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Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer whose work on a wide range of topics over the past 40 years has been transformative and inspirational. Fischer’s semicompatibilist view of free will and moral responsibility is perhaps the most widely discussed view of its kind and his emphasis on the significance of reasons-responsiveness as the capacity that underlies moral accountability has been widely influential. Aside from free will and moral responsibility Fischer is also well-known for his work on freedom and foreknowledge the problem of evil the badness of death the meaning of life and the allure of immortality. This volume gathers new essays by leading scholars on some of the major themes of Fischer's work and it also includes a new piece by Fischer in which he offers a systematic reflection on and defense of the motivations that have shaped his theorizing about moral responsibility. Freedom Responsibility and Value will be of interest to scholars and students working on a variety of issues in metaphysics ethics and philosophy of religion. | Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

GBP 130.00
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Handbook of Usability and User-Experience Methods and Techniques

Handbook of Usability and User-Experience Methods and Techniques

Handbook of Usability and User Experience: Methods and Techniques is concerned with emerging usability and user experience in design concepts theories and applications of human factors knowledge focusing on the discovery design and understanding of human interaction and usability issues with products and systems for their improvement. This volume presents methods and techniques to design products systems and environments with good usability accessibility and user satisfaction. It introduces the concepts of usability and its association with user experience and discusses methods and models for usability and UX. It also introduces relevant cognitive cultural social and experiential individual differences which are essential for understanding measuring and utilizing these differences in the study of usability and interaction design. In addition the book discusses the use of usability assessment to improve healthcare the relationship between usability and user experience in the built environment the state-of-the-art review of usability and UX in the digital world usability and UX in the current context and emerging technologies. We hope that this first of two volumes will be helpful to a large number of professionals students and practitioners who strive to incorporate usability and user experience principles and knowledge in a variety of applications. We trust that the knowledge presented in this volume will ultimately lead to an increased appreciation of the benefits of usability and incorporate the principles of usability and user experience knowledge to improve the quality effectiveness and efficiency of consumer products systems and environments in which we live. | Handbook of Usability and User-Experience Methods and Techniques

GBP 150.00
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Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop

Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop

Master the Vegas Pro 8 toolset including its industry-leading HD and audio capabilities. This comprehensive guide delivers the nuts and bolts of the essential tasks from installing the application to outputting together with practical editing techniques and real-world examples for working more efficiently. Packed with all the necessary materials including video footage sequences and detailed instructions this book and downloadable resources combo gives you a working knowledge of Vegas Pro 8. Better expert advice simply can't be found. Key features include:* Capturing video including HD HDV XDCAM and AVCHD* Using editing tools transitions filters and third-party plug-ins* Multicam production and editing* Color correction titling and compositing* Recording and editing audio; using audio plug-ins* Creating and using Media Manager databases* Web video workflow* 24p HDCAM/DVCAM workflow for the independent filmmaker | Vegas Pro 8 Editing Workshop

GBP 175.00
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The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

Many things make up a modern society: its history culture natural setting wealth classes and peoples. For some the power structure the political system lies at the heart of the social order. Russia has long been a political society and its future may also be decided in large part by the power structure. A good way to understand Russia and other modern societies is to examine the ties between the Soviet system and the rest of the country's life. George Fischer argues that it is these ties that explain much about the consequences of a communist state. The Soviet System originally published in 1968 presents a provocative challenge to prevailing theories of modernization throughout the world. In this book Fischer takes issue with current assumptions that societies developing an advanced fully modern economy and culture must inevitably adopt Western-type social and political institutions. The author holds that our understanding of contemporary nations is impeded by assessing them in terms of the prevailing American theory of pluralism. The notion that a pluralist division of labor pervades all of modern society is challenged and tested in the context of the former Soviet Union as a modern society. The emergence of the dual executive a leader with a special mixture of political and economic know-how is emphasized as a trend toward a monist model of society. Fischer demonstrates how this model in which all power is public and both industry and culture remain part of a non-capitalist non-liberal state structure can prove useful in studying social change today. The result is a book of value to all scholars and students dealing with the social and political systems of both developing and advanced societies long after the Soviet system of rule dissolved. | The Soviet System Models of a Political Society

