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  • BORN IN CRISIS AND SHAPED BY CONTROVERSY, VOLUME 2
    JOHN R. TYSON
    This second installment of the Methodist story, Shaped by Controversy, examines eight of the major controversies that epitomize aspects of Methodism's inter-family dialogue and trauma. These theological, ecclesial, and ethical controversies tried the values, tested the patience, and strained our familial relationships. Ultimately they divided the Methodist movement. Ironically,...

    $408.00

  • BORN IN CRISIS AND SHAPED BY CONTROVERSY, VOLUME 2
    JOHN R. TYSON
    This second installment of the Methodist story, Shaped by Controversy, examines eight of the major controversies that epitomize aspects of Methodism's inter-family dialogue and trauma. These theological, ecclesial, and ethical controversies tried the values, tested the patience, and strained our familial relationships. Ultimately they divided the Methodist movement. Ironically,...

    $408.00

  • PITCH PERFECT
    WILLIAM TYSON
    This book is intended for scholars, researchers, and academic leaders who have a passion to share their knowledge outside their classroom, laboratory, or institution; who want to make a difference; and who believe that the information they possess and ideas they offer are important for a wider public. Pitch Perfect is a practical guide to communicating your knowledge and resear...

    $700.00

  • CRITICAL THEORY TODAY
    LOIS TYSON
    This thoroughly updated fourth edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-depth coverage of the most common approaches to literary analysis today, including: feminism; psychoanalysis; Marxism; reader-response theory; New Criticism; structuralism and semiotics; deconstruction; new historicism and cultural crit...

    $1,240.00

  • PRODUCING AND CONSUMING THE CRAFT BEER MOVEMENT
    WESLEY SHUMAR / TYSON MITMAN
    Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste. This book will provide an excellent foundation for considering craft beer and an entrepreneurial practice that produces other forms of value be...

    $1,140.00

  • ASTONISHMENT AND SCIENCE
    PAUL TYSON
    Science can reveal or conceal the breathtaking wonders of creation. On one hand, knowledge of the natural world can open us up to greater love for the Creator, give us the means of more neighborly care, and fill us with ever-deepening astonishment. On the other hand, knowledge feeding an insatiable hunger for epistemic mastery can become a means of idolatry, hubris, and damage....

    $586.00

  • PRINCIPLES OF ADAPTIVE OPTICS
    ROBERT K. TYSON / BENJAMIN WEST FRAZIER
    Principles of Adaptive Optics describes the foundations, principles, and applications of adaptive optics (AO) and its enabling technologies. This leading textbook addresses the fundamentals of AO at the core of astronomy, high-energy lasers, biomedical imaging, and optical communications. Key Features: Numerous examples to explain and support the underlying principles Hundreds ...

    $1,420.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HISTORY OF U.S. FOREIGN RELATIONS
    TYSON REEDER
    The Routledge History of U.S. Foreign Relations provides a comprehensive view of U.S. diplomacy and foreign affairs from the founding to the present. With contributions from recognized experts from around the world, this volume unveils America’s long and complicated history on the world stage. It presents the United States’ evolution from a weak player, even a European pawn, to...

    $1,260.00

  • THEOLOGY AND CLIMATE CHANGE
    PAUL TYSON
    Theology and Climate Change examines Progressive Dominion Theology (PDT) as a primary cultural driver of anthropogenic climate change. PDT is a distinctive and Western form of Christian theology out of which the modern scientific revolution and technological modernity arises. Basic attitudes to nature, to instrumental power over nature, and to an understanding of humanity’s rel...

    $640.00

  • USING CRITICAL THEORY
    LOIS TYSON
    Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on major theories frequently covered both in courses on literature and on critical theory. Key features include: • coverage of m...

