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Innovation Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea Park to Park

Innovation Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea Park to Park

South Korea known as the hermit kingdom was wrenched from its isolation in the mid-seventies with the forced industialisation of its economy by Park Chung-hee during his dictatorial regime. This led South Korea to becoming the most rapidly industialised country in the world with world class technology and a population who are largely digitally proficient. The course is charted from the rule of Park Chung-hee to his democratically elected daughter President Park Geun-hye who is now on trial for corruption. The legacy of the Park to Park era is not only the most fruitful in Korean history but the most tumultuous most recently because of the accelerated nuclear ambitions of North Korea. The analysis is through the framework of investment innovation and intellectual property rights and the double edged sword of cult and rapid action so central to Korean culture. | Innovation Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea Park to Park

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The Park Avenue Cubists Gallatin Morris Frelinghuysen and Shaw

The Park Avenue Cubists Gallatin Morris Frelinghuysen and Shaw

This title was first published in 2002. The Park Avenue Cubists explores the work of a group of American artists committed to the belief that American abstraction could make a unique contribution to the evolution of the visual experiments begun by the European Modernists. All were inspired by the work of Braque Picasso Gris and Leger which they witnessed at first hand during repeated trips to Paris. Dubbed the 'Park Avenue Cubists' for the wealth and social status that enabled them to promote their own work and patronise that of their fellow members of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) the group included Albert Eugene Gallatin George L. K. Morris Suzy Frelinghuysen and Charles G. Shaw. Featuring essays by Debra Bricker Balken and Robert S. Lubar on the group's place in the history of modern art along with individual studies of the four artists and an appendix bringing together the key statements written by the artists themselves this volume provides the first in-depth study of the group. | The Park Avenue Cubists Gallatin Morris Frelinghuysen and Shaw

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Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

On April 28 1858 municipal officials announced the winner of the design contest for a great new park for the people of New York City-Plan no. 33 Greensward by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Though the appropriated ground for what was to become Central Park was nothing more than a barren expanse occupied by squatters in a matter of a few years Olmsted turned the wasteland into a landscape of coherence elegance and beauty. It not only surpassed the design ingenuity of its existing European counterparts but gained the designer national acclaim in a profession that still lacked a name. Olmsted was an American visionary. He foresaw the day when New York and many other growing cities of the mid-nineteenth century would be plagued by what we presently term urban sprawl. And he was convinced of the critical importance of adapting land for the recreational and contemplative needs of city dwellers before the last remnants of natural terrain were engulfed by monotonous straight streets and piles of erect angular buildings. As a result of his early efforts to revolutionize the design of public parks many cities today are able to preserve the recreational space and greenery within their urban limits. In addition his thoughts and words on wilderness areas still echo across a century of preservation in the wild. This lively and insightful account of his prodigious life features many of his outstanding landscape projects including the Biltmore Estate Prospect Park (Brooklyn) the capitol grounds in Washington DC the Boston Park System the Chicago parks and the Chicago World Fair as well as measures to preserve the natural settings at Niagara Falls Yosemite and the Adirondacks. It traces his early years and describes events that were to form his artistic intellectual and deeply humanistic sensibilities. And it restores this lost American hero to his prominent place in history. In addition to being the acknowledged father of American landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted helped shape the political and philosophical climate of America in his own time and today. Elizabeth Stevenson is the author of the Bancroft Award-winning Henry Adams: A Biography; The Glass Lark a biography of Lafcadio Hearn; and Babbitts and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression all available from Transaction. | Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

GBP 130.00
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500 Common Korean Idioms

500 Common Korean Idioms

500 Common Korean Idioms is a useful learner’s tool that presents the 500 most commonly used Korean idioms in a clear and easy-to-follow manner. Structured with practicality in mind the book presents: idioms with their literal and natural translations; usage notes describing the meaning typical use and any related cultural topic; several example sentences providing context and showing appropriate use of each idiom; important vocabulary and expressions highlighted in each chapter for review; an MP3 file for each idiom (online). Suitable for intermediate to advanced learners of Korean 500 Common Korean Idioms provides a step-by-step approach to gaining greater fluency through a grasp of the most common idioms in the language.