GBP 130.00
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WASTES: Solutions Treatments and Opportunities IV Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference Wastes 2023 6 – 8 September 2023

WASTES: Solutions Treatments and Opportunities IV Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference Wastes 2023 6 – 8 September 2023

WASTES: Solutions Treatments and Opportunities IV contains selected papers presented at the 6th edition of the International Conference Wastes: Solutions Treatments and Opportunities that took place on 6-8 September 2023 in Coimbra Portugal. The Wastes conference which takes place biennially is a prime forum for sharing innovations technological developments and sustainable solutions for waste management and recycling sectors worldwide with the participation of experts from academia and industry. The papers included in this book cover a wide range of topics including: - Management of waste streams - Environmental economic and social aspects in waste management - Logistics policies regulatory constraints and markets in waste management - Waste-to-energy technologies - Life cycle assessment and carbon footprint - Biological treatment techniques - Waste treatment and valorization technologies - Circular economy and industrial symbioses - Smart technologies and digital tools in waste management - Recycling of wastes and resources recovery - Wastes refineries - Food waste management and bioeconomy - Plastic waste impacts management strategies and solutions - Wastes as critical raw materials resources WASTES: Solutions Treatments and Opportunities IV is aimed at academics and professionals involved in waste management and recycling sectors globally. | WASTES: Solutions Treatments and Opportunities IV Selected Papers from the 6th International Conference Wastes 2023 6 – 8 September 2023

GBP 160.00
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Handling the Medical Claim An 8-Step Guide on “How To” Correct and Resolve Claim Issues

Handling the Medical Claim An 8-Step Guide on “How To” Correct and Resolve Claim Issues

When a doctor sees a patient how does the doctor‘s office get paid? If a claim for a service or procedure provided is denied how does the doctor‘s office get the patient‘s insurance company to pay? Handling the Medical Claim: An 8-Step Guide on How To Correct and Resolve Claim Issues explains from beginning to end how to bill and collect on claims for services provided in a physician‘s office. Focusing on the CMS-1500 claim form the book explains how to prepare and file the form to submit charges to patients insurance companies. Written by a medical billing specialist experienced in handling medical claims and denials on both the provider and insurer sides of the business this step-by-step guide begins by covering some basic good practice management skills. Next it outlines each department‘s specific duties based on the each department‘s responsibilities for specific parts of the claim. In addition to learning how to submit and resolve claims that cannot be processed or are denied readers will learn how to: Enter data in the doctor‘s schedule including appointment types Gather patient data from medical records Register patients including patient information guarantor and policyholder and insurance information Input information about the appointment and diagnosis Use the different types of coding systems used for billing charges Understand the claim cycle determine reimbursement and apply payment Obtain patient and insurance information Appeal a denied claim and handle patient balances The book includes case examples and step-by-step guidance for resolving claim issues that could arise including how to determine what part of the chapter you can find your answer and how to link your findings to the box number on the claim form to which the problem pertains. Highlighting opportunities for | Handling the Medical Claim An 8-Step Guide on “How To” Correct and Resolve Claim Issues

GBP 170.00
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Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

A companion volume to Free Will: A Philosophical Study this new anthology collects influential essays on free will including both well-known contemporary classics and exciting recent work. Agency and Responsibility: Essays on the Metaphysics of Freedom is divided into three parts. The essays in the first section address metaphysical issues concerning free will and causal determinism. The second section groups papers presenting a positive account of the nature of free action including competing compatibilist and incompatibilist analyses. The third section concerns free will and moral responsibility including theories of moral responsibility and the challenge to an alternative possibilities condition posed by Frankurt-type scenarios. Distinguished by its balance and consistently high quality the volume presents papers selected for their significance innovation and clarity of expression. Contributors include Harry Frankfurt Peter van Inwagen David Lewis Elizabeth Anscombe John Martin Fischer Michael Bratman Roderick Chisholm Robert Kane Peter Strawson and Susan Wolf. The anthology serves as an up-to-date resource for scholars as well as a useful text for courses in ethics philosophy of religion or metaphysics. In addition paired with Free Will: A Philosophical Study it would form an excellent upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level course in free will responsibility motivation or action theory. | Agency And Responsiblity Essays On The Metaphysics Of Freedom

