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  • UNDERSTANDING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE FOR NURSING ASSOCIATES
    MELISSA OWENS / JENNY ADAMS / PETER ROGERS / HANNAH SMITH / VICKIE WELSH
    Providing evidence-based care is fundamental to working safely and effectively as a nursing associate. This book equips you with the skills to identify, evaluate and apply evidence and research to your practice. From day-to-day procedures and decision-making, to addressing health inequalities and implementing service improvement, it develops your confidence in using evidence to...

    $390.30

  • SAFE WORK PRACTICES FOR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS
    FRANK R. SPELLMAN / KATHERN D. WELSH
    This book details how to start and maintain a successful safety program in a municipal or industrial water or wastewater plant with special emphasis on the practical implementation. This new edition provides the latest OSHA regulations and recommendations, and each chapter has been updated with new information, including the latest innovations related to all types of successful...

    $3,400.00

  • COSTS AND BENEFITS OF PREVENTING CRIME
    BRANDON WELSH
    What are the cost savings from preventing a typical burglary, robbery, assault, or even a criminal career? Who benefits from these savings? How often do the benefits from preventing crime or criminal behavior exceed the resources spent on preventing or controlling crime? Is it more cost-effective to invest in early childhood programs or juvenile boot camps to reduce criminal of...

    $1,299.00

  • IMAGING THROUGH TURBULENCE
    MICHAEL C. ROGGEMANN / BYRON M. WELSH
    Learn how to overcome resolution limitations caused by atmospheric turbulence in Imaging Through Turbulence. This hands-on book thoroughly discusses the nature of turbulence effects on optical imaging systems, techniques used to overcome these effects, performance analysis methods, and representative examples of performance. Neatly pulling together widely scattered material, it...

    $7,000.00

  • IN THE BLOOD
    LESLEY WELSH
    One woman’s heroism gives her unwanted attention and snares her in a web of deadly revelations from the past in this breathtaking crime thriller. Grace Dobbs, a champion at her local gun club, lives a quiet life in Western Australia with her mother. But when a violent killing spree in the neighbourhood sees Grace come to the rescue, she is catapulted into the limelight as a loc...

    $109.00

  • ETHICS AND SECURITY AUTOMATA
    SEAN WELSH
    Can security automata (robots and AIs) make moral decisions to apply force on humans correctly? If they can make such decisions, ought they be used to do so? Will security automata increase or decrease aggregate risk to humans? What regulation is appropriate? Addressing these important issues this book examines the political and technical challenges of the robotic use of force....

    $1,059.00

  • THE CULT OF ST. ANNE IN MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
    JENNIFER WELSH
    Dr Jennifer Welsh received her M.A. in Medieval Studies from Cornell University in 2000, and her M.A. and PhD in History from Duke University in 2004 and 2009. Her dissertation dealt with the cult of St. Anne in late medieval and early modern Europe. After four years as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC, she started working as an Assi...

    $1,059.00

  • CRIMINAL JUSTICE POLICY AND PLANNING
    WAYNE N. WELSH / PHILIP W. HARRIS
    Unlike other textbooks on the subject, Criminal Justice Policy and Planning: Planned Change, Fifth Edition, presents a comprehensive and structured account of the process of administering planned change in the criminal justice system. Welsh and Harris detail a simple yet sophisticated seven-stage model, which offers students and practitioners a full account of program and polic...

    $1,559.00

  • ENDING APARTHEID
    JACK SPENCE / DAVID WELSH
    The release of Nelson Mandela from twenty-seven years imprisonment in 1990 and the free elections which followed four years later were among the most dramatic events of the twentieth century. David Welsh and J. E. Spence here examine the complex forces which lay behind that drama.  They chart the rise and decline of apartheid ideology in South Africa, the internal insurrection ...

    $1,259.00

  • WINTER WARFARE
    RICHARD N. ARMSTRONG AND JOSEPH G. WELSH
    Based on German and Soviet military archival material, this book provides an insight into the tactics and planning for combat in a winter climate. It also studies the mechanisms for change in an army during the course of battle. The first part of the book looks at the tactical pamphlet 'People's Commissar for Defence Order No. 109', as passed by Red Army units on 4 March 1941, ...

