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Volcanic Rocks Proceedings of ISRM Workshop W2 Ponta Delgada Azores Portugal 14-15 July 2007

Volcanic Rocks Proceedings of ISRM Workshop W2 Ponta Delgada Azores Portugal 14-15 July 2007

Environmental issues are high on the public agenda and engineering projects need to take environmental concerns on board. Volcanic Rocks contains papers from the ISRM Workshop W2 (Ponta Delgada Azores Portugal 14-15 July 2007) and focuses specifically on problems associated with construction activities in areas of volcanic rock. The book highlights novel approaches and solutions to engineering problems in volcanic areas covering a variety of topical themes which include: characterization of volcanic formations; case studies; construction materials; earthquake engineering and rock dynamics; foundations; slope stability and tunnelling. Volcanic Rocks will be invaluable to researchers professionals and students in Geology Civil Engineering Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering. | Volcanic Rocks Proceedings of ISRM Workshop W2 Ponta Delgada Azores Portugal 14-15 July 2007

GBP 115.00
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Re-imagining Democracy Legacy Impact and Lessons of Spain's 15-M Movement

Re-imagining Democracy Legacy Impact and Lessons of Spain's 15-M Movement

This interdisciplinary book draws on leading scholarship on one of the most influential and consequential social movements of the past decades: Spain’s 15-M movement. The volume explores the legacy impact and outcomes of the movement and the lessons it offers for understanding mobilization in times of crisis. The book opens with a theoretical reconsideration of the positive ways social movements can impact democracy moving the field forward significantly. It also offers rich case studies to explore a range of areas of interest to social movement scholars. Chapters explore the biographical consequences of participation in social movements; how memories of the movement inspired new mobilizations; the reciprocal influence between the 15-M movement and feminist economics; how urban democracy was transformed by municipalism arising from the movement; how the movement generated a “Caring democracy” in the face of the Covid pandemic; and how it gave rise to a new radical democratic media ecosystem. The book explores the movement’s political economy as well as reflects on one of its unintended consequences: the rise of the penalization of counter-hegemonic protest in contemporary Spain. Although focused on a single emblematic movement it offers significant insights and lessons for scholarship on contemporary politics and movements. Re-imagining Democracy provides a valuable resource for scholars and students interested in the challenges faced by contemporary democracies the dynamics of social movements in times of crisis and the profound impact of social movements on contemporary democracy. The chapters in this book were originally published as a peer-reviewed special issue of Social Movement Studies. | Re-imagining Democracy Legacy Impact and Lessons of Spain's 15-M Movement

GBP 130.00
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Crossing Design Boundaries Proceedings of the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference 15-16 September 2005 Edinburgh

Crossing Design Boundaries Proceedings of the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference 15-16 September 2005 Edinburgh

This book presents over 100 papers from the 3rd Engineering and Product Design Education International Conference dedicated to the subject of exploring novel approaches in product design education. The theme of the book is Crossing Design Boundaries which reflects the editors wish to incorporate many of the disciplines associated with and integral to modern product design and development pursuits. Crossing Design Boundaries covers for example the conjunction of anthropology and design the psychology of design products the application of soft computing in wearable products and the utilisation of new media and design and how these can be best exploited within the current product design arena. The book includes discussions concerning product design education and the cross-over into other well established design disciplines such as interaction design jewellery design furniture design and exhibition design which have been somewhat under represented in recent years. The book comprises a number of sections containing papers which cover highly topical and relevant issues including Design Curriculum Development Interdisciplinarity Design Collaboration and Team Working Philosophies of Design Education Design Knowledge New Materials and New Technologies in Design Design Communication Industrial Collaborations and Working with Industry Teaching and Learning Tools and Design Theory. | Crossing Design Boundaries Proceedings of the 3rd Engineering & Product Design Education International Conference 15-16 September 2005 Edinburgh

GBP 175.00
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Representing Schizophrenia in the Media A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage

Representing Schizophrenia in the Media A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage

