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Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

Want to get the best out of your digital camera? Not quite sure how to capture up-close shots? Want easy to follow expert advice on the best ways to creatively capture macro shots you can be proud of? This is your ticket to go beyond a snapshot to create a fine art print that you'll be so proud of. Macro and close-up photography involves a unique skill set in terms of exposure lighting and of course composition in particular. You can take a quick photo of a sunflower in your back yard that will look mundane and typical OR you could learn how to take a picture of just a part of it-up close-and create a work of art. Let this book be your guide! | Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

GBP 130.00
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Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

First published in 1983 Which Way is Up presents a selection of Bob Connell’s writings on three key issues of modern social analysis- sex and gender class and power and culture. The essays range from psychoanalysis and contemporary feminism to the role theory from the analysis of class and culture to the debate about intellectuals and the ‘new class’. In critically reviewing contemporary thought on these issues the author has developed a perspective centred on the analysis of social practice. Easy to read often witty the essays represent an attempt to shift social theory into the real world of the late twentieth century to go beyond the limits of orthodox sociology and radical dogmas to think through theoretical questions without losing touch with practical politics. This is a must read for students and scholars of sociology. | Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

GBP 90.00
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The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

To anyone who wants to make a doc but doesn’t have a lot of time money or experience Anthony Artis says: It’s time to get down and dirty!—a filmmaking mentality that teaches you how to be creative with your resources and do more with less. Written by a guerrilla filmmaker for guerrilla filmmakers this all new edition of a bestselling classic doesn’t just tell you it shows you how to make your projects better faster and cheaper and has been updated to include: Fresh coverage of DSLR cameras new lighting gear visual storytelling postproduction techniques and distribution in an online era. 500+ full color illustration timesaving tips and practical input from filmmakers that you can immediately apply to your own projects New sections on fundraising choosing lenses shooting internationally the 4K format shooting on iPhones previsualization wireless microphones dolly and slider shots staging remote interviews transcripts and more This bonus website (www. focalpress. com/cw/artis) features video and audio tutorials storyboards releases equipment guides and checklists. Hustle up a winning documentary crew and choose the right equipment for the job. Learn to shoot more polished professional-looking footage and interviews on any budget any camera any time. Plan through all the obstacles avoid common filmmaking pitfalls and tighten your lighting audio and visual storytelling skills before you hit the streets. The hotly anticipated second edition of The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide will help you do all this and more! | The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

GBP 130.00
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Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music

Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music

Grime music has been central to British youth culture since the beginning of the 21st century. Performed by MCs and DJs it is an Afrodiasporic form that developed on street corners on pirate radio and at raves. Level Up: Live Performance and Creative Process in Grime Music offers the first long-form ethnographic study of grime practice; it questions how and why artists do what they do; and it asks what this can tell us about creative process and improvisation more widely. Based on research conducted in London’s grime scene—facilitated by the author’s long-standing role as a DJ and broadcaster—this book explores the form’s emergence before taking a magnifying glass to the contemporary scene and its performance protocol exploring the practice of key artists and their crews living and working in the city. The resultant model of creative interaction provides a comprehensive mapping of collective social learning in London’s informal cityscape offering new ways to conceptualise improvisatory practice within ensembles.

GBP 120.00
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Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

This book offers an international reading of the Polish socialist regime’s history in the 1970s and its opening up to the West. It bridges Poland’s socialist domestic history with critical developments of the global and European 1970s including détente in the Cold War western European integration and globalisation. In this period of international transformations socialist Poland under Edward Gierek's leadership multiplied its economic and political contacts with capitalist countries especially western Europe and became a leader of East-West cooperation among Council for Mutual Economic Assistance and Warsaw Pact members. Relying on sources from public and corporate archives in five different European states the book demonstrates both that the global political and economic transformations of that period were critical for the decision-making process in Poland and moreover that the national socialist elites participated in shaping these transformations. By looking at the goals and expectations of the Polish socialist elites and their practices of political and economic exchanges with western Europe the book explains the logic which drove the socialist regime into entanglement with the West. As is shown here this entanglement proved inextricable and critical for the socialist regime's failure and Poland’s political and economic future. This book will be of much interest to students of European history cold war studies socialism studies and International Relations. | Poland and European East-West Cooperation in the 1970s The Opening Up

GBP 130.00
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Setting Up and Maintaining an Effective Private Practice A Practical Workbook for Mental Health Practitioners

