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Football and Diaspora Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game

This is the first book to examine football (soccer) through the lens of diaspora studies. Presenting case studies from across four continents it considers how diasporic minorities develop a sense of belonging between their national and transnational ethnic communities through an active participation in football. Bringing together a cross-disciplinary group of scholars working in anthropology communication cultural studies history psychology politics sociology and sport it unearths the connections between culture identities politics nationalism globalization and how those manifest in the lived experience of diasporic peoples. Against a background of the continued internationalization of sport and pervasive global migration it explores key themes in the social sciences including migration acculturation and assimilation; sport identity fandom and representation; and nationhood citizenship and politics. As the book focuses on diverse ethnoreligious groups dispersed around the world it covers a wide range of geographic locations with cases addressing the Bolivian Ethiopian Moroccan Zimbabwean Croatian Irish and Basque diasporas. It is fascinating reading for anybody working in sport studies diaspora studies political science sociology cultural studies international history or social history. | Football and Diaspora Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game

GBP 130.00

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Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities Connecting Theory and Practice in Europe

This book explores the effectiveness of governance networks on the design and implementation of sustainability strategies. European cities are actively developing sustainability strategies to address the impact of climate change. One recent approach many cities have taken is the creation of ‘governance networks’: groups of public private and third sector organisations which collaborate to support urban sustainability efforts. Drawing on two case studies in Glasgow and Copenhagen this book explores the concept of governance networks in theory and practice revealing how stakeholder collaboration leadership and innovation within these networks can help or hinder the process. It also highlights the many benefits of these networks including increased participation in the decision-making process increased levels of resources and expertise on sustainability issues as well as stakeholder buy-in for sustainability policies. This book provides recommendations for improving the efficiency of governance networks and will be of interest to academics and practitioners working in the areas of urban governance and sustainability. | Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities Connecting Theory and Practice in Europe

GBP 130.00

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Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

By 2100 more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history provides a new cognitive map of the world and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia an emerging macro-region. The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into sustainable equilibrium depends on the nature of the dialogue people in Africa and Asia will organise. The author argues that a state of equilibrium between the two is achievable provided issues related to gender employment agriculture human–nature relationships and multicultural coexistence are simultaneously addressed. Can future Afrasia present itself as a community determined not to allow the return of predatory practice internally and externally? Will the fates of African and Asian peoples converge or diverge? How about the future relationships between Afrasia and the rest of the world? Exploring these questions using multiple disciplines this book will be of interest to professional researchers and graduate students in IR and Afro-Asian relations as well as Asian and African area studies demography geography history development economics anthropology language education and religious studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

GBP 130.00

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Handbook on Measurement Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

In this valuable resource well-known scholars present a detailed understanding of contemporary theories and practices in the fields of measurement assessment and evaluation with guidance on how to apply these ideas for the benefit of students and institutions. Bringing together terminology analytical perspectives and methodological advances this second edition facilitates informed decision-making while connecting the latest thinking in these methodological areas with actual practice in higher education. This research handbook provides higher education administrators student affairs personnel institutional researchers and faculty with an integrated volume of theory method and application. | Handbook on Measurement Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

GBP 115.00

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Women and Martial Art in Japan

This book based on extensive original research examines the practice by women in a university sport setting of kendo the Japanese martial art which using bamboo swords as well as protective armour and descended from traditional swordsmanship instils in its practitioners besides physical skills societal values of etiquette and resilience as well connecting them to a “traditional” outlook which includes a gendered cultural identity. The book therefore illustrates an unexplored example of identity construction in Japan one which legitimises women’s sport experiences within a male-centric physical culture unpacks the notion of “tradition” in kendo and unravels its stultifying control over women’s kendo participation and discusses the androgenicity of women’s participation to highlight its subversive potential to develop women as leaders in sport politics and other fields which continue to be very male dominated in Japan. | Women and Martial Art in Japan

GBP 120.00

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Performance at the Urban Periphery Insights from South India

This edited volume considers performance in its engagement with expanding Indian cities with a particular focus on festivals and performances in Karnataka Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The editors ask how performance practices are affected by urbanisation the effects of such changes on their cultural economy and the environmental impacts of performance itself. This project also considers how performance responds to its context and the potential for performance to be critical of the city’s development and of its own compromises. Bringing together perspectives from the humanities natural and social sciences the book takes a multi-faceted analytical view of live performance connecting contemporary with heritage forms and human with more-than-human actors. The three sections themed around heritage everyday life and future ecologies will be of great interest to students and scholars in performance heritage studies ecology and art history. | Performance at the Urban Periphery Insights from South India

