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Machine Learning for Managers

Machine Learning for Managers

Machine learning can help managers make better predictions automate complex tasks and improve business operations. Managers who are familiar with machine learning are better placed to navigate the increasingly digital world we live in. There is a view that machine learning is a highly technical subject that can only be understood by specialists. However many of the ideas that underpin machine learning are straightforward and accessible to anyone with a bit of curiosity. This book is for managers who want to understand what machine learning is about but who lack a technical background in computer science statistics or math. The book describes in plain language what machine learning is and how it works. In addition it explains how to manage machine learning projects within an organization. This book should appeal to anyone that wants to learn more about using machine learning to drive value in real-world organizations. | Machine Learning for Managers

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The Cooperative Extension Service A National Assessment

The Cooperative Extension Service A National Assessment

The Cooperative Extension Service a publicly supported educational agency is continually struggling to define its proper function and purpose in our changing society. Should its mission be broadly based or narrowly focused? Should staff members be generalists or specialists? Should its clients be primarily rural or urban farm or nonfarm? What role should Extension play in the information networks of the twenty-first century? Professors Warner and Christenson take a broad look at these and other questions concerning where the Extension Service has been how well it is doing and where it ought to go. Theirs is first the only comprehensive national survey that looks at the total Extension organization rather than at just one program area. Second it expresses the viewpoint of Extension clients and the public rather than that of the organization's staff; and third it combines outside survey information with data recorded in the Extension Management Information System (EMIS) and other routine agency reports. The authors evaluate among other things the extent of public awareness of the agency and its four major program areas (agriculture home economics 4-H and community development) determine the users and nonusers of the programs and the accessibility of programs to the general population identify the level of satisfaction with existing programs and outline priorities and policy issues for the future. | The Cooperative Extension Service A National Assessment

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Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation introduces machine learning (ML) theories and technologies that are most relevant to translation processes approaching the topic from a human perspective and emphasizing that ML and ML-driven technologies are tools for humans. Providing an exploration of the common ground between human and machine learning and of the nature of translation that leverages this new dimension this book helps linguists translators and localizers better find their added value in a ML-driven translation environment. Part One explores how humans and machines approach the problem of translation in their own particular ways in terms of word embeddings chunking of larger meaning units and prediction in translation based upon the broader context. Part Two introduces key tasks including machine translation translation quality assessment and quality estimation and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in translation. Part Three focuses on the role of data in both human and machine learning processes. It proposes that a translator’s unique value lies in the capability to create manage and leverage language data in different ML tasks in the translation process. It outlines new knowledge and skills that need to be incorporated into traditional translation education in the machine learning era. The book concludes with a discussion of human-centered machine learning in translation stressing the need to empower translators with ML knowledge through communication with ML users developers and programmers and with opportunities for continuous learning. This accessible guide is designed for current and future users of ML technologies in localization workflows including students on courses in translation and localization language technology and related areas. It supports the professional development of translation practitioners so that they can fully utilize ML technologies and design their own human-centered ML-driven translation workflows and NLP tasks.

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Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

This title was first published in 2003. The public sector plays a dominant international role in the provision of agricultural extension and services. This role has been the subject of much debate. Some argue for extension's privatization claiming that a market driven system provides the most rational and efficient means of information delivery. Based on extensive empirical research from the Punjab (Pakistan) this volume examines the comparative effectiveness of public and private extension services from the perspective of farmers. It also focuses on information from extension agents about their respective organizations and work environments. In so doing the book expands and elaborates on the practical considerations of privatization and information delivery. It then broadens out into a discussion of alternative means of extension delivery focusing on participatory approaches education theory and pluralism. | Privatization and the Crisis of Agricultural Extension: The Case of Pakistan The Case of Pakistan

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Machine Learning and Music Generation

Machine Learning and Music Generation

Computational approaches to music composition and style imitation have engaged musicians music scholars and computer scientists since the early days of computing. Music generation research has generally employed one of two strategies: knowledge-based methods that model style through explicitly formalized rules and data mining methods that apply machine learning to induce statistical models of musical style. The five chapters in this book illustrate the range of tasks and design choices in current music generation research applying machine learning techniques and highlighting recurring research issues such as training data music representation candidate generation and evaluation. The contributions focus on different aspects of modeling and generating music including melody chord sequences ornamentation and dynamics. Models are induced from audio data or symbolic data. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music. | Machine Learning and Music Generation

