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In Fortune's Theater

Financial Risk and the Future in Renaissance Italy

by Nicholas Scott Baker ...

This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan - ... Read more

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This innovative cultural history of financial risk-taking in Renaissance Italy argues that a new concept of the future as unknown and unknowable emerged in Italian society between the mid-fifteenth and mid-sixteenth centuries. Exploring the rich interchanges between mercantile and intellectual cultures underpinning this development in four major cities - Florence, Genoa, Venice, and Milan -
... Read more
Assembling Moral Mobilities

Cycling, Cities, and the Common Good

by Nicholas A. Scott ...

In the years since the new mobilities paradigm burst onto the social scientific scene, scholars from various disciplines have analyzed the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of transport, contesting its long-dominant understandings as defined by engineering and economics. Still, the vast majority of mobility studies, and even key works that mention the “good life” and its dependence on ... Read more

$35.99 USD

In the years since the new mobilities paradigm burst onto the social scientific scene, scholars from various disciplines have analyzed the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of transport, contesting its long-dominant understandings as defined by engineering and economics. Still, the vast majority of mobility studies, and even key works that mention the “good life” and its dependence on
... Read more
Postcards from the World of Horse Racing

Days Out on the Global Racing Road

by Nicholas Godfrey ...

In a series of evocative, informative pieces from around the racing world, Nicholas Godfrey visits 20 different countries on six continents, from unforgettable high-profle events at major racecourses—such as the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs or the Dubai World Cup at billion-dollar Meydan—to racing venues on the road less traveled—like Morocco, Uruguay and Switzerland, where they race on a ... Read more

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In a series of evocative, informative pieces from around the racing world, Nicholas Godfrey visits 20 different countries on six continents, from unforgettable high-profle events at major racecourses—such as the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs or the Dubai World Cup at billion-dollar Meydan—to racing venues on the road less traveled—like Morocco, Uruguay and Switzerland, where they race on a
... Read more
To Be Welcomed as Christ

Pursuing a Hospitable Evangelicalism

Edited by Nicholas Scott-Blakely ...

Mainstream American evangelicalism is facing an identity crisis. Many wonder whether or not evangelical communities can become safe spaces that better enable people to enjoy, love, and know God and all that God cares about. This book, in honor of Dennis Okholm's decades of leadership in the academy and the church, commends the ways in which he has attempted to help his own communities flourish. ... Read more

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Mainstream American evangelicalism is facing an identity crisis. Many wonder whether or not evangelical communities can become safe spaces that better enable people to enjoy, love, and know God and all that God cares about. This book, in honor of Dennis Okholm's decades of leadership in the academy and the church, commends the ways in which he has attempted to help his own communities flourish.
... Read more
Blake's 7: Lucifer

by Paul Darrow, Jason Haigh-Ellery, Nicholas Briggs, Cavan Scott, Andrew Mark Sewell, Anthony Lamb, Terry Nation ...

Many legends surround the aftermath of the collapse of The Federation, including the fate of Kerr Avon... What happened to Avon after the death of Blake and the crew of the Scorpio? Paul Darrow's vivid re-imagining picks up Avon's story at the final moments of the final episode of Blake's 7 and follows him on his fight for survival, this time with no crew and no ship to help him. The adventure ... Read more

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Many legends surround the aftermath of the collapse of The Federation, including the fate of Kerr Avon... What happened to Avon after the death of Blake and the crew of the Scorpio? Paul Darrow's vivid re-imagining picks up Avon's story at the final moments of the final episode of Blake's 7 and follows him on his fight for survival, this time with no crew and no ship to help him. The adventure
... Read more
Forensic Interventions for Therapy and Rehabilitation

Case Studies and Analysis

Edited by Belinda Winder, Nicholas Blagden, Laura Hamilton, Simon Scott ...

Forensic Interventions for Therapy and Rehabilitation: Case Studies and Analysis provides an up-to-date overview of the latest therapeutic ideas being used for forensic service users and prisoners in both custodial and community settings.The field of forensic work is increasingly being recognised for its importance, both in terms of the value of the work in reducing reoffending and in terms of the ... Read more

$60.99 USD

Forensic Interventions for Therapy and Rehabilitation: Case Studies and Analysis provides an up-to-date overview of the latest therapeutic ideas being used for forensic service users and prisoners in both custodial and community settings.The field of forensic work is increasingly being recognised for its importance, both in terms of the value of the work in reducing reoffending and in terms of the
... Read more
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Soul Bound: A Kat Drummond Short Story

by Nicholas Woode-Smith ...