GBP 130.00
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Human Rights and Climate Change The Law on Loss and Damage

Human Rights and Climate Change The Law on Loss and Damage

This insightful and timely book examines the intersection of international climate change law and international human rights law with respect to loss and damage from climate change. Bringing together these two areas of the law the volume reframes the debate on loss and damage law and offers the first systematic analysis of the legal consequences of Article 8 of the 2015 Paris Agreement both independently and in light of the concurrent applicability of human rights law to climate change harms. The author outlines the legal implications of Article 8 and the extent to which the application of a human rights perspective can contribute to the interpretation and development of those implications. Accessible and engaging this book has important implications for both legal doctrine and policy development at the international level. This book is a valuable resource for scholars students and practitioners in human rights human rights law climate change law and international environment law. | Human Rights and Climate Change The Law on Loss and Damage

GBP 130.00
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Manual of Stroke Models in Rats

Manual of Stroke Models in Rats

During the last few years exciting new insights into mechanisms and treatment of stroke have been obtained from animal experiments. Hence the use of animal models to induce stroke are of paramount importance as research tools. While a few articles on this topic have been published in select journals until now there has not been a systematic technical book available which assists researchers in building upon commonly known knowledge. The Manual of Stroke Models in Rats explains in great detail the methods and techniques for accomplishing different stroke models in rats as well as some techniques using mice. Expert contributors to this text include the most recent research information available as well as generally recognized facts making this volume an imperative tool for those researchers seeking to identify new areas of exploration. The first text in 20 years to detail new techniques in rat stroke models The book begins with a statistical update of stroke in America and proceeds to discuss the rationale for using ischemic stroke models. Major sections include different surgical models of stroke induced by the occlusion of the distal middle cerebral artery by intraluminal filament or embolic implantation by photochemically induced thrombosis global cerebral ischemia induced by asphyxia cardiac arrest or by four-vessel occlusion and brain hemorrhage. The book also includes anesthesia procedures general principles of microsurgery and a study of microsurgical instruments. Numerous tables figures and color images are used to supplement the material. The editor Dr. Yanlin Wang-Fischer has published more than 40 scientific articles in various medical journals and contributed to several projects related to animal models and surgeries. In this volume she brings together contributors who represent the cutting edge of research in the field. By reviewing the methods in this detailed technical treatise research

GBP 175.00
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Introduction to Logic

Introduction to Logic

For more than six decades and for thousands of students Introduction to Logic has been the gold standard in introductory logic texts. In this fifteenth edition Carl Cohen and Victor Rodych update Irving M. Copi’s classic text improving on its many strengths and introducing new and helpful material that will greatly assist both students and instructors. In particular chapters 1 8 and 9 have been greatly enhanced without disturbing the book’s clear and gradual pedagogical approach. Specifically: Chapter 1 now uses a simpler and better definition of deductive validity which enhances the rest of the book (especially chapters 1 and 8-10 and their new components). Chapter 8 now has: Simpler definitions of simple statement and compound statement More and more detailed examples of the Complete Truth-Table Method. Chapter 9 now has: A detailed step-by-step account of the Shorter Truth-Table Method (with detailed step-by-step examples for conclusions of different types) A more complete and detailed account of Indirect Proof A detailed justification for Indirect Proof treating each of the three distinct ways in which an argument can be valid A new section on Conditional Proof which complements the 19 Rules of Inference and Indirect Proof Explications of proofs of tautologies using both Indirect Proof and Conditional Proof A new section at the end of the chapter explaining the important difference between sound and demonstrative arguments. The Appendices now include: A new appendix on making the Shorter Truth-Table Technique (STTT) more efficient by selecting the most efficient sequence of STTT steps A new appendix on Step 1 calculations for multiple-line shorter truth tables A new appendix on unforced truth-value assignments invalid arguments and Maxims III-V. In addition a Companion Website will offer: for Students: A Proof Checker Complete Truth Table Exercises Shorter Truth-Table Exercises A Truth-Table Video Venn Diagram Testing of Syllogisms Hundreds of True/False and Multiple Choice Questions for Instructors: An Instructor’s Manual A Solutions Manual www. routledge. com/cw/9781138500860

