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  • EPITAPH TO INDIRECT RULE
    NTIEYONG U. AKPAN
    First published in 1956, Epitaph to Indirect Rule compares the old order of colonial government, represented by the Indirect Rule system, with the innovations of the more democratic administrative pattern introduced in the Eastern Region of Nigeria for the first time in 1950. Mr Akpan gives an account of the composition, powers, responsibilities, and financing and staffing of l...

    $860.00

  • PHYSIOLOGY OF STRESSED CROPS, VOL. 4
    U S GUPTA
    To cope with the abiotic stress-induced osmotic problems, plants adapt by either increasing uptake of inorganic ions from the external solution, or by de novo synthesis of organic compatible solutes acting as osmolytes. Of the osmoregulants and protectants discussed in this volume, trehalose, fructans, ectoine and citrulline, which are generated in different species, in osmotic...

    $1,480.00

  • PHYSIOLOGY OF STRESSED CROPS, VOL. 5
    U S GUPTA
    Though plant cells are separated by cell walls, cells maintain their identity as they are delimited by semi-permeable membranes that permit them to function as autonomous units. The flow of materials in and out of the cell is regulated by channels, transporters, pumps, and acquaporins in these membranes. The cytoplasm is sandwiched between two membranes: the plasma membrane, wh...

    $1,480.00

  • A GUIDE FOR STATISTICAL TESTS AND INTERPRETATIONS WITH SPSS
    ARSHIA U. ZAIDI
    A Guide for Statistical Tests and Interpretations with SPSS is designed for students taking basic and advanced courses in statistics, taking an integrative and practical approach to learning statistics. It guides students through navigating SPSS outputs and writing quantitatively, dealing with technical and substantive interpretations without resorting to complex mathematical f...

    $1,320.00

  • ALLENDE AND POPULAR UNITY
    PAULA VIDAL MOLINA / XIMENA U. ODEKERKEN
    This book is a fascinating collection of carefully handpicked key texts and speeches from Chile’s 1,000 Days of Revolution, previously unpublished in English. Twenty-three texts embodying the activity of Unidad Popular and Salvador Allende’s government in the early 1970s are structured around five thematic sections, which tell the story of the common challenges for progressive ...

    $1,240.00

  • PESTICIDE TOXICOLOGY AND RISK ASSESSMENT
    MUNEEB U. REHMAN, ADIL FAROOQ WALI, VANI BAJAJ
    With the emergence of new pesticide combinations and application methods, assessing their potential risks to non-target organisms and human well-being becomes paramount. Pesticide Toxicology and Risk Assessment focuses on the need and strategies for safe and efficient use of pesticides. It offers insights from toxicogenomics, enabling an understanding of the genetic and epigene...

    $5,300.00

  • FEMINIST PSYCHOLOGIES
    U. VINDHYA
    This book aims to be a comprehensive resource that will apprise readers of the complex dynamics of the psychological interiors of women and others in the sex and gender spectrum, as they grapple with sociopolitical and cultural constraints. Going beyond the ambit of mainstream psychology, this volume draws from interdisciplinary fields of women’s/gender studies to highlight pow...

    $1,240.00

  • UNDERSTANDING RESEARCH IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
    JENNIFER J. MUELLER / NANCY FILE / ANDREW J. STREMMEL / IHEOMA U. IRUKA / KRISTIN L. WHYTE
    This second edition invites readers to be informed consumers of both quantitative and qualitative methods in early childhood research. It offers side-by-side coverage and comparison about the assumptions, questions, purposes, and methods for each, presenting unique perspectives for understanding young children and early care and education programs. The new edition includes upda...

    $1,200.00

  • BUSINESS ETHICS
    CHRISTIAN U. BECKER
    Business Ethics: Methods, Theories, and Application provides a new systematic approach to normative business ethics that covers the complex and various ethical challenges of modern business. It aims to train analytical thinking skills in the field of business ethics and to approach ethical issues in business in a rational and systematic way. The book develops a number of specif...

    $1,120.00

  • RETHINKING ILLICIT ECONOMIES IN OPIUM AND COCAINE
    ERIC D. U. GUTIERREZ
    This book investigates the cross-border trade in illicit drug crops in the global south. It exposes an important paradox: despite all the dangers and negative consequences of these criminal networks, in many cases, they also provide marginalised and excluded communities with important private sources of protection, investment, and employment. This book reconstructs and compares...

