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  • SAMUEL SMILES AND THE VICTORIAN WORK ETHIC
    TIM TRAVERS
    Samuel Smiles is best known for his book Self Help (1859), which many have assumed to be an encouragement to social and financial success. However, Smiles actually argued against the single-minded pursuit of success, and in favour of the protean formation of character as the ultimate goal of life. First published in 1987, this book examines Samuel Smiles’ ideals of work and sel...

    $1,420.00

  • LEGAL RULES IN PRACTICE
    BAUDOUIN DUPRET / MAX TRAVERS / JULIE COLEMANS
    Understanding legal rules not as determinants of behavior but as points of reference for conduct, this volume considers the ways in which rules are invoked, referred to, interpreted, put forward or blurred. It also asks how both legal practitioners and lay participants conceive of and participate in the construction of facts and rules, and thus, through decisions, defenses, ple...

    $1,200.00

  • WRITING THE PUBLIC IN CYBERSPACE
    ANN TRAVERS
    Popular claims that new information technology will expand democratic and public spaces are problematic given the exclusive history of the public and the restriction of access to computer technology to elites. This book investigates patterns of behavior in a cybercommunity consisting of Americans and Canadians, and discusses the ways in which these so-called public spaces are l...

    $1,380.00

  • LAW IN ACTION
    MAX TRAVERS / JOHN F. MANZO
    Ethnomethodologists and Conversation Analysts have always been interested in the study of law and legal institutions and there is now a large body of empirical studies, representing a range of analytic traditions in each field. This collection introduces this literature and the research questions pursued by ethnomethodologists and conversation analysts, in an accessible form t...

    $1,460.00

  • TEACHERS UNDER PRESSURE
    CARY COOPER / CHERYL TRAVERS
    Our education system has undergone a process of enormous and rapid change, and all too often teachers have found that insufficient support has been offered to help them cope with this. As a result, most teachers now find that they experience stress of one sort or another at some point during their careers.As a direct reaction to this, the National Association of Schoolmasters a...

    $1,380.00

  • UNDERSTANDING LAW AND SOCIETY
    MAX TRAVERS
    This textbook on the sociology of law is organised according to the theoretical traditions of sociology, and oriented towards providing an accessible, but sophisticated, introduction to, and overview of, the central themes, problems and debates in this field. The book employs an international range of examples - including the state, minority rights, terrorism, family violence, ...

    $1,760.00

  • QUALITATIVE RESEARCH THROUGH CASE STUDIES
    MAX TRAVERS
    `The great strength of this book is that it provides a clear and well-structured overview of some of the diverse approaches that are currently available within the qualitative tradition′ - British Journal of Educational Psychology Although most undergraduates are able to collect qualitative data without too much difficulty, they are often less successful in turning this into an...

    $1,520.58

  • HOW THE WAR WAS WON
    T.H.E. TRAVERS
    "How the War Was Won" describes the major role played by the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front in defeating the German army. In particular, the book explains the methods used in fighting the last year of the war, and raises questions as to whether mechanical warfare could have been more widely used. Using a wide range of unpublished ...

    $1,340.00

  • DESPATCH ON WAR OPERATIONS
    AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR ARTHUR TRAVERS HARRIS
    This is the first time that Sir Arthur Bomber' Harris's own papers covering his three and a half years at Bomber Command have been published and made available to the general public. The book also contains an introduction by Sebastian Cox, an Air Staff Memorandum written immediately after the war and a revisionist German viewpoint by Horst Boog. It ...

    $1,179.00

  • REFLECTIONS ON METHODOLOGY
    MAX TRAVERS
    Reflections on Methodology offers a new and engaging means of teaching Honours students or those starting a PhD in Sociology about methodological issues. Instead of the usual survey approach, it shows the importance of debates about methodology, the value of an ethnographic approach and the challenges of applied research through a series of case studies. The text offers insight...

    $1,160.00

  • VICTORIAN BRITAIN DAY BY DAY
    NICHOLAS TRAVERS
    Chronicles the extraordinary era with daily snapshots of historical events, from the Great Exhibition to quirky anecdotes. Victorian Britain Day by Day sheds new light on the most remarkable era in British history. Here is a tapestry of time, unpacked and uncovered from January 1st to December 31st, a rich mosaic of facts, events and tales, exploring the most extraordinary mome...

    $216.99

  • THE KILLING GROUND
    TIM TRAVERS
    A study of how the British Army fought on the Western Front during World War I. This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on t...

    $119.00

  • THE KILLING GROUND
    TIM TRAVERS
    A study of how the British Army fought on the Western Front during World War I. This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on t...

    $119.00

  • ESTRES DE LOS PROFESORES
    TRAVERS / COOPER
    Nuestro sistema educativo ha venido sufriendo en los últimos años enormes y rápidos cambios, siempre acompañados por las denuncias de los profesores respecto a la escasa e insuficiente ayuda que reciben para afrontarlos. Como consecuencia de esto, la mayoría de los docentes suelen verse sometidos, en un momento u otro de su carrera, a un intenso y a menudo insoportable estrés. ...
    Agotado

    $579.00

  • MARY POPPINS VUELVE MARY POPPINS
    TRAVERS P. L.
    Popularizadas en todo el mundo por la versión cinematográfica que de ellas hiciera en 1964 Walt Disney, las aventuras de Mary Poppins son un clásico de la literatura infantil y juvenil. Con todo, a través de la singular institutriz, P. L. Travers dio vida a un personaje a caballo entre el hada buena de cuya protección y virtudes todos hemos deseado gozar, en nuestra fantasía, a...
    Agotado

    $375.00

  • INTRODUCCION A LA INVESTIGACION EDUCACIONAL
    TRAVERS
    Agotado

    $370.00

  • THE KILLING GROUND
    TIM TRAVERS
    This books explains why the British Army fought the way it did in the First World War. It integrates social and military history and the impact of ideas to tell the story of how the army, especially the senior officers, adapted to the new technological warfare and asks: Was the style of warfare on the Western Front inevitable?Using an extensive range of unpublished diaries, let...

    $119.00