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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

GBP 29.99
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Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research At the Crossroads

Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research At the Crossroads

Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads reviews the roots of the intersection between machine learning artificial intelligence (AI) and research on crime; examines the current state of the art in this area of scholarly inquiry; and discusses future perspectives that may emerge from this relationship. As machine learning and AI approaches become increasingly pervasive it is critical for criminology and crime research to reflect on the ways in which these paradigms could reshape the study of crime. In response this book seeks to stimulate this discussion. The opening part is framed through a historical lens with the first chapter dedicated to the origins of the relationship between AI and research on crime refuting the novelty narrative that often surrounds this debate. The second presents a compact overview of the history of AI further providing a nontechnical primer on machine learning. The following chapter reviews some of the most important trends in computational criminology and quantitatively characterizing publication patterns at the intersection of AI and criminology through a network science approach. This book also looks to the future proposing two goals and four pathways to increase the positive societal impact of algorithmic systems in research on crime. The sixth chapter provides a survey of the methods emerging from the integration of machine learning and causal inference showcasing their promise for answering a range of critical questions. With its transdisciplinary approach Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research is important reading for scholars and students in criminology criminal justice sociology and economics as well as AI data sciences and statistics and computer science. | Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research At the Crossroads

GBP 130.00
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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.

GBP 34.99
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Cyber Security and Business Intelligence Innovations and Machine Learning for Cyber Risk Management

Cyber Security and Business Intelligence Innovations and Machine Learning for Cyber Risk Management

To cope with the competitive worldwide marketplace organizations rely on business intelligence to an increasing extent. Cyber security is an inevitable practice to protect the entire business sector and its customer. This book presents the significance and application of cyber security for safeguarding organizations individuals’ personal information and government. The book provides both practical and managerial implications of cyber security that also supports business intelligence and discusses the latest innovations in cyber security. It offers a roadmap to master degree students and PhD researchers for cyber security analysis in order to minimize the cyber security risk and protect customers from cyber-attack. The book also introduces the most advanced and novel machine learning techniques including but not limited to Support Vector Machine Neural Networks Extreme Learning Machine Ensemble Learning and Deep Learning Approaches with a goal to apply those to cyber risk management datasets. It will also leverage real-world financial instances to practise business product modelling and data analysis. The contents of this book will be useful for a wide audience who are involved in managing network systems data security data forecasting cyber risk modelling fraudulent credit risk detection portfolio management and data regulatory bodies. It will be particularly beneficial to academics as well as practitioners who are looking to protect their IT system and reduce data breaches and cyber-attack vulnerabilities. | Cyber Security and Business Intelligence Innovations and Machine Learning for Cyber Risk Management

GBP 130.00
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God of the Machine

God of the Machine

The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published in 1943 Isabel Paterson's work provided fresh intellectual support for the endangered American belief in individual rights limited government and economic freedom. The crisis of today's collectivized nations would not have surprised Paterson; in The God of the Machine she had explored the reasons for collectivism's failure. Her book placed her in the vanguard of the free-enterprise movement now sweeping the world. Paterson sees the individual creative mind as the dynamo of history and respect for the individual's God-given rights as the precondition for the enormous release of energy that produced the modern world. She sees capitalist institutions as the machinery through which human energy works and government as a device properly used merely to cut off power to activities that threaten personal liberty. Paterson applies her general theory to particular issues in contemporary life such as education . social welfare and the causes of economic distress. She severely criticizes all but minimal application of government including governmental interventions that most people have long taken for granted. The God of the Machine offers a challenging perspective on the continuing worldwide debate about the nature of freedom the uses of power and the prospects of human betterment. Stephen Cox's substantial introduction to The God of the Machine is a comprehensive and enlightening account of Paterson's colorful life and work. He describes The God of the Machine as not just theory but rhapsody satire diatribe poetic narrative. Paterson's work continues to be relevant because it exposes the moral and practical failures of collectivism failures that are now almost universally acknowledged but are still far from universally understood. The book will be essential to students of American history political theory and literature.