    $1,060.00

  • FROM THE DIVINE TO THE HUMAN
    MUHAMMAD U. FARUQUE
    Featuring the work of leading contemporary Muslim philosophers and theologians, this book grapples with various forms of evil and suffering in the world today, from COVID-19 and issues in climate change to problems in palliative care and human vulnerability. Rather than walking down well-trodden paths in philosophy of religion which often address questions of evil and suffering...

    $1,160.00

  • GRASS VARIETIES IN THE UNITED STATES
    U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICU
    This user-friendly handbook is a working guide to the status of named and experimental grasses available for use in the United States. It provides physical descriptions and status profiles of grass varieties, including turf grass varieties. The handbook also contains maps and descriptions of Land Resources Regions and Plant Hardiness Zones that assist in the understanding of pl...

    $4,000.00

  • WELLBEING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    MARCUS A. HENNING / CHRISTIAN U. KRÄGELOH / FIONA MOIR / YAN CHEN / CRAIG S. WEBSTER
    Drawing on holistic research and professional practice, this book provides rich empirical, scientific, and clinical lenses to the discourse on wellbeing in higher education. The authors have appraised the underlying, conceptual, empirical, and applied nature of existing mind-body programmes often utilized to cultivate wellbeing (e.g., seated meditation, yoga, Taijiquan, Pilates...

    $1,160.00

  • CHARIOT IN INDIAN HISTORY
    U.P. THAPLIYAL
    The invention and development of the chariot around the third millennium revolutionized the art of warfare and dominated the battlefields for some 3000 years. It seems to have evolved in the borderlands between the steppes and the riverlands. It is believed that the Āryan borrowed the idea of chariot from Sumerians around 2000 bc. It is presumed that these Āryans entered Iran a...

    $1,160.00

  • ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED INFRARED THERMAL IMAGE PROCESSING AND ITS APPLICATIONS
    U. SNEKHALATHA / K. PALANI THANARAJ / KURT AMMER
    Infrared thermography is a fast and non-invasive technology that provides a map of the temperature distribution on the body’s surface. This book provides a description of designing and developing a computer-assisted diagnosis (CAD) system based on thermography for diagnosing such common ailments as rheumatoid arthritis (RA), diabetes complications, and fever. It also introduces...

    $1,320.00

  • THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
    R.U.S PRASAD
    This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights in the East and the West and provides a comparative analysis of the independent streams of thought originating from the two different geographic spaces. It traces the genesis of the idea of human rights back to ancient Indian and Greco-Roman texts, especially conce...

    $1,160.00

  • EDUCATION IN AFRICA
    A. BABS FAFUNWA / J. U. AISIKU
    First published in 1982, Education in Africa offers a comprehensive treatment of the development of education in Africa. Until now only scattered documents on educational growth in individual countries have been available; works devoted to Africa as a whole have tended towards the general and have, by and large, been written by outside observers. This book is a collection of il...

    $860.00

  • MODELING OF EXTREME WAVES IN TECHNOLOGY AND NATURE, TWO VOLUME SET
    SHAMIL U. GALIEV
    Modeling of Extreme Waves in Technology and Nature is a two-volume set, comprising Evolution of Extreme Waves and Resonances (Volume I) and Extreme Waves and Shock-Excited Processes in Structures and Space Objects (Volume II). The theory of waves is generalized on cases of extreme waves. The formation and propagation of extreme waves of various physical and mechanical nature (s...

    $7,500.00

  • WOMEN AND WILDLIFE TRAFFICKING
    HELEN U. AGU
    This volume examines women and wildlife trafficking via a collection of narratives, case studies and theoretical syntheses from diverse voices and disciplines. Wildlife trafficking has been documented in over 120 countries around the world. While species extinction and animal abuse are major problems, wildlife trafficking is also associated with corruption, national insecurity,...

    $1,200.00

  • MODEL THEORETIC ALGEBRA WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON FIELDS, RINGS, MODULES
    CHRISTIAN.U JENSEN
    This volume highlights the links between model theory and algebra. The work contains a definitive account of algebraically compact modules, a topic of central importance for both module and model theory. Using concrete examples, particular emphasis is given to model theoretic concepts, such as axiomizability. Pure mathematicians, especially algebraists, ring theorists, logician...

