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  • Fundamentals of Charged Particle Transport in Gases and Condensed Matter

    by Robert Robson, Ronald White, Malte Hildebrandt ...
    Series series Monograph Series in Physical Sciences
    This book offers a comprehensive and cohesive overview of transport processes associated with all kinds of charged particles, including electrons, ions, positrons, and muons, in both gases and condensed matter. The emphasis is on fundamental physics, linking experiment, theory and applications. In particular, the authors discuss:The kinetic theory of gases, from the traditional Boltzmann equation ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Zen Evangelist

    Shenhui, Sudden Enlightenment, and the Southern School of Chan Buddhism

    by John R. McRae, Robert E. Buswell, Jr. ...
    Series Book 12 - Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism
    Huineng (638–713), author and hero of the Platform Sutra, is often credited with founding the Southern school of Chan Buddhism and its radical doctrine of “sudden enlightenment.” However, manuscripts discovered at Dunhuang at the beginning of the twentieth century reveal that the real architect of the Southern school was Huineng’s student Shenhui (684–758). An ardent evangelist for his master’s ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • How to Use Evidence to End Homelessness

    For Smarter, More Impactful Action

    by Michael Barber, Stephen Aldridge, Andy Burnham, Will Snell, Carol Black, Suzanne Fitzpatrick, Pete Mackie, Richard Garside, James Turner, Guillermo Rodriguez-Guzman, Will Moy, Michael Sanders, Vanessa Hirneis, Julia Ellingwood, Derek McGowan, Lezley Marion Cameron, Kenneth Gibb, Mark McGreevy, Rosanne Haggerty, Juha Kahila, Henrique Joaquim, Eleanor Williams, Jo Metcalfe, Matt Peacock, Mike Findlay-Agnew, Lorna Tucker, Sam Freedman, Brian Robson, Jack Shaw, Jonathan Roberts, Ian Rutherford ...
    Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Building on the influential Using Evidence to End Homelessness (Bristol University Press, 2020), this practical collection shows how evidence and data can drive smarter action to improve outcomes for people affected by homelessness. Six years on, it captures lessons learned and progress made while charting a path for greater impact. With ... Read more

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  • Hydrogen as a Fuel

    Learning from Nature

    Edited by Richard Cammack, Michel Frey, Robert Robson ...
    There continues to be widespread interest in the applications of hydrogen as a clean fuel and its potential for local electricity production and use in transport. Recent years have seen a variety of breakthroughs in our understanding of the nature, structure, and biosynthesis of hydrogenases. This book is a timely description of these developments, ... Read more

    $130.53 CAD

  • The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain

    by Amanda Hopkins, Margaret Robson, Michael Cichon, Robert Rouse, Simon Meecham-Jones, Sue Niebrzydowski, Thomas Howard Crofts, Tony Grand, Cory Rushton0, Alexander Davis1, Anthony Bale2, Corinne Saunders3, Jane Bliss4, Kristina Hildebrand5 ...
    This volume examines the erotic in the literature of medieval Britain, primarily in Middle English, but also in Latin, Welsh and Old French. Seeking to discover the nature of the erotic and how it differs from modern erotics, thecontributors address topics such as the Wife of Bath's opinions on marital eroticism, the role of clothing and nudity, the tension between eroticism and transgression, the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Quick Training for War

    by Robert Baden-Powell, Martin Robson ...
    In this fascinating little book, Robert Baden-Powell uses his extensive military experience and memories of service in Africa to distill soldiering down to 'the four C-s': Courage, Common sense, Cunning and Cheerfulness.With observations gleaned from his campaigns against the Zulus, the Ashanti and the Boers during the period 1876–1910 (and even from conversations with the German Kaiser), B-P ... Read more

    $11.49 CAD

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    A Beginner's Guide

    by James Miller ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    From T’ai Chi to the Ming Dynasty, this is an engrossing guide to the elusive Chinese tradition of Daoism.Spanning the centuries and crossing the globe, this engaging introduction covers everything Daoist, from the religion of the ancients to 21st century T’ai Chi and meditation. Complete with a timeline of Daoist history and a full glossary, Daoism: A Beginner's Guide will prove invaluable not ... Read more

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  • Wicked Problems in Public Policy

    Understanding and Responding to Complex Challenges

    by Brian W. Head ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This is an open access book.This book offers the first overview of the ‘wicked problems’ literature, often seen as complex, open-ended, and intractable, with both the nature of the ‘problem’ and the preferred ‘solution’ being strongly contested. It contextualises the debate using a wide range of relevant policy examples, explaining why these issues attract so much attention.There is an increasing ... Read more

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  • Physical Biochemistry

    Principles and Applications

    by David Sheehan ...
    "As will be seen, there is not much missing here. I thought that the sections were well balanced, with rarely too much or too little on a given topic...This is a text to be welcomed by both teachers and students." BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY EDUCATION (on the first edition)The second edition of this successful textbook explains the basic principles behind the key techniques currently used in ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Rifles

    Six Years with Wellington's Legendary Sharpshooters

    by Mark Urban ...
    As part of the Light Division created to act as the advance guard of Wellington's army, the 95th Rifles are the first into battle and the last out. Fighting and thieving their way across Europe, they are clearly no ordinary troops. The 95th are in fact the first British soldiers to take aim at their targets, to take cover when being shot at, to move tactically by fire and manoeuvre. And by the end ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

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  • The I Ching

    A Biography

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the worldThe I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Enzyme Kinetics: Catalysis and Control

    A Reference of Theory and Best-Practice Methods

    by Daniel L. Purich ...
    Far more than a comprehensive treatise on initial-rate and fast-reaction kinetics, this one-of-a-kind desk reference places enzyme science in the fuller context of the organic, inorganic, and physical chemical processes occurring within enzyme active sites. Drawing on 2600 references, Enzyme Kinetics: Catalysis & Control develops all the kinetic tools needed to define enzyme catalysis, spanning ... Read more

    $194.39 CAD