This book presents a critical analysis of ways in which schizophrenia and people with schizophrenia are represented in the press. Interrogating a 15-million-word corpus of news articles published by nine UK national newspapers over a 15-year period the author draws on techniques from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to identify the most frequent and salient linguistic features used by journalists to influence and reflect broader public attitudes towards people with schizophrenia. In doing so this book: Evaluates the extent to which media representations are accurate and the extent to which they are potentially helpful or harmful towards people living with schizophrenia; Employs a bottom-up approach guided by linguistic patterns such as collocates and keywords identified by corpus software; Contributes to the de-stigmatisation of schizophrenic disorder by unveiling some of the widespread misconceptions surrounding it; Applies a mixed-methods approach in order to expose attitudes and beliefs found ‘between the lines’ – values and assumptions which are often implicit in the way language is used and therefore not visible to the naked eye. The findings of this monograph will be relevant to advanced students and researchers of health communication corpus linguistics and applied linguistics and will also carry importance for journalists and mental health practitioners. | Representing Schizophrenia in the Media A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage

GBP 120.00
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Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement The Art of Creating APE Exhibits

Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement The Art of Creating APE Exhibits

A must for exhibit developers researchers educators and other museum professionals looking for ways to engage visitors more deeply with interactive science exhibits this book documents the exploration and findings of the Exploratorium‘s Active Prolonged Engagement project funded by the National Science Foundation. Both a significant contribution to visitor research and a nuts-and-bolts guide to exhibit development Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement includes 15 APE Tales (exhibit recipes with photos drawings and detailed construction specifications); discussions of setting explicit goals for visitors exhibit experiences; research and evaluation methods and results; and lessons learned for building constructivist-style exhibits. | Fostering Active Prolonged Engagement The Art of Creating APE Exhibits

GBP 175.00
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Prevention of Accidents and Unwanted Occurrences Theory Methods and Tools in Safety Management Second Edition

Prevention of Accidents and Unwanted Occurrences Theory Methods and Tools in Safety Management Second Edition

This new edition comes after about 15 years of development in the field of safety science and practice. The book addresses the question of how to improve risk assessments investigations and organizational learning inside companies in order to prevent unwanted occurrences. The book helps the reader in analyzing the subject from different scientific perspectives to demonstrate how they contribute to an overall understanding. It also gives a comprehensive overview of different methods and tools for use in safety practice and helps the reader in analyzing their scope merits and shortcomings. The book raises a number of critical issues to be addressed in the improvement process. | Prevention of Accidents and Unwanted Occurrences Theory Methods and Tools in Safety Management Second Edition

GBP 140.00
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The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

Skills in learning and studying are vital to ensure success in higher education study whether at undergraduate or postgraduate level in university college or in the workplace. Skills are needed in reflection analysis communication and recording information to produce good work to engage effectively in a group to carry out a project or perform well in exams; personal skills are needed to handle time and pressure and to relate to others on a course or in the workplace. This new guide builds on the hugely successful materials the authors have developed over the last 15 years. Along with highly practical guidance on traditional learning skills The Guide to Learning and Study Skills provides direction for students on learning in a blended environment; the increased use of personal and professional development planning continuing professional development and work-based learning. | The Guide to Learning and Study Skills For Higher Education and at Work

GBP 175.00
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Modern Permanent Magnet Electric Machines Theory and Control

