Institutions & learned societies: general books

389 books were found.

Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions

Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions...

Author: Patrik Aspers (Chair of Sociology, Chair of Sociology, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland)
ISBN: 9780197752753
Format: Hardback
$165.95

In Uncertainty, Patrik Aspers provides detailed analysis of publicly available means of uncertainty reduction. Examining...  Read More >>

Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures

Plunder?: How Museums Got Their Treasures

Author: Justin M. Jacobs
ISBN: 9781789149487
Format: Hardback
$37.99

A thought-provoking examination of the allegedly immoral provenance of Western museum collections.  Read More >>

Co-operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective: Exceptionally Un-American?

Co-operative Enterprise in Comparative Perspective:...

Author: Jason S. Spicer (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Baruch College, City University of New York)
ISBN: 9780197665077
Format: Hardback
$165.95

A rigorous comparative-historical analysis of how co-operative enterprises in different national contexts, this...  Read More >>

Vision and Resilience: A Story of Remarkable Growth and Transformation at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

Vision and Resilience: A Story of Remarkable Growth...

Author: Joseph M. Beilein, Jr.
ISBN: 9798218328641
Format: Hardback
$92.27

""Explores the recent history of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, and how it might serve as a blueprint for...  Read More >>

Performing Institutions: Contested Sites and Structures of Care

Performing Institutions: Contested Sites and Structures...

Author: Anja Mølle Lindelof ,  Shauna Janssen
ISBN: 9781789389555
Format: Paperback
$79.95

Rooted in the social and cultural histories of education, self-organization, activist practices, performance, design,...  Read More >>

The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology

The Tradition of the Chicago School of Sociology

Author: Luigi Tomasi
ISBN: 9781138276734
Format: Paperback
$83.99

The value of the book lies in its reassessment of the distinctive features of the Chicago School, of its contributions...  Read More >>

British Psychology in Crisis: A Case Study in Organisational Dysfunction

British Psychology in Crisis: A Case Study in Organisational...

Author: David Pilgrim
ISBN: 9781800131842
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Contributors Graham Buchanan, Ashley Conway, Pat Harvey, and David Pilgrim describe the current organisational crisis...  Read More >>

My Final Territory: Selected Essays

My Final Territory: Selected Essays

Author: Yuri Andrukhovych ,  Mark Andryczyk
ISBN: 9781487550813
Format: Paperback
$59.99

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Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, 20

Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy,...

Author:
ISBN: 9780197267448
Format: Paperback
$153.95

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and professional...  Read More >>

A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and its Trustees: A Century of Oriental Scholarship

A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and its Trustees:...

Author: Charles Melville ,  Carole Hillenbrand
ISBN: 9781399516259
Format: Hardback
$129.38

Provides an unusual history of an important institution promoting Islamic scholarship in Britain, The Gibb Memorial...  Read More >>

Stop & Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago

Stop & Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago

Author: Wesley G. Skogan (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9780197675069
Format: Paperback
$63.95

A comprehensive analysis of the stop & frisk policy, its origins as Chicago's predominant strategy for responding...  Read More >>

Enhancing Teaching Practice in Higher Education: International Perspectives on Academic Teaching and Learning

Enhancing Teaching Practice in Higher Education: International...

Author: Beatrix Kreß ,  Beatrix Kress
ISBN: 9783631860977
Format: Hardback
$168.83

Teaching and Learning in Higher Education has changed. In this volume international perspectives on learning policies...  Read More >>

Stop & Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago

Stop & Frisk and the Politics of Crime in Chicago

Author: Wesley G. Skogan (Professor Emeritus, Professor Emeritus, Northwestern University)
ISBN: 9780197675052
Format: Hardback
$233.00

A comprehensive analysis of the stop & frisk policy, its origins as Chicago's predominant strategy for responding...  Read More >>

Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada

Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education...

Author: Sue Winton
ISBN: 9781487508586
Format: Hardback
$125.00

Unequal Benefits shows how policies that create education ""markets"" and encourage greater private sector involvement...  Read More >>

Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education in Canada

Unequal Benefits: Privatization and Public Education...

Author: Sue Winton
ISBN: 9781487525965
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Unequal Benefits shows how policies that create education ""markets"" and encourage greater private sector involvement...  Read More >>

The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620–1850: Lineages, Bureaucracy and Technical Expertise

The Chinese Astronomical Bureau, 1620–1850: Lineages,...

Author: Ping-Ying Chang
ISBN: 9780367439675
Format: Hardback
$263.00

This book offers a new insight into one of the most interesting and long-lived institutions known to historians...  Read More >>

The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development

The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development...

Author: Shiping Tang
ISBN: 9780691235578
Format: Paperback
$62.99

A systemic account of how institutions shape economic development. Institutions matter for economic development....  Read More >>

The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development

The Institutional Foundation of Economic Development...

Author: Shiping Tang
ISBN: 9780691235561
Format: Hardback
$180.00

"A systemic account of how institutions shape economic development. Institutions matter for economic development....  Read More >>

The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal Society (1667)

The Image of Restoration Science: The Frontispiece to...

Author: Michael Hunter
ISBN: 9781032402277
Format: Paperback
$83.99

This book is about a single image - John Evelyn's frontispiece to Thomas Sprat’s History of the Royal-Society of...  Read More >>

Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves: Towards a Reconstruction of the Library of the Mamluk Sultan Qani?awh al-Ghawri (r. 906-922/1501-1516)

Browsing through the Sultan's Bookshelves: Towards a...

Author: Kristof D'hulster
ISBN: 9783847112921
Format: Hardback
$182.16

"Starting from 135 manuscripts that were once part of the library of the late Mamluk sultan Qanisawh al-Ghawri (r....  Read More >>

The Possibly True Story of Martin Gardiner

The Possibly True Story of Martin Gardiner

Author: Graeme Cohen
ISBN: 9781925043693
Format: Paperback
$34.95

Based on the true events of 19th century Australia's most enigmatic mathematician The Possibly True Story of Martin...  Read More >>

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