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| "Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by Scott D. Sampson (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "This captivating book laced with evocative anecdotes from the field gives the first holistic up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their world for a wide audience of readers Situating these fascinating animals in a broad ecological and evolutionary context leading dinosaur expert Scott D Sampson fills us in on the exhilarating discoveries of the past twenty-five years the most active period in the history of dinosaur paleontology during which more 'new' species were named than in all prior history With these discoveries - and the most recent controversies - in mind Sampson reconstructs the odyssey of the dinosaurs from their humble origins on the supercontinent Pangaea to their reign as the largest animals the planet has ever known and finally to their abrupt demise Much more than the story of who ate whom way back when Dinosaur Odyssey places dinosaurs in an expansive web of relationships with other organisms and demonstrates how they provide a powerful lens through which to observe the entire natural world Addressing topics such as extinction global warming and energy flow Dinosaur Odyssey finds that the dinosaurs' story is in fact a major chapter in our own story"
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| "Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "An introduction to a new way of looking at history from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale Beginning with the Big Bang David Christian views the interaction of the natural world with the more recent arrivals in flora and fauna including human beings Cosmology geology archeology and population and environmental studies - all figure in David Christian's account which is an ambitious overview of the emerging field of 'Big History' Maps of Time opens with the origins of the universe the stars and the galaxies the sun and the solar system including the earth and conducts readers through the evolution of the planet before human habitation It surveys the development of human society from the Paleolithic era through the transition to agriculture the emergence of cities and states and the birth of the modern industrial period right up to intimations of possible futures Sweeping in scope finely focused in its minute detail this riveting account of the known world from the inception of space-time to the prospects of global warming lays the groundwork for world history - and 'Big History' - true as never before to its name"
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| "Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before Marriage by Kathryn Edin, Maria Kefalas (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "Millie Acevedo bore her first child before the age of 16 and dropped out of high school to care for her newborn Now 27 she is the unmarried mother of three and is raising her kids in one of Philadelphia's poorest neighborhoods Would she and her children be better off if she had waited to have them and had married their father first? Why do so many poor American youth like Millie continue to have children before they can afford to take care of them? Over a span of five years sociologists Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas talked in-depth with 162 low-income single moms like Millie to learn how they think about marriage and family Promises I Can Keep offers an intimate look at what marriage and motherhood mean to these women and provides the most extensive on-the-ground study to date of why they put children before marriage despite the daunting challenges they know lie ahead"
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| "Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work by Kimberly Kay Hoang..." |
| "This captivating ethnography explores Vietnam's sex industry as the country ascends the global and regional stage Over the course of five years author Kimberly Kay Hoang worked at four exclusive Saigon hostess bars catering to diverse clientele wealthy local Vietnamese and Asian businessmen Viet Kieus (ethnic Vietnamese living abroad) Western businessmen and Western budget-tourists Dealing in Desire takes an in-depth and often personal look at both the sex workers and their clients to show how Vietnamese high finance and benevolent giving are connected to the intimate spheres of the informal economy For the domestic super-elite who use the levers of political power to channel foreign capital into real estate and manufacturing projects conspicuous consumption is a means of projecting an image of Asian ascendancy to potential investors For Viet Kieus and Westerners who bring remittances into the local economy personal relationships with local sex workers reinforce their ideas of Asia's rise and Western decline while simultaneously bolstering their diminished masculinity Dealing in Desire illuminates Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry as not just a microcosm of the global economy but a critical space where dreams and deals are traded"
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| "Introduction to Attic Greek by Donald J. Mastronarde (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "Thoroughly revised and expanded Introduction to Attic Greek 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available The text features full exposure to the grammar and morphology that students will encounter in actual texts; self-contained instructional chapters with challenging carefully tailored exercises; progressively more complex chapters to build the student's knowledge of declensions tenses and constructions by alternating emphasis on morphology and syntax; readings based on actual texts and include unadapted passages from Xenophon Lysias Plato Aristophanes and Thucydides; concise introduction to the history of the Greek language; composite list of verbs with principal parts and an appendix of all paradigms; and Greek-English and English-Greek glossaries Additional Resources Robust online supplements for teaching and learning available at atticgreekorg; and Answer Key to exercises also available from UC Press (9780520275744)"