GBP 130.00

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Multifunctional Polymeric Foams Advancements and Innovative Approaches

Polymeric foams or cellular or expanded polymers have characteristics that makes their usage possible for several industrial and household purposes. This book is focused on the recent advancements in the synthesis of polymer foams various foaming methods foaming technology mechanical and physical properties and the wide variety of its applications. Divided into 11 chapters it explains empirical models connecting the geometrical structure of foams with their properties including structure-property relations. This book: Describes functional foams their manufacturing methods properties and applications Covers various blowing agents greener methods for foaming and their emerging applicability Illustrates comparative information regarding polymeric foams and their recent developments with polymer nanocomposite foams Includes applications in mechanical civil biomedical food packaging electronics health care industry and acoustics fields Reviews elastomeric foams and their nanocomposite derivatives This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in materials science mechanical engineering and polymer science. | Multifunctional Polymeric Foams Advancements and Innovative Approaches

GBP 110.00

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The Japanese Restaurant Tasting the New Exotic in Australia

This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant workers and consumers. Through first-hand testimonies collected from chefs restaurateurs gourmets and casual diners it demonstrates how Japanese restaurants act as cultural hubs connecting a diverse community of migrants Australian citizens and international tourists while also disseminating knowledge of Japanese culinary cultures. The ethnographic evidence presented challenges the colonialist and essentialist understandings of the ‘exotic’ and ‘Japaneseness’ as the ‘inferior other’ to the West. In so doing the book highlights the complex manifestations of cross-cultural desires translating practices and the performative racial-ethnic mimesis of Japanese ethnicity. Featuring critical investigation into the fixed notions of otherness race ethnicity and authenticity this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of Japanese society and culture particularly Japanese food culture. | The Japanese Restaurant Tasting the New Exotic in Australia

GBP 130.00

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Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel Senses and Sensations

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts. Taking cultural literary studies ahead the book re-integrates aesthetics – a much fraught concept in cultural studies that long favoured ‘popular’ over ‘high culture’ – into cultural studies as aisthetics in the word’s root sense of ‘perception’. Zooming in on period shifts and changes in taste spanning realism sensation fiction and aestheticism aisthetics reveals how these shifts also pertain to new ways of perceiving in selected novels by George Eliot Wilkie Collins and Vernon Lee. Connecting Victorian and current literary theories aisthetics helps explore the way in which the novel can shape the way we perceive the world what remains excluded from the realm of the perceivable and how our conduct is consequently always also influenced by the dominant genres of our time. | Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel Senses and Sensations

GBP 130.00

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Metabolism and Medicine The Physics of Biological Engines (Volume 1)

Chronic disease states of aging should be viewed through the prism of metabolism and biophysical processes at all levels of physiological organization present in the human body. This book describes the building blocks of understanding from a reasonable but not high-level technical language viewpoint employing the perspective of a clinical physician. It brings together concepts from five specific branches of physics relevant to biology and medicine namely biophysics classical electromagnetism thermodynamics systems biology and quantum mechanics. Key Features: Broad and up-to-date overview of the field of metabolism especially connecting the spectrum of topics that range from modern physical underpinnings with cell biology to clinical practice. Provides a deeper basic science and interdisciplinary understanding of biological systems that broaden the perspectives and therapeutic problem solving. Introduces the concept of the Physiological Fitness Landscape which is inspired by the physics of phase transitions This first volume in a two-volume set primarily targets an audience of clinical and science students biomedical researchers and physicians who would benefit from understanding each other’s language. | Metabolism and Medicine The Physics of Biological Engines (Volume 1)

GBP 130.00

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Notes for a Decolonial Political Theology

