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Subtle Agroecologies Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature

Subtle Agroecologies Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature

This book is about the invisible or subtle nature of food and farming and also about the nature of existence. Everything that we know (and do not know) about the physical world has a subtle counterpart which has been scarcely considered in modernist farming practice and research. If you think this book isn’t for you if it appears more important to attend to the pressing physical challenges the world is facing before having the luxury of turning to such subtleties then think again. For it could be precisely this worldview – the one prioritises the physical-material dimension of reality - that helped get us into this situation in the first place. Perhaps we need a different worldview to get us out? This book makes a foundational contribution to the discipline of Subtle Agroecologies a nexus of indigenous epistemologies multidisciplinary advances in wave-based and ethereal studies and the science of sustainable agriculture. Not a farming system in itself Subtle Agroecologies superimposes a non-material dimension upon existing materially-based agroecological farming systems. Bringing together 43 authors from 12 countries and five continents from the natural and social sciences as well as the arts and humanities this multi-contributed book introduces the discipline explaining its relevance and potential contribution to the field of Agroecology. Research into Subtle Agroecologies may be described as the systematic study of the nature of the invisible world as it relates to the practice of agriculture and to do this through adapting and innovating with research methods in particular with those of a more embodied nature with the overall purpose of bringing and maintaining balance and harmony. Such research is an open-minded inquiry its grounding being the lived experiences of humans working on and with the land over several thousand years to the present. By reclaiming and reinterpreting the perennial relationship between humans and nature the implications would revolutionise agriculture heralding a new wave of more sustainable farming techniques changing our whole relationship with nature to one of real collaboration rather than control and ultimately transforming ourselves. | Subtle Agroecologies Farming With the Hidden Half of Nature

GBP 170.00
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Political Campaign Craftsmanship A Professional's Guide to Campaigning for Public Office

Political Campaign Craftsmanship A Professional's Guide to Campaigning for Public Office

Over one billion dollars are spent in presidential election years on an expensive art form: political campaigns. Many political observers believe that at least half that amount is wasted. But which half? Edward Schwartzman answers that question based upon experience gained in seventy-five campaigns. Political Campaign Craftsmanship treats both the art and science of campaigning describing the procedures basic to modern professional campaigning. This practical guide to campaigns covers the entire process and gives specific strategies for every phase. | Political Campaign Craftsmanship A Professional's Guide to Campaigning for Public Office

GBP 145.00
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The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

Complex issues of national security and defense modernization continue to be a major preoccupation of the PRC leadership. In the 1970s especially during the second half of that crucial decade critical decisions were made that led to Beijing's alignment with the West against the USSR and a revitalization of its armed forces. This book looks at Chi | The Chinese Defense Establishment Continuity And Change In The 1980s

GBP 125.00
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Making Peace With The Plo The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord

Making Peace With The Plo The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord

After decades of branding Yasser Arafat an arch-terrorist Israel has embraced the PLO leader as a partner for peace. In this study of one of the most extraordinary examples of secret diplomacy in the second half of the twentieth century David Makovsky diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post explores the personal domestic regional and | Making Peace With The Plo The Rabin Government's Road To The Oslo Accord

GBP 130.00
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From Generation to Generation

From Generation to Generation

The republication of From Generation to Generation-almost half a century after its first appearance in 1956-constitutes a good occasion for a look at the way in which problems of youth and generations developed in contemporary societies. In this brilliant pioneering effort different approaches in the social sciences to the analysis of these issues receive close scrutiny. Eisenstadt reexamines these issues by including in this edition several new chapters on this theme.

