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Color Management & Quality Output: Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print (The Digital Imaging Masters Series)

Color Management & Quality Output: Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print (The Digital Imaging Masters Series)

We have all felt the frustration of wasting time paper and effort when our prints or web images don’t match the images we see on our monitors. Fortunately you’re holding the resource that will help solve these problems. This book guides you through the hardware settings and software steps you’ll need to post professional images and make stunning prints that showcase your artistic vision. In Color Management & Quality Output Tom P. Ashe a color expert and gifted teacher shows you how to color manage your files from input all the way through output by clearly explaining how color works in our minds on our monitors and computers and through our printers. You’ll learn to: properly calibrate your monitor understand Adobe Photoshop color settings build and evaluate color profiles for all your devices navigate the print menu in both Photoshop and Lightroom appreciate the differences between inkjet prints and C-prints optimize sharpening for a variety of print media understand how and why to use RIPs communicate with creative professionals clients and output service providers to ensure the highest quality results. This book is part of The Digital Imaging Masters Series which features cutting-edge information from the most sought-after and qualified professionals and instructors in the photography field. Based on the progressive curriculum of the Masters of Professional Studies in Digital Photography created by Katrin Eismann at the School of Visual Arts in New York City these books are the next best thing to being in the classroom with the Digital Photography Masters themselves. | Color Management & Quality Output: Working with Color from Camera to Display to Print (The Digital Imaging Masters Series)

GBP 130.00
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Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems

Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems

Recently there have been a number of advances in technology including in mobile devices globalization of companies display technologies and healthcare all of which require significant input and evaluation from human factors specialists. Accordingly this textbook has been completely updated with some chapters folded into other chapters and new chapters added where needed. The text continues to fill the need for a textbook that bridges the gap between the conceptual and empirical foundations of the field. | Human Factors in Simple and Complex Systems

GBP 130.00
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Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment Origin and Role

Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment Origin and Role

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are toxic degradation resistant bio accumulative and display wide spatial distribution which has been linked to mutagenic reproductive and immunological disorders. In Stockholm Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are toxic degradation resistant bio-accumulative and display wide spatial distribution which has been linked to mutagenic reproductive and immunological disorders. At the Stockholm Convention a global treaty was signed to minimize and ultimately eliminate the release of POPs into the environment. The present compilation regarding POPs focusses on the sources atmospheric behavior terrestrial and aquatic food chain transfer human exposure and fate aspects of this important class of chemicals including topical issues like temporal trends in contamination. Furthermore the chemical characteristics of individual POPs are also addressed. Features: Provides better understanding of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and how they affect humans and ecosystems. Includes genesis categories environmental fate and behavior and associated hazards. Reviews analytical techniques involved in detection human exposure and management. Discusses environmental dynamics of POPs. Focuses on the comprehensive account of PCDD/Fs PCBs PAH and other organochlorine POPs such as DDT lindane and dieldrin. This book is aimed at researchers professionals and graduate students in Life Science Occupational Health and Safety Chemical Engineering and Environmental Engineering. | Persistent Organic Pollutants in the Environment Origin and Role

GBP 130.00
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3D Television (3DTV) Technology Systems and Deployment Rolling Out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment

3D Television (3DTV) Technology Systems and Deployment Rolling Out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment

Going beyond the technological building blocks of 3DTV 3D Television (3DTV) Technology Systems and Deployment: Rolling Out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment offers an early view of the deployment and rollout strategies of this emerging technology. It covers cutting-edge advances theories and techniques in end-to-end 3DTV systems to provide a system-level view of the topic and what it takes to make this concept a commercial reality. The book reflects the full-range of questions being posed about post-production 3D mastering delivery options and home screens. It reviews fundamental visual concepts supporting stereographic perception of 3DTV and considers the various stages of a 3DTV system including capture representation coding transmission and display. Presents new advances in 3DTV and display techniques Includes a 24-page color insert Identifies standardization activities critical to broad deployment Examines a different stage of an end-to-end 3DTV system in each chapter Considers the technical details related to 3DTV including compression and transmission technologies Discussing theory and application the text covers both stereoscopic and autostereoscopic techniques the latter eliminating the need for special glasses and allowing for viewer movement. It also examines emerging holographic approaches which have the potential to provide the truest three-dimensional images. The book contains the results of a survey of a number of advocacy groups to provide a clear picture of the current state of the industry research trends future directions and underlying topics. | 3D Television (3DTV) Technology Systems and Deployment Rolling Out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment

GBP 175.00
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Tragedy

Tragedy

This wide-ranging and unique collection of documents on one of the most enduring of literary genres Tragedy offers a radical revaluation of its significance in the light of the critical attention that it has received during the past one-hundred and fifty years. The foundations of much contemporary thinking about Tragedy are to be found in the writings of Hegel Nietzsche and Kierkegaard; in addition the dialectical tradition emanating from Marxism and the psycho-analytical writings of Freud have extended significantly the horizons of the subject. With the explosion of interest in the areas of post-structuralism sociology of culture social anthropology feminism deconstruction and the study of ritual new questions are being asked about this persistent artistic exploration of human experience. This book seeks to represent a full selection of these divergent interests in a series of substantial extracts which display the continuing richness of the debate about a genre which has provoked and challenged categorical discussion since the appearance of Aristotle's Poetics.

GBP 130.00
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Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

Bringing together an international team of scholars this book offers new perspectives on the impact that the Bauhaus and its teaching had on a wide range of artistic practices. Three of the fields in which the Bauhaus generated immediately transformative effects were housing typography and photography. Contributors go further to chart the surprising relation of the school to contemporary developments in hairstyling and shop window display in unprecedented detail. New scholarship has detailed the degree to which Bauhaus faculty and students set off around the world but it has seldom paid attention to its impact in communist East Germany or in countries like Ireland where no Bauhäusler settled. This wide-ranging collection makes clear that a century after its founding many new stories remain to be told about the influence of the twentieth century’s most innovative arts institution. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history design history photography and architectural history. | Bauhaus Effects in Art Architecture and Design

GBP 130.00
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Numerical Methods for Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations and Engineering Simulations and Modeling

Numerical Methods for Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations and Engineering Simulations and Modeling

This book is about the simulation and modeling of novel chaotic systems within the frame of fractal-fractional operators. The methods used their convergence stability and error analysis are given and this is the first book to offer mathematical modeling and simulations of chaotic problems with a wide range of fractal-fractional operators to find solutions. Numerical Methods for Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations and Engineering: Simulations and Modeling provides details for stability convergence and analysis along with numerical methods and their solution procedures for fractal-fractional operators. The book offers applications to chaotic problems and simulations using multiple fractal-fractional operators and concentrates on models that display chaos. The book details how these systems can be predictable for a while and then can appear to become random. Practitioners engineers researchers and senior undergraduate and graduate students from mathematics and engineering disciplines will find this book of interest. _ | Numerical Methods for Fractal-Fractional Differential Equations and Engineering Simulations and Modeling

GBP 120.00
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Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People

Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People

Extraordinary performance from ordinary people is a must read for the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate leadership status. The book is as practical as it is exciting. How to succeed and which personal qualities are required from those who display the capability for great responsibility are the themes that run throughout. The book focuses on both the key value adding activities and disciplines for driving through change and the styles of corporate leaders that attract successExtraordinary performance from ordinary people highlights how the leaders of the company as a corporate team can adopt and adapt the four value creating styles. It emphasises how to recognise which leadership framework suits the challenges of particular competitive environments. This insight nurtures a confidence to act decisively adopting an approach to communication which harnesses the energies of the organisation to achieve stretching performance targets. It concentrates on how leaders make a difference by what they do. Diagnostic models that show what really works and under which circumstances are core to this book.