GBP 170.00
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Modern German Grammar Workbook

Modern German Grammar Workbook

Modern German Grammar Workbook Third Edition is an innovative book of exercises and language tasks for intermediate and advanced learners of German. The book is divided into three sections: Section 1 provides exercises based on essential grammatical structures. Section 2 practises everyday functions (e. g. making introductions apologising expressing needs). Section 3 contains realistic role-plays in short scenes set in a range of different contexts. A comprehensive answer key at the back of the book enables you to check on your progress. Implementing feedback from users of the second edition this third edition now features: even more extensive cross-referencing to the related Modern German Grammar Third Edition spelling following the latest reform representation of the German of Switzerland and Austria. Modern German Grammar Workbook Third Edition is ideal for all learners who want to deepen their knowledge of German including intermediate and advanced students at schools in adult education and within higher education. It can be used independently or alongside Modern German Grammar Third Edition (ISBN 978-0-415-56726-8) also published by Routledge.

GBP 175.00
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New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon

New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon

This collection of new essays by an international group of scholars closely examines the works of Aristotle’s Organon. The Organon is the general title given to the collection of Aristotle’s logical works: Categories De Interpretatione Prior Analytics Posterior Analytics Topics and Sophistical Refutations. This extremely influential collection gave Aristotle the reputation of being the founder of logic and has helped shaped the development of logic for over two millennia. The chapters in this volume cover topics pertaining to each of the six works traditionally included in the Organon as well as its manuscript tradition. In addition a comprehensive introduction by the editors discusses Aristotle and logic the composition and order of the Organon and the authenticity title and chronology of the treatises that make up these works. As an appendix the volume includes a new critical edition of the Greek text of Book 8 of the Topics. New Essays on Aristotle’s Organon offers a valuable insight into this collection for students and scholars working on Aristotle the works of the Organon or the philosophy of logic more broadly.

GBP 145.00
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DC/AC Electrical Fundamentals

DC/AC Electrical Fundamentals

This book explores many essential topics in a basic and easy-to-understand manner. This book and the accompanying Electronic Devices and Circuit Fundamentals have been modified with significant updates in content. The books are developed using a classic textbook – Electricity and Electronics: A Survey (5th Edition) – as a framework. Both new books have been structured using a similar sequence and organization as previous editions. The previous edition of Electricity and Electronics: A Survey contained 18 chapters 8 in the Electricity section and 10 in the Electronics section. This book has been expanded to include 19 chapters further simplifying content and providing a more comprehensive coverage of the content. The content has been continually updated and revised through new editions and by reviewers over the years. Additional quality checks to ensure technical accuracy clarity and coverage of content have always been an area of focus. Each edition of the text has been improved through the following features: Improved and updated text content Improved usage of illustrations and photos Use of color to add emphasis and clarify content. | DC/AC Electrical Fundamentals

GBP 110.00
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Cone Penetration Testing 2022 Abstracts Volume

Cone Penetration Testing 2022 Abstracts Volume

This abstracts volume (including full keynote and invited papers) contains the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Cone Penetration Testing (CPT’22) held in Bologna Italy 8-10 June 2022. More than 500 authors - academics researchers practitioners and manufacturers – contributed to the peer-reviewed papers included in this book which includes three keynote lectures four invited lectures and 169 technical papers. The contributions provide a full picture of the current knowledge and major trends in CPT research and development with respect to innovations in instrumentation latest advances in data interpretation and emerging fields of CPT application. The paper topics encompass three well-established topic categories typically addressed in CPT events: - Equipment and Procedures - Data Interpretation - Applications. Emphasis is placed on the use of statistical approaches and innovative numerical strategies for CPT data interpretation liquefaction studies application of CPT to offshore engineering comparative studies between CPT and other in-situ tests. Cone Penetration Testing 2022 contains a wealth of information that could be useful for researchers practitioners and all those working in the broad and dynamic field of cone penetration testing. | Cone Penetration Testing 2022 Abstracts Volume

GBP 120.00
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Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

