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Paperback. A wide-ranging introduction to the social, political, cultural and economic life of South Africa. Updated throughout, the new edition considers the pa rticular challenges of the early 21st century: unemployment, education, cri me, a maturing HIV/AIDS epidemic and South Africa's complex international r elations within sub-Saharan Africa and beyond.

Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

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.

Condition: Very Good. McKendrick provides an excellent, readable guide to contract law for those embarking on a first degree or conversion course in law. The book contains all the key information as well as more complex issues to serve as a valuab le course companion, but equally to aid revision in preparation for exams. This edition includes the following key updates in case law: Proprietary Es toppel: Yeoman's Row Management Ltd v Cobbe [2008] UKHL 55 Frustration: Edw inton Commercial Corporation, Global Tradeways Limited v Tsavliris Russ (Wo rldwide Salvage& Towage) Ltd (The 'Sea Angel') [2007] EWCA Civ 547, CTI Gro up Inc v Transclear SA [2008] EWCA Civ 856 Remoteness Of Damage: Transfield Shipping Inc v Mercator Shipping Inc [2008] UKHL 48; [2008] 3 WLR 345 Date Of Assessment Of Contractual Damages: Golden Strait Corporation v Nippon Y usen Kubishika Kaisha [2007] UKHL 12;[2007] 2 WLR 691 Damages And Account O f Profits: WWF-World Wide Fund for Nature v. World Wrestling Federation Ent ertainment Inc. [2007] EWCA 286.

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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.

Condition: Very Good.

2014. 16 x 24 cm. XII, 212 S. XII, 212 p. Sprache: Englisch.

2014. 16 x 24 cm. XIII, 225 S. XIII, 225 p. Sprache: Englisch.

1st ed. 2015. 15.2 cm x 15.2 cm, 0 g. 225 p. Hardcover. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Sprache: Englisch.

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. 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.

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

Paperback. Condition: Like New. Synopsis: Since its first publication in 1961 E.H. Carr's What is History? has establ ished itself as the classic introduction to the subject. Ranging across top ics such as historical objectivity, society and the individual, the nature of causation, and the possibility of progress, Carr delivered an incisive t ext that still has the power to provoke debate today. For this fortieth ann iversary reissue, Richard J. Evans has written an extensive new introductio n that discusses the origins and the impact of the book, and assesses its r elevance in the age of twenty-first century postmodernism and epistemologic al anxiety. About the Author: E.H. CARR who died in 1982 at the age of ninety was a Fellow of Trinity Col lege, Cambridge, UK, and an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, UK. His books include International Relations between the Two World Wars 1919- 1939, The Twenty Years' Crisis 1919-1939, Nationalism and After, The New So ciety, What is History?, 1917: Before and After, Michael Bakunin, The Russi an Revolution From Lenin to Stalin 1917-1929, the fourteen volume History o f Soviet Russia and The Twilight of the Comintern 1930-1935. RICHARD J. EVANS is Professor of Modern History at University of Cambridge and author of In Defence of History.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting.The spine remains undamaged. This book offers a collection of essays on novels and short stories from the beginning of Victoria's reign through to the end of the nineteenth century and into our own times. The essays represent a wide range of critical and theoretical viewpoints on fiction, and they deal with a number of lesser-known Victorian Works as well as with some of the most canonical texts of the period. The chronological range of the volume is extended by essays which explore Victorian texts' connections with earlier literature, as well as by studies of twentieth-century novelists' responses to Victorian fiction. Overall this collection emphasizes the breadth and diversity of Victorian prose fiction and will be of interest to students and specialists alike.

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: 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.

1st ed. 2017. 15 x 21 cm. XV, 173 S. XV, 173 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color. Hardcover. Sprache: Englisch.

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

Paperback. Condition: Good. vii, 180 pages ; 23 cm Includes bibliographical references (p171-176) and index.

2014. 16 x 24 cm. IX, 225 S. IX, 225 p. Hardcover. Sprache: Englisch.

2012. 14 x 22 cm. XI, 259 S. XI, 259 p. (Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World). Sprache: Englisch.

1st ed. 2012. 14 x 22 cm. XIV, 197 S. XIV, 197 p. (Elections, Voting, Technology). Sprache: Englisch.

2012. 14 x 22 cm. XVIII, 256 S. XVIII, 256 p. Sprache: Englisch.

2014. 14 x 22 cm. VIII, 122 S. VIII, 122 p. Sprache: Englisch.

1st ed. 2014. 14 x 22 cm. X, 209 S. X, 209 p. Sprache: Englisch.

1st ed. 2015. 14 x 22 cm. VIII, 264 S. VIII, 264 p. Hardcover. (Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy). Sprache: Englisch.

1st ed. 2016. 14 x 22 cm. VI, 214 S. VI, 214 p. hardcover Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Sprache: Englisch.

1st ed. 2017. 15 x 21 cm. XIII, 174 S. XIII, 174 p. 1 illus. Sprache: Englisch.