At the crossroads of ethics poetics and politics this innovative book outlines a series of notes to decolonize political theology. The author proposes counter-hegemonic forms of reading which deconstruct domination by embracing fragility. The book opens with a diapason of prejudicelessness as a decolonial key focusing on prejudices that hinder critical attention to a colonial political theology that perpetuates hatred. The first set of notes aims to ‘de-orientalize the Semite’ by reading midrashic and biblical texts in the present context the second seeks to decolonize language by exploring the power of translation and the third ponders decolonial theo-logics to outline a justice of the other. Connecting a number of fields authors and epistemologies the book addresses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and brings together Jewish thought continental philosophy and Latin American perspectives. It engages with a range of thinkers including Benjamin and Arendt and features an interview with Enrique Dussel. This is an important methodological proposal for interdisciplinary and intercultural political theology and a valuable contribution towards rethinking the paradigm of political theology beyond its Eurocentric and colonialist premises. | Notes for a Decolonial Political Theology

GBP 130.00

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Teaching with Dystopian Text Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience

Teaching with Dystopian Text propounds an exchange of spatial to pedagogical practices centered around “Orwellian Spaces ” signaling a new utility for teaching with dystopian texts in secondary education. The volume details the urgency of dystopian texts for secondary students providing theoretical frameworks classroom examples and practical research. The function of dystopian texts such as George Orwell’s 1984 as social and political critique is demonstrated as central to their power. Teaching with Dystopian Text: Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience makes a case that dystopian texts can be instrumental in the transfer of spatial practices to pedagogical practices. Pedagogical application creates links between the text and the student through defamiliarization connecting the student to practices of resistance in the space of the classroom. The volume also addresses the challenges of teaching dystopian text in a dystopian educational climate including the COVID-19 lockdown. In addition to appealing to scholars and researchers of literacy education language education and dystopian text this book will also be a powerful yet accessible resource for secondary teachers as they address dystopian concerns with students in the complicated twenty-first century. | Teaching with Dystopian Text Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience

GBP 130.00

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Curating as Feminist Organizing

What makes curating feminist organizing? How do curators relate to contemporary feminist concerns in their local conditions and the globalized artworld? The book brings together twenty curatorial case studies from diverse regions of the globe. Reflecting their own curatorial projects or analyzing feminist-inspired exhibitions the authors in this book elaborate feminist curating as that which is inspired to challenge gender politics not only within but also beyond the doors of the museum and gallery. Connecting their wider feminist politics to their curatorial practices the book provides case studies of curatorial practice that address the legacies of racialized and ethnic violence including colonialism; which seek to challenges the state's regulation of citizenship and sexuality; and which realize the drive for economic justice in the organizations and roles in which curators work. The settings in which this work is done range from university art galleries to artist-run spaces and educational or activist programmes. This collection will be enjoyed by those studying and researching curating exhibitions socially and ecologically engaged contemporary art practices and feminist transnational movements in diverse geographic contexts. The essays are of relevance to practicing curators critical cultural practitioners and artists. | Curating as Feminist Organizing

GBP 120.00

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The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms

Taking into account politics history and aesthetics this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic and literary milieus with each other and with the Parisian circles. Chapters also examine the patterns and paradoxes associated with the manifestations of primitivism including their local implications and cosmopolitan drive. This book opens up and deepens the discussion of the ties that Spain and Portugal maintained with their imperial pasts which extended into European twentieth-century colonialism as well as the nationalist and folk aesthetics promoted by the cultural industry of Iberian dictatorships. The book significantly rethinks long-established ideas about modern art and the production of primitivist imagery. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history Iberian studies Latin American studies colonialism and modernism. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms

GBP 130.00

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Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice

Updated to include recent results from intensive worldwide research efforts in materials science surface science and corrosion science Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice Third Edition explores the latest advances in corrosion and protection mechanisms. It presents a detailed account of the chemical and electrochemical surface reactions that govern corrosion as well as the link between microscopic forces and macroscopic behavior. Revised and expanded this edition includes four new chapters on corrosion fundamentals the passivity of metals high temperature corrosion and the corrosion of aluminum alloys. The first half of the book covers basic aspects of corrosion such as entry of hydrogen into metals anodic dissolution localized corrosion stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue. Connecting the theoretical aspects of corrosion mechanisms to practical applications in industry the second half of the text discusses corrosion inhibition atmospheric corrosion microbially induced corrosion corrosion in nuclear systems corrosion of microelectronic and magnetic data-storage devices and organic coatings. With contributions from leading academic and industrial researchers this bestselling book continues to provide a thorough understanding of corrosion mechanisms—helping you solve existing corrosion challenges and prevent future problems.

