Search results for ""experiment""
University of Minnesota Press Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People
Dana D. Nelson argues that it is the office of the presidency itself that endangers the great American experiment. This urgent book, with new analysis of President Barack Obama's first months in office, reveals the futility of placing all of our hopes for the future in the American president and encourages citizens to create a politics of deliberation, action, and agency.
£14.99
Schiffer Publishing Ltd My New Haircut: Early Concepts: Shapes
Who knew that haircuts could be all different shapes? Well, when you are a poodle you can experiment with all kinds of new hairdos. This hilarious hairstyle search offers a simple visual introduction to math that will make readers laugh again and again. Join in the fun as mathematics and comedy come together for a clever introduction to shapes and vocabulary building.
£9.99
C & T Publishing Purr-fect Patchwork: 16 Appliqué, Embroidery & Quilt Projects for Modern Cat People
Embrace your inner cat lady with contemporary cat-themed projects! Play with texture and style to create 16 unique projects from bags and décor to seven different quilts. Use dozens of techniques from basic piecing, hand embroidery, and machine sewing for a vintage-meets-modern aesthetic. Experiment with different textiles and fabrics to create bags, accessories, home décor, and quilts.
£17.99
Tilbury House,U.S. The Acadia Files: Autumn Science
Now she’s leading a campaign to clean up a local pond; figuring out why leaves change color; learning about time zones and germs; and discovering why we might all be drinking dinosaur pee. “Conduct an experiment,” her parents tell her whenever she has a new mystery to solve. “Use the scientific method.” So Acadia does science. And so can you.
£8.54
The Lilliput Press Ltd Yeats Now: Echoing into Life
W. B. Yeats believed that a poet's life should be an experiment in living. His poems fashion into memorable words the sometimes puzzling emotions that hover over important life events. Yeats's remarkable work can clarify our own thinking about similar situations. Joseph M. Hassett's Yeats Now: Echoing into Life extracts and distils the rich harvest of Yeats's experiment. As Yeats's biographer Roy Foster comments, Yeats Now is 'a personal, quizzical, imaginative testament that ranges through Yeats's thought and writings, showcasing and discussing a series of ringing statements, suggestions and aphorisms that evolve into a kind of vade-mecum or guide to life. The subjects cover love, anger, friendship, politics, violence and the competing claims of perfecting the life, or the work'. This book is a wonderful companion to the work of this significant poet. Hassett's writing provides an excellent frame of context through which to explore one of Ireland's greatest poets.
£13.00
Princeton University Press No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
The extraordinary story of the scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein’s new theory of general relativity in what became the century’s most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a celebrity by confirming his prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Yet the effort to “weigh light” during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success.
£16.99
Design Originals Zentangle 9: Adding Beautiful Colors with Mixed Media
This title features 31 all-new tangles with inspiring ideas for adding expressive colour to your Zentangle-inspired art. You can discover the joys of using watercolours, resist designs, Distress Inks, Pan Pastels, Gelly Roll pens, Radiant H2Os and more. You can use the bonus workbook section to play, experiment and create. Bring your tangle designs to life with brilliant colour! Inside you'll find 31 all-new tangles with inspiring ideas for adding expressive colour to your Zentangle-inspired art. You'll love these easy and beautiful techniques for combining cool colours with mixed media. You can unleash your imagination and brighten your tangle experience. You can discover the joys of using watercolours, resist designs, Distress Inks, Pan Pastels, Gelly Roll pens, Radiant H2Os and more. You can use the bonus workbook section to play, experiment and create. You can relax and feel the Zen as tangles flow from your hand in vivid living colour.
£6.48
Oldcastle Books Ltd The Conviction of Cora Burns
Born in a gaol and raised in a workhouse, Cora Burns has always struggled to control the violence inside her. Haunted by memories of a terrible crime, she seeks a new life working as a servant in the house of scientist Thomas Jerwood. Here, Cora befriends a young girl, Violet, who seems to be the subject of a living experiment. But is Jerwood also secretly studying Cora ?
