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  • Hemingway Days and Bukowski Nights

    A Novel by M. W. Downs

    by M. W. Downs ...
    Adam Blankenship, a young war correspondent embedded with the US Army is badly wounded during the early days of the Iraq War. In an attempt to save lives, he fired an auto-grenade gun to stop an inbound suicide truck bomber. His reward, returning to L.A. broken and angry after losing his job along with his lower right leg. Adam becomes a full-blown alcoholic with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Tacit Bargaining, Arms Races, and Arms Control

    by George W. Downs, David M. Rocke ...
    When most people, including social scientists, reflect on the ways that nations resolve their differences, they tend to think in terms of polar alternatives: war versus negotiation. This perspective ignores a third path: tacit bargaining, which is applicable, as this book shows, to a wide variety of international issues and is especially germane to the problem of treaty maintenance. ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Diseases of Coral

    Edited by Cheryl M. Woodley, Craig A. Downs, Andrew W. Bruckner, James W. Porter, Sylvia B. Galloway ...
    Coral disease is quickly becoming a crisis to the health and management of the world’s coral reefs. There is a great interest from many in preserving coral reefs. Unfortunately, the field of epizootiology is disorganized and lacks a standard vocabulary, methods, and diagnostic techniques, and tropical marine scientists are poorly trained in wildlife pathology, veterinary medicine, and epidemiology ... Read more

    $225.00 USD

  • Lasers in Neurosurgery

    Edited by Edward F. Downing, Peter W. Ascher, Leonard J. Cerullo, Charles R. Neblett, Jon H. Robertson, John M. Tew ...
    With the exploding progress we are experiencing in the field of lasers in neurosurgery it was felt that a new volume devoted to lasers in neurosurgery is needed. As opposed to other early laser publications which were limited to North American contributors we have decided to publish Lasers in Neurosurgery which presents the findings of neurosurgeons from throughout the world. The decision to ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ethnic Dress in the United States

    A Cultural Encyclopedia

    by Ellen Hlozan, Jennifer Rothrock, Linda Arthur Bradley, Naomi Braithwaite, Steeve O. Buckridge, Laura L. Camerlengo, Carol Ann Colburn, Vishna Collins, Jennifer Craik, Jamie R. Cupit, Jennifer Daley, Tameka N. Ellington, Sandra Lee Evenson, Marie-Claire Eylott, Irene M. Foster, Arianna E. Funk, Blaire O. Gagnon, Adam Geczy, Karen J. Gilmer, Priscilla N. Gitimu, Rebecca W. Greer, Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi, Silke Hagen-Jurkowitsch, Laura McLaws Helms, Rogelia Lily Ibarra, Rebecca Nelson Jacobs, Tracy Jenkins, Michelle Jones, Helen Koo, Abby Lillethun, Luanne Mayorga, Ellen C. McKinney, Marcella Milio, Aprina Murwanti, Susan Neill, Virginia M. Noon, Anupama Pasricha, Victoria Pass, Juliette Peers, Lauren Downing Peters, Irina Zhoukova Petrova, Harini Ramaswamy, Helen Ritchie, Mary Ruppert-Stroescu, Jessica Schwartz, Erica Suzanne Scott, Wendy Rosie Scott, Sabrina Skerston, Toby Slade, Celia Stall-Meadows, Susan M. Strawn, Jessica Strübel, Caitlin Tracey-Miller, Jennifer Van Haaften, Laura Van Waardhuizen, Rebecca Vang, Joan Webster-Vore, Linda Welters, Juanjuan Wu, Cassidy Zachary ...
    The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.The clothing artifacts documented here have been or are now regularly worn by Americans as everyday clothing, fashion ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Liberal Democracy and Liberal Education

    by Daniel E. Cullen, John Agresto, James W. Ceaser, Donald Downs, Jakub Grygiel, Stephen H. Wirls, Robert L. Pfaltzgraff Jr., Robert P. George, Yuval Levin, Wilfred M. McClay0 ...
    The essays in this book reflect on the paradoxical relationship of liberal education and liberal democracy. Liberal education emphasizes knowledge for its own sake, detached from all instrumental purposes. It also aims at liberation from the manifold sources of unfreedom, including political sources. In this sense, liberal education is negative, questioning any and all constraints on the activity ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Spirit and the Screen