    $1,100.00

  • TERRORIST DECISION-MAKING
    ALEX MINTZ / TYSON CHATAGNIER / YAIR SAMBAN
    This book analyzes a series of decisions by leaders of three major terrorist organizations and identifies a unique "Decision DNA" for each of them. The authors use the Applied Decision Analysis methodology to examine organizational and operational decisions made by the leaders of three major groups: Hezbollah (Hassan Nasrallah), Hamas (Khaled Mashal), and al-Qaeda (Osama bin La...

    $1,200.00

  • MADNESS
    PHILIP TYSON / SHAKIELA KHANAM DAVIES / ALISON TORN
    Madness: History, Concepts and Controversies provides a comprehensive and critical analysis of current perspectives on mental illness and how they have been shaped by historical trends and dominant sociocultural paradigms. From its representation among world religions and wider folkloric myth, to early attempts to rationalize and treat symptoms of mental disorder, this book out...

    $1,160.00

  • CHINESE AWAKENINGS
    JAMES TYSON / ANN TYSON
    This evocative and fascinating book shows how, from muddy village crossroads to raucous city streets, Chinese exhilarated by new dreams are shaping the future of their nation. Over the course of five years spent as China correspondents for the Christian Science Monitor, James and Ann Tyson dodged government surveillance and sought out the life stories of Chinese throughout the ...

    $1,200.00

  • THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF BRAIN DRAIN AND TALENT CAPTURE
    ADAM TYSON
    Brain drain and talent capture are important issues globally, and especially crucial in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, which aspire to be innovation-driven advanced economies. This book provides a thorough analysis of the impact of brain drain on middle-income Malaysia and high-income Singapore, where the political salience of the problem in both countries is high. I...

    $1,260.00

  • AN INTRODUCTION TO INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
    P.J. DEVINE / N. LEE / R.M. JONES / W.J. TYSON
    This updated and expanded 1985 edition of the classic 1974 work covers deindustrialisation, industrial and competition policy, the public enterprise sector, regional and urban policy, and privatisation, as well as focussing on the firm and the industrial sector in all its facets. It remains the key work on industrial economics. ...

    $1,360.00

  • INOPERATIVE LEARNING
    TYSON LEWIS
    Inoperative Learning embodies a weak philosophy of education. It does not offer a set of solutions or guidelines for improving educational outcomes, but rather renders taken-for-granted assumptions about the theory-practice coupling inoperative. By arguing that such logic reduces education to instrumental ends, this book presents a challenge to contemporary notions of education...

    $1,200.00

  • TRANSPORT ECONOMICS
    P.C. STUBBS / W.J. TYSON / M.Q. DALVI
    Practically everybody in the community uses the transport system, and an eighth of personal consumption expenditure in Britain is spent on transport. This book, first published in 1980 and revised in 1984, presents a synthesis of theoretical and empirical material to explain the elements of transport economics. These include demand, supply, pricing and investment, and the impor...

    $1,160.00

  • RIOT CONTROL
    TYSON MACAULAY
    RIoT Control: Understanding and Managing Risks and the Internet of Things explains IoT risk in terms of project requirements, business needs, and system designs. Learn how the Internet of Things (IoT) is different from “Regular” Enterprise security, more intricate and more complex to understand and manage. Billions of internet-connected devices make for a chaotic system, prone ...

    $797.00

  • CYBERSECURITY FOR INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS
    TYSON MACAULAY / BRYAN L. SINGER
    As industrial control systems (ICS), including SCADA, DCS, and other process control networks, become Internet-facing, they expose crucial services to attack. Threats like Duqu, a sophisticated worm found in the wild that appeared to share portions of its code with the Stuxnet worm, emerge with increasing frequency. Explaining how to develop and im ...

    $1,860.00

  • ESSENTIALS OF HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    SHAUN TYSON
    The field of human resource management changes rapidly. Following the recession, new approaches are needed to succeed in a highly competitive global market place, and HR managers now draw on disciplines such as business strategy, marketing, information systems and corporate social responsibility to meet the need for functional interdependence. Essentials of Human Resource Manag...

