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  • THE EIGHTIETH YEAR
    DON THOMPSON
    Although Time may be that Heraclitean river no one can step into twice, it's not really linear. Rapids churn in some places and it scarcely flows at others, almost stagnant. And the current often sideslips into eddies that circle indefinitely. At least Time seems to function like that as it flows through the memories of a long life. The Eightieth Year, although in the form of a...

    $266.00

  • ISAIAH 40–66
    MICHAEL E. W. THOMPSON
    The book of Isaiah remains one of the most significant works of the Old Testament, dealing with actual responses to a series of political changes and crises--those responses being both of the people of God and also of the dominant great empires of that age. Above all, here are prophetical reactions to the great political changes of the day. Further, here are changes in the way ...

    $479.00

  • CASANOVA'S LIFE AND TIMES
    DAVID JOHN THOMPSON
    This is both the life of Giacomo Casanova and a chronicle of eighteenth-century Europe. Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798) was born the son of a moderately poor acting family at a time when the stage carried enormous social stigma. Yet in his own lifetime he achieved celebrity across Europe, rubbing shoulders with numerous of the eighteenth century's greatest men and women, from Fred...

    $383.99

  • LIFE CYCLE NUTRITION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
    KYLE L. THOMPSON, DCN, RDN
    Life Cycle Nutrition for Public Health Professionals is the first textbook using a public health approach and population-focused lens to explore nutrition across each life cycle phase. It provides the basic principles of normal nutrition across each developmental phase in the life course, along with the foundational knowledge of key determinants, challenges, and outcomes among...

    $2,217.00

  • THE TRAINEE TEACHER′S HANDBOOK
    CAROL THOMPSON / PETER WOLSTENCROFT
    If you are training to teach, The Trainee Teacher′s Handbook is your essential guide. The new edition of this popular book for trainee teachers helps you to build skills and focus on developing your professional practice through understanding, reflection and experimentation. Its practical structure and learning features help you to recognise your own learning needs and set your...

    $543.16

  • THE GNOME KING OF OZ
    RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON
    The Gnome King of Oz is the 21st book in the Oz series, continuing the stories originally created by L. Frank Baum. However, "The Gnome King of Oz" is not written by L. Frank Baum, who wrote the first 14 Oz books, but by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Thompson took over the Oz series after Baum's death, and she wrote a total of 19 Oz books. Ruth Plumly Thompson's contributions to the Oz...

    $39.70

  • THE BRITISH CHEER
    PAUL THOMPSON
    This is a bold, painstakingly researched and wide-ranging assessment of the British Cheer in the Napoleonic era. Reference to the Cheer in accounts of the time is virtually ubiquitous and repeatedly the claim was made for cheering as an integral part of British offensive operations. However, more recent historians have tended to overlook this evidence.  Based upon a vast range ...

    $383.69

  • ELECTROPHOSPHORESCENT MATERIALS AND DEVICES
    MARK THOMPSON
    Organic LEDs (OLEDs) in mobile displays have been in large-scale production for over a decade, and OLED-based televisions are rapidly gaining traction in the marketplace. OLEDs are on the verge of entering the solid-state lighting market in a big way. The OLED technology gives higher color purity and is more efficient than any of the competing technologies. When produced at sca...

    $5,000.00

  • EVALUATING WHAT WORKS
    DOROTHY V. M. BISHOP / PAUL THOMPSON
    Those who work in allied health professions and education aim to make people’s lives better. Often, however, it is hard to know how effective this work has been: would change have occurred if there was no intervention? Is it possible we are doing more harm than good? To answer these questions and develop a body of knowledge about what works, we need to evaluate interventions. O...

    $1,239.00

  • COLLABORATIVE WRITING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
    TRISH THOMPSON / DANIEL X. HARRIS
    Collaborative Writing and Psychotherapy delves into the relationship that develops between client and therapist as they embark on a collaborative autoethnographic writing practice. The book explores the notion that both client and therapist change as a result of engaging in a psychotherapeutic process. The dialogic approach allows both voices to be heard together in the explora...

