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The Passivhaus Designer's Manual A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

The Passivhaus Designer's Manual A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world with almost 50 000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards Passivhaus provides a robust 'fabric first' approach from which to make the next step. The Passivhaus Designers Manual is the most comprehensive technical guide available to those wishing to design and build Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings. As a technical reference for architects engineers and construction professionals The Passivhaus Designers Manual provides:State of the art guidance for anyone designing or working on a Passivhaus project;In depth information on building services including high performance ventilation systems and ultra-low energy heating and cooling systems;Holistic design guidance encompassing: daylight design ecological materials thermal comfort indoor air quality and economics;Practical advice on procurement methods project management and quality assurance;Renewable energy systems suitable for Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings; Practical case studies from the UK USA and Germany amongst others;Detailed worked examples to show you how it's done and what to look out for;Expert advice from 20 world renowned Passivhaus designers architects building physicists and engineers. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 full colour illustrations and presented by two highly experienced specialists this is your one-stop shop for comprehensive practical information on Passivhaus and Zero Energy buildings. | The Passivhaus Designer's Manual A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

GBP 180.00
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The Case Against the Global Economy And for a Turn Towards Localization

The Case Against the Global Economy And for a Turn Towards Localization

The greatest political debate of our time is about the blind rush towards a single global economy its consequences for jobs democracy human well-being and cultural diversity and its impact on the natural world that sustains us. Its effects will be profound and irreversible but globalization itself is not inevitable. In The Case Against the Global Economy 24 leading economic agricultural cultural and environmental authorities drawn from across the world argue that free trade and economic globalization are producing exactly the opposite results to those promised. From a detailed analysis of the new global economy its structures and its full social and ecological implications they show how it is undermining our liberty our security and our well-being and is devastating the planet. First published in the USA in 1996 in an edition focused on North America the book won the American Political Science Association award for the Best Book in Ecological and Transformational Politics. This completely revised and updated international edition presents a passionate and persuasive case for the need to reverse course away from globalization and towards a revitalized democracy local self-sufficiency and ecological health. | The Case Against the Global Economy And for a Turn Towards Localization

GBP 180.00
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The War of American Independence 1775-1783

The War of American Independence 1775-1783

Wars rarely turn out as expected. This book shows how Britain entered a conflict that it believed could not be lost. The American Patriots were similarly optimistic about their martial prospects. Although they eventually secured independence it was only with the assistance of France and indirectly Spain who diverted British resources from the conflict in America allowing France eventually to deliver a knockout blow at Yorktown. This extensive yet accessible exploration into the War of American Independence provides a clear analysis of why this complex conflict occurred and why it ended as it did revealing the fragile nature of the American Patriot cause. An essential guide for any history student including those specializing in war/peace studies and the study of international relations as well the general reader with an interest in the study of war. | The War of American Independence 1775-1783

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory

The Routledge Companion to Narrative Theory brings together top scholars in the field to explore the significance of narrative to pressing social cultural and theoretical issues. How does narrative both inform and limit the way we think today? From conspiracy theories and social media movements to racial politics and climate change future scenarios the reach is broad. This volume is distinctive for addressing the complicated relations between the interdisciplinary narrative turn in the academy and the contemporary boom of instrumental storytelling in the public sphere. The scholars collected here explore new theories of causality experientiality and fictionality; challenge normative modes of storytelling; and offer polemical accounts of narrative fiction nonfiction and video games. Drawing upon the latest research in areas from cognitive sciences to complexity theory the volume provides an accessible entry point for those new to the myriad applications of narrative theory and a point of departure for new scholarship.