    $1,139.00

  • SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: THE KEY CONCEPTS
    GRAEME CHESTERS / IAN WELSH
    Social Movements: The Key Concepts provides an insightful, contemporary introduction to some of the frequently encountered terms and groups that are central to the study of collective action and social and political activism. Following an A-Z format, the entries defined and discussed are drawn from the following areas: the ‘old’ social movements of the nineteenth century the ‘n...

    $659.00

  • VIOLENCE, GENDER AND JUSTICE
    MAGGIE WYKES / KIRSTY WELSH
    `This is a very impressive piece of thorough scholarship. It is an important book that highlights the need to consider gender when developing policies to respond to interpersonal violence. It is written in a clear and accessible style and should be required reading for all criminal justice students.′ - Dr Malcolm Cowburn, Sheffield Hallam University This comprehensive text prov...

    $1,142.99

  • COMPLEXITY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
    GRAEME CHESTERS / IAN WELSH
    Fusing two key concerns of contemporary sociology: globalization and its discontents, and the 'complexity turn' in social theory, authors Chesters and Welsh utilize complexity theory to analyze the shifting constellation of social movement networks that constitute opposition to neo-liberal globalization. They explore how seemingly chaotic and highly differentiated social actors...

    $859.00

  • EVIDENCE-BASED CRIME PREVENTION
    FARRINGTON, DAVID P. / MACKENZIE, DORIS LAYTON / SHERMAN, LAWRENCE W. / WELSH, BRANDON C.
    Crime prevention policy and practice is, on the whole, far from objective. Instead of being based on scientific evidence, the crime policy agenda is seemingly driven by political ideology, anecdotal evidence and programme trends. Evidence-Based Crime Prevention seeks to change this by comprehensively and rigorously assessing the existing scientific knowledge on the effectivenes...

    $1,899.00

  • MOBILISING MODERNITY
    IAN WELSH
    During the nuclear heyday of the post-war years advocates of atomic power promised cheap electricity and a prosperous future. From the present, however, this promise seems tarnished by accidents, leaks and a lack of public confidence. Mobilising Modernity traces this journey from confidence in technology to the anxieties of the Risk Society questioning a number of conventional ...

    $499.00

  • GENE BIOTECHNOLOGY
    WILLIAM WU / HELEN H. ZHANG / MICHAEL J. WELSH / PETER B. KAUFMAN
    Covering state-of-the-art technologies and a broad range of practical applications, the Third Edition of Gene Biotechnology presents tools that researchers and students need to understand and apply today's biotechnology techniques. Many of the currently available books in molecular biology contain only protocol recipes, failing to explain the princ ...

    $4,800.00

  • MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION FOR SAMPLE SURVEYS
    RAYMOND L. CHAMBERS / DAVID G. STEEL / SUOJIN WANG / ALAN WELSH
    Sample surveys provide data used by researchers in a large range of disciplines to analyze important relationships using well-established and widely used likelihood methods. The methods used to select samples often result in the sample differing in important ways from the target population and standard application of likelihood methods can lead to ...

    $1,299.00

  • INFORMATION LITERACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE: AN EVIDENCE-BASED APPROACH
    WELSH, TERESA / WRIGHT, MELISSA
    This book examines the various types of literacy that are important in the Digital Age of rapid technological change and proliferating information resources in a variety of formats. According to the American Library Association (www.ala.org), “information literacy is a set of abilities requiring individuals to recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate,...

    $1,081.00

  • RUNNING LINUX
    MATTHIAS KALLE DALHEIMER / MATT WELSH
    You may be contemplating your first Linux installation. Or you may have been using Linux for years and need to know more about adding a network printer or setting up an FTP server. Running Linux, now in its fifth edition, is the book you'll want on hand in either case. Widely recognized in the Linux community as the ultimate getting-started and problem-solving book, it answers ...

    $534.00

  • RUNNING LINUX
    MATTHIAS KALLE DALHEIMER / MATT WELSH
    You may be contemplating your first Linux installation. Or you may have been using Linux for years and need to know more about adding a network printer or setting up an FTP server. Running Linux, now in its fifth edition, is the book you'll want on hand in either case. Widely recognized in the Linux community as the ultimate getting-started and problem-solving book, it answers ...

