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Bodies in Question Gender Religion Text

Bodies in Question Gender Religion Text

Exploring a range of subjects from the human genome project to Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling the poetry of Jorie Graham to feminist Christian art the contributors pose questions around the theme 'Body and Voice'. Questions raised include: 'Who speaks for the foetus and on what basis?'; 'What effect does the near-sacrifice of Isaac have on mother Sarah's body?'; and 'What do embodiment and gender mean for the resurrected body and Jesus's body?' | Bodies in Question Gender Religion Text

GBP 38.99
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Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

This new book explores how firms achieve competitive advantage in a disruptive digital and globalized business landscape. An integrative framework ‘The Four Rs of Competitive Success’ is introduced which covers the four core pillars of global strategy: resources and capabilities technology and innovation (recombination) internationalization and international markets (reach) and physical and virtual location (roots). It then explains how competitive advantage is achieved through an interaction of these four drivers against the backdrop of a globalized and digitized world. It is uniquely practical in its approach combining theoretical understanding with international case studies and real-life examples throughout each chapter including Apple IKEA and Microsoft. Unlocking Strategic Innovation is concise applied reading for postgraduate students studying international business corporate strategy innovation and digital strategy as well as academics in the field. It will also be important reading for practitioners looking to gain further understanding of how firms compete and flourish in a global and technology-driven environment. | Unlocking Strategic Innovation Competitive Success in a Disruptive Environment

GBP 35.99
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Advanced Structural Analysis with MATLAB

Advanced Structural Analysis with MATLAB

Building structures are unique in the field of engineering as they pose challenges in the development and conceptualization of their design. As more innovative structural forms are envisioned detailed analyses using computer tools are inevitable. This book enables readers to gain an overall understanding of computer-aided analysis of various types of structural forms using advanced tools such as MATLAB®. Detailed descriptions of the fundamentals are explained in a classroom style which will make the content more user-friendly and easier to understand. Basic concepts are emphasized through simple illustrative examples and exercises and analysis methodologies and guidelines are explained through numerous example problems. | Advanced Structural Analysis with MATLAB®

GBP 110.00
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Investing in Peace Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars

Investing in Peace Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars

This book analyzes the provision of aid to countries that have undergone negotiated settlements to civil wars drawing on recent experiences in Bosnia Cambodia El Salvador and Guatemala. It focuses on the potential for peace conditionality linking aid to steps to implement accords and consolidate the peace. The book explores how aid can encourage domestic investment in peace-related needs; the reconciliation of long-run peacebuilding objectives with short-run humanitarian imperatives; and the obstacles that donors' priorities and procedures pose to effective aid for peace. It concludes that investing in peace requires not only the reconstruction of war-torn societies but also the reconstruction of aid itself. | Investing in Peace Aid and Conditionality after Civil Wars

GBP 160.00
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Understanding and Teaching the Indirect Object in Spanish

Understanding and Teaching the Indirect Object in Spanish

Understanding and Teaching the Indirect Object in Spanish presents an easy-to-understand approach to all aspects of direct and indirect objects in Spanish. Distinguishing between direct and indirect objects can pose challenges for learners and is almost impossible to do using the tools that linguists have traditionally used. This book offers two simple all-encompassing inferences that allow learners to tackle this area of language by intuitively inferring the distinction as native speakers do between verber and verbed. This book will be of interest to teachers and learners of Spanish and other second languages as well as linguists interested in argument structure second language acquisition second language teaching or pedagogy and multilingualism.

GBP 48.99
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5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume I

5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume I

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters. The fifth WCDM deliberates on three critical issues that pose the most serious challenges as well as hold the best possible promise of building resilience to disasters. These are Technology Finance and Capacity. WCDM has emerged as the largest global conference on disaster management outside the UN system. The fifth WCDM was attended by more than 2500 scientists professionals policy makers and practitioners all around the world despite the prevalence of pandemic. | 5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume I

GBP 150.00
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5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume III

5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume III

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters. The fifth WCDM deliberates on three critical issues that pose the most serious challenges as well as hold the best possible promise of building resilience to disasters. These are Technology Finance and Capacity. WCDM has emerged as the largest global conference on disaster management outside the UN system. The fifth WCDM was attended by more than 2500 scientists professionals policy makers practitioners all around the world despite the prevalence of pandemic. | 5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume III

GBP 140.00
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Swedish An Essential Grammar

Swedish An Essential Grammar

This fully revised third edition of Swedish: An Essential Grammar incorporates changes proposed to Swedish grammar by Svenska Akademiens grammatik. Examples have been fully updated and the bibliography has been expanded. Swedish: An Essential Grammar provides a fresh and accessible description of the language. Explanations are free of jargon and emphasis has been placed on areas of Swedish that pose a particular challenge for English-speaking learners. The book offers: • a clear accessible format; • authentic examples of language use taken from a range of media; • clear jargon-free explanations of grammar. Suitable for independent study or for class-based tuition Swedish: An Essential Grammar continues to be an invaluable source to all learners looking to improve their knowledge of Swedish grammar. | Swedish An Essential Grammar

