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  • Productivity in Natural Resource Industries

    Improvement through Innovation

    by R. David Simpson ...
    Several senior natural resource analysts study the role played by innovation, particularly technological innovation, in the pursuit of heightened productivity. Increasing the output of a given input improves a firm‘s bottom line, makes it more competitive internationally, and reduces the potential for resource depletion and shortages. Thus, high productivity is a necessary ingredient of economic ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Post-Human Omnibus Edition

    Post-Human Series

    by David Simpson ...
    Series series Post-Human Series
    The Multiverse needs a hero...Craig Emilson, is an immortal super soldier, from another era; James Keats, is the world's last natural-born genius and the commander of the Venus terraforming project. Now, in an upgraded future world of post-humans, they must work together to rally humanity against a superhuman artificial intelligence before it succeeds in destroying the multiverse. ... Read more

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  • Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger

    by David Simpson ...
    In our post-9/11 world, the figure of the stranger—the foreigner, the enemy, the unknown visitor—carries a particular urgency, and the force of language used to describe those who are "different" has become particularly strong. But arguments about the stranger are not unique to our time. In Romanticism and the Question of the Stranger, David Simpson locates the figure of the stranger and the ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • States of Terror

    History, Theory, Literature

    by David Simpson ...
    How have we come to depend so greatly on the words terror and terrorism to describe broad categories of violence? David Simpson offers here a philology of terror, tracking the concept's long, complicated history across literature, philosophy, political science, and theology—from Plato to NATO.Introducing the concept of the "fear-terror cluster," Simpson is able to capture the wide range of terms ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sub-Human

    Post-Human Series, #1

    by David Simpson ...
    Series Book 1 - Post-Human Series
    When World War III strikes, Dr. Craig Emilson is sent to take out a powerful artificial intelligence. Unexpectedly, he becomes the greatest hope for humanity. He must choose between saving mankind or saving himself as he faces impossible odds and an army of super soldiers on a mission to destroy him. "Sub-Human" is the first book in a new series of page turners that will keep you guessing until ... Read more

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  • The 3-Plan Retirement

    by David Simpson ...
    The 3-Plan Retirement: Take Control of Your Finances and Retire More Comfortably by David Simpson.Many Canadians believe they need millions to retire comfortably, but the truth is, you can achieve a great retirement with far less-if you take the right steps. In The 3-Plan Retirement, David Simpson reveals how you can take control of your financial future and maximize your retirement savings, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Practical Onshore Gas Field Engineering

    by David Simpson ...
    Practical Onshore Gas Field Engineering delivers the necessary framework to help engineers understand the needs of the reservoir, including sections on early transmission and during the life of the well. Written from a reservoir perspective, this reference includes methods and equipment from gas reservoirs, covering the gathering stage at the gas facility for transportation and processing. Loaded ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

  • Striding With Economic Giants

    Business and Public Policy Lessons From Nobel Laureates

    by David Simpson ...
    Striding explores the modernization process by outlining the economics of agriculture, growth theories of economic development, and problems with growth.During the last century, policy makers and the public acquired a considerable interest in economics. As a result, this heightened awareness enhanced the well-being of society.In 1969, the Nobel Foundation initiated the new prize category of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Engaging Violence

    Civility and the Reach of Literature

    by David Simpson ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Recent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility has also been understood as violence in disguise, and literature, which has only rarely sought to ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Wordsworth, Commodification, and Social Concern

    The Poetics of Modernity

    by David Simpson ...
    Series Book 79 - Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
    This reading of Wordworth's poetry by leading critic David Simpson centres on its almost obsessive representation of spectral forms and images of death in life. Wordsworth is reacting, Simpson argues, to the massive changes in the condition of England and the modern world at the turn of the century: mass warfare; the increased scope of machine-driven labour and urbanisation; and the expanding ... Read more

    $41.89 USD

  • Wordsworth's Historical Imagination (Routledge Revivals)

    The Poetry of Displacement

    by David Simpson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Traditionally, Wordsworth’s greatness is founded on his identity as the poet of nature and solitude. The Wordsworthian imagination is seen as an essentially private faculty, its very existence premised on the absence of other people. In this title, first published in 1987, David Simpson challenges this established view of Wordsworth, arguing that it fails to recognize and explain the importance of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Challenge Of New Technology

    by David Simpson, Jim Love, Jim Walker ...
    This book looks at what has actually happened when new technology has been deployed in an industrial and commercial environment. It considers the economic impact of new technology on three groups of organisations: firms, governments and trade unions. ... Read more

    $42.99 USD