Modern Permanent Magnet Electric Machines Theory and Control

The late 1980s saw the beginning of the PM brushless machine era with the invention of high-energy density permanent magnets (PM) and the development of power electronics. Although induction motors are now the most popular electric motors the impact of PM brushless machines on electromechanical drives is significant. Today PM machines come second to induction machines. Replacement of electromagnetic field excitation systems by PMs brings the following benefits: No electrical energy is absorbed by the field excitation system and thus there are no excitation losses causing substantial increase in efficiency Higher power density (kW/kg) and/or torque density (Nm/kg) than electromagnetic excitation Better dynamic performance than motors with electromagnetic excitation (higher magnetic flux density in the air gap) Simplification of construction and maintenance Less expensive for some types of machines Modern Permanent Magnet Electric Machines: Theory and Control serves as a textbook for undergraduate power engineering students who want to supplement and expand their knowledge in the fundamentals of magnetism soft magnetic materials permanent magnets (PMs) calculation of magnetic circuits with PMs modern PM brushed DC machines and their controls modern PM brushless DC motors and drive control and modern PM generators. The book can help students learn more about electrical machines and can serve as a prescribed text for teaching elective undergraduate courses such as modern permanent magnet electrical machines. Since the book is written in a simple scientific language and without redundant mathematics it can also be used by practicing engineers and managers employed in electrical machinery or electromagnetic device industries. | Modern Permanent Magnet Electric Machines Theory and Control

GBP 99.99
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How To Do Things With Logic Workbook Workbook withExercises

How To Do Things With Logic Workbook Workbook withExercises

In the past 15 years a host of critical thinking books have appeared that teach students to find flaws in the arguments of others by learning to detect a number of informal fallacies. This book is not in that tradition. The authors of this book believe that while students learn to become vicious critics they still continue to make the very mistakes they criticize in others. Thus this book has adopted the approach of teaching the construction of good arguments first and then introducing criticism as a secondary skill. Moreover the emphasis of the book is not on learning to name fallacies but on being able to identify weaknesses in an argument so as to be able to construct an effective critique of that argument. The book is accompanied by a workbook featuring a wealth of examples to help students acquire the material. | How To Do Things With Logic Workbook Workbook withExercises

GBP 175.00
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Corporate Culture and Globalization Ideology and Identity in a Global Fashion Retailer

Corporate Culture and Globalization Ideology and Identity in a Global Fashion Retailer

This book offers an ethnographic analysis of how corporate culture has been transformed in the age of globalization and promotes the importance of a national ideology’s role in corporate culture studies. Based on 15 months of participant observation as a shop-floor salesperson this book explores the gap between management-created corporate ideology and employees’ interpretations of and responses to this ideology. This book approaches the issue by examining the formation dissemination and interpretation of corporate ideology at a global Japanese fashion retailer in Hong Kong. It does so by charting the history of the company’s corporate policy: from centralized attempts at corporate employee management through the creation of store manager missionaries intended to disseminate their ideology to the ultimately unexpected outcomes as corporate ideology collided with its interpretations by store employees. The interdisciplinary nature of this book will appeal to scholars and upper-level students in the fields of management marketing anthropology and cultural studies as well as those interested in globalization cross-cultural management and retail management. | Corporate Culture and Globalization Ideology and Identity in a Global Fashion Retailer

GBP 120.00
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Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

In large surface mining operations drilling and blasting activities constitute more than 15% of the total costs. In order to optimize performance and minimize costs a thorough knowledge of drill and blast operations is therefore extremely important. In this unique reference volume rotary blasthole drilling and surface blasting as applied in large surface mines are comprehensively covered. Both new and classic concepts techniques and methodologies are presented supported by numerous illustrations and practical data. In 26 chapters drilling surface blasting rock rock mass machinery tools and accessories compressors and air flushing computing and practice are many other relevant subjects are treated; the first 16 chapters deal with rotary blasthole drilling and the 10 next chapters with the concepts theory and practice of blasting. Moreover the 14 appendices provide vital technical and commercial data to further support the reader to design plan execute and calculate blasthole drilling operations. This volume is intended for professionals and technicians in mining exploration geological and mechanical engineering who are involved with the design planning and execution of rotary drilling and blasting operations in surface mines. | Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

GBP 94.99
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Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials

Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials

Maintaining the substance that made Introduction to the Thermodynamic of Materials a perennial best seller for decades this Sixth Edition is updated to reflect the broadening field of materials science and engineering. The new edition is reorganized into three major sections to align the book for practical coursework with the first (Thermodynamic Principles) and second (Phase Equilibria) sections aimed at use in a one semester undergraduate course. The third section (Reactions and Transformations) can be used in other courses of the curriculum that deal with oxidation energy and phase transformations. The book is updated to include the role of work terms other than PV work (e. g. magnetic work) along with their attendant aspects of entropy Maxwell equations and the role of such applied fields on phase diagrams. There is also an increased emphasis on the thermodynamics of phase transformations and the Sixth Edition features an entirely new chapter 15 that links specific thermodynamic applications to the study of phase transformations. The book also features more than 50 new end of chapter problems and more than 50 new figures. | Introduction to the Thermodynamics of Materials

GBP 130.00
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Law and Conflict Resolution in Kashmir

Law and Conflict Resolution in Kashmir

This book provides analysis of the legal status of territories of the former Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir considering potential opportunities for Kashmir conflict resolution. Containing a detailed survey of relevant legislation and international documents chapters throughout this book investigate the attempts and failures of Kashmir conflict resolution holding up factors which could enable more peaceful relations between India and Pakistan with inclusion of the inhabitants of the erstwhile Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir. The book goes further than outlining how India and Pakistan determine the legal status of their portions of Kashmir by demonstrating the complexity of legal arrangements and why this protracted conflict is so difficult to resolve. As the Kashmir conflict is not only about territory and irredentism themes such as cultural and national identity power procurement territorial security communal rivalry religious radicalisation economic factors and social issues are all taken into consideration. Law and Conflict Resolution in Kashmir will appeal to students and scholars of peace and conflict studies international relations international law studies and South Asian studies. Chapter 15 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. | Law and Conflict Resolution in Kashmir

GBP 130.00
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Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing Third Edition

Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing Third Edition

Offering indispensable insight from experts in the field Fundamentals of Natural Gas Processing Third Edition provides an introduction to the gas industry and the processes required to convert wellhead gas into valuable natural gas and hydrocarbon liquids products including LNG. The authors compile information from the literature meeting proceedings short courses and their own work experiences to give an accurate picture of where gas processing technology stands today as well as to highlight relatively new technologies that could become important in the future. The third edition of this bestselling text features updates on North American gas processing and changing gas treating requirements due to shale gas production. It covers the international nature of natural gas trade LNG economics and more. To help nonengineers understand technical issues the first 5 chapters present an overview of the basic engineering concepts applicable throughout the gas oil and chemical industries. The following 15 chapters address natural gas processing with a focus on gas plant processes and technologies. The book contains 2 appendices. The first contains an updated glossary of gas processing terminology. The second is available only online and contains useful conversion factors and physical properties data. Aimed at students as well as natural gas processing professionals this edition includes both discussion questions and exercises designed to reinforce important concepts making this book suitable as a textbook in upper-level or graduate engineering courses.

GBP 115.00
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Introduction to Environmental Management for the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management

Introduction to Environmental Management for the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management

This endorsed handbook is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management with each element of the syllabus explained in detail. Includes sample NEBOSH questions and case studies to aid learning Up to date and aligned with the revised 2012 specification Over 100 images tables and diagrams all in full colour Written by an expert in this field of study. Environmental pressures have been increasing on businesses over many years. New legislation has forced companies to look at their impact on the environment through such issues as use of resources emissions energy use transport and waste management. Accidents such as the recent pollution incident by BP in the Gulf of Mexico grab the attention of the media and bring it into the public domain. In addition to its focus on the NEBOSH course this book covers all of the essential elements managers will need to understand correct environmental health and safety management including the broad legal framework risk assessment and pointers to relevant standards. Brian Waters has 15 years experience in the water supply industry and 13 years of experience in senior management roles with the National Rivers Authority and the Environment Agency. He has subsequently worked in training and consultancy giving him a wealth of experience in this area. | Introduction to Environmental Management for the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management

GBP 175.00
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Embracing the Future: Creative Industries for Environment and Advanced Society 5.0 in a Post-Pandemic Era Proceedings of the 8th Bandung Cre