£12.99
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc The Art of Drawing & Painting Portraits (Collector's Series): Create realistic heads, faces & features in pencil, pastel, watercolor, oil & acrylic
With instructions and step-by-step projects for creating an array of portaits, this all-inclusive book covers everything about portraiture in the most popular drawing and painting media. Ideal for beginning artists who would like to experiment with different media, The Art of Drawing & Painting Portraits teaches the artist how to create beautiful and realistic portraits in pencil, pastel, watercolour, oil, and acrylic.
£13.49
John Wiley & Sons Inc Optimal Design of Experiments: A Case Study Approach
"This is an engaging and informative book on the modern practice of experimental design. The authors' writing style is entertaining, the consulting dialogs are extremely enjoyable, and the technical material is presented brilliantly but not overwhelmingly. The book is a joy to read. Everyone who practices or teaches DOE should read this book." - Douglas C. Montgomery, Regents Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University "It's been said: 'Design for the experiment, don't experiment for the design.' This book ably demonstrates this notion by showing how tailor-made, optimal designs can be effectively employed to meet a client's actual needs. It should be required reading for anyone interested in using the design of experiments in industrial settings." —Christopher J. Nachtsheim, Frank A Donaldson Chair in Operations Management, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota This book demonstrates the utility of the computer-aided optimal design approach using real industrial examples. These examples address questions such as the following: How can I do screening inexpensively if I have dozens of factors to investigate? What can I do if I have day-to-day variability and I can only perform 3 runs a day? How can I do RSM cost effectively if I have categorical factors? How can I design and analyze experiments when there is a factor that can only be changed a few times over the study? How can I include both ingredients in a mixture and processing factors in the same study? How can I design an experiment if there are many factor combinations that are impossible to run? How can I make sure that a time trend due to warming up of equipment does not affect the conclusions from a study? How can I take into account batch information in when designing experiments involving multiple batches? How can I add runs to a botched experiment to resolve ambiguities? While answering these questions the book also shows how to evaluate and compare designs. This allows researchers to make sensible trade-offs between the cost of experimentation and the amount of information they obtain.
£66.95
Epoque Press What Willow Says
Sharing stories of myths, legends and ancient bogs, a deaf child and her grandmother experiment with the lyrical beauty of sign language. Learning to communicate through their shared love of trees they find solace in the shapes and susurrations of leaves in the wind. A poignant tale of family bonding and the quiet acceptance of change.
£9.67
Birkhauser Experimenting Landscapes: Testing the Limits of the Garden
Garden festivals are often a testing area for new ideas for landscape designers. On a small scale designers can experiment with innovative materials and explore emerging tendencies. The International Garden Festival in Metis in northern Quebec is probably the best-known festival in North America. This publication will explain the role of garden festivals in landscape design and present a selection of 25 gardens from Metis.
£43.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shiner
In this electrifying and raw debut anthology, Maggie Nelson unpicks the everyday with the quick alchemy and precision of her later modern classics The Argonauts and Bluets. The poems of Shiner experiment with a variety of styles—syllabic verse, sonnets, macaronic translation, Zen poems, walking poems—to express love, bewilderment, grief, and beauty. This book, Nelson’s first, heralded the arrival of a fully formed, virtuoso voice.
£10.99
John Wiley & Sons Inc Plant Biology Science Projects
Features around two dozen intriguing science projects about seed plants which are used because they're readily available, inexpensive and quickly and easily grown indoors. The experiments include topics such as the effect of acid rain on plants and growing plants in hydroponic solutions. Each project requires no unusual equipment and includes a step-by-step experiment, followed by suggestions for further investigations.
£14.39
Carcanet Press Ltd The Recycling
A The Telegraph Book of the Year. Joey Connolly's funny and feverish second collection, The Recycling, considers dissolution and aftermath. Poems experiment with forms and histories, grieving for estrangement and heartbreak, haunted by climate anxiety. Connolly is always taking risks, recycling traditional poetics into a scrapheap of repurposed pages, rusted fastenings and glittering fragments. Ecopoetry has never looked quite like this before.
