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The Living Maya
North Atlantic Books 2012; US$ 12.95Author Robert Sitler?s immersion in Mayan culture began with a transformative spiritual experience more than three decades ago in the ruins of Palenque, Mexico. Led by a local to a nearby Mayan village, Sitler discovered firsthand what traditional Mayan life was like?a community of people living in peace with each other and their physical surroundings.... more...
Case Studies in Dementia
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 55.00Unique collection of dementia case studies from around the world, emphasizing clinical reasoning, integrative thinking and problem-solving skills. more...
Health Economics
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 72.95Research in Health Economics has developed into a separate discipline for the last 25 years. All this intense research activity, has translated in the inclusion of courses of health economics, mostly at graduate level. However, the Industrial Organization aspects of the health care market do not occupy a central place in those courses. We propose... more...
Spanish For Dummies
Wiley 2010; US$ 28.50Whether you want to take up Spanish from scratch or brush up on your existing skills, this practical, easy-to-follow guide is for you! Inside you'll find helpful lessons, cultural facts, handy references and much more, including a Spanish-English mini-dictionary and common verb lists. Learn how to use your skills in a variety of everyday contexts,... more...
Giving Reasons
Springer 2011; US$ 109.99This book provides a new, linguistic approach to Argumentation Theory. Its main goal is to integrate the logical, dialectical and rhetorical dimensions of argumentation in a model providing a unitary treatment of its justificatory and persuasive powers. This model takes as its basis Speech Acts Theory in order to characterize argumentation as a second-order... more...
On Communicating
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 41.95Klaus Krippendorff is an influential figure in communication studies widely known for his award-winning book Content Analysis . Over the years, Krippendorff has made important contributions to the ongoing debates on fundamental issues concerning communication theory, epistemology, methods of research, critical scholarship, second-order cybernetics,... more...
The UN Gang
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2005; US$ 24.95On the day Pedro Sanjuan moved into his new office at the UN Secretariat in 1984, he had the foresight to unscrew his telephone receiver. Out fell a little packet of high-grade cocaine. When he confronted the undersecretary to the chief Soviet diplomat?really a KGB colonel and the top Russian spy?the agent laughed good-naturedly and congratulated him... more...
Modelling and Control of Mini-Flying Machines
Springer 2006; US$ 159.99Provides insights into two staple control problems: the rotary aircraft and the VTOL fixed wing aircraft. more...
Conservation Biological Control
Elsevier Science 1998; US$ 145.95This volume is a comprehensive treatment of how the principles of ecology and conservation biology can be used to maximize biological control. Conservation Biological Control presents various means to modify or manipulate the environment to enhance the activities of natural enemies of pests. It establishes a conceptual link between ecology and the... more...
Ethnicity and Psychopharmacology
American Psychiatric Publishing 2008; US$ 70.00This book addresses relevant theoretical and clinical aspects of ethnopsychopharmacology, with the aim of advancing this growing field well into the twenty-first century. Detailed are the pharmacogenetic, pharmacokinetic, and pharmacodynamic mechanisms involved in differing responses to drug treatment among various ethnic groups living in the U.S.... more...









