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  • POPES AND PRINCES 1417–1517
    JOHN A. F. THOMSON
    This book, originally published in 1980, examines the history of the papacy in the century between the end of the Great Schism and the start of the Reformation, and considers how, and at what price, the popes were able to re-establish their power after the troubles of the years from 1378 to 1417. The author approaches the subject analytically rather than chronologically, coveri...

    $1,900.00

  • IRONY
    J.A.K. THOMSON
    Irony, with its old and complex history beginning with Plato and Socrates, and known by intellects from different social classes, including the ancient dramatists, philosophers, and rhetoricians, is not an easy concept to grasp. Originally published in 1926, this volume analyses the history of irony in ancient writers such as Homer and Lucian and how the use of Irony in modern ...

    $1,900.00

  • NON-DIRECTIVE COACHING
    BOB THOMSON
    The KEY book for both practitioners and students. Ideal for coaches working primarily non-directively who want to develop their practice by assimilating ideas from a range of approaches. Therapies such as cognitive behavioural coaching, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and Gestalt are examined and the author demonstrates how some of the key principles of these can be used or ...

    $700.00

  • MANAGEMENT FROM A TO Z AND BACK AGAIN
    BOB THOMSON
    The key themes and ideas in management, from A to Z and back again covered in 52 chapters. Aimed at anyone who is a line manager, project manager or who wants to learn more about management and leadership. From the author of Coaching from A to Z and Back Again, this is ideal for anyone who wants to develop the management skills - of themselves and their employees. Whether you a...

    $800.00

  • COACHING FROM A TO Z AND BACK AGAIN
    BOB THOMSON
    Written by an experienced coach, mentor and mediator, this book is perfect for developing your coaching skills by drawing on ideas, tools and models to help you engage in effective coaching conversations. It takes ideas from a variety of approaches to coaching and explores issues such as ethics, coaching as a line manager, boundaries and qualifications/accreditation. It summari...

    $640.00

  • THE RECEPTION OF BYZANTINE CULTURE IN MEDIAEVAL RUSSIA
    FRANCIS J. THOMSON
    It is a truism that Russian culture is based upon the reception of Byzantine culture. However, the question of what was in fact received is the task that Professor Thomson has set in these studies, by means of a detailed examination of the corpus of translations. Down to the 17th century this corpus was essentially made up of works required for the liturgy and the monastic life...

    $1,480.00

  • THE HEART OF THE BIBLE
    JEANNIE B. THOMSON DAVIES
    Originally published in 1933, from the preface: “The aim of this particular venture is to present the writings now collected in the volume called the Bible in an order approaching that in which they came into being. The hope is that a considerable amount of both the Old and New Testaments may be read in a fresh setting, so that questions about inconsistencies in the Bible, or a...

    $960.00

  • THE HEART OF THE BIBLE
    JEANNIE B. THOMSON DAVIES
    Originally published in 1933, from the volume one preface: “The aim of this particular venture is to present the writings now collected in the volume called the Bible in an order approaching that in which they came into being. The hope is that a considerable amount of both the Old and New Testaments may be read in a fresh setting, so that questions about inconsistencies in the ...

    $960.00

  • THE HEART OF THE BIBLE
    JEANNIE B. THOMSON DAVIES
    Originally published in 1933, from the preface in volume one: “The aim of this particular venture is to present the writings now collected in the volume called the Bible in an order approaching that in which they came into being. The hope is that a considerable amount of both the Old and New Testaments may be read in a fresh setting, so that questions about inconsistencies in t...

    $960.00

  • THE COMPANY AND THE ACTIVIST
    STUART THOMSON
    Addressing the rise of a new breed of activists who present a real threat not only to reputations but to business operations, this book explores what businesses need to understand about these communities, why they should be taken seriously, and how business leaders can successfully navigate this shifting terrain. Existing business books address only the communications challenge...