£12.99
Pluto Press Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events that changed the face of Yugoslavian society, politics and culture, which were felt on a global level. This book is a comprehensive historical and political analysis of the three major ruptures; the People's Liberation Struggle during World War Two, the self-management model and the Non-Aligned Movement. In order to understand what provoked and what came out of these revolutionary ruptures, Gal Kirn examines the implications of communism and socialism's productive relationship, the Yugoslavian 'experiment' of market socialism that marked the political and economic shift towards 'post-socialism' already in the 1960s, which crystallised new class coalitions that will later on - together with austerity politics - lead the way towards des-integration of Yugoslavia. Filling a much-needed gap in English language literature, this book's interrogation of the Yugoslav socialist experiment offers insights for left projects and democratic socialist discussions today, as well as historians of Yugoslavia and revolutionary movements.
£76.50
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Special Effect Glazes
A complete guide to fantastic special effects glazes for studio potters. From drippy and crackle to ash and lichen glazes, experienced ceramicist Linda Bloomfield guides you through the world of special effect glazes. Beautifully illustrated with pieces from both emerging and established potters that showcase stunning copper oxide-blues, metallic bronzes and manganese-pink crystal glazes, Special Effect Glazes is packed full of recipes to try out: from functional oilspot glazes using iron oxide, to explosive lava glazes. In this informative handbook discover how you can create these fantastic effects and learn the basic chemistry behind glazes in order to adjust and experiment with your unique pieces. Discussed are materials and stains, how to find them and how they affect the colour and texture of the glaze, alongside practical fixes to familiar glaze-making problems. Special Effect Glazes is essential if you are interested in creating eye-catching glazes and wanting to develop your knowledge of glaze-making, or experiment with your own formulas to achieve the perfect finish.
£18.00
Orion Publishing Co Doodle Gardener: Imagine, Design and Draw the Ideal Garden
Turn the Louvre pyramid into a greenhouse! Design your own folly or maze! Green up a car park or experiment with topiary! Whether you have a garden or not, you can let your horticultural imagination run wild. Sam Piyasena’s charming illustrations and Kendra Wilson's witty activity suggestions provide the inspiration. This fun book will delight lovers of gardens and green spaces of all ages.
£14.99
Collective Ink Who is in?: Beyond Self-image
Who is in? is for all spiritual seekers who encounter the basic questions of identity: Who am I?, Who is in? or What is the nature of I? Using the Zen Buddhist koan - a paradox to be meditated upon - ‘Who is in’ as a door to discovering the true self and pure subjectivity, this book provides examples and understandings, techniques and invitations to experiment with self-inquiry.
£14.38
John Wiley & Sons Inc AB INITIO Molecular Orbital Theory
Describes and discusses the use of theoretical models as an alternative to experiment in making accurate predictions of chemical phenomena. Addresses the formulation of theoretical molecular orbital models starting from quantum mechanics, and compares them to experimental results. Draws on a series of models that have already received widespread application and are available for new applications. A new and powerful research tool for the practicing experimental chemist.
£329.95
The Crowood Press Ltd Printing with Natural Dyes
This practical guide explains the techniques and provides ideas and inspiration to get you printing with natural dyes at home. It shows you how even with basic materials (such as the potato) you can make stunning patterns and get hooked on printmaking. It goes on to introduce more advanced processes, and suggests new ways to experiment with the age-old craft of relief printing.