Embracing the Future: Creative Industries for Environment and Advanced Society 5.0 in a Post-Pandemic Era Proceedings of the 8th Bandung Cre

By delivering the mindful writings from our selected authors this book portrays one big idea: a new Human-Centered society that balances economics to resolve problems especially in the use of an integrated area in cyberspace physical space and how it impacts the creative industries. Through The 8th Bandung Creative Movement scholars from 15 Universities around the Asian and European countries have discussed this issue where Human-Centered society became the main consideration in the development. Three topics are presented to the readers. Firstly Sustainable Cities and Communities explores the sub-fields that construct a more sustainable environment for society post-pandemic era such as technologies transportation interior design architecture urban planning etc. While Art and Design: Recontextualization of Nusantara Tradition and Indigenous Culture concerned the novel perspectives on recognizing cultural aspects that shape the face of creative industry from cultural identity visual and performing arts pop culture to language and media. The last topic Changes and Dynamics in The Creative Industries reviews the creative approach toward the industry's current trends including marketplace destination branding or digital culture ecosystem. This book will enrich the mind of everybody who is an enthusiast of innovative research on creative industries human-centered technologies environmental design and excellent society 5. 0 post-pandemic era. | Embracing the Future: Creative Industries for Environment and Advanced Society 5. 0 in a Post-Pandemic Era Proceedings of the 8th Bandung Cre

GBP 130.00
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Advances in Photonic Crystals and Devices

Advances in Photonic Crystals and Devices

In recent decades there has been a phenomenal growth in the field of photonic crystal research and has emerged as an interdisciplinary area. Photonic crystals are usually nanostructured electromagnetic media consisting of periodic variation of dielectric constant which prohibit certain electromagnetic wave frequency ranges called photonic bandgaps to propagate through them. Photonic crystals elicited numerous interesting features by unprecedented control of light and their exploitation is a promising tool in nanophotonics and designing optical components. The book ‘Advances in Photonic Crystals and Devices’ is designed with 15 chapters with introductory as well as research and application based contents. It covers the following highlighted features: Basics of photonic crystals and photonic crystal fibers Different theoretical as well as experimental approaches Current research advances from around the globe Nonlinear optics and super-continuum generation in photonic crystal fibers Magnetized cold plasma photonic crystals Liquid crystal defect embedded with graphene layers Biophysics and biomedical applications as optical sensors Two-dimensional photonic crystal demultiplexer Optical logic gates using photonic crystals A large number of references The goal of this book is to draw the background in understanding fabrication and characterization of photonic crystals using a variety of materials and their applications in design of several optical devices. Though the book is useful as a reference for the researchers working in the area of photonics optical computing and fabrication of nanophotonic devices it is intended for the beginners like students pursuing their masters’ degree in photonics.

GBP 170.00
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Archiving Caribbean Identity Records Community and Memory

Archiving Caribbean Identity Records Community and Memory

Archiving Caribbean Identity highlights the Caribbeanization of archives in the region considering what those archives could include in the future and exploring the potential for new records in new formats. Interpreting records in the broadest sense the 15 chapters in this volume explore a wide variety of records that represent new archival interpretations. The book is split into two parts with the first part focusing on record forms that are not generally considered archival in traditional Western practice. The second part explores more traditional archival collections and demonstrates how these collections are analysed and presented from the perspective of Caribbean peoples. As a whole the volume suggests how colonial records can be repurposed to surface Caribbean narratives. Reflecting on the unique challenges faced by developing countries as they approach their archives the volume considers how to identify and archive records in the forms and formats that reflect the postcolonial and decolonized Caribbean how to build an archive of the people that documents contemporary society and reflects Caribbean memory and how to repurpose the colonial archives so that they assist the Caribbean in reclaiming its history. Archiving Caribbean Identity demonstrates how non-textual cultural traces function as archival records and how folk-centred perspectives disrupt conventional understandings of records. The book should thus be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of archives memory culture history sociology and the colonial and postcolonial experience. | Archiving Caribbean Identity Records Community and Memory

