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Absence and Ruin In Hanaa Malallah’s ‘The God Marduk’
Tiffany Floyd
Conceived as an object biography, this book contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008) and investigates her use of the ancient past as a conduit for aesthetic and emotive expression offering an in-depth analysis through the methodology of phenomenology.
Paperback
9781839991042
March 2025
Forthcoming
£24.95 / $24.95Conceived as an object biography, this book contextualizes Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008) and investigates her use of the ancient past as a conduit for aesthetic and emotive expression offering an in-depth analysis through the methodology of phenomenology.
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The Cultural Dimensions of Peacebuilding
Marty Branagan
Creating Cultures of Peace details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-oriented, it aims to inspire deep understanding and reflection, empowerment, and grassroots action in cultural spheres.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989421
August 2024
Forthcoming
£110.00 / $110.00Creating Cultures of Peace details aspects of cultures, including language, films, journalism, political economics, museums, education, parenting, gender, artistic activism, and spirituality, which can contribute to either more violent societies or more peaceful ones. Solutions-oriented, it aims to inspire deep understanding and reflection, empowerment, and grassroots action in cultural spheres.
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Georges Braque’s Post-Cubism Masterpieces
The Règis Krampf Collection
Regis Krampf
The book features a group of 32 works by Georges Braque made after his cubist period. They are accompanied by new texts on the subject by Professor Frederic Montegu. All the works illustrated were painted between 1920 and 1960. It showcases the vision of a collector focusing on one of the artist’s most prolific periods. It is a promotional and educational publication.
Hardback
9781839991301
May 2024
Forthcoming
£24.99 / $24.99The book features a group of 32 works by Georges Braque made after his cubist period. They are accompanied by new texts on the subject by Professor Frederic Montegu. All the works illustrated were painted between 1920 and 1960. It showcases the vision of a collector focusing on one of the artist’s most prolific periods. It is a promotional and educational publication.
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Jazz Theory – Contemporary Improvisation, Transcription and Composition
Ron Westray
This course offers advanced work in composition, analysis, arranging and current theoretical ideas and processes relevant to improvisors and composers.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839989711
February 2024
Active
£240.00 / $240.00This course offers advanced work in composition, analysis, arranging and current theoretical ideas and processes relevant to improvisors and composers.
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The Lonely Quest of Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman
Jeroen Smit
translated by Jenny WatsonThe Great Battle or The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman describes the origins of Unilever and the role former CEO Paul Polman (2009-2019) played in Unilever’s quest for acting responsibly in a world that is being threatened by climate change, lack of biodiversity, pollution and growing tensions between rich and poor. In The Lonely Quest of Unilever's CEO Paul Polman Smit reconstructs the lessons we can learn from a courageous pioneer who was also ahead of his time.
First Hill Books
Paperback
9781839988929
July 2023
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£29.99 / $29.99The Great Battle or The Lonely Quest of Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman describes the origins of Unilever and the role former CEO Paul Polman (2009-2019) played in Unilever’s quest for acting responsibly in a world that is being threatened by climate change, lack of biodiversity, pollution and growing tensions between rich and poor. In The Lonely Quest of Unilever’s CEO Paul Polman Smit reconstructs the lessons we can learn from a courageous pioneer who was also ahead of his time.
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ISEE Upper Level Practice Tests
Three Full-Length Verbal and Quantitative Mock Tests with Detailed Answer Explanations
Anthem Press
prepared for publication by Accel LearningIndependent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Upper Level. The Upper Level ISEE Exam is for students currently in grades 8 through 11 who are candidates for admission to grades 9 through 12.
Anthem Press
Paperback
9781839989865
July 2023
Active
£24.95 / $24.95Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) is a school entrance exam taken by students in grades 4 through 12 seeking admission into private schools and non-Catholic religious schools throughout the United States. This book focuses on the ISEE Upper Level. The Upper Level ISEE Exam is for students currently in grades 8 through 11 who are candidates for admission to grades 9 through 12.
