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The Great Barrier Reef Biology Environment and Management Second Edition

The Great Barrier Reef Biology Environment and Management Second Edition

The iconic and beautiful Great Barrier Reef (GBR) Marine Park is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. With contributions from international experts this timely and fully updated second edition of The Great Barrier Reef describes the animals plants and other organisms of the reef as well as the biological chemical and physical processes that influence them. It contains new chapters on shelf slopes and fisheries and addresses pressing issues such as climate change ocean acidification coral bleaching and disease and invasive species. The Great Barrier Reef is a must-read for the interested reef tourist student researcher and environmental manager. While it has an Australian focus it can equally be used as a reference text for most Indo-Pacific coral reefs. Key Features: Exciting and contemporary account of the issues that face the world’s most complex marine ecosystem. Examines the diversity physiology ecology and conservation of coral reefs in one volume. Written by leading authorities on the biodiversity of the GBR as well as its position as an icon for monitoring global warming. Beautifully illustrated. | The Great Barrier Reef Biology Environment and Management Second Edition

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India’s Great Power Politics Managing China’s Rise

India’s Great Power Politics Managing China’s Rise

This book examines India’s foreign and defence policy changes in response to China’s growing economic and military power and increased footprint across the Indo-Pacific. It further explores India’s role in the rivalry between China and the United States. The book looks at the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean Region in the Indo-Pacific geopolitical landscape and how India is managing China’s rise by combining economic cooperation with a wide set of balancing strategies. The authors in this book critically analyse the various tools of Indian foreign policy including defence posture security alignments and soft power diplomacy among others and discuss the future trajectory of India’s foreign policy and the factors which will determine the balance of power in the region and the potential risks involved. The book provides detailed insights into the multifaceted and complex relationship between India and China and will be of great interest to researchers and students of international relations Asian studies political science and economics. It will also be useful for policymakers journalists and think tanks interested in the India–China relationship. | India’s Great Power Politics Managing China’s Rise

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Ugandan Asians in Great Britain Forced Migration and Social Absorption

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain Forced Migration and Social Absorption

Ugandan Asians in Great Britain (1975) examines the impact of the 1972 immigration of 28 000 Asians expelled from Uganda looking at the impact on both the immigrants themselves and the British host community. It is an attempt to understand some of the dynamics of forced migrant transition from one society and culture to another. The study was largely carried out in Wandsworth and Slough and shows how these communities – not without social problems before this influx of immigrants – adapted to the new arrivals. The sensitivity and effectiveness of the community relations organisations and the welfare agencies in these areas is revealed. | Ugandan Asians in Great Britain Forced Migration and Social Absorption

GBP 85.00
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The Making of Modern Economics The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

The Making of Modern Economics The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

The Making of Modern Economics presents a bold and engaging history of economics—the dramatic story of how the great economic thinkers built today's rigorous social science. This comprehensive yet accessible introduction to the major economic philosophers begins with Adam Smith and continues through to the present day. It examines the contributions each one made to our understanding of the role of the economist the science of economics and economic theory. Boxes in each chapter highlight little-known and entertaining facts about the economists' personal lives that had an influence on their work. The fourth edition adds coverage of modern monetary theory the COVID-19 pandemic climate change minimum wage debates Schumpeter and socialism Malthus and immigration and more. The Making of Modern Economics is a valuable engaging text for courses in the history of economic thought and political economy. | The Making of Modern Economics The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers

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Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology Translation and Annotation of Kaogong ji The Artificers' Record

Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology Translation and Annotation of Kaogong ji The Artificers' Record

This book presents the first translation into English of the full text of the Kaogong ji. This classic work described by the great scholar of the history of Chinese science and technology Joseph Needham as the most important document for the study of ancient Chinese technology dates from the fifth century BC and forms part of the Zhouli (The Rites of the Zhou Dynasty) one of the great Confucian classics. The text itself describes the techniques of working and the technologies used by over twenty different kinds of craftsmen and artificers such as metal workers chariot makers weapon makers music instrument makers potters and master builders. This edition besides providing the full text in English also provides a substantial introduction and other supporting explanatory material over one hundred illustrations of ancient Chinese artefacts and the original Chinese text itself. | Ancient Chinese Encyclopedia of Technology Translation and Annotation of Kaogong ji The Artificers' Record

