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  • EXERCISES IN STATISTICAL REASONING
    MICHAEL R. SCHWOB / YUNSHAN DUAN / BEATRICE CANTONI / BERNARDO FLORES-LOPEZ / STEPHEN G. WALKER
    Students cultivate learning techniques in school that emphasize procedural problem solving and rote memorization. This leads to efficient problem solving for familiar problems. However, conducting novel research is an exercise in creative problem solving that is at odds with a procedural approach; it requires thinking deeply about the topic and crafting solutions to unique prob...

    $1,400.00

  • BINARY ROLE THEORY AND THE DYNAMICS OF WORLD POLITICS
    STEPHEN G. WALKER
    This book develops a binary role theory of world politics extending from the micro-analysis of foreign policy to the macro-analysis of world politics. The effort employs analytical tools outside of role theory to extend role concepts from agents spatially to finitely generated systems and temporally to different phases and sequences of social interaction between pairs of agents...

    $1,060.00

  • THE DEFINITION OF MORALITY
    G. WALLACE / A. D. M. WALKER
    Originally published in 1970, the papers in this volume discuss the essential and defining characteristics of morality and moral issues and examine how moral views differ from political views, moral beliefs from religious beliefs, and moral judgements from aesthetic judgements. Some of the chapters discuss problems of method and shed light on the complex conditions which any su...

    $940.00

  • DISTRIBUTED SITUATION AWARENESS IN ROAD TRANSPORT
    PAUL M. SALMON / GEMMA JENNIE MEGAN READ / GUY H. WALKER / MICHAEL G. LENNÉ / NEVILLE A. STANTON
    How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users? This book answers this question by showcasing how state-of-the-art human factors theory and methods can be used to understand how situation awareness differs across drivers, cyclists, motorcyclists, and pedestrians and creates new designs that cater to these diverse situ...

    $4,700.00

  • ROLE THEORY AND ROLE CONFLICT IN U.S.-IRAN RELATIONS
    AKAN MALICI / STEPHEN G. WALKER
    U.S.-Iran relations continue to be an international security problem in the Middle East. These two countries could have been friends, but instead they have become enemies. Stating this thesis raises the following questions: Why are the United States and Iran enemies? How and when did this relationship come to be? When the relationship began to deteriorate, could it have been re...

    $1,340.00

  • HISTORY OF US ECONOMY SINCE WORLD WAR II
    JOHN F. WALKER / HAROLD G. VATTER
    A collection of articles covering the economic history of the US over the last 50 years. It is selective in its coverage of important issues not often treated historically, such as the economics of medical care and the educational system. ...

    $1,160.00

  • THE RISE OF BIG GOVERNMENT
    HAROLD G. VATTER / JOHN F. WALKER
    The Rise of Big Government chronicles the phenomenal growth of local, state, and federal government over the last 100 years. The authors explain this growth by arguing that public and social acceptance of government intervention has allowed government to maintain a presence at all levels of the economy. The authors take issue with the opposing argument that government has grown...

    $1,160.00

  • THE STATUS OF ENZYMES AND HORMONES IN THERAPY
    G. F. WALKER
    The Status of Enzymes and Hormones in Therapy reviews the status of therapy with enzymes and hormones, with emphasis on endocrine preparations of thyroid and parathyroid, ovarian hormones, pituitary hormones, thymus, and suprarenal glands as well as testis, spleen, brain and muscle tissue, and other organs such as the bile and placenta. The landmarks used are the British Pharma...

    $425.00

  • ROLE THEORY AND THE COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE OF BRITISH APPEASEMENT DECISIONS
    STEPHEN G. WALKER
    Appeasement is a controversial strategy of conflict management and resolution in world politics. Its reputation is sullied by foreign policy failures ending in war or defeat in which the appeasing state suffers diplomatic and military losses by making costly concessions to other states. Britain’s appeasement policies toward Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s are perhaps the...

