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  • Population Genetics

    A Concise Guide

    by John H. Gillespie ...
    This concise introduction offers students and researchers an overview of the discipline that connects genetics and evolution. Addressing the theories behind population genetics and relevant empirical evidence, John Gillespie discusses genetic drift, natural selection, nonrandom mating, quantitative genetics, and the evolutionary advantage of sex. First published to wide acclaim in 1998, this ... Read more

    $45.09 CAD

  • Transplanting Commercial Law Reform

    Developing a 'Rule of Law' in Vietnam

    by John Gillespie ...
    The first sustained analysis examining legal transplantation into East Asia, this volume examines the prospects for transplanting a 'rule of law' that will attract and sustain international trade and investment in this economically dynamic region. The book develops both a general model that explains how legal transplantation shapes legal development in the region, whilst developing theoretical ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Our 351 Sons

    by John Gillespie ...
    In 1965, a few years after taking in Jerry Monson, a 13-year old foster boy from an unfortunate family situation into their home, John and Jan founded the non-profit Rawhide Boys Ranch. The following year they enlisted Bart Starr, of Green Bay Packer fame, and his wife, Cherry, to partner with them. With their support, Rawhide became one of the most successful residential programs in the nation ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

    by John Gillespie ...
    Series series Dover Books On Music: Piano
    Most listeners can readily distinguish between the works of such keyboard giants as Bach, Beethoven, and Liszt and between various national schools, but when it comes to defining what the differences are, relating the various interconnections, discovering information on the hundreds of other keyboard composers, and actually finding playing editions, the task becomes much greater. To aid the ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Queering Gestalt Therapy

    An Anthology on Gender, Sex & Relationship Diversity in Psychotherapy

    Edited by Ayhan Alman, John Gillespie, Vikram Kolmannskog ...
    The first peer-reviewed book of its kind, this important volume addresses a current gap in the field of gestalt therapy: that the practice—and psychotherapy more broadly—still suffers from pervasive hetero- and cis-normativity.This book offers gestalt-therapy-based research and training material on gender, sex, and relationship diversity (GSRD), including chapters on a variety of GSRD issues and ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • An Unexpected Journal: Dystopia

    Volume 2, #3

    by An Unexpected Journal, Michael S. Heiser, John Gillespie, Alicia Pollard, George Scondras, Cherish Nelson, Daniel Asperheim, Donald W. Catchings, Jr, Annie Crawford, Karise Gililland, Nicole Howe, Korine Martinez, Jason Monroe, Seth Myers, Zak Schmoll ...
    Series Book 3 - Volume 2
    It is in the deepest darkness that light shines most brightly. For this reason, dystopian stories are often an effective channel to communicate the good news of the Gospel. Our worst failings illustrate the transformation of the Holy Spirit most clearly. We cling most tightly to hope in times of deepest despair.This collection of essays and first release short stories illustrates the journey ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inexorable Modernity

    Japan's Grappling with Modernity in the Arts

    by John K. Gillespie, David G. Goodman, Charles Shiro Inouye, Mikiko Hirayama, Brenda G. Jordan, David Jortner, Keiko I. McDonald, Jonah Salz, Mayu Tsuruya, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. ...
    Beginning in late Edo, the Japanese faced a rapidly and irreversibly changing world in which industrialization, westernization, and internationalization was exerting pressure upon an entrenched traditional culture. The Japanese themselves felt threatened by Western powers, with their sense of superiority and military might. Yet, the Japanese were more prepared to meet this challenge than was ... Read more

    $62.29 CAD

  • Money for Nothing

    How CEOs and Boards Enrich Themselves While Bankrupting America

    by John Gillespie, David Zweig ...
    **A Bank of America director questioned the CEO's $76 million pay package in a year when the bank was laying off 12,600 workers and found herself dropped from the board without notice a few months later.According to their employment agreements -- approved by boards -- 96 percent of large company CEOs have guarantees that do not allow them to be fired "for cause" for unsatisfactory performance, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition

    Towards a Regulatory Geography of Global Competition Law

    Edited by Michael W. Dowdle, John Gillespie, Imelda Maher ...
    Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition explores the implications of Asian forms of capitalism and their regulation of competition for the emerging global competition law regime. Expert contributors from a variety of backgrounds explore the topic through the lenses of formal law, soft law and transnational regulation, and make extensive comparisons with Euro-American and global models. ... Read more

    $48.79 CAD

  • Socialist Law in Socialist East Asia

    Edited by Hualing Fu, John Gillespie, Pip Nicholson, William Edmund Partlett ...
    Since China's reform and opening up started in 1978 and Vietnam's Doi Moi reforms were initiated in 1986, these two East Asian economies have adopted capitalistic models of development while retaining and reforming their socialist legal systems along the way. Tracking the trajectory of socialist laws and their legacy, this book offers a unique comparison of laws and institutional designs in China ... Read more

    $53.59 CAD

  • Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia

    Exploring the Limits of Law

    Edited by Hualing Fu, John Gillespie ...
    Economic development and mass urbanization have unleashed unprecedented levels of land disputes in East Asia. In China and Vietnam especially, courts and other legal institutions struggle to find lasting solutions. It is against this background of legal failure that this book brings together leading scholars to understand how state agencies, land users and land developers imaginatively engage with ... Read more

    $117.59 CAD

  • Translating Values

    Evaluative Concepts in Translation

    Edited by Piotr Blumczynski, John Gillespie ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This collection explores the central importance of values and evaluative concepts in cross-cultural translational encounters. Written by a group of international scholars from a diverse range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds, the chapters in this book consider what it means to translate cultures by examining core values and their relationship to key evaluative concepts (such as authenticity, ... Read more

    $95.79 CAD