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  • Blind Descent

    by Robert Hess ...
    TERROR IN THE ANTACRTIC WASTELANDAfter regaining consciousness and crawling from the twisted wreckage of the plane, Robert Hess surveyed the landscape around him: the icy desert of Antarctica stared back, a white emptiness as far as he could see. Then, from inside the plane came the screams of his mangled friend and the keening of frightened sled dogs.Only a year earlier, Hess had been a retired ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sport and Christianity

    Historical Perspectives

    Edited by Hugh McLeod, Nils Martinius Justvik, Robert Hess ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and Christianity examines sport and Christianity from a variety of historical perspectives, with the main focus on the period from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries.The book is not limited to a narrow definition of Christianity, but rather encompasses a wide range of denominations, related philosophies and viewpoints. The contributors are international, and the geographical ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand

    Edited by Martin Crotty, Robert Hess ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society - Historical Perspectives
    Sport and war have been closely linked in Australian and New Zealand society since the nineteenth century. Sport has, variously, been advocated as appropriate training for war, lambasted as a distraction from the war effort, and resorted to as an escape from wartime trials and tribulations. War has limited the fortunes of some sporting codes – and some individuals – while others have blossomed in ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Early Formal Education

    Current Theory, Research, and Practice

    by Robert Hess ...
    The future of any society lies in its ability to train and socialize its young. The stability of its institutions, political systems, the productivity of its industrial resources, and the creativity of its intellectual talent reflect the success of those who have been given responsibility for shaping and developing its youth. If these teaching functions are not adequately performed, through ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Invading Australia: Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

    Japan and the battle for Australia, 1942

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  • Empathy

    From Bench to Bedside

    Edited by Jean Decety ...
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    Recent work on empathy theory, research, and applications, by scholars from disciplines ranging from neuroscience to psychoanalysis.There are many reasons for scholars to investigate empathy. Empathy plays a crucial role in human social interaction at all stages of life; it is thought to help motivate positive social behavior, inhibit aggression, and provide the affective and motivational bases ... Read more

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  • The Ice Pilots

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  • The Mind and the Market

    Capitalism in Western Thought

    by Jerry Z. Muller ...
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  • Miracle in the Andes

    72 Days on the Mountain and My Long Trek Home

    by Nando Parrado ...
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  • The History of Political Thought

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Richard Whatmore ...
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    Thinking about politics has tended to be historical in nature because of the comparisons and contrasts that can be drawn between past and present. Different periods in politics have used the past differently. At times political thought can be said to have been drawn directly from the study of history; at others, perhaps including our own time, the relationship is more indirect. This Very Short ... Read more

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