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| "Introduction to Attic Greek: Answer Key by Donald J. Mastronarde (Paperback, 2013)" |
| "This booklet provides the answers to the exercises in Introduction to Attic Greek 2nd Edition by Donald J Mastronarde (UC Press 2013 9780520275713) It is an invaluable guide for instructors and independent language students Additional teaching resources are available at website"
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| "New Age, Neopagan, and New Religious Movements: Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America by Hugh B. Urban (Paperback,..." |
| "New Age Neopagan and New Religious Movements is the most extensive study to date of modern American alternative spiritual currents Hugh B Urban covers a range of emerging religions from the mid-nineteenth century to the present including the Nation of Islam Mormonism Scientology ISKCON Wicca the Church of Satan Peoples Temple and the Branch Davidians This essential text engages students by addressing major theoretical and methodological issues in the study of new religions and is organized to guide students in their learning Each chapter focuses on one important issue involving a particular faith group providing readers with examples that illustrate larger issues in the study of religion and American culture Urban addresses such questions as Why has there been such a tremendous proliferation of new spiritual forms in the past 150 years even as our society has become increasingly rational scientific technological and secular? Why has the United States become the heartland for the explosion of new religious movements?How do we deal with complex legal debates such as the use of peyote by the Native American Church or the practice of plural marriage by some Mormon communities? And how do we navigate issues of religious freedom and privacy in an age of religious violence terrorism and government surveillance?"
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| "Equity, Growth, and Community: What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas by Chris Benner, Manuel Pastor..." |
| "In the last several years much has been written about growing economic challenges increasing income inequality and political polarization in the United States This book argues that lessons for addressing these national challenges are emerging from a new set of realities in America's metropolitan regions first that inequity is in fact bad for economic growth; second that bringing together the concerns of equity and growth requires concerted local action; and third that the fundamental building block for doing this is the creation of diverse and dynamic epistemic (or knowledge) communities which help to overcome political polarization and help regions address the challenges of economic restructuring and social divides"
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| "Lives in Limbo: Undocumented and Coming of Age in America by Roberto G. Gonzales (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "My world seems upside down I have grown up but I feel like I'm moving backward And I can't do anything about it (Esperanza) Over two million of the nation's eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood Due to a broken immigration system they grow up to uncertain futures In Lives in Limbo Roberto G Gonzales introduces us to two groups the college-goers like Ricardo who had good grades and a strong network of community support that propelled him to college and Dream Act organizing but still landed in a factory job a few short years after graduation and the early-exiters like Gabriel who failed to make meaningful connections in high school and started navigating dead-end jobs immigration checkpoints and a world narrowly circumscribed by legal limitations This vivid ethnography explores why highly educated undocumented youth share similar work and life outcomes with their less-educated peers despite the fact that higher education is touted as the path to integration and success in America Mining the results of an extraordinary twelve-year study that followed 150 undocumented young adults in Los Angeles Lives in Limbo exposes the failures of a system that integrates children into K-12 schools but ultimately denies them the rewards of their labor"
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| "Introduction to Water in California by David Carle (Paperback, 2015)" |
| "This thoroughly engaging concise book tells the story of California's most precious resource tracing the journey of water in the state from the atmosphere to the snowpack to our faucets and foods Along the way we learn much about California itself as the book describes its rivers lakes wetlands dams and aqueducts and discusses the role of water in agriculture the environment and politics Essential reading in a state facing the future with an overextended water supply this fascinating book shows that for all Californians every drop counts New to this updated edition it includes additional maps figures and photos; it offers expanded coverage of potential impacts to precipitation snowpack and water supply from climate change; it features updated information about the struggle for water management and potential solutions; it includes new content about sustainable groundwater use and regulation desalination water recycling stormwater capture and current proposals for water storage and diversion; and offers additional table summarizing water sources for 360 California cities and towns"