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The History of Live Music in Britain Volume II 1968-1984 From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

The History of Live Music in Britain Volume II 1968-1984 From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

To date there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live music industry in the UK focused upon popular music but including all musical genres. Via this focus the books offer new insights into a number of other areas including the relationship between commercial and public funding of music changing musical fashions and tastes the impact of changing technologies the changing balance of power within the music industries the role of the state in regulating and promoting various musical activities within an increasingly globalised music economy and the effects of demographic and other social changes on music culture. Drawing on new archival research a wide range of academic and non-academic secondary sources participant observation and a series of interviews with key personnel the books have the potential to become landmark works within Popular Music Studies and broader cultural history. The second volume covers the period from Hyde Park to the Hacienda (1968–84). | The History of Live Music in Britain Volume II 1968-1984 From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

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Global Medieval Contexts 500 – 1500 Connections and Comparisons

Global Medieval Contexts 500 – 1500 Connections and Comparisons

Global Medieval Contexts 500–1500: Connections and Comparisons provides a unique wide-lens introduction to world history during this period. Designed for students new to the subject this textbook explores vital networks and relationships among geographies and cultures that shaped medieval societies. The expert author team aims to advance a global view of the period and introduce the reader to histories and narratives beyond an exclusively European context. Key Features: Divided into chronological sections chapters are organized by four key themes: Religion Economics Politics and Society. This framework enables students to connect wider ideas and debates across 500 to 1500. Individual chapters address current theoretical discussions including issues around gender migration and sustainable environments. The authors’ combined teaching experience and subject specialties ensure an engaging and accessible overview for students of history literature and those undertaking general studies courses. Theory boxes and end-of-chapter questions provide a basis for group discussion and research. Full-color maps and images illustrate chapter content and support understanding. As a result this text is essential reading for all those interested in learning more about the histories and cultures of the period as well as their relevance to our own contemporary experiences and perspectives. This textbook is supported by a companion website providing core resources for students and lecturers. | Global Medieval Contexts 500 – 1500 Connections and Comparisons

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Jewish Women in the Medieval World 500–1500 CE

Jewish Women in the Medieval World 500–1500 CE

Jewish Women in the Medieval World offers a thematic overview of the lived experiences of Jewish women in both Europe and the Middle East from 500 to 1500 CE a group often ignored in general surveys on both medieval Jewish life and medieval women. The volume blends current scholarship with evidence drawn from primary sources originally written in languages including Hebrew Latin Aramaic and Judeo-Arabic to introduce both the state of scholarship on women and gender in medieval Jewish communities and the ways in which Jewish women experienced family love sex work faith and crisis in the medieval past. From the well-known Dolce of Worms to the less famed Bonadona widow of Astrug Caravida of Girona to the many nameless women referred to in medieval texts Jewish Women tells the stories of individual women alongside discussions of wider trends in different parts of the medieval world. Even through texts written about women by men the intelligence courage and perseverance of medieval Jewish women become clear to modern readers. With the inclusion of a Chronology Who’s Who Documents section and Glossary this study is an essential resource for students and other readers interested in both Jewish history and women’s history. | Jewish Women in the Medieval World 500–1500 CE

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The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500-1300

The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500-1300

The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500–1300 is the first of its kind to provide a point of reference for the history of the whole of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages. While historians have recognized the importance of integrating the eastern part of the European continent into surveys of the Middle Ages few have actually paid attention to the region its specific features problems of chronology and historiography. This vast region represents more than two-thirds of the European continent but its history in general—and its medieval history in particular—is poorly known. This book covers the history of the whole region from the Balkans to the Carpathian Basin and the Bohemian Forest to the Finnish Bay. It provides an overview of the current state of research and a route map for navigating an abundant historiography available in more than ten different languages. Chapters cover topics as diverse as religion architecture art state formation migration law trade and the experiences of women and children. This book is an essential reference for scholars and students of medieval history as well as those interested in the history of Central and Eastern Europe. | The Routledge Handbook of East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 500-1300

GBP 42.99
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Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

How are the far-away invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer stone steel trees and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents photographs and field trips the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange labor and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s and the popular tropical hardwood ipe from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social political and ecological entanglements of material practice challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people other species and landscapes elsewhere. | Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

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Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U. S. National Parks (including monuments seashores lakeshores recreation areas and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) programs. The book develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the economic value of protected areas with particular application to the U. S. National Park Service. The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs including on-site visitation carbon sequestration and intellectual property such as in education curricula and filming of movies/ TV shows with case studies of each included. Examples are drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Golden Gate National Recreation Area Everglades National Park and Chesapeake Bay. The editors conclude with a chapter on innovative approaches for sustainable funding of the NPS in its second century. The framework serves as a blueprint of methodologies for conservationists government agencies land trusts economists and others to value public lands historical sites and related programs such as education. The methodologies are relevant to local and state parks wildlife refuges and protected areas in developed and developing countries as well as to national parks around the world. Containing a series of unique case studies this book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics land management and nature conservation as well as the more general reader interested in National Parks. | Valuing U. S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