£12.99
HarperCollins Publishers Lab Skills for SQA Assessment – National 5 Physics Lab Skills for the revised exams of 2018 and beyond: Learn the Skills of Scientific Inquiry
Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Physics First Teaching: 2017, First Exam: 2018 Covers all required techniques and apparatus Provides practice in all skills of scientific inquiry Supports Assignment work National 5 Physics Lab Skills is designed to support you when undertaking the practical work required for your SQA exam and assignment.It includes eight experiments covering the required skills of scientific inquiry and will:· guide you through the experiments with clear aims, methods, apparatus lists and safety tips· connect each experiment to your course with underlying physics and learning outcomes· provide one place to record your results with write-in spaces· help you revise for your exams with check your understanding and exam-style questions.· include precautions to help you ensure your results are accurate, valid and reliable.· provide assignment advice with each experiment to help you develop your own research· allow you to check your answers at the back of the book
£6.12
Distributed Art Publishers The Agency: Readymades Belong to Everyone®
Philippe Thomas' entrepreneurial experiment questions the distinction between authorship and ownership French artist Philippe Thomas (1951–95) never intended to make a name for himself; rather, he was much more invested in the artist’s ability to disappear behind his work. In 1987 he created readymades belong to everyone®, a communication and events agency that mainly provided posters and signboards for different advertising campaigns. Though he was the sole creator of these artifacts, Thomas declined to sign his name on any of them so that the provenance of such pieces took priority over their initial origin—the collector or institution who commissioned or purchased the works would sign their names instead. The entrepreneurial project became a years-long experiment in testing the limitations of authorship and artistry in a post-Duchamp world. This volume provides documentation of the project, along with a final previously unpublished interview by Thomas that enables readers to understand the coherence of his entire work.
£23.39
Oxford University Press Oxford Playscripts: The Invisible Man
An engaging classroom playscript. Blending science fiction with the dangers of human ambition, this is a story of scientific discovery turned nightmare. There are many whispered questions when medical student Griffin arrives at a small village wrapped in bandages; however, no one can guess the true reason for his disguise. Terror, revenge and chaos ensue as Griffin, and those around him, come to terms with the effects of his latest experiment.
£16.07
Titan Books Ltd A1 Annual
Innovation requires experimentation. A1 has always been a laboratory for creators to experiment. To do or try something new or tell a story in a genre they're not familiar with. To encourage them to break away from corporate creations and unleash their own ideas. A1 is their platform. This is the exciting return of the award-winning graphic anthology series!
£15.99
WW Norton & Co Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century
Beginning with B. F. Skinner and the legend of a child raised in a box, Slater takes us from a deep empathy with Stanley Milgram's obedience subjects to a funny and disturbing re-creation of an experiment questioning the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Previously described only in academic journals and textbooks, these often daring experiments have never before been narrated as stories, chock-full of plot, wit, personality, and theme.
£14.00
Equinox Publishing Ltd Prophecy and Power: Muhammad and the Qur'an in the Light of Comparison
By the end of the ninth century the Prophet Muhammad had emerged as an incomparable exemplar shared by all Muslim communities. Prophecy and Power offers a rigorous comparative study of both the Prophet Muhammad and the Qur'an. The book ranges across various issues: the comparative study of 'prophecy'; Qur'anic comparison as a modality of change; the Prophet as exemplar and foil; and an experiment in comparison between Muhammad and Alinesitouie.
£75.00
The Crowood Press Ltd Needlefelting
This practical guide explains how to needlefelt and make wonderful creations at your kitchen table with few specialist tools. The craft requires no sewing or needlework skills so is easy for beginners to try but has no limits for more experienced makers. Packed with inspiration, this beautiful book shows you the way and encourages you to create your own sculptures (large or small) and to experiment with your ideas.
£12.99
Penguin Random House Children's UK George and the Big Bang
Meet George. He's an ordinary boy with an incredible secret - the power to go on intergalactic adventures!Join him as he battles a sinister rebel-scientist, who's hell bent on sabotaging the most exciting - and dangerous - experiment of the century.A deadly bomb is ticking. The whole world is watching. Can George stop the second big bang?Featuring the latest scientific theories - plus all-new content about the Higgs boson!
£8.42
Vintage Publishing A Fairly Honourable Defeat
In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties. As puppet master, Julius artfully plays on the human tendency to embrace drama and intrigue and to prefer the distraction of confrontations to the difficult effort of communicating openly and honestly.
