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Space Machines (Hardcover): Ian Graham Space Machines (Hardcover)
Ian Graham; Illustrated by Carles Ballesteros 1
R486 R206 Discovery Miles 2 060 Save R280 (58%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Discover all about the machines used in space with this interactive guide, which includes everything you will need and full, step-by-step instructions to build nine different space machines with working parts. With a pegboard and 50 sturdy, colourful machine pieces plus plastic nuts and bolts, this is the perfect, hands-on introduction to budding engineers and fans of space everywhere. Kit includes: 24-page paperback book, pegboard and sturdy card pieces, plastic nuts and bolts.

Project Space (Paperback): Ian Graham Project Space (Paperback)
Ian Graham
R279 Discovery Miles 2 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Project Space Packed with super-cool facts and hands-on activities, Project Space helps children to really engage with a core topic. From what's inside the middle of our Moon to distant stars and galaxies, each spread features photos, stunning artwork and fun cartoons. Step-by-step illustrated projects throughout encourage practical learning - readers can learn how to spot a nebula, launch a balloon rocket, and find out why the Universe is expanding.

Stellar (Hardcover): Ian Graham, Marc A Hutchins Stellar (Hardcover)
Ian Graham, Marc A Hutchins
R808 Discovery Miles 8 080 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Alfred Maudslay and the Maya - A Biography (Hardcover, New edition): Ian Graham Alfred Maudslay and the Maya - A Biography (Hardcover, New edition)
Ian Graham
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this fascinating biography, the first ever published about Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931), Ian Graham describes this extraordinary Englishman and his pioneering investigations of the ancient Maya ruins.

Maudslay, the grandson of a famous English inventor and engineer, spent his formative adult years in the South Seas as a junior official in Great Britain's Colonial Office. Despite his exotic experiences, he did not find his true vocation until the age of thirty-one, when he arrived in Guatemala.

Maudslay played a crucial role in exploring and documenting the monuments and architecture of the ancient Maya ruins at Palengue Copan, Chichen Itza, and other sites previously unknown. His photographs and plaster casts have proven to be invaluable in the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics. Personal resources allowed him to undertake fieldwork at a time when no institution provided such support. He made plaster casts of large stone monuments, accurate maps of sites, and painstaking recordings of inscriptions. His "Biologia Centrali-Americana," a multivolume compendium of photographs, drawings, plans, and text published almost a century ago, remains an essential foundation for Maya studies. Perhaps Maudslay's greatest legacy is magnificent collection of glass-negative photographs, many of which are reproduced in this book.

The New Rules of Corporate Conduct - Rewriting the Social Charter (Hardcover): Ian Graham Wilson The New Rules of Corporate Conduct - Rewriting the Social Charter (Hardcover)
Ian Graham Wilson
R2,536 Discovery Miles 25 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Corporations operate under the terms of a largely unwritten, constantly changing social charter--a dictum as forceful as their written legal charter. Wilson explores the rules that are beginning to govern corporate performance, rules that arise from society's ever changing values and expectations. Provoking these changes are four formative forces: the power shift from the public to private sector; globalization; economic restructuring; and, the transforming technologies of the computer and communications revolution. The rules emerging from them will dictate higher standards and changed behavior in seven crucial areas of corporate conduct. Wilson argues that corporate social responsibility is no longer a peripheral public relations activity. Rather, it is an integral part of corporate strategy. Trends may seem to be running in corporations' favor, but the same trends also place greater responsibility and higher public expectations on corporations. The next decade, says Wilson, is likely to be a critical testing time for democracy, market systems, and by extension the private corporation. His book is a detailed analysis of the seven new rules and what their impact will be on U.S. and ultimately world corporations. Wilson concludes his book with a detailed agenda of needed, and workable, corporate responses to the new rules and cites the initiatives that many corporations are already taking to live by them.