GBP 35.99
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5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume II

5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume II

World Congress on Disaster Management (WCDM) brings researchers policy makers and practitioners from around the world in the same platform to discuss various challenging issues of disaster risk management enhance understanding of risks and advance actions for reducing risks and building resilience to disasters. The fifth WCDM deliberates on three critical issues that pose the most serious challenges as well as hold the best possible promise of building resilience to disasters. These are Technology Finance and Capacity. WCDM has emerged as the largest global conference on disaster management outside the UN system. The fifth WCDM was attended by more than 2500 scientists professionals policy makers and practitioners all around the world despite the prevalence of pandemic. | 5th World Congress on Disaster Management: Volume II

GBP 140.00
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Geologic Hazards A Field Guide for Geotechnical Engineers

Geologic Hazards A Field Guide for Geotechnical Engineers

Geologic hazards pose the greatest threat to human safety for any geotechnical undertaking but it is ultimately the engineer's ability to recognize and cope with these hazards that will determine the safety of life and property. Armed with Geologic Hazards: A Field Guide for Geotechnical Engineers you will be able to properly recognize understand various geologic hazards and provide safe and economical construction. Eminent expert Roy E. Hunt thoroughly examines the potential for slope failures earthquakes ground subsidence collapse and expansion. Using a clear conceptual approach he explains what measures are available to minimize or eliminate the risks associated with each of these geologic hazards. The book sets forth the basis for recognizing understanding and treating geologic hazards using general concepts rather than rigorous mathematical analyses. The author covers the prediction of slope failures through recognition of geologic and other factors that govern failure the treatment of slopes that are potentially unstable and pose a danger to some existing development the design and construction of stable cut slopes and sidehill fills and the stabilization of failed slopes. He provides the foundation for determining the potential for surface movements and for preventing or controlling their effects. A section on earthquakes summarizes and links all of the aspects of earthquakes including their causes characteristics and surface effects. It provides a thorough grounding in how to recognize hazard potential and minimize the consequences. There is no field within geotechnical engineering in which the state of the art is changing so rapidly. Providing the latest information this resource is a useful tool for designing new projects and redesigning old ones. | Geologic Hazards A Field Guide for Geotechnical Engineers

GBP 59.99
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Small Water Supplies A Practical Guide

Small Water Supplies A Practical Guide

There are approximately 50 000 small water supplies in the UK alone and thousands more worldwide. Dealing with the idiosyncratic characteristics of small water supplies requires specialist knowledge and this book provides invaluable guidance for professionals. Based on the extensive practical experience of the author this book covers how small independent supplies differ from public water supplies and outlines the health dangers they pose along with detailed instruction in water sampling and risk assessment techniques. Clapham describes the different types of water supplies including their construction and treatment systems and discusses common problems encountered. A wide range of case studies bring the theory to life and both UK and European legislation is discussed. There is also a sizeable section dealing with small water supplies in developing countries. | Small Water Supplies A Practical Guide

GBP 59.99
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The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning Tools for Design Teaching and Research

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning Tools for Design Teaching and Research

The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning aims to identify and showcase the rich diversity of games including: simulation games game-like approaches game scenarios and gamification processes for teaching/learning design and research in architecture and urban planning. This collection creates an opportunity for exchange and reflection on games in architecture and urban planning. Theoretical discussions descriptive accounts and case studies presenting empirical evidence are featured; combined with reflections constructive critical analysis discussions of connections and various influences on this field. Twenty-eight international contributors have come together from eleven countries and five continents to present their studies on games in architecture and urban planning pose new questions and advocate for innovative perspectives. | The Routledge Companion to Games in Architecture and Urban Planning Tools for Design Teaching and Research

GBP 42.99
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3D Art Essentials The Fundamentals of 3D Modeling Texturing and Animation

3D Art Essentials The Fundamentals of 3D Modeling Texturing and Animation

Create high-quality 3D animations and models by using the basic concepts and principles of 3D art presented by GeekAtPlay. com's Ami Chopine. This handy studio reference breaks down the core concepts into easy-to-understand segments and teaches you the 'why' in addition to the 'how. ' Using application agnostic step-by-step tutorials this book teaches you how to model pose and texture your creations as well as scenery creation animation and rendering. Learn which applications are best for your needs and how you can get started making money in the 3D field. The companion website includes video tutorials models project files and other resources. This book is endorsed by Daz3d. com and includes exclusive Daz3d models. | 3D Art Essentials The Fundamentals of 3D Modeling Texturing and Animation

