Filter By
- Book
- Qty in Cart
- Quantity
- Price
- Subtotal
-
Biotechnology And Biological Frontiers by Philip H Abelson 9780367020460
RRP: £135.00£118.28Split into two sections, Part I of this volume from Science is devoted to a broad sampling of the status of a revolution in applied biology. The emphasis of Part II in this volume is fundamental research rather than techniques or practical applications... -
Gaining The Dividends Of Longer Life: New Roles For Older Workers by Jarold A. Kieffer 9780367018467
RRP: £135.00£117.28Not all older people are unfit for work. Indeed, most people over age 55 remain physically and mentally able to work, and rather than suffer the pressures of inflation or the boredom of idleness, many would prefer to stay productive longer. Dr. Kieffer... -
Appalachia: A Regional Geography: Land, People, And Development by Karl Raitz 9780367018443
RRP: £135.00£118.28Although Appalachia has long been recognized as one of the most distinctive subregions in North America and has been studied widely as an "underdeveloped problem area," this book is the first to provide a comparative and analytical geographical... -
Measuring The Quality Of Life Across Countries: A Multidimensional Analysis by Daniel Slottje 9780367004033
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book discusses the methods used to create quality of the life indexes. It suggests that economic liberty gives a considerably different view of the quality of life and provides a synthesis by combining the life attributes, both physical and... -
No Benefit: Crisis in America's Health Insurance Industry by Lawrence D. Weiss 9780367003708
RRP: £135.00£117.28The private health insurance industry is unable to provide nearly 40 million Americans with basic health care. Relying on data from a wide range of publications about this secretive industry, Lawrence D. Weiss investigates the causes of the industry's... -
Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, And Survival In Rural America by Janet M. Fitchen 9780367003425
RRP: £135.00£117.68Rural America as a place and a way of life is undergoing major transformation. The farm crisis and the decline of manufacturing dealt a double blow to the rural economy in the 1980s. Rural communities continue to lose farms, factories, and young people... -
Artificial Life: Proceedings Of An Interdisciplinary Workshop On The Synthesis And Simulation Of Living Systems by Christopher Langton 9780367002909
RRP: £135.00£117.28"In September 1987, the first workshop on Artificial Life was held at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Jointly sponsored by the Center for Nonlinear Studies, the Santa Fe Institute, and Apple Computer Inc, the workshop brought together 160... -
Issues in Accounting and Finance by Peter Atrill 9780367001506
RRP: £120.00£104.01First published in 1997, this volume and its contributors take stock of current issues in accounting and finance. Featuring specialists in business, accounting, finance along with Vice Chancellor John Bull, they examine areas including auditors'... -
Procedural Justice by Klaus F Roehl 9780367000950
RRP: £105.00£91.26First published in 1997, this volume explores how procedural justice, the fairness of the way decisions are reached, is an important factor in human behaviour. In this book we see the ways that it is important for the legitimacy of a political rule as... -
Reconciliation Via the War Crimes Tribunal? by Aleksandar Fatic 9780367000370
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 2000, this volume is an examination of the issues of reconciliation after civil wars and the role international war crimes tribunals play in facilitating that reconciliation, apart from enforcing justice against perpetrators of war... -
Nursing as a Therapeutic Activity: An Ethnography by Steven J Ersser 9780367000677
RRP: £120.00£104.01First published in 1997, this volume responds to the rapidly developing fields of nursing and health care fields and explores the meaning of nursing and the nurse-patient relationship through looking at the effects of a nurse's personality, approach and... -
Risk in Probation Practice by Hazel Kemshall 9780367000998
RRP: £120.00£104.01First published in 1998, this volume examines risk in probation practice through consideration of the context, the risk differences and how to reconcile them. Hazel Kemshall responds to a recent crisis in the probation service of offenders committing... -
Regaining Security: A Guide to the Costs of Disposing of Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium by William J. Weida 9780367000158
RRP: £86.99£75.54First published in 1997, this volume observes that of all the materials, systems and facilities that designed and operated nuclear weapons, the most readily available assets for reuse are often identified as the highly enriched uranium (HEU) and... -
Rebuilding the Local Landscape: Environmental Management in Burkina Faso by Chris Howorth 9780367000059