The seven new rules of conduct that corporations will have to observe, sooner rather than later. (1) Legitimacy: to earn and retain social legitimacy the corporation must define its mission in terms of social purpose, rather than the maximization of profit. (2) Governance: the corporation must be thought of, managed, and governed as a community of stakeholders, not as the property of investors. (3) Equity: corporations must strive to achieve greater perceived fairness in the distribution of economic wealth and the treatment of stakeholder interest. (4) Environment: corporations will have to integrate the practice of restorative economics and sustainable development into the mainstream of their business strategy (5). Employment: they must rewrite the employment contract, addressing the values of the new work force. (6) Public-Private Sector Relationships: corporations must work with governments to achieve a viable and publicly accepted redefinition of their societal roles and responsibilities. (7) Ethical Conduct: corporations will have to elevate and monitor the level of ethical performance to earn the trust which is the foundation of sound relations with stakeholder groups. Is all this impossible? Not at all says Wilson, and he documents how many of America's most successful companies are operating in whole or in part by these rules already, and how others have begun doing so with immediate positive results.

Homocysteine Metabolism: From Basic Science to Clinical Medicine (Hardcover, 1997 ed.): Ian Graham, Helga Refsum, Irwin H... Homocysteine Metabolism: From Basic Science to Clinical Medicine (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Ian Graham, Helga Refsum, Irwin H Rosenberg, Per Magne Ueland
R5,373 Discovery Miles 53 730 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1962, 30 years after the discovery by du Vigneaud have pathologic consequences. One potentially sig- of a new sulfur amino acid, homocysteine; Carson and nificant health outcome of such mild to moderate Neil reported two siblings with mental retardation in hyperhomocysteinemia is an increased risk of occlu- northern Ireland with elevated urinary homocystine. sive vascular disease. Homocysteine concentrations in Nearly simultaneously, Gerritsen and Waisman patients with vascular disease were, on average, 31 % greater than in normal controls. Prospective assess- identified increased homocystine in the urine of a mentally retarded infant in Wisconsin. Within two ment of vascular disease risk among men with higher years, Harvey Mudd, James Finkelstein, and their homocysteine concentrations indicated that plasma coworkers at the National Institutes of health (USA) homocysteine at only 12% above the upper limit of that the enzyme cystathionine ~- normal levels was associated with a 3. 4-fold increase had reported synthase was lacking in a liver biopsy specimen from in risk of acute myocardial infarction. Studies from another patient with homocystinuria. This was the original Framingham Heart Study cohort (USA) the first indication of a vitamin relationship to have shown strong, positive correlation between homocystinuria, because that enzyme has as its co- plasma homocysteine concentration and degree of factor vitamin B6 (pyridoxal phosphate). Thereafter, carotid stenosis.

Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary Volume II (Hardcover): T. Woodcock, Janet Grant, Ian Graham Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary Volume II (Hardcover)
T. Woodcock, Janet Grant, Ian Graham
R3,641 Discovery Miles 36 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The second in a four volume Ordinary covering the period before the beginning of the heraldic visitations in 1530 and is designed to enable those with a working knowledge of heraldry to identify medieval British coats of arms. Listed in this volume are entries from Bend to Chevrons. This book is the second in a series of volumes designed to enable those with a working knowledge of heraldry to identify medieval British coats of arms. Listed in this volume are entries from Bend to Chevrons. The project isthe result of a bequest to the Society of Antiquaries in 1926 for the production of a new edition of Papworth's Ordinary which has remained, since its publication in 1874, the principal tool for the identification of British coats of arms. An Ordinary, in this context, is a collection of arms arranged alphabetically according to their designs, as opposed to an armory which is arranged alphabetically by surname. The present work is the secondin a four volume Ordinary covering the period before the beginning of the heraldic visitations in 1530. Its publication will mean that the wide range of people interested in medieval arms - historians, antiquaries, archaeologists,genealogist and those dealing in and collecting medieval objects - will be able to identify accurately the arms that occur in a medieval context. Even those without a knowledge of the subject will be able, by means of the index,to discover the blazon of arms recorded under particular surnames in the Middle Ages.

Geometric Function Theory in One and Higher Dimensions (Paperback): Ian Graham, Gabriela Kohr Geometric Function Theory in One and Higher Dimensions (Paperback)
Ian Graham, Gabriela Kohr
R2,075 Discovery Miles 20 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This reference details valuable results that lead to improvements in existence theorems for the Loewner differential equation in higher dimensions, discusses the compactness of the analog of the Caratheodory class in several variables, and studies various classes of univalent mappings according to their geometrical definitions. It introduces the infinite-dimensional theory and provides numerous exercises in each chapter for further study. The authors present such topics as linear invariance in the unit disc, Bloch functions and the Bloch constant, and growth, covering and distortion results for starlike and convex mappings in Cn and complex Banach spaces.