GBP 94.99

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Traditional Values and Local Community in the Formal Educational System in Senegal Relevance Need and Barriers to the Integration of Local

This book explores the discourse of traditional values and local practices within the formal educational system in Senegal investigating how these cultural elements are present in the daily life of the community and integrated into formal schools and teaching. Studying the integration of concepts such as Jom (hard work pride dignity) Kersa (decency) Fule (self-respect) Mun (endurance) Teranga (hospitality) Kal (kinship) and Suture (Protection) it looks at how values are used perceived and understood within communities as well as their positive and negative connotations in the postcolonial context. Based on long-term participant education and utilizing a critical auto-ethnography lens it ultimately proposes that such concepts can be used to counterbalance the Western knowledge to which schoolchildren are mostly exposed connecting this to Bhaba’s system of the ‘Third Space”; a hybrid system to accommodate both educational systems for more relevant education. An informed study of the positive impacts of traditional cultural values on education in Senegal it will appeal to scholars researchers and practitioners of education in post-colonial Francophone countries with interests in culturally relevant education African education post-colonial education and international education. | Traditional Values and Local Community in the Formal Educational System in Senegal Relevance Need and Barriers to the Integration of Local

GBP 130.00

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New Technology and Mediated Chinese Tourists

This book aims to curate a collection of articles to showcase the latest work and biggest trends shaping the global tourism industry in the past two decades - new technology and the Chinese tourists. While the emergence of new technology continues to propel the evolution of the tourism industry Chinese tourists as a dominating market have won increasing attention across worldwide destinations. On one hand the vast advancement of technology has fundamentally shifted the way Chinese tourists travel. On the other hand the arrival of technologically savvy Chinese tourists has provoked tourism providers and destinations to adopt innovative technology (e. g. mobile payment). Standing on the edge of the third decade of the twenty-first century the tourism industry and scholarly community are facing unprecedented challenges amidst exciting opportunities. Particularly this line of research is perhaps timelier than ever with the pandemic physically distancing people whilst augmenting technology's function in mediating social interactions and connecting lives beyond geographic boundaries. New Technology and Mediated Chinese Tourists will be a great resource for researchers and students of Tourism and Hospitality including those interested to understand how innovation and technology is embedded in the tourism industry. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism Research.

GBP 130.00

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Kinesic Intelligence in the Humanities

This research collection showcases how kinesic intelligence is fundamental to human communication and our ability to produce complex meaning exploring its manifestations across a range of humanities disciplines and connecting our past with our social and cultural future. The book defines kinesic intelligence as a higher-order intellectual competence that allows human beings to interact and grow cognitively and intersubjectively through sensorimotricity and interpersonal movement. Understood in this way kinesic intelligence can offer insights into the development of humans’ meaning-making abilities and in turn society and culture more broadly. Recognizing the power of the humanities in furthering sociocultural development the collection features perspectives from scholars across a range of topics including the multimodality of language acquisition in children; young adults in clinical psychology and medical humanities; nonverbal communication in history; legal language and reasoning; literature and cognitive studies; the internet and multispecies anthropology; and sensoriality in history and art. Foregrounding the impact of the humanities in promoting new understandings of human intelligence this volume will be of interest to scholars in cognitive legal and literary studies multimodality anthropology history medical humanities and those with an interest in the real-world impact of the humanities. | Kinesic Intelligence in the Humanities

GBP 130.00

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The Materiality of the Archive Creative Practice in Context

The Materiality of the Archive is the first volume to bring together a range of methodological approaches to the materiality of archives as a framework for their engagement analysis and interpretation. Focusing on the archives of creative practices the book reaches between and across existing bodies of knowledge in this field including material culture art history and literary studies unified by an interest in archives as material deposits and aggregations in both analogue and digital forms as well as the material encounter. Connecting a breadth of disciplinary interests in the archive with expanding discourses in materiality contributors address the potential of a material engagement to animate archival content. Analysing the systems processes and actions that constitute the shapes forms and structures in which individual archival objects accumulate and the underpinnings which may hold them in place as an archival body the book considers ways in which the inexorable move to the digital affects traditional theories of the physical archival object. It also considers how stewardship practices such as description and metadata creation can accommodate these changes. The Materiality of the Archive unifies theory and practice and brings together professional and academic perspectives. The book is essential reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students working in the fields of archive studies museology art history and material culture. | The Materiality of the Archive Creative Practice in Context