Setting Up and Maintaining an Effective Private Practice A Practical Workbook for Mental Health Practitioners

Counsellors psychotherapists and psychologists are proud to belong to the helping professions. Those working within these professions see themselves as caring people trying to help others to understand themselves better to feel better about themselves and to help them get over various traumas and difficulties that they have experienced either within their lives or personalities. Talking about money and thinking of their clients and the units of therapy time as items of income can be uncomfortable. Many counsellors psychotherapists and psychologists may not easily view their private practice as a business. But that is what it is and the primary role of any business is to be profitable. In this volume the author guides us through practicalities of setting up and maintaining a private practice and addresses the tensions and problems faced by the practitioner trying to both provide care and run an effective business. The author provides clear models and examples that practitioners will be able to adapt to their own circumstances for example showing them how to set up accounts. | Setting Up and Maintaining an Effective Private Practice A Practical Workbook for Mental Health Practitioners

GBP 130.00
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Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

This guide examines the use of technology for sharing information both within an organisation and between companies and their clients and customers. It looks in particular at the use of push/ pull technologies for delivering current awareness services. The guide also discusses the pros and cons of the technology particularly information overload and suggests a number of ways of minimising the problems. The guide contains a useful list of books reports journals and other information sources. Contents: Introduction; Intranets; Extranets; Groupware; Case studies; Push/pull technologies; Information overload; Key players; Useful information sources; References; Further reading. | Intranets and Push Technology: Creating an Information-Sharing Environment

GBP 115.00
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Lives Across Time/Growing Up Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People

Lives Across Time/Growing Up Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People

Follow seventy-six children from birth to thirty to learn about their various developmental life paths and their influences. Children traverse continuous or discontinuous courses. This book describes their life stories which may transform and enrich the reader's life. In working with these people the authors heard something basic: stories people | Lives Across Time/Growing Up Paths to Emotional Health and Emotional Illness from Birth to 30 in 76 People

GBP 130.00
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Afghanistan and Central Asia A Modern History

Afghanistan and Central Asia A Modern History

The Afghan crisis has grabbed the attention of the entire world and underlined the desperate need in the West for a better understanding of the region and its challenges in the face of increasingly militant interpretations of Islam. Carved up and fought over by the British and Tsarist Russia in the nineteenth century and under Soviet domination for much of the twentieth the lonely passes deserts and peoples of the five Central Asian republics have remained shrouded in obscurity. Even Afghanistan the site of almost constant conflict since the Soviet invasion of 1978 is little known beyond the media images of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban movement. Martin McCauley draws on his vast knowledge of the region and its history to provide a clear and highly readable account of Afghanistan and the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tasikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan from their medieval pasts to the unpredictable present. Illuminating languages and landscapes cultures and society he examines the rise of militant Islam and its impact on the region the push and pull of global economics and politics and possibilities for stability in an inherently unstable part of the world. | Afghanistan and Central Asia A Modern History

GBP 130.00
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Growing Up in a Changing Society

Growing Up in a Changing Society

The final reader in the Child Development in Social Context series shows how the study of child development is inevitably bound up in more ephemeral cultural ideas about the nature and needs of children and in the educational practices that rise from these ideas. Some readings point to the dangers which can arise from the meeting of science and cultural values using for illustration studies of the role of psychological theory in reinforcing social attitudes to child care inside and outside the family. Other readings look at children's initiation into that relatively recent cultural invention the school and the relationship with their learning at home. There are studies of their social development in classroom and playground with particular emphasis on ethnic relationships. | Growing Up in a Changing Society

GBP 175.00
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Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum A Neuro-Psychoanalytic Analysis and Synthesis

Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum A Neuro-Psychoanalytic Analysis and Synthesis

This is a book about cognition emotion memory and learning. Along the way it examines exactly how implicit memory (knowing how) and explicit memory (knowing that) are connected with each other via the cerebellum. Since emotion is also related to memory and most likely one of its organising features many fields of human endeavour have attempted to clarify its fundamental nature including its relationship to metaphor problem-solving learning and many other variables. This is an attempt to pull together the various strands relating to emotions so that clinicians and researchers alike can identify precisely and ultimately agree upon what emotion is and how it contributes to the other known activities of mind and brain. | Emotion and the Psychodynamics of the Cerebellum A Neuro-Psychoanalytic Analysis and Synthesis

