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  • Audiobook

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    When Diseases Spread between Animals and Humans

    by Michael Dulaney ...
    Narrated by Humphrey Bower ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 9 min

    Humans have long observed animals for warnings of danger. Diseases and the growing threat of contagion reveal our close ties to animals. Viruses leap from bats to camels to humans. Cats catch the flu, and tourists pass tuberculosis onto elephants. And now, exploitation of the environment is causing more diseases to jump species than ever before – a threat to life rivalling climate change. The ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Wizardry:Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed

    Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed

    by Michael Humphreys ...
    The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game. But one problem has defied solution: estimating runs saved by fielders throughout history. Traditional statistics ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Wizardry

    Baseball's All-Time Greatest Fielders Revealed

    by Michael Humphreys ...
    The systematic analysis of baseball statistics, often called "sabermetrics," has evolved in recent years to resemble something of a science, attracting fans from diverse professional and educational backgrounds, all fascinated by the analysis itself and its insights into the game. But one problem has defied solution: estimating runs saved by fielders throughout history. Traditional statistics ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort: Foundations and Analysis

    by Michael Humphreys, Fergus Nicol, Susan Roaf ...
    There has been widespread dissatisfaction with accepted models for predicting the conditions that people will find thermally comfortable in buildings. These models require knowledge about clothing and activity, but can give little guidance on how to quantify them in any future situation. This has forced designers to make assumptions about people’s future behaviour based on very little information ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Families with a Difference

    Varieties of Surrogate Parenthood

    by Michael Humphrey, Heather Humphrey ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Family
    In the 1980s families other than those made up of the natural mother, father, and siblings were increasing in number. Originally published in 1988, this book looks at these ‘alternative’ families and considers the psychological and social consequences of growing up in a family where the genetic link between parents and children is missing or incomplete. The authors discuss adoption, fostering, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation

    From Terror to Trauma

    by Michael Humphrey ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    The Politics of Atrocity and Reconciliation examines contemporary political violence and atrocity in the context of the crisis of the nation-state. It explores the way violence is used to unmake the social world and how its product: suffering, is used to try to remake the social world. Humphrey considers both the unmaking of the world through torture, war, urbicide and ethnic cleansing and the ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Reclaiming Revival

    Calling a Generation to Contend for Historic Awakening

    by Corey Russell, Billy Humphrey ...
    Every great revival begins with a groan.Today, many Christians desperately cry out to God, pleading for Him to send spiritual awakening. But there is a realm of effective prayer that can tip the heavenly prayer bowls to release the historic revival we all desire.Throughout church history, the great saints and revivalists knew that true revival begins with a groan of awakening from the heart of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Adaptive Thermal Comfort

    At the Extremes

    by Susan Roaf, Fergus Nicol, Michael Humphreys ...
    To remain comfortable in a world of ever more extreme weather events and climate trends, we need a building revolution. Building designers, owners, managers, and occupants must prepare now for future climates with new ways to stay comfortable indoors. This book is a compendium of information on comfort that provides an overview of the complexity of the many ways that comfort is achieved in ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Thinking About Human Memory

    by Michael S. Humphreys, Kerry A. Chalmers ...
    Thinking About Human Memory provides a novel analytical approach to understanding memory that considers the goals of the memory task, the cues and information available, the opportunity to learn, and interference from irrelevant information (noise). Each of the five chapters describing this approach introduces historical ideas and demonstrates how current thinking both differs from and is derived ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Social and Emotional Learning

    Edited by Neil Humphrey, Ann Lendrum, Michael Wigelsworth, Mark T. Greenberg ...
    Universal school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) interventions seek to improve the social-emotional competencies (e.g. self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, responsible decision-making) of students through explicit instruction in the context of learning environments that are safe, caring, well-managed and participatory. In recent years, SEL has become a ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Social Psychology Through Experiment

    Edited by George Humphrey, Michael Argyle ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Social Psychology
    Although widely taught to undergraduates, teachers, managers and adult students, practical work and demonstrations in social psychology were often found very difficult to carry out satisfactorily. Originally published in 1962, this book presented for the first time a series of experiments which would work in a classroom setting: some are modified versions of classical experiments, others were new. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Inter-Country Adoption

    Practical Experiences

    Edited by Dr Michael Humphrey, Michael Humphrey ...
    There can be no doubt that intercountry adoption has grown in popularity over the past decade and many childless couples are now considering it as one option in the struggle to achieve a family. By presenting eight first-hand accounts from couples who have adopted from abroad,Inter-Country Adoption offers fascinating insight to the emotional, financial and legal difficulties that prospective ... Read more

    $68.99 USD