    $15,300.00

  • GEOMORPHOLOGICAL HAZARDS IN LOS ANGELES
    R.U. COOKE
    This book, first published in 1984, deals authoritatively with the nature and management of slope failures and sediment movement and their impact on the hazardous landscape of Los Angeles county. Bringing together for the first time a wide range of information derived from field observations, interviews, manuscript records, local agency reports and published sources, the book p...

    $920.00

  • INTELLIGENT BIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES IN FINGERPRINT AND FACE RECOGNITION
    L.C.JAIN / U.HALICI / I. HAYASHI / S.B. LEE / S.TSUTSUI
    The tremendous world-wide interest in intelligent biometric techniques in fingerprint and face recognition is fueled by the myriad of potential applications, including banking and security systems, and limited only by the imaginations of scientists and engineers. This growing interest poses new challenges to the fields of expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy systems, and evol...

    $6,500.00

  • FANON, PHENOMENOLOGY, AND PSYCHOLOGY
    LESWIN LAUBSCHER, DEREK HOOK, AND MIRAJ U. DESAI
    Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon’s most important insights. Featuring contributions from many of the world’s leading scholars on Fanon, this volume foregrounds a series of crucial phenomenological topics – inclusive of the domains of experience, structur...

    $1,060.00

  • HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER MODELLING DURING DRYING
    MOHAMMAD U.H. JOARDDER / WASHIM AKRAM / AZHARUL KARIM
    Most conventional dryers use random heating to dry diverse materials without considering their thermal sensitivity and energy requirements for drying. Eventually, excess energy consumption is necessary to attain a low-quality dried product. Proper heat and mass transfer modelling prior to designing a drying system for selected food materials can overcome these problems. Heat an...

    $1,900.00

  • VAIŚEṢIKASŪTRA – A TRANSLATION
    IONUT MOISE / GANESH U. THITE
    This book introduces readers to Indian philosophy by presenting the first integral English translation of Vaiśeṣikasūtra as preserved by the earliest canonical commentary of Candrānanda (7th century AD) on the old aphorisms of the Vaiśeṣika school of Indian philosophy. The present monograph offers a canonical description of the fundamental categories of ontology and metaphysics...

    $1,160.00

  • OPTIMIZATION OF MULTILAYERED RADAR ABSORBING STRUCTURES (RAS) USING NATURE INSPIRED ALGORITHM
    VINEETHA JOY / VISHAL G. PADWAL / HEMA SINGH / RAVEENDRANATH U. NAIR
    Stealth technology is a crucial pre-requisite in the combat zone, where swiftness, surprise and initiative are the decisive elements for survivability. The supreme goal here is to reduce the visibility of military vehicles by shaping, application of radar absorbing materials, passive cancellation, active cancellation etc. With respect to multilayered radar absorbing structures ...

    $1,360.00

  • NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF NUTRITIONAL DISORDERS
    U. K. MISRA / J. KALITA
    This book focuses on the impact of nutritional disorders on the nervous system. Nutritional disorders are caused due to poverty, famine, infestations, ignorance in the developing world and due to food faddism, isolation, depression, addictions, and comorbidities in the developed countries. This book has chapters on various disorders covering basic knowledge, their clinical mani...

    $1,540.00

  • ANTIOCH
    ANDREA U. DE GIORGI / A. ASA EGER
    Winner of ASOR's 2022 G. Ernest Wright Award for the most substantial volume dealing with archaeological material, excavation reports and material culture from the ancient Near East and Eastern Mediterranean. This is a complete history of Antioch, one of the most significant major cities of the eastern Mediterranean and a crossroads for the Silk Road, from its foundation by the...

    $1,120.00

  • SOIL METAGENOMICS
    T.C.K. SUGITHA / ASISH K. BINODH / K. RAMASAMY / U. SIVAKUMAR
    This book focuses on the recent advents and technological breakthroughs in metagenomic approaches coupled with their applications in agriculture. The intended audience include soil and environmental microbiologists, molecular biologists and policy makers. The book expertly describes the latest fourth generation metagenomic technologies from sample collection to data analysis, m...

    $1,480.00

  • FISHES OF THE SEA OF JAPAN AND THE ADJACENT AREAS OF THE SEA OF OKHOTSK AND THE YELLOW SEA
    G.U. LINDBERG
    This part completes the review of the largest and economically richest order of fishes, Perciformes, begun in Part 3. It includes 12 suborders with keys and brief descriptions to 230 species, and information on their ecology and distribution. ...

    $1,480.00


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