Flight and Motion - The History and Science of Flying (Paperback): Dale Anderson, Ian Graham, Brian Williams Flight and Motion - The History and Science of Flying (Paperback)
Dale Anderson, Ian Graham, Brian Williams
R9,307 Discovery Miles 93 070 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Designed for readers from grade 6 and up, this lavishly illustrated set provides comprehensive coverage of the history of aviation, including space flight, as well as the science and technology on which it depends. Detailed A-Z entries trace the development of human flight from ancient myths and legends through today's space exploration, highlighting scientific discoveries and innovations that made aviation possible."IFlight and Motion" also celebrates the contributions and achievements of the pioneers and visionaries of air and space flight, from inventors and innovators to pilots, astronauts, and cosmonauts. Detailed illustrated diagrams give readers a general understanding of the mechanics of flight and of the physics and technology involved. The set also highlights key air and spacecrafts that have made a unique mark in the history of flight. It features more than 500 full-color and black-and-white photos and illustrations, and also includes a timeline, a listing of museums and exhibits, further reading lists, a comprehensive glossary, and general and subject indexes.

Geometric Function Theory in One and Higher Dimensions (Hardcover): Ian Graham, Gabriela Kohr Geometric Function Theory in One and Higher Dimensions (Hardcover)
Ian Graham, Gabriela Kohr
R5,530 Discovery Miles 55 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This reference details valuable results that lead to improvements in existence theorems for the Loewner differential equation in higher dimensions, discusses the compactness of the analog of the Caratheodory class in several variables, and studies various classes of univalent mappings according to their geometrical definitions. It introduces the infinite-dimensional theory and provides numerous exercises in each chapter for further study. The authors present such topics as linear invariance in the unit disc, Bloch functions and the Bloch constant, and growth, covering and distortion results for starlike and convex mappings in Cn and complex Banach spaces.

Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 3: Part 4: Yaxchilan (Paperback): Barbara W. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, Ian... Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, Volume 3: Part 4: Yaxchilan (Paperback)
Barbara W. Fash, Alexandre Tokovinine, Ian Graham; Series edited by Barbara W. Fash
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Path of the Hawk (Paperback): Ian Graham The Path of the Hawk (Paperback)
Ian Graham 1
R307 R169 Discovery Miles 1 690 Save R138 (45%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Hawks are the Pilgrim Church's elite regiment, soldiers entrusted with missions far beyond the scope of the conventional army. Blessed Master Helligraine - one of the Church's highest ranking, most beloved holy men - was abducted one year ago, his corpse found rotting in a river. When evidence emerges that Helligraine is still alive and being held against his will, three Hawks are dispatched to bring him home. But Helligraine's past - and present - is not what it seems, and two nations are drawn into a conflict whose seeds were sown millennia ago.

100 Facts Solar System (Paperback): Ian Graham 100 Facts Solar System (Paperback)
Ian Graham
R240 R214 Discovery Miles 2 140 Save R26 (11%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Embark on a journey through the wonders and mysteries of our incredible Solar System. Exactly 100 facts will help you discover distant planets, volcanic moons and icy comets. Find out how the Solar System formed, what Saturn’s rings are made of and why life exists on Earth.

Tois Pasin ho Kairos - Judaism and Orthodox Christianity Facing the Future (Hardcover): Nicholas De Lange, Elena Narinskaya,... Tois Pasin ho Kairos - Judaism and Orthodox Christianity Facing the Future (Hardcover)
Nicholas De Lange, Elena Narinskaya, Sybil Sheridan; Contributions by Michael G. Azar, Krastu Banev, …
R2,524 Discovery Miles 25 240 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book addresses Judaism and Orthodox Christianity, and particularly their points of similarity and difference, congruence and conflict. The city of Jerusalem stands at the heart of both these age-old faiths, but today it is a divided city in which Jews and Orthodox Christians seem to find themselves on opposite sides of history. Must this story be one of continuing conflict, or is there scope for reconciliation and common effort? How do religions that cherish tradition face up to the challenges of a rapidly changing world? What place can they offer to women? Can they welcome lesbian and gay adherents? How do their traditional resources help them to face climate change and other environmental issues? How have they responded to the COVID pandemic? What contribution can they make to current debates about subjects like euthanasia and assisted dying? In seventeen chapters by expert theologians and historians this book examines central issues of common concern. The focus is on dialogue and deepened knowledge. The authors dispel some widely held misconceptions and identify a good deal of common ground. In this way the book aims to lay foundations for future engagement between the two religions.

