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Unjustifiable Risk?
Cicerone Press 2010; US$ 29.17A social, economic and cultural history of British rock climbing and mountaineering charting the conditions that gave rise to the sport, and the achievements and motives of those who have shaped its development over 200 years. Today's climbers share a desire to escape from urban society but what makes them take that unjustifiable risk? more...
Trading Secrets
Pearson Education Limited 2008; US$ 19.17Have you ever wondered how the top City traders make big profits from share trading? Do you know why the best investors know exactly when the market is going to rise or fall? And do you wish you could do the same? By following 20 hard and fast rules, Trading Secrets shows you how you can make the same high returns as experienced investors and traders.... more...
Erlang Programming
O'Reilly Media 2009; US$ 39.99This book is an in-depth introduction to Erlang, a programming language ideal for any situation where concurrency, fault tolerance, and fast response is essential. Erlang is gaining widespread adoption with the advent of multi-core processors and their new scalable approach to concurrency. With this guide you'll learn how to write complex concurrent... more...
Cascadia's Fault
Counterpoint 2011; US$ 26.00There’s a crack in the earth’s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic timeat least 36 major events in the last 10,000... more...
The Politics of Misrecognition
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 99.95The past several decades have seen the emergence of a vigorous ongoing debate about the 'politics of recognition'. The initial impetus was provided by the reflections of Charles Taylor and others about the rights to cultural recognition of historically marginalized groups in Western societies. Since then, the parameters of the debate have considerably... more...
Politics and the Emotions
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 100.00Politics and the Emotions is a unique collection of essays that reflects the affective turn in the analysis of todays political world.Contributed by both prominent and younger scholars from Europe, US, and Australia, the book aims to advance the debate on the relation between politics and the emotions. To do so, essays are organized around five key... more...
Cascadia's Fault
Counterpoint 2012; US$ 15.95There is a crack in the earth?s crust that runs roughly 31 miles offshore, approximately 683 miles from Northern California up through Vancouver Island off the coast of British Columbia. The Cascadia Subduction Zone has generated massive earthquakes over and over again throughout geologic time?at least thirty-six major events in the last 10,000 years.... more...
Emotion, Politics and Society
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 105.00This timely book critically addresses the intersection between power, politics and emotions. Challenging traditional dichotomies which counterpose rationalist to non-rationalist epistemologies, it offers a sustained argument for a more complete and integrated rationalism and helps us understand emotions in contemporary social and political life. more...
Defence Industry Applications of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
Springer 2008; US$ 49.95In all modern military doctrines the mission effectiveness shall be dramatically increased by the robust networking of all forces, sharing of information and distributed intelligent information processing, generating situational awareness and providing decision support. In addition, these principles also offer an effective way to improve security systems... more...
Innovative Approaches to Researching Landscape and Health
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 90.00Our modern lifestyles often cause us to spend more time sitting behind a desk than being active outdoors. At the same time, our general health is deteriorating. The alarming rise in obesity, sedentary lifestyles and mental ill-health across the developed world has resulted in an urgent desire to understand how the environment, in particular the outdoor... more...









