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  • Teaching without Tenure

    Policies and Practices for a New Era

    by Roger G. Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister ...
    The growing use of full-time non-tenure-track faculty represents a controversial change in the pattern of staffing colleges and universities. Teaching without Tenure provides the first comprehensive examination of this important phenomenon. Examining the issue from the perspectives of both institutions and faculty members, Roger G. Baldwin and Jay L. Chronister offer a systematic look at who non ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Playing Blackjack to Win

    by Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Cantey, Herbert Maisel, James McDermott ...
    This new edition of the rarest and most influential blackjack book in the history of the game brings together the most famous contributors in the game. Privately published in 1957 in an extremely limited quantity, this was the first book ever to print the correct winning strategies for the game of blackjack. This instant collectors item includes a foreword by blackjack legend Edward O. Thorp, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Questions of Tenure

    by Philip G. Altbach, Roger Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister, Charles T. Clotfelter, James Honan, William T. Mallon, R. Eugene Rice, Cathy A. Trower ...
    Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Questions of Tenure

    by Philip G. Altbach, Roger Baldwin, Jay L. Chronister, Charles T. Clotfelter, William T. Mallon, R. Eugene Rice, Cathy A. Trower, James Honan ...
    Tenure is the abortion issue of the academy, igniting arguments and inflaming near-religious passions. To some, tenure is essential to academic freedom and a magnet to recruit and retain top-flight faculty. To others, it is an impediment to professorial accountability and a constraint on institutional flexibility and finances. But beyond anecdote and opinion, what do we really know about how ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • MABEL

    A once in a lifetime travel adventure

    by Everett L Jennings, Jon C Rogers, Clark Baldwin ...
    "Mabel" is an entertaining, informative and humorous tale of three wildly unusual characters, in an eccentric old roadster, trying to survive the unexpected dangers they encounter as they explore the back roads of Western America, far from civilization. What starts as a simple vacation trip transforms into a life changing adventure that will take you to exciting places you've never been before and ... Read more

    $5.52 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Almonds

    Botany, Production and Uses

    by James Adaskaveg, José M Alonso, José M Ansón, Octavio Arquero, Roger A Baldwin, Ignasi Batlle, Mireia Bordàs, Patrick Brown, Mariano Cambra, Miguel A. Cambra, Robert Curtis, Federico Dicenta, David A. Doll, Henri Duval, Iban Eduardo, Daniel Esmenjaud, José L Espada Carbó, Maria T Espiau, Antonio J. Felipe, Angel Fernández i Martí, Carolina Font i Forcada, Helga Förster, Luis Iannamico, Santiago Izquierdo, Sat Darshan S. Khalsa, Ossama Kodad, Maria M. López, Carmen Martínez, Pedro Martínez-Gómez, Saiful Muhammad, Eva Núñez Seoane, Antonio Olmos, Ana Palacio-Bielsa, Vicente Pallás, Katherine Pope, Gregory Reighard, Maria J Rubio-Cabetas, Ned T. Ryan, Sebastián Sáa Silva, Raquel Sánchez-Pérez, Francisco J. Vargas, Steve Weinbaum, Michelle Wirthensohn, Shu-Biao Wu, Frank G Zalom, Alexis Verdú, Joseph H Connell ...
    Series series Botany, Production and Uses
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of almond growing from a scientific and horticultural perspective, covering botany, production, processing and industrial uses. Almonds are an important crop; they are highly regarded for their flavour, nutritional properties and culinary uses, and almond oil is used widely in food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical production. They are easy to transport and ... Read more

    $175.19 USD

  • Etiology and Morphogenesis of Congenital Heart Disease

    From Gene Function and Cellular Interaction to Morphology

    Edited by Toshio Nakanishi, Roger R. Markwald, H.Scott Baldwin, Bradley B. Keller, Deepak Srivastava, Hiroyuki Yamagishi ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This volume focuses on the etiology and morphogenesis of congenital heart diseases. It reviews in detail the early development and differentiation of the heart, and later morphologic events of the cardiovascular system, covering a wide range of topics such as gene functions, growth factors, transcription factors and cellular interactions that are implicated in cardiac morphogenesis and congenital ... Read more

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    Peace-making in Colombia, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Syria

    Edited by Cedric de Coning, Ako Muto, Rui Saraiva ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This open access book introduces adaptive mediation as an alternative approach that enables mediators to go beyond liberal peace mediation, or other determined-design models of mediation, in the context of contemporary conflict resolution and peace-making initiatives. Adaptive mediation is grounded in complexity theory, and is specifically designed to cope with highly dynamic conflict situations ... Read more

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  • Words, Objects and Events in Economics

    The Making of Economic Theory

    Edited by Peter Róna, László Zsolnai, Agnieszka Wincewicz-Price ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This open access book examines from a variety of perspectives the disappearance of moral content and ethical judgment from the models employed in the formulation of modern economic theory, and some of the papers contain important proposals about how moral judgment could be reintroduced in economic theory. The chapters collected in this volume result from the favorable reception of the first volume ... Read more

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  • Groundwater overexploitation in the North China Plain: A path to sustainability

    by Wolfgang Kinzelbach, Haijing Wang, Yu Li, Lu Wang, Ning Li ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Over-pumping of aquifers is a worldwide problem, mainly caused by agricultural water use. Among its consequences are the falling dry of streams and wetlands, soil subsidence, die-off of phreatophytic vegetation, saline water intrusion, increased pumping cost and loss of storage needed for drought relief.Stopping or reversing the trend requires management interventions. The North China Plain serves ... Read more

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  • Japan’s Arduous Rejuvenation as a Global Power

    Democratic Resilience and the US-China Challenge

    by Victor Teo ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This open access book assesses the profound impact of Japan’s aspirations to become a great power on Japanese security, democracy and foreign relations. Rather than viewing the process of normalization and rejuvenation as two decades of remilitarization in face of rapidly changing strategic environment and domestic political circumstances, this volume contextualizes Japan’s contemporary ... Read more

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  • Firm Innovation and Productivity in Latin America and the Caribbean

    The Engine of Economic Development

    Edited by Inter-American Development Bank, Matteo Grazzi, Carlo Pietrobelli ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
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