    $1,039.00

  • THE SAGE HANDBOOK OF ONLINE HIGHER EDUCATION
    SAFARY WA-MBALEKA / KELVIN THOMPSON / LENI CASIMIRO
    The SAGE Handbook of Online Higher Education presents a cutting-edge collection of 50 essays that explores the rapidly evolving landscape of online teaching and learning in higher education. Assembled and contributed by a team of leading experts, the Handbook adopts a uniquely holistic approach to examining the needs of online education. Chapters bring together voices from dive...

    $1,884.06

  • THE GLOBAL INSURANCE MARKET AND CHANGE
    ANTHONY A TARR, JULIE-ANNE TARR, MAURICE THOMPSON AND DINO WILKINSON
    This book focuses on the global landscape in which insurance is transacted, and where it is evolving, driven from within by transformative technologies and externally by the necessity to address risks like climate change and health crises, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses the dynamic challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for the industry in areas such as on-dem...

    $7,500.00

  • URBAN FREIGHT ANALYTICS
    EIICHI TANIGUCHI / RUSSELL G. THOMPSON / ALI G. QURESHI
    Urban Freight Analytics examines the key concepts associated with the development and application of decision support tools for evaluating and implementing city logistics solutions. New analytical methods are required for effectively planning and operating emerging technologies including the Internet of Things (IoT), Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), and Intelli...

    $1,339.00

  • A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
    JEFFREY ALEXANDER / JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER / KENNETH THOMPSON / LAURA DESFOR EDLES / MOSHOULA CAPOUS-DESYL
    The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the ...

    $3,200.00

  • GROUND SUPPORT TECHNOLOGY FOR HIGHLY STRESSED EXCAVATIONS
    ERNESTO VILLAESCUSA / ALAN G THOMPSON / CHRISTOPHER R WINDSOR / JOHN R PLAYER
    The performance of ground support as a scheme is essential to constrain failures occurring at the rock surfaces of deep or highly stressed excavations. This book covers laboratory and theoretical developments coupled with field experiments and observations with the implementation of the methodology at mines. It explains the energy dissipation capabilities of reinforcement and s...

    $3,600.00

  • THE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST’S GUIDE FOR THE PRAXIS® EXAM
    PETER THOMPSON, PHD / COLETTE B. HOHNBAUM, PHD, NCSP
    Holds a proven track record for exam success—the only study guide you need!Written by school psychologists for school psychologists, this widely used resource has already helped thousands pass the licensure exam. The fourth edition—thoroughly updated to reflect current thinking and best practices—is aligned with the new objectives championed by the current NAS...

    $1,773.00

  • THE HUNGRY TIGER OF OZ
    RUTH PLUMLY THOMPSON
    The Hungry Tiger of Oz is a children's fantasy novel by Ruth Plumly Thompson, first published in 1926. The story is set in the magical land of Oz and follows the adventures of a group of friends, including the famous wizard, Dorothy Gale. The main character of the story is a tiger named Hungry Tiger, who is known for his insatiable appetite. The tiger is tired of eating only gr...

    $39.70

  • PARTNERSHIP WITH PARENTS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD TODAY
    PHILIPPA THOMPSON
    What is the role of early childhood practice in understanding the needs of parents and carers today? This book: Considers the perspectives of those parents/carers marginalised by current practice Provokes thinking about how settings can become more inclusive in their practice Supports students to challenge their own assumptions about parents Each chapter considers a g...

    $543.16

  • GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE FINANCE
    SIMON THOMPSON
    To achieve society's goals, as set out in the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement, the finance sector has a crucial role to play in driving sustainable business and the transition to a net zero economy. To achieve this change, it is vital for the finance sector to allocate capital to the firms, investments and activities looking to create a more sustainable...

    $1,199.00

  • DISPLAYS OF CULTURAL HEGEMONY AND COUNTER-HEGEMONY IN THE LATE BRONZE AND IRON AGE LEVANT
    SHANE M. THOMPSON
    This volume examines the power relationships between the rulers of the Late Bronze and Iron Age and their subjects in the Levant through the lens of "cultural hegemony." It explores the impact of these foreign powers on all social classes and reconstructs the public presence of cultural control. The book serves to determine the impact of foreign control on the daily lives of th...