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A First Course in Machine Learning

A First Course in Machine Learning

A First Course in Machine Learning by Simon Rogers and Mark Girolami is the best introductory book for ML currently available. It combines rigor and precision with accessibility starts from a detailed explanation of the basic foundations of Bayesian analysis in the simplest of settings and goes all the way to the frontiers of the subject such as infinite mixture models GPs and MCMC. —Devdatt Dubhashi Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering Chalmers University Sweden This textbook manages to be easier to read than other comparable books in the subject while retaining all the rigorous treatment needed. The new chapters put it at the forefront of the field by covering topics that have become mainstream in machine learning over the last decade. —Daniel Barbara George Mason University Fairfax Virginia USA The new edition of A First Course in Machine Learning by Rogers and Girolami is an excellent introduction to the use of statistical methods in machine learning. The book introduces concepts such as mathematical modeling inference and prediction providing ‘just in time’ the essential background on linear algebra calculus and probability theory that the reader needs to understand these concepts. —Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo Associate Professor Aalborg University Esbjerg Denmark I was impressed by how closely the material aligns with the needs of an introductory course on machine learning which is its greatest strength…Overall this is a pragmatic and helpful book which is well-aligned to the needs of an introductory course and one that I will be looking at for my own students in coming months. —David Clifton University of Oxford UK The first edition of this book was already an excellent introductory text on machine learning for an advanced undergraduate or taught masters level course or indeed for anybody who wants to learn about an interesting and important field of computer science. The additional chapters of advanced material on Gaussian process MCMC and mixture modeling provide an ideal basis for practical projects without disturbing the very clear and readable exposition of the basics contained in the first part of the book. —Gavin Cawley Senior Lecturer School of Computing Sciences University of East Anglia UK This book could be used for junior/senior undergraduate students or first-year graduate students as well as individuals who want to explore the field of machine learning…The book introduces not only the concepts but the underlying ideas on algorithm implementation from a critical thinking perspective. —Guangzhi Qu Oakland University Rochester Michigan USA

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Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

‘The advent of machine learning-based AI systems demands that our industry does not just share toys but builds a new sandbox in which to play with them. ’ - Phil Bernstein The profession is changing. A new era is rapidly approaching when computers will not merely be instruments for data creation manipulation and management but empowered by artificial intelligence they will become agents of design themselves. Architects need a strategy for facing the opportunities and threats of these emergent capabilities or risk being left behind. Architecture’s best-known technologist Phil Bernstein provides that strategy. Divided into three key sections – Process Relationships and Results – Machine Learning lays out an approach for anticipating understanding and managing a world in which computers often augment but may well also supplant knowledge workers like architects. Armed with this insight practices can take full advantage of the new technologies to future-proof their business. Features chapters on: Professionalism Tools and technologies Laws policy and risk Delivery means and methods Creating consuming and curating data Value propositions and business models. | Machine Learning Architecture in the age of Artificial Intelligence

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The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant. But providing aid to those affected by disasters and crises is more complex than ever. In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on their own experiences of working in crisis. As they write about their work and the ways in which they each approach the challenges of helping people they comment on some of the most vexing issues facing the humanitarian sector. Each speaks from their own perspective asking tough questions sharing thoughtful reflections about their ongoing work and unpacking what it really means to be a humanitarian worker. The stories they tell whether recounting a specific experience or reflecting on years of practice reveal the dilemmas they face and demystify the overly romanticized aura that sometimes surrounds humanitarian practice. Complementing the candid accounts that humanitarian leaders contribute in this book the editors examine how their stories perceptions and understandings align with similar conversations that take place in other settings. Viewed together in this way the insights and reflections provided in this book will be invaluable for humanitarian practitioners students and researchers alike. | The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

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Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB /SIMULINK

Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB /SIMULINK

This book introduces electrical machine modeling and control for electrical engineering and science to graduate undergraduate students as well as researchers who are working on modeling and control of electrical machines. It targets electrical engineering students who have no time to derive mathematical equations for electrical machines in particular induction machine (IM) and doubly fed induction machines (DFIM). The main focus is on the application of field oriented control technique to induction motor (IM) and doubly fed induction motor (DFIM) in details and since the induction motors have many drawback using this technique therefore the application of a nonlinear control technique (feedback linearization) is applied to a reduced order model of DFIM to enhance the performance of doubly fed induction motor. FeaturesServes as text book for electrical motor modeling simulation and control; especially modeling of induction motor and doubly fed induction motor using different frame of references. Vector control (field oriented control) is given in more detailed and is applied to induction motor. A nonlinear controller is applied to a reduced model of an doubly induction motor associated with a linear observer to estimate the unmeasured load torque which is used to enhance the performance of the vector control to doubly fed induction motor. Access to the full MATLAB/SIMULINK blocks for simulation and control. | Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB®/SIMULINK

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Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of information technology the rise of social media fake news and the gig economy and the regulatory frameworks being put in place to tame the ubiquitous computer. Computer is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. The authors examine the history of the computer including the first steps taken by Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century and how wartime needs and the development of electronics led to the giant ENIAC the first electronic computer. For a generation IBM dominated the computer industry. In the 1980s the desktop PC liberated people from room-sized mainframe computers. Next laptops and smartphones made computers available to half of the world’s population leading to the rise of Google and Facebook and powerful apps that changed the way we work consume learn and socialize. The volume is an essential resource for scholars and those studying computer history technology history and information and society as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science communications sociology and management. | Computer A History of the Information Machine

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Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understanding of the processes driving innovation so that we may gain a deeper insight into the development of economies. Specifically the study explores the concept of innovation potential and the factors that result in variations in innovation potential across metropolitan areas using the US machine tool industry as a case study. To provide a comparison the same models are also estimated for the semiconductor industry. The findings indicate that urbanisation economies localization economies human capital universities and invention-derived knowledge are significant factors. The study assesses the contributions of three different skill levels of human capital; college-educated graduate degree and locally produced PhD’s in mechanical and electrical engineering. Only the graduate and PhD degree measures are found to be significant indicating the importance of having a highly skilled pool of labour within the region. The influences of the factors appear to be similar across industries with some slight differences. The transfer of knowledge through patents is also studied. It is found that the transmission of this knowledge is slower between different industries relative to the transmission within the same industry. | Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U. S. Machine Tool Industry

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Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Machine Translation (MT) has become widely used throughout the world as a medium of communication between those who live in different countries and speak different languages. However translation between distant languages constitutes a challenge for machines. Therefore translation evaluation is poised to play a significant role in the process of designing and developing effective MT systems. This book evaluates three prominent MT systems including Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr each of which provides translation between English and Arabic. In the book Almahasees scrutinizes the capacity of the three systems in dealing with translation between English and Arabic in a large corpus taken from various domains including the United Nation (UN) the World Health Organization (WHO) the Arab League Petra News Agency reports and two literary texts: The Old Man and the Sea and The Prophet. The evaluation covers holistic analysis to assess the output of the three systems in terms of Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) adequacy and fluency scales. The text also looks at error analysis to evaluate the systems’ output in terms of orthography lexis grammar and semantics at the entire-text level and in terms of lexis grammar and semantics at the collocation level. The research findings contained within this volume provide important feedback about the capabilities of the three MT systems with respect to EnglishArabic translation and paves the way for further research on such an important topic. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of translation studies and translation technology. | Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

GBP 38.99
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Back Rehabilitation Core Stability Re-examined

Back Rehabilitation Core Stability Re-examined

Low back pain affects most of us at some time and exercise is key to both its prevention and treatment. Critically appraising work from several approaches to produce an integrated practical approach suitable for day-to-day clinicians and personal trainers this essential guide looks at the science and practice of designing and teaching the best exercise programmes for this common condition. Learn: Vital client assessment skills Which exercises to use and why The most effective teaching methods How to structure and progress a full back pain management programme Aimed at student therapists and clinical exercise teachers as well as trainers planning exercise programmes for subjects recovering from low back pain Back Rehabilitation is essential reading for therapists and exercise academics and professionals of all types. | Back Rehabilitation Core Stability Re-examined

