Academic & Professional

Lesley Britton / Montessori Play and Learn (Coffee Table Book)

We all want the best possible start in life for our children, and one of the best possible starts in life, educationally, is the 'method' pioneered by Maria Montessori and taught successfully today throughout the world, especially at preschool level...

Bill A. Rogers / Cracking the Hard Class - 2nd Edition (Coffee Table Book)

`In Cracking the Hard Class , the undisputed master of behaviour management, Bill Rogers, shows us that being an effective teacher isn′t a result of God-given gifts of charisma and presence, but can be developed through a series of specific...

Frazer Brookes / I DARE YOU - The Ultimate Guide to Building a Network Marketing Business(Large Paperback)

WHAT IS I DARE YOU ABOUT? In Network Marketing, if you want to achieve the success you want, you have to be willing to complete certain assignments. Some like to call them action steps, I like to call them “dares”. I Dare You was written to...

Kevin Robins, Frank Webster / The Virtual University? (Large Paperback)

The Virtual University brings together some of the best-known writers on contemporary social change to reflect on the radical transformations going on in higher education.Expansion, technology, and changing financial and performance structures have...

Gavriel Salomon / Distributed Cognitions (Large Paperback)

Traditionally, human cognition has been seen and studied as existing solely "inside" a person, irrelevant to the social, physical, and artifactual context in which cognition takes place. This book reexamines the nature of cognition and proposes that...

Chris Mann, Fiona Stewart / Internet Communication and Qualitative Research (Large Paperback)

Communication and Qualitative Research is the first textbook to examine the impact of Internet technology on qualitative research methods. Drawing on many pioneering studies using computer-mediated communication (CMC), the authors show how online...

Robert Boice / Professors as Writers - A Self Help Guide to Productive Writing(Large Paperback)

Here is a proven book to help scholars master writing as a productive, enjoyable, and successful experience -- Author, Robert Boice, prepared this self-help manual for professors who want to write more productively, painlessly, and successfully. It...

Colin Drury / Costing: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

The aim of the second edition of this book is to provide an introduction to the theory and practice of cost and management accounting. A cost accounting system accumulates financial information for stock valuation and profit measurement whereas a...

Joachim Liebschner / A Child's Work -Freedom and Guidance in Froebel's Educational Theory and Practice (Large Paperback)

Focusing on the life and ideas of pioneering educationalist Friedrich Froebel, this book discusses the continuing debate over methods of primary education.   This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same...

Michael J. Morley / Principles of Organisational Behaviour: An Irish Text (Coffee Table Book)

Organisational behaviour is examined within an Irish social, political and cultural context All chapters contain a set of learning objectives and are written in an accessible style Case study vignettes are presented where appropriate to support the...

Paul Blyton / Dynamics of Employee Relations (Large Paperback)

The Dynamics of Employee Relations provides a critical assessment of employee relations within contemporary organisations. Written in a lively and readable style, The Dynamics of Employee Relations captures the essence of working reality within a variety...

Robert Newton; Dearden John; Bedford Norton / Management Control Systems (Large Paperback)

Management Control Systems 10/e builds on strengths from prior editions by offering a rich diversity of cases balanced with current material. The primary market for Management Control Systems is an MBA level elective in control systems. The text may also...

Susan M. Pearce / Museums, Objects and Collections (Large Paperback)

This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as...

Philip Kelly, Paul Jenkins / MRCP 2 - Success in PACES (Large Paperback)

The MRCP Part 2 Oral and Clinical component was replaced by PACES (Practical Assessment of Clinical Examination Skills) in June 2001. This text aims to match the content and level of difficulty of this examination. It contains chapters that cover all...

Hans-Ulrich Laasch / MRCP 2 Practice Papers (Large Paperback)

The MRCP Part 2 Examination is increasingly orientated around evidence-based medicine, up-to-date patient management and current guidelines. This is a move away from the esoteric questions seen in the past and it makes a more useful exam. This book...

J. Gray, Andrew Thillainayagam / MRCP2: Passing the PACES (Large Paperback)

This title provides the necessary exam preparation for candidates taking PACES. All areas in the examination are covered in subject order. Examination schemes are included for all of these areas.       This book is second hand,...

Margaret Parkin / Tales for Trainers: Using Stories and Metaphors to Facilitate Learning (Large Paperback)

Tales are a potent force in human consciousness. Margaret Parkin demonstrates how this holds true in organizations, and how stories can serve to crystallize and carry important business messages and themes.       This book is...

