, is a complete guide to achieving success in recruitment. Th...

    $899.00

    Ver detalle
  • BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR DUMMIES
    ebook
    BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR DUMMIES
    SWAIN SCHEPS
    You're intelligent, right? So you've already figured out that Business Intelligence can be pretty valuable in making the right decisions about your business. But you’ve heard at least a dozen definitions of what it is, and heard of at least that many BI tools. Where do you start? Business Intelligence For Dummies makes BI understandable! It takes you step by step through the te...

    $317.00

    Ver detalle
  • ASPECTS OF ROMAN HISTORY 82BC-AD14
    ebook
    ASPECTS OF ROMAN HISTORY 82BC-AD14
    MARK DAVIES / HILARY SWAIN
    Aspects of Roman History 82BC–AD14 examines the political and military history of Rome and its empire in the Ciceronian and Augustan ages. It is an indispensable introduction to this central period of Roman History for all students of Roman history, from pre-university to undergraduate level. This is the first book since H.H. Scullard’s From the Gracchi to Nero, published two g...

    $1,180.00

    Ver detalle
  • RE-CONSTRUCTING THE POST-SOVIET INDUSTRIAL REGION
    ebook
    RE-CONSTRUCTING THE POST-SOVIET INDUSTRIAL REGION
    SWAIN, ADAM
    This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions. It shows how local interest groups have successfully frustrated the central government's and the World Bank's proposed market-oriented restructuring, and how a manufacturing-based regional economy is surviving, pa...

    $1,320.00

    Ver detalle
  • WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND TRANSITION
    ebook
    WORK, EMPLOYMENT AND TRANSITION
    RAINNIE, AL / SMITH, ADRIAN / SWAIN, ADAM
    Since the late 1980s the experiences of work and employment in the former communist world have been profoundly transformed. Work, Employment and Transition brings together a series of essays by leading international scholars which highlights the varied and complex forms that work and employment restructuring are taking in the post-soviet world, and makes important theoretical c...

    $1,240.00

    Ver detalle

01 02 »