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  • Transilient Acts and Resilient Villages

    Pueblo Community Persistence in the Northern Rio Grande

    by Michael A. Adler ...
    A powerful rethinking of resilience through the lens of Pueblo history, this work reveals how Tiwa communities in the Northern Rio Grande used culturally intentional strategies to adapt, transform, and endure across a millennium of change. Anthropologist Michael A. Adler introduces the concept of transilience—culturally intentional acts that address existential threats and enable transformation—as ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • After the Tall Timber

    Collected Nonfiction

    by Renata Adler, Michael Wolff ...
    What is really going on here? For decades Renata Adler has been asking and answering this question with unmatched urgency. In her essays and long-form journalism, she has captured the cultural zeitgeist, distrusted the accepted wisdom, and written stories that would otherwise go untold. As a staff writer at The New Yorker from 1963 to 2001, Adler reported on civil rights from Selma, Alabama; on ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Writing Machine

    A History of the Typewriter

    by Michael H. Adler ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First Published in 1973, The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriters, because of the difficulty of discovering what these old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that he had ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 1

    Psychiatric Studies

    by C. G. Jung ...
    Translated by R. F. C. Hull ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    The authoritative edition of early psychiatric studies by Jung, which foreshadow much of his later workPsychiatric Studies gathers writings on descriptive and experimental psychiatry that Jung published between 1902 and 1905, early in his career as a psychiatrist. The book opens with a study that foreshadows much of his later work and is indispensable to all serious students of his psychiatric ... Read more

    $62.69 USD

  • Discourse Power and Justice

    by Michael Adler, Brian Longhurst ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    First Published in 1994. Discourse, Power and Justice is a distinctive and theoretically informed empirical study of the administration of the Scottish prison system. It is based on extensive research and combines theoretical innovation with detailed empirical evidence. The book is located at the confluence of two academic traditions and their associated literatures, socio-legal studies and the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • A Picture Book of Harry Houdini

    by David A. Adler, Michael S. Adler ...
    Illustrated by Matt Collins ...
    Series series Picture Book Biography
    Harry Houdini astounded audiences around the globe with his death-defying acts and illusions. With his wife, Bess, often by his side, he freed himself from ropes, handcuffs, straitjackets, and prison cells. Once he even made a ten-thousand-pound elephant vanish into thin air! Yet Harry's life was not always so glamorous. When he was a boy, he shined shoes and did odd jobs to help make ends meet. ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Administrative Justice in Context

    Edited by Professor Michael Adler ...
    This book comprises a definitive collection of papers on administrative justice, written by a set of very distinguished contributors. It is divided into five parts, each of which contains articles on a particular aspect of administrative justice. The first part deals with the impact of 'contextual changes' on administrative justice and considers the implications of changes in governance and public ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment?

    Benefit Sanctions in the UK

    by Michael Adler ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    The book subjects the largely hidden phenomenon of benefit sanctions in the UK to sustained examination and critique. It comprises twelve chapters dealing with the terms ‘cruel’, ‘inhuman’ and ‘degrading’ that are used as a benchmark for assessing benefit sanctions; benefit sanctions as a matter of public concern; the historical development of benefit sanctions in the UK; changes in the scope and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The War Power in an Age of Terrorism

    Debating Presidential Power

    by Michael A. Genovese, David Gray Adler ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book features a lively debate between two prominent scholars—Michael A. Genovese and David Gray Adler—on the critical issue of whether the Constitution, written in the 18th Century, remains adequate to the national security challenges of our time. The question of the scope of the president’s constitutional authority—if any—to initiate war on behalf of the American people, long the subject of ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Work and the Welfare State

    Street-Level Organizations and Workfare Politics

    by Evelyn Z. Brodkin, Gregory Marston, Michael Lipsky, Flemming Larsen, Susan Lambert, Julia Henly, Joe Soss, Sanford Schram, Richard Fording0, Celeste Watkins-Hayes1, Martin Brussig2, Matthias Knuth3, Michael Adler4, Vicki Lens5, Rik van Berkel6 ...
    Series series Public Management and Change series
    Work and the Welfare State places street-level organizations at the analytic center of welfare-state politics, policy, and management. This volume offers a critical examination of efforts to change the welfare state to a workfare state by looking at on-the-ground issues in six countries: the US, UK, Australia, Denmark, Germany, and the Netherlands.An international group of scholars contribute ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • ABC of HIV and AIDS

    Edited by Michael W. Adler, Simon G. Edwards, Robert F. Miller, Gulshan Sethi, Ian Williams ...
    Series Book 220 - ABC Series
    An authoritative guide to the epidemiology, incidence, testing and diagnosis and management of HIV and AIDS.From an international expert editor and contributor team, this new sixth edition includes expanded coverage of HIV testing, assessment and routine follow up and new chapters outlining problematic conditions associated with HIV and AIDS. Prevention strategies, early diagnosis and ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Audiobook

    Harnessing Serendipity

    Collaboration Artists, Conveners and Connectors

    by David Adler, James Cornehlsen, Andrew Frothingham ...
    Narrated by Michael Adler ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 37 min

    Discover the secret to transformative success with "Harnessing Serendipity."This compelling book is tailored for visionary leaders such as event organizers, business executives, diplomats, politicians, artists, musicians, and forward-thinking individuals ready to unlock the true potential of artful collaboration.In "Harnessing Serendipity," you'll gain invaluable insights from 65 thought-leaders ... Read more

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