GBP 130.00
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Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy

Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy

This volume presents new research on the use of experimental methodologies in moral and social philosophy. The contributions reflect the growing plurality of methodologies and strategies for implementing experimental work on morality to new domains problems and topics. Philosophers are exploring the ways in which empirical approaches can transform our idea of the good our understanding of the social nature of norms and morality and our methods of fulfilling ethical goals. The chapters in this volume extend experimental work on morality to previously underexplored areas. The contributions in Part 1 explore the methods and foundations of experimental work in areas such as folk moral judgments metaethical beliefs moral explanations and reflective equilibrium. Part 2 focuses on issues in normative ethics and legal and political philosophy such as virtue ethics utilitarianism theories of justice and criminal responsibility. Finally the chapters in Part 3 tackle various applied ethical issues including feminist X-Phi animal welfare experimental bioethics and self-driving cars. Experiments in Moral and Political Philosophy will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in ethics applied ethics experimental philosophy social and political philosophy and philosophy of law. Chapter 1 and 15 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. taylorfrancis. com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

GBP 130.00
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Handbook of Visual Communication Theory Methods and Media

Handbook of Visual Communication Theory Methods and Media

This Handbook of Visual Communication explores the key theoretical areas and research methods of visual communication. With chapters contributed by many of the best-known and respected scholars in visual communication this volume brings together significant and influential work in the discipline. The second edition of this already-classic text has been completely revised to reflect the metamorphosis of communication in the last 15 years and the ubiquity of visual communication in our modern mediated lifestyle. Thriteen major theories of communication are defined by the top experts in their fields: perception cognition aesthetics visual rhetoric semiotics cultural studies ethnography narrative media aesthetics digital media intertextuality ethics and visual literacy. Each of these theory chapters is followed by an exemplar study or two in the area demonstrating the various methods used in visual communication research as well as the research approaches applicable for specific media types. The Handbook of Visual Communication is a theoretical and methodological handbook for visual communication researchers and a compilation for much of the theoretical background necessary to understand visual communication. It is required reading for scholars researchers and advanced students in visual communication and it will be influential in other disciplines such as advertising persuasion and media studies. The volume will also be essential to media practitioners seeking to understand the visual aspects of how audiences use media to contribute to more effective use of each specific medium. | Handbook of Visual Communication Theory Methods and Media

GBP 94.99
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Sustainable Development in Creative Industries: Embracing Digital Culture for Humanities PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH BANDUNG CREATIVE MOVEMENT IN

Sustainable Development in Creative Industries: Embracing Digital Culture for Humanities PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH BANDUNG CREATIVE MOVEMENT IN

This book provides the thoughtful writings of a selection of authors illustrating a central concept: Sustainable Development in Creative Industries which utilizes a monetary equilibrium addressing issues particularly those associated with the use of an integrated area in cyberspace and physical space and their effect on the creative industries. 15 universities from Asia and Europe have participated in the 9th Bandung Creative Movement where this topic was explored. Sustainability issues are now at the forefront of progress. The book covers four main areas. The first section entitled Art Culture and Society delves into the various sectors that contribute to building a more sustainable environment including the arts and culture. Whereas Design and Architecture is referring to cutting-edge practices in the fields of manufacturing transportation interior design and building construction. The third section Technology and New Media delves into the transformation of technology into a new medium for the development of the creative industries. The final section management and Business discusses an innovative perspective on the state of the market and management in the sector. Anyone interested in the intersection of creative industries sustainability and digital cultures would benefit intellectually from reading this book. 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 (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. Funded by Telkom University Indonesia. | Sustainable Development in Creative Industries: Embracing Digital Culture for Humanities PROCEEDINGS OF THE 9TH BANDUNG CREATIVE MOVEMENT IN