GBP 130.00

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Puppet and Spirit: Ritual Religion and Performing Objects Volume I Sacred Roots: Material Entities Consecrating Acts Priestly Puppeteers

This anthology of essays aims to explore the many types of relationships that exist between puppets broadly speaking and the immaterial world. The allure of the puppet goes beyond its material presence as historically and throughout the globe many uses of puppets and related objects have expressed and capitalized on their posited connections to other realms or ability to serve as vessels or conduits for immaterial presence. The flip side of the puppet’s troubling uncanniness is precisely the possibilities it represents for connecting to discarnate realities. Where do we see such connections? How do we describe analyze and theorize these relationships? The first of two volumes this book focuses on these questions in relation to long-established traditional practices using puppets devotional objects and related items with sacred aspects to them or that perform ritual roles. Looking at performance traditions and artifacts from China Indonesia Korea Mali Brazil Iran Germany and elsewhere the essays from scholars and practitioners provide a range of useful models and critical vocabularies for addressing the ritual and spiritual aspects of puppet performance further expanding the growing understanding and appreciation of puppetry generally. This book along with its companion volume offers for the first time robust coverage of this subject from a diversity of voices examples and perspectives. | Puppet and Spirit: Ritual Religion and Performing Objects Volume I Sacred Roots: Material Entities Consecrating Acts Priestly Puppeteers

GBP 130.00

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American Indian Policy and American Reform Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians

First published in 1987 American Indian Policy and American Reform examines key aspects of American Indian policy and reform in the context of American ethnic problems and traditions of reform. The first four chapters provide a chronological survey discussing racial attitudes economic issues the role of the Bureau of Indian Affairs missionary and reformer involvement with government policy the political interaction of Indians and whites and other continuing differences between the two races. The second part of the book examines important themes which illuminate the difficulties of the assimilation campaign. In a series of case studies Prof. Bolt explores Indian-black-white relations in the South and Indian Territory American anthropologists and American Indians Indian education from colonial times to the 20th century Indian women urban Indians since the Second World War and Indian political protest groups. This book will be of interest to students of American history ‘minority’ history and race relations. | American Indian Policy and American Reform Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians

GBP 115.00

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The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea follows a comprehensive approach and can be interpreted dynamically to include the regulation of all potential human uses of the ocean but the law of the sea cannot be viewed in isolation from other fields of international law. International law does not resemble a hierarchically structured legal system; its different parts interact when different rules address the same activity or situation. The academic discussion concerning the specialization and proliferation of international legal rules and dispute settlement bodies has theoretical as well as practical relevance for the law of the sea and its interaction with other parts of international law. The intensified use of the oceans for different purposes and the ongoing proliferation of international rules addressing different activities from different perspectives and with distinct foci require a more thorough evaluation of how the law of the sea relates to other fields of international law how the normative context can be approached theoretically and if interdisciplinary interfaces can be adequately addressed. This book discusses the normative context of the law of the sea and the interactions of the law of the sea with other legal regimes. By connecting high-quality research with new ideas and perspectives this book offers expertise from different fields and perspectives in which the interaction between the law of the sea and other fields of international law becomes particularly relevant. | The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

GBP 130.00

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Metabolism and Medicine The Metabolic Landscape of Health and Disease (Volume 2)

Chronic disease states of aging should be viewed through the prism of metabolism and biophysical processes at all levels of physiological organization present in the human body. This book connects these insights to what causes them to go awry in the context of unhealthy human behaviors and aging aiming to buttress scientific creativity. It also provides links between the art and science of medicine that strengthens problem-solving in patient care. New and important discoveries in the area of metabolic health and metabolic diseases are discussed in exquisite detail. Key Features: Broad and up-to-date overview of the field of metabolic aspects of health and chronic disease development especially connecting the spectrum of topics that range from molecular clocks to stress response to nuclear hormone receptors and the role of microbiota in human health Provides a deeper basic science and interdisciplinary understanding of biological systems that broaden the perspectives and therapeutic problem solving by elaborating on the usefulness of the Physiological Fitness Landscape Describes the importance of insulin resistance in metabolic disease especially diabetes but also includes links to cancer and Alzheimer’s disease Examines the process of aging from the perspective of metabolic decline illustrating it with the Physiological Fitness Landscape This book the second volume in a two-volume set primarily targets an audience of clinical and science students biomedical researchers and physicians who would benefit from understanding each other’s language. | Metabolism and Medicine The Metabolic Landscape of Health and Disease (Volume 2)