Francis Reid / The ABC of Stage Technology (Large Paperback)

  This illustrated reference book is a comprehensive encyclopedia of over 500 terms and words used in stage technology. It embraces all aspects of the technical operation of the stage including the use of flying and other machinery for effective...

Micheal O'Ciosog / Contact Centre CXM : Customer Service Today and Tomorrow(Large Paperback)

This book is written in three parts. The first explains the use of technology to facilitate customer service today. The second explains how to conduct and evaluate a contact centre assessment, and the third discusses the future of customer service. Part...

Sue Arrowsmith / Social and Environmental Policies in EC Procurement Law: New Directives and New Directions (Hardback)

In developing public procurement policy, governments are often concerned not only with value for money but also with promoting their social and environmental objectives. However, imposing social and environmental requirements makes it harder for some...

Forrest W. Breyfogle III / Implementing Six Sigma: Smarter Solutions Using Statistical Methods (Hardback)

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John H. Dirckx / Stedman`s Concise Medial & Allied Health Dictionary (Hardback)

    This book is second hand, and while you may not get the same publication/version/reprint/edition shown in the picture it will be the same author and title. Removing existing stickers from a second hand book may damage it, so we refrain...

Jean McNiff / Action Research for Teachers (Large Paperback)

Assuming no prior knowledge of research methods and techniques, this book is the perfect companion for teachers at all levels undergoing professional development who need to enhance their formal reflection skills. Providing a detailed explanation of what...

Colin Neville / How to improve your Assignment Results (Large PaperbackI

Are you puzzled by tutor comments on your assignments? Do you want to improve your grades but aren't sure how? Do you want help but don't know where to go or who to ask? If so, then this book will save the day! It will help any student to understand the...

John Guillebaud / Contraception Today: A Pocketbook for General Practitioners and Practice Nurses

Previous editions of this best-selling pocketbook have been recognized as the gold-standard introductory guide to contraceptive practice. The target audience - family practitioners and practice nurses - are often well placed to offer good...

Anne D. Cockburn / Teaching Under Pressure: Looking At Primary Teachers' Stress (Large Paperback)

This text is based on the author's research into primary school teacher's stress. The research has been linked with the author's belief in the need to understand ourselves, our personal and professional situations and how they relate. The resulting book...

Denis Gill / Paediatric Clinical Examination Made Easy

This book provides a concise, humorous, and carefully written and illustrated guide to paediatric clinical skills, including the skill of history taking from the child at various ages and from the parents, as well as examination of the body systems. The...

Bruce L. Berg / Qualitative Research Methods for the Social Sciences (Large Paperback)

This text shows novice researchers how to design, collect, and analyze qualitative data and then present their results to the scientific community. It also stresses the importance of ethics in research and taking the time to properly design and think...

Harold Garfinkel / Studies in Ethnomethodology (Large Paperback)

This is the first appearance in paper back of one of the major classics of contemporary Sociology. Studies in Ethnomethodology has inspired a wide range of important theoretical and empirical work in the social sciences and linguistics. It is one of the...

John Heritage / Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology (Large Paperback)

The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis of his theories and of the ethnomethodological movement which he has inspired.It is the only...

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development / Nature Of Learning: Using Research To Inspire Practice (Large Paperback)

What do we know about how people learn? How do young people's motivations and emotions influence their learning? What does research show to be the benefits of group work, formative assessments, technology applications, or project-based learning and...

Paul Dix / When the Adults Change, Everything Changes: Seismic Shifts in School Behaviour (Large Paperback)

When it comes to looking at behaviour in schools, the elephant in the room is adult behaviour. It is the only behaviour over which we have enough control. Creating a seismic shift in behaviour across a school requires adult behaviour to be adjusted...

Tony Stubblebine / Regular Expression Pocket Reference

Regular expressions are such a powerful tool for manipulating text and data that anyone who uses a computer can benefit from them. Composed of a mixture of symbols and text, regular expressions can be an outlet for creativity, for brilliant programming,...

Æleen Frisch / Essential System Administration Pocket Reference

If you're a Unix system administrator, then the information you need every day just to get your job done could fill a book--a very large book. But, practically speaking, you don't want to stop and thumb through a weighty volume each time a problem...

Christopher Mabey, Graeme Salaman, John Storey / Strategic Human Resource Management: A Reader (Large Paperback)

The emergence of the resource-based view of the firm has meant that, increasingly, issues in human resource management occupy a central place in the agenda of management and strategy. This textbook brings together outstanding contributions from some of...

