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  • GLASGOW'S GAELIC PLACE-NAMES
    ALASDAIR C. WHYTE / KATHERINE FORSYTH / SIMON TAYLOR
    It is time to bin – once and for all – the nonsense that Gaelic was never spoken in Glasgow. In fact, Glasgow's place-names tell us that Gaelic has been spoken in Glasgow for around a thousand years. Showcasing new research from the University of Glasgow, this illustrated guide to Glasgow's Gaelic namescape reveals how place-names are a key to unlocking Glasgow's hidden past an...

    $190.99

  • FROM THE BEGINNING TO PLATO
    C. C. W. TAYLOR
    This first volume in the series traces the development of philosophy over two-and-a-half centuries, from Thales at the beginning of the sixth century BC to the death of Plato in 347 BC. ...

    $1,240.00

  • LAND FOR INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT
    D. ADAMS / L. RUSSELL / C. TAYLOR-RUSSELL
    This book provides a detailed account of the processes of land supply, land exchange and land development for manufacturing industry. It has a practical case-study based approach which provides an understanding of the motives and behaviour of critical factors in the development process. ...

    $4,300.00

  • SACRIFICE AS TERROR
    CHRISTOPHER C. TAYLOR
    In the early months of 1994, it became clear that the government of Rwanda had not acted in good faith in signing peace accords with its adversary, the Rwandan Patriotic Front. Acts of government-sponsored violence grew more frequent. The author of this book, who at that point was conducting fieldwork in Rwanda, on several occasions found either himself or the Rwandans accompan...

    $1,040.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF RACE
    PAUL C TAYLOR
    For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the on...

    $1,340.00

  • APPLIED HUMAN FACTORS IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE
    MANOJ S. PATANKAR / JAMES C. TAYLOR
    Considering the global awareness of human performance issues affecting maintenance personnel, there is enough evidence in the US ASRS reports to establish that systemic problems such as impractical maintenance procedures, inadequate training, and the safety versus profit challenge continue to contribute toward latent failures. Manoj S. Patankar and James C. Taylor strongly bel...

    $1,480.00

  • RISK MANAGEMENT AND ERROR REDUCTION IN AVIATION MAINTENANCE
    MANOJ S. PATANKAR / JAMES C. TAYLOR
    Although several U.S. and European airlines have started providing human factors training to their maintenance personnel, the academic community (some 300 academic programs in the United States and several others in Europe and Asia) has not yet started offering formal human factors education to maintenance students. The highly respected authors strongly believe in incorporatin...

    $1,600.00

  • TEXTUAL ANALYSIS MADE EASY
    C. BRIAN TAYLOR
    In this new book, you’ll learn how to teach evidence-based writing using a variety of tools, activities, and sample literary texts. Showing elementary and middle school students how to think critically about what they’re reading can be a challenge, but author C. Brian Taylor makes it easy by presenting twelve critical thinking tools along with step-by-step instructions for impl...

    $740.00

  • THE LIFE OF JESUS: MATTHEW THROUGH JOHN
    DR. HENRIETTA C. MEARS / BAYARD TAYLOR
    With Dr. Mears as teacher and mentor, readers will study the four accounts of Jesus Christ’s life and ministry from the books of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. They will gain a big-picture understanding of key events—Jesus’ miraculous birth, His ministry, His teachings, and His crucifixion and resurrection—yet also see how each Gospel evangelist chose to emphasize particular th...

    $350.00

  • ON OBAMA
    PAUL C. TAYLOR
    On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. The purpose of this book is to take seriously the once common thought that the Obama presidency had ushered in a post-historical age. Three questions organize the argument of the book: What’s living and dead in the idea of post-racialism? Did Mr. Obama’s pre...

    $1,120.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ISLAMIC PHILOSOPHY
    RICHARD C. TAYLOR
    This valuable reference work synthesizes and elucidates traditional themes and issues in Islamic philosophy as well as prominent topics emerging from the last twenty years of scholarship. Written for a wide readership of students and scholars, The Routledge Companion to Islamic Philosophy is unique in including coverage of both perennial philosophical issues in an Islamic conte...