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print digital and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production distribution and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other ” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature highlighting issues such as retranslation transnationalism transculturality and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field. | The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

GBP 205.00
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Routledge Handbook of African Peacebuilding

Routledge Handbook of African Peacebuilding

Africa lies at the centre of the international community’s peacebuilding interventions and the continent’s rich multitude of actors ideas relationships practices experiences locations and contexts in turn shapes the possibilities and practices of contemporary peacebuilding. This timely new handbook surveys and analyses peacebuilding as it operates in this specifically African context. The book begins by outlining the evolution and the various ideologies conceptualizations institutions and practices of African peacebuilding. It identifies critical differences in how African peacebuilders have conceptualized and operationalized peacebuilding. The book then considers how different actors sustain construct and use African infrastructure to identify and analyse converging differing or competing mandates approaches and interests. Finally it analyses specific thematic issues such as gender justice development democracy and the politics of knowledge before ending with in-depth analyses of case studies drawn from across the continent. Bringing together an international line-up of expert contributors this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of African politics post-conflict reconstruction security and peace and conflict studies. | Routledge Handbook of African Peacebuilding

GBP 205.00
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Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production 1796-1918 Experiment Expertise Experience

Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production 1796-1918 Experiment Expertise Experience

This collection pieces together a wealth of material in order to get inside the experience of scientific practice in the long nineteenth century. It aims to reach or perhaps to facilitate an understanding of the ways in which the value of scientific knowledge was produced lived and challenged. The new turn to the history of experience suggests a logic to the compilation of material that is completely original: the sources are not selected according to the historical success of an idea or experiment but for the ways in which scientific endeavour loaded knowledge claims with political or moral value coupled with attendant practical justifications. Thus ‘bad ideas’ sit alongside ‘good’; now discountenanced practices take their place among the revered. In sum they reveal an experimental culture that was not merely orientated toward cold knowledge or intellectual output but defined by shifting sets of affective practices and procedures and the making of expertise out of the lived experience of doing science. | Scientific and Medical Knowledge Production 1796-1918 Experiment Expertise Experience

GBP 396.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

This Handbook presents a transnational and interdisciplinary study of refugee narratives broadly defined. Interrogating who can be considered a refugee and what constitutes a narrative the thirty-eight chapters included in this collection encompass a range of forcibly displaced subjects a mix of geographical and historical contexts and a variety of storytelling modalities. Analyzing novels poetry memoirs comics films photography music social media data graffiti letters reports eco-design video games archival remnants and ethnography the individual chapters counter dominant representations of refugees as voiceless victims. Addressing key characteristics and thematics of refugee narratives this Handbook examines how refugee cultural productions are shaped by and in turn shape socio-political landscapes. It will be of interest to researchers teachers students and practitioners committed to engaging refugee narratives in the contemporary moment. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives

GBP 190.00
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Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia

Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the international relations of South Asia. South Asia as a region is increasingly assuming greater significance in global politics for a host of compelling reasons. This volume offers the most comprehensive collection of perspectives on the international politics of South Asia and it it covers an extensive range of issues spanning from inter-state wars to migration in the region. Each contribution provides a careful discussion of the four major theoretical approaches to the study of international politics: Realism Constructivism Liberalism and Critical Theory. In turn the chapters discuss the relevance of each approach to the issue area addressed in the book. The volume offers coverage of the key issues under four thematic sections: - Theoretical Approaches to the Study of the International Relations of South Asia - Traditional and Emerging Security Issues in South Asia - The International Relations of South Asia - Cross-cutting Regional Issues Further every effort has been made in the chapters to discuss the origins evolution and future direction of each issue. This book will be of much interest to students of South Asian politics human security regional security and International Relations in general. | Routledge Handbook of the International Relations of South Asia

GBP 190.00
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Emotion shows how the affective turn in the humanities applies to literary studies. Deftly combining the scientific elements with the literary the book provides a theoretical and topical introduction to reading literature and emotion. Looking at a variety of formats including novels drama film graphic fiction and lyric poetry the book also includes focus on specific authors such as Shakespeare Chaucer Jane Austen Virginia Woolf and Viet Thanh Nguyen. The volume introduces the theoretical groundwork covering such categories as affect theory affective neuroscience cognitive science evolution and history of emotions. It examines the range of emotions that play a special role in literature including happiness fear aesthetic delight empathy and sympathy as well as aspects of literature (style narrative voice and others) that bear on emotional response. Finally it explores ethical and political concerns that are often intertwined with emotional response including racism colonialism disability ecology gender sexuality and trauma. This is a crucial guide to the ways in which new interdisciplinary understandings of emotion and affect—in fields from neuroscience to social theory—are changing the study of literature and of the ways those new understandings are impacted by work on literature also.

