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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. he 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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Home Extension Design

Home Extension Design

This book is a practical guide for homeowners with checklists and guidance on how to make their project successful. Most people considering a significant alteration to their home have no experience or knowledge of the process that has to be followed to make their project successful and the consequences of things going wrong are serious. As with the first edition this fully-revised guide distils all of the practical information needed to run a project from dream to reality highlighting the pitfalls along the way and suggesting ways to avoid them. Peppered with inspirational case studies and giving indications of costs and timescales Home Extension Design 2e demystifies both the building process and all the surrounding issues to do with design sustainability budgeting planning regulations and the use of building contracts. This book is the essential go-to resource for reliable independent advice on how to set up and run a building project.

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Resilient Post Disaster Recovery through Building Back Better

Resilient Post Disaster Recovery through Building Back Better

Building Back Better (BBB) has been a popular slogan in disaster recovery efforts around the world including the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami the 2009 Samoan Tsunami the 2010 Haiti Earthquake and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake. BBB has recently been identified as one of four priorities of action for disaster risk reduction globally in the next 15 years by the United Nations Sendai Framework. However there has consistently been a mismatch and confusion in the interpretation of the phrase and what BBB encapsulates which has made proper implementation difficult and unsuccessful at times. This book explains the concept of Building Back Better as an innovative holistic approach to rebuilding a community following a disaster event in order to develop resilience. It begins by exploring the background development and definitions of BBB. The theory behind establishing BBB as a holistic concept is explained and the internationally recognised BBB Framework developed by the authors is introduced and described. Each of the components of the Framework are explained in detail with findings from international research and case studies from the US Haiti Indonesia Samoa Sri Lanka Vanuatu Gaza China Australia UK and New Zealand providing practical recommendations for implementation in recovery projects. There is a focus on the translation of BBB theory into practice to assist implementers to use the BBB Framework and BBB Indicators introduced in this book as an effective tool to plan and implement disaster recovery projects. This publication can be used as a handbook by government non-governmental and private industry practitioners to prepare for and implement post disaster recovery projects that benefit and strengthen local communities and as a core text on international Disaster and Energy Management courses. | Resilient Post Disaster Recovery through Building Back Better

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Man and Natural Resources An Agricultural Perspective

Man and Natural Resources An Agricultural Perspective

Originally published in 1975 yet prophetic in its wisdom this book deals with major aspects of man’s ecological destruction in an industrial framework. As well as discussing the destruction of forests by early civilizations the book examines the rate and extension of environmental deterioration in more recent times and the importance of the integrated ‘feed-back’ controls which maintain stability in the ecosphere of which humankind forms a part. Examining the role of entropy energy quanta and indeterminacy in overthrowing both science and economic theory the book provides examples from the 20th Century of the uncontrolled demands for energy and material resources as well as of increasing toxic hazard in the biosphere. | Man and Natural Resources An Agricultural Perspective

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Diseases of Commercial Crops and Their Integrated Management

Diseases of Commercial Crops and Their Integrated Management

This volume compiles information on different aspects of diseases of commercial crops and their management. It contains 17 chapters based on different crops contributed by various authors. The book will be helpful for the students pursuing their degree in Agricultural Sciences growers teachers extension personnel and fellow researchers in their respective fields. | Diseases of Commercial Crops and Their Integrated Management

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Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the ‘Al Jazeera moment ’ it tracks the channel’s bumpy road towards international recognition in a longitudinal in-depth analysis of the channel’s editorial profile and strategies. Studying AJE from its launch in mid-November 2006 to the ‘Arab Spring’ it explains and problematizes the channel’s ambitious editorial agenda and strategies examines the internal conflicts practical challenges and minor breakthroughs in its formative years. The Al Jazeera-phenomenon has received massive attention but it remains under-researched. The growth of transnational satellite television has transformed the global media landscape into a complex web of multi-vocal multimedia and multi-directional flows. Based on a combination of policy- production- and content analysis of comprehensive empirical data the book offers an innovative perspective on the theorization of global news contra-flows. By problematizing the distinctive characteristics of AJE it examines the strategic motivation behind the channel and the ways in which its production processes and news profile are meant to be different from its Anglo-American competitors. These questions underscore a central nexus of the book: the changing relationship between transnational satellite news and power. | Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape The South is Talking Back

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The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

