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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Former library book with protected fine dust jacket. The covers look great. The binding is tight. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. VG+ condition with crisp dust jacket. The covers look great. The binding is tight. Scuffed front flyleaf. The interior pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket has a 2" tear at the top of the front edge. Electronic delivery tracking will be issued free of charge.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 7th Printing. Palgrave Macmillan 1986 7th Printing Very Good/ Slight wear to bright glossy cover, tight bright mostly unmarked pages, a few pages have highlighting or underlining. xiv+226 pages with index. 8.5 ounces.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. Loyal and courageous, dogs are truly man's best friend on the battlefield. In War Dogs, Rebecca Frankel offers a riveting mix of on-the-ground reporting, her own hands-on experiences in the military working dog world, and a look at the science of dogs' special abilities from their amazing noses and powerful jaws to their enormous sensitivity to the emotions of their human companions. The history of dogs in the US military is long and rich, from the spirit-lifting mascots of the Civil War to the dogs still leading patrols hunting for IEDs today. Frankel not only interviewed handlers who deployed with dogs in wars from Vietnam to Iraq, but top military commanders, K-9 program managers, combat-trained therapists who brought dogs into war zones as part of a preemptive measure to stave off PTSD, and veterinary technicians stationed in Bagram. She makes a passionate case for maintaining a robust war-dog force. With a compelling cast of humans and animals, this moving book is a must read for all dog lovers, military and otherwise.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 328 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Record # 464642.

Paperback. Condition: New. Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favourite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant cross in SeaWorId.And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorId.

Paperback. Condition: New. The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an adventure-filled saga of Amir Aczel's lifelong obsession: to find the original sources of our numerals. Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty, moldy texts, cross examining so-called scholars who offered wildly differing sets of facts, and ultimately penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof. Here, he takes the reader along for the ride. The history begins with the early Babylonian cuneiform numbers, followed by the later Greek and Roman letter numerals. Then Aczel asks the key question: where do the numbers we use today, the so-called Hindu-Arabic numerals, come from? This leads him to explore uncharted territory, to go on a grand quest into India, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, and ultimately into the wilds of Cambodia.There he finds the earliest zero on a crumbling, vine-covered wall of a seventh-century temple adorned with eaten-away erotic sculptures. While on this odyssey, Aczel meets academics in search of truth, jungle trekkers looking for adventure, surprisingly honest politicians, shameless smugglers, and archaeological thieves - who finally reveal where our numbers come from.

Paperback. Condition: New. The issue of video games and their harmful/helpful effects on children and young adults is a hot topic. The Hardback sold very well. The book does not shy away from controversy, even finding good news in shooter games vis a vis adolescent cognitive development. "The Observer" newspaper recently called Gee 'One of the worlds leading educational experts'.This title provides a controversial look at the positive things that can be learned from video games by a well known professor of education. James Paul Gee begins his new book with 'I want to talk about video games- yes, even violent video games - and say some positive things about them'. With this simple but explosive beginning, one of America's most well-respected professors of education looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. Gee is interested in the cognitive development that can occur when someone is trying to escape a maze, find a hidden treasure and, even, blasting away an enemy with a high-powered rifle.Talking about his own video-gaming experience learning and using games as diverse as Lara Croft and Arcanum, Gee looks at major specific cognitive activities such as: how individuals develop a sense of identity; how one grasps meaning; how one evaluates and follows a command; how one picks a role model; and, how one perceives the world.This is a ground-breaking book that takes up a new electronic method of education and shows the positive upside it has for learning.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: New. The issue of video games and their harmful/helpful effects on children and young adults is a hot topic. The Hardback sold very well. The book does not shy away from controversy, even finding good news in shooter games vis a vis adolescent cognitive development. "The Observer" newspaper recently called Gee 'One of the worlds leading educational experts'.This title provides a controversial look at the positive things that can be learned from video games by a well known professor of education. James Paul Gee begins his new book with 'I want to talk about video games- yes, even violent video games - and say some positive things about them'. With this simple but explosive beginning, one of America's most well-respected professors of education looks seriously at the good that can come from playing video games. Gee is interested in the cognitive development that can occur when someone is trying to escape a maze, find a hidden treasure and, even, blasting away an enemy with a high-powered rifle.Talking about his own video-gaming experience learning and using games as diverse as Lara Croft and Arcanum, Gee looks at major specific cognitive activities such as: how individuals develop a sense of identity; how one grasps meaning; how one evaluates and follows a command; how one picks a role model; and, how one perceives the world.This is a ground-breaking book that takes up a new electronic method of education and shows the positive upside it has for learning.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Unmasking L.A. Third Worlds and the City by D. Sawhney. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2002. 266pp. Language: English. Note: Note: Stamped inside cover. Some sunning/fading of the cover along the spine. Otherwise fine.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 294 pages. Previous owner's stamp and notes on front end paper. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy. Record # 464303.

