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The Mushroom Guide & Identifer - An expert manual for identifying, picking and using edible wild mushrooms found in the British... The Mushroom Guide & Identifer - An expert manual for identifying, picking and using edible wild mushrooms found in the British Isles (Hardcover)
Peter Jordan, Neville Kilkenny
R306 R251 Discovery Miles 2 510 Save R55 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

It is crucial that the most expert advice is taken when hunting for mushrooms, and this authoritative new handbook offers clear, practical information for accurate identification. A clear introduction explains everything a mushroom picker needs to know, followed by a fully-illustrated A–Z guide of the most popular edible wild mushrooms, with storage and cooking tips. Their identifying features and typical habitats are described. In addition the book presents and describes the poisonous and potentially deceptive species which the mushroom picker is most likely to come across.

Aircraft Industry Dynamics - An Anlaysis of Competition, Capital, and Labor (Hardcover): Barry Bluestone, Peter Jordan, Mark... Aircraft Industry Dynamics - An Anlaysis of Competition, Capital, and Labor (Hardcover)
Barry Bluestone, Peter Jordan, Mark Sullivan
R2,692 Discovery Miles 26 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas - A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Tesin/Cieszyn Region... Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas - A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Tesin/Cieszyn Region (Czechia) (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Peter Jordan, Premysl Macha, Marika Balode, Ludek Krticka, Ursula Obrusnik, …
R4,567 Discovery Miles 45 670 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within their social and political histories, and probes recent debates in the social sciences relating to place names, identity and power. It will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on place names and naming practices, minority communities and languages, and linguistic landscapes.

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte (Paperback): Peter Jordan The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte (Paperback)
Peter Jordan; Foreword by Cesare Molinari
R1,593 Discovery Miles 15 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte is a striking new enquiry into the late-Renaissance stirrings of professional secular comedy in Venice, and their connection to the development of what came to be known as the Commedia dell'Arte. The book contends that through a symbiotic collaboration between patrician amateurs and plebeian professionals, innovative forms of comedy developed in the Venice region, fusing 'high' and 'low' culture in a provocative mix that had a truly mass appeal. Rich with anecdotes, diary entries and literary - often ribald - comic passages, Peter Jordan's central argument has important implications for the study of Venetian art, popular theatre and European cultural history.

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte (Hardcover, New): Peter Jordan The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte (Hardcover, New)
Peter Jordan; Foreword by Cesare Molinari
R3,972 Discovery Miles 39 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Venetian Origins of the Commedia dell'Arte is a striking new enquiry into the late-Renaissance stirrings of professional secular comedy in Venice, and their connection to the development of what came to be known as the Commedia dell'Arte. The book contends that through a symbiotic collaboration between patrician amateurs and plebeian professionals, innovative forms of comedy developed in the Venice region, fusing 'high' and 'low' culture in a provocative mix that had a truly mass appeal. Rich with anecdotes, diary entries and literary - often ribald - comic passages, Peter Jordan's central argument has important implications for the study of Venetian art, popular theatre and European cultural history.

Ceramics Before Farming - The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers (Paperback): Peter Jordan, Marek... Ceramics Before Farming - The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers (Paperback)
Peter Jordan, Marek Zvelebil
R1,671 Discovery Miles 16 710 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all benefit from this book.

Ceramics Before Farming - The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers (Hardcover): Peter Jordan, Marek... Ceramics Before Farming - The Dispersal of Pottery Among Prehistoric Eurasian Hunter-Gatherers (Hardcover)
Peter Jordan, Marek Zvelebil
R4,294 Discovery Miles 42 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A long-overdue advancement in ceramic studies, this volume sheds new light on the adoption and dispersal of pottery by non-agricultural societies of prehistoric Eurasia. Major contributions from Western Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia make this a truly international work that brings together different theories and material for the first time. Researchers and scholars studying the origins and dispersal of pottery, the prehistoric peoples or Eurasia, and flow of ancient technologies will all benefit from this book.

Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia (Paperback): Peter Jordan Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia (Paperback)
Peter Jordan
R1,541 Discovery Miles 15 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic 'thick description' to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging increased international collaboration between archaeologists, ethnographers and historians, and to open new directions for archaeological investigation of spirituality and northern landscape traditions. Authors examine the life-ways and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.

Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia (Hardcover): Peter Jordan Landscape and Culture in Northern Eurasia (Hardcover)
Peter Jordan
R4,282 Discovery Miles 42 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic 'thick description' to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging increased international collaboration between archaeologists, ethnographers and historians, and to open new directions for archaeological investigation of spirituality and northern landscape traditions. Authors examine the life-ways and beliefs of the indigenous peoples of northern Eurasia; chapters contribute ethnographic, ethnohistoric and archaeological case-studies stretching from Fennoscandia, through Siberia, and into Chukotka and the Russian Far East.

Chemical Kinetics and Transport (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979): Peter Jordan Chemical Kinetics and Transport (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1979)
Peter Jordan
R1,496 Discovery Miles 14 960 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book began as a program of self-education. While teaching under graduate physical chemistry, I became progressively more dissatisfied with my approach to chemical kinetics. The solution to my problem was to write a detailed set of lecture notes which covered more material, in greater depth, than could be presented in undergraduate physical chemistry. These notes are the foundation upon which this book is built. My background led me to view chemical kinetics as closely related to transport phenomena. While the relationship of these topics is well known, it is often ignored, except for brief discussions of irreversible thermody namics. In fact, the physics underlying such apparently dissimilar processes as reaction and energy transfer is not so very different. The intermolecular potential is to transport what the potential-energy surface is to reactivity. Instead of beginning the sections devoted to chemical kinetics with a discussion of various theories, I have chosen to treat phenomenology and mechanism first. In this way the essential unity of kinetic arguments, whether applied to gas-phase or solution-phase reaction, can be emphasized. Theories of rate constants and of chemical dynamics are treated last, so that their strengths and weaknesses may be more clearly highlighted. The book is designed for students in their senior year or first year of graduate school. A year of undergraduate physical chemistry is essential preparation. While further exposure to chemical thermodynamics, statistical thermodynamics, or molecular spectroscopy is an asset, it is not necessary."

Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas - A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Tesin/Cieszyn Region... Place-Name Politics in Multilingual Areas - A Comparative Study of Southern Carinthia (Austria) and the Tesin/Cieszyn Region (Czechia) (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Peter Jordan, Premysl Macha, Marika Balode, Ludek Krticka, Ursula Obrusnik, …
R4,542 Discovery Miles 45 420 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the role of place names in the formation and maintenance of individual and group identities in multilingual and multi-ethnic situations. Using examples from Austria and Czechia as case studies, the authors examine the power of place names through an interdisciplinary and multi-methods approach that draws from the fields of anthropology, geography, sociolinguistics and toponomastics. The book contextualises both places within their social and political histories, and probes recent debates in the social sciences relating to place names, identity and power. It will be of interest to scholars and students focusing on place names and naming practices, minority communities and languages, and linguistic landscapes.

The Academic Library and Its Users (Paperback): Peter Jordan The Academic Library and Its Users (Paperback)
Peter Jordan
R1,147 Discovery Miles 11 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The many recent changes in higher and further education mean that it is more important than ever to analyse the needs of academic library users, and both promote and provide the service they require. This constructive book, pervaded throughout by the impact of IT on the learning environment, surveys the influences on today's academic library, and explains how to increase user satisfaction through quality management. The author focuses particularly on users' behaviour in the library, the problems they cause or encounter, and how libraries cope. The book examines the varying needs of undergraduate and graduate, mature and part-time students, overseas students, franchised students, distance learners and other groups with special needs, explaining ways in which these needs can be identified and the service evaluated. One chapter is devoted to research and researchers' information demands. The particular requirements of subject communities and their consequences for academic libraries are also investigated, as well as the requirements of teaching staff and ways in which the library can work with them. The author emphasizes the importance of user education programmes and explains how to promote the library effectively with limited resources. For librarians, heads of services and senior library managers in further and higher education, and those, such as subject librarians, responsible for specific student groups, this book provides a comprehensive and realistic guide to providing and promoting a quality service. Students of librarianship and information management will gain valuable insight from this book into user analysis and improving the performance of information provision.

Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory - Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine (Hardcover): Peter Jordan, Kevin Gibbs Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory - Technology, Lifeways and Cuisine (Hardcover)
Peter Jordan, Kevin Gibbs
R2,588 Discovery Miles 25 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region. However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome in order to produce it, and the solutions that emerged. Including essays by an international team of scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in the prehistoric past and in more recent ethnographic times.