GBP 130.00
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Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

What are the religious impulses in the 1976 film Rocky and how can they work to shape one's social identity? Do the films Alien and Aliens signify the reemergence of the earth goddess as a vital cultural power? What female archetypes borne out of male desire inform the experience of women in Nine and a Half Weeks?These are among the several comp | Screening The Sacred Religion Myth And Ideology In Popular American Film

GBP 130.00
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Research and Relevant Knowledge American Research Universities Since World War II

Research and Relevant Knowledge American Research Universities Since World War II

The rise of American research universities to international preeminence constitutes one of the most important episodes in the history of higher education. Research and Relevant Knowledge follows Geiger's earlier volume on American research universities from 1900 to 1940. This second work is the first study to trace this momentous development in the post-World War II period. It describes how the federal government first relied on university scientists during the war and how the resulting relationship set the pattern for the postwar mushrooming of academic research. The first half of the book analyzes the development of the postwar system of academic research exploring the contributions of foundations defense agencies and universities. The second half depicts the rise of the golden age of academic research in the years after Sputnik (1957) and its eventual dissolution at the end of the 1960s graduate education. When the federal patron soon reduced its largesse university students took the lead in challenging the putative hegemony of academic research. The loss of consensus quickly brought the malaise of the 1970s-stagnation frustration and equivocation about the research role. The final chapter appraises the renaissance of the 1980s based largely on a rapprochement with the private sector and ends by evaluating the embattled status of research universities at the beginning of the 1990s. Research and Relevant Knowledge provides the first authoritative analytical account of American research universities during their most fateful half-century. It will be of critical importance to all those concerned with the future of higher education in the United States. | Research and Relevant Knowledge American Research Universities Since World War II

GBP 130.00
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Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice

Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice

Updated to include recent results from intensive worldwide research efforts in materials science surface science and corrosion science Corrosion Mechanisms in Theory and Practice Third Edition explores the latest advances in corrosion and protection mechanisms. It presents a detailed account of the chemical and electrochemical surface reactions that govern corrosion as well as the link between microscopic forces and macroscopic behavior. Revised and expanded this edition includes four new chapters on corrosion fundamentals the passivity of metals high temperature corrosion and the corrosion of aluminum alloys. The first half of the book covers basic aspects of corrosion such as entry of hydrogen into metals anodic dissolution localized corrosion stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue. Connecting the theoretical aspects of corrosion mechanisms to practical applications in industry the second half of the text discusses corrosion inhibition atmospheric corrosion microbially induced corrosion corrosion in nuclear systems corrosion of microelectronic and magnetic data-storage devices and organic coatings. With contributions from leading academic and industrial researchers this bestselling book continues to provide a thorough understanding of corrosion mechanisms—helping you solve existing corrosion challenges and prevent future problems.

GBP 94.99
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Early Buddhist Artisans and Their Architectural Vocabulary

Early Buddhist Artisans and Their Architectural Vocabulary

The early Buddhist architectural vocabulary being the first of its kind maintained its monopoly for about half a millennium beginning from the third century BCE. To begin with it was oral not written. The Jain Hindu and other Indian sectarian builders later developed their vocabulary on this foundation though not identically. This book attempts to understand this vocabulary and the artisans who first made use of it. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Bhutan) | Early Buddhist Artisans and Their Architectural Vocabulary

GBP 130.00
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FEM and Micromechatronics with ATILA Software

FEM and Micromechatronics with ATILA Software

Students preparing to work with mechatronics particularly with highly precise and smart actuators face the challenge of designing and analyzing devices without formal and practical guidance in computer techniques. Finally there is a textbook that is as practical as it is authoritative: Kenji Uchino's FEM and Micromechatronics with ATILA Software. Ideal for Today's Computer-Based CurriculaEvery aspect of this book reflects its focus on being easy to use easy to teach from and above all easy to implement. The first half of the text outlines the theory needed to develop and design smart actuators and transducers while the second half walks students step-by-step through the software implementation using seven extensive examples. Even the book's lay-flat binding makes it easy for students to follow the text while working simultaneously at a computer. The downloadable resources supply a free educational version of ATILA-Light. Unified Coverage for Integrated TechnologiesCovering the myriad challenges posed by smart transducers the author introduces the fundamentals of piezoelectric and magnetostrictive devices practical materials device designs drive and control techniques and typical applications. Numerous problems and examples give students ample opportunity to put the concepts into practice. Outlining a complete treatment in 30 convenient 75 minute lessons FEM and Micromechatronics with ATILA Software is a unique classroom text that students will continue to use throughout their entire careers.