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| "Technologies for Intuition: Cold War Circles and Telepathic Rays by Alaina Lemon (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "Since the Cold War Americans and Russians alike have cultivated a special fascination with the workings and failures of communication Each has accused the other of media jamming and propaganda posed competing claims to expression and creativity and even released mirroring rumors of telepathic connections and interstellar contacts Technologies for Intuition explores the ways in which people hone techniques to discern and describe channels and contacts including those that seem weak and failed or blocked and invisible Specifically it explores stagings of communicative energy through paranormal experiments in telepathy drills to build theatrical empathy and other phenomena The author examines settings where media and performance professionals encounter neophytes where insiders mix with foreigners and where skeptics debate naifs Moving back and forth across geopolitical borders the book shows how the phenomena at hand have developed through historical events and relations in conflict and in conversation The author suggests that Cold War preoccupations and strategies have marked theoretical models of communication and mediation even while infusing everyday practical technologies for intuition"
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| "Handbook of International Law by Anthony Aust (Paperback, 2010)" |
| "To the new student of international law the subject can appear extremely complex a system of laws created by states international courts and tribunals operating at the national and global level A clear guide to the subject is essential to ensure understanding This handbook provides exactly that written by an expert who both teaches and practises in the field it focuses on what the law is; how it is created; and how it is applied to solve day-to-day problems It offers a practical approach to the subject giving it relevance and immediacy The new edition retains a concise user-friendly format allowing central principles such as jurisdiction and the law of treaties to be understood In addition it explores more specialised topics such as human rights terrorism and the environment This handbook is the ideal introduction for students new to international law"
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| "Principles of International Environmental Law by Philippe Sands, Jacqueline Peel (Paperback, 2012)" |
| "The third edition of this classic textbook offers comprehensive and critical commentary on international environmental law It fully covers the key topics of the course and is clearly structured to include the history and framework in which international environmental law exists key areas of regulation and implementation links to other areas of law and future developments It has been updated to incorporate all the latest developments in treaty and case law Extensive feedback on previous editions results in a restructuring of material including a new part focused on linkage to other areas of international law including human rights international trade and foreign investment There is also a new chapter on future developments charting the directions in which the subject is moving Specialist authors writing on oceans seas and fisheries and biodiversity add to the expertise of the two principal authors for an authoritative overview of the subject"
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| "Economics for the IB Diploma with CD-ROM by Ellie Tragakes (Mixed media product, 2011)" |
| "A comprehensive new edition of Economics for the IB Diploma This lively textbook available in both print and e-book formats offers comprehensive coverage of the Economics syllabus for the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma at both Standard and Higher Levels This new edition is written by a highly experienced author and former IB Economics Chief Examiner and has been extensively revised to meet the requirements of the new syllabus (effective 2011) The print book includes a CD-ROM of supplementary materials including a chapter on quantitative techniques and extensive exam practice These supplementary materials are also included in the e-book version for an all-in-one solution"
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| "Software Receiver Design: Build your Own Digital Communication System in Five Easy Steps by C. Richard Johnson, Jr., William..." |
| "Have you ever wanted to know how modern digital communications systems work? Find out with this step-by-step guide to building a complete digital radio that includes every element of a typical real-world communication system Chapter by chapter you will create a MATLAB realization of the various pieces of the system exploring the key ideas along the way as well as analyzing and assessing the performance of each component Then in the final chapters you will discover how all the parts fit together and interact as you build the complete receiver In addition to coverage of crucial issues such as timing carrier recovery and equalization the text contains over 400 practical exercises providing invaluable preparation for industry where wireless communications and software radio are becoming increasingly important A variety of extra resources are also provided online including lecture slides and a solutions manual for instructors"
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| "Digital Design: A Systems Approach by R. Curtis Harting, William J. Dally (Hardback, 2012)" |
| "This introductory textbook provides students with a system-level perspective and the tools they need to understand analyze and design digital systems Going beyond the design of simple combinational and sequential modules it shows how such modules are used to build complete systems reflecting real-world digital design All the essential topics are covered including design and analysis of combinational and sequential modules as well as system timing and synchronization It also teaches how to write Verilog HDL in a productive and maintainable style that enables CAD tools to do much of the tedious work A complete introduction to digital design is given through clear explanations extensive examples and online Verilog files The teaching package is completed with lecture slides labs and a solutions manual for instructors Assuming no previous digital knowledge this textbook is ideal for undergraduate digital design courses that will prepare students for modern digital practice"
