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The Spirit Level by David Barber
RRP: $29.38Booksplease Price: $25.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780810150249Author David BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint -
Secret History: Poems by David Barber 9780810141223
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $15.06In David Barber's third collection of poetry, the past makes its presence felt from first to last. Drawing on a wealth of eclectic sources and crafted in an array of nonce forms, these poems range... -
Bayesian Time Series Models by David Barber 9780521196765
RRP: $233.10Booksplease Price: $179.47'What's going to happen next?' Time series data hold the answers, and Bayesian methods represent the cutting edge in learning what they have to say. This ambitious book is the first unified treatment... -
Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning by David Barber 9780521518147
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $137.76Machine learning methods extract value from vast data sets quickly and with modest resources. They are established tools in a wide range of industrial applications, including search engines, DNA... -
A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why it Failed by David Barber 9781604738551
Booksplease Price: $66.97By the spring of 1969, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) had reached its zenith as the largest, most radical movement of white youth in American history-a genuine New Left. Yet less than a year... -
The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age by James David Barber 9781138538016
RRP: $203.68Booksplease Price: $191.06Every four years, journalists propel a presidential campaign into the national consciousness. New candidates and issues become features of the political landscape while familiar rituals are reshaped... -
The Pulse of Politics: Electing Presidents in the Media Age James David Barber 9781560005896
RRP: $71.38Booksplease Price: $69.70Every four years, journalists propel a presidential campaign into the national consciousness. New candidates and issues become features of the political landscape while familiar rituals are reshaped... -
Using New Web Tools in the Primary Classroom: A practical guide for enhancing teaching and learning David Barber 9780415591041
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $77.99How can we ensure we use technology effectively with young children? Using New Web Tools in the Primary Classroom is for all teachers interested in the application of new web-based ICTs to primary... -
The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House, With a Revised and Updated Foreword by George C. Edwards III by James David Barber
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $98.26A book entitled The Presidential Character is more timely and necessary than ever. This new issue of James David Barber's classic work appears almost 50 years after its first publication and yet... -
The Beleaguered Presidency by Aaron Wildavsky
RRP: $107.08Booksplease Price: $101.81Since the presidency of Lyndon Johnson between 1963 and 1968, there is much reason to believe that the executive office is in trouble. For the past twenty-five years, presidents have been subject to... -
The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Barack Obama - Third Edition by Fred I. Greenstein
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $57.94Fred I. Greenstein has long been one of our keenest observers of the modern presidency. In The Presidential Difference, he provides a fascinating and instructive account of the presidential qualities... -
The Prudential Presidency: An Aristotelian Approach to Presidential Leadership by Ethan M. Fishman 9780275971113
Booksplease Price: $160.67Fishman argues that the model of political leadership based on the concept of prudence that Aristotle introduced 2300 years ago remains the most realistic and comprehensive paradigm available for... -
Covenant by Alan Shapiro 9780226750446
Booksplease Price: $169.53"The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence. His poetry comes by its sad wisdom through its accomodations to human... -
Covenant by Alan Shapiro 9780226750453
Booksplease Price: $58.04"The coherence Shapiro prizes is both more thorough and more thoroughgoing than that offered by a moralizing intelligence. His poetry comes by its sad wisdom through its accomodations to human... -
Waking by Tom Sleigh 9780226762395
Booksplease Price: $54.33One of our most gifted poets, Sleigh reveals with vigor and delicacy the connections forged between the dead and the living. Waking is a moving narrative of the creation of the self.". . . . it takes... -
Reinventing Leadership: Making the Connection Between Politics and Business by Barbara Kellerman 9780791440728
Booksplease Price: $54.75In a striking departure from past practices, Barbara Kellerman explores the fact that although we persist in viewing political and business leadership separately, the similarities between them far... -
Healey Willan: Life and Music by F.R.C. Clarke 9780802081360
RRP: $65.10Booksplease Price: $55.88Healey Willan (1880-1968) played a major role in the development of music in Canada for more than fifty years. As a teacher and organist-choirmaster he inspired generations of singers, musicians, and... -
The Probability Companion for Engineering and Computer Science by Adam Prugel-Bennett 9781108727709
RRP: $102.90Booksplease Price: $95.49This friendly guide is the companion you need to convert pure mathematics into understanding and facility with a host of probabilistic tools. The book provides a high-level view of probability and... -
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets by David Yezzi 9780804011211
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.48Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently... -
The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets by David Yezzi 9780804011204
Booksplease Price: $102.80Groundbreaking anthologies of this kind come along once in a generation and, in time, define that generation. The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets identifies a group of poets who have recently... -
Deception Island: Selected Early Poems, 1974-1999 by William Logan 9781844717170
Booksplease Price: $27.20William Logan's poetry has been called elegant, difficult, cranky, formidable, dazzling, intoxicating, and ominous. For almost forty years, he has published poems that do not fit comfortably with the... -
Leadership Without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz
RRP: $83.90Booksplease Price: $62.43The economy uncertain, education in decline, cities under siege, crime and poverty spiraling upward, international relations roiling: we look to leaders for solutions, and when they don't deliver, we... -
Our Savage Art: Poetry and the Civil Tongue by William Logan 9780231147323
RRP: $228.90Booksplease Price: $179.91The most notorious poet-critic of his generation, William Logan has defined our view of poets good and bad, interesting and banal, for more than three decades. Featured in the New York Times Book... -
Performance-Based Fire Safety Design by Morgan J. Hurley 9780367870270
RRP: $104.98Booksplease Price: $97.63Master an Approach Based on Fire Safety Goals, Fire Scenarios, and the Assessment of Design AlternativesPerformance-Based Fire Safety Design demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire... -
Performance-Based Fire Safety Design Morgan J. Hurley 9781482246551
Booksplease Price: $190.43Master an Approach Based on Fire Safety Goals, Fire Scenarios, and the Assessment of Design AlternativesPerformance-Based Fire Safety Design demonstrates how fire science can be used to solve fire... -
Eloquence in an Electronic Age: The Transformation of Political Speechmaking by Kathleen Hall Jamieson 9780195063172
Booksplease Price: $86.42In a book that blends anecdote with analysis, Kathleen Hall Jamieson--author of the award-winning Packaging the Presidency--offers a perceptive and often disturbing account of the transformation of... -
In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement by Jama Lazerow 9780822338901
Booksplease Price: $66.63Controversy swirled around the Black Panthers from the moment the revolutionary black nationalist Party was founded in Oakland, California, in 1966. Since that time, the group that J. Edgar Hoover...