This book queries the concept of rehabilitation to determine how on a legislative and policy level the term is defined as a goal of correctional systems. The book explores what rehabilitation is by investigating how at different moments in time its conceptualization has shaped and been shaped by shifting norms practices and institutions of corrections in California. The author calls for a rethinking of theoretical understandings of the corrections system generally and parole system specifically and calls for an expansion in the questions asked in reintegration studies. The book is designed for scholars seeking to better understand the relationship between correctional systems and rehabilitation and the full scope of rehabilitation as a legislative goal and is also suitable for use as teaching tool for historical textual and interviewing methods. | The Meaning of Rehabilitation and its Impact on Parole There and Back Again in California

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Basic Cost Engineering

Basic Cost Engineering

This work focuses on the application of fundamental cost engineering principles to the capital and operating costs estimation of major projects. It provides detailed coverage of profitability risk and sensitivity analysis. This third edition: discusses novel strategies for calculating preliminary estimates using MasterFormat; presents new information on estimating the retrofitting and extension of existing plants; contains current international cost data; and more. ;A solutions manual is available to instructors only. | Basic Cost Engineering

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Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African Group of countries has been in the forefront of countries agitating in the World Trade Organization TRIPS Council for the extension of this special protection and of the multilateral register to industries which are of interest to developing countries primarily agriculture. The so-called extension question is the central feature of the Doha Development Agenda at both the WTO and World Intellectual Property Organization. This book provides some empirical evidence and applied legal and economic reasoning to this debate. It provides both a general review of the key issues and a series of case studies from six Anglophone and four Francophone countries in Africa. These focus on major agricultural commodities such as coffee cotton cocoa and tea as well as more specific and local products such as Argan oil and Oku white honey. | Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

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Multivariate Calculus

Multivariate Calculus

This book is a compilation of all basic topics on functions of Several Variables and is primarily meant for undergraduate and post graduate students. Topics covered are: Limits continuities and differentiabilities of functions of several variables. Properties of Implicit functions and Jacobians. Extreme values of multivariate functions. Various types of integrals in planes and surfaces and their related theorems including Dirichlet and Liouville’s extension to Dirichlet. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan or Bhutan) | Multivariate Calculus

GBP 82.99
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Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

Trust is a concept familiar to most. Whether we are cognizant of it or not we experience it on a daily basis. Yet trust is quickly eroding in civic and political life. Americans’ trust in their government has reached all-time lows. The political and social consequences of this decline in trust are profound. What are the foundations of trust? What explains its apparent decline in society? Is there a way forward for rebuilding trust in our leaders and institutions? How should we study the role of trust across a diverse range of policy issues and problems? Given its complexity trust as an object of study cannot be claimed by any single discipline. Rather than vouch for an overarching theory of trust Living in an Age of Mistrust synthesizes existing perspectives across multiple disciplines to offer a truly comprehensive examination of this concept and a topic of research. Using an analytical framework that encompasses rational and cultural (or sociological) dimensions of trust the contributions found therein provide a wide range of policy issues both domestic and international to explore the apparent decline in trust its impact on social and political life and efforts to rebuild trust. | Living in an Age of Mistrust An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back

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Applied Entomology Insect Ecology and Integrated Pest Management

Applied Entomology Insect Ecology and Integrated Pest Management

The subject of Entomology deals with the scientific study of insects in a diverse manner. It has two parts: - Insect Morphology Anatomy and Systematic - Insect Ecology and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). This book applies to students researchers extension workers farmers and other stakeholders. Both classroom and field learning are important with this updated information to enhance need-based knowledge and skill. Applied Entomology: Insect Ecology and Integrated Pest Management covers mostly used practical work at the field level apropos Insect Ecology and Integrated Pest Management (IPM). Print edition not for sale in India. | Applied Entomology Insect Ecology and Integrated Pest Management

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Prospects for Sustainable Development in the Chinese Countryside The Political Economy of Chinese Ecological Agriculture

Prospects for Sustainable Development in the Chinese Countryside The Political Economy of Chinese Ecological Agriculture

This title was first published in 2000: An examination of the potential for Chinese ecological agriculture providing a basis for sustainable development in the Chinese countryside. Richard Sanders involves primary research in seven villages and four countries in China that have adopted ecological agriculture. He examines the concept of sustainable development generally and analyses China’s political-economic policies towards the countryside since 1949 the impacts on the environment and the state of China’s environmental protection. The study addresses three main questions: 1. Is Chinese ecological agriculture worth adopting - specifically does CEA promise a form of sustainable rural development? 2. To the extent that it does what are the social political and economic conditions in the Chinese countryside which most favour its extension? 3. To the extent that these conditions are restrictive what can the Chinese authorities do to make them less so and thus encourage its extension? The study concludes that the CEA despite certain difficulties and problems holds out the prospect of a more sustainable future for the rural economy than more usual forms of activity in the Chinese countryside. It finds that the conditions for adopting CEA are restrictive and that while the Chinese government is in favour of extending CEA it must reconsider questions of land management and ownership and assess long-term needs. | Prospects for Sustainable Development in the Chinese Countryside The Political Economy of Chinese Ecological Agriculture