Michael A. Jackson / Software Requirements and Specifications: A Lexicon of Practice, Principles and Prejudices (Large Paperback)

Software Reqiuirements and Specifications is the latest book from Michael Jackson, one of the foremost contributors to software development method and practice. The book brings together some 75 short pieces about principles and techniques for...

Tony Fry / Becoming Human by Design (Large Paperback)

The last in Tony Fry's celebrated trilogy of books continues his radical rethinking of design. Becoming Human by Design 's provocative argument presents a revised reading of human 'evolution' centred on ontological design.Examining the relation of design...

Peter Checkland / Systems Thinking, Systems Practice: Includes a 30-Year Retrospective (Large Paperback)

Thirty years ago Peter Checkland set out to test whether the Systems Engineering (SE) approach, highly successful in technical problems, could be used by managers coping with the unfolding complexities of organizational life. The straightforward transfer...

Frank Webster / Theories of the Information Society (Large Paperback)

Information has come to be regarded as a symbol of the age in which we live. Talk nowadays is of an `information technology' revolution, even of an `information society'. But just what does this mean? In Theories of the Information Society Frank...

Jane M. Healy / Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds – and What We Can Do About It (Large Paperback)

* When should children start using computers?* How should schools incorporate computer use into their curriculum?* Which types of computer software programs should be avoided?* Are children who don't have computers in class and at home doomed to fall...

Richard Buchanan / Discovering Design: Explorations in Design Studies (Large Paperback)

Discovering Design reflects the growing recognition that the design of the everyday world deserves attention not only as a professional practice but as a subject of social, cultural, and philosophic investigation. Victor Margolin, cofounder and an editor...

Michel Lincourt / In Search of Elegance: Towards an Architecture of Satisfaction (Large Paperback)

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Malcolm McCullough / Abstracting Craft: The Practiced Digital Hand (Large Paperback)

In this investigation of the possibility of craft in the digital realm, Malcolm McCullough observes that the emergence of computation as a medium, rather than just a set of tools, suggests a growing correspondence between digital work and traditional...

James Howard Kunstler / Home from Nowhere: Remaking Our Everyday World for the 21st Century (Large Paperback)

In his landmark book The Geography of Nowhere James Howard Kunstler visited the "tragic sprawlscape of cartoon architecture, junked cities, and ravaged countryside" America had become and declared that the deteriorating environment was not...

Margaret A. Boden / Computer Models of Mind: Computational approaches in theoretical psychology (Large Paperback)

What is the mind? How does it work? How does it influence behavior? Some psychologists hope to answer such questions in terms of concepts drawn from computer science and artificial intelligence. They test their theories by modeling mental processes...

Hans-Georg Gadamer / Reason in the Age of Science (Large Paperback)

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that...

Jörn Rüsen / Thinking Utopia: Steps into Other Worlds (Large Paperback)

After the breakdown of socialist and communist systems in the East, it had become fashionable to declare the so-called "end of utopia" ("end of history," "end of narratives"). The authors of this volume do not share this view but think that it is...

Jerome Bruner / The Process of Education (Large Paperback)

In this classic argument for curriculum reform in early education, Jerome Bruner shows that the basic concepts of science and the humanities can be grasped intuitively at a very early age. He argues persuasively that curricula should he designed to...

John H. Zammito / A Nice Derangement of Epistemes: Post-positivism in the Study of Science from Quine to Latour (Large Paperback)

Since the 1950s, many philosophers of science have attacked positivism—the theory that scientific knowledge is grounded in objective reality. Reconstructing the history of these critiques, John H. Zammito argues that while so-called postpositivist...

Victor Papanek / Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change (Large Paperback)

This is a completely revised second edition of Design for the Real World, which has since its first appearance twenty years ago, become a classic. Translated into twenty-three languages, it is one of the world's most widely read books on design. In...

Ivan Illich / Celebration of Awareness: A Call for Institutional Revolution (Large Paperback)

The book consists of 12 essays on the following themes: Vietnam & the resistance; the war on poverty; Latin America, Puerto Rico & immigration to the US mainland; Catholic Church problems; the Church's role in social change & development; the...

Karl E. Weick / Sensemaking in Organizations (Large Paperback)

The teaching of organization theory and the conduct of organizational research have been dominated by a focus on decision-making and the concept of strategic rationality. However, the rational model ignores the inherent complexity and ambiguity of...