£10.99
Springer Verlag, Singapore Chemical Dust Suppression Technology and Its Applications in Mines (Open-pit Mines)
This book focuses on the study of chemical dust suppression in mine dust pollution control by means of theories, experiments, computer simulation, and case application, aiming at providing chemical dust suppression solutions for mining worksites. It has seven chapters, including the following contents: (1) introduces fundamental theories and applications of chemical dust suppression, analyzes the dust source intensity of worksites and the mechanisms of dust generation, and summarizes the dust control measures for different mining worksites. (2) According to the mechanisms of dust generation in different mining worksites, targeted dust suppressants were developed. Through optimization by monomer experiment and orthogonal experiment, the optimum formula of different types of dust suppressants was obtained, and its properties were characterized. (3) The dust suppressant field application process was introduced, and the economic benefits were analyzed. This book is expected to provide valuable references both for researchers and engineering technicians engaged in environmental engineering, safety engineering, occupational health, and mining metallurgical engineering, and it also serves as a textbook for graduate students in above disciplines.
£109.99
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Choice Experiments in Developing Countries: Implementation, Challenges and Policy Implications
Choice Experiments in Developing Countries is an invaluable one-stop presentation of the best-practice case studies implementing the choice experiment method in developing countries. It highlights the theoretical and practical issues that should be taken into consideration when applying this method in a developing country context.The expert contributors gather recent state-of-the-art choice experiment studies undertaken in several developing countries, in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. These focus on a variety of environmental and agricultural issues, underlining the versatility of this method in valuing a wide array of interventions (for example policies, public and private services, new technologies) and emphasizing the value of the method in informing efficient, effective and equitable policies for sustainable economic development.This work will be of great interest to academics and researchers of environmental economics, agricultural and resource economics, development, environmental management and planning, as well as national and international development agencies and NGOs. Civil servants and policymakers in developing countries will find the work and recommendations within this book engaging and inspirational.
£40.95
Princeton University Press No Shadow of a Doubt: The 1919 Eclipse That Confirmed Einstein's Theory of Relativity
On their 100th anniversary, the story of the extraordinary scientific expeditions that ushered in the era of relativityIn 1919, British scientists led extraordinary expeditions to Brazil and Africa to test Albert Einstein’s revolutionary new theory of general relativity in what became the century’s most celebrated scientific experiment. The result ushered in a new era and made Einstein a global celebrity by confirming his dramatic prediction that the path of light rays would be bent by gravity. Today, Einstein’s theory is scientific fact. Yet the effort to “weigh light” by measuring the gravitational deflection of starlight during the May 29, 1919, solar eclipse has become clouded by myth and skepticism. Could Arthur Eddington and Frank Dyson have gotten the results they claimed? Did the pacifist Eddington falsify evidence to foster peace after a horrific war by validating the theory of a German antiwar campaigner? In No Shadow of a Doubt, Daniel Kennefick provides definitive answers by offering the most comprehensive and authoritative account of how expedition scientists overcame war, bad weather, and equipment problems to make the experiment a triumphant success.The reader follows Eddington on his voyage to Africa through his letters home, and delves with Dyson into how the complex experiment was accomplished, through his notes. Other characters include Howard Grubb, the brilliant Irishman who made the instruments; William Campbell, the American astronomer who confirmed the result; and Erwin Findlay-Freundlich, the German whose attempts to perform the test in Crimea were foiled by clouds and his arrest.By chronicling the expeditions and their enormous impact in greater detail than ever before, No Shadow of a Doubt reveals a story that is even richer and more exciting than previously known.
£22.50
Dalkey Archive Press Concerto for Sentence: An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic
Subtitled "An Exploration of the Musico-Erotic," this novel is an experiment in blurring the boundaries between the syntax of music and that of poetry. The sentences in question are elliptical, resembling a musical score, and tell the story of a violinist embarking upon a potentially dangerous affair with an admirer and fellow musician as their spouses, audiences, teachers, friends, and colleagues listen and wonder.
