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  • OCCUPATIONAL HEARING LOSS
    ROBERT THAYER SATALOFF / PAMELA C. ROEHM
    Now in its fourth edition, Occupational Hearing Loss delivers a complete overview of the hazards of occupational noise exposure, causes of hearing loss, testing of hearing, criteria to distinguish occupational hearing loss, and more. The book emphasizes medical and societal factors in its coverage of topics such as audiometry and who should do it, evoked response testing, and c...

    $2,800.00

  • HEARING LOSS
    ROBERT THAYER SATALOFF, PAMELA C. ROEHM
    Covering all aspects of the anatomy, physiology, diagnosis, and treatment of hearing loss, this is an accessible and comprehensive text for all clinicians interested in expanding their knowledge of hearing loss. There have been many exciting developments in the nearly two decades since the fourth edition was published. This revised edition includes new material on cochlear biol...

    $2,800.00

  • THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER UPON HISTORY, 1660-1783
    ALFRED THAYER MAHAN
    Excerpt: "The definite object proposed in this work is an examination of the general history of Europe and America with particular reference to the effect of sea power upon the course of that history. Historians generally have been unfamiliar with the conditions of the sea, having as to it neither special interest nor special knowledge; and the profound determining influence of...

    $39.70

  • HOW WORLDS COLLAPSE
    MIGUEL A. CENTENO, PETER W. CALLAHAN, PAUL A. LARCEY, THAYER S. PATTERSON
    As our society confronts the impacts of globalization and global systemic risks—such as financial contagion, climate change, and epidemics—what can studies of the past tell us about our present and future? How Worlds Collapse offers case studies of societies that either collapsed or overcame cataclysmic adversity. The authors in this volume find commonalities between past civil...

    $920.00

  • UNDERSTANDING THE CHINA THREAT
    LIANCHAO HAN / BRADLEY A. THAYER
    This book examines the contours of the Sino-American confrontation and its future trajectories. It delineates the two major causes of the friction in Sino-American relations—change in the balance of power in China’s favor and the conf licting ideologies of the two states—and emphasizes why it is imperative for the U.S. to hold on to its ideological principles. It demonstrates t...

    $1,240.00

  • WAR BY OTHER MEANS
    CARLYLE A. THAYER
    This book, first published in 1989, examines the creation and implementation of Communist policy in Vietnam during the crucial period between the 1954 Geneva Conference and the establishment of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam in December 1960. This study challenges long-held views about the origins and nature of the Viet Cong. It carefully examines the va...

    $920.00

  • LAW, RELIGION, AND FREEDOM
    W. COLE DURHAM (JR.) / JAVIER MARTÍNEZTORRÓN / DONLU D. THAYER
    This book examines major conceptual challenges confronting freedom of religion or belief in contemporary settings. The volume brings together chapters by leading experts from law, religious studies, and international relations, who provide perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic. At a time when the polarization of ‘culture wars’ is aggravating tensions between secular and ...

    $1,200.00

  • ETHICS, SCIENCE, AND DEMOCRACY
    IRVING LOUIS HOROWITZ / H. S. THAYER
    This volume, modeled after those published in The Library of Living Philosophers, attempts to provide a coherent statement of the work of Abraham Edel in moral and political theory, and on the impact of his work on such diverse areas as education, law, and social science. ...

    $1,420.00

  • RESHAPING REGIONAL RELATIONS
    RAMESH THAKUR / CARLYLE A. THAYER
    Reshaping Regional Relations summarizes the cause and consequences of changes in Asia-Pacific region. It introduces the lead player in regional change and outlines strategic, military, political and economical issues that constitute the regional agenda in the 1990s. ...

    $1,120.00

  • THE SOVIET UNION AS AN ASIANPACIFIC POWER
    RAMESH THAKUR / CARLYLE A. THAYER / G J GILL / AMIN SAIKAL
    This volume provides a useful analysis of the domestic dimension of Soviet foreign policy in Asia/Pacific. It considers the implications of Gorbachev's 1986 Vladivostok Initiative on Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and the South Pacific. ...

    $820.00

  • WAR WITHOUT FRONTS
    THOMAS C THAYER
    This book is a unique source of information about U.S. troop involvement in South Vietnam from 1965 to 1972. It stresses that Vietnam was a war without fronts or battle lines—a war different from any that the United States had previously fought. ...

    $1,200.00

  • PENITENCE IN THE AGE OF REFORMATIONS
    KATHARINE JACKSON LUALDI / ANNE T. THAYER
    This volume is comprised of thirteen essays that explore penitential teachings and practices from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth centuries in Western Europe and its colonies. Together the essays reveal that in this period, penitence was an increasingly important force shaping the individual and society. Consequently, the authors argue, penitence is central to our u...

    $1,240.00

  • THE INTEREST OF AMERICA IN INTERNATIONAL CONDITIONS
    ALFRED THAYER MAHAN
    Four years before the outbreak of the First World War, Alfred Thayer Mahan, the world famous naval historian and strategist, warned of the approaching conflict in The Interest of America in International Conditions. Mahan's geo-historical approach compared Imperial Germany's early twentieth-century quest for hegemony to previous attempts by Napoleon's France, Louis XIV's France...