RRP: £91.99£79.80First published in 1999, this volume emerged in the context of a recent willingness to understand what Africa's peasant farmers are designing and building in their local landscapes, in contrast to the meta-narratives which were relatively distant from... -
Medicine and Society: Clinical Decisions and Societal Values by Eli Ginzberg 9780367005597
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book, based on the Third Conference on Health Policy, is derived from those discussions that identified as a fundamental issue the translation of societal values into health care objectives and the formulation of mechanisms by which these objectives... -
Rethinking Global Production by Ian. M. Taplin 9780367000943
RRP: £15.99£14.41First published in 1997, this volume explores production, organisation and technological change for the clothing industry worldwide. It compares production approaches in various countries as well as highlighting commonalities between all clothing... -
Agricultural Development And Nutrition by Arnold Pacey 9780367006419
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book is an expose of the many food consumption-related problems which need to be considered alongside agricultural production issues in development. It examines factors that determine the degree to which people have access to food and can assimilate... -
Beyond The Dead-end Alley Of Mass Education by Chaim Adler 9780367007706
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book deals with the realm of education-getting beyond the dead end of mass education-in the context of Israeli education system. It analyzes the aims and target populations of educational fostering and illustrates the dead-end situation of the... -
Computers In The Information Society by Nathan Weinberg 9780367003265
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines the unfolding cultural and organizational impact of computers on human society. Through this analysis, it discusses the role of information technology in people's lives, interdependence between the society and its computer creations,... -
Inequality In Labor Market Areas by Joachim Singelmann 9780367012557
RRP: £135.00£117.68During the past two decades, many attempts have been made to refocus stratification research and the study of inequality. The contributors to this volume have a long-term concern with the importance of space and locality. Many of them belonged to a... -
Agriculture And Employment In Developing Countries: Strategies For Effective Rural Development by Bela B Mukhoti 9780367008239
RRP: £135.00£117.28High rates of growth in agricultural production need not be incompatible with increased employment, income, and the satisfaction of basic needs in the lower-income developing countries. Emphasizing this theme, the author presents three alternative... -
Applied Methods Of Regional Analysis: The Spatial Dimensions Of Development Policy by Dennis A Rondinelli 9780367008185
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book reflects a large number of intellectual debts that I owe to friends and colleagues. The concepts and methods described here were developed and tested in field projects funded by the United States Agency for International Development. Eric... -
Export-oriented Development Strategies: The Success Of Five Newly Industrializing Countries by Vittorio Corbo 9780367008154
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book originated with a conference that we held at Pontificia Universidad Cat61ica de Chile in late 1981. When we organized the conference, our focus was to provide policymakers and entrepreneurs with a summary of the experiences and lessons of... -
Mind, Machine, And Metaphor: An Essay On Artificial Intelligence And Legal Reasoning by Alexander E. Silverman 9780367008215
RRP: £130.00£112.11In this provocative essay, Alexander E. Silverman explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and the law from the point of view of the legal theorist. Beginning with an overview of AI technology, he provides the necessary background... -
Basic Benefits And Clinical Guidelines by David C. Hadorn 9780367007867
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book explains how clinical guidelines might be used to define health care needs and basic benefits. It discusses certain technical issues of the model proposal, including the importance of considering both health outcome evidence and patient and... -
Equality And Achievement In Education by James S. Coleman 9780367007843
RRP: £130.00£112.51This book presents a major report that has evoked extensive controversy and initiated extensive policy debate on equality and achievement in education. It examines the concept of equality of educational opportunity and the relations between equality and... -
Body Politics: Disease, Desire, And The Family by Michael Ryan 9780367007812