    $2,100.00

  • MANAGING PEOPLE IN A CONTEMPORARY CONTEXT
    EMMA PARRY / SHAUN TYSON
    The worldwide financial crash and the ensuing recession have coincided with other significant long term changes for the Western Economies of Europe and the USA, especially the growing strength of newly developed economies, demographic and technological change, institutional crises and political uncertainty. The interconnected nature of businesses and societies mean the competit...

    $2,100.00

  • ON STUDY: GIORGIO AGAMBEN AND EDUCATIONAL POTENTIALITY
    TYSON E. LEWIS
    In an educational landscape dominated by discourses and practices of learning, standardized testing, and the pressure to succeed, what space and time remain for studying? In this book, Tyson E. Lewis argues that studying is a distinctive educational experience with its own temporal, spatial, methodological, aesthetic, and phenomenological dimensions. Unlike learning, which pres...

    $1,540.00

  • APPRAISING AND EXPLORING ORGANISATIONS (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    TYSON, SHAUN / ACKERMANN, K. F. / DOMSCH, MICHEL / JOYNT, PATRICK
    First published in 1988, this book offers a comprehensive description of the functions and performance of organisational surveys from a wide range of European experts in the field. The book examines the utility of organisational surveys as a method of research for the social sciences and as a support for employee relations strategies and personnel policies. It looks at the broa...

    $1,160.00

  • SEX, CULPABILITY AND THE DEFENCE OF PROVOCATION
    DANIELLE TYSON
    The partial defence of provocation is one of the most controversial doctrines within the criminal law. It has now been abolished in a number of international jurisdictions. Addressing the trajectory of debates about reform of the provocation defence across different jurisdictions, Sex, Culpability and the Defence of Provocation considers the construction and representation of s...

    $1,100.00

  • DECENTRALIZATION AND ADAT REVIVALISM IN INDONESIA
    ADAM D. TYSON
    This book examines the dynamic process of political transition and indigenous (adat) revival in newly decentralized Indonesia. The political transition in May 1998 set the stage for the passing of Indonesia’s framework decentralization laws. These laws include both political and technocratic efforts to devolve authority from the centre (Jakarta) to the peripheries. Contrary to ...

    $1,320.00

  • CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
    TYSON MACAULAY
    Critical Infrastructure (CI) is fundamental to the functioning of a modern economy, and consequently, maintaining CI security is paramount. However, despite all the security technology available for threats and risks to CI, this crucial area often generates more fear than rational discussion. Apprehension unfortunately prompts many involved in CI p ...

    $4,000.00

  • CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
    TYSON MACAULAY
    Critical Infrastructure (CI) is fundamental to the functioning of a modern economy, and consequently, maintaining CI security is paramount. However, despite all the security technology available for threats and risks to CI, this crucial area often generates more fear than rational discussion. Apprehension unfortunately prompts many involved in CI p ...

    $4,000.00

  • MADAME CHIANG KAI-SHEK
    LAURA TYSON LI
    The first biography of one of the most controversial and fascinating women of the twentieth century.   Beautiful, brilliant, and captivating, Madame Chiang Kai-shek seized unprecedented power during China's long and violent civil war. She passionately argued against Chinese Communism in the international arena and influenced decades of Sino-American relations and modern Chinese...

    $279.00

  • SECURING CONVERGED IP NETWORKS
    TYSON MACAULAY
    Internet Protocol (IP) networks increasingly mix traditional data assets with traffic related to voice, entertainment, industrial process controls, metering, and more. Due to this convergence of content, IP networks are emerging as extremely vital infrastructure components, requiring greater awareness and better security and management.Off ...

    $1,660.00

  • TOP PAY AND PERFORMANCE
    SHAUN TYSON / FRANK BOURNOIS
    Top Pay is an extremely topical and contentious area and compensation and benefits is a well-defined area of interest in HR. This book investigates how the field of top pay developed? Why is there so much interest in top pay? Why governments take such an interest? Separation of ownership from control. The issues of Institutional shareholding, globalisation, comparisons between ...

    $1,760.00


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