    $1,099.00

  • TEN WAYS TO WEAVE THE WORLD: MATTER, MIND, AND GOD, VOLUME 2
    ROSS THOMPSON
    In this sequel to Outgrowing Materialism, Thompson explores five conceptual "Worlds" that preceded the dualist v. materialist divide and shows why recent philosophy--often little-known outside of academic circles--is now giving these old ideas a new relevance. In an approachable way, but without avoiding complexity, Embodying Mind leads the reader through the Worlds of panpsych...

    $639.00

  • STRUGGLE AND SUFFRAGE IN PETERBOROUGH
    ABIGAIL HAMILTON-THOMPSON
    Votes for Women. Handle with Care' was the message left on a hoax bomb found under the Oundle railway bridge in 1913, just two years after the leading suffrage campaigner Mrs Pankhurst visited the city. Notable women of Peterborough include Florence Saunders, a selfless dedicated nurse who regularly visited the poorer areas of Peterborough and set up the District Nursing Health...

    $229.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF PHILOSOPHY AND IMPLICIT COGNITION
    J. ROBERT THOMPSON
    Humans think of ourselves as acting according to reasons that we can typically articulate and acknowledge, though we may be reluctant to do so. Yet some of our actions do not fit this mold—they seem to arise from motives and thoughts that appear outside of our control and our self-awareness. Rather than treating such cases as outliers, theorists now treat significant parts of t...

    $1,179.00

  • CHRISTIANITY, ETHICS AND THE LAW
    ZACHARY R. CALO, JOSHUA NEOH AND A. KEITH THOMPSON
    This book examines how Christian love can inform legal thought. The work introduces love as a way to advance the emergent conversation between constructive theology and jurisprudence that will also inform conversations in philosophy and political theory. Love is the central category for Christian ethical understanding. Yet, the growing field of law and religion, and relatedly l...

    $1,099.00

  • PULLING BACK THE CURTAIN ON QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
    WILLIAM THOMPSON / MICA THOMPSON
    In Pulling Back the Curtain on Qualitative Research, the authors maintain that for sociologists the entire world is a laboratory. Seldom do they attend social gatherings without observing people and their interaction in a systematic and intellectually curious way. Regular trips to the grocery store, church services, and engagement with social media all open the door to sociolog...

    $919.00

  • TEN WAYS TO WEAVE THE WORLD: MATTER, MIND, AND GOD, VOLUME 1
    ROSS THOMPSON
    The idea of an ideological war between science and religion, Thompson argues, is founded on a mistake. But this does not mean that there is nothing at stake. For behind the ill-conceived conflict lie complex issues about the nature of mind, consciousness, experience, subjectivity, quality, value, and the like, all of which need to be disentangled and assessed in their own right...

    $515.00

  • INTERNATIONAL EXAMPLES OF LEAN IN HEALTHCARE
    ELAINE MEAD, CAMERON STARK, AND MAIMIE THOMPSON
    Typically entrenched and systemic, healthcare problems require the sort of comprehensive solutions that can only be addressed by a change in culture and a shift in thinking. Organizations around the world are using Lean to redesign care and improve processes in a way that achieves and sustains meaningful results for patients, staff, physicians, and health systems. This book dem...

    $1,279.00

  • ISAIAH 1–39
    MICHAEL E. W. THOMPSON
    The book of Isaiah is one of the most significant works of the Old Testament, especially for Christian readers. Its oracles have shaped the cultural imaginations of countless generations, inspiring preachers, artists, musicians, and politicians. This biblical book offers prophetic reflections on and responses to the actions of monarchs and nations during a series of political c...

    $444.00

  • ANTISLAVERY POLITICAL WRITINGS, 1833–1860
    THOMPSON C. BRADLEY
    Antislavery Political Writings, first published in 2004, presents the best speeches and writings of the leading American antislavery thinkers, activists and politicians in the years between 1830 and 1860. These chapters demonstrate the range of theoretical and political choices open to antislavery advocates during the antebellum period. ...

    $899.00

  • ESSENTIALS OF MARKETING
    DAVID BROWN / ALEX THOMPSON
    This comprehensive textbook introduces students to all the core principles of marketing practice using an employability-focused approach. Essentials of Marketing is underpinned by six pillars, which flow through each chapter: marketing ethics, sustainability, stakeholder engagement, globalisation, the power of new media, and measuring success. The book demystifies theory by pla...

    $1,279.00