    $1,420.00

  • DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS IN HEALTH PROMOTION
    TAYLOR C. WALLACE
    The supplement market continues to grow annually with more than half of the population using these products for reasons spanning from health maintenance to disease prevention and/or treatment. Dietary Supplements in Health Promotion presents clear and concise evidence on how dietary supplements may contribute to maintaining health status. The book ...

    $1,360.00

  • DIGITAL CALCULATIONS OF ENGINE CYCLES
    E. S. STARKMAN / D. J. PATTERSON / C. FAYETTE TAYLOR
    Digital Calculations of Engine Cycles is a collection of seven papers which were presented before technical meetings of the Society of Automotive Engineers during 1962 and 1963. The papers cover the spectrum of the subject of engine cycle events, ranging from an examination of composition and properties of the working fluid to simulation of the pressure-time events in the combu...

    $425.00

  • ANTHOCYANINS IN HEALTH AND DISEASE
    TAYLOR C. WALLACE
    Anthocyanin pigments are responsible for the orange-red and blue-violet colors of many fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, and flowers. Interest in anthocyanins has intensified because of their health benefits as dietary antioxidants. This book reviews the relationship of anthocyanins to human health and disease. It examines the bioavailability, chemistry, metabolism, and effica...

    $1,600.00

  • IMPLEMENTING AN INPATIENT SMOKING CESSATION PROGRAM
    PATRICIA M. SMITH / C. BARR TAYLOR
    Implementing an Inpatient Smoking Cessation Program serves as a step-by-step manual for implementing a cost-effective tobacco cessation program for hospitalized patients. Based on the Staying Free program, which has evidenced among the highest cessation rates reported in the scientific literature, this book is the result of decades of research by the authors. Although the book ...

    $1,000.00

  • HUMAN VARIATION
    C. G. NICHOLAS MASCIE-TAYLOR
    The transition in anthropological and biomedical research methods over the past 50 years, from anthropometric and craniometric measurements to large-scale microarray genetic studies has resulted in continued revision of opinions and ideas relating to the factors and forces that drive human variation. Human Variation:From the Laboratory to the Field ...

    $2,220.00

  • STATE VIOLENCE AND PUNISHMENT IN INDIA
    TAYLOR C. SHERMAN
    Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a study of the many techniques of colonial coercion and state violence and a cultural history of the different ways in which Indians imbued practices of punishment with their own meanings and reinterpreted acts of state violence in their own political campa...

    $1,320.00

  • DR. SUSAN TAYLOR'S RX FOR BROWN SKIN
    SUSAN C. TAYLOR
    Brown skin has a naturally warm, glowing complexion that ranges in shade from yellow to olive to dark brown and black (Asian, Latin, African-American, and Native American skin). The extra melanin that imparts these rich tones and helps protect skin from the sun can also make brown skin vulnerable to discoloration, uneven tone, scarring, and breakouts. This unique book will help...

    $251.00

  • ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY VOLUME I
    TAYLOR, C. C. W.
    Volume 1 of the Routledge History of Philosophy covers one of the most remarkable periods in human thought. In the space of two and a half centuries, philosophy developed from quasi-mythological speculation to a state in which many of the most fundamental questions about the universe, the mind and human conduct had been vigorously pursued, and some of the most enduring masterwo...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ART AND SCIENCE OF LECTURE DEMONSTRATION
    C.A TAYLOR
    As a means of conveying the excitement of science from one generation to the next, the lecture demonstration is one of the most powerful tools at the disposal of the modern science teacher. The interest of the young aspiring scientist is aroused not by dull textbook recitation, but by the enthusiastic lecturer with a range of demonstrations that il ...

    $2,040.00

  • FROM LABOR TO REWARD
    MARTHA C. TAYLOR
    From Labor to Reward is a pioneering, epic, and groundbreaking book that fills a huge void in American religious history, black religious history, and traditions of the black church. Until now, no other book has chronicled the rich religious experiences of black church beginnings in the Bay Area. Martha C. Taylor provides penetrating insight into the early makings of the black ...

    $532.00

  • JUST AND LASTING CHANGE
    DANIEL C. TAYLOR / CARL E. TAYLOR
    The classic guide to transforming developing communities sustainably—and for the better.How can public health workers, policy experts, and medical professionals work with members of developing nations to promote social change in rapid, cost-effective, and locally appropriate ways? In Just and Lasting Change, Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor present readers with an innovative, prove...