Material Culture and Sacred Landscape - The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty (Paperback): Peter Jordan Material Culture and Sacred Landscape - The Anthropology of the Siberian Khanty (Paperback)
Peter Jordan
R1,789 Discovery Miles 17 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This study provides a concrete example of how foraging societies enculturate and transform the natural environment and, through the use of material objects, create sacred spaces and sites. Using ethnographic and ethnohistorical information about the Khanty of Siberia, Jordan shows the shortcomings of both interpretive and materialist anthropological theorizing about hunters and gatherers. He focuses on the rich and complex relationship between the symbolism of the Khanty, their material culture, and the bringing of meaning to physical places. His examination looks at the topic in both historical and contemporary contexts, and in scales from the core-periphery model of Russian colonialism to the portrait of a single yurt community. Jordan's work will be of importance to those studying cultural anthropology, archaeology, and comparative religion.

Values and Ethics in Social Work (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): Chris Beckett, Andrew Maynard, Peter Jordan Values and Ethics in Social Work (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
Chris Beckett, Andrew Maynard, Peter Jordan
R968 Discovery Miles 9 680 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An awareness of one's own ethical assumptions and how these inform everyday practice is crucial for all student social workers. Social workers who genuinely wish to do the right thing by their services users have no alternative but to constantly think and rethink the principles and assumptions that inform their actions, and this book supports them on their journey to do just that. This third edition is set out in two parts: Part I deals with broad ideas about values and ethics in general, looking at philosophy, religion and politics, as well as the duty of realism. Part II takes the discussion further, looking at how these general principles are relevant to everyday practice, with chapters on the use and misuse of power, the idea of self-determination, and the challenges of working with people whose experience and outlook are different to one's own.

The Atlantic Walrus - Multidisciplinary Insights into Human-Animal Interactions (Paperback): Xenia Keighley, Morten Tange... The Atlantic Walrus - Multidisciplinary Insights into Human-Animal Interactions (Paperback)
Xenia Keighley, Morten Tange Olsen, Peter Jordan, Sean P.A. Desjardins
R2,420 Discovery Miles 24 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Atlantic Walrus: Multidisciplinary insights into human-animal interactions addresses the key dimensions of long-term human walrus interactions across the Atlantic Arctic and subarctic regions, over the past millennia. This book brings together research from across the social and natural sciences to explore walrus biology, human culture, environmental conditions and their reciprocal effects. Together, 13 chapters of this book reconstruct the early evolution of walruses, walrus biology, the cultural significance and ecological impact of prehistoric and indigenous hunting practices, as well as the effects of commercial hunting and international trade. This book also examines historic and ongoing management strategies and, the importance of new research methodologies in revealing hitherto unknown details of the past, and concludes by discussing the future for Atlantic walruses in the face of climate change and increased human activities in the Arctic. This volume is an ideal resource for those who are seeking to understand an iconic Arctic species and its long and complex relationship with humans. This includes individuals and researchers with a personal or professional connection to walruses or the Arctic, as well as marine biologists, zoologists, conservationists, paleontologists, archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, indigenous communities, natural resource managers and government agencies.

Until the end of the world (Paperback): Peter Jordan Until the end of the world (Paperback)
Peter Jordan
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R401 Discovery Miles 4 010 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers (Paperback): Vicki Cummings, Peter Jordan, Marek... The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers (Paperback)
Vicki Cummings, Peter Jordan, Marek Zvelebil
R1,747 Discovery Miles 17 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations-all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers (Hardcover): Vicki Cummings, Peter Jordan, Marek... The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers (Hardcover)
Vicki Cummings, Peter Jordan, Marek Zvelebil
R5,787 Discovery Miles 57 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For more than a century, the study of hunting and gathering societies has been central to the development of both archaeology and anthropology as academic disciplines, and has also generated widespread public interest and debate. The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Hunter-Gatherers provides a comprehensive review of hunter-gatherer studies to date, including critical engagements with older debates, new theoretical perspectives, and renewed obligations for greater engagement between researchers and indigenous communities. Chapters provide in-depth archaeological, historical, and anthropological case-studies, and examine far-reaching questions about human social relations, attitudes to technology, ecology, and management of resources and the environment, as well as issues of diet, health, and gender relations - all central topics in hunter-gatherer research, but also themes that have great relevance for modern global society and its future challenges. The Handbook also provides a strategic vision for how the integration of new methods, approaches, and study regions can ensure that future research into the archaeology and anthropology of hunter-gatherers will continue to deliver penetrating insights into the factors that underlie all human diversity.