GBP 130.00
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Love and Organization Lessons of Love for Human Dignity Leadership and Motivation

Love and Organization Lessons of Love for Human Dignity Leadership and Motivation

Organizations are not human but they are made up of people. Examining the organization functioning growing and developing and moving together as one unit the well-being and success of that organization depends on the well-being of people that make it up. Love in its various forms is the energy that motivates and fuels creativity care innovation progress and well-being. Traditionally organizational structures have been set up to support compliance and command and control which often discourages love and creates policies against love at the workplace. The result has been reduced growth productivity and retention of businesses as well as reduced well-being for employees. This reduced connectivity between individuals has also at a higher level adversely affected society. Without love people are working and performing with reduced energy and at reduced capacity. While prior research has been focused on love at the workplace from the viewpoint of psychologists this book explores the impact of love within organizational contexts from various viewpoints including management psychology and philosophy. It explores love in the organizational context by looking at how it affects meaning purpose well-being motivation faith care spiritual development and how the identity and well-being of each person in the organization positively affects retention and the growth and success of that organization. It will be of interest to researchers academics and advanced students in the fields of organizational studies leadership and management. | Love and Organization Lessons of Love for Human Dignity Leadership and Motivation

GBP 145.00
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The Language of Pick-Up Artists Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry

The Language of Pick-Up Artists Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry

This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex. Drawing on a multi-million-word corpus comprising data from online forums social media informational websites and YouTube videos the volume explores the verbal practices and narrative framing techniques that pick-up artists (PUAs) draw upon in their interactions with women and the terminology-heavy language used in teaching pick-up to foster perceptions of scientific validity. The book also unpacks videos and reports of live interactions to study naturally occurring PUA discourse from different perspectives but also to more closely examine conceptual metaphors of competition and violence and critically reflect on the ethical considerations of working with such communities. This book will appeal to students and scholars in such disciplines as discourse analysis corpus linguistics computer-mediated communication and language and media as well as those interested in the study of language use online. | The Language of Pick-Up Artists Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry

GBP 130.00
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Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State

Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State

Beyond Citizenship and the Nation-State examines tensions between a push for clear boundaries defining nation-states and who “legitimately” belongs in them and a pull away from citizenship as capturing what membership in a political community looks like in the twenty-first century. Borders signify and represent these physical and metaphorical challenges in a world where (anti)migration and (anti)refugee rhetoric are central to the production and reproduction of postcolonial and nationalist political discourse and identity formation. With an expansive view of citizenship authors challenge dominant narratives explore alternatives to neoliberal frameworks and link theory and practice through participatory opportunities for non-citizen political participation. In doing so they present possibilities for reimagining citizenship for a just more sustainable future. This book will appeal to academics and practitioners working in the disciplines of Sociology Social Policy Human Geography Political Sciences Citizenship Studies and Migration Studies. It was originally published as a special issue of New Political Science.

GBP 130.00
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New Pop-Up Paper Projects Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages

New Pop-Up Paper Projects Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages

New Pop-Up Paper Projects is an inspirational book for everyone who wants to learn and share the magic of pop-up paper engineering. Illustrated throughout with colour diagrams and photographs this book guides you through basic techniques and foundation skills offers advice on classroom planning and health and safety and shows you how to ensure that learners of all ages can develop and progress their skills. Guiding you through 90- 180- and 360-degree engineering this book presents step-by-step instructions and ideas for over 200 cross-curricular themes from cityscapes to magical creatures. Aiming to challenge and inspire Paul Johnson uses over 150 paper-engineering techniques including: storybooks pop-ups without folds zigzag pop-ups pulleys wheels and levers asymmetrical pop-ups intricate toy theatres diagonal pop-ups with movables. This book brimming with pop-up techniques and how to teach them is for everyone � from the self-styled �visually illiterate� to the art graduate from parents keeping creativity alive at home to classroom teachers planning an engaging curriculum for their class of 30 plus pupils. | New Pop-Up Paper Projects Step-by-step paper engineering for all ages

GBP 175.00
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Money and Capital Markets Pricing yields and analysis

