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Edward Lloyd and His World Popular Fiction Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

Edward Lloyd and His World Popular Fiction Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

The publisher Edward Lloyd (1815-1890) helped shape Victorian popular culture in ways that have left a legacy that lasts right up to today. He was a major pioneer of both popular fiction and journalism but has never received extended scholarly investigation until now. Lloyd shaped the modern popular press: Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper became the first paper to sell over a million copies. Along with publishing songs and broadsides Lloyd dominated the fiction market in the early Victorian period issuing Gothic stories such as Varney the Vampire (1845-7) and other 'penny dreadfuls' which became bestsellers. Lloyd's publications introduced the enduring figure of Sweeney Todd whilst his authors penned plagiarisms of Dickens's novels such as Oliver Twiss (1838-9). Many readers in the early Victorian period may have been as likely to have encountered the author of Pickwick in a Lloyd-published plagiarism as in the pages of the original author. This book makes us rethink the early reception of Dickens. In this interdisciplinary collection leading scholars explore the world of Edward Lloyd and his stable of writers such as Thomas Peckett Prest and James Malcolm Rymer. The Lloyd brand shaped popular taste in the age of Dickens and the Chartists. Edward Lloyd and his World fills a major gap in the histories of popular fiction and journalism whilst developing links with Victorian politics theatre and music. | Edward Lloyd and His World Popular Fiction Politics and the Press in Victorian Britain

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater American Architecture in the Depression Era

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater American Architecture in the Depression Era

New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable Mention Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright and the construction of his most famous house Fallingwater. The book reinterprets the history of this iconic building recognizing it as a Depression-era monument that stands as a testimony to what an American architect could achieve with the right site client and circumstance even in desperate economic circumstances. Using newly available resources author Catherine W. Zipf examines Wright’s work before and after Fallingwater to show how it was influenced by the economic climate public architectural projects of the Great Depression and America’s changing relationship with Modernist style and technology. Including over 50 black-and-white images this book will be of great interest to students historians and researchers of art architecture and Frank Lloyd Wright. | Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater American Architecture in the Depression Era

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Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities

Frank Lloyd Wright : The Early Years : Progressivism : Aesthetics : Cities examines Wright's belief that all aspects of human life must embrace and celebrate an aesthetic experience that would thereby lead to necessary social reforms. Inherent in the theory was a belief that reform of nineteenth-century gluttony should include a contemporary interpretation of its material presence its bulk and space its architectural landscape. This book analyzes Wright's innovative profound theory of architecture that drew upon geometry and notions of pure design and the indigenous as put into practice. It outlines the design methodology that he applied to domestic and non-domestic buildings and presents reasons for the recognition of two Wright Styles and a Wright School. The book also studies how his design method was applied to city planning and implications of historical and theoretical contexts of the period that surely influenced all of Wright's community and city planning.

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The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 examines a turning point in East European history: the summer of 1920 when Lenin’s Soviet Russia decided to challenge the Versailles system and launch a military attack on the continent. The outcome of this attack might have been the occupation of all of Poland and East Central Europe and a Red Army sweep further west. This book probes the British–Soviet negotiations and diplomatic operations behind the scenes. Professor Nowak uses hitherto unexamined documents from Russian and British archives to show how (and why) top British politicians were ready to accept a new Russian imperial control over the whole of Eastern Europe. Nowak unravels this previously untold story of that first and forgotten appeasement stopped only by the Polish military victory over the Red Army. His excellent historical craftsmanship and new sources contribute to the book’s quality filling up a lacuna in contemporary historiography. This book will appeal to researchers of geopolitical affairs and the Great Powers the history of Poland and the political mentality of Western elites. It will also be of interest to university students and tutors scholars of history and international relations and – thanks to the book’s brisk and fascinating narrative – amateur historians and history aficionados. | The Forgotten Appeasement of 1920 Lloyd George Lenin and Poland

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The Economic Consequences of the Peace

The Economic Consequences of the Peace

John Maynard Keynes then a rising young economist participated in the Paris Peace Conference in 1919 as chief representative of the British Treasury and advisor to Prime Minister David Lloyd George. He resigned after desperately trying and failing to reduce the huge demands for reparations being made on Germany. The Economic Consequences of the Peace is Keynes' brilliant and prophetic analysis of the effects that the peace treaty would have both on Germany and even more fatefully the world. A popular lecturer of economics at Cambridge University and editor of the Economic Journal Keynes made The Economic Consequences of the Peace a major step in his career. It was translated into a dozen languages and sold 100 000 copies in six months. Taken seriously even by those who were opposed to his claims the book helped lift economics to a new higher level of recognition and acceptance. This volume with its insightful portraits of Lloyd George Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson remains one of the great works of political economy of our time. In a penetrating introduction written for this new edition David Felix explores Keynes' reasons for writing the book analyzes the author's arguments and paints an historical backdrop of the period during which it was written.