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Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 6 - Electronic Dictionaries in Machine Translation to Evaluation of Software: Microsoft Word Version 4.0

Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 6 - Electronic Dictionaries in Machine Translation to Evaluation of Software: Microsoft Word Version 4.0

The Encyclopedia of Microcomputers serves as the ideal companion reference to the popular Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology. Now in its 10th year of publication this timely reference work details the broad spectrum of microcomputer technology including microcomputer history; explains and illustrates the use of microcomputers throughout academe business government and society in general; and assesses the future impact of this rapidly changing technology. | Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 6 - Electronic Dictionaries in Machine Translation to Evaluation of Software: Microsoft Word Version 4. 0

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The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

Originally published in 1989 The Industrialization of Intelligence is a spirited blend of the principles of social science and computer technology. Critically praised in the United States and England by leading lights both literary and technological it develops an original and provocative model of the interplay between computer systems and social systems. Noah Kennedy has composed a compelling story from key episodes in the development of the computer and coupled it with a probing analysis of the true role of automation in modem society. The result firmly plants computer technology in the soil of western culture and denies the shrill claims that the information age represents a sudden break with the historical past. He starts with biographical vignettes from the lives of five pivotal thinkers weaving their crucial insights into the larger fabric of contemporary and future society. He then gives a provocative forecast of the role of artificial intelligence in future society and examines the probable impact of new computer technologies on employment and on the relationships between nations. The result is a reasoned understanding of our imminent future through a thoughtful analysis of our historical past. | The Industrialization of Intelligence Mind and Machine in the Modern Age

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Acting for the Camera: Back to One

Acting for the Camera: Back to One

Acting for the Camera: Back to One is a how to book with practical steps to achieve a professional performance on camera. The book focuses on four distinct areas: how to prepare the character how to execute the technical responsibilities that will assist the editor in creating the on-camera performance in post-production tips from industry professionals and how to create effective self-tape auditions. Part One: The Character’s World is packed with tools to analyze the script and fully prepare the character before arriving on set. Part Two: The Actor’s World focuses on developing technical acting skills for the camera that assist the pre- and post-production teams to create a dynamic on-screen performance. In Part Three: The Professional World industry professionals provide tips from inside the film/TV audition room and how to navigate a career in the acting business. The final section Part Four: Self-Tape Like a Pro outlines how to build a self-tape studio in the privacy of your own home and submit high-quality self-tape auditions that will help you stand out from the competition. Written for students enrolled in Acting for the Camera courses Acting for the Camera: Back to One explores techniques that can be practiced and mastered by actors of all levels from the moment they audition for the part through to when they hear that director call cut!

GBP 31.99
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The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

It’s time for the educational slugfest to stop. ‘Traditional’ and ‘progressive’ education are both caricatures and bashing cartoon images of each other is unprofitable and unedifying. The search for a new model of education – one that is genuinely empowering for all young people – is serious and necessary. Some good progress has already been made but teachers and school leaders are being held back by specious beliefs false oppositions and the limited thinking of orthodoxy. Drawing on recent experience in England North America and Australasia but applicable round the world The Future of Teaching clears away this logjam of bad science and slack thinking and frees up the stream of much-needed innovation. This timely book aims to banish arguments based on false claims about the brain and poor understanding of cognitive science reclaim the nuanced middle ground of teaching that develops both rigorous knowledge and ‘character’ and lay the foundations for a 21st-century education worthy of the name. | The Future of Teaching And the Myths That Hold It Back

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Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

The formation of states in early modern Europe has long been an important topic for historical analysis. Traditionally the political and military struggles of kings and rulers were the favoured object of study for academic historians. This book highlights new historical research from Europe’s northern frontier bringing ‘the people’ back into the discussion of state politics presenting alternative views of political and social relations in the Nordic countries before industrialisation. The early modern period was a time that witnessed initiatives from people from many groups formally excluded from political influence operating outside the structures of central government and this book returns to the subject of contentious politics and state building from below. | Bringing the People Back In State Building from Below in the Nordic Countries ca. 1500-1800