    $960.00

  • INSTINCT, INTELLIGENCE AND CHARACTER
    GODFREY H. THOMSON
    First published in 1924, Instinct, Intelligence and Character provides a lucid and forcible account of the currents of thought in educational psychology, from intelligence tests to psychoanalysis, from character training to the laws of learning. It brings themes such as talk on instincts and habits; laws of heredity; nature of satisfaction and dissatisfaction; the learning proc...

    $860.00

  • ENGLAND AND THE TWELFTH-CENTURY RENAISSANCE
    RODNEY M. THOMSON
    Books and learning in 12th-century Europe are the broad concern of the nineteen papers assembled here. The discussion of ’books’ ranges from important individual manuscripts, to collections manufactured in ’scriptoria’ and kept in ’libraries’; the ’learning’ is primarily the composition, transmission and study of Latin literary texts, both ancient and contemporary. Special atte...

    $1,480.00

  • SYSTEMIC AND NARRATIVE WORK WITH UNACCOMPANIED ASYLUM-SEEKING CHILDREN
    ANA DRAPER / ELISA MARCELLINO / SAMANTHA THOMSON
    Systemic and Narrative Work with Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children: Stories of Relocation provides a contextualised, research-based understanding of how to enhance and support the emotional health and well-being of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children. The framework presented in this book is an innovative intervention that enhances the well-being of children who have exper...

    $740.00

  • RESISTANCE IN EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, AND ADMINISTRATION
    AMANDA MCKAY, PAT THOMSON, JILL BLACKMORE
    This edited volume brings together a range of perspectives on Educational Leadership, Management and Administration (ELMA) and various theories of resistance or compliance along with how policy and politics play out in school communities. The book makes a significant contribution to debates around theorising educational leadership and the implications of discourses on schooling...

    $1,200.00

  • CLASSICAL INFLUENCES ON ENGLISH POETRY
    J.A.K. THOMSON
    First published in 1951 this book presents a comprehensive account of the classical influences on English poetry with illustrative examples. This is a sequel to Thomson’s book on Classical Background of English Literature. The author brings important themes like Homer and epic tradition in antiquity; Milton and epic tradition in modern times; didactic poetry; lyric poetry; eleg...

    $840.00

  • DEVELOPING EARLY COMPREHENSION SKILLS THROUGH PICTURE BOOK TALK
    DONNA THOMSON
    Developing Early Comprehension Skills Through Picture Book Talk demonstrates how strategic ‘picture reading’ and playful sensory learning can develop young children’s explicit and implicit comprehension skills, regardless of their decoding ability. Offering an inclusive teaching and assessment approach that aligns with the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) framework and suppo...

    $780.00

  • A CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND
    MARK A. THOMSON
    First published in 1938 A Constitutional History of England presents a comprehensive overview of various aspects and problems of English Constitutional history. Divided into six major parts it discusses important themes like parliament and the King; the period of the Restoration 1660-88; the revolution settlement 1689-1719; the age of conservatism 1720-1801; administrative deve...

    $1,160.00

  • NO SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT
    HEATHER THOMSON
    How might we keep alive the interests and concerns of protest theologies and the constructive contributions they make? Feminist, liberation, and postcolonial theologies offer guiding questions for this task: "What is the purpose of theology?" "Whose interests are being served?" "What might be the public effects of this theology?" This book attends to these questions through a c...

    $550.00

  • NO SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT
    HEATHER THOMSON
    How might we keep alive the interests and concerns of protest theologies and the constructive contributions they make? Feminist, liberation, and postcolonial theologies offer guiding questions for this task: "What is the purpose of theology?" "Whose interests are being served?" "What might be the public effects of this theology?" This book attends to these questions through a c...

    $550.00

  • A MARKETER'S GUIDE TO DIGITAL ADVERTISING
    SHAILIN DHAR / SCOTT THOMSON
    How can individual marketers and their teams navigate the complex issues that seem to overwhelm the digital advertising industry today? They can learn about the metrics worth using, the importance of measurement and the technology available. With contradictory rules surrounding data privacy, measurement constraints, changes to supply chains and other complexities often too diff...