GBP 140.00
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The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

First Published in 1973 The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriters because of the difficulty of discovering what these old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that he had eventually to limit the scope of his ‘history’. There are hundreds and hundreds of makes and models of ‘conventional’ front-stroke type bar machines with four-row keyboards but they were virtually all the same. It is the unconventional ones that are interesting and it is on these that the author concentrates. The book is amusing as well as informative and it ends with a complete catalogue of ‘unconventional’ typewriters manufactured up to the 1930s when the ‘conventional’ machine had become universal. This book is a must read for anyone interested to learn about the writing machine. | The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

GBP 105.00
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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

GBP 39.99
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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

GBP 32.99
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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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Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning methods and draws from specific case studies to demonstrate the opportunities and challenges in CSS approaches. The Handbook is divided into two volumes written by outstanding internationally renowned scholars in the field. This second volume focuses on foundations and advances in data science statistical modeling and machine learning. It covers a range of key issues including the management of big data in terms of record linkage streaming and missing data. Machine learning agent-based and statistical modeling as well as data quality in relation to digital trace and textual data as well as probability non-probability and crowdsourced samples represent further foci. The volume not only makes major contributions to the consolidation of this growing research field but also encourages growth into new directions. With its broad coverage of perspectives (theoretical methodological computational) international scope and interdisciplinary approach this important resource is integral reading for advanced undergraduates postgraduates and researchers engaging with computational methods across the social sciences as well as those within the scientific and engineering sectors. | Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

GBP 52.99
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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

GBP 66.99
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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

GBP 21.99
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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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Biodiversity Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Developments in Access and Benefit Sharing

Biodiversity Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Developments in Access and Benefit Sharing

Debates about Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) have moved on in recent years. An initial focus on the legal obligations established by international agreements like the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity and the form of obligations for collecting physical biological materials have now moved to a far more complex series of disputes and challenges about the ways ABS should be implemented and enforced: repatriation of resources technology transfer traditional knowledge and cultural expressions; open access to information and knowledge naming conventions farmers’ rights new schemes for accessing pandemic viruses and sharing DNA sequences and so on. Unfortunately most of this debate is now crystallised into apparently intractable discussions such as implementing the certificates of origin recognising traditional knowledge and traditional cultural expression as a form of intellectual property and sovereignty for Indigenous peoples. Not everything in this new marketplace of ABS has been created de novo. Like most new entrants ABS has disrupted existing legal and governance arrangements. This collection of chapters examines what is new what has been changed and what might be changed in response to the growing acceptance and prevalence of ABS of genetic resources. Biodiversity Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property: Developments in Access and Benefit Sharing of Genetic Resources addresses current issues arising from recent developments in the enduring and topical debates about managing genetic resources through the ABS regime. The book explores key historical doctrinal and theoretical issues in the field at the same time developing new ideas and perspectives around ABS. It shows the latest state of knowledge and will be of interest to researchers academics policymakers and students in the fields of intellectual property governance biodiversity and conservation sustainable development and agriculture. | Biodiversity Genetic Resources and Intellectual Property Developments in Access and Benefit Sharing

GBP 38.99
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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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Mobilizing U.S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

Mobilizing U.S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

Originally published in 1988 this volume outlines the need for a series of organisational reforms new studies and committees to focus attention on mobilization issues and to provide an administrative framework for enhancing the mobilization base. The authors point out that mobilization is becoming a more viable US national security option. Case studies are used around raw materials of petroleum ferroalloys machine tools and semi-conductors which highlight common problems of diminishing domestic market share and growing reliance on foreign sector capacity declining profits research and development expense a decline of skilled labour and economic decline in subsector industries. | Mobilizing U. S. Industry A Vanishing Option For National Security?