GBP 180.00
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Civil Society Organizations Against Terrorism Case Studies from Asia

Civil Society Organizations Against Terrorism Case Studies from Asia

With recent changes in social and political landscapes around the world the focus of preventive counter-terrorism has shifted in many places from government to civil society. The contributors analyze the different approaches of Civil Society Organizations in preventing and countering violent extremism in various countries in South and Southeast Asia. The cases examined include Malaysia Indonesia Myanmar Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The key emphasis is on understanding the context within which each example was initiated and the factors that determined their relative success or failure. The evidence from these cases suggests that much can be achieved through empowering communities to engage in aiding both the indoctrinated and those who pose the greatest risk of radicalization. A valuable contribution to the literature on preventing and countering violent extremism. | Civil Society Organizations Against Terrorism Case Studies from Asia

GBP 38.99
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Computational Electromagnetics with MATLAB Fourth Edition

Computational Electromagnetics with MATLAB Fourth Edition

This fourth edition of the text reflects the continuing increase in awareness and use of computational electromagnetics and incorporates advances and refinements made in recent years. Most notable among these are the improvements made to the standard algorithm for the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and treatment of absorbing boundary conditions in FDTD finite element and transmission-line-matrix methods. It teaches the readers how to pose numerically analyze and solve EM problems to give them the ability to expand their problem-solving skills using a variety of methods and to prepare them for research in electromagnetism. Includes new homework problems in each chapter. Each chapter is updated with the current trends in CEM. Adds a new appendix on CEM codes which covers commercial and free codes. Provides updated MATLAB code. | Computational Electromagnetics with MATLAB Fourth Edition

GBP 59.99
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All In The Future of Business Leadership

All In The Future of Business Leadership

Written by three leading thinkers in the field of sustainability 'All In' defines the essential attributes of high-impact corporate sustainability leadership and describes how companies can combine and apply those characteristics for future success. All In draws on research involving thousands of experts globally as collected via the GlobeScan-SustainAbility Leaders Survey over two decades. The book also reveals insights from dozens of interviews with Chairs CEOs and Chief Sustainability Officers of pioneering companies including 3M BASF BP DuPont Google GE Huawei IKEA Interface Marks Spencer Natura Nestle acute; Nike Novo Nordisk Patagonia Shell Tata Toyota Unilever and Walmart explaining how they have gained recognition created value and boosted resiliency based on their sustainability leadership. All In also outlines what the private sector must do to lift sustainability performance protect business's license to operate and help deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. This unique book rich with quantitative and qualitative insights offers current and aspiring business leaders a succinct overview of the most important developments and trends in corporate sustainability and responsible leadership. 'All In' will also appeal to others interested in why sustainability has become a critical mainstream business issue. With a foreword by Dan Hendrix Chairman Interface and afterword by Paul Polman CEO Unilever. | All In The Future of Business Leadership

GBP 35.99
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Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

Disruptive leadership is a topic generating intense interest. Companies all over the world are trying to upend their industry through innovative products and services. Becoming a disruptive organization however is easier said than done. Even more difficult is being a company that continually disrupts. Is it possible to discern a code for how companies can achieve this? In this highly readable and engaging book a disruptive leadership framework is proposed in which caring deeply is placed at the center of the model. By turning care into a focal point a triphasic model is proposed that moves from the personal sphere (individual) to the corporate arena (organizational) and then to the global stage (impact). Nine keys are identified along this path for how companies can realize organizational excellence. While care may seem like a soft concept in the rough and tumble world of business it is argued how it is actually an inspired manner for providing direction structure and know-how that leads to powerful outcomes. Apple is profiled as a leading example of leveraging what is termed the technology of caring deeply. Other companies such as Nike IKEA Zappos Starbucks are also profiled. Finally a leadership canvas is provided to help activate the lessons shared in the book. | Disruptive Leadership Apple and the Technology of Caring Deeply-Nine Keys to Organizational Excellence and Global Impact

GBP 24.99
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The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

How do universities tackle wicked sustainability challenges faced by society? The Wicked Learning Workbook is a toolkit for setting up and running an interdisciplinary master-level course in the context of real-world problems such as food waste and loss. The book offers a new pedagogical approach that we call 'wicked' because it is unorthodox ambitious and tackles complex problems that won’t go away. The pedagogy is also international at the course level rather than the conventional exchange semester enabling institutions to embed international approaches to their core teaching. The Wicked Learning Workbook speaks directly to academics who are looking for solutions that provide stimuli for research and teaching while giving students an innovative international learning experience. The approach develops student understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals as broad-scale societal issues which are difficult if not impossible to ‘solve’. An important outcome of this approach is the laboratory-style classroom that creates opportunities for faculty students and companies to co-create solutions that are immediately implementable. The resulting methodology is based on industry–university collaboration (such as IKEA and Nestlé). The methodology is of interest to corporate leaders pursuing sustainability goals and business transformation. Achieving sustainability requires cross-boundary cross-disciplinary experimental approaches that allow for scalability. Wicked problems can only be tackled with wicked solution approaches. | The Sustainability Grand Challenge A Wicked Learning Workbook