£13.23
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Integral Geometry And Convexity - Proceedings Of The International Conference
Integral geometry, known as geometric probability in the past, originated from Buffon's needle experiment. Remarkable advances have been made in several areas that involve the theory of convex bodies. This volume brings together contributions by leading international researchers in integral geometry, convex geometry, complex geometry, probability, statistics, and other convexity related branches. The articles cover both recent results and exciting directions for future research.
£122.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Paddington's Prize Picture
When Mr. Gruber teaches Paddington about hidden paintings, Paddington can’t wait to unearth a new discovery. But what begins as an artistic experiment turns into a surprise for the whole family! Based on the classic adventures of Michael Bond’s bestselling character, this brand-new Level One I Can Read will enchant a whole new generation of beginning readers with the humorous stories of the beloved bear from Peru.
£15.29
Thames and Hudson Ltd Super Realism
Sarah Evans became a full-time artist, specializing in prints and drawings, after working as an architect for fifteen years. In 2017, she started a new series, My Still Life, which marked a departure from her signature architectural style and instead focused on hyper-real pencil drawings of modern foodstuffs with a playful edge. Sarah also works with Derwent to inspire new artists to experiment with coloured pencils.
£14.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd I'm A Little Scientist! (Set 2)
Discover, experiment and learn with the little scientists! Every book in the Future Of ... collection contains a fun story, a field trip, and a focus on a famous person. With themes ranging from energy to communications, and robotics to biotechnology, each little scientist has something new to teach readers. Through engaging narratives and full- colour illustrations, I'm a Little Scientist! introduces children to the exciting and ever-advancing world of science.
£22.50
Pluto Press Partisan Ruptures: Self-Management, Market Reform and the Spectre of Socialist Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia's twentieth-century bore witness to civil war, sharp ideological struggles and a series of 'partisan ruptures'; revolutionary events that changed the face of Yugoslavian society, politics and culture, which were felt on a global level. This book is a comprehensive historical and political analysis of the three major ruptures; the People's Liberation Struggle during World War Two, the self-management model and the Non-Aligned Movement. In order to understand what provoked and what came out of these revolutionary ruptures, Gal Kirn examines the implications of communism and socialism's productive relationship, the Yugoslavian 'experiment' of market socialism that marked the political and economic shift towards 'post-socialism' already in the 1960s, which crystallised new class coalitions that will later on - together with austerity politics - lead the way towards des-integration of Yugoslavia. Filling a much-needed gap in English language literature, this book's interrogation of the Yugoslav socialist experiment offers insights for left projects and democratic socialist discussions today, as well as historians of Yugoslavia and revolutionary movements.
£25.19
Transcript Verlag The Local Museum in the Global Village – Rethinking Ideas, Functions, and Practices of Local History Museums in Rapidly Changing Diverse
In remote areas of Europe, local history museums struggle to connect with the rapidly changing and increasingly diverse communities around them. Insa Müller asks how these museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands and a museum experiment, she offers starting points for rethinking the local history museum, while at the same time providing suggestions for locally adapted museum practice.
£40.49
Llewellyn Publications,U.S. The Complete Book of Tarot Reversals
TAR0T REVERSALS reveals everything you need to know for reading the most maligned and misunderstood part of a spread - the reversed cards. These interpretations offer inner support, positive advice, and descriptions of the learning opportunities available, yet with a twist that is uniquely their own. Enhance and deepen the quality of your consultations as you experiment with the eleven different methods of reading reversed cards.
£16.50
Bonnier Books Ltd Temporary Tattoos
Ready to experiment with skin ink without the commitment? This temporary tattoo book features over 300 gorgeous designs, from modern and minimalist to vibrant and traditional, which are all safe, pain-free and easy to remove.What''s more, discover the history of the most classic tattoo designs, along with step-by-step instructions on how to accessorise your festival looks and special occasions with beautiful skin art.