GBP 115.00
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Multirate Signal Processing for Communication Systems

Multirate Signal Processing for Communication Systems

Multirate Signal processing can improve system performance and reduce costs in applications ranging from laboratory instruments cable modems wireless systems satellites Radar Sonar and consumer entertainment products. This second edition continues to offer a systematic clear and intuitive introduction to multirate signal processing for working engineers and system designers. Significant new material and fresh concepts including Green Signal Processing techniques have been introduced. The author uses extensive examples and figures to illustrate a wide range of multirate techniques from basic resampling to leading-edge cascade and multi-stage filter structures. Along the way he draws on extensive research and consulting experience to introduce processing “tricks” shown to maximize performance and efficiency. Coverage includes:• Effect of sampling and resampling in time and frequency domains• Relationships between FIR filter specifications and filter length (# of taps)• Window design and equal-ripple (Remez) design techniques• Square-Root Nyquist and Half-band Filters including new enhancements• Polyphase FIR filters: up-sampling down-sampling• Polyphase M-path analysis and synthesis channelizers and cascade pairs• Polyphase interpolators for arbitrary sample rate changes• Dyadic half-band filters quadrature mirror filters• Channel banks for multiple arbitrary bandwidths and center frequencies • Comprehensive coverage of recursive all-pass filters and channelizers non-uniform and uniform phase mixed recursive and non-recursive• Comparisons with traditional DSP designs• Extensive applications coverage throughout | Multirate Signal Processing for Communication Systems

GBP 94.99
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Quantitative Phase Field Modelling of Solidification

Quantitative Phase Field Modelling of Solidification

This book presents a study of phase field modelling of solidification in metal alloy systems. It is divided in two main themes. The first half discusses several classes of quantitative multi-order parameter phase field models for multi-component alloy solidification. These are derived in grand potential ensemble thus tracking solidification in alloys through the evolution of the chemical potentials of solute species rather than the more commonly used solute concentrations. The use of matched asymptotic analysis for making phase field models quantitative is also discussed at length and derived in detail in order to make this somewhat abstract topic accessible to students. The second half of the book studies the application of phase field modelling to rapid solidification where solute trapping and interface undercooling follow highly non-equilibrium conditions. In this limit matched asymptotic analysis is used to map phase field evolution equations onto the continuous growth model which is generally accepted as a sharp-interface description of solidification at rapid solidification rates. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in materials science and materials engineering. Key Features Presents a clear path to develop quantitative multi-phase and multi-component phase field models for solidification and other phase transformation kinetics Derives and discusses the quantitative nature of the model formulations through matched interface asymptotic analysis Explores a framework for quantitative treatment of rapid solidification to control solute trapping and solute drag dynamics | Quantitative Phase Field Modelling of Solidification

GBP 99.99
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HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers Fundamentals Application and Operation Second Edition

HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers Fundamentals Application and Operation Second Edition

HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers: Fundamentals Application and Operation Second Edition explores the major improvements in recent years to many chiller and cooling tower components that have resulted in improved performance and lower operating costs. This new edition looks at how climate change and green designs have significantly impacted the selection of refrigerants and the application of chilled water systems. It also discusses the expanded use of digital controls and variable frequency drives as well as the re-introduction of some older technologies especially ammonia-based absorption cooling. The first half of the book focuses on water chillers and the second half addresses cooling towers. In both sections the author includes the following material: Fundamentals—basic information about systems and equipment including how they and their various components work Design and Application—equipment sizing selection and application; details of piping control and water treatment; and special considerations such as noise control electrical service fire protection and energy efficiency Operations and Maintenance—commissioning and programmed maintenance of components and systems with guidelines and recommended specifications for procurement This up-to-date book provides HVAC designers building owners operating and maintenance staff architects and mechanical contractors with definitive and practical guidance on the application design purchase operation and maintenance of water chillers and cooling towers. It offers helpful information for you to use on a daily basis including checklists and troubleshooting guidelines. | HVAC Water Chillers and Cooling Towers Fundamentals Application and Operation Second Edition