RRP: £135.00£117.68This remarkable book looks at the physical and metaphorical attributes of the human body as a site of contention, politics, and cultural protest. Essayists from the social sciences and the humanities discuss a range of issues, from torture and moral... -
All Connected Now: Life In The First Global Civilization by Walter Truett Anderson 9780367007263
RRP: £135.00£117.68Going beyond the narrow economic focus common to most books about globalization, All Together Now describes four kinds of global change-economic, political, cultural, biological-all of which are now accelerating, driven by the increasing mobility of... -
Migration, Population Structure, and Redistribution Policies by Calvin Goldscheider 9780367008048
RRP: £135.00£117.68This book analyses the links between migration and the composition, structure, and geographic distribution of populations. It discusses the evolution of population redistribution policies in Brazil, and examines internal migration between the 1930s and... -
Contesting Apartheid: U.S. Activism, 1960-1987 by Donald R. Culverson 9780367007515
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book examines how U.S. citizen groups have been drawn to the issue to develop more comprehensive explanations of American connections to the production and distribution of wealth and poverty in southern Africa and to expand options for transnational... -
Anti-terrorism, Forensic Science, Psychology In Police Investigations by John S Major 9780367006730
RRP: £135.00£118.28This book presents a broad selection of the papers presented at IDENTA '85 on various topics, including counter-terrorism; Israel's experience with terrorism; police and terrorism; and psychological methods, forensic science and voice identification in... -
Exceptions Are The Rule: An Inquiry Into Methods In The Social Sciences by Joel Levine 9780367004910
RRP: £135.00£117.28This book shows why quantitative social science must develop by its own rules, distinct from those that govern the disciplines of mathematics and statistics. It discusses the use of various quantitative methods through data analysis, philosophy, and... -
Health Policy and the Hispanic by Antonio Furino 9780367004583
RRP: £135.00£117.68Exploring the many dimensions of Hispanic health issues, this book updates interested readers with recent information and offers a view of the depth, scope, and complementarity of the challenges of providing adequate health care. Accordingly, the book is... -
Marching Dykes, Liberated Sluts, and Concerned Mothers: Women Transforming Public Space by Elizabeth Currans 9780252082801
RRP: £21.99£19.19From the Women in Black vigils and Dyke marches to the Million Mom March, women have seized a dynamic role in early twenty-first century protest. The varied demonstrations--whether about gender, sexuality, war, or other issues--share significant... -
Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States by Madhavi Mallapragada 9780252080227
RRP: £20.99£18.37The internet has transformed the idea of home for Indians and Indian Americans. In Virtual Homelands: Indian Immigrants and Online Cultures in the United States, Madhavi Mallapragada analyzes home pages and other online communities organized by diasporic... -
Pleasure in the News: African American Readership and Sexuality in the Black Press by Kim Gallon 9780252043222
RRP: £91.00£78.92Critics often chastised the twentieth-century black press for focusing on sex and scandal rather than African American achievements. In Pleasure in the News, Kim Gallon takes an opposing stance-arguing that African American newspapers fostered black... -
Negotiating Latinidad: Intralatina/o Lives in Chicago by Frances R. Aparicio 9780252042690
RRP: £91.00£78.92Longstanding Mexican and Puerto Rican populations have helped make people of mixed nationalities-MexiGuatamalans, CubanRicans, and others-an important part of Chicago's Latina/o scene. Intermarriage between Guatemalans, Colombians, and Cubans have... -
Shared Selves: Latinx Memoir and Ethical Alternatives to Humanism by Suzanne Bost 9780252042799
RRP: £91.00£78.92Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on... -
Building Womanist Coalitions: Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love by Gary Lemons 9780252042423
RRP: £91.00£78.92Over the last generation, the womanist idea--and the tradition blooming around it--has emerged as an important response to separatism, domination, and oppression. Gary L. Lemons gathers a diverse group of writers to discuss their scholarly and personal... -
Crime and Punishment in the Jim Crow South by Amy Louise Wood 9780252042409
RRP: £91.00£78.92Policing, incarceration, capital punishment: these forms of crime control were crucial elements of Jim Crow regimes. White southerners relied on them to assert and maintain racial power, which led to the growth of modern state bureaucracies that eclipsed...