    $1,320.00

  • THE PROBLEM OF ASIA
    DAVID B. SACHSMAN / ALFRED THAYER MAHAN
    The Problem of Asia, the celebrated American naval historian and strategist, Alfred Thayer Mahan, analyzes the geopolitical structure of world politics at the dawn of the twentieth century. Mahan wrote his book at a time when the United States was emerging as a world power, having recently acquired overseas territories as a result of its victory in the Spanish-American War. It ...

    $1,460.00

  • PENITENCE, PREACHING AND THE COMING OF THE REFORMATION
    ANNE T. THAYER
    Why did the Reformation take root in some places and not others? Although many factors were involved, the varying character of penitential preaching across Europe in the decades prior to the Reformation was an especially important contributor to the subsequent receptivity of evangelical ideas. In this book, several collections of model sermons are studied to provide an over...

    $1,240.00

  • LAW, RELIGION, CONSTITUTION
    W. COLE DURHAM / SILVIO FERRARI / CRISTIANA CIANITTO / DONLU THAYER
    What is the place assigned to religion in the constitutions of contemporary States? What role is religion expected to perform in the fields that are the object of constitutional regulation? Is separation of religion and politics a necessary precondition for democracy and the rule of law? These questions are addressed in this book through an analysis of the constitutional texts...

    $1,200.00

  • THE FUTURE OF LARGE DAMS
    THAYER TED SCUDDER
    Viewed by some as symbols of progress and by others as inherently flawed, large dams remain one of the most contentious development issues on Earth. Building on the work of the now defunct World Commission on Dams, Thayer Scudder wades into the debate with unprecedented authority. Employing the Commission's Seven Strategic priorities, Scudder charts the 'middle way' forward by ...

    $2,000.00

  • GREENING THE CORPORATION
    PETER THAYER ROBBINS
    Corporate responses to environmental challenges are often held directly or indirectly responsible for significant worldwide environmental destruction. Corporations are beginning to respond to environmental and social concerns and are taking these into account. This process, known as the greening of the corporation is fraught with contradictions since the foremost aim of corpora...

    $640.00

  • MAKING TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM
    MILLIE THAYER
    This ethnographic study examines the transnational relations among feminist movements at the end of the twentieth century, exploring two differently situated women’s organizations in the Northeast Brazilian state of Pernambuco. The conventional narrative of globalization tells the story of inexorable forces beyond the capacity of individuals to mute or transcend. But this study...

    $1,160.00

  • AMERICAN EMPIRE
    CHRISTOPHER LAYNE / BRADLEY A. THAYER
    In this short, accessible book Layne and Thayer argue the merits and demerits of an American empire. With few, if any, rivals to its supremacy, the United States has made an explicit commitment to maintaining and advancing its primacy in the world. But what exactly are the benefits of American hegemony and what are the costs and drawbacks for this fledgling empire? After making...

    $1,320.00

  • TANGO 1-1
    JIM THAYER
    "An absorbing account of special forces operations by Airborne Rangers of the Long Range Patrol in the Vietnam Delta . . . a great story." —Firetrench LRPs were all volunteers. They were in the spine-tingling, brain-twisting, nerve-wracking business of Long Range Patrolling. They varied in age from 18 to 30. These men operated in precision movements, like walking through a jung...

    $229.00

  • ORGANOMETALLIC COMPOUNDS AND LIVING ORGANISMS
    THAYER, JOHN
    Organometallic Compounds and Living Organisms ...

    $928.00

  • FAMILY ENGAGEMENT IN EDUCATION
    JOSEPH PASSI / PAUL THAYER / JANICE LITTLEBEAR / MICHELLE PARKER-KATZ
    Family Engagement in Education is a timely and powerful text that emphasizes the transformative power of strong, collaborative partnerships between families and teachers as essential to creating inclusive, equitable learning environments for students. Drawing on the lived experiences of educators, family members, counselors, administrators, and community activists, this book ex...

    $1,240.00

  • DARWIN AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
    BRADLEY A. THAYER
    " Shows a mastery of research and theory in both biology and international relations and weaves the two fields together in a compelling fashion." —Dr. Steven A. Peterson, Director, School of Public Affairs, Penn State Pathbreaking and controversial, Darwin and International Relations offers the first comprehensive analysis of international affairs of state through the lens of e...

    $229.00

  • DADDY BY CHRISTMAS
    PATRICIA THAYER
    Jarrett McKane has never believed in Christmas—mistletoe and family just aren't for him! Yet he's drawn toward soon-to-be mom Mia Saunders, even though she's cast him as Scrooge…. For the first time ever Jarrett puts someone else first when trouble comes calling for Mia. And when her bump becomes baby, he's even at her bedside! Before Mia, Christmases were spent alone. Now this...

    $109.00

  • TRATADO DE MUSICOTERAPIA
    THAYER
    Agotado

    $400.00