GBP 175.00
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US-China Global Maritime Relations

US-China Global Maritime Relations

This book explores the U. S. China maritime relationship examining the development and implementation of the maritime strategies of both the United States and China. Delving into the U. S. China maritime relationship within the global context the book investigates six key maritime regions: the South China Sea the Northeast Asia waters (the East China Sea the Yellow Sea) the Indian Ocean the South Pacific Ocean as well as the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Its observations form a comprehensive exploration of these regions and their significance in shaping the dynamics between the two nations and this analysis reveals that an expanded view is necessary to discover and clearly display the role that these maritime regions currently—and could potentially—play in overarching U. S. China relations. Examining both the ongoing conflicts and opportunities for cooperation in the global maritime domain between the United States and China this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of international relations Chinese and U. S. politics strategic studies and maritime studies. | US-China Global Maritime Relations

GBP 130.00
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Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings Technologies and Applications

Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings Technologies and Applications

Diamond-like carbons (DLCs) display a number of attractive properties that make them versatile coating materials for a variety of applications including extremely high hardness values very low friction properties very low gas permeability good biocompatibility and very high electrical resistivity among others. Further research into this material is required to produce hydrogen-free DLC films and to synthesize it together with other materials thereby obtaining better film properties. Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings: Technologies and Applications examines emerging manufacturing technologies for DLCs with the aim of improving their properties for use in practical applications. Discusses DLC coatings used in mechanical manufacturing and medical applications Details recent developments in the novel synthesis of DLC films Covers advances in understanding of chemical structural physical mechanical and tribological properties for modern material processing Highlights methods to yield longer service life Considers prospects for future applications of emerging DLC technologies This work is aimed at materials science and engineering researchers advanced students and industry professionals. | Diamond-Like Carbon Coatings Technologies and Applications

GBP 130.00
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Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins Monuments and Memorials

Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins Monuments and Memorials

This collection of newly published essays examines our relationship to physical objects that invoke commemorate and honor the past. The recent destruction of cultural heritage in war and controversies over Civil War monuments in the US have foregrounded the importance of artifacts that embody history. The book invites us to ask: How do memorials convey their meanings? What is our responsibility for the preservation or reconstruction of historically significant structures? How should we respond when the public display of a monument divides a community? This anthology includes coverage of the destruction of Palmyra and the Bamiyan Buddhas the loss of cultural heritage through war and natural disasters the explosive controversies surrounding Confederate-era monuments and the decay of industry in the U. S. Rust Belt. The authors consider issues of preservation and reconstruction the nature of ruins the aesthetic and ethical values of memorials and the relationship of cultural memory to material artifacts that remain from the past. Written by a leading group of philosophers art historians and archeologists the 23 chapters cover monuments and memorials from Dubai to Detroit from the instant destruction of Hiroshima to the gradual sinking of Venice. | Philosophical Perspectives on Ruins Monuments and Memorials

GBP 130.00
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Depth Public Relations After the Masquerade

Depth Public Relations After the Masquerade

Contemporary global culture rooted in neoliberalism and free market forces increasingly emphasises appearance over substance. People and organisations are judged by image and reputation while social media encourages and enables us to develop our own public persona. This book explores the rise of promotional communication with a particular focus on public relations (PR) and its role. Organisations from local charities to multinational corporations employ professional PR staff to manage promotional communication and even public institutions must position themselves in the marketplace to secure funding and approval. To what extent has PR contributed to this culture of display this masquerade of emptiness? This book argues that the climate crisis demands not more performance but a new approach one of ‘depth public relations’. This concerpt builds on ideas not only from public relations but also psychology sociology and philosophy as well as introducing the voices of climate activists and others seeking a deeper relationship with the human and non- human worlds. The proposed principles of depth public relations offer suggestions for theory and practice with profound implications for PR and related fields and will interest all scholars of the changing communication environment. | Depth Public Relations After the Masquerade

GBP 120.00
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Political Concepts And Political Theories