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Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb A Modern Architect’s Sense of Place

Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb A Modern Architect’s Sense of Place

This book follows Henry Klumb’s life in architecture from Cologne Germany to Puerto Rico. Arriving on the island Klumb was a one-time German immigrant a moderately successful designer and previously a senior draftsman with Frank Lloyd Wright. Over the next forty years Klumb would emerge as Puerto Rico’s most prolific locally well-known and celebrated modern architect. In addition to becoming a leading figure in Latin American modern architecture Klumb also became one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most accomplished protégés and an architect with a highly attuned social and environmental consciousness. Cruz explores his life works and legacy through the lens of a sense of place defined as the beliefs that people adopt actions undertaken and feelings developed towards specific locations and spaces. He argues that the architect’s sense of place was a defining quality of his life and work most evident in the houses he designed and built in Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb offers a historical narrative culminating in a series of architectural analyses focusing on four key design strategies employed in Klumb’s work: vernacular architecture the grid and the landscape dense urban spaces and open air rooms. This book is aimed at researchers academics and postgraduate students interested in Latin American architecture modernism and architectural history. | Puerto Rico’s Henry Klumb A Modern Architect’s Sense of Place

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Mies van der Rohe

Mies van der Rohe

The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago Detroit Montreal and New York. Original illustrations from the architect's archives complement the excellent text. Spon's ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION presents the work of historic and contemporary masters of architecture in clear well-illustrated text accessible to non-specialists. This appealing series of monographs now available in English is launched by books on two great historic figures of the century Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and two award-winning contemporary architects Sir Norman Foster and Alvaro Siza.

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Staging British South Asian Culture Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre

Staging British South Asian Culture Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre

Staging British South Asian Culture: Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre looks afresh at the popularity of forms and aesthetics from Bollywood films and bhangra music and dance on the British stage. From Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams to the finals of Britain’s Got Talent Jerri Daboo reconsiders the centrality of Bollywood and bhangra to theatre made for or about British South Asian communities. Addressing rarely discussed theatre companies such as Rifco and phenomena such as the emergence of large- scale Bollywood revue performances this volume goes some way towards remedying the lack of critical discourse around British South Asian theatre. A timely contribution to this growing field Staging British South Asian Culture is essential reading for any scholar or student interested in exploring the highly contested questions of identity and representation for British South Asian communities. | Staging British South Asian Culture Bollywood and Bhangra in British Theatre

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The Progress of a Biographer

The Progress of a Biographer

First published in 1949 The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert. This principle is followed for the sketches in this book most of which were written between the end of World War II and the spring of 1948. The subjects range from P. G. Wodehouse to Karl Marx from W. B. Yeats to Thackeray and from Rainer Maria Rilke to Lloyd George. Believing that to understand a man’s work one must form a coherent impression of the man the author has tried to suggest the leading characteristics and governing impulses of his subjects. His intention has been to clarify rather than to criticise though doubtless the affect may sometimes be one of criticism falling short of clarification. The book will be of interest to students across disciplines but will particularly appeal to students of English literature.

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Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles looks at some key issues involving British policy and the Treaty of Versailles one of the twentieth century’s most controversial international agreements. The book discusses the role of experts and the Danzig Question at the Paris Peace Conference; the establishment of diplomatic history as a field of academic research; and the role of David Lloyd George and his Vision of Post-War Europe. Contributors also look at the restitution of cultural objects in German possession and after the war the Treaty’s impact on both Britain’s enemy Germany and its ally France revealing how it profoundly affected the European balance of power. Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles will be of great interest to scholars of diplomatic history as well as modern history and international relations more generally. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Diplomacy & Statecraft. | Aspects of British Policy and the Treaty of Versailles Of War and Peace

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Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty Wrestling with Wicked Problems

Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty Wrestling with Wicked Problems

