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  • An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology

    by J R Levick ...
    An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology is designed primarily for students of medicine and physiology. This introductory text is mostly didactic in teaching style and it attempts to show that knowledge of the circulatory system is derived from experimental observations. This book is organized into 15 chapters. The chapters provide a fuller account of microvascular physiology to reflect the ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Overland

    by Ewen Levick ...
    Overland is the true story of a journey from Australia to Switzerland without flying. From vast deserts to an Indonesian fishing boat, a slow train through Burma to an armed confrontation in Laos, lullabies from middle-aged Chinese businessmen to a cold night on the Great Wall, wolves and reindeer herders, thieves and nomads: this is a vivid illustration of Asia and the people who live there, and ... Read more

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  • The Government of the Roman Empire

    A Sourcebook

    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    This book reveals how an empire that stretched from Glasgow to Aswan in Egypt could be ruled from a single city and still survive more than a thousand years. The Government of the Roman Empire is the only sourcebook to concentrate on the administration of the empire, using the evidence of contemporary writers and historians.Specifically designed for students, with extensive cross-referencing, ... Read more

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  • Augustus

    Image and Substance

    Throughout a long and spectacularly successful political life, the Emperor Augustus (63BC-AD14) was a master of spin. Barbara Levick exposes the techniques which he used to disguise the ruthlessness of his rise to power and to enhance his successes once power was achieved.There was, she argues, less difference than might appear between the ambitious youth who overthrew Anthony and Cleopatra and ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Antarctic Penguins: A Study of Their Social Habits

    Levick, a surgeon and zoologist on the expedition, meticulously observed the lives of Adélie penguins at Cape Adare, making this one of the first scientific studies focused on penguin behavior. His observations include detailed accounts of their breeding habits, courtship rituals, and parental care. Levick’s work was groundbreaking at the time for its insights into penguin colonies, capturing ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women in Antiquity: New Assessments

    The study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone rapid and wide-ranging development in the past. The contributors reassess the role of women in diverse contexts and areas, such as archaic and classical Greek literature and cult, Roman imperial politics, ancient medicine and early Christianity. Some offer detailed interpretations of topics which have been widely discussed since the 1960s ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Future of Youth Violence Prevention

    A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research

    The Future of Youth Violence Prevention: A Mixtape for Practice, Policy, and Research focuses on innovative approaches to youth violence prevention that utilize consistent principles found within existing best practices but are dynamic and adaptable across settings—and the sociohistorical and cultural realities of those settings. This book features scholars anchored in applied practices who can ... Read more

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  • Vespasian

    Series series Roman Imperial Biographies
    From a pre-eminent biographer in the field, this volume examines the life and times of the emperor Vespasian and challenges the validity of his perennial good reputation and universally acknowledged achievements. Levick examines how this plebeian and uncharismatic Emperor restored peace and confidence to Rome and ensured a smooth succession, how he coped with the military, political and economic ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Cardiovascular Physiology: Questions for Self Assessment

    An Introduction to Cardiovascular Physiology provides the student with the key concepts of cardiovascular physiology, from the fundamentals of how the cardiovascular system works in both health and disease, through to a consideration of more complex physiological mechanisms. This brand new companion work Cardiovascular Physiology: Questions for Sel ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Catiline

    Series series Ancients in Action
    Like Guy Fawkes in early 17th-century Britain, L. Sergius Catilina was a threat to the constitution imposed on Rome by Sulla in the mid-1st century BC. His aim at first was to reach the consulship, the summit of power at Rome, by conventional means, but he lacked the money and support to win his way to the top, unlike two contemporaries of greater means and talent: the orator Cicero and the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • The Insightful Leader

    Discover Your Blind Spots Through the Eyes of Employees

    Would you fire your boss if you had the opportunity?Have you ever worked for a leader who was disrespectful, a poor listener, and only cared about themselves? Sometimes leaders operate in ways that keep them from listening to and connecting with their employees. It’s time to take an introspective look at where a leader’s blind spots might be and find clarity in what it means to be an insightful ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Communities, Archives and New Collaborative Practices

    Series series Connected Communities
    This innovative book examines the changing relationship between communities, citizens and the notion of the archive.Archives have traditionally been understood as repositories of knowledge and experience, remote from the ordinary people who fund and populate them, however digital resources have led to a growing plurality of archives and the practices associated with collecting and curating. This ... Read more

    $55.99 USD