£9.99
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Hammer, Sickle, and Soil: The Soviet Drive to Collectivize Agriculture
In Hammer, Sickle, and Soil, Jonathan Daly tells the harrowing story of Stalin’s transformation of millions of family farms throughout the USSR into 250,000 collective farms during the period from 1929 to 1933. History’s biggest experiment in social engineering at the time and the first example of the complete conquest of the bulk of a population by its rulers, the policy was above all intended to bring to Russia Marx’s promised bright future of socialism. In the process, however, it caused widespread peasant unrest, massive relocations, and ultimately led to millions dying in the famine of 1932–33. Drawing on scholarly studies and primary-source collections published since the opening of the Soviet archives three decades ago, now, for the first time, this volume offers an accessible and accurate narrative for the general reader. The book is illustrated with propaganda posters from the period that graphically portray the drama and trauma of the revolution in Soviet agriculture under Stalin. In chilling detail the author describes how the havoc and destruction wrought in the countryside sowed the seeds of destruction of the entire Soviet experiment.
£44.96
SAGE Publications Inc Designing Experiments for the Social Sciences: How to Plan, Create, and Execute Research Using Experiments
"This book is a must for learning about the experimental design–from forming a research question to interpreting the results this text covers it all." –Sarah El Sayed, University of Texas at Arlington Designing Experiments for the Social Sciences: How to Plan, Create, and Execute Research Using Experiments is a practical, applied text for courses in experimental design. The text assumes that students have just a basic knowledge of the scientific method, and no statistics background is required. With its focus on how to effectively design experiments, rather than how to analyze them, the book concentrates on the stage where researchers are making decisions about procedural aspects of the experiment before interventions and treatments are given. Renita Coleman walks readers step-by-step on how to plan and execute experiments from the beginning by discussing choosing and collecting a sample, creating the stimuli and questionnaire, doing a manipulation check or pre-test, analyzing the data, and understanding and interpreting the results. Guidelines for deciding which elements are best used in the creation of a particular kind of experiment are also given. This title offers rich pedagogy, ethical considerations, and examples pertinent to all social science disciplines.
£97.60
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd I'm A Little Scientist! (Set 2)
Discover, experiment and learn with the little scientists! Every book in the Future Of ... collection contains a fun story, a field trip, and a focus on a famous person. With themes ranging from energy to communications, and robotics to biotechnology, each little scientist has something new to teach readers. Through engaging narratives and full- colour illustrations, I'm a Little Scientist! introduces children to the exciting and ever-advancing world of science.
£55.00
Munch Museum Just Like Munch!
Welcome to the world of Edvard Munch and... You! Step into the studio and play with stencils, lines and patterns, and have fun drawing new characters and scenes while helping the artist finish his paintings. In this book you can discover places and motifs from Edvard Munch’s life and artwork, and bring the pages to life with your own wonderful creations. Have fun, and experiment just like Munch!
£12.99
C & T Publishing Create Your own Improv Quilts: Modern Quilting with No Rules & No Rulers
A natural follow-up to the best-selling Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts, this book applies Rayna's no rules, no mistakes, no stress style to modern quilting. Starting with strips and geometric shapes, you'll cut and sew without patterns, required yardage, or complicated diagrams. This freeing method lets you create modern quilts organically as you follow your instincts, ask "what if...?", and experiment with scale, colour, value and placement.
£26.09
Trilogia Foc 2 Ciutats de cendra
Una ciutat nova. Un experiment. Un retrobament. Un assassinat. Un romanç.Després d?assistir a la destrucció de la seva ciutat, el futur de l?Alice no és gens prometedor. I quan rep una estranya oferta d?un desconegut, només té una cosa clara: es revenjarà del responsable de la desaparició dels seus amics.Fins on series capaç d?arribar per trobar respostes? Fins on series capaç d?arribar per recuperar la teva llibertat?
£17.46