This book offers a multidisciplinary environmental approach to ethics in response to the contemporary challenge of climate change caused by globalized economics and consumption. This book synthesizes the incredible complexity of the problem and the necessity of action in response highlighting the unambiguous problem facing humanity in the 21st century but arguing that it is essential to develop an ethics housed in ambiguity in response. Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty is divided into theoretical and applied chapters with the theoretical sections engaging in dialogue with scholars from a variety of disciplines while the applied chapters offer insight from 20th century activists who demonstrate and/or illuminate the theory including Martin Luther King Rachel Carson and Frank Lloyd Wright. This book is written for scholars and students in the interdisciplinary field of environmental studies and the environmental humanities and will appeal to courses in religion philosophy ethics politics and social theory. | Environmental Ethics and Uncertainty Wrestling with Wicked Problems

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Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

Elemental Architecture presents a new and refreshing approach to sustainable architectural practice. Going beyond the standard performance-based and quantitative sustainable measures it incorporates a broader framework of considerations including the more poetic and noetic possibilities of environmental design. The book is structured around the ancient Greek and medieval alchemists’ system of the Five Temperaments: fire earth air water and ether. Phillip James Tabb examines how these elements produce both positive and negative environmental forces which have an impact on architectural design – from drinking water and fresh air to torrential floods and tornados. He shows how responding to or enhancing these forces can help us to create a more sustainable healthy and purposeful architecture. To illustrate this each chapter draws on seminal contemporary works of architecture from Peter Zumthor’s Bruder-Klaus Field Chapel to Frank Lloyd Wright’s masterpiece at Fallingwater. These examples are accompanied by over a hundred high-quality illustrations. Expanding the discussion of sustainability to include phenomenological as well as qualitative considerations Elemental Architecture is ideal for students and researchers with an interest in sustainable architecture and architectural theory. | Elemental Architecture Temperaments of Sustainability

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Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement 1830–1890 Cumbersome Allies

Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement 1830–1890 Cumbersome Allies

This book studies male activists in American feminism from the 1830s to the late 19th century using archival work on personal papers as well as public sources to demonstrate their diverse and often contradictory advocacy of women’s rights as important but also cumbersome allies. Focussing mainly on nine men—William Lloyd Garrison Wendell Phillips James Mott Frederick Douglass Henry B. Blackwell Stephen S. Foster Henry Ward Beecher Robert Purvis and Thomas Wentworth Higginson the book demonstrates how their interactions influenced debates within and outside the movement marriages and friendships as well as the evolution of (self-)definitions of masculinity throughout the 19th century. Re-evaluating the historical evolution of feminisms as movements for and by women as well as the meanings of identity politics before and after the Civil War this is a crucial text for the history of both American feminisms and American politics and society. This is an important scholarly intervention that would be of interest to scholars in the fields of gender history women’s history gender studies and modern American history. | Men in the American Women’s Rights Movement 1830–1890 Cumbersome Allies

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The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models From Translating to Archiving Collecting and Displaying

The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models From Translating to Archiving Collecting and Displaying

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination communication and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models and their ownership placement and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserve careful consideration. Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings this book fills a lacuna in current scholarship questioning the significance of the lives of drawings and models after construction. Including emerging well-known and world-renowned scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory and curatorial practices the thirty-five contributions define recent research in four key areas: drawing sites/sites of knowledge construction: drawing office construction site; the afterlife of drawings and models: archiving collecting displaying and exhibiting; tools of making: architectural representations and their apparatus over time; and the ethical responsibilities of collecting and archiving: authorship ownership copyrights and rights to copy. The research covers a wide range of geographies and delves into the practices of such architects as Sir John Soane Superstudio Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Frank Lloyd Wright Wajiro Kon Germán Samper Gnecco A+PS Mies van der Rohe and Renzo Piano. | The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models From Translating to Archiving Collecting and Displaying

GBP 205.00
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Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

Betsy Mix Cowles (a champion of equality whose circle of acquaintances included Frederick Douglass Abby Kelley and William Lloyd Garrison) is a brilliant example of what an educated and independent woman can accomplish. A staunch defender of abolitionism Cowles also took up the cause of women's rights and dedicated her life to the advocacy of women's access to education equal rights and independence in the pre-Civil War era. The life of this devoted social reformer illuminates the struggles and historical developments relating to abolitionism and the fledgling women's movement during one of the most contentious periods in American history. About the Lives of American Women series: Selected and edited by renowned women's historian Carol Berkin these brief biographies are designed for use in undergraduate courses. Rather than a comprehensive approach each biography focuses instead on a particular aspect of a woman's life that is emblematic of her time or which made her a pivotal figure in the era. The emphasis is on a 'good read' featuring accessible writing and compelling narratives without sacrificing sound scholarship and academic integrity. Primary sources at the end of each biography reveal the subject's perspective in her own words. Study questions and an annotated bibliography support the student reader. | Betsy Mix Cowles Champion of Equality

