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  • From Professor Murasaki's Notebooks on the Effects of Lightning on the Human Body

    by John Latham ...
    A John Latham poem is a like a precipitation: images coalesce around a single memory the way ice crystallises around the smallest particle to form a snowflake; the strange logic that constructs them is unique each time. Passionate, satirical, mysterious, the poems in his sixth collection capture the vibrancy of a childhood that still bewitches him half a century later, alongside the cruel ... Read more

    $7.49 USD

  • The North Caucasian Kingdom of Alania, 850–1240

    Series series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series
    The kingdom of Alania was the most powerful polity in the medieval North Caucasus. It contained strategic mountain passes across the Caucasus mountains, as well as urban centres larger than any in contemporary Rus'. Its kings retained power from the mid-ninth to the late eleventh centuries, intermarried with the ruling families of Georgia and Byzantium, and led armies that terrorised the South ... Read more

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  • Foundations of Museum Studies

    Evolving Systems of Knowledge

    A holistic introduction to museum theory and practice, this second edition is designed to be the core introductory text for any foundational museum studies course being taught in any discipline.You'll examine the evolution, divergence, definition, and legal organization of museums in the context of collections of objects and how museums perform the basic functions of preservation, communication, ... Read more

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  • [Re]Create the Organization You Really Want!

    Leadership and Organization Design for Sustainable Excellence.

    Are you spending your most of your time putting out "fires" and treating symptoms that reignite again and again? Are you frustrated trying to meet the demands of multiple stakeholders - customers, employees, investors, etc.?What if you could develop your own custom leadership system and collaborative leadership style to leverage the forces of change to transform your organization's systems and ... Read more

    $9.97 USD

  • Foundations of Museum Studies

    Evolving Systems of Knowledge

    This broad introduction to museums benefits all educators who teach introductory museum studies, addressing the discipline from a holistic, dynamic, and document-centered perspective.Museums serve to help us understand the past and navigate our future—as individuals, as societies, and as a global community. A careful and accurate assessment of a museum's purpose is crucial to its ability to serve ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • Modernization as Ideology

    American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era

    Series series New Cold War History
    Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America’s protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • New Stories from the Midwest: 2012

    "As this fresh anthology proves, there's a mix of writers and sensibilities that inhabit the literary Midwest as to make the term unpredictable." —Stuart Dybek, MacArthur Fellow and author of The Coast of ChicagoNew Stories from the Midwest presents a collection of stories that celebrate an American region too often ignored in discussions about distinctive regional literature. The editors ... Read more

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  • Meet Miss Fancy

    by Irene Latham ...
    Illustrated by John Holyfield ...
    A charming and significant story set prior to the Civil Rights Movement about a boy who finds a way to challenge segregation laws.Frank has always been obsessed with elephants. He loves their hosepipe trunks, tree stump feet, and swish-swish tails. So when Miss Fancy, the elephant, retires from the circus and moves two blocks from his house to Avondale Park, he's over the moon! Frank really wants ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy

    Edited by Heita Kawakatsu, John Latham ...
    Much has been made of the post-war Japanese economic miracle. However, the origins of this spectacular success and its effect on the region can actually be traced back to an earlier period of Asian history. In Japanese Industrialization and the Asian Economy the authors examine the factors which contributed to the period of major industrialization ... Read more

    $72.99 USD