GBP 36.99
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Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning

Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning

The Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning is a comprehensive text that provides students with meaningful lab experiences in the area of strength and conditioning and applied sport science. While each lab may be conducted in a sophisticated laboratory there are opportunities to conduct the labs in a gym or field environment without costly equipment. It is a useful resource as students prepare for a career as a strength and conditioning coach athletic trainer physical therapist or personal trainer. The Laboratory Manual for Strength and Conditioning is designed to be a practical guide for training students and professionals in the skills to be applied to strength and conditioning. The labs cover seven major aspects of strength and conditioning including speed power flexibility agility and fitness. The labs are practical and easy to follow with sample calculations data tables and worksheets to complete. Each includes suggested tasks/activities to apply the theory to real-world applications. Students will explore assessments of strength aerobic capacity power output speed change of direction and muscular endurance and gain understanding in the following areas: Definitions of commonly used terms within the area of exploration as well as commonly misused terms Assessing performance (i. e. power strength speed etc. ) Understanding laboratory- and field-based techniques for specific athlete populations Describing optimal methods for testing in all aspects of physical performance Evaluation of test results based upon sport and/or athlete normative data The lab manual is a valuable resource for strength coaches personal trainers kinesiology students and educators at the undergraduate and beginning graduate-level programs and can be used in a graduate strength and conditioning course.

GBP 32.99
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A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture

A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture

In this volume Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Michael Kammen explores the U. S. Constitution's place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life from ratification in 1788 to our own time. As he examines what the Constitution has meant to the American people (perceptions and misperceptions uses and abuses knowledge and ignorance) Kammen shows that although there are recurrent declarations of reverence most of us neither know nor fully understand our Constitution. How did this gap between ideal and reality come about? To explain it Kammen examines the complex and contradictory feelings about the Constitution that emerged during its preparation and that have been with us ever since. He begins with our confusion as to the kind of Union we created especially with regard to how much sovereignty the states actually surrendered to the central government. This confusion is the source of the constitutional crisis that led to the Civil War and its aftermath. Kammen also describes and analyzes changing perceptions of the differences and similarities between the British and American constitutions; turn-of-the-century debates about states' rights versus national authority; and disagreements about how easy or difficult it ought to be to amend the Constitution. Moving into the twentieth century he notes the development of a cult of the Constitution following World War I and the conflict over policy issues that persisted despite a shared commitment to the Constitution. | A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture

GBP 130.00
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Research Methodologies for Business Management

Research Methodologies for Business Management

Most existing research methodologies texts take a more general approach or are edited books of previously published articles or chapters written by different authors. This book written by a business management scholar covers the fundamentals of business management research and its methodologies in a seamless unified manner. The book offers up-date methodologies and accessible explanations of the research process. It starts with advances in business management research methodology and gives a thorough overview on the different levels of analysis in the field. It builds upon the knowledge by examining both qualitative and quantitative research methodologies in the context of business management. It also goes over the use of machine learning and other technological advances like AI in research and data collection as well as how the United Nations sustainable development goals are being considered by researchers. This book will help business management students and junior researchers quickly build an essential base of knowledge and gain a strategic advantage in publishing and reviewing business related research. | Research Methodologies for Business Management

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Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games machine-learning artificial intelligence models and adaptive technologies. Game-based education provides rare data for measuring assessing and evaluating not just a game’s effectiveness but the acquisition of information and knowledge that a student may gain through playing a learning game. This book synthesizes contemporary research frameworks and models centered on the design and delivery of serious games that truly personalize the learning experience. Scholars of educational technology instructional design human performance and more will find a comprehensive guide to the history practical implications and data-collection potential inherent to these fast-evolving tools. | Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

GBP 38.99
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Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation

Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation

This collection reflects on the state of the art of research into the use of translation technologies in the translation of creative texts encompassing literary texts but also extending beyond to cultural texts and charts their development and paths for further research. Bringing together perspectives from scholars across the discipline the book considers recent trends and developments in technology that have spurred growing interest in the use of computer-aided translation (CAT) and machine translation (MT) tools in literary translation. Chapters examine the relationships between translators and these tools—the extent to which they already use such technologies the challenges they face and prevailing attitudes towards these tools—as well as the ethical implications of such technologies in translation practice. The volume gives special focus to drawing on examples with and beyond traditional literary genres to look to these technologies’ use in working with the larger group of creative texts setting the stage for many future research opportunities. The book will be of particular interest to students and scholars in translation studies especially those with an interest in literary translation translation technology translation practice and translation ethics. Chapters 2 & 3 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com | Using Technologies for Creative-Text Translation

GBP 130.00
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Designed for Habitat New Directions for Habitat for Humanity

Designed for Habitat New Directions for Habitat for Humanity

Designed for Habitat: New Directions for Habitat for Humanity presents 12 new projects designed and built via collaborations between architects and Habitat for Humanity®. The ways in which we think about affordable housing are being challenged by designers and not-for-profit housing advocates such as Habitat for Humanity and its affiliates. The projects chronicled in this book consider home affordability through the lens of monthly homeownership expenses energy efficiency and residential energy use and issues of designed resilience to natural events ranging from aging and accessibility concerns to natural disasters and climate change. New to this edition the projects reflect new approaches to building scale construction technology energy and affordability and design and context. Illustrated with over 100 color images the case studies include detailed plans and photographs to show how these projects came about the strategies used by each team to approach the design and construction process and the obstacles they overcame to realize a successful outcome. The lessons and insights presented will be a valuable resource whether you’re an architect an architecture student a Habitat affiliate leader or an affordable housing advocate. | Designed for Habitat New Directions for Habitat for Humanity

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Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics A guide for research

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics A guide for research

Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics provides a practical and comprehensive introduction to the growing field of corpus pragmatics. Taking a hands-on approach to showcase the applications of corpora in the exploration of core topics within pragmatics this book: • covers six key areas of corpus-pragmatic research including speech acts deixis pragmatic markers evaluation conversational structure and multimodality; • demonstrates the use of freely-available corpora corpus interfaces and corpus analysis tools to conduct original pragmatic analyses; • is accompanied by an e-resource which hosts multimodal data sets for additional exercises. Featuring case studies and practical tasks within each chapter Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics is an essential guide for students and researchers studying or conducting their own corpus-based research in pragmatics. | Corpus Linguistics for Pragmatics A guide for research

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Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

This book is an accessible introduction to linguistics specifically tailored for teachers of second language/bilingual education. It guides teachers stepwise through the components of language focusing on the areas of linguistics that are most pertinent for teaching. Throughout the book there are opportunities to analyze linguistic data and discuss language-related issues in various educational and social contexts. Readers will be able to identify patterns in actual language use to inform their teaching and help learners advance to the next level. A highly readable account of how language works this book is an ideal text for teacher education courses. | Linguistics for Language Teachers Lessons for Classroom Practice

GBP 35.99
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Designing for Kids Creating for Playing Learning and Growing

Designing for Kids Creating for Playing Learning and Growing

Designers especially design students rarely have access to children or their worlds when creating products images experiences and environments for them. Therefore fine distinctions between age transitions and the day-to-day experiences of children are often overlooked. Designing for Kids brings together all a designer needs to know about developmental stages play patterns age transitions playtesting safety standards materials and the daily lives of kids providing a primer on the differences in designing for kids versus designing for adults. Research and interviews with designers social scientists and industry experts are included highlighting theories and terms used in the fields of design developmental psychology sociology cultural anthropology and education. This textbook includes more than 150 color images helpful discussion questions and clearly formatted chapters making it relevant to a wide range of readers. It is a useful tool for students in industrial design interaction design environmental design and graphic design with children as the main audience for their creations. | Designing for Kids Creating for Playing Learning and Growing

GBP 42.99
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