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Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry

Basic Management Accounting for the Hospitality Industry uses a step by step approach to enable students to independently master the field. This second edition contains many new themes and developments including: the essence of the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) integration of the changes caused by the evolution of the Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) the extension of price elasticity of demand and addition of income and cross elasticities the addition of break-even time (BET) as an additional method of analysing capital investments Up-to-date and comprehensive coverage this textbook is essential reading for hospitality management students. Additional study and teaching materials can be found on www. hospitalitymanagement. noordhoff. nl

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The Modernization of Rural France Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

The Modernization of Rural France Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

This book first published in 1983 is a major contribution to our understanding of how and why French rural peasant society became modernised by radical changes in the communications system – in particular the coming of the railways. The author argues that complex changes in the transport systems and their effects on agricultural market structures finally brought traditional French rural civilisation to an end. With the extension of commercialisation and the widening of horizons new economic and social structures – and changed attitudes – rapidly came into being. Writing as an economic historian the author has adopted an interdisciplinary approach to this study which incorporates economic sociological historical and geographical methods and data. | The Modernization of Rural France Communications Networks and Agricultural Market Structures in Nineteenth-Century France

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Hands-On Data Analysis in R for Finance

Hands-On Data Analysis in R for Finance

The subject of this textbook is to act as an introduction to data science / data analysis applied to finance using R and its most recent and freely available extension libraries. The targeted academic level is undergrad students with a major in data science and/or finance and graduate students and of course practitioners or professionals who need a desk reference. Assumes no prior knowledge of R The content has been tested in actual university classes Makes the reader proficient in advanced methods such as machine learning time series analysis principal component analysis and more Gives comprehensive and detailed explanations on how to use the most recent and free resources such as financial and statistics libraries or open database on the internet | Hands-On Data Analysis in R for Finance

GBP 74.99
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Building a Programmable Logic Controller with a PIC16F648A Microcontroller

Building a Programmable Logic Controller with a PIC16F648A Microcontroller

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are extensively used in industry to perform automation tasks with manufacturers offering a variety of PLCs that differ in functions program memories and the number of inputs/outputs (I/O). Not surprisingly the design and implementation of these PLCs have long been a secret of manufacturers. Unveiling the mysteries of PLC technology Building a Programmable Logic Controller with PIC16F648A Microcontroller explains how to design and use a PIC16F648A-microcontroller-based PLC. The author first described a microcontroller-based implementation of a PLC in a series of articles published in Electronics World magazine between 2008 and 2010. This book is based on an improved version of the project including:Updates to the hardware configuration with a smaller CPU board and two I/O extension boards that now support 16 inputs and 16 outputs instead of 8An increased clock frequency of 20 MHzImprovements to several macrosFlowcharts to help you understand the macros (functions)In this book the author provides detailed explanations of hardware and software structures. He also describes PIC Assembly macros for all basic PLC functions which are illustrated with numerous examples and flowcharts. An accompanying downloadable resources contain source files (. ASM) and object files (. HEX) for all of the examples in the book. It also supplies printed circuit board (PCB) (Gerber and . pdf) files so that you can have the CPU board and I/O extension boards produced by a PCB manufacturer or produce your own boards. Making PLCs more easily accessible this unique book is written for advanced students practicing engineers and hobbyists who want to learn how to build their own microcontroller-based PLC. It assumes some previous knowledge of digital logic design microcontrollers and PLCs as well as familiarity with the PIC16F series of microcontrollers and w | Building a Programmable Logic Controller with a PIC16F648A Microcontroller

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Neuroaesthetics

Neuroaesthetics

The beginning of psychological aesthetics is normally traced back to the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner's seminal book Vorschule der Aesthetik in 1876. Following in the footsteps of this rich tradition editors Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian view neuroaesthetics - the emerging field of inquiry concerned with uncovering the ways in which aesthetic behavior is caused by brain processes - as a natural extension of Fechner's 'empirical spirit' to understand the link between the objective and subjective worlds inherent in aesthetic experience. The editors had two specific aims for this book. The first was to highlight the diversity of approaches that are underway under the banner of neuroaesthetics. Currently this topic is being investigated from experimental evolutionary neuropsychological and neuroimaging perspectives to tackle problems in the visual arts literature music and film. Its quintessentially interdisciplinary nature has functioned as a breeding ground for generating and testing hypotheses in multiple domains. The second goal was more integrative and involved distilling some of the key features common to these diverse strands of work. The book presents a possible framework for neuroaesthetics by highlighting what the contributors consider to be its defining features and offering a working definition of neuroaesthetics that captures these features. Neuroaesthetics will provide an empirical and theoretical framework to motivate further work in this area. Ultimately the hope is that puzzles in aesthetics can be solved through insights from biology but that the contribution can be truly bidirectional.

