Promotions - Title Listings - "Technical & Reference, September 8, 2014"

GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION - HISTORY - LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE - LAW - MEDICINE - MILITARY SCIENCE - PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION - POLITICAL SCIENCE - SCIENCE - SOCIAL SCIENCES - TECHNOLOGY
GEOGRAPHY. ANTHROPOLOGY. RECREATION Top
CONSTRUCTING RACE
TESLOW,TRACY
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-701173-1
Est list price: $99.00
CLOTH
Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books and pamphlets.
SEA-LEVEL SCIENCE
PUGH,DAVID
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-702819-7
Est list price: $99.00
CLOTH
Understanding sea-level processes, such as ocean tides, storm surges, tsunamis, El Nino and rises caused by climate change, is key to planning effective coastal defence.
HISTORY Top
MOURNING HEADBAND FOR HUE
CA,NHA
INDIANA UNIV PR
ISBN 978-0-253-01417-7
Est list price: $30.00
CLOTH
Mourning Headband for Hue tells the story of what happened during the fierce North Vietnamese offensive and is an unvarnished and riveting account of war as experienced by ordinary people caught up in the violence.
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Top
SAPPHO
RAYOR,DIANE
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-702359-8
Est list price: $70.00
CLOTH
Sappho, the earliest and most famous Greek woman poet, sang her songs around 600 BCE on the island of Lesbos. Of the little that survives from the approximately nine papyrus scrolls collected in antiquity, all is translated here.
LAW Top
ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND CONTRASTING IDEAS OF NATURE
HIROKAWA,KEITH
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-703347-4
Est list price: $99.00
CLOTH
This book offers a scholarly examination of the manner in which nature is constructed through law, both in the 'hard' sense of directly regulating human activities that impact nature, and in the 'soft' manner in which law's ideas of nature influence and are influenced by behaviors, values, and priorities.
TRANSNATIONAL LAW
MADURO,MIGUEL
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-702831-9
Est list price: $115.00
CLOTH
This collection of essays examines the effects of law's de-nationalisation by placing European law in the context of transnational law. It shows us how transnational law forces us to rethink our basic legal concepts and proposes an approach beyond the dichotomy of national and international law.
MEDICINE Top
COMPREHENSIVE EVIDENCE BASED INTERVENTIONS FOR CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
ALFANO,CANDICE
WILEY
ISBN 978-1-11-848756-3
Est list price: $75.00
CLOTH
Comprehensive Evidence Based Interventions for Children and Adolescents provides clinicians, researchers, and students alike with the theoretical, conceptual, and practical skills to provide children and adolescents with the best care possible.
MILITARY SCIENCE Top
SUCCESSFUL STRATEGIES
MURRAY,WILLIAMSON
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-706273-3
Est list price: $85.00
CLOTH
Successful Strategies is a fascinating new study of the key factors that have contributed to the development and execution of successful strategies throughout history.
PHILOSOPHY. PSYCHOLOGY. RELIGION Top
CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO AUGUSTINE SECOND EDITION
MECONI,DAVID
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-702533-2
Est list price: $90.00
CLOTH
It has been over a decade since the first edition of the The Cambridge Companion to Augustine was published. In that time, reflection on Augustine's life and labors has continued to bear much fruit: significant new studies into major aspects of his thinking have appeared.
KIERKEGAARDS CONCEPT OF FAITH
WESTPHAL,MEROLD
EERDMANS
ISBN 978-0-8028-6806-0
Est list price: $35.00
PAPER
In this book renowned philosopher Merold Westphal unpacks the writings of nineteenth-century thinker Kierkegaard on biblical, Christian faith and its relation to reason.
MEDDLING ON THE VIRTUE OF LEAVING
LACHS, JOHN
INDIANA UNIV PR
ISBN 978-0-253-01471-9
Est list price: $55.00
PAPER
John Lachs claims that we are surrounded by people who seem to know what is good for us better than we do ourselves. Lachs discusses the joy of choice and the rare virtue of leaving others alone to lead their lives as they see fit.
SECULAR GOVERNMENT RELIGIOUS PEOPLE
LUPU,IRA
EERDMANS
ISBN 978-0-8028-7079-7
Est list price: $25.00
PAPER
In this book Ira Lupu and Robert Tuttle break through the unproductive American debate over competing religious rights. They present an original theory that makes the secular character of the American government, rather than a set of individual rights, the centerpiece of religious liberty in the United States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Top
EFFECTIVE WRITING FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR
SWAIN,JOHN
M.E. SHARPE
ISBN 978-0-7656-4150-2
Est list price: $29.95
PAPER
Intended for both students and practitioners in public administration who want to communicate more effectively with a variety of audiences, this book offers clear, easy-to-understand guidelines on how to write more clearly, concisely, and coherently, as well as correctly.