Political Concepts And Political Theories

The study of the physical world had its origins in philosophy and two-and-one-half millennia later the scientific advances of the twentieth century are bringing the two fields closer together again. So argues Lawrence Sklar in this brilliant new text on the philosophy of physics. Aimed at students of both disciplines Philosophy of Physics is a broad overview of the problems of contemporary philosophy of physics that readers of all levels of sophistication should find accessible and engaging. Professor Sklar's talent for clarity and accuracy is on display throughout as he guides students through the key problems: the nature of space and time the problems of probability and irreversibility in statistical mechanics and of course the many notorious problems raised by quantum mechanics. Integrated by the theme of the interconnectedness of philosophy and science and linked by many references to the history of both disciplines Philosophy of Physics is always clear while remaining faithful to the complexity and integrity of the issues. It will take its place as a classic text in a field of fundamental intellectual importance. | Political Concepts And Political Theories

GBP 130.00
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Courtly Pastimes

Courtly Pastimes

The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would in the Middle Ages have fallen under the rubric of Sloth a deadly sin. Yet aristocrats of past centuries were not always absorbed in affairs of state or warfare. What did they do in moments of peace downtime as we might call it today? In this collection of essays scholars from various disciplines investigate courtly modes of entertainment ranging from the vigorous to the intellectual: hunting jousting horse racing; physical and verbal games; reading writing and book ownership. Favorite pastimes spanned differences of gender and age and crossed geographical and cultural boundaries. Literary and historical examples come from England France Germany Spain and Italy. Courtly Pastimes analyzes the underlying rationales for such activities: to display power and prestige to acquire cultural capital to instill a sense of community or to build diplomatic alliances. Performativity − so crucial in social rituals − could become transgressive if taken to extremes. Certain chapters explore the spaces of courtliness: literal or imaginary; man-made natural or a hybrid of both. Other chapters concern materiality and visual elements associated with courtly pastimes: from humble children’s toys and playthings to elite tournament attire castle murals and manuscript illuminations.

GBP 120.00
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Chinese Art Objects Collecting and Interior Design in Twentieth-Century Britain

Chinese Art Objects Collecting and Interior Design in Twentieth-Century Britain

This book explores the relationship between collecting Chinese ceramics interior design and display in Britain through the eyes of collectors designers and tastemakers during the years leading to during and following the Second World War. The Ionides Collection of European style Chinese export porcelain forms the nucleus of this study – defined by its design hybridity – offering insights into the agency of Chinese porcelain in diverse contexts from seventeenth-century Batavia to twentieth-century Britain raising questions about notions of Chineseness Britishness and identity politics across time and space. Through the biographies of the collectors this book highlights the role of collecting Chinese art objects particularly porcelain in the construction of individual and group identities. Social networks linking the Ionides to agents and dealers auctioneers and museum specialists bring into focus the dynamics of collecting during this period the taste of the Ionides and their self-fashioning as collectors. The book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of art history history of collections interior design Chinese studies and material culture studies. | Chinese Art Objects Collecting and Interior Design in Twentieth-Century Britain

GBP 130.00
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British Representations of the Middle East in the Exhibition Space 1850–1932 Race Gender and Morality

British Representations of the Middle East in the Exhibition Space 1850–1932 Race Gender and Morality

This volume analyses British exhibitions of Middle Eastern (particularly ancient Egyptian and Persian) artefacts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – examining how these exhibitions defined British self image in response to the Middle Eastern ‘other’. This study is an original interpretation of the exhibition space along intersectional constructionist lines revealing how forces such as gender race morality and space come together to provide an argument for British supremacy. The position of museums as instruments of representation of display made them important points of contact between the British national imperialist scheme and the public. Displays in the British Museum Victoria and Albert Museum and Burlington House provide a focus for analysis. Through the employment of a constructionist lens the research outlines a complex relationship between British society and the Middle Eastern artefacts presented in museums during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This allows a dialogue to emerge which has consequences for both societies which is achieved through intersections of gender race and morality in space. This book will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in museology cultural studies history and art history. | British Representations of the Middle East in the Exhibition Space 1850–1932 Race Gender and Morality