GBP 130.00
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Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

The quest for freedom has always been a defining characteristic of the American people. That neither constitutionalism nor capitalism has secured complete freedom for every person is demonstrated by media announcements of slavery oppression exploitation and a variety of shortcomings in the economic system. That said and as this volume seeks to demonstrate through a history of radical commentaries there have always been bold spirits who fight for such ambitious heights. With changing times freedom meant different things to those who worked for it. This book in its broadest sense is a history of libertarianism. Each of the libertarians in this full study extending from William Lloyd Garrison to Eugene V. Debs fought for the ideal of political economy as a practical ideal. In so doing these major figures at the margins of power expanded the entire field of human rights. Charles A. Madison concludes that radicalism became an ideology in the search for freedom. The zeal and activity of these figures did much to attain the political freedom and economic well- being that Americans are inclined to take for granted. These individual chapters are set in frames supplied by background sketches of the movements each group led and the whole is an attempt to depict and re-evaluate America's social progress without the rigor or formality of impersonalized history. | Critics and Crusaders Political Economy and the American Quest for Freedom

GBP 130.00
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What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

This book is inspired by a single powerful question. What is it to be great as a philosopher? No single grand answer is presumed to be possible; instead rewardingly close studies of philosophical greatness are developed. This is a scholarly yet accessible volume blending metaphilosophy with the long history of philosophy and traversing centuries and continents. The result is a series of case studies by accomplished scholars each chapter trying to understand and convey a particular philosopher’s greatness: Lloyd P. Gerson on Plato Karyn Lai on Zhuangzi David Bronstein on Aristotle Jonardon Ganeri on Buddhaghosa Jeffrey Hause on Aquinas Gary Hatfield on Descartes Karen Detlefsen on du Chtelet Don Garrett on Hume Allen Wood on Kant (as a moral philosopher) Nicholas F. Stang on Kant (as a metaphysician) Ken Gemes on Nietzsche Cheryl Misak on Peirce David Macarthur on Wittgenstein This also serves a larger philosophical purpose. Might we gain increased clarity about what philosophy is in the first place? After all in practice we individuate philosophy partly through its greatest practitioners’ greatest contributions. The book does not discuss every philosopher who has been regarded as great. The point is not to offer a definitive list of The Great Philosophers but rather to learn something about what great philosophy is and might be from illuminated examples of past greatness. | What Makes a Philosopher Great? Thirteen Arguments for Twelve Philosophers

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The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

A club house in a castle in the West End of London complete with battlements and turrets from 1882. A design for the post-war reconstruction of the City of London in 1945. A fantasy landscape featuring Le Corbusier’s Capriccio of Notre-Dame du Haut in ruins. A section of a 19th-century townhouse showing a slice of the staircase wallpaper winding from deep navy on the ground floor to pale sky blue at the top. This is a treasury of architectural drawing from the 16th century to the present day. Exploring both how and why architects draw it offers a rich visual history from Palladio Inigo Jones and Augustus Pugin to contemporaries such as Richard Rogers Foster Associates and Zaha Hadid via Sir Christopher Wren George Gilbert Scott and Erno Goldfinger and everything else in between. From back-of-envelope concept sketches to painstaking pen and ink perspectives exploded axonometrics and born-digital drawings this book celebrates the full gamut of architectural representation. With over 200 lush full-colour reproductions this is a window into soul of architectural drawing over the past five hundred years. Includes newly digitised never-seen-before material from the RIBA Collections one of the largest architectural archives in the world. Explores rare drawings and designs from John Nash Sir Edwin Lutyens Frank Lloyd Wright and many more. Insightful commentary alongside each drawing ensures that they are as accessible and engaging as possible. Wide-ranging in scope this book will both inspire and inform. | The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

GBP 45.00
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The Art of Writing Fiction