NATURAL HUMAN RIGHTS
BOYLAN,MICHAEL DR.
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-702985-9
Est list price: $95.00
CLOTH
This timely book by internationally regarded scholar of ethics and social/political philosophy Michael Boylan focuses on the history, application, and significance of human rights in the West and in China.
SCIENCE Top
ARCTIC CLIMATE SYSTEM SECOND EDITION
SERREZE,MARK
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-703717-5
Est list price: $125.00
CLOTH
This second edition brings this definitive book completely up to date with the many advances in our understanding of Arctic climate since the first edition was published in 2005.
CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO EINSTEIN
JANSSEN,MICHEL
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-0-521-82834-5
Est list price: $99.00
CLOTH
This volume is the first systematic presentation of the work of Albert Einstein, comprised of fourteen essays by leading historians and philosophers of science that introduce readers to his work.
MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING
FRIEDLAND,GERALD
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-0-521-76451-3
Est list price: $75.00
CLOTH
Humans are the best functioning example of multimedia communication and computing – this is, we understand information and experiences through the unified perspectives offered by our five senses.
SYSTEMS VIEW OF LIFE
CAPRA,FRITJOF
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-701136-6
Est list price: $40.00
CLOTH
Taking a broad sweep through history and across scientific disciplines, this volume integrates the ideas, models, and theories underlying the systems view of life into a single coherent framework.
UNDERSTANDING MACHINE LEARNING
SHALEV-SHWARTZ,SHAI
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-705713-5
Est list price: $60.00
CLOTH
Machine learning is one of the fastest growing areas of computer science, with far-reaching applications. The aim of this textbook is to introduce machine learning, and the algorithmic paradigms it offers, in a principled way.
SOCIAL SCIENCES Top
ADVERTISING AND VIOLENCE
RIFON,NORA
M.E. SHARPE
ISBN 978-0-7656-4269-1
Est list price: $44.95
PAPER
Advertising and Violence identifies and analyzes the important issues related to violence in advertising and its overall effects on society. The book is based on a widely cited special issue of the Journal of Advertising and includes eight new chapters that expand the book's coverage.
BRIGHTER FUTURE
HOLT,RICHAR
M.E. SHARPE
ISBN 978-0-7656-3489-4
Est list price: $29.95
PAPER
As the United States continues its slow climb out of the Great Recession, it is important to focus on new directions to improve the standard of living in America.
SOCIAL PROTEST
GALE
GREENHAVEN PRESS
ISBN 978-0-7377-6934-0
Est list price: $39.95
PAPER
Each titel in this colorful series discussed an issue that either is part of students' lives of is likely affecting someone they know. Presenting multiple sides to current issues, each title distinguishes itself through its dedicated focus on concerns that today's middle and high school students deal regularly.
SOCIAL THOUGHT OF ERVING GOFFMAN
JACOBSEN,MICHAEL
SAGE
ISBN 978-1-412-99803-1
Est list price: $25.00
PAPER
This book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social theorists in postwar sociology.
SOCIOLOGY 4TH EDITION
NEWMAN,DAVID
SAGE
ISBN 978-1-452-27587-1
Est list price: $60.00
PAPER
In the Fourth Edition of Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life, David Newman once again shows students how to see the “unfamiliar in the familiar”-to step back and see organization and predictability in their take-for-granted personal experiences.
TECHNOLOGY Top
ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL METHODS FOR VIBRATION ANALYSES
WU,JONG-SHYONG
WILEY
ISBN 978-1-11-863215-4
Est list price: $150.00
CLOTH
This titles illustrates theories and associated mathematical expressions with numerical examples using various methods, leading to exact solutions, more accurate results, and more computationally efficient techniques.
FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS OF MICRO AND NANOFIBERS
YARIN,ALEXANDER
CAMBRIDGE
ISBN 978-1-10-706029-6
Est list price: $99.00
CLOTH
A comprehensive exposition of micro and nanofiber forming, this text provides a unified framework of all these processes (melt and solution blowing, electrospinning, and so on) and describes their foundations, development and applications.