GBP 130.00
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Role Theory and Mexico's Foreign Policy Making Sense of Mexico’s Place in World Politics

Role Theory and Mexico's Foreign Policy Making Sense of Mexico’s Place in World Politics

Role Theory and Mexico’s Foreign Policy examines why Mexico has an unusual foreign policy for a middle-power country. Using a series of case studies to show how role conflict has operated in Mexico’s foreign policy Omar Loera-González studies three specific settings where Mexico could have displayed middle-power behaviour. First he analyses Mexico’s controversial membership and performance in the Iraq crisis within the Security Council of the United Nations from 2002 to 2003. The second case study examines Mexico’s ambition to display a regional leadership role in regional multilateral bodies like the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) and the Pacific Alliance (PA). In the third and final case study Loera-González focuses on Mexico’s engagement in human rights and democracy promotion. Conflicting expectations from several actors – domestic and external – have led to a foreign policy contradictory to what is expected for a country with Mexico's material capabilities and its foreign policy objectives. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers who work on and with foreign policy analysis and role theory or to those with a research interest on Mexico. | Role Theory and Mexico's Foreign Policy Making Sense of Mexico’s Place in World Politics

GBP 130.00
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The Transfer of Knowledge through Art and Visualization Novel Technologies Professional Collaboration and Visual Communication of Science

The Transfer of Knowledge through Art and Visualization Novel Technologies Professional Collaboration and Visual Communication of Science

This book offers strategies for the transfer of knowledge through combining information technology and visual arts and examining how to visually enhance and convey knowledge. Specifically it presents a fresh look at how technology-based science-inspired projects can be innovatively delivery through artistic methods. It explores a selection of inventions gained through the collaboration of internationalist professionals in various fields of knowledge before outlining a new approach in how knowledge can be delivered using the inventions in a novel visual way through action-based visual storytelling video graphical display and visualization. Crucially it looks at how current media and techniques used for presenting topics in industries corporations commerce and marketing companies could be successfully translated and developed as a presentation skill in the school college or university environment. It thus seeks to address the skills that prospective employers expect from students in terms of possessing the ability to create visual presentations of data solutions and products. With a sharp focus on the current generation schools academies business and marketing companies and catering to the modern demand for novelty in presentation it makes a strong contribution to the conversation around professional collaboration visual communication knowledge transfer novel technologies and knowledge visualization. | The Transfer of Knowledge through Art and Visualization Novel Technologies Professional Collaboration and Visual Communication of Science

GBP 130.00
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Big Data Analytics Framework for Smart Grids

Big Data Analytics Framework for Smart Grids

The text comprehensively discusses smart grid operations and the use of big data analytics in overcoming the existing challenges. It covers smart power generation transmission and distribution explains energy management systems artificial intelligence and machine learning–based computing. Presents a detailed state-of-the-art analysis of big data analytics and its uses in power grids Describes how the big data analytics framework has been used to display energy in two scenarios including a single house and a smart grid with thousands of smart meters Explores the role of the internet of things artificial intelligence and machine learning in smart grids Discusses edge analytics for integration of generation technologies and decision-making approaches in detail Examines research limitations and presents recommendations for further research to incorporate big data analytics into power system design and operational frameworks The text presents a comprehensive study and assessment of the state-of-the-art research and development related to the unique needs of electrical utility grids including operational technology storage processing and communication systems. It further discusses important topics such as complex adaptive power system self-healing power system smart transmission and distribution networks and smart metering infrastructure. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate graduate students and academic researchers in the areas such as electrical engineering electronics and communications engineering computer engineering and information technology. | Big Data Analytics Framework for Smart Grids

GBP 120.00
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The Mathematics of Collective Action