The Art of Writing Fiction

An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing Andrew Cowan’s The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with emerging writers at the University of East Anglia. As illuminating for the recreational writer as for students of Creative Writing the twelve chapters of this book correspond to the twelve weeks of a typical university syllabus and provide guidance on mastering key aspects of fiction such as structure character voice point of view and setting as well as describing techniques for stimulating creativity and getting the most out of feedback. This new edition offers extended consideration to structure point of view and the organisation of time in the novel as well as the conduct of the Creative Writing workshop in the light of the decolonising the curriculum movement. It features additional writing exercises as well as an afterword with invaluable advice on approaching agents and publishers. The range of writers surveyed is greatly expanded finding inspiration and practical guidance in the work of Margaret Atwood Ayanna Lloyd Banwo Richard Beard Tsitsi Dangarembga Richard Ford Ashley Hickson-Lovence Anjali Joseph James Joyce James Kelman Ian McEwan Arundhati Roy Sam Selvon Vikram Seth and Ali Smith among many others. With over 80 writing exercises and examples taken from dozens of novels and short stories the new edition of The Art of Writing Fiction is enriched by the author’s own experience as a novelist and lecturer making it an essential guide for readers interested in the theory teaching and practice of Creative Writing.

GBP 24.99
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Honor-Based Violence Policing and Prevention

Honor-Based Violence Policing and Prevention

Honor-based violence (HBV) is a crime committed to protect or defend the honor of a family and/or a community. It is usually triggered by the victim’s behavior which the family and/or community regards as causing offense or dishonor. HBV has existed for thousands of years but has only very recently become a focus of law enforcement policy makers and statutory and non-statutory agencies. A volume in the Advances in Police Theory and Practice Series Honor-Based Violence: Policing and Prevention is designed to assist all those who confront these crimes in understanding what HBV is how it can be recognized and how we can support the victims families and communities that experience it. Topics include: An overview of what is known about the psychological and cultural factors relevant to understanding of HBV Gaps in current knowledge and the strengths and weaknesses of various investigative and management strategies Factors related to risk assessment of HBV Best practices based on the authors’ experience for individuals involved in all levels of policing HBV—from first responders to those involved in strategic management How working in partnership with multiple agencies can reduce risk support investigations and help protect victims The importance of sensitivity toward differences in race culture and religion The research and best practices are drawn largely from the work done by the Violent Crime Directorate of the Metropolitan Police Service (London UK) managed by authors Gerry Campbell and Glen Lloyd. The accessible style of this text makes it a valuable resource for law enforcement and policing professionals who investigate these crimes and a suitable textbook for policing and criminal justice courses. | Honor-Based Violence Policing and Prevention

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Self-Consolidating Concrete Applying what we know

Self-Consolidating Concrete Applying what we know

A very interesting and useful book for all the different practitioners in the concrete industry. Each necessary step is thoroughly dealt with and explained in a nice and pedagogic way. —Peter Billberg Swedish Cement and Concrete Research Institute (CBI)Quite comprehensive and with a narrative style at the practitioner level. —Lloyd Keller Director of R&D and Quality Assurance EllisDon CanadaSelf-consolidating concrete (SCC) is an innovative material used successfully throughout the world. It is a highly flowable non-segregating concrete that can spread into place fill the formwork and encapsulate the reinforcement without any mechanical consolidation improving the overall efficiency of a concrete construction project. SCC mixtures are highly fluid yet their flowing properties can be adapted for a range of applications and allow practitioners to select and determine levels of filling ability passing ability and stability. Self-Consolidating Concrete: Applying What We Know discusses all aspects of SCC including:Benefits and limitations Raw material components Mixture proportions Production and quality control Placement and curing Presenting a basis for consistently producing and applying SCC in a regular production environment this book is written from the perspective of the concrete practitioner. It uses descriptions and case studies throughout as examples of specific types of applications to identify where the practitioner needs to focus attention. This book bridges the gap between research and practice. It links science with practical application describing a number of projects and types of applications where SCC has been used successfully. It will be useful for new practitioners as well as for those already using SCC. | Self-Consolidating Concrete Applying what we know

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Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