GBP 205.00
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Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D

Focal Digital Camera Guides: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Just bought a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D and looking to combine practical know-how with inspiration? This one-stop easy-to-read guide covers all the basic functions of the camera and everything beyond. For the basics turn to the quick start guide which will get you up and running in five minutes. For an understanding of your camera's many controls and features check out the section called The Camera. If all you need is a quick explanation you'll find it. If you're looking for the Whole Story you'll find that too. Settings that affect how your pictures look are accompanied by full-color examples that show you exactly what you can expect. This section also covers the camera's menus playback features memory and power sources. The section called Software shows you how to get the most out of your camera's software. It covers tethered shooting color management RAW conversion storing your images managing your library and backup strategies - to name just a few topics. Ultimately this book's greatest strength isn't its focus on the camera or the software; it's the detailed easy-to-follow instruction it offers on using your camera to take truly superior photographs. Sections devoted to lenses subject matter and light cover these variables in depth always presenting the most effective techniques in the context of the strengths and limitations of the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D. Written by a widely acclaimed photographer and photography teacher Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D shows you how to get the shots you can see in your head but have never been able to capture with a camera. The quick start guide will have you taking great photos in five minutes. In-depth

GBP 180.00
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Aviation Design and Innovation

Aviation Design and Innovation

In order to facilitate the safe efficient and cost effective exchange of passengers and cargo between ground and sky airports require the provision of adequate runways aircraft manoeuvring areas cargo sheds and passenger processing facilities. Airports are capital intensive facilities and planning errors which result in the over or under-provision of capacity are both costly and problematic to rectify and so understanding the optimal configuration of passenger terminals is paramount. Of course the design of passenger terminal buildings is influenced not only by levels of demand the commercial requirements of airlines and tenant companies the availability of investment funds and political influence but also by the aircraft that will be using the facility both now and in the future. Indeed the introduction of the first generation of passenger jets in the 1950s and higher-capacity wide-bodied aircraft in the late 1960s required not only the expansion of gate areas and passenger processing facilities but also the introduction of new technologies such as the travelator the baggage reclaim carousel and the airbridge. The introduction of the A380 ‘Super Jumbo’ into revenue passenger service in 2007 similarly demanded a reconfiguration of the airports it serves and practitioners need to be cognisant of the options for accommodating a new generation of large aircraft. While large aircraft generally require a lengthy turn around period between flights and the extensive provision of expensive fixed ground support infrastructure low cost carriers pursue a business model based on very short turnarounds and minimal use of airport infrastructure assets such as airbridges. One of the main challenges facing airport operators is how to accommodate the diverse and dynamic requirements of different operators and these issues are addressed in this Volume. Traditionally aircraft were made and manufactured by small companies within one country but as costs have increased and technology has become more sophisticated a relatively small number of manufacturers which are supported by international supply chains have come to dominate the commercial aircraft market. Originally all aviation jet fuels were derived from crude oil. However concerns about future oil supply and energy security combined with the need to improve aviation’s environmental performance and sustainability has driven the development of alternative fuel sources. However the development and adoption of alternative aviation fuels is not straightforward and the Volume examines the opportunities and challenges of widespread biofuel adoption in terms of production capacity emissions reductions cost and commercial viability. The final essays in this Volume address business model innovation in the airline and airport sector and include considerations of the future evolution of low cost carriers the potential for airline-airport alliances and the development of multi-airport multinational operating companies. | Aviation Design and Innovation

GBP 210.00
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