G Bailey: 29 books
The Saving Lie
Truth and Method in the Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book explores the distinction between selflessness and self-interestedness, between acting for one's own advantage and acting, even when disadvantageous, for reasons of duty or conscience. This apparently straightforward contrast (exemplified in the difference between rational-choice models in...
Stratagems And Spoils
A Social Anthropology Of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles...
by Donald G. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Dr Donald Bailey starts with introductory material considering the problem of embedded image processing, and how some of the issues may be solved using parallel hardware solutions. Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are introduced as a technology that provides flexible, fine-grained hardware that...
Winter's Guardian
Her Guardians Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2018
When Winter started university with her best friend Alex, she didn't expect to find herself in the middle of a supernatural war. Who knew saving a stray wolf could earn you the alliance of the pack.
To make things more complicated, the broody and very attractive Jaxson is tasked with keeping her...
Ecoregions
The Ecosystem Geography of the Oceans and Continents
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Global warming and human-driven impacts are changing the World’s ecological zones. This book applies the principles described in Bailey’s Ecosystem Geography: From Ecoregions to Sites, 2nd ed. (Springer 2009, 1st ed. 1996) to describe and characterize the major terrestrial and aquatic ecological...
Ecosystem Geography
From Ecoregions to Sites
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
This book outlines a system that subdivides the Earth into a hierarchy of increasingly finer-scale ecosystems that can serve as a consistent framework for ecological analysis and management. The system consists of a three-part, nested hierarchy of ecosystem units and associated mapping criteria. This...
Mothers in Poverty
A Study of Fatherless Families
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Professor Kriesberg explores in this book the many myths about the poor, the welfare dependents, and the husbandless mothers. The evidence marshalled does not support the idea that people continue on welfare generation after generation, that the children of broken families have disrupted marriages...
Perfect
La perfezione di un attimo
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Può la vera felicità durare più di un attimo? È quello che si domanda Amanda, diciotto anni e una vita di insicurezze, quando decide di rifiutare con ostinazione l’amore di Noah. Noah che è il suo migliore amico, la sua anima gemella, il suo cavaliere dall’armatura scintillante. Amanda sa...
by Harold G. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Morality and Expediency
The Folklore of Academic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book is about micro-politics: that kind of manoevre to control or avoid being controlled, to claim friendship or proclaim enmity, which takes place between people who know one another, and who must temper and adjust their actions towards one another because they share other activities. They are...
Treasons, Stratagems, And Spoils
How Leaders Make Practical Use Of Beliefs And Values
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2018
Treasons, Stratagems, and Spoils is a sequel to the author's highly regarded Stratagems and Spoils.Treason, the new word in the title, indicates a heightened attention to morality?to ideas of duty and conscience?as a foil to rational calculations of advantage. By providing sets of propositions and...
by D. Coles, G. Bailey, R E Calvert
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
This is the classic practical introduction to the broad principles of building management. It is suitable for both students and practising construction professionals who are concerned with greater efficiency within the construction industry.
As a general textbook for the student, the introduction...
by Peter G. Bailey
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Kumi Takura, acclaimed Taiso in the shoguns sixteenth century samurai army, returns home after a long absence to find his sick father is about to lose his province for non-payment of tax dues. Discovering the taxes have been collected and converted by his fathers unscrupulous chancellor Takura dispenses...
Perfect 2
Le imperfezioni del cuore
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 20, 2017
Un bad boy irresistibile. Una ragazza con un segreto da nascondere. La storia di due cuori imperfetti destinati a incontrarsi. Può il vero amore guarire tutte le ferite dell’anima? Brad Johnson è sexy, ricco e spregiudicato. Per conquistare ogni ragazza che desidera, gli basta sfoderare uno dei...