Agency Security and Governance of Small States examines what seems to be a defining paradox of Small-State Studies: the simultaneous coexistence (and possible co-dependence) of vulnerability and opportunity related to small-state size. This book analyses small states within the framework of this apparent paradox. Traditionally Small-State Studies has focused on three guiding questions: what constitutes a ‘small state’? What explains small-state influence in global affairs? Are small states truly vulnerable to security threats given the expansion of multilateralism and regionalism throughout the world? This book contends that new questions should be asked which recognise the important shifts in twenty-first century security paradigms to better understand how some states deploy their smallness as a resource for agency in supranational contexts. By varying historical geographical security and governance contexts the book embraces a most-different-cases approach. The historical perspective is often neglected in Small-State Studies but contributes to understanding how small states have often over time transformed perceived insecurity into agency. By focusing on different world regions the authors enable the comparative analysis of collective actions and the creation and implementation of institutions for ‘common sense purposes’ within a geographical region. Of particular contemporary importance the book includes contributions which contend with hard-security issues alongside other soft-security challenges. The comparison of case studies confirms that hard-security vulnerability and soft-security opportunities seem to be two sides of the same coin which reinforces the book’s focus on small-state paradoxes and raises the question of whether smallness can be considered the defining characteristic of governance in these countries. This book will have a broad appeal because of the different world regions it analyses. It will be of interest to postgraduate students scholars and researchers of international relations security sustainability governance development and political economy as well as Small-State Studies. The Chapters 4 8 and 11 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. The publication of Chapter 4 as Open Access has been made possible by the Institute of History at the University of Luxembourg. The publication of Chapter 8 as Open Access has been made possible by Western Sydney University. The publication of Chapter 11 as Open Access has been made possible by the University of Hamburg. | Agency Security and Governance of Small States A Global Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management Volume I Fundamentals and Analyses

Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management Volume I Fundamentals and Analyses

Volume I of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses fundamental characteristics measurements and analyses of water features and watersheds including lakes and reservoirs rivers and streams and coasts and estuaries. It presents contemporary knowledge on Geospatial Technology (GT)–supported functional analyses of water runoff storage and balance flooding and floodplains water quality soils and moisture climate vulnerabilities and ecosystem services. Captures advanced Geospatial Technologies (GTs) addressing a wide range of water issues Provides real-world applications and case studies using advanced spectral and spatial sensors combined with geospatially facilitated water process models Details applications of ArcInfo/ArcGIS Google Earth Engine and other systems using advanced remote sensors including hyperspectral ER2 AVIRIS Sentinel-1 and -2 MODIS Landsat 7 ETM+ Landsat 8 OLI and TIPS SAR radar and thermal imaging Global in coverage with applications contributed by more than 170 authors with lifelong expertise in water sciences and engineering This handbook is a wide-ranging and contemporary reference of advanced geospatial techniques used in numerous practical applications at the local and regional scales and is an in-depth resource for professionals and the water research community worldwide. | Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management Volume I Fundamentals and Analyses

GBP 110.00
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Learner-Centred Pedagogy in the Global South Pupils and Teachers’ Experiences

Learner-Centred Pedagogy in the Global South Pupils and Teachers’ Experiences

Learner-Centred Pedagogy in the Global South: Pupils and Teachers’ Experiences shines light on learner-centred pedagogy (LCP) which has gained popularity within global and national governments albeit resulting in puzzling and inconsequential appropriation. Nozomi Sakata draws on award-winning research on learner centred pedagogy conducted in Tanzania that looks to shift the focus from teachers and teaching to students and learning. The recent spread of LCP through global policy discourse meets Tanzania’s historical and contemporary (in)compatibility in local schools. The book explores how pupils’ perceived classroom experiences are formed through pedagogical elements beyond the classroom. It also enquires into how observable LCP activities and/or pupils’ perceptions of classroom practices relate to their academic performance and learning attitudes. The book highlights the multidimensionality of pedagogy and the need to consider multiple viewpoints from both teachers and pupils and to consider the historical and socio-cultural contexts in any pedagogical research. This book will be of value to researchers and students interested in pedagogy policy transfer and education reforms in the global South. The Chapters 5 6 and 8 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Learner-Centred Pedagogy in the Global South Pupils and Teachers’ Experiences

GBP 120.00
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Experiment Design for Civil Engineering Methods and Examples