Narrated by Scott Miller, Anna Capraro ...

Series Audiobook 0.5 - Kat Drummond
Unabridged

54 min

I thought moving into a new apartment would be easy…Even in this world of magic and monsters, moving out shouldn’t be too hard, right?With help from the ghost in my head, I hunt monsters to pay the bills and pay my way through university. Now it’s time I finally get my own place.Through lopping off zombie and giant rat heads, I should have enough money, right?But if there’s anything consistent ... Read more

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I thought moving into a new apartment would be easy…Even in this world of magic and monsters, moving out shouldn’t be too hard, right?With help from the ghost in my head, I hunt monsters to pay the bills and pay my way through university. Now it’s time I finally get my own place.Through lopping off zombie and giant rat heads, I should have enough money, right?But if there’s anything consistent
... Read more
The Montreal Canadiens

Rethinking a Legend

Edited by Nicolas Moreau, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe ...

One of the most famous and certainly most successful professional hockey teams of all time, the Montreal Canadiens are practically a national institution in Quebec society. More than any other team, the Habs play an important role in the identity, economy, and culture of their home town and province.The essays in The Montreal Canadiens: Rethinking a Legend offer a panoramic view of this influence. ... Read more

$23.99 USD

One of the most famous and certainly most successful professional hockey teams of all time, the Montreal Canadiens are practically a national institution in Quebec society. More than any other team, the Habs play an important role in the identity, economy, and culture of their home town and province.The essays in The Montreal Canadiens: Rethinking a Legend offer a panoramic view of this influence.
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The Divide

by Nicholas Evans ...

Narrated by Scott Brick ...

Unabridged

14 hours 11 min

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HORSE WHISPERER... returns with an epic new novel of the human heart.On a Montana morning, two skiers find the body of a woman embedded in the ice of a mountain creek. She's identified as Abbie Cooper, a brilliant college student who was on the run from charges of murder. But what was the chain of events that led this golden child astray? The answers ... Read more

$24.99 USD

Also available as: eBook

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HORSE WHISPERER... returns with an epic new novel of the human heart.On a Montana morning, two skiers find the body of a woman embedded in the ice of a mountain creek. She's identified as Abbie Cooper, a brilliant college student who was on the run from charges of murder. But what was the chain of events that led this golden child astray? The answers
... Read more

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The SAGE Handbook of Human Resource Management

Edited by Adrian Wilkinson, David Lepak, Nicolas A Bacon, Scott A Snell ...

The new edition of this SAGE Handbook builds on the success of the first by providing a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of human resource management.Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars - and with brand new chapters on key emerging topics such as talent management, engagement , e-HRM and big data - the Handbook focuses on familiarising the reader ... Read more

$118.99 USD

The new edition of this SAGE Handbook builds on the success of the first by providing a fully updated and expanded overview of the field of human resource management.Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars - and with brand new chapters on key emerging topics such as talent management, engagement , e-HRM and big data - the Handbook focuses on familiarising the reader
... Read more
The Fruit of Liberty

Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550

by Nicholas Scott Baker ...

Series Book 9 - I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History
In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the ... Read more

$55.79 USD

In the middle decades of the sixteenth century, the republican city-state of Florence--birthplace of the Renaissance--failed. In its place the Medici family created a principality, becoming first dukes of Florence and then grand dukes of Tuscany. The Fruit of Liberty examines how this transition occurred from the perspective of the Florentine patricians who had dominated and controlled the
... Read more
Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Modern War

Edited by Scott Nicholas Romaniuk, Stewart Tristan Webb ...

A collection of original works covering all aspects of insurgency and counterinsurgency through a multinational lens, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Modern War addresses the need to look beyond the United States and other prominent counterinsurgency actors in the contemporary world. It addresses the need to look beyond the United States and other preeminent counterinsurgency actors in the ... Read more

$280.99 USD

A collection of original works covering all aspects of insurgency and counterinsurgency through a multinational lens, Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Modern War addresses the need to look beyond the United States and other prominent counterinsurgency actors in the contemporary world. It addresses the need to look beyond the United States and other preeminent counterinsurgency actors in the
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