GBP 36.99
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Business Networks Reloaded

Business Networks Reloaded

Business networks are an important economic phenomenon of increasing practical importance throughout Europe. This volume examines business networks from an interdisciplinary perspective with many contributions dealing with a certain form of business network the so-called cooperative or non-hierarchical. With regard to this specific form of cooperation the volume presents new economic findings proposes a definition and discusses the governance structure of those networks. Moreover this book explores whether the research results can also be applied to hierarchical centralized business networks. With medium-sized companies and all the more with large companies business networks also pose the question of the compatibility with anti-trust law. This collection dedicates three contributions to this important question. They are complemented by chapters on liability of the network and its members towards third parties and contributions discussing duties of loyalty and the interpretation of agreements. Drawing on new research from Italy Spain Germany and Norway this work illustrates the European legal perspective on business networks. | Business Networks Reloaded

GBP 38.99
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Nietzsche's Protestant Fathers A Study in Prodigal Christianity

Nietzsche's Protestant Fathers A Study in Prodigal Christianity

Nietzsche was famously an atheist despite coming from a strongly Protestant family. This heritage influenced much of his thought but was it in fact the very thing that led him to his atheism? This work provides a radical re-assessment of Protestantism by documenting and extrapolating Nietzsche’s view that Christianity dies from the head down. That is through Protestantism’s inherent anarchy. In this book Nietzsche is put into conversation with the initiatives of several powerful thinking writers; Luther Boehme Leibniz and Lessing. Using Nietzsche as a critical guide to the evolution of Protestant thinking each is shown to violate warp or ignore gospel injunctions and otherwise pose hazards to the primacy of Christian ethics. Demonstrating that a responsible understanding of Protestantism as a historical movement needs to engage with its inherent flaws this is a text that will engage scholars of philosophy theology and religious studies alike. | Nietzsche's Protestant Fathers A Study in Prodigal Christianity

GBP 38.99
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Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

Performance as Research (PAR) is characterised by an extraordinary elasticity and interdisciplinary drive. Performance as Research: Knowledge Methods Impact celebrates this energy bringing together chapters from a wide range of disciplines and eight different countries. This volume focuses explicitly on three critical often contentious themes that run through much discussion of PaR as a discipline: Knowledge - the areas and manners in which performance can generate knowledge Methods - methods and methodologies for approaching performance as research Impact - a broad understanding of the impact of this form of research These themes are framed by four essays from the book's editors contextualising their interrelated conversations teasing out common threads and exploring the new questions that the contributions pose to the field of performance. As both an intervention into and extension of current debates this is a vital collection for any reader concerned with the value and legitimacy of performance as research. | Performance as Research Knowledge methods impact

GBP 36.99
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Geosynthetic Clay Liners for Waste Containment Facilities

Geosynthetic Clay Liners for Waste Containment Facilities

Increasingly stringent regulation of pollution and waste production worldwide drives the need to isolate contaminants that pose a threat to human and environmental health by using engineered barrier systems involving the use of low permeable materials. Over the past two decades geosynthetic clay liners have gained widespread acceptance for use in such barrier systems. They are often used as a component of primary and secondary base liners or final cover systems in municipal solid-waste landfills as well as in regulated industrial storage and mining waste-disposal facilities. This book gives a comprehensive and authoritative review of the current state of practice on geosynthetic clay liners in waste containments. It provides an insight into individual materials (bentonite and the associated geosynthetics) and the manufacturing processes. This is followed by the coverage of important topics such as hydraulic conductivity chemical compatibility contaminant transport gas migration shear strength and slope stability and field performance. | Geosynthetic Clay Liners for Waste Containment Facilities

GBP 44.99
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Europe's Green Ring

Europe's Green Ring

Around the fringe of Europe lies a green ring of countries which have followed different pathways into modernity from the industrial core of the continent and have until recently been characterized by a strong agrarian presence in their politics economy and culture. This book brings together case studies from both the post-socialist countries and EU member states which make up the green ring to compare experiences of rural and agricultural groups. It provides a fascinating opportunity to identify similarities and contrasts in the ways in which these countries have managed their rural areas when faced with the challenges set by industrialization political integration and globalization. The book focuses on agrarian transformation as de- (and sometimes re- ) peasantization - referring to the changing economic social cultural and political positions of farmers and food production workers. It also problematizes the standard rural models and opens up discussion of the problems these models pose for the farmers of the green ring countries. | Europe's Green Ring

GBP 42.99
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