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Phase Change Material-Based Heat Sinks A Multi-Objective Perspective

Phase Change Material-Based Heat Sinks A Multi-Objective Perspective

Phase-change Material based heat sinks and associated optimization remains a topic of great interest as evident from the increasing number of citations and new applications and miniaturization. Often the multi objective perspective of such heat sinks is ignored. This book introduces the readers to the PCM based heat sinks and Multi objective optimization. The authors have also included interesting in house experimental results on the Rotating heat sinks which is a first of a kind work. Useful to budding thermal researchers and practicing engineers in the field this book is also a great start for students to understand the cooling applications in electronics and an asset to every library in a technical university. Since this book not only gives a critical review of the state of the art but also presents the authors' own results. The book will encourage motivate and let the reader consider pursuing a research career in electronic cooling technologies. | Phase Change Material-Based Heat Sinks A Multi-Objective Perspective

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Issues in American Political Life Money Violence and Biology

Issues in American Political Life Money Violence and Biology

The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project employing over 14 000 people at peak and costing over 11 billion of private money. It has succeeded in spite of great financial political and techncial difficulties and a fundamentally flawed contract. This book tells the story of the project based on the coverage in Construction News and with commentary taken from recent interviews with key project sources. | Issues in American Political Life Money Violence and Biology

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Sports Concussions A Complete Guide to Recovery and Management

Sports Concussions A Complete Guide to Recovery and Management

Sport-related concussions have become an increasingly important topic as evidenced by recent media attention. Due in large part to the complex nature of concussive injuries there is great discrepancy in the effect these injuries have on individual functioning and the type and nature of services that best facilitate recovery. This book is intended as a complete reference guide dealing with sports-related concussions. | Sports Concussions A Complete Guide to Recovery and Management

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Cold-Formed Steel Structures to the AISI Specification

Cold-Formed Steel Structures to the AISI Specification

This volume reveals the behaviour and design of cold-formed steel structures connections and systems. It describes the AISI Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members published in July 2000 which governs the design of all cold-formed steel frames including roof wall and racking systems and cold-formed steel residential construction in the USA. The text offers worked examples which can be programmed using MATHCAD or EXCEL. | Cold-Formed Steel Structures to the AISI Specification

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Activated Charcoal in Medical Applications

Activated Charcoal in Medical Applications

Highlighting activated charcoal's great effectiveness in treating drug overdoses and poisonings in both humans and animals this comprehensive single-source reference brings together vital information from every significant study on the use of activated charcoal for medical purposes-describing all available charcoal products and their characteristics. Details activated charcoal's ability to reduce the systemic absorption of a vast array of drugs chemicals and biochemical substances-including analgesics antipyretics sedatives alkaloids snake venoms and bacterial and fungal toxins. | Activated Charcoal in Medical Applications

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Design of Structural Elements Concrete Steelwork Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes

Design of Structural Elements Concrete Steelwork Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes

The fourth edition of Design of Structural Elements: Concrete Steelwork Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes is a concise single-volume introduction to the design of structural elements in concrete steel timber masonry and composites. It provides design principles and guidance in line with Eurocodes current as of 2021. Topics include the philosophy of design sustainable development basic structural concepts and material properties. After an overview of structural design the book contains self-contained chapters with numerous diagrams and worked examples on design in reinforced concrete structural steelwork and steel/concrete composites masonry and timber based on EN 1990-1997. Selected extracts from these publications assist familiarity. Elements considered cover reinforced concrete and composite floors isolated foundation cantilever retaining wall load-bearing and panel walls stud wall and connections. The text is ideal for student civil and structural engineers on degree and diploma courses and also practising civil and structural engineers and other built environment professions. The online Support Materials for adopting course instructors includes an extensive set of solutions to the problems in the book and PowerPoint slides for use in lectures: www. routledge. com/9781032076317. | Design of Structural Elements Concrete Steelwork Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes

GBP 46.99
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Room Acoustics

Room Acoustics

Well established as a classic reference and specialised textbook since its first publication in 1973 Heinrich Kuttruff’s Room Acoustics combines detailed coverage with a state of art presentation of the theory and practice of sound behaviour in closed spaces. This sixth edition presents several additional new sections for instance on the reflection of a spherical wave from a wall on finite element methods for sound field calculation and on virtual reality as well as giving an overhaul of the standard material. Particular emphasis is given to the properties and calculation of reverberation the most obvious acoustical feature of a room. And further key topics include the various mechanisms of sound absorption and their practical application as well as scattering by wall irregularities including pseudo-stochastic structures. Extensive space is given to of psychoacoustic insights and the quality criteria derived from them along with new procedures for the sensory assessment of concert hall acoustics. As in earlier editions one full and updated chapter is devoted to the design and performance of electroacoustic systems which nowadays is not just a method for sound amplification but offers many possibilities for correcting acoustic deficiencies and modifying a hall’s natural acoustics.

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The Economics of Estuary Restoration in South Africa

The Economics of Estuary Restoration in South Africa

This book examines the economic costs and benefits of the ecological restoration of estuaries utilizing case studies from South Africa. Estuaries are important ecosystems from both an ecological and human perspective. Yet in many parts of the world they are often degraded environments facing threats from climate change invasive species fire and wastewater pollution. While the environmental benefits of restoring degraded environments are well discussed this book specifically examines the economic benefits of doing so. It applies a cost-benefit analysis which focuses on a range of key ecosystem services including human health fishing value recreational value and property value. The book utlizes three detailed studies of the Swartkops estuary the Great Brak estuary and the Knysna estuary in South Africa but also draws out lessons that can be applied to coastal environments across the world. Overall this book demonstrates that ecological restoration does pay and that the value of additional ecosystem services gained through restoration far exceeds the costs associated with this restoration process. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental management and restoration ecological economics ecosystem services and environmental conservation. | The Economics of Estuary Restoration in South Africa

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A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume II

A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume II

First published in 1805 this work summarises the vast array of laws at the time on the relief of the poor in Great Britain. Split across two volumes it not only condenses the laws themselves but also disentangles the theory and doctrine of each law and explains how the theory should have been applied in practice. This work will be a valuable primary source for those studying 19th poor relief and welfare. | A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume II

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Revival: Famous Chemists (1935) The Men and Their Work

Revival: Famous Chemists (1935) The Men and Their Work

The present volume is an attempt to skitch in a style suitable for general reading the lives of some of the most prominent chemists of the past. As it is obviously impossible for one person to deal with them all the first great difficulty in such a project is to make the selection. After much reflection the guiding principle adopted is the evolution of the Atomic Theory from the point of view of the Chemist. | Revival: Famous Chemists (1935) The Men and Their Work

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Revival: The Jews of Asia (1920) Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Revival: The Jews of Asia (1920) Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

The present publication is the first that has attempted to portray the separate and progressive history of the Jews in the different countries which they have made their homes since their expulsion from the land which they had been identified for something like thirty centuries. In these pages the author has endeavoured to compile a narrative of a great part of what has occurred to the Jews of Asia in the last eighteen and a half centuries. | Revival: The Jews of Asia (1920) Especially in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

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Freshwater Crayfish A Global Overview

Freshwater Crayfish A Global Overview

For their great commercial importance as a human food delicacy crayfish are now becoming of wider interest to molecular biologists and also to conservationists due to the fact that in some countries many of the native crayfish species are under threat from human activity disease and competition from other introduced crayfish species. Helmed by three editors in Japan Europe and the US this book invites contributions from experts around the globe covering the conservation status and biology of all endangered species taxonomy and distribution of crayfishes worldwide. | Freshwater Crayfish A Global Overview

