List 1 of books by Stephen Hall

Oil and the British Economy

by Stephen Hall, Fred Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016

The impact of North Sea oil and gas on the British economy is examined thoroughly in this book. It explores why the early years of the 1980s, when oil production had risen to the level of self-sufficiency and beyond were years of recession and unemployment. The book compares the record of British...

Argument in the Greenhouse

The International Economics of Controlling Global Warming

by Sujata Gupta, Stephen Hall, Nick Mabey
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2005

How can greenhouse gases be controlled and reduced? Will it be in time? This book adds a significant new contribution to the crucial climate change/global warming debate. Incorporating the key political and legal considerations into `real world' applied economic analysis, the authors provide a unique...

Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers

by Stephen Hall
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers, Sixth Edition, is the most complete guide for chemical and process engineers who need reliable and authoritative solutions to on-the-job problems. The text is comprehensively revised and updated with new data and formulas. The book helps solve process design...

Size Matters

How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys - and the Men They Become

by Stephen S. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2006

An award-winning journalist tackles the hot topic of male body image and shows how physical size during childhood affects our psychology, social status, relationships, and income as adults. With a mix of fresh research, incisive reportage, and bracing candor, Size Matters traces the surprising...

A Faithful Account of the Race

African American Historical Writing in Nineteenth-Century America

by Stephen G. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

The civil rights and black power movements expanded popular awareness of the history and culture of African Americans. But, as Stephen Hall observes, African American authors, intellectuals, ministers, and abolitionists had been writing the history of the black experience since the 1800s. With this...

Wisdom

by Stephen S. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010

We all recognize wisdom, but defining it is more elusive. In this fascinating journey from philosophy to science, Stephen S. Hall gives us a penetrating history of wisdom, from its sudden emergence in the fifth century B.C. to its modern manifestations in education, politics, and the workplace. Hall’s...

The Diary of a U-boat Commander (Prometheus Classics)

by Sir William Stephen Richard King-Hall, Stephen Richard King-Hall, Prometheus Classics
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019

This Work contains an active table of contents (HTML), which makes reading easier to make it more enjoyable. The diary of a World War One U-Boat commander. As well as being a fascinating glimpse of life on the German U-boats during the intense submarine blockade, this also reminds us there were humans...

Enduring Motives

The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America

by Wesley Bernardini, John E. Clark, Arlene Colman
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012

Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual. Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts,...

North Sea Diary. 1914-1918 [Illustrated Edition]

by Commander Sir Stephen King-Hall
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015

Includes The First World War At Sea Illustrations Pack with 189 maps, plans, and photos. Originally published under the pseudonym “Etienne” this book is the narrative based on the diary of Commander Sir Stephen King-Hall during the First World War. The Author served on board the cruiser...

Principles of Fermentation Technology

by Peter F Stanbury, Allan Whitaker, Stephen J Hall
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2016

The successful structure of the previous edition of Principles of Fermentation Technology has been retained in this third edition, which covers the key component parts of a fermentation process including growth kinetics, strain isolation and improvement, inocula development, fermentation media, fermenter...

Merchants of Immortality

Chasing the Dream of Human Life Extension

by Stephen S. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2003

A Discover Best Science Book of the Year: “A fascinating, accurate and accessible account of some of [the] contemporary efforts to combat aging” (The New York Times). Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist Named a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, San Jose Mercury News, and Library...

Contemporary Australian Corporate Law

by Peta Spender, Kath Hall, Stephen Bottomley
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2017

Contemporary Australian Corporate Law provides an authoritative, contextual and critical analysis of Australian corporate and financial markets law, designed to engage today's LL.B. and JD students. Written by leading corporate law scholars, the text provides a number of features including: a well-structured...

The Geography of Tourism and Recreation

Environment, Place and Space

by C. Michael Hall, Stephen J. Page
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014

This fourth edition of The Geography of Tourism and Recreation provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the interrelationship between tourism, leisure and recreation from geographical and social science perspectives. It still remains the only book to systematically compare and contrast...

A World-Systems Reader

New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology

by Tim Bartley, Albert Bergesen, Terry Boswell
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000

This book brings together some of the most influential new research from the world-systems perspective. The authors survey and analyze new and emerging topics from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives, from political science to archaeology. Each analytical essay is written in accessible language...