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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

  • CYANOTOXINS IN DRINKING WATER
    HAROLD WALKER
    This textbook provides students with a more holistic, systems-based perspective of harmful algal blooms, or HABs and HAB toxins, while explaining details on occurrence, health effects, and treatment processes for the removal of HAB cells and toxins from drinking water. It includes significant content on basic concepts, and system design, and includes thought-provoking problems ...

    $2,540.00

  • NUCLEAR POWER STRUGGLES
    WILLIAM WALKER / MÅNS LÖNNROTH
    First published in 1983, Nuclear Power Struggles (now with a new preface by the authors) analyses the strains within the nuclear reactor industry and assesses the scale and location of future markets. It looks at the strengths and weaknesses of leading exporters and considers what can be done to avoid a deterioration of trade behaviour. The book examines the merits of alternati...

    $1,480.00

  • CHILDREN FORSAKEN
    STEVEN WALKER
    A shocking reminder of the cruel history of childhood that has been largely hidden and forgotten. Children Forsaken provides a long, historical, overarching examination of the phenomenon of child abuse. In the UK battered child syndrome was 'discovered' in the 1960s, whilst child sexual abuse gained attention in the early 1980s. Subsequent enquiries, legislation and practice de...

    $800.00

  • MODERN MENTAL HEALTH
    STEVEN WALKER
    The World Health Organisation recently confirmed that mental Illness was set to become the biggest threat to human well-being in the twenty first century. Mental illness accounts for more disability adjusted life years lost per year than any other health condition in the UK. No other health condition matches mental ill health in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence an...

    $760.00

  • EFFECTIVE PERSONAL TUTORING IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    DAVE LOCHTIE / EMILY MCINTOSH / ANDREW STORK / BEN W. WALKER
    This is an important title for all academic and professional staff within higher education (HE) who have a personal tutoring, student support or advising role. It examines key topics in relation to tutoring including definitions, coaching, core values and skills, boundaries, monitoring students, undertaking group and individual tutorials and the need to measure impact. Througho...

    $840.00

  • BECOMING AN OUTSTANDING PERSONAL TUTOR
    ANDREW STORK / BEN W WALKER
    How confident do you feel in your personal tutoring role? In the face of ever-increasing and demanding learner issues, do you feel equipped to provide the essential support to meet their needs? This timely book provides you with essential help in an area which has often been given little attention in comparison with curriculum delivery by: contextualising the support side of a ...

    $640.00

  • SUPPORTING TROUBLED YOUNG PEOPLE
    STEVEN WALKER
    Supporting Troubled Young People provides a vital and much-needed resource for anyone involved with children and young people who are suffering from or at risk of developing, mental health problems. Problems such as self-harm, eating disorders, and anxiety and depression are increasing, while young men, in particular, are at increasing risk of suicide. This is against a backdro...

    $700.00

  • BRIEFS OF LEADING CASES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT
    ROLANDO V. DEL CARMEN / JEFFERY T. WALKER
    This essential resource offers extensive updates on the leading Supreme Court cases impacting law enforcement in the United States, creating a must-have reference for police officers to stay up-to-date and have a strong understanding of the law and their function within it. All cases are briefed in a common format to allow for comparisons among cases and include facts, relevant...

    $1,260.00

  • THE TROUBLE WITH MEDICINE
    SHERYL WALKER, MD
    This is the autobiographical journey of a female anesthesiologist in the American healthcare system where greed and lust for more is controlling everything we do. Are you tired, frustrated, and angry with the healthcare industry? Do you feel li ...

    $514.00

  • THE INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE IN ASIA
    MOOSUNG LEE / EWAN WRIGHT / ALLAN WALKER
    Drawing on extensive scholarly work, datasets, and experience with International Baccalaureate (IB) schools in Asia, this book illuminates contemporary debates, discussions, and discoveries surrounding IB schools in the region. Schools adopting IB programmes are growing exponentially worldwide, where Asia has seen the fastest growth since 2000. By critically exploring the roles...

    $1,240.00

  • THE SILENT SERVICE’S FIRST HERO
    RYAN C WALKER
    “…concentrates on the social fabric of the interwar era, including submarine service and Navy life in general, civilian attitudes, and speculations about Breault's reaction to receiving the medal.” -Historical Miniatures Gaming Society Celebrating 100 years since the first submariner received the Congressional Medal of Honor, dive into pre-World War II submarine history through...

    $319.99

  • INTERPRETING MUSIC, ENGAGING CULTURE
    KATHERINE WALKER
    Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings together aesthetics, critical theory, and practical music criticism in an accessible format. Over the course of the book, readers develop a vocabulary and framework for criticizing music of all kinds and for various media while learning ...