GBP 36.99
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Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

The large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s when large urban parks represented new ideas of accessible public spaces often established on land previously owned by aristocracy royalty or the army. They represented new ideas on how city life could be improved and how large green spaces could enhance urban citizens’ physical and psychological well-being (e. g. Birkenhead Park in Liverpool Bois de Boulogne in Paris Tiergarten in Berlin and Central Park in New York City). Today large urban parks are habitats for biodiversity and spaces of climate change adaptation. For people living in cities this biodiversity may represent high cultural recreational and aesthetic values but is also important for other aspects of health and well-being for example by reducing the urban heat island effect air pollution and risks of flooding. At a time when we are seriously reconsidering how we live in cities and our urban quality of life while also grappling with serious challenges of climate change the authors of this book detail the much-needed evidence pathways and vision for a future of more liveable resilient cities where large urban parks are at the core. This book will help park managers NGOs landscape architects and city planners to develop the green city of the future. | Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

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The Man Farthest Down

The Man Farthest Down

The Man Farthest Down represents an early contribution to the study of comparative social systems. Its treatment of life in the East European shtetls is as moving as the analysis of ghetto life in America. In his new introduction to this edition Drake illustrates the intellectual camaraderie shared between Park and Washington in their studies of race. Drake also details their individual observations philosophies and activities in both their academic and political lives.

GBP 130.00
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Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally economically and socially sustain the earth. In the past infrastructure and green or park spaces have been regarded as two opposing factors and placed in conflict with one another through irresponsible patterns of development. This book attempts to change this paradigm and create a new notion that greenspace parks and infrastructure can indeed be one in the same. The case studies will demonstrate how existing gray infrastructure can be retrofitted with green infrastructure and low impact development techniques. It is quite plausible that a building can be designed that actually creates greenspace or generates energy; likewise a roadway can be a park an alley can be a wildlife corridor and a parking surface can be a garden. In addition to examining sustainability in the near future the book also explores such alternatives in the distant and very distant future questioning the notion of sustainability in the event of an earth-altering cataclysmic disaster. The strategies presented in this book aim to stimulate discussions within the design profession and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental studies architecture and urban design. | Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

GBP 39.99
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Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War the study of signals intelligence is still complicated by governmental secrecy over even the most elderly peacetime sigint. This book first published in 1986 lifts the veil on some of these historical secrets. Christopher Andrew and Keith Neilson cast new light on how Tsarist codebreakers penetrated British code and cypher systems. John Chapman’s study of German military codebreaking represents a major advance in our understanding of cryptanalysis during the Weimar Republic. The history of the Government Code and Cypher School – forerunner of today’s GCHQ – by its operational head the late A. G. Denniston provides both a general assessment of the achievements of British cryptanalysis between the wars and a tantalising glimpse of what historians may one day find in GCHQ’s forbidden archives. The distinguished cryptanalyst of Bletchley Park the late Gordon Welchman describes in detail how the Ultra programme defeated the German Enigma machine while another Bletchley Park cryptographer Christopher Morris reminds us in his account of the valuable work on hand cyphers that wartime sigint consisted of much more than Ultra. Roger Austin’s study of surveillance under the Vichy regime shows the continuing importance of older and simpler methods of message interception such as letter-opening. Taken together the articles establish sigint as an essential field of study for both the modern historian and the political scientist. | Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

GBP 27.99
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Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

First published in 1987 this book engages directly with a selection of major texts from the traditional English literature syllabus and applies some of the techniques from the work of theorists such as Macherey Balibar Derrida Foucault Lacan and Deleuze. Focusing on questions of class and gender on the nature of knowledge and power on the distinction between the public and the private display and consciousness the work traces and celebrates the dispersal of Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Mansfield Park Vanity Fair and the novels of Charles Dickens. This work will be of interest to those studying nineteenth century English literature. | Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

GBP 24.99
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The Immersive Worlds Handbook Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces

The Immersive Worlds Handbook Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces

Scott Lukas famed industry expert on designing themed spaces brings you a book that focuses on the imaginative world of themed immersive and consumer spaces. Whether or not you are involved in designing a theme park cultural museum shop or other entertainment space you will benefit from the insider tips experiences and techniques highlighted in this practical guide. Make your themed spaces come to life and become true immersive worlds. The book features informative sidebars addressing possible design issues and current trends; case studies and interviews with real-world designers and further reading suggestions. The book also includes a companion website as well as exercises that accompany each chapter lavish photos illustrations and tables. | The Immersive Worlds Handbook Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces

GBP 180.00
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Masonry Design

Masonry Design

Masonry is found extensively in construction throughout the world. It is economical and strong. Masonry Design—part of the Architect’s Guidebook to Structures series—presents the fundamentals in an accessible fashion through beautiful illustrations simple and complete examples and from the perspective of practicing professionals with hundreds of projects under their belt and decades of teaching experience. Masonry Design provides the student with and reminds the practitioner of fundamental masonry design principles. Beginning with an intriguing case study of the Mesa Verde National Park visitor center the subsequent chapters present the fundamentals of masonry design bending shear compression design wind and seismic design and connection design. It is a refreshing change in textbooks for architectural materials courses and is an indispensable reference for practicing architects.

GBP 31.99
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The Korean Economy From Growth to Maturity

The Korean Economy From Growth to Maturity

The Korean Economy: From Growth to Maturity takes an in-depth amalgamated look at the evolution of Korea’s globalization drive from the early 2000s (Kim Dae-jung regime 1998–2003) to the present period (Park Geun-hye 2013–2017). The book discusses the role of foreign companies on the sustainability of Korea’s economic growth the relationship between the chaebol and the MNCs the evolution of Korea's nation brand and the role of the state in Korea’s new economic trajectory (globalization) since the 2000s. With data collected from fieldwork the book provides both empirical and qualitative insights (economic socio-cultural and political economic analysis) into the Korean political economy and would be a very useful reference to other emerging economies experiencing similar globalization paths. | The Korean Economy From Growth to Maturity

GBP 38.99
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Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond

Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond

Often seen as the host nation's largest ever logistical undertaking accommodating the Olympics and its attendant security infrastructure brings seismic changes to both the physical and social geography of its destination. Since 1976 the defence of the spectacle has become the central feature of its planning one that has assumed even greater prominence following the bombing of the 1996 Atlanta Games and most importantly 9/11. Indeed the quintupled cost of securing the first post-9/11 summer Games in Athens demonstrates the considerable scale and complexity currently implicated in these operations. Such costs are not only fiscal. The Games stimulate a tidal wave of redevelopment ushering in new gentrified urban settings and an associated investment that may or may not soak through to the incumbent community. Given the unusual step of developing London's Olympic Park in the heart of an existing urban milieu and the stated commitments to 'community development' and 'legacy' these constitute particularly acute issues for the 2012 Games. In addition to sealing the Olympic Park from perceived threats 2012 security operations have also harnessed the administrative criminological staples of community safety and crime reduction to generate an ordered space in the surrounding areas. Of central importance here are the issues of citizenship engagement and access in urban spaces redeveloped upon the themes of security and commerce. Through analyzing the social and community impact of the 2012 Games and its security operation on East London this book concludes by considering the key debates as to whether utopian visions of legacy can be sustained given the demands of providing a global securitized event of the magnitude of the modern Olympics. | Securing and Sustaining the Olympic City Reconfiguring London for 2012 and Beyond

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A Thematic Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese

A Thematic Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese

A Thematic Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese is a unique resource for intermediate to advanced students of Chinese. The dictionary presents 9 000 words organized thematically in approximately 300 different subject areas. These themes cover the vocabulary necessary for daily use and for conducting meaningful conversations with native Chinese speakers on a variety of topics from politics to business and from hobbies to education. Each vocabulary item is annotated with the most frequent collocations allowing learners to improve their fluency by storing new vocabulary in larger linguistic units. Cultural and linguistic tips enable learners to grasp the vocabulary more effectively and increase their awareness of Chinese culture embedded in the language. Review exercises are provided throughout to ensure learners have ample opportunity to practice the new material. This is a great resource for both independent study and classroom use and will be of interest to students and teachers of Chinese alike. For further understanding of Chinese expressions students are encouraged to read 500 Common Chinese Proverbs and Colloquial Expressions and 500 Common Chinese Idioms.

GBP 56.99
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