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| "Cymbeline by William Shakespeare (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical stage and screen interpretations Edited and introduced by Martin Butler this first New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of Cymbeline takes full account of the critical and historical scholarship produced in the late twentieth century It foregrounds the romance tragicomedy and Jacobean stagecraft that shape the play and offers a refreshingly unsentimental reading of the heroine Innogen Butler pays greater attention than his predecessors to the politics of 1610 especially to questions of British union and nationhood He also offers a lively account of Cymbeline's stage history from 1610 to the present day The text has been edited from the 1623 Folio and features a detailed commentary on its linguistic and historical features"
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| "Montesquieu: The Spirit of the Laws by Charles de Secondat (Paperback, 1989)" |
| "The Spirit of the Laws is without question one of the central texts in the history of eighteenth-century thought yet there has been no complete scholarly English-language edition since that of Thomas Nugent published in 1750 This lucid translation renders Montesquieu's problematic text newly accessible to a fresh generation of students helping them to understand quite why Montesquieu was such an important figure in the early enlightenment and why The Spirit of the Laws was for example such an influence upon those who framed the American constitution Fully annotated this edition focuses attention upon Montesquieu's use of sources and his text as a whole rather than upon those opening passages towards which critical energies have traditionally been devoted and a select bibliography and chronology are provided for those coming to Montesquieu's work for the first time"
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| "Cambridge Latin Grammar by Cambridge School Classics Project (Paperback, 1992)" |
| "A clear and compact guide to the Latin language especially designed for both reference and revision The approach reflects the traditions of the Cambridge Latin Course but the guide will prove helpful to all students of Latin whatever course they have followed This volume represents a straightforward and practical approach to the study of Latin grammar for the contemporary student"
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| "Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation by Jean Lave, Etienne Wenger (Paperback, 1991)" |
| "In this important theoretical treatist Jean Lave anthropologist and Etienne Wenger computer scientist push forward the notion of situated learning - that learning is fundamentally a social process The authors maintain that learning viewed as situated activity has as its central defining characteristic a process they call legitimate peripheral participation (LPP) Learners participate in communities of practitioners moving toward full participation in the sociocultural practices of a community LPP provides a way to speak about crucial relations between newcomers and old-timers and about their activities identities artefacts knowledge and practice The communities discussed in the book are midwives tailors quartermasters butchers and recovering alcoholics however the process by which participants in those communities learn can be generalised to other social groups"
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| "Augustine: The City of God against the Pagans by Augustine (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity and one of the classic texts of Western civilisation Robert Dyson has produced a complete accurate authoritative and fluent translation of De civitate dei edited together with full biographical notes a concise introduction bibliography and chronology of Augustine's life The result is one of the most important single contributions to the Cambridge Texts series yet published of interest to students of ecclesiastical history the history of political thought theology philosophy and late antiquity"
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| "A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "A collection of anthologies resource and reference books including titles from Oscar Wilde Mary Shelley Alex Madina Jo Phillips and Adrian Barlow"
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| "New Cambridge Statistical Tables by William F Scott, Dennis V. Lindley (Paperback, 1995)" |
| "The second edition of this very successful and authoritative set of tables still benefits from clear typesetting which makes the figures easy to read and use It has however been improved by the addition of new tables that provide Bayesian confidence limits for the binomial and Poisson distributions and for the square of the multiple correlation coefficient which have not been previously available The intervals are the shortest possible consistent with the requirement on probability Great care has been taken to ensure that it is clear just what is being tabulated and how the values may be used; the tables are generally capable of easy interpolation The book contains all the tables likely to be required for elementary statistical methods in the social business and natural sciences It will be an essential aid for teachers researchers and students in those subjects where statistical analysis is not wholly carried out by computers"
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| "KJV Emerald Text Edition Black French Morocco Leather by Cambridge University Press (Leather / fine binding, 1992)" |
