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How does aging affect interaction between people and their social environment? This book examines that question from various perspectives exploring social and psychological dimensions of aging process. It investigates such…
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Jon Hendricks
Aging is a universal experience, and an individual one. But it is also a cultural phenomenon. This collection draws on research from around the world to explore how cultural context…
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Offers a variety of insights into ways of maximizing choice, independence, and well-being, and minimizing the emotional stunting often associated with institutionalization. This book examines both imaginative institutional programs and…
Jon Whistler
The End of Time is near! The Time Loop is drawing to a close! In his best selling book, One Light, Jon Whistler unveiled the Great Illusion used to control…
Jon Ronson
From the Sunday Times top-ten bestselling author of The Psychopath Test, a brilliant and hilarious new book exploring the consequences of public shaming.
Jon Wiener
A revealing look at headline-grabbing controversies revolving around charges of plagiarism and fraud in the profession of history.
A collection of creative writings by students at The University of Akron
Jon Finkel
This is the untold story of the city of Seattle, their beloved Sonics, and how the legacy of their stolen team created a transcendent hoops culture and a pipeline of…
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Jon Marshall
Clash describes the powerful political, technological, economic, and social forces that shape the relationship between presidents and the press and how that relationship shapes public opinion. Jon Marshall argues that…
Jon Moran
Moran concentrates on three aims: to provide an overview of British military intelligence operations in the last 30 years which concentrates on operational not strategic intelligence; to examine the debates…
Jon Turk
Jon Turk has kayaked around Cape Horn and paddled across the Pacific Ocean to retrace the voyages of ancient people. In a remote Siberian village, Turk met an elderly Koryak…
Jon Stratton
Coming Out Jewish explores the idea of ‘Jewishness’ as a problem of racial/ethnic identity in the modern and post-modern world. It is a path-breaking book that firmly places the Jewish…
This valuable textbook communicates the complexities and controversies at the heart of youth work management, exploring key issues in a critical fashion. Written by a team of experienced youth work…
Jon Roper
In this accesible and informative text, Jon Roper introduces the reader to arguments for and against criticisms of the concept of democracy. He does so through examination of the statements…
Jon Wees
This easy-to-follow guide breaks down the healthcare debate, frankly discussing positions and plans from both sides of the aisle, what works and doesn’t work in models from around the world…
Jon Tattrie
February 2016. Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Tareq Hadhad was worried about his father: Isam did not know what to do with his life. Before the war began in Syria, Isam had…
Robert Butler’s call for life reviews has exerted a key influence on the way gerontologists have looked at reminiscence and remembering. This work brings together both research and application pieces…
A comprehensive guide to the calls of 44 species of bat occurring in Europe. Following on from the British Bat Calls by Jon Russ, this new book substantially updates all…
Jon Towlson
Arguably, excess is at the heart of Dawn of the Dead, integral to its meaning: not only in its scenes of gore, its in-your-face social satire and its gaudy pop-kitsch…
Jon Lackland
Had enough of repeatedly giving up booze only to keep returning to the old cycles? Want to end the anguish and give yourself the chance to be the best you…
Jon Woodward
A series of short lyric bursts give form to a story of loss, grief, and recovery.
An iconic and controversial film, Midnight Cowboy is given its due as a classic of queer cinema. By shifting the perspective away from interpretations of Midnight Cowboy as homophobic, Jon…
Jon Dunn
An acclaimed natural history writer follows the trail of the remarkable hummingbird all over the world. Hummingbirds are a glittering, sparkling collective of over three hundred wildly variable species. For…
Jon Nielson
We all experience doubt. Enter Luke, who writes with the explicit and vital purpose of helping his readers to be certain of the good news of Jesus’s death and resurrection.
Jon Shepard
Using SQ3R (Survey, Question, Read, Recite, Review) and research orientation to the basic principles of sociology, this book features topics such as cyber bullying and stratification and the social impact…
Jon Roffe
Badiou’s Deleuze presents the first thorough analysis of one of the most significant encounters in contemporary thought: Alain Badiou’s summary interpretation and rejection of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.
Jon Casey
Ellie loves the beach. But when one tiny creature gives her a big fright, her favorite place begins to feel a little scary. Now Ellie must learn-with a little help…
In this extensive revision, chapters have been updated with new material and now incorporate the DSM-5’s classification system of mental disorders. This book is international in scope, not focusing on…
Jon Stratton explores the concept of ‘song careers’, referring to how a song is picked up and then transformed by being revisioned by different artists and in different cultural contexts.
Jon Anderson
This book outlines how the theoretical ideas, empirical foci, and methodological techniques of cultural geography make sense of the ‘culture wars’ that define our time. It showcases how this discipline…
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‘Exceedingly well-researched and packed with fascinating lore, it should appeal to avid birders and general readers alike’ - WALL STREET JOURNAL
‘As gleaming and mesmeric as its tiny subject’ VANITY…
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Jon Sparks
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Lancaster has changed and developed over the last century.
Jon Nixon
Erich Auerbach was a Jewish refugee who in exile in Istanbul during WWII wrote one of the major works of 20th Century literary criticism. This book explores the major themes…
Jon Stobart
This book traces the changes in layout, the new technologies, and innovations in furniture that made country houses more comfortable, but argues that comfort was also found in daily routines…
Jon Lang
Urban Design: A Typology of Procedures and Products, 2nd Edition provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to urban design, defining the field and addressing the controversies and goals of urban…
Jon Shane
While the proximate cause of any accident is usually someone’s immediate action- or omission (failure to act)-there is often a trail of underlying latent conditions that facilitated their error: the…
Jon Piccini
This groundbreaking study unpicks a tangled web of activists, bureaucrats, writers and politicians who championed, engaged with, critiqued or ignored what are today held to be the unassailable truths of…
Jon Sorensen
Fridtjof Nansen var en av Norges mest allsidige og internasjonalt beromte personer. Han var en banebrytende naturforsker, polarekspedisjonsleder, forfatter og kunstner, diplomat og filantrop. Han ble tildelt Nobels fredspris i…
Jon Orman
Adopting a rigorous theoretical approach to the study of language policy and national identity, both generally and with specific application to the sociolinguistic situation in South Africa, this volume also…
Jon Yates
How did we become so divided and what do we do about it? ‘Analytically incisive yet infectiously optimistic, Fractured expertly diagnoses the deepest divisions in our society and provides an…
Jon Richter
A brilliant murder mystery of shifting perspectives, motivations, and politics from the author of Rabbit Hole.
The owner of Brookhaven Care Home has been stabbed to death in his office…
Thriller from Jon Richter
How far would you go to solve a murder?
Elaine Napier, an investigative journalist who is made redundant from her job, decides to record a true-crime podcast. All she needs…
Can you be free if you can’t go outside?
The year is 2024, and the residents of the Tower, a virus-proof apartment building, live in a state of permanent lockdown…
Jon Sawatsky
A Dozen 5th Edition One-Shot Adventures for Levels 1 to 15.
So, your players went off on a tangent? Never fear-Prepared 2 offers GMs quick solutions to keep the game…