    Pneumatological Reflections on Contemporary Cinema

    by Steven Félix-Jäger, Coleby Delgado, Crystal Downing, Wilmer Estrada-Carrasquillo, Jeffrey S. Lamp, Gaye Williams Morris, Lucia M. Sanders, Sid D. Sudiacal, Robby Waddell, Kutter Callaway0, Chris E. W. Green1 ...
    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    The Spirit and the Screen engages contemporary films from the perspective of pneumatology to give theologies of culture fruitful new perspectives that begin with the Spirit rather than other common theological contact points (Christology, anthropology, theological ethics, creation, eschatology, etc.). This book explores pertinent pneumatological issues that arise in film, as well as literary ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Advancing Folkloristics

    by Margaret A. Mills, Kay Turner, Andrea Kitta, Jeanmarie Rouhier-Willoughby, Cory W. Thorne, Solimar Otero, Gregory Hansen, Betty J. Belanus, Phyllis M. May-Machunda, Anthony Guest-Scott, Anika Wilson, Wanda G. Addison, Debra Lattanzi Shutika, Lynne S. McNeill, Trevor J. Blank, Norma Elia Cantú, Guillermo De Los Reyes ...
    An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to these contemporary political affairs? Since the nature of folkloristics transcends binaries, can it help others develop critical personal narratives?Advancing Folkloristics covers topics such as queer, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Invasive Birds

    Global Trends and Impacts

    by Alexander Cruz, Tim Adriaens, Craig R Allen, Michael L Avery, Alexander V Badyaev, Fabrice M Brescia, Sarah E Britton, Daniel M Brooks, Jessica L. Burnett, Matthew Burnett, Corey T Callaghan, César Capinha, Jen Cele, Jameson F Chace, Jocelyn Champagnon, Alice Cibois, Andrew Close, Alyssa R Conn, Richard T Corlett, Adrian J F K Craig, Amy E Dunham, James A Eaton, David A Ehlers Smith, Yvette C Ehlers Smith, Mike W Eichholz, Johan Elmberg, Cyril Eraud, Chris L Feare, Jason M Gleditsch, Guillaume G Gayet, Matthieu Guillemain, Carlos Gutiérrez-Expósito, Haley E Hanson, Iain Henderson, Frank Huysentruyt, John G Innes, Salit Kark, Michael R Leven, Ricardo J Lopes, Jean-Francois Maillard, Ndivhuwo Maligana, Chloe I Marcheli, Lynn B Martin, Blake A Mathys, Erik Matthysen, Myriam E Mermoz, Jean-Yves Meyer, Dai K J Morgan, Katherine G Ohman, Claire Pernollet, Murray A Potter, Bill Pranty, Juan Carlos Reboreda, Eileen C Rees, Luís Reino, Joana Ribeiro, Peter A Robertson, Andrew M Rogers, Philip D Round, Joana Santana, Cavin T Shivambu, Neftalí Sillero, Preshnee Singh, Pär Söderquist, Karina L Speziale, Diederik Strubbe, Martin J P Sullivan, Jean-Claude Thibault, Martin Thibault, Berndt J van Rensburg, Eric Vidal, Joseph R Waas, Amy-Leigh Wilson, Katherine Winston, Kevin A Wood, Pierre Yésou, Ding Li Yong, Jaime E Zolik ...
    Examining globally invasive alien birds, the first part of this book provides an account of 32 global avian invasive species (as listed by the Invasive Species Specialist Group, ISSG). It acts as a one stop reference volume; it assesses current invasive status for each bird species, including details of physical description, diet, introduction and invasion pathways, breeding behaviour, natural ... Read more

    $157.79 USD

  • Sampling Plantation Eucalypts for Wood and Fibre Properties

    by GM Downes, IL Hudson, CA Raymond, GH Dean, AJ Michell, LR Schimleck, R Evans, A Muneri ...
    This book was written to help the forest industry assess wood quality by using non-destructive samples taken from specific points within a tree. It is the first compilation of research data on sampling of eucalypts, describing new methods and tools for rapid and cost-effective analysis. The book provides information needed to design a sampling program, obtain and process wood samples, and shows ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Gambling, Work and Leisure (Routledge Revivals)

    A Study Across Three Areas

    by David Downes, D. M. Davies, M. E. David, P. Stone ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Since the legalisation of off-course cash betting in 1960, and the rise of varying forms of gambling, the British have come to be known as a nation of gamblers. Until this study was published in 1976, barely any evidence existed against which to assess the claim that gambling had become a major social problem. The authors present data drawn from area surveys carried out in Swansea, Sheffield, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • To the Last Ridge

    The World War One Experiences of W H Downing

    by W. H. Downing ...
    This soldier's WWI account of trench warfare is "a masterpiece among the chronicles of war" ( The Australian).Written just after the heat of the battle, this is the personal account of an ordinary soldier's experience of one of the most horrific series of battles ever fought—Fleurbaix, Bapaume, Beaumetz, Lagnicourt, Bullecourt, the Menin Road, Villers-Bretonneux, Péronne, and Mont Saint-Quentin.W. ... Read more

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