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Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness The South Answers Back

Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness The South Answers Back

This volume provides a new perspective on prevailing discourses on translanguaging and multilingualism by looking at ‘glocal’ languages local languages which have been successfully globalized. Focusing on European languages recreated in Latin America the book features examples from languages underexplored in the literature including Brazilian Portuguese Amerinidian poetics and English Spanish Portuguese outside Europe as a basis for advocating for an approach to language education rooted in critical pedagogy and post-colonial perspectives and countering hegemonic theories of globalization. While rooted in a discussion of the South the book offers a fresh voice in current debates on language education that will be of broader interest to students and scholars across disciplines including language education multilingualism cultural studies and linguistic anthropology. | Glocal Languages and Critical Intercultural Awareness The South Answers Back

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The Regulation of Air Transport From Protection to Liberalisation and Back Again

The Regulation of Air Transport From Protection to Liberalisation and Back Again

The regulation of modern civil aviation can be traced back to the later years of the Second World War. An intense debate about the future regulatory regime resulted in a compromise which to this day essentially dictates the structure of the global airline industry. Further progress towards ‘normalising’ the industry appears to be slowing down and perhaps even going into reverse. Without an understanding of the development of regulation it is not possible to understand fully the industry’s current problems and how they might be resolved. Many books have been written about the development of international air transport covering deregulation privatisation the emergence of new business models among other things but few if any have taken a broad view of the trends which have determined the industry’s current structure. The Regulation of Air Transport charts the development of aviation from the end of the Second World War to the present day following the key trends and disruptive forces. It provides an overview of what has determined the industry’s current structure the problems still facing the industry and the ways in which it could develop in the future. This wide-ranging study is important reading for both professionals and academics within the aviation field as well as anyone interested in the broader development of economic regulation. | The Regulation of Air Transport From Protection to Liberalisation and Back Again

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Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

This book was first published in 2003: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir's and Sartre's most influential writings in philosophy Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the phenomenological tradition within which Being and Nothingness and The Second Sex occurred as striking events operating on the border of the modern and the post-modern. Deutscher traces the shifts of genre that produce their gendered philosophies and responds in terms of contemporary experience to the mood and the arguments of their works. Drawing upon the writings of two contemporary critics in particular - Michele Le D“uff and Luce Irigaray - Deutscher reworks this part of philosophy's history in order to advance thinking in contemporary philosophy generate renewed philosophical reflection on consciousness freedom and one's relation to others and to return a look still cast in our direction from an earlier time. | Revival: Genre and Void (2003) Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir

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Getting Over OCD A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life

Getting Over OCD A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life

Thoroughly updated based on the latest science this empowering workbook gives you the skills to overcome obsessional thoughts and compulsive behaviors-and live a freer happier life. Leading OCD specialist Dr. Jonathan Abramowitz presents a step-by-step program grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) the most effective treatment for the disorder. Vivid stories and numerous practical tools (which you can download and print for repeated use) help you: *Understand how OCD affects your mind and body. *Develop a customized plan for change. *Find relief from distressing intrusive thoughts. *Confront the situations you avoid-and discover a new sense of safety. *Break free of compulsive rituals. *Reduce anxiety and improve your relationships. The second edition is revised throughout with cutting-edge strategies for coping with unwanted thoughts that can't be eliminated completely plus new learning techniques drawn from brain research. Ready to get over OCD? Your journey starts here. | Getting Over OCD A 10-Step Workbook for Taking Back Your Life

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High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

The high street is in crisis. How did we get here and what happens next? The global pandemic has made the crisis immeasurably worse but it wasn’t the cause. The crisis was already raging in 2019 with thousands of store closures. Large retailers became complacent and failed to respond to changing consumer behaviour. Town centres are the victims of these changes rather than the cause of them. To understand the current crisis and how it might be addressed this book takes a long view of retailing based on a hundred case studies. It looks at the way town centres responded to previous crises and explores current trends affecting town centres and how places are responding. The message is optimistic: adaptable town centres can once more become the diverse characterful independent places that existed before they were homogenised by big retail. Explore the past – understand the present – find a better future. | High Street How our town centres can bounce back from the retail crisis

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