| "The King James Version of 1611 has been the most widely known and quoted version of the Bible for four centuries and has shaped both Western culture and the English language The Standard Text Bible offers the text of the King James Version in an exceptionally clear and readable type The size of the Bible makes it a handy buy for someone who wants a Bible with readable type but which is nor too heavy or bulky to carry This Bible has a glossary of 14 pages which explains some of the lesser known words of 17th Century English and a Bible reading plan Bound in a flexible French Morocco leather the Standard Text Bible represents exceptional value"
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| "Introduccion a la linguistica hispanica by Antxon Olarrea, Jose Ignacio Hualde, Catherine E. Travis, Anna Maria Escobar..." |
| "Written entirely in Spanish this is the ideal introduction to Spanish linguistics for students Using clear explanations it covers all the basic concepts required to study the structural aspects of the Spanish language - phonetics and phonology morphology and syntax - as well as the history of Spanish its dialects and linguistic variation This second edition incorporates new features designed to enhance its usefulness for classroom teaching chapters have been added on the sociolinguistics of Spanish in the USA and on semantics and pragmatics The chapter on syntax has been considerably expanded Numerous exercises have been added throughout the book as well as a new glossary to help with technical terms"
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| "The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 by Donald Quataert (Paperback, 2005)" |
| "The Ottoman Empire was one of the most important non-Western states to survive from medieval to modern times and played a vital role in European and global history It continues to affect the peoples of the Middle East the Balkans and central and western Europe to the present day This new survey examines the major trends during the latter years of the empire; it pays attention to gender issues and to hotly-debated topics such as the treatment of minorities In this second edition Donald Quataert has updated his lively and authoritative text revised the bibliographies and included brief biographies of major figures on the Byzantines and the post Ottoman Middle East This accessible narrative is supported by maps illustrations and genealogical and chronological tables which will be of help to students and non-specialists alike It will appeal to anyone interested in the history of the Middle East"
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| "Fortissimo! Student's book by Roy Bennett (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "Fortissimo! is a key stage 4 music course to fit the initiatives of the national curriculum with performing composing listening and appraising being an integral part The material in the Fortissimo! Student's Book covers a wide variety of music from the 13th century to the 1990s and offers the chance to study musical styles and instruments from a variety of cultures At regular intervals throughout the book there are double-page colour spreads displaying fascinating visual stimulus material to spark off original ideas for composing and improvising"
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| "Cambridge Latin Anthology by Cambridge School Classics Project (Paperback, 1996)" |
| "A classic anthology for GCSE The eight sections of adapted prose include sections from Apuleius Caesar Cicero Pliny Sallust Tacitus and the Acts of the Apostles in the Vulgate Glosses and other explanations are provided opposite each of the texts and the writing is illustrated throughout by paintings and photographs of artifacts and places in the Roman world For the student there is a complete vocabulary at the end of the book and for the teacher there is an accompanying handbook giving additional information and suggestions for discussion and work in the classroom"
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| "Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture strategies for cultural reform the task of philosophy the nature of education and the relationship between art science and life They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is' As Daniel Breazeale shows in his introduction to this new edition of R J Hollingdale's translation of the essays these four early texts are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche's thought and clearly anticipate many of the themes of his later writings Nietzsche himself always cherished his Untimely Meditations and believed that they provide valuable evidence of his 'becoming and self-overcoming' and constitute a 'public pledge' concerning his own distinctive task as a philosopher"
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| "Erasmus: The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria by Erasmus (Paperback, 1997)" |
| "The Education of a Christian Prince is a new student edition of Erasmus's crucial treatise on political theory It contains a new excerpted translation from his Panegyric making it possible for the first time to compare two works which Erasmus himself regarded as closely related The Education of a Christian Prince was published in 1516 and dedicated to Prince Charles the future Emperor Charles V and is one of the most influential books of the 'advice-to-princes' published in the Renaissance era It is a strongly pacifist work in which Erasmus sought to ensure that the prince governed justly and benevolently The importance of Erasmus's work lies in his emphasis on virtuous conduct as the backbone of the polity an argument which has influenced political writing up to the present time This edition also includes an original introduction a chronology of the life and work of Erasmus and a comprehensive guide to further reading"
Price: 19.49 |