    $879.00

  • PIETY AND POLITICS IN BRITAIN, 14TH–15TH CENTURIES
    JOHN A.F. THOMSON / EDITED BY GRAEME SMALL
    This volume explores a range of topics during a turbulent period in British history, with particular emphasis on political change and popular piety. On the eve of the Reformation, religious beliefs were shaped by a church which was falling under the growing control of the state, and by responses to England's one and only heretical movement, Lollardy. In political life, gradual ...

    $1,320.00

  • SCHOOLS AND CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP
    PAT THOMSON / CHRISTINE HALL
    ‘Why study the arts at school?’ This book offers a fresh perspective on this question. Informed by rigorous research, the book argues that the arts help young people to develop key skills, knowledge and practices that support them to become both critical appreciative audiences and socially engaged cultural producers. Drawing on a three-year study in partnership with the Royal S...

    $980.00

  • REFINING YOUR ACADEMIC WRITING
    PAT THOMSON
    Revision is often taken as a largely instrumental process which happens after the real work of writing is done – it is an unavoidable and tedious process. Refining by contrast is imaginative work, it requires craft, connoisseurship and courage, and builds knowledge about academic writing purposes and practices. Refining Your Academic Writing will help you complete your writing ...

    $580.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN POLITICS
    ALEX THOMSON
    This fully updated fifth edition of An Introduction to African Politics is an ideal textbook for those new to the study of this fascinating continent. Charting trends in government over six decades of the post-colonial era, the book tackles key questions such as: How have African states made sense of their colonial inheritance? How relevant are ethnic and religious identities? ...

    $920.00

  • 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...

    $980.00

  • THE MORAY WAY COMPANION
    NORMAN THOMSON
    The Moray Way consists of all or part of three previously existing routes: the Moray Coast Trail, the Speyside Way and the Dava Way. Together they cover a huge and varied range of landscapes.This book is the ideal guide to much of what this beautiful and richly historical part of Scotland has to offer. The largest town, Forres, is an ancient royal burgh. Between it and the next...

    $165.68

  • THE MARTYRDOM OF NURSE CAVELL, THE LIFE STORY OF THE VICTIM OF GERMANY'S MOST BARBAROUS CRIME
    WILLIAM THOMSON HILL
    Excerpt: "Like Charlotte Brontë, another vicar’s daughter, Edith Cavell first learned something of the wider world in a Brussels school. It was commoner then than now—meaning by “now” before the war—for English girls to be sent to Belgium to school. Charlotte Brontë’s Brussels life has left us at least one imperishable book. Edith Cavell has left no written memorials of those t...

    $39.70

  • FROM PLAYTEXT TO PERFORMANCE ON THE EARLY MODERN STAGE
    LESLIE THOMSON
    This book reconsiders the evidence for what we know (or think we know) about early modern performance conditions. This study encourages a new recognition and treatment of certain aspects of the plays as evidence – and demonstrates the significance of the implications of that new information. This book is also an assessment of the competing narratives about the processes involve...

    $1,160.00

  • CONFLICT AND COOPERATION IN INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY ORGANISATIONS
    JAMES THOMSON
    This book provides an institutional costs framework for intelligence and security communities to examine the factors that can encourage or obstruct cooperation. The governmental functions of security and intelligence require various organisations to interact in a symbiotic way. These organisations must constantly negotiate with each other to establish who should address which i...

    $1,200.00

  • THE FUTURE OF THE HIGHLANDS
    DERICK S. THOMSON
    Originally published in 1968, this book gave a rounded picture of some of the problems which were facing the Highlands of Scotland in the first half of the twentieth century. The contributors examined various aspects of the Highland problem and ways of solving it: how to develop productive industry, stabilize the population, encourage creative growth of community and support Ga...

    $900.00


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