The Mathematics of Collective Action

Philosophers social scientists and laymen have used two perspectives in analyzing social action. One sees man's action as the result of causal forces and the other sees action as purposive and goal directed. Mathematical treatment of social action has shown this same dichotomy. Some models of behavior describe a causal process in which there is no place for intention or purpose. Most stochastic models of behavior whether individual or group are like this. Another body of work however employs purpose anticipation of some future state and action designed to maximize the proximity to some goal. Classical microeconomic theory statistical decision theory and game theory exemplify this direction. This book examines these two directions of work and makes original contributions to the second. An introductory chapter outlines these two bodies of work and casts them in a common frame to display their similarities and differences. Chapter 2 reviews at length recent work in stochastic processes that makes up the first body of work which sees social action as the resultant of causal forces. The remaining chapters develop a mathematical framework for the study of systems of social action using a purposive theoretical base. These chapters are designed particularly to contribute to the study of collective decisions a form of social action that has proved particularly challenging to theoretical analysis. First published in 1973 this became a significant work both in problem solving and in the future career of the author. It is of continuing importance to researchers and students interested in statistical analysis. | The Mathematics of Collective Action

GBP 145.00
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Practical Guide to Logistic Regression

Practical Guide to Logistic Regression

Practical Guide to Logistic Regression covers the key points of the basic logistic regression model and illustrates how to use it properly to model a binary response variable. This powerful methodology can be used to analyze data from various fields including medical and health outcomes research business analytics and data science ecology fisheries astronomy transportation insurance economics recreation and sports. By harnessing the capabilities of the logistic model analysts can better understand their data make appropriate predictions and classifications and determine the odds of one value of a predictor compared to another. Drawing on his many years of teaching logistic regression using logistic-based models in research and writing about the subject Professor Hilbe focuses on the most important features of the logistic model. Serving as a guide between the author and readers the book explains how to construct a logistic model interpret coefficients and odds ratios predict probabilities and their standard errors based on the model and evaluate the model as to its fit. Using a variety of real data examples mostly from health outcomes the author offers a basic step-by-step guide to developing and interpreting observation and grouped logistic models as well as penalized and exact logistic regression. He also gives a step-by-step guide to modeling Bayesian logistic regression. R statistical software is used throughout the book to display the statistical models while SAS and Stata codes for all examples are included at the end of each chapter. The example code can be adapted to readers own analyses. All the code is available on the author‘s website.

GBP 175.00
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Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

Working with Violent Men gives a detailed insight into working with men who have been violent towards intimate partners. As such this monograph aims to contribute to a gap in knowledge and understanding within an important social and criminal justice topic. The book is underpinned by research based on participant observation at domestic abuse groups allowing for direct observation of behaviours and interactions including gestures and emotional responses as well as semi-structured interviews with group facilitators and participants. It also draws on the author’s experience of working with domestically abusive men as a probation officer and facilitator of domestic abuse programmes. He argues that groups involve a micro social order involving rules and rituals. These are continuously constructed and negotiated by participants against a backdrop of ideas about masculinity and involve the performance of gendered roles. Understanding the perspectives of these men as well the interactional rules rituals and dynamics of programmes enables facilitators to navigate the hostility that men display and engage them in a process of change. Attention to these considerations has implications for the effectiveness of group-based interventions in reducing violence against intimate partners and the training of those who deliver programmes. More general extrapolations are also drawn about contemporary understandings of gender masculinity identity and effective communication within groups. This book will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students with interests in domestic violence gender probation and the rituals of social interactions. It will also be useful to academics researchers and policymakers wishing to explore and develop approaches to work with domestically violent men. | Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

GBP 130.00
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Reproductive Strategies in Insects