    $1,040.00

  • THE COHERENCE THEORY OF TRUTH
    RALPH C.S. WALKER
    First published in 1988. Clarifies the coherence theory and critically discusses the standard objections to it as well as those who can be interpreted as advocating it. This book should be of interest to students of philosophy and epistemology and professional philosophers. In the view of the author, contemporary philosophy the coherence theory of truth occupies rather an odd p...

    $1,480.00

  • WALKER'S RHYMING DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
    J. WALKER
    First published in 1983.This is a long-established standard work of reference for poets and rhymesters. ...

    $3,000.00

  • 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

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART II, VOLUME 7
    GINA LURIA WALKER
    This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Mary Hays, Female Biography; or, Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women, of All Ages and Countries (1803), Volume III, which sheds light on the controversial role of the female writers in the early nineteenth century. ...

    $1,400.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART I, VOLUME 4
    ANNA M FITZER / GINA LURIA WALKER
    This book is the second volume about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It contains selected content on her life and writings with original letters, her meditations and prayers for impoverished children in the early nineteenth century. ...

    $1,480.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART II, VOLUME 6
    GINA LURIA WALKER
    This book is second volume of Mary Hays's Female Biography; a scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences, such as those of Elizabeth Bland and Boadecia. It attests to the existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new knowledge and contributed to cultural capital. ...

    $1,480.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART I, VOLUME 2
    ANNA M FITZER / GINA LURIA WALKER
    This book is about Mrs. Hannah More, who had acted as a controversial patron to Ann Yearsley, and had used her own reputation as a poet in support of the abolitionist cause. It is the collaborative effort of Roberts, Bickersteth and Seeley that testifies the complexity of her enduring influence. ...

    $1,200.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART II, VOLUME 5
    GINA LURIA WALKER
    This book is fifth of the six-volume modern scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences. Written by the autodidact Mary Hays, it attests to the existence of active, learned and powerful women who produced new knowledge and made genuine contributions to cultural capital. ...

    $1,480.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART I, VOLUME 1
    ANNA M FITZER / GINA LURIA WALKER
    This volume is a review of the autobiographical account Alicia LeFanu, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Mrs. Frances Sheridan, which sheds light on the controversial role of the female writers in the early nineteenth century. ...

    $1,480.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART III VOL 9
    GINA LURIA WALKER
    Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women. ...

    $1,480.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART I, VOLUME 3
    ANNA M FITZER / GINA LURIA WALKER
    This book is about Mrs. Sarah Trimmer and her charitable work. It is a principal source of reference for the work she undertook as an author, philanthropist and pioneer in the promotion and institution of educational opportunities for impoverished children in the early nineteenth century. ...

    $1,480.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART III VOL 10
    GINA LURIA WALKER
    Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women. ...

    $4,500.00

  • MEMOIRS OF WOMEN WRITERS, PART III VOL 8
    GINA LURIA WALKER
    Mary Hays was a radical feminist whose writings brought her to the attention of her contemporaries William Blake, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin. Her Female Biography is an ambitious and acclaimed work, covering the lives of 294 women. ...

    $4,500.00

  • STRATEGIC INTEGRATED PROGRAM DELIVERY
    DEREK H.T. WALKER / PETER E.D. LOVE / MARK BETTS
    This book outlines a cutting-edge form of program delivery which the authors term SIP-Form or Strategic Integrated Program delivery. Using the Melbourne Level Crossing Removal Program (LXRP), consisting of the removal of 85 dangerous level crossings throughout metropolitan Melbourne, including rail station upgrades, signalling and track work, and other associated capital works,...

    $1,780.00

  • GEOGRAPHY FROM THE AIR
    F. WALKER
    First Published in 1953, Geography from the Air is the first book in English to explain and illustrate fully the use of air photographs in the study of geography. It sets out in simple form the limited amount of technical information which is necessary in order to enjoy fully the fascinating experience of training oneself to appreciate almost every aspect of the landscape shown...

    $860.00

  • SYSTEMS THINKING METHODS IN SPORT
    SCOTT MCLEAN / MITCHELL NAUGHTON / GEMMA READ / NEVILLE A. STANTON / ADAM HULME / GUY WALKER / PAUL SALMON
    Sport is increasingly being described as a complex system. This inherent complexity cannot be understood by examining components in isolation; rather, the system as a whole should represent the unit of analysis. Systems thinking is the answer to understanding this complexity and is gaining traction in sport. Systems thinking provides a philosophy and a set of associated methods...

    $1,120.00

  • LUDIC INQUIRIES INTO POWER AND PEDAGOGY IN HIGHER EDUCATION
    AMELIA WALKER
    This book interrogates the role games and playfulness bear in both formal education and informal social learning. Responsive to contemporary social and ecological challenges, this book especially explores games’ interactions with social power. On one hand, games sometimes operate to reinforce ideologies that normalise social injustice and environmental disregard. On the other, ...

    $1,200.00