Search Results: Titles starting with P from 64 Books

VG- condition softcover, slightly rounded and curled corners, text appears unmarked, 240 pp. This book is a collection of papers presented at the NATO ASI conference Transdisciplinary Information Sharing for Decision-Making against Biological Threats. Traditionally, it has been natural disasters and industrial accidents which have posed the greatest threat to society, but increasingly, chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive (CBRNE) emergencies present new challenges, with the potential to become global threats on an unprecedented scale. This has led to calls for the international community to implement a new way of thinking to enable better communication worldwide to counter the threat of global terrorism. A successful counter terrorism strategy requires cooperation between agencies traditionally reluctant to share information: governments, industry, the scientific community and civil society in general. The body of knowledge and experience being developed in this… Read More

Fine condition hardcover in like dustjacket with faint shelf wear, clean and unmarked, 256 pp. Between the mid-1830s and the late 1850s, authors such as Hannah Lee, Catharine Sedgwick, Eliza Follen, Maria McIntosh, and Maria Cummins wrote dozens of novels and stories depicting the effects of financial panic on the home and proposing solutions to economic instability. This unique body of antebellum American women's writing, which integrated economic discourse with the language and conventions of domestic fiction, is what critic Mary Templin terms "panic fiction."

VG condition tournament booklet, clean and unmarked. All the games from the Interzonal won by Henrique Mecking over Geller, Polugaevsky, Portisch, Smyslov, Bronstein and others. Three-page english language summary with crosstable. Diagrams, many annotated games, figurine algebraic notation.

Near fine condition softcover, illustrated with black and white drawings, 93 pp.

VG+ condition small softcover (6" x 7.5"), clean and unmarked. Illustrated with color photographs, English and Chinese languages, 110 pp.

Fine condition hardcover, clean and unmarked, 312 pp. This collection brings together a diverse range of analyses to interrogate policy changes and to grapple with the on-going transformations of neoliberalism in both North America and various Latin American states.