Experiment Design for Civil Engineering Methods and Examples

Experiment Design for Civil Engineering provides guidance to students and practicing civil engineers on how to design a civil engineering experiment that will produce useful and unassailable results. It includes a long list of complete experiment designs that students can perform in the laboratory at most universities and that many consulting engineers can do in corporate laboratories. These experiments also provide a way to evaluate a new design against an existing experiment to determine what information is most appropriate in each section and how to format the data for the most effective outcome. Interpretation of output data is discussed along with uncertainty as well as optimal presentation of the data to others. The content of the first 8 chapters is similar in format to authors' recent title Experiment Design for Environmental Engineering: Methods and Examples (CRC Press 2022) and has been revised for civil engineers. This textbook: Fills in the gap in ABET requirements to teach experiment design. Provides a standardized approach to experiment design that can work for any experiment. Includes completed experiment designs suitable for college laboratory and professional applications. Shows how to organize experimental data as it is collected to optimize usefulness. Provides templates for design of the experiment and for presenting the resulting data to technical and nontechnical audiences or clients. | Experiment Design for Civil Engineering Methods and Examples

GBP 89.99
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Gallium Nitride Power Devices

Gallium Nitride Power Devices

GaN is considered the most promising material candidate in next-generation power device applications owing to its unique material properties for example bandgap high breakdown field and high electron mobility. Therefore GaN power device technologies are listed as the top priority to be developed in many countries including the United States the European Union Japan and China. This book presents a comprehensive overview of GaN power device technologies for example material growth property analysis device structure design fabrication process reliability failure analysis and packaging. It provides useful information to both students and researchers in academic and related industries working on GaN power devices. GaN wafer growth technology is from Enkris Semiconductor currently one of the leading players in commercial GaN wafers. Chapters 3 and 7 on the GaN transistor fabrication process and GaN vertical power devices are edited by Dr. Zhihong Liu who has been working on GaN devices for more than ten years. Chapters 2 and 5 on the characteristics of polarization effects and the original demonstration of AlGaN/GaN heterojunction field-effect transistors are written by researchers from Southwest Jiaotong University. Chapters 6 8 and 9 on surface passivation reliability and package technologies are edited by a group of researchers from the Southern University of Science and Technology of China. | Gallium Nitride Power Devices

GBP 139.00
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Combinatorics of Permutations

Combinatorics of Permutations

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title the first edition of this bestseller was lauded for its detailed yet engaging treatment of permutations. Providing more than enough material for a one-semester course Combinatorics of Permutations third edition continues to clearly show the usefulness of this subject for both students and researchers. The research in combinatorics of permutations has advanced rapidly since this book was published in a first edition. Now the third edition offers not only updated results it remains the leading textbook for a course on the topic. Coverage is mostly enumerative but there are algebraic analytic and topological parts as well and applications. Since the publication of the second edition there is tremendous progress in pattern avoidance (Chapters 4 and 5). There is also significant progress in the analytic combinatorics of permutations which will be incorporated. •A completely new technique from extremal combinatorics disproved a long-standing conjecture and this is presented in Chapter 4. •The area of universal permutations has undergone a lot of very recent progress and that has been noticed outside the academic community as well. This also influenced the revision of Chapter 5. •New results in stack sorting are added to Chapter 8. •Chapter 9 applications to biology has been revised. The author’s other works include Introduction to Enumerative and Analytic Combinatorics second edition (CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title) and Handbook of Enumerative Combinatorics published by CRC Press. The author also serves as Series Editor for CRC’s Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications.

GBP 99.99
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Defensive Federalism Protecting Territorial Minorities from the Tyranny of the Majority

Defensive Federalism Protecting Territorial Minorities from the Tyranny of the Majority

Defensive Federalism presents an original contribution to the field of federalism and multinational democracies exploring the concept of defensive federalism as a protection of self- government against the tyranny of the majority. The empirical evidence on federal and regional polities often shows critical imbalances in the territorial division of powers beyond what has been formally established in the constitutional rules. This volume highlights the rights institutions decision- making processes and procedural rules that can protect and develop the practical political economic and cultural powers of federated and regional entities especially those linked to territorial national minorities. The authors focus on federalism as a safeguard of self- rule as well as a set of institutional and procedural rules to avoid the territorial dimension of the tyranny of the majority. They answer two fundamental questions: how is it possible to design new stable and fairer federal agreements between national minorities and majorities where there is no single ideal solution? Is there a need for a new kind of defensive federal model for approaching national pluralism in liberal democracies? This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of federalism national diversity and democracy as well as policymakers and practitioners in both public and private institutions. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com | Defensive Federalism Protecting Territorial Minorities from the Tyranny of the Majority