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ISEE Lower Level Practice Tests
£24.95 / $24.95Three Full-Length Verbal and Quantitative Mock Tests with Detailed Answer Explanations
Anthem Press
prepared for publication by Accel LearningAnthem Press
Paperback
9781839989803
July 2023
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HSPT Test Prep
£29.95 / $29.95Three Full-Length Tests with Detailed Answer Explanations
Anthem Press
prepared for publication by Accel LearningAnthem Press
Paperback
9781839989025
January 2023
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Frameworks for Scientific and Technological Research oriented by Transdisciplinary Co-Production
Edited by Lillian Maria Araujo de Rezende Alvares, Patricia de Sá Freire
This book presents the Framework Knowledge Acquisition Design, indicated for the development of scientific and technological research that demand the dialogue of academic and non-academic researchers for the configuration of the unit of knowledge, established in a transdisciplinary methodology of co-production in a diachronic study of the main theoretical frameworks, methodological and contextual, and with the presentation of selected frameworks of transdisciplinary co-production.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986840
December 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book presents the Framework Knowledge Acquisition Design, indicated for the development of scientific and technological research that demand the dialogue of academic and non-academic researchers for the configuration of the unit of knowledge, established in a transdisciplinary methodology of co-production in a diachronic study of the main theoretical frameworks, methodological and contextual, and with the presentation of selected frameworks of transdisciplinary co-production.
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Artists Activating Sustainability
The Oregon Story
Barbara Sellers-Young
Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story examines the way in which the artists within specific communities, against the background of landscape and history, reveal concepts of sustainability that help us broaden our knowledge of what is needed to create a sustainable world.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781785279126
October 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00Artists Activating Sustainability: The Oregon Story examines the way in which the artists within specific communities, against the background of landscape and history, reveal concepts of sustainability that help us broaden our knowledge of what is needed to create a sustainable world.
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Towards Third Generation Learning and Teaching
Contours of the New Learning
Edited by Murat A. Yülek, J.G. Wissema
This book gives up-to-date descriptions of the forces that drive change in learning and teaching, offering a perspective of learning in the near future.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839984600
October 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book gives up-to-date descriptions of the forces that drive change in learning and teaching, offering a perspective of learning in the near future.
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Dante and the Night Journey
Alan Williamson
A psychological approach to Dante, based on the Jungian concept of the night journey.
First Hill Books
Paperback
9781839987441
July 2022
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£24.95 / $24.95A psychological approach to Dante, based on the Jungian concept of the night journey.
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Two Thousand Thoughts
Arvind Sharma
A collection of quotable thoughts on various subjects.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839987274
July 2022
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£19.95 / $19.95A collection of quotable thoughts on various subjects.
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Start Me Up and Keep Me Growing
Management Learnings from the Rolling Stones
Bertold Bär-Bouyssiere
This easy-to-read book tells how the Rolling Stones started out 60 years ago as a venture to confess the blues, unprepared for planetary success. It shows how they managed, adapted, innovated and grew, and how they succeeded in dealing with the interpersonal dynamics inherent in any form of human organization.
First Hill Books
Paperback
9781839984952
June 2022
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£19.99 / $19.99This easy-to-read book tells how the Rolling Stones started out 60 years ago as a venture to confess the blues, unprepared for planetary success. It shows how they managed, adapted, innovated and grew, and how they succeeded in dealing with the interpersonal dynamics inherent in any form of human organization.
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Ventures in Philosophical History
Nicholas Rescher
The book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781839986345
April 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The book provides a series of innovative studies of the treatment of major issues by philosophers ranging from classical antiquity to the present day.
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Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and the Greeks
A Research Psychologist on the Move
Gloria Leon
The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author’s career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. The focus of the book is on the author’s personal experiences – the events, people, and the environment with its natural beauty or devastation encountered while conducting this research.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839982729
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00The memoir Academia, Chernobyl, Expeditions and The Greeks: A Research Psychologist on the Move recounts memorable experiences over the course of the author’s career as an academic psychologist engaged in research on stress and coping in extreme environments. The focus of the book is on the author’s personal experiences – the events, people, and the environment with its natural beauty or devastation encountered while conducting this research.