GBP 130.00

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Multiple Scales of Suspended Sediment Dynamics in a Complex Geometry Estuary

Many estuaries are located in urbanized highly engineered environments. Cohesive sediment plays an important role due to its link with estuarine health and ecology. An important ecological parameter is the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) translated into turbidity levels and sediment budget. This study contributes to investigate and forecast turbidity levels and sediment budget variability at San Francisco Bay-Delta system at a variety of spatial and temporal scales applying a flexible mesh process-based model (Delft3D FM). It is possible to have a robust sediment model which reproduces 90% of the yearly data derived sediment budget with simple model settings like applying one mud fraction and a simple bottom sediment distribution. This finding opens the horizon for modeling less monitored estuaries. Comparing two case studies i. e. the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Alviso Slough a classification for estuaries regarding the main sediment dynamic forcing is proposed: event-driven estuary (Delta) and tide-driven estuary (Alviso Slough). In the event-driven estuaries the rivers are the main sediment source and the tides have minor impact in the net sediment transport. In the tide-driven estuaries the main sediment source is the bottom sediment and the tide asymmetry defines the net sediment transport. This research also makes advances in connecting different scientific fields and developing a managerial tool to support decision making. It provides the basis to a chain of models which goes from the hydrodynamics to suspended sediment to phytoplankton to fish clams and marshes. | Multiple Scales of Suspended Sediment Dynamics in a Complex Geometry Estuary

GBP 150.00

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The Transformation of the Media Globalisation Morality and Ethics

The changing pattern of contemporary media is one of the most striking and important transformations of our age. This major new work seeks to understand the implications of a series of mediated processes in relation to public cultures and modern identities. In The Transformation of the Media the author leads the reader through a number of complex theoretical issues connecting the nature of modern communication to the affects this has on our common moral and ethical lives. Most significantly he argues that a number of perspectives as diverse as Marxism post-modernism liberalism communitarianism and technological determinism can all be found wanting in this regard. The Transformation of the Media attempts to situate the media and more theoretical concerns within a broad sociological framework. The volume adds to our shared understanding of the media's relation to contemporary cultural transformations including globalisation the development of informational capitalism the changing nature of the public sphere and the impact of new social movements. More specifically through a discussion of the 'new media order' and the Rwandan genocide a critical prism is held up to existing debates concerning the globalisation of the media. Key features: an extremely topical and accessible analysis of the media's implications for contemporary cultural transformations combines a theoretical and empirical approach presents complex theoretical ideas in an accessible way This book will be essential reading for students studying globalisation the global media new media technology identity and cultural development in cultural studies media studies and sociology and politics courses. | The Transformation of the Media Globalisation Morality and Ethics

GBP 130.00

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Football and Diaspora Connecting Dispersed Communities through the Global Game

Governance Networks for Sustainable Cities Connecting Theory and Practice in Europe

Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

Handbook on Measurement Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Women and Martial Art in Japan

Performance at the Urban Periphery Insights from South India

Multifunctional Polymeric Foams Advancements and Innovative Approaches

The Japanese Restaurant Tasting the New Exotic in Australia

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel Senses and Sensations

Metabolism and Medicine The Physics of Biological Engines (Volume 1)

Notes for a Decolonial Political Theology

Teaching with Dystopian Text Exploring Orwellian Spaces for Student Empowerment and Resilience

Curating as Feminist Organizing

The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms

Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice

Traditional Values and Local Community in the Formal Educational System in Senegal Relevance Need and Barriers to the Integration of Local

New Technology and Mediated Chinese Tourists

Kinesic Intelligence in the Humanities

The Materiality of the Archive Creative Practice in Context

Puppet and Spirit: Ritual Religion and Performing Objects Volume I Sacred Roots: Material Entities Consecrating Acts Priestly Puppeteers

American Indian Policy and American Reform Case Studies of the Campaign to Assimilate the American Indians

The Law of the Sea Normative Context and Interactions with other Legal Regimes

Metabolism and Medicine The Metabolic Landscape of Health and Disease (Volume 2)

Multiple Scales of Suspended Sediment Dynamics in a Complex Geometry Estuary

The Transformation of the Media Globalisation Morality and Ethics

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