The idea behind this volume according to its editor Brian Lavery was to give a rounded picture of life at sea during the age of sail. It concentrates on the daily routine of shipboard life rather than more dramatic events such as battles and mutiny. It supplements other volumes produced by the Navy Records Society notably Five Naval Journals 1789-1817 (vol 91 1951 ed H G Thursfield) and The Health of Seamen (vol 107 1965 ed C C Lloyd. )The selection begins in the second quarter of the eighteenth century because stated Brian Lavery ‘there are no suitable documents from earlier periods’ and closes in 1815 when the navy entered a new era with the advent of steam and a long period of peace. One of the most important aspects of shipboard life was that it was intensely self-contained especially in the later part of the age of sail. After the conquest of scurvy ships were able to stay at sea for many months at a time and the world-wide battle for empire caused them to make very long voyages often away from their home bases over a period of years. Even in port seamen often stayed on board and shore leave was not in any sense a right. This volume throws a spotlight on the way in which a crew of up to 850 men could be crammed into a small space for many months at a time and the ways in which they were fed clothed allocated space for eating and sleeping at the same time as they were organised for sailing and battle duties. It contains separate sections dealing with Admiralty Regulations Captain’s Orders Medical Journals discipline and punishment. It also includes an extensive glossary of the nautical terms and descriptions of the time. | Shipboard Life and Organisation 1731-1815

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The Deck Access Housing Design Guide A Return to Streets in the Sky

The Deck Access Housing Design Guide A Return to Streets in the Sky

The Deck Access Housing Design Guide is the first practical design guide to deck access housing. It focuses on the contemporary use of deck access housing sharing practical guidance and providing in-depth case studies while also presenting historical context about this flexible and evolving housing type. Despite a chequered history that saw it linked with urban decay and social malaise in the 1970s and 80s deck access housing today after a 40-year hiatus is fast becoming the default solution for mid-rise housing in the UK and London in particular. This is in part down to architects’ renewed interest in post-war Modernist typologies but also due to specific planning standards that favour the qualities – dual-aspect plans ‘public’ front doors – of deck access design. This comprehensive professional guide spotlights the best contemporary deck access housing in the UK and throughout mainland Europe explaining and analysing exemplars in detail. Illustrated in full colour throughout with plans elevations photographs project data and annotations case studies include both new build and retrofit projects in public housing co-housing and Third Age residential projects. Good architectural practice flows from an informed understanding of cultural and design history coupled with practical guidance and clear analysis of case studies. That is what this book provides for anyone interested in or involved in the design and delivery of deck access housing. Featured architects from the UK: AHMM · Apparata · Cartwright Pickard · Collective Architecture · DO Architecture · Hawkins Brown · Haworth Tompkins · Henley Halebrown · Levitt Bernstein · Maccreanor Lavington · Mæ · Matthew Lloyd · Pitman Tozer · Pollard Thomas Edwards · Proctor & Matthews · PRP · RCKa Featured architects from mainland Europe: ANMA · Arquitectura Produccions · Atelier Kempe Thill · Bureau Massa · DAMAST · Estudio Herreros · Fink + Jocher · KAAN · LEVS · Martin-Löf · MEF · Muñoz Miranda · Passelac & Roques · Waechter + Waechter | The Deck Access Housing Design Guide A Return to Streets in the Sky

GBP 34.99
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Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

Vladimir Mikhailovitch Bekhterev was a pioneering Russian neurologist psychiatrist and psychologist. A highly esteemed rival of Ivan Pavlov his achievements in the areas of personality clinical psychology and political and social psychology were recognized and acclaimed throughout the world. Publication of the complete text of Collective Reflexology brings to the English-speaking world this brilliant scientist's final theoretical statements on how reflexological principles which he had been developing over a quarter century can be extended far beyond analysis of the individual personality. Bekhterev's work grows out of his interest in group psychology and suggestion. This concept of the reflex is much broader than Pavlov's. It is applicable to every variety of life. Bekhterev compared his own analyses to those of other European thinkers such as Comte LeBon and Sorokin. Such analyses strained against the official Marxist-Leninist doctrines of the era. Bekhterev died in 1927 allegedly of poisoning by Stalin's henchman. As with many scientists during the Soviet era his legacy was suppressed. In the normal course of events his name would have been as well known as that of Freud Pavlov or more lately B. F. Skinner. This first publication of Bekhterev's great work in English fills a void in the fields of psychology sociology and the history of science. V. M. Bekhterev was director of the Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg and founded there its Psychoneurological Institute. Among his many books are Suggestion: Its Role in Social Life (available from Transaction) and The Subject Matter and Goals of Social Psychology. Lloyd H. Strickland is professor of psychology at Carleton University. He is the author of numerous journal articles and editor of Directions in Soviet Social Psychology and Soviet and Western Perspectives in Social Psychology. Bekhterev (1857-1927) is a formidable figure and his work continues to deserve careful study. Canadian Psychology | Collective Reflexology The Complete Edition

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