    $229.00

  • INTRACELLULAR MESSENGERS
    TAYLOR, C.M.
    This important new reference work offers an outstanding collection of articles devoted to the discussion of "intracellular messengers". Extracellular stimuli ("first messengers") bind to receptors on the plasma membrane of cells to trigger changes in the concentration of intracellular messengers ("second messengers") which leads, in turn, to changes in cellular activity. Howeve...

    $1,195.00

  • THE FINITE ELEMENT METHOD: ITS BASIS AND FUNDAMENTALS
    OLEK C ZIENKIEWICZ / ROBERT L TAYLOR / J.Z. ZHU
    The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals offers a complete introduction to the basis of the finite element method, covering fundamental theory and worked examples in the detail required for readers to apply the knowledge to their own engineering problems and understand more advanced applications. This edition sees a significant rearrangement of the book’s content t...

    $1,907.00

  • LUBRICATION AT THE FRONTIER: THE ROLE OF THE INTERFACE AND SURFACE LAYERS IN THE THIN FILM AND BOUNDARY REGIME: THE ROLE OF THE INTERFACE AND SURFACE LAYERS IN THE THIN FILM AND BOUNDARY REGIME
    PRIEST, M. / EHRET, P. / FLAMAND, L. / DALMAZ, G. / CHILDS, T.H.C. / DOWSON, D. / BERTHIER, Y. / TAYLOR, C.
    The 25th Leeds-Lyon Symposium on Tribology was held at the Institut des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon, from 8-11th September, 1998. Its central theme was, "Lubrication at the frontier: the role of the interface and surface layers in the thin film and boundary regime". This topic was chosen because it represents an important evolution of the research field. The Symposium op...

    $5,721.00

  • FLUID FILM LUBRICATION - OSBORNE REYNOLDS CENTENARY: FLUID FILM LUBRICATION - OSBORNE REY
    BERTHE, D. / DOWSON, D. / GODET, M. / TAYLOR, C.M.
    The thirteenth Leeds-Lyon Tribology Symposium was devoted to the topic of Fluid Film Lubrication in celebration of the centenary of the publication of the classical paper by Professor Osborne Reynolds in which he identified the mechanism of hydrodynamic lubrication.These proceedings contain more than seventy papers, written by authors from all over the world, covering the entir...

    $928.00

  • INTERFACE DYNAMICS
    BERTHE, D. / DOWSON, D. / GODET, M. / TAYLOR, C.M.
    Many tribologists are today not only explicitly concerned with interface action but also with interface composition. This proceedings volume presents a timely review on topics ranging from interface dynamics to interface elimination, covering all factors such as contact stress fields, interface rheology, and boundary slip, that control the passage from formation to elimination...

    $928.00

  • DISSIPATIVE PROCESSES IN TRIBOLOGY
    DOWSON, D. / DALMAZ, G. / CHILDS, T.H.C. / TAYLOR, C.M. / GODET, M.
    This book discusses dissipative phenomena, in particular the origins of friction at all scales, in mechanics, physics and chemistry, encountered in all fields of tribology, from thick film lubrication to dry friction. ...

    $928.00

  • LUBRICANTS AND LUBRICATION
    DALMAZ, G. / CHILDS, T.H.C. / DOWSON, D. / TAYLOR, C.M.
    These proceedings review progress in the development of lubricants and in the understanding of the phenomena of lubrication.The contents include papers on the impact of automotive technology and environmental factors upon lubricant requirements, elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication, boundary lubrication, machine elements, bio-tribology, metal forming, rheology, lubricated wear and v...

    $928.00

  • ELASTOHYDRODYNAMICS - '96: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS IN LUBRICATION AND TRACTION
    TAYLOR, C. / FLAMAND, L. / DALMAZ, G. / DOWSON, D. / CHILDS, T.H.C. / BERTHIER, Y. / GEORGES, J.M. / LUBREC
    This volume represents the latest issue of a collection of Proceedings each dealing with a different topic in Tribology. This volume contains the Proceedings from the 23rd Leeds-Lyon Symposium which addressed the topic of Elastohydrodynamics and was attended by many international experts in the field.The Keynote Address was presented by Professor Stathis Ioannides on the subjec...

    $2,861.00


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