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Slum City Africa
"A Very Bad Place with Good Teachings"
Warren Elofson, Jonah Weyessa
Slum City Africa: “A Very Bad Place With Good Teachings” uses a combination of personal experience and stories passed down to Warren Elofson’s co-author Jonah Weyessa to textualize the realities of living in Nairobi’s poverty-stricken region, Kibera, one of the world’s dirtiest and most dangerous city slums.
First Hill Books
Paperback
9781839985799
March 2022
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£17.95 / $17.95Slum City Africa: “A Very Bad Place With Good Teachings” uses a combination of personal experience and stories passed down to Warren Elofson’s co-author Jonah Weyessa to textualize the realities of living in Nairobi’s poverty-stricken region, Kibera, one of the world’s dirtiest and most dangerous city slums.
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Ireland’s Great Famine, Britain’s Great Failure
William H. A. Williams
This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis as it unfolded, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work reveals how cultural as well as economic and political influences shaped British reaction to the Famine.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839981814
February 2022
Active
£125.00 / $125.00This book provides readers with a unique, in-depth understanding of the background to the Irish Famine and a detailed account of the crisis as it unfolded, as well as the immediate and long-term results of the catastrophe. In addition to ecological and agriculture factors, this work reveals how cultural as well as economic and political influences shaped British reaction to the Famine.
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Contemporary Black Urban Music
The Revolution of Hip Hop
Ron Westray
This course will examine Contemporary Black Urban Music and its historical development by tracing the evolution of soul and funk music into rap and hip-hop.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839985270
February 2022
Active
£49.95 / $49.95This course will examine Contemporary Black Urban Music and its historical development by tracing the evolution of soul and funk music into rap and hip-hop.
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Aging with a Plan
How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow, Second Edition
Sharona Hoffman
This book is a concise, comprehensive resource for readers facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives―an often overwhelming task for which life rarely prepares us. It covers legal, financial, social, medical, and other aging challenges, offering abundant practical advice intertwined with engaging personal anecdotes.
First Hill Books
Paperback
9781839982361
January 2022
Active
£30.00 / $30.00This book is a concise, comprehensive resource for readers facing the prospects of their own aging and of caring for elderly relatives―an often overwhelming task for which life rarely prepares us. It covers legal, financial, social, medical, and other aging challenges, offering abundant practical advice intertwined with engaging personal anecdotes.
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Spirituality for the Independent Thinker
Themes of Religious Exploration
Richard A. Striner
Spirituality for the Independent Thinker is a companion and guide for individualists who resist being told what to think about religion.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839981258
October 2021
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£29.95 / $29.95Spirituality for the Independent Thinker is a companion and guide for individualists who resist being told what to think about religion.
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Life in Reverse
Tales of a Very Stable Narcissist
Ron Westray
The story of African-American jazz musician Westray’s life journey – striving for knowledge, opportunity, acceptance and understanding.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781839980398
September 2021
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£39.95 / $39.95The story of African-American jazz musician Westray’s life journey – striving for knowledge, opportunity, acceptance and understanding.
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The Graft
How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants
Edmund O. Lawler
The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781785278341
August 2021
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£29.95 / $29.95The Graft provides insight into a long-forgotten kidney transplant that helped spark the modern age of organ transplantation.
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The AI Leader
Mastery of Humans and Machines in the Workplace
J. Mark Munoz, Al Naqvi
Artificial intelligence and robotics have defined and redefined work environments worldwide. Using interviews. stories, news events, and research, the book highlights the new realities of business and leadership in the world of AI and provides meaningful insights to help executives lead in the contemporary work environment.
First Hill Books
Hardback
9781785279935
August 2021
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£32.95 / $32.95Artificial intelligence and robotics have defined and redefined work environments worldwide. Using interviews. stories, news events, and research, the book highlights the new realities of business and leadership in the world of AI and provides meaningful insights to help executives lead in the contemporary work environment.