GBP 94.99
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Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

From Chilika India's largest coastal lake the echoes of poetry the reflections of festive lamps its ever-present turmoil and biodiverse bounty have come together to portray livelihoods and lives half full and half empty. After a broad conceptual framework about fish fishery and fishing livelihoods this book has explicitly focused on the lake's ecosystem in Odisha and sustainability in fishing communities. The voices of the fishers have lent credence to the socio-cultural belief systems right of commons and disputes over conservation at individual and community levels. The volatility over the common user rights is underscored by lack of protection to the locals absence of guiding principles and powerful usurpers. The disruption of livelihoods through insufficient economic support is underlined by the lack of viable equitable and regulated credit structures in the region. Issues of mechanization ecological hazards adverse impact of climate change and environmental degradation are explained through their own bearing on bionomic and traditional livelihood disruptions and in-situ footprints on common property resources. In the final countdown the sustained coexistence of Chilika lake and its varied community is narrated through an integrated socio-economic lens that accommodates extant challenges into its field of vision. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

GBP 130.00
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Problems of Nationalized Industry

Problems of Nationalized Industry

First Published in 1952 Problems of Nationalized Industry presents the first serious discussion on the issues related to nationalization of industries in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century. Part I includes fourteen essays on the general framework of public corporations; methods of assessing compensation; the organization of nationalized industries; labour and staff problems; joint consultation between management and workers; finance and price policy; scientific research and development; and a comparison between nationalization in England and France. Part II consists of a substantial body of general conclusions which are related to the earlier chapters. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of British politics labour politics labour economics and political science.

GBP 115.00
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Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception

Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception

This book draws on Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology to develop new and promising solutions to contemporary debates about perception. In providing an extension and defense of Merleau-Ponty's account of perceptual content and of the relation between perception and the world it demonstrates the value of Merleau-Ponty's insights for philosophy of perception today. The author focuses on two main topics: the contents and the nature of perception. In the first half of this book the author tackles debates about the content of perception namely what sorts of properties or features of the world reveal themselves to us in perception and in what modes. Drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s description of perceptual “sense ” the author argues that perception has a unique kind of content which cannot be adequately described in terms of sensations or concepts. He then shows how this account of perceptual sense can clarify debates about the richness of perceptual content including whether we can perceive moral properties. In the second half he turns to the nature of perception. Here he argues that Merleau-Ponty’s account of perceptual intentionality makes available a powerful combination of the core insights of two main contemporary approaches to this question: realism and intentionalism. The author shows how this combination can be developed defends it from objections and explains how it is equipped to deal with problems posed by the existence of illusions and hallucinations. Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy of Perception will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on phenomenology and the philosophy of perception.

GBP 130.00
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The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

This book evaluates the widespread preference in philosophy of mind for varieties of property dualism over other alternatives to physicalism. It takes the standard motivations for property dualism as a starting point and argues that these lead directly to nonphysical substances resembling the soul of traditional metaphysics. In the first half of the book the author clarifies what is at issue in the choice between theories that posit nonphysical properties only and those that posit nonphysical substances. The crucial question he argues is whether one posits nonphysical things that satisfy an Aristotelian-Cartesian independence definition of substance: nonphysical things that could exist in the absence of anything else. In the second half the author argues that standard and Russellian monist forms of property dualism are far less plausible than we usually suppose. Most significantly the presuppositions of one of the leading arguments for property dualism the conceivability argument lead by parity of reasoning to the view that conscious subjects are nonphysical substances. He concludes that if you posit nonphysical properties in response to the mind-body problem then you should be prepared to posit nonphysical substances as well. Mainstream philosophy of mind must take nonphysical substances far more seriously than it has done for the best part of a century. The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of mind metaphysics and the history of philosophy. | The Mind-Body Problem and Metaphysics An Argument from Consciousness to Mental Substance