    $534.00

  • WASHINGTON IN THE GREAT WAR
    PETER WELSH
    How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Washington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and...

    $119.00

  • IN THE U.S. INTEREST
    JANET WELSH BROWN
    In the U.S interest explores the implications this growing interdependence holds for US foreign policy in the developing world. It links US jobs, trade, and geopolitical interests to the environmental, economic, and political health of key developing nations. Case studies of Mexico, Egypt, Kenya, and the Philippines analyze Third World resource, environmental, and population pr...

    $999.00

  • WASHINGTON IN THE GREAT WAR
    PETER WELSH
    How the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Washington were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. A record of the growing disillusion of the people, their tragedies and hardships and...

    $119.00

  • LA VIDA SEXUAL DE LAS GEMELAS SIAMESAS
    WELSH IRVINE
    Miami. Ciudad de contrastes: aquí conviven los cuerpos esculturales con la obesidad más desbocada. Una de las poseedoras de un cuerpo escultural, la entrenadora personal y experta en fitness Lucy Brennan, se convierte en una heroína local cuando en plena calle desarma a un hombre con una pistola que estaba a punto de matar a dos personas. La prensa sensacionalista la adora y rá...
    Agotado

    $450.00

  • ESCORIA
    WELSH IRVINE
    El sargento Bruce Robertson no es un policía modélico, sino corrupto, misántropo, violento, machista, homófobo y racista. Consume compulsivamente pornografía, servicios de prostitutas, fast food, alcohol y cocaína. Debido a sus excesos, le ha aparecido un sarpullido que invade sus genitales y un incordiante parásito en el intestino que acaba convirtiéndose en la voz de su conci...
    Agotado

    $340.00

  • ACID HOUSE
    WELSH IRVINE
    Irvine Welsh vuelve a agitar las conciencias con este libro, compuesto por una colección de relatos y una novela corta. Un jugador de fútbol que está sufriendo un mal trip y una mujer embarazada camino del hospital son heridos por un rayo en una tormenta y se produce un curioso cambio de identidades; Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Kim Basinger y Victoria Principal toman el sol en Sant...
    Agotado

    $270.00

  • COLA
    WELSH IRVINE
    1970: Terry, Carl, Billy y Andrew son niños y viven en el mismo cochambroso suburbio de Edimburgo cuando se conocen en los bancos del colegio. 1980: Ahora son adolescentes, consumidores de drogas y protagonistas de pequeños episodios de violencia metropolitana. 1990: Los amigos han crecido y, para tomarse unas vacaciones de sus respectivos «compromisos» profesionales ?Billy ha ...
    Agotado

    $375.00

  • LA VIDA SEXUAL DE LAS GEMELAS SIAMESAS
    WELSH IRVINE
    Miami, Ciudad de contrastes: aquí conviven los cuerpos esculturales con la obesidad más desbocada. Una de las poseedoras de un cuerpo escultural, la entrenadora personal y experta en fitness Lucy Brennan, se convierte en una heroína local cuando en plena calle desarma a un hombre con una pistola que estaba a punto de matar a dos personas. Fascinada por Lucy, Lena Sorensen, una ...
    Agotado

    $255.00

  • SECRETOS DE ALCOBA DE LOS GRANDES CHEFS
    WELSH IRVINE
    Danny Skinner es una joven versión contemporánea del Dr. Jekyll y Mr. Hyde. Reparte su tiempo libre entre el fútbol, las mujeres, las borracheras monumentales y las grescas apocalípticas por un lado, y la lectura de Rimbaud, Verlaine y Schopenhauer por otro. Y, en su tiempo de asalariado, trabaja en Sanidad y Medio Ambiente y se dedica a inspeccionar restaurantes. Aunque tambié...
    Agotado

    $295.00

  • PORNO
    WELSH, IRVINE
    Diez años después de Trainspotting, Sick Boy está en franca decadencia. Acaba de dejar su piso en un barrio pijo de Londres y se ha mudado a un agujero miserable, y tras una noche de drogas y sexo indiscriminados, decide aceptar la oferta de su tía Paula: lo dejará a cargo de su pub en Leith y se marchará con su amante español a Alicante.Pero en el Port Sunshine el negocio no e...
    Agotado

    $320.00


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