The Obscurant's Apostasy (Paperback): jude peter jordan The Obscurant's Apostasy (Paperback)
jude peter jordan
bundle available
R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Discover a meditative journey through confusion, delusion and revelation. Enter the account of this obscured character: the spiritual and the carnal, the Heaven and the Hades. Consider the absolute truth. Learn about an apostasy. Live free.

The King's Trial - Louis XVI vs. the French Revolution (Paperback, Anniversary Edition): David Peter Jordan The King's Trial - Louis XVI vs. the French Revolution (Paperback, Anniversary Edition)
David Peter Jordan
R852 R748 Discovery Miles 7 480 Save R104 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

On August 10, 1792, Louis XVI of France abandoned his Paris chateau, walked across the Tuileries gardens, and surrendered his crown. In the tumultuous months that followed, he was tried, found guilty, and sent to the guillotine. When originally published, David Jordan's riveting account of that turbulent time identified key issues, focused attention on a matter once considered only an episode of French history, and reframed the academic debate on the meaning of the most significant trial in French history. His new preface considers the scholarship of the past twenty-five years and places "The King's Trial "in the current context.

Die Vorlaufer Des Husitenthums In Bohmen - Aus Den Quellen (1846) (German, Paperback): Johann Peter Jordan Die Vorlaufer Des Husitenthums In Bohmen - Aus Den Quellen (1846) (German, Paperback)
Johann Peter Jordan
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Die Vorlaufer Des Husitenthums In Bohmen - Aus Den Quellen (1846) (German, Paperback): Johann Peter Jordan Die Vorlaufer Des Husitenthums In Bohmen - Aus Den Quellen (1846) (German, Paperback)
Johann Peter Jordan
R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Values and Ethics in Social Work (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): Chris Beckett, Andrew Maynard, Peter Jordan Values and Ethics in Social Work (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
Chris Beckett, Andrew Maynard, Peter Jordan
R2,831 Discovery Miles 28 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An awareness of one's own ethical assumptions and how these inform everyday practice is crucial for all student social workers. Social workers who genuinely wish to do the right thing by their services users have no alternative but to constantly think and rethink the principles and assumptions that inform their actions, and this book supports them on their journey to do just that. This third edition is set out in two parts: Part I deals with broad ideas about values and ethics in general, looking at philosophy, religion and politics, as well as the duty of realism. Part II takes the discussion further, looking at how these general principles are relevant to everyday practice, with chapters on the use and misuse of power, the idea of self-determination, and the challenges of working with people whose experience and outlook are different to one's own.

Staff Management in Library and Information Work (Hardcover, 4th edition): Peter Jordan, Caroline Lloyd Staff Management in Library and Information Work (Hardcover, 4th edition)
Peter Jordan, Caroline Lloyd
R3,989 Discovery Miles 39 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This standard text has been fully revised and updated for its fourth edition to reflect continuing technological changes, as well as issues such as social inclusion, lifelong learning and European employment legislation. Chapter 1 on the working environment has been completely rewritten. The present environment brings problems of staff motivation, de-professionalization and the loss of control: Chapter 2 reminds readers of basic motivation theories, now presented in a more logical sequence, and how to deal with such problems. Chapter 3 on workforce planning has been retitled Human Resource Planning and revised to take into account the modes of staffing appropriate for today's turbulent environment. Effective human resource planning requires excellent selection and recruitment procedures: best practice and developments in this area are explored in Chapters 4, Job Descriptions and Person Specifications, and 5, Recruitment and Selection of Staff. In Chapter 6 on staff appraisal more attention has been given to multi-rating approaches, such as 360A Degrees whereby different aspects of work can be assessed by different groups of people, and to appraisal of junior by senior staff. The last decade has seen increased emphasis on training and development to deliver high quality services in a climate of constant change. Chapter 7 has therefore been reordered and expanded in order to reflect new approaches and changes in this area. In Chapter 8, Staff Supervision and Interpersonal Skills, recent emphasis on leadership and counselling skills are reflected, as is the growing need to do more with less through enhanced time management and stress management techniques. With this new edition, this core guide brings professionals involved in managing library and information staff up to date with how to cope with the most pressing problems and challenges in today's fast-changing environment.

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