Paperback. Condition: New. Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favourite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant cross in SeaWorId.And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorId.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDGeneral & Miscellaneous Irish Fiction & Prose Literature - Literary Criticism; Good trade paperback with creasing, stain on middle edge, stain on some pages, 3rd edition, nicked, and prompt shipping with tracking.

Paperback. Condition: As New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Pages are clean and unmarked. Boards are clean and square. Binding is tight. Text block is clean. Dust Jacket is clean, bright and unmarked. Very light shelfwear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. Pages are unmarked, except for one stamp on first free end paper. Boards are clean. Binding is square and tight. Faint wear to cloth at spine ends and corners. Dust jacket has slight edgewear, covers are toned at edges and along spine. Pictures provided upon request.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardback. Condition: New. Illustrated. It has been the home to priests and prostitutes, poets and spies. It has been the stage for an improbable flirtation between an Israeli girl and a Palestinian boy living on opposite sides of the barbed wire that separated enemy nations. It has even been the scene of an unsolved international murder. This one-time shepherd's path between Jerusalem and Bethlehem has been a dividing line for decades. Arab families called it "al Mantiqa Haram." Jewish residents knew it as "shetach hefker." In both languages it meant the same thing: "the Forbidden Area." Peacekeepers that monitored the steep fault line dubbed it "Barbed Wire Alley." To folks on either side of the border, it was the same thing: A dangerous no-man's land separating warring nations and feuding cultures. The barbed wire came down in 1967. But it was soon supplanted by evermore formidable cultural, emotional and political barriers separating Arab and Jew. For nearly two decades, coils of barbed wire ran right down the middle of what became Assael Street, marking the fissure between Israeli-controlled West Jerusalem and Jordanian-controlled East Jerusalem.In a beautiful narrative, A Street Divided offers a more intimate look at one road at the heart of the conflict, where inches really do matter.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Dust Jacket Condition: None. 2013.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover / Paperback. Condition: Wie neu. 232 S. Like new. Shrink wrapped. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 630.

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiv, 274 pages; 23 cm. Summary: Drawing on empirical and experiential material from the Horn, East and West Africa, this title presents an original overview of the challenges facing African anthropology and its future prospects. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Research and teaching in Ethiopian anthropology: an overview of traditions, trends and recent developments / Alula Pankhurst -- How not to be a 'government house pet': Audrey Richards and the East African Institute for Social Research / David Mills -- Teaching of anthropology in Zimbabwe over the past forty years: continuities and discontinuities / Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa -- Practice of anthropology in Francophone Africa: the case of Cameroon / Se éverin Ce écile Abega -- Forgetting Africa / Johannes Fabian -- But we know it all! : African perspectives on anthropological knowledge / Christine Obbo -- African pastoralism through anthropological eyes: whose crisis? / Mustafa Babiker -- Invisible religion?: anthropology's avoidance of Islam in Arica / Robert Launay -- Anthropology in post-colonial Africa: the Nigerian case / P.-J. Ezeh -- Reflections on the challenges of teaching anthropology to American students in post-colonial Kenya / Mwenda Ntarangwi -- Challenges and prospects for applied anthropology in Kenya / Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo -- Practising anthropology at home: challenges and ethical dilemmas / W. Onyango-Ouma. Subjects: Anthropology Research Africa, Sub-Saharan. Anthropology Study and teaching Africa, Sub-Saharan. Anthropology Research. Cultural anthropology. Genre: Bibliography. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiv, 274 pages; 23 cm. Summary: Drawing on empirical and experiential material from the Horn, East and West Africa, this title presents an original overview of the challenges facing African anthropology and its future prospects. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Research and teaching in Ethiopian anthropology: an overview of traditions, trends and recent developments / Alula Pankhurst -- How not to be a 'government house pet': Audrey Richards and the East African Institute for Social Research / David Mills -- Teaching of anthropology in Zimbabwe over the past forty years: continuities and discontinuities / Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa -- Practice of anthropology in Francophone Africa: the case of Cameroon / Se éverin Ce écile Abega -- Forgetting Africa / Johannes Fabian -- But we know it all! : African perspectives on anthropological knowledge / Christine Obbo -- African pastoralism through anthropological eyes: whose crisis? / Mustafa Babiker -- Invisible religion?: anthropology's avoidance of Islam in Arica / Robert Launay -- Anthropology in post-colonial Africa: the Nigerian case / P.-J. Ezeh -- Reflections on the challenges of teaching anthropology to American students in post-colonial Kenya / Mwenda Ntarangwi -- Challenges and prospects for applied anthropology in Kenya / Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo -- Practising anthropology at home: challenges and ethical dilemmas / W. Onyango-Ouma. Subjects: Anthropology Research Africa, Sub-Saharan. Anthropology Study and teaching Africa, Sub-Saharan. Anthropology Research. Cultural anthropology. Genre: Bibliography. 1 Kg. Item is Shipped from Ireland or US locations.