GBP 130.00
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Security Implications Of Nationalism In Eastern Europe

Security Implications Of Nationalism In Eastern Europe

Suggesting that events in Poland during 1980–1981 represent the tip of an iceberg the contributors examine the rise of nationalism in Eastern Europe and its potential consequences for European security. They analyze developing problems and trends in the region including the cooling of relations between the USSR and individual countries in Eastern Europe the continuing economic crisis changing social structures the influence of the intelligentsia and the eroding importance of ideology as a key part of Eastern Europe's political culture. The second half of the book focuses on the impact of these shifts on political and military relations between the USSR and Eastern European countries and on the efficient functioning of the Warsaw Pact. | Security Implications Of Nationalism In Eastern Europe

GBP 125.00
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Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times

Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times

This collection explores the links between multimodality and multilingualism charting the interplay between languages channels and forms of communication in multilingual written texts from historical manuscripts through to the new media of today and the non-verbal associations they evoke. The volume argues that features of written texts such as graphics layout boundary marking and typography are inseparable from verbal content. Taken together the chapters adopt a systematic historical perspective to investigate this interplay over time and highlight the ways in which the two disciplines might further inform one another in the future as new technologies emerge. The first half of the volume considers texts where semiotic resources are the sites of modes where multiple linguistic codes interact on the page and generate extralinguistic associations through visual features and spatial organizaisation. The second half of the book looks at texts where this interface occurs not in the text but rather in the cultural practices involved in social materiality and text transmission. Enhancing our understandings of multimodal resources in both historical and contemporary communication this book will be of interest to scholars in multimodality multilingualism historical communication discourse analysis and cultural studies. Chapters 1 4 and 5 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. Chapters 1 & 4 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license with Chapter 5 being made available under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 license. | Multilingualism from Manuscript to 3D Intersections of Modalities from Medieval to Modern Times

GBP 120.00
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History of Cartography

History of Cartography

This illustrated work is intended to acquaint readers with the early maps produced in both Europe and the rest of the world and to tell us something of their development their makers and printers their varieties and characteristics. The authors' chief concern is with the appearance of maps: they exclude any examination of their content or of scientific methods of mapmaking. This book ends in the second half of the eighteenth century when craftsmanship was superseded by specialized science and the machine. As a history of the evolution of the early map it is a stunning work of art and science. This expanded second edition of Bagrow and Skelton's History of Cartography marks the reappearance of this seminal work after a hiatus of nearly a half century. As a reprint project undertaken many years after the book last appeared finding suitable materials to work from proved to be no easy task. Because of the wealth of monochrome and color plates the book could only be properly reproduced using the original materials. Ultimately the authors were able to obtain materials from the original printer Scotchprints or contact films made directly from original plates thus allowing the work to preserve the beauty and clarity of the illustrations. Old maps collated with other materials help us to elucidate the course of human history. It was not until the eighteenth century however that maps were gradually stripped of their artistic decoration and transformed into plain specialist sources of information based upon measurement. Maps are objects of historical artistic and cultural significance and thus collecting them seems to need no justification simply enjoyment.

GBP 110.00
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Making Policy for the New Information Economy Comparing China and India

Making Policy for the New Information Economy Comparing China and India

This volume is a theoretically informed comparative analysis of the telecommunications and information policy-making process in two major developing economies China and India. With a focus on how policies are made rather than what those policies are the book investigates how policy actors interact within institutional structures to define policy problems and identify potential solutions. The authors explain the evolution of these policy-making systems as the two countries liberalized their economies and opened their media and telecommunications systems to competition over the past two-and-a-half decades. With applications in numerous international contexts this book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in public policy studies telecommunications business development economics political science Asian studies and public administration. | Making Policy for the New Information Economy Comparing China and India

GBP 130.00
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