GBP 150.00
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In the Shadow of Transitional Justice Cross-national Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Remembrance

In the Shadow of Transitional Justice Cross-national Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Remembrance

This volume bridges two different research fields and the current debates within them. On the one hand the transitional justice literature has been shaken by powerful calls to make the doctrine and practice of justice more transformative. On the other hand collective memory studies now tend to look more closely at meaningful silences to make sense of what nations leave out when they remember their pasts. The book extends the scope of this heuristic approach to the different mechanisms that come under the umbrella of transitional justice including legal prosecution truth-seeking and reparations alongside memorialisation. The 15 chapters included in the volume written by expert scholars from diverse disciplinary and societal backgrounds explore a range of practices intended to deal with the past and how making the invisible visible again can make transitional justice - or indeed any societal engagement with the past - more transformative. Seeking to combine contextual depth and comparative width the book features two key case analyses - South Africa and Sri Lanka - alongside discussions of multiple cases including such emblematic sites as Rwanda and Argentina but also sites better known for resisting than for embracing international norms of transitional justice such as Turkey or Côte d’Ivoire. The different contributions grouped in themed sections progressively explore the issues actors and resources that are typically forgotten when societies celebrate their pasts rather than mourning their losses and in doing so open new possibilities to build more inclusive processes for addressing the present consequences of past injustice. | In the Shadow of Transitional Justice Cross-national Perspectives on the Transformative Potential of Remembrance

GBP 130.00
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Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers

Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers

Correctional officers face considerable stress risk and danger that lead to poor physical and mental health outcomes. In fact their life expectancy is 15 years shorter than the national average. Public perception and media portrayals of correctional officers tend to reinforce stereotypes of brutish improper and uncontrolled behavior. Yet the reality is that correctional officers are operating a default public and mental health system for a sizeable portion of our society a responsibility that exposes them to considerable risk. These negative effects have been compounded by an international staffing crisis that has made our jails and prisons far less safe for working officers. To address this situation this book features an examination of a combined 11 313 correctional officers and 42 of their family members in the United States Canada and Europe. It explores proactive strategies that can reduce rates of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in correctional officers which currently surpasses those found in returning military veterans who experienced combat. It then delves into the dynamics of correctional officer suicide featuring the perspectives of their families. This book highlights innovative approaches that can build on existing strengths including the role of international exchange programs. It presents universal themes that impact the safety wellbeing and resiliency of correctional officers along with positive outcomes related to evidence-based programs that maximize health in the correctional workplace. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of criminology mental health public policy social work and sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the journal Criminal Justice Studies. | Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers

GBP 120.00
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The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

This volume draws on a unique dataset to answer pressing questions about human religiosity. Building upon the first volume in this series it presents results from the second phase of the Evolution of Religion and Morality (ERM) project. The second volume investigates key questions in the evolutionary and cognitive sciences of religion and highlights cultural variability and context specificity of diverse religious systems. Chapters draw on a dataset comprising 2 228 participants from 15 ethnographically diverse societies that stretch from Africa and India through Oceania to South America and include hunter-gatherers pastoralists horticulturalists subsistence farmers and wage laborers. Four chapters using the full dataset answer the following questions: What are the general predictors of commitment to supernatural agents? Is there a gender gap in religiosity? Does belief in punitive gods facilitates cooperation? Are supernatural agents implicitly associated with moral concerns? Chapters from individual field sites further explore the distinction between moralizing and local gods the potentially disruptive role of belief in local gods on cooperation with anonymous co-religionists and the relationship between belief in moralizing gods cooperation and differential access to material resources. Above these empirical studies the book also includes an informed discussion with specialists on the challenges of running such a large cross-cultural project and gives concrete recommendations for future projects. The Evolution of Religion and Morality: Volume II will be a key resource for scholars and researchers of religious studies human evolutionary biology psychology anthropology the cultural evolution of religion and the sociology of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of Religion Brain & Behavior. | The Evolution of Religion and Morality Volume II

GBP 130.00
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