GBP 130.00
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Inside MTV

Inside MTV

MTV is the third major breakthrough in music broadcasting and the first since the late 1960s. Top Forty radio was initiated in the 1950s and along with free form or progressive rock molded rock music exposure for nearly twenty years. Many observers credit MTV with resurrecting the music industry from the throes of the Great Depression of 1979. Few would dispute its impact on contemporary film fashion and radio. Inside MTV examines the world of cablecasting the evolution of WASEC MTV VH-1 and some of their competitors. The strategies personalities promotions and the contents that placed MTV on the road to its dominant position are described. The many controversies surrounding the channel are thoroughly detailed and a good deal of the misinformation on the subject is corrected. It is a mere five years since MTV began as the third of four Warner-Amex Satellite Entertainment Company (WASEC) channels created by two of America's largest conglomerates. Since then it has become a major force. Before MTV was conceived the relationship between television and rock music was weak at best. As the new partnership . developed a story of genius luck and discrimination began to unfold and a corporate innovation of major proportions and psychodemographic success emerged. MTV is now the most profitable 24-hour cable outlet beamed from a satellite. It reaches 30. 8 million households. How all this happened is chronicled in this major new book from a leading authority on the American music business.

GBP 130.00
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Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World Theatre Film Literature and Things

Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World Theatre Film Literature and Things

This volume explores how the Cultural Cold War played out in Africa and Asia in the context of decolonization. Both the United States and the Soviet Union as well as East European states undertook significant efforts to influence cultural life in the newly independent postcolonial world. The different forms of influence are the subject of this book. The contributions are grouped around four topic headings. Networks and Institutions looks at the various ways Western-style theatre became institutionalized in the decolonial world especially Africa. Cultural Diplomacy focuses on the activities of the Soviet Union in India in the late 1950s and 1960s in the very different arenas of book publishing and the circus. Artists and Agency explores how West African filmmakers (Ousmane Sembène and Abderrahmane Sissako) and European authors (Brecht and Ibsen) were harnessed for different kinds of Cold War strategies. Finally Cultures of Things investigates how everyday objects such as books and iconic theatre buildings became suffused with affect nostalgia and ideology. This book will be of interest for students of the Cold War postcolonial studies theatre film and literature. Chapters 1 4 8 and 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. Funded by the European Research Council Project Developing Theatre. | Performing the Cold War in the Postcolonial World Theatre Film Literature and Things

GBP 130.00
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Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) A Digital Journey Using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) A Digital Journey Using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

As featured on CNN Forbes and Inc – BookAuthority identifies and rates the best books in the world based on recommendations by the world's most successful business leaders and experts. Winning the spot of #19 out of 26 on the 2020 Bookauthority Best New Industrial Management Books of All Time. Winning the spot of #3 out of 8 on the 2021 Bookauthority Best New Industrial Management Books to Read in 2021. Winning the spot of #5 out of 11 on the 2021 Bookauthority Best New Product Design Books to Read in 2021. 2020 Taylor & Francis Award Winner for Outstanding Professional Book! Product Lifecycle Management (PLM): A Digital Journey Using Industrial Internet of Things (IIot) provides a summary of the essential topics of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) in the era of Industry 4. 0. The book discusses emerging technologies their contribution towards enhancing product design development and manufacturing. It also presents the integration of PLM Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Manufacturing Execution System (MES) along with IIoT as well the integration of mechanical electronic components embedded systems firmware and software focusing on smart design development and manufacturing in the digital transformation journey. The book provides a high-level overview of how the smart product development through smart manufacturing materializes within the smart ecosystem. Manufacturing professionals designers mechanical electrical electronics instrumentation and industrial engineers information and communication technology consultants and those working in production planning process control and operations will find this book invaluable. | Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) A Digital Journey Using Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)

GBP 89.99
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