Communications (Hardcover): Ian Graham Communications (Hardcover)
Ian Graham
R113 Discovery Miles 1 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Exploring Science: Space - An Amazing Fact File and Hands-on Project Book: with 19 Easy-to-do Experiments and 300 Exciting... Exploring Science: Space - An Amazing Fact File and Hands-on Project Book: with 19 Easy-to-do Experiments and 300 Exciting Pictures (Hardcover)
Ian Graham; Edited by (consulting) Geraint H. Jones
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R246 R162 Discovery Miles 1 620 Save R84 (34%) In Stock

This title comes with 19 easy-to-do experiments and 300 exciting pictures. It deals with the stories and the science behind the challenge to explore the cosmos. It offers action-packed information on the history, the people and the science of space. You can find out how the universe began, what galaxies, stars and constellations are made of, and why nothing, not even light, can escape from a black hole. Spectacular photographs and explanatory illustrations capture the thrills of space observation, travel, satellites and communication. Easy-to-do projects show you how rockets work, what it's like to work in space, how to make artificial gravity and solar wind, and much more. Space contains everything there is, from the Earth we live on to the most distant star. This fascinating book takes you on a journey to the Moon, the planets of the solar system and beyond. You can learn about the telescopes astronomers are using to search for extra-terrestrial life among the stars. You can follow the history of space research, from the earliest rockets to the future of space travel. Exciting experiments include making a dish antenna and simulating solar heat. The projects are fun to do and help explain the science and technology of space exploration.

Volume 8, Part 1 - Coba (Paperback, 1975-<1997): Ian Graham, Eric Von Euw Volume 8, Part 1 - Coba (Paperback, 1975-<1997)
Ian Graham, Eric Von Euw
R1,159 R1,043 Discovery Miles 10 430 Save R116 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing "The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions" under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the "Corpus" will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 monuments. The series has been instrumental in the remarkable success of the ongoing process of deciphering Maya writing, making available hundreds of texts to epigraphers working around the world.

Each volume in the series consists of three fascicles, which examine an individual site or group of neighboring sites and include maps of site location and plans indicating the placement monuments within each site. Each inscription is reproduced in its entirety in both photographs and line drawings. The text of each volume presents descriptive information about the sites and monuments and their associated artifacts.

This fascicle includes four oversized site plans in pocket.

Volume 9, Part 1 - Piedras Negras (Paperback): David Stuart, Ian Graham Volume 9, Part 1 - Piedras Negras (Paperback)
David Stuart, Ian Graham
R1,158 R1,042 Discovery Miles 10 420 Save R116 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The goal of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the Corpus will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 monuments. The series has been instrumental in the remarkable success of the ongoing process of deciphering Maya writing, making available hundreds of texts to epigraphers working around the world. The first of five anticipated volumes on the renowned monuments of Piedras Negras, Guatemala, this volume describes the site and the history of exploration at this important center of Classic Maya civilization. It includes photographs and detailed line drawings of twelve of the inscribed sculpted monuments at Piedras Negras, as well as a map of the ruins.

Charles Darwin Y La Evolución (Paperback): Ian Graham Charles Darwin Y La Evolución (Paperback)
Ian Graham
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Marie Curie Y La Radiactividad (Paperback): Ian Graham Marie Curie Y La Radiactividad (Paperback)
Ian Graham
R442 Discovery Miles 4 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La Ciencia del Tiempo (Hardcover): Ian Graham La Ciencia del Tiempo (Hardcover)
Ian Graham
R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Extremely Curious Questions and Answers (Hardcover): Ian Graham Extremely Curious Questions and Answers (Hardcover)
Ian Graham
Sold By Readers Warehouse - Fulfilled by Loot
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 5 - 7 working days

Extremely Curious Questions and Answers is a fantastic compendium that puts a humorous twist on the perennially popular Q&A format, taking a sideways look at all that is spectacular, silly and just plain strange about the world around you. Quirkily illustrated characters and playful text reveal the amazing answers to the curious questions that children have.