    $1,260.00

  • THE CHEMISTRY OF CARBON
    A. K. HOLLIDAY / G. HUGHES / S. M. WALKER
    The Chemistry of Carbon: Organometallic Chemistry is a specialist's selection of certain chapters in Comprehensive Inorganic Chemistry comprising five volumes. This book contains corrections and added prefatory material and individual indices. This volume deals with carbon (Chapter 13) and describes organic chemistry of the metallic elements (Chapter 14). Carbon is unique in ...

    $425.00

  • PERSONNEL SELECTION AND CLASSIFICATION
    RUMSEY, MICHAEL G. / WALKER, CLINTON B. / HARRIS, JAMES H.
    Bringing together several key elements needed to identify the most promising themes for future research in selection and classification, this book's underlying aim is to improve job performance by selecting the right persons and matching them most effectively with the right jobs. An emphasis is placed on current, innovative research approaches which in some cases depart substan...

    $1,420.00

  • RETHINKING FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS
    STEPHEN G. WALKER
    Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer present a definitive, social-psychological approach to integrating theories of foreign policy analysis and international relations—addressing the agent-centered, micro-political study of decisions by leaders and the structure-oriented, macro-political study of state interactions as a complex adaptive system. The links between the...

    $1,420.00

  • ARCHAIC ERETRIA
    KEITH G. WALKER
    This book presents for the first time a history of Eretria during the Archaic Era, the city's most notable period of political importance and Keith Walker examines all the major elements of the city's success. One of the key factors explored is Eretria's role as a pioneer coloniser in both the Levant and the West - its early Aegaen 'island empire' anticipates that of Athens by ...

    $1,460.00

  • NOTES FROM A WAYWARD SON
    ANDREW G. WALKER
    This "miscellany" puts readers around the table with a teacher who has provided the church with wisdom and passion and introduces a new voice to the ongoing conversation about the relationship between the gospel and culture. Andrew Walker's "ecclesial intelligence" and broad interdisciplinary approach to theology and sociology will undoubtedly capture the imagination of many wh...

    $745.00

  • DEEP CHURCH RISING
    ANDREW G. WALKER / ROBIN A. PARRY
    The major cultural changes in Western societies since the Reformation have created a serious challenge for the church. Modernity in particular has been inhospitable to Christian orthodoxy and many have been tempted to reject classical versions of the faith. This has led to a division within churches that Walker and Parry name "the third schism," a divide between those who belie...

    $391.00

  • SOLID-STATE HYDROGEN STORAGE: MATERIALS AND CHEMISTRY
    WALKER, G
    Hydrogen fuel cells are emerging as a major alternative energy source in transportation and other applications. Central to the development of the hydrogen economy is safe, efficient and viable storage of hydrogen. Solid-state hydrogen storage: Materials and chemistry reviews the latest developments in solid-state hydrogen storage.Part one discusses hydrogen storage technologies...

    $3,687.00

  • THE WOMAN'S DICTIONARY OF SYMBOLS AND SACRED OBJECTS
    BARBARA G. WALKER
    The classic guide to the history and mythology of women's emblems. This fascinating guide to the history and mythology of woman-related symbols features: Unique organization by shape of symbol or type of sacred object twenty-one different sections including Round and Oval Motifs, Sacred Objects, Secular-Sacred Objects, Rituals, Deities' Signs, Supernaturals, Body Parts, Nature,...

    $329.00

  • FEMINIST FAIRY TALES
    BARBARA G. WALKER
    Prominent feminist author Barbara Walker has revamped, retold, and infused with life some of your favorite classic fairy tales. No longer are women submissive, helpless creatures in need of redemption through the princely male! Instead they are vibrantly alive, strong women who take fate into their own hands. ...

    $229.00

  • THE CRONE
    BARBARA G. WALKER
    A scholarly study of older women in pre-patriarchal societies, from the author of The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets . "A useful and thought-provoking guide, pointing the way to a more humane future by enhancing our understanding of the past and present." — Los Angeles Times A probing account of the honored place of older women in ancient matriarchal societies restor...

    $274.00