Money and Capital Markets Pricing yields and analysis

Money and Capital Markets provides the most up-to-date practical coverage of the pricing and analysis of financial instruments and transactions available for Australian and international capital markets. Here you have the underlying tools and techniques for the valuation and risk management of short-term money market and capital market securities and their derivatives. In a clear and direct way Michael Sherris covers fixed interest securities forwards futures swaps options and interest rate derivatives (new in the Second Edition). Everything - from yield calculations to tax and horizon effects to interest rate risk measures - is lucidly explained and extensively illustrated with examples. An invaluable reference for money market professionals Money and Capital Markets is essential reading for tertiary students of finance accounting and actuarial studies. | Money and Capital Markets Pricing yields and analysis

GBP 130.00
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Optimize Equity and Trusts

Optimize Equity and Trusts

The Optimize series is designed to show you how to apply your knowledge in assessment. These concise revision guides cover the most commonly taught topics and provide you with the tools to: Understand the law and remember the details using diagrams and tables throughout to demonstrate how the law fits together Contextualise your knowledge identifying and explaining how to apply legal principles for important cases providing cross-references and further reading to help you aim higher in essays and exams Avoid common misunderstandings and errors identifying common pitfalls students encounter in class and in assessment Reflect critically on the law identifying contentious areas that are up for debate and on which you will need to form an opinion Apply what you have learned in assessment presenting learning objectives that reflect typical assessment criteria providing sample essay and exam questions supported by end-of chapter feedback The series is also supported by comprehensive online resources that allow you to track your progress during the run-up to exams. | Optimize Equity and Trusts

GBP 175.00
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Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

A contemporary wide-ranging exploration of one of the most provocative topics currently under psychoanalytic investigation: the relationship of dissociation to varieties of knowing and unknowing. The twenty-eight essays collected here invite readers to reflect upon the ways the mind is structured around and through knowing not-knowing and sort-of-knowing or uncertainty. The authors explore the ramifications of being up against the limits of what they can know as through their clinical practice and theoretical considerations they simultaneously attempt to open up psychic and physical experience. How they ask do we tolerate ambiguity and blind spots as we try to know? And how do we make all of this useful to our patients and ourselves? The authors approach these and similar epistemological questions through an impressively wide variety of clinical dilemmas (e. g. the impact of new technologies upon the analytic dyad) and theoretical specialties (e. g. neurobiology). | Knowing Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty

GBP 120.00
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Faculty Mobility China and the World

Faculty Mobility China and the World

Adopting curriculum vitae (CV) analysis method this book collects CVs of university faculty from 109 universities of The Double First Class University Plan in China and systematically analyses the mobility pattern of faculty in China for the first time. Examining the overall mobility frequency of Chinese faculty and its growing rate the authors predict that after the epidemic with the growing number of returned overseas talents there may be a third wave of faculty mobility. They demonstrate that East Asia the United States and Europe are the main channels for the inward talent mobility to China and there are significant differences in China’s faculty mobility among different regions disciplines and genders which deserves further investigation. Furthermore they argue the influencing factors of faculty mobility between China and foreign countries are highly different too. Scholars and students of Chinese higher education international and comparative education may find this book helpful and benefit from the analysis framework of Push and Pull Theory as long as CV analysis method. | Faculty Mobility China and the World

GBP 130.00
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Fabrication and Welding Engineering

Fabrication and Welding Engineering

This brand new textbook by one of the leading engineering authors covers basic sheet-metal fabrication and welding engineering principles and applications in one volume - an unrivalled comprehensive coverage that reflects current working and teaching practice. It is fully up-to-date with the latest technical information and best practice and also includes chapters on non-technical but equally essential subjects such as health and safety personal development and communication of technical information. Roger Timings covers these areas of mechanical engineering and workshop practice in a highly practical and accessible style. Hundreds of illustrations demonstrate the practical application of the procedures described. The text includes worked examples for calculations and key points to aid revision. Each chapter starts with learning outcome summaries and ends with exercises which can be set as assignemnts. The coverage is based on the SEMTA National Occupational Standards which makes this book applicable to a wide range of courses and ensures it also acts as a vital ongoing reference source in day-to-day working practice. All students trainees and apprentices at up to and including Level 3 will find this book essential reading particularly those taking:Level 2 NVQs in Performing Engineering OperationsLevel 2 and 3 NVQs in Fabrication and Welding EngineeringLevel 2 NVQs in Mechanical Manufacturing EngineeringC&G 2800 Certificate and Level 3 Diplomas in Engineering and TechnologySEMTA Apprenticeships in Engineering

GBP 150.00
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