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Early Modern East Asia War Commerce and Cultural Exchange

Early Modern East Asia War Commerce and Cultural Exchange

This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections the book explores the importance of international trade networks the implications of technological dissemination and the often unforeseen consequences of missionary efforts. It demonstrates the benefi ts of a global history approach outlining the complex interactions between Western traders and Asian states and entrepreneurs. Overall the book presents much interesting new material on this complicated and understudied period. . | Early Modern East Asia War Commerce and Cultural Exchange

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Organic Chemistry Structure and Mechanisms

Organic Chemistry Structure and Mechanisms

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This book presents a range of research on important topics in the field. Of the approximately 11 million known chemical compounds about 10 million are organic. Organic chemists are currently working to produce better polymers with specific properties such as biodegradable plastics. The understanding of new drug structures from plants and the synthesis of improved pharmaceuticals is another area of great interest. Organic chemists are also researching the reactions that occur in living systems and understanding the molecular causes of disease. | Organic Chemistry Structure and Mechanisms

GBP 82.99
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On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

Be a fly on the wall as industry leaders Bill Kroyer and Tom Sito take us through insightful face-to-face interviews revealing in these two volumes the journeys of 23 world-class directors as they candidly share their experiences and personal views on the process of making feature animated films. The interviews were produced and edited by Ron Diamond. Your job is not to be the one with the answers. You should be the one that gets the answers. That’s your job. You need to make friends and get to know your crew. These folks are your talent your bag of tricks. And that’s where you’re going to find answers to the big problems - Andrew Stanton It’s hard. Yet the pain you go through to get what you need for your film enriches you and it enriches the film. – Brenda Chapman Frank and Ollie always used to say that great character animation contains movement that is generated by the character’s thought process. It can’t be plain movement. – John Lasseter The beauty of clay is that it doesn’t have to be too polished or too smooth and sophisticated. You don’t want it to be mechanical and lifeless. – Nick Park The good thing about animation is that tape is very cheap. Let the actor try things. This is where animation gets to play with spontaneity. You want to capture that line as it has never been said before. And most likely if you asked the actor to do it again he or she just can’t repeat that exact performance. But you got it. – Ron Clements | On Animation The Director's Perspective Vol 1

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Ceramic Fibers and Their Applications

Ceramic Fibers and Their Applications

To date several polymer-derived ceramic fibers have been developed all over the world out of which SiC fibers synthesized from polycarbosilane and their derivatives have achieved highest heat resistance and show excellent mechanical properties. Their use in ceramic matrix composite materials has resulted in high-temperature stability and light weight which show great promise in next-generation applications such as aerospace engines. This book presents polymer-derived ceramic fibers from a historical viewpoint; basic information about them such as production process fine structures and physical properties; their applications; and prospects of future inorganic fibers. | Ceramic Fibers and Their Applications

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Innovation and Research in Education

Innovation and Research in Education

Originally published in 1965 this title looks at programmed learning language laboratories curricular reform educational television team teaching – these are just some of the fashions that were going to change education in the following decade quite as much as the introduction of comprehensive schools. Would anyone ever know what their effects are? Not unless there was a great expansion of research. The author of this book states the need for a marriage of innovation and research. The social sciences could gain as much as education. Today it can be read in its historical context. | Innovation and Research in Education

GBP 85.00
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Revival: The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century (1910)

Revival: The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century (1910)

In a period of which so much is known and of which the materials for additional knowledge are so abundant as is the case with the eighteenth century the writer of a handbook sees from the first that a very great deal of even important matters will have to be omitted: and one of his chief difficulties will be to decide which topics must be selected in order to give the reader an intelligible and coherent picture – faithful as far as it goes – of the period as a whole. | Revival: The Church of England in the Eighteenth Century (1910)

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