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Care That Works: A Relationship Approach to Persons with Dementia
By Jitka M Zgola [Paperback 1999]
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Out Of Stock In her widely acclaimed "Doing Things," Jitka M. Zgola offered practical and much-needed advice for those caring for persons with Alzheimer disease. Now, in "Care That Works," Zgola shows how caregivers can better meet the demanding challenges of their jo Shows how caregivers can meet the demanding challenges of their... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 1999
Motorcycle: Evolution, Design, Passion
By Mick Walker [Hardcover 2006]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days The definitive guide to motorcycle design, this gorgeous volume traces the evolution of one of the world's ultimate icons of style. Ranges from late 19th-century pioneers like Gottlieb Daimler and Hildebrand & Wolfmller to present-day manufacturers like H... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2006, 1st Edition
Executive Privilege: The Dilemma of Secrecy and Democratic Accountability
By Mark J Rozell [Paperback 1994]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days With the ghost of Watergate still haunting our political conscience, one might expect American presidents to hesitate before invoking executive privilege. But in the wake of the Clinton impeachment and with the onset of the Bush years, we are again confronted with the questionable exercise of presidential prerogatives. Mark Rozell's... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 2010 Paperback 2010 Paperback 2002, 2nd Edition
Fixing Global Finance
By Martin Wolf [Paperback 2010]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 7-12 days The globalisation of finance should have brought substantial benefits, but in practice it brought a series of devastating currency and banking crises in the 1980s and 90s. Is there a chance for global financial stability? Expanded paperback edition of Wolf's analysis of globalisation and its consequences, and the background to... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2010 Hardbound 2008 Hardcover 2008
The Odyssey
By Homer [Paperback 1999]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days In the myths and legends that are magnificently retold here, Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom, and given readers an "Odyssey" to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. If "The Iliad" is the world's greatest... more
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Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy
By Jonathan Walker [Paperback 2009]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days The year is 1622. Anxiety is high in the city of Venice. Rumors of treason flourish. The noble Antonio Foscarini stands accused and pays the ultimate price. Gerolamo Vano, General of Spies, provides the evidence. But who is really guilty? By the end of An original historical work, this fascinating... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2009
Common Labor: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals, 1780-1860
By Peter Way [Paperback 1997]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 3-4-WEEKS This study challenges labour history"s focus on skilled craftsmen and the model of working-class culture it generated. Composed increasingly of Irish immigrants, Way explains, the work force was housed in hastily built shanty towns along the path of canal construction. Canal construction played a significant role in the rise of... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2009
Abraham Lincoln: The Observations of John G. Nicolay and John Hay
By Michael Burlingame [Hardcover 2007]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents. Incorporating the field notes of earlier biographers, along In 1890 Abraham Lincoln's two main White House secretaries, John G. Nicolay... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2008
The State of Indias Democracy
By Sumit Ganguly , Larry Diamond , Marc F Plattner [Hardcover 2008]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy series examines the state of India's democracy. As India marks its sixtieth year of independence, it has become an ever more important object of study for scholars of comparative democracy. It has lo This volume examines the past accomplishments and continuing... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2007 Paperback 2007
Asian Diplomacy The Foreign Ministries of China, India, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand
By Kishan S Rana [Hardcover 2007]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 3-5 days This study examines the geopolitical landscape and diplomatic culture of Asias five ascending powersChina, India, Japan, Singapore, and Thailand. It scrutinizes the structure and processes of their foreign ministries and the instruments through which foreign policy is implemented. It compares the practices in the leading foreign ministries of the world... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2008
The Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes
By Publius Papinius Statius , Jane Wilson Joyce [Paperback 2007]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days A classical epic of fratricide and war, the Thebaid retells the legendary conflict between the sons of Oedipus -- Polynices and Eteocles -- for control of the city of Thebes. The Latin poet Statius reworks a familiar story from Greek myth, dramatized long A classical epic of fratricide and war,... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2008 Hardcover 2004 Paperback 2008
Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Biography
By James Bieri [Paperback 2008]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days This volume of Shelley's biography recounts his final years of greatest creativity and his often-painful emotional and romantic entanglements. Leaving Lord Byron in Switzerland, Shelley returned to England with Mary Godwin, their son, and Mary's ever-pres This major biography of Shelley, England's most radical and controversial Romantic poet, is the... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2008 Hardcover 2005 Hardcover 2005
Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty: Lessons from Developing Countries
By Shenggen Fan [Paperback 2008]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days This book assesses the efficacy of poverty-reduction spending in Africa, Asia, and Latin America by synthesizing studies conducted by the International Food Policy Research Institute over the past ten years. Overall, the studies find that investments i Public Expenditures, Growth, and Poverty assesses the efficacy of poverty reduction programs in... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2008 Hardcover 2008
WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and Developing Countries
By Anwarul Hoda , Ashok Gulati [Hardcover 2008]
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In Stock. Ships Free to India in 1-2 days The World Trade Organization's Doha Round of trade talks has been plagued by a lack of concrete progress toward establishing a fair and harmonious agricultural trading system. Because the results of the Doha Round could have far-reaching implications for The World Trade Organization's Doha Round of trade talks has been... more
Other Editions: Hardcover 2007 Paperback 2007
On the Nature of Things, Translated by Martin Ferguson Smith (Hackett Classics Series)
By Titus Lucretius Carus , William Ellery Leonard [Paperback 2001]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 15-20 days The Roman philosopher's didactic poem in 6 parts, "De Rerum Natura" -- "On the Nature of Things" -- theorizes that natural causes are the forces behind earthly phenomena and dismisses divine intervention. Derived from the philosophical materialism of the Greeks, Lucretius' work remains the primary source for contemporary knowledge of... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2004 Paperback 1997 Paperback 1995 Hardbound 2001 Hardcover 1924
Seneca: The Tragedies
By Seneca , Gareth Williams , G D Williams [Paperback 1994]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days Are there no limits to human cruelty? Is there any divine justice? Do the gods even matter if they do not occupy themselves with rewarding virtue and punishing wickedness? Seneca's plays might be dismissed as bombastic and extravagant answers to such questions -- if so much of human history were... more
Other Editions: Paperback 2003
Savagism and Civilization: A Study of the Indian and the American Mind
By Roy Harvey Pearce [Paperback 2001]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 3-4-WEEKS First published in 1953, revised in 1964, and presented here with a new foreword by Arnold Krupat and new postscript by the author, Roy Harvey Pearce's "Savagism and Civilization" is a classic in the genre of history of ideas. Examining the political pamphlets, missionaries' reports, anthropologists' accounts, and the drama,... more
Other Editions: Paperback 1988
Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930
By Miriam Formanek Brunell [Paperback 1998]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days Dolls have long been perceived as symbols of domesticity, maternity, and materialism, designed by men and loved by girls who wanted to "play house". In this engagingly written and illustrated social history of the American doll industry, Miriam Formanek-B... more
Other Editions: Hardbound 1993
War and Society in Renaissance Europe, 1450-1620
By John Rigby Hale [Paperback 1986]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 3-4-WEEKS Covering the years between the end of the Hundred Years War and the beginning of the Thirty Years War, this book explains the part played by war in the lives of individuals in the early modern phase of European history. This book examines the developments in military technique and technology... more
Other Editions: Paperback 1998
Plautus: The Comedies
By Plautus , P Nixon , Paul Nixon [Paperback 1995]
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Available. Ships Free to India in 10-15 days Plautus (Titus Maccius), born about 254 BCE at Sarsina in Umbria, went to Rome, engaged in work connected with the stage, lost his money in commerce, then turned to writing comedies. Twenty-one plays by Plautus have survived (one is incomplete). The basis of all is a free translation from comedies... more
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