Reproductive Strategies in Insects

Reproduction is one of the most inherent tasks that all living organisms are actively involved in. It forms the backbone of their existence with all evolutionary energies directed over billion years of creation into maximizing reproductive effort. For so simple and directed a need such as maximizing reproduction it is interesting to see how much diversity and complexity exists in this task. Each organism despite having the same end goal employs different strategies. The complexities intricacies and strategies of successful reproduction while being extremely fascinating are equally befuddling. Reproductive Strategies in Insects provides an expansive critical look at the reproductive strategies of the most diverse group of animals the insects. Insects which inhabit myriad niches in all ecosystems except the oceans show the most diverse reproductive strategies ranging from simplest to most complex. Reproductive strategies viz. search for mates number of mates display of mate quality assessment of mate quality acceptance of mate rejection of mates forced copulations the fight for paternity pre during and post copula the modulation of paternity ovipositional strategies and parental care are described in detail in this book. Also each strategy in analyzed in relation to its morphological physiological ethological ecological and evolutionary aspects. Features: Covers a wide variety of reproductive strategies A detailed step by step description of reproductive strategies. Discusses morphological physiological ethological ecological and evolutionary aspects. Modulation of these strategies and responsible modulatory factors are also discussed. Well-illustrated. Recent research results and probable future research directions. This is a niche reference book for ethologists biologists studying behavioural evolution and entomologists. It may also be used as a textbook for a graduate level course in behaviour.

GBP 99.99
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Young Children's Behaviour Guidance approaches for early childhood educators

Young Children's Behaviour Guidance approaches for early childhood educators

'The book provides a comprehensive yet practical discussion of guidance strategies that can be implemented in a variety of situations. These strategies promote a respect for children and their rights enhance children's self-esteem and help to foster pro-social skills. This book is a must-read for both students and practitioners who work with children and families. ' - Dr Laura McFarland School of Education Charles Sturt UniversityDrawing on the latest research evidence Young Children's Behaviour outlines the beliefs and values that underpin the guidance approach to managing the behaviours of children from birth to eight years of age. In contrast with rewards-and-punishment systems guidance believes that children do not need incentives to behave well but instead need skills. Rather than punishing them for lacking skills guidance teaches young children self-regulation skills so that they can behave considerately. The author provides practical strategies that both meet children's needs and safeguard the rights of surrounding adults and children. These methods include listening being assertive giving positive instructions solving problems collaboratively and coaching children to self-regulate their emotions and impulses. The text also offers advice on responding to many common challenges including separation distress meltdowns aggression and social withdrawal. Finally the book suggests how educators can provide educational and behavioural support for children with atypical development and describes how to foster effective relationships with parents whose children display challenging behaviours. Dr Louise Porter powerfully argues that behaviour guidance is the most effective approach to working with young children and reflects the deepest values of early childhood education and care. | Young Children's Behaviour Guidance approaches for early childhood educators

GBP 130.00
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The Supreme Court on Trial

The Supreme Court on Trial

Although it was written at a time of national self-criticism The Supreme Court on Trial remains a classic examination of the place of the Supreme Court in the American political system. When originally published the American people were engaged in a severe examination of their basic commitments their way of life and the direction they appeared to be going. The contemporary literature-over the air in newspaper editorials and columns in books and articles-was heavy with protest admonition and exhortation. Although the times are different the issues raised in this volume continue to be important. The American system exalts the American citizen as common man with claims to the dignity of citizens and pleas for securing their civil rights. At the same time citizens are criticized for their cultural provincialism fear of intellectual endeavor and adoption of conformity. Political institutions are not immune from such evaluations. We have created Hoover commissions to study the national administrative system; the Electoral College has been the subject of persistent scrutiny since World War II. There have been demands for reconstitution of our state lawmaking bodies. What links the concerns current at the time of original publication of this volume and concerns today most obviously are deep concern we now display for the character and quality of our public school curriculum and for the administrative structure which maintains and manages our schools. The role of the Supreme Court in these concerns is evident. The purpose of the book is to examine critically the place of the Supreme Court in our political system and to improve the public understanding of what the Supreme Court does how its acts have been received and how its way of influencing public policy is related to other methods of making public policy.

GBP 130.00
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