Homocysteine Metabolism: From Basic Science to Clinical Medicine (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997):... Homocysteine Metabolism: From Basic Science to Clinical Medicine (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Ian Graham, Helga Refsum, Irwin H Rosenberg, Per Magne Ueland
R5,164 Discovery Miles 51 640 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In 1962, 30 years after the discovery by du Vigneaud have pathologic consequences. One potentially sig- of a new sulfur amino acid, homocysteine; Carson and nificant health outcome of such mild to moderate Neil reported two siblings with mental retardation in hyperhomocysteinemia is an increased risk of occlu- northern Ireland with elevated urinary homocystine. sive vascular disease. Homocysteine concentrations in Nearly simultaneously, Gerritsen and Waisman patients with vascular disease were, on average, 31 % greater than in normal controls. Prospective assess- identified increased homocystine in the urine of a mentally retarded infant in Wisconsin. Within two ment of vascular disease risk among men with higher years, Harvey Mudd, James Finkelstein, and their homocysteine concentrations indicated that plasma coworkers at the National Institutes of health (USA) homocysteine at only 12% above the upper limit of that the enzyme cystathionine ~- normal levels was associated with a 3. 4-fold increase had reported synthase was lacking in a liver biopsy specimen from in risk of acute myocardial infarction. Studies from another patient with homocystinuria. This was the original Framingham Heart Study cohort (USA) the first indication of a vitamin relationship to have shown strong, positive correlation between homocystinuria, because that enzyme has as its co- plasma homocysteine concentration and degree of factor vitamin B6 (pyridoxal phosphate). Thereafter, carotid stenosis.

Volume 6, Part 3 - Tonina (Paperback): Ian Graham, Peter Mathews Volume 6, Part 3 - Tonina (Paperback)
Ian Graham, Peter Mathews
R1,150 R1,034 Discovery Miles 10 340 Save R116 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For more than 25 years the Peabody Museum has been publishing "The Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions" under the editorial and artistic direction of Mayanist Ian Graham. The goal of this unique series of folio volumes is to document in photographs and detailed line drawings all known Maya inscriptions and their associated figurative art. When complete, the "Corpus" will have published the inscriptions from over 200 sites and 2,000 monuments. The series has been instrumental in the remarkable success of the ongoing process of deciphering Maya writing, making available hundreds of texts to epigraphers working around the world.

Each volume in the series consists of three fascicles, which examine an individual site or group of neighboring sites and include maps of site location and plans indicating the placement monuments within each site. Each inscription is reproduced in its entirety in both photographs and line drawings. The text of each volume presents descriptive information about the sites and monuments and their associated artifacts.

This fascicle includes addenda to introductory text for the site Tonina; appendix with sources of sculpture and their codes; index to volumes 1 through six; and one oversized map in pocket.

The Road to Ruins (Paperback): Ian Graham The Road to Ruins (Paperback)
Ian Graham
R1,114 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R320 (29%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the "last explorer" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. It is also full of adventure and high society, for the self-deprecating Graham traveled to remote lands such as Afghanistan in wonderful company. He tells entertaining stories about his encounters with a host of notables beginning with Rudyard Kipling, a family friend from Graham's childhood.

Born in 1923 into an aristocratic family descended from Oliver Cromwell, Ian Graham was educated at Winchester, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin. His career in Mesoamerican archaeology can be said to have begun in 1959 when he turned south in his Rolls Royce and began traveling through the Maya lowlands photographing ruins. He has worked as an artist, cartographer, and photographer, and has mapped and documented inscriptions at hundreds of Maya sites, persevering under rugged field conditions. Graham is best known as the founding director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" in 1981, and he remained the Maya Corpus program director until his retirement in 2004.

Graham's careful recordings of Maya inscriptions are often credited with making the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphics possible. But it is the romance of his work and the graceful conversational style of his writing that make this autobiography must reading not just for Mayanists but for anyone with a taste for the adventure of archaeology.

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