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Mixing Audio Concepts Practices and Tools

Mixing Audio Concepts Practices and Tools

Mixing Audio: Concepts Practices and Tools is a vital read for anyone wanting to succeed in the field of mixing—covering the entire mixing process from fundamental concepts to advanced techniques. Packed full of photos graphs diagrams and audio samples it teaches the importance of a mixing vision how to craft and evaluate your mix and then take it a step further. Mixing Audio describes the theory the tools and how these are put into practice while creating mixes. The companion website featuring over 2 000 audio samples as well as Multitrack Audio Sessions is a perfect complement to the book. The new edition includes: An extension of the discussion on mastering which now includes the loudness war LUFS targets and DIY mastering Updated figures and illustrations throughout A new section covering console emulation | Mixing Audio Concepts Practices and Tools

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Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship Movable Type

Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship Movable Type

This book presents the seven entrepreneurial activities (SEA) model of new organizational constitution a prescriptive extension of the four flows model tradition of communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) theory. Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship explains the SEA model in detail illustrating it with autobiographical accounts from Deanna Bisel’s years of experience as an entrepreneur. The volume explores how entrepreneurial efforts to create and maintain organizations involve interrelated activities. In doing so it offers a vision of new organizational creation and maintenance as (a) communicative and material (b) initiated by value propositions (c) difficult to achieve (d) having periods of partiality (e) being the result of constitutive leadership distributed among members and (f) dependent upon constitutive momentum generated in organizational learning. This unique volume will be a key reference for students and scholars of organizational communication management business studies entrepreneurship and communication studies. | Organizational Constitution in Entrepreneurship Movable Type

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The Group Therapist's Notebook Homework Handouts and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

The Group Therapist's Notebook Homework Handouts and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

Following in the footsteps of the successful first edition The Group Therapist’s Notebook Second Edition offers an all new collection of innovative ideas and proven interventions that will enhance any group therapy practice. Seasoned and up-and-coming experts provide field-tested activities easy to reproduce handouts and practical homework assignments for a variety of problems and population types. Each chapter is solidly grounded with a theoretical foundation and includes materials to gather for implementing the intervention detailed instructions for use suggestions for follow-up in successive meetings contraindications for use and resources for the client and therapist. With an added emphasis on instruction real-world examples and extension activities this new resource will be a valuable asset for both beginning and established mental health practitioners including counselor educators social workers marriage and family therapists guidance counselors prevention educators peer support specialists and other group facilitators. | The Group Therapist's Notebook Homework Handouts and Activities for Use in Psychotherapy

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Introduction to Rocket Science and Space Exploration

Introduction to Rocket Science and Space Exploration

The growing demand of space services for imaging mobile communication global positioning systems and disaster management life extension of satellites by fueling space station operations deflecting incoming asteroids and reducing debris from orbits requires reusable rockets. The chapters in the book cover understanding of the universe history of rockets space missions satellites the principle of rocketry its design and development rocket technology the solar system the environment and protection of earth and thoughts on Earth 2. 0. Features: Explores the link between universe space exploration and rocketry. Discusses topics such as protection of the Earth from asteroids debris and global warming. Includes basic methodology to be adopted to design rockets for various applications. Covers use of multi-objective optimisation to realise a system and differences in design philosophies for satellite launch. Examines material on environmental protection of the Earth. This book is aimed at senior undergraduates and professionals in aerospace engineering. | Introduction to Rocket Science and Space Exploration

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Motion Structures Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms

Motion Structures Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms

The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. routledge. com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. Motion structures are simply assemblies of resistant bodies connected by movable joints. Unlike conventional structures they allow large shape transformations to satisfy practical requirements and they can be used in: shelters emergency structures and exhibition stands aircraft morphing wings satellite solar panels and space antennas morphing core materials for composites medical implants for minimum invasive surgery. Though traditionally the subject falls within structural engineering motion structures are more closely related to other mechanisms and they draw on the principles of kinematic and geometrical analysis in their design. Indeed their design and analysis can be viewed as an extension of the theory of mechanisms such as rigid origami and can make effective use of a wealth of mathematical principles. This book outlines the relevant underlying theory of motion structural concepts and uses a number of innovative but simple structures as examples. | Motion Structures Deployable Structural Assemblies of Mechanisms

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