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Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborative Measures of Control

Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborative Measures of Control

Antimicrobial resistance has existed in nature long before the discovery of antibiotics. The mechanisms of resistance are prevalent among the bacterial population. Over a period of time and facilitated by indiscriminate usage of antibiotics these mechanisms are transferred from one type of bacteria to another including the pathogenic ones. In addition the rate of discovery of novel antimicrobials is much slower than the rate of evolution of antimicrobial resistance. Therefore there is a need for alternative strategies to control antimicrobial resistance to save lives. In this book the novel strategies to combat antimicrobial resistance are described emphasizing collaborative measures of control. We describe the concerted efforts undertaken by global communities to combat antimicrobial resistance in detail. The most efficient strategy could be a behavioral change towards indiscriminate consumption usage and prescription of antibiotics. | Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborative Measures of Control

GBP 115.00
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Resistance Welding Fundamentals and Applications Second Edition

Resistance Welding Fundamentals and Applications Second Edition

Drawing on state-of-the-art research results Resistance Welding: Fundamentals and Applications Second Edition systematically presents fundamental aspects of important processes in resistance welding and discusses their implications on real-world welding applications. This updated edition describes progress made in resistance welding research and practice since the publication of the first edition. New to the Second Edition: Significant addition of the metallurgical aspects of materials involved in resistance welding such as steels aluminum and magnesium alloys zinc and copper Electric current waveforms commonly used in resistance welding including single-phase AC single-phase DC three-phase DC and MFDC Magnesium welding in terms of cracking and expulsion The effect of individual welding parameters 2-D and 3-D lobe diagrams New materials for the ultrasonic evaluation of welds including A-scan B-scan and in-line A-scan The book begins with chapters on the metallurgical processes in resistance spot welding the basics of welding schedule selection and cracking in the nugget and heat-affected zone of alloys. The next several chapters discuss commonly conducted mechanical tests the monitoring and control of a welding process and the destructive and nondestructive evaluation of weld quality. The authors then analyze the mechanisms of expulsion—a process largely responsible for defect formation and other unwanted features—and explore an often overlooked topic in resistance welding-related research: the influence of mechanical aspects of welding machines. The final chapters explain how to numerically simulate a resistance welding process and apply statistical design and analysis approaches to welding research. To obtain a broad understanding of this area readers previously had to scour large quantities of research on resistance welding and essential related subjects such as statistical analysis. This book collects the necessary information in one source for students researchers and practitioners in the sheet metal industry. It thoroughly reviews state-of-the-art results in resistance welding research and gives you a solid foundation for solving practical problems in a scientific and systematic manner. | Resistance Welding Fundamentals and Applications Second Edition

GBP 94.99
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Domination and Resistance

Domination and Resistance

The nature of power - one of the central concerns in social science - is the main theme of this wide-ranging book. Introducing a much broader historical and geographical comparative understanding of domination and resistance than is available elsewhere the editors and contributors offer a wealth of perspectives and case studies. They illustrate the application of these ideas to issues as diverse as ritualized space the nature of hierarchy in non-capitalist contexts and the production of archaeological discourse. Drawing on considerable experience in promoting interaction between archaeology and other disciplines concerned with ideology power and social transformation the editors have brought together a stimulating book that will be of widespread interest amongst students of archaeology ancient history sociology anthropology and human geography.

GBP 175.00
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Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

This book offers a truly interdisciplinary exploration of our patterns of engagement with politics news and information in current high-choice information environments. Putting forth the notion that high-choice information environments may contribute to increasing misperceptions and knowledge resistance rather than greater public knowledge the book offers insights into the processes that influence the supply of misinformation and factors influencing how and why people expose themselves to and process information that may support or contradict their beliefs and attitudes. A team of authors from across a range of disciplines address the phenomena of knowledge resistance and its causes and consequences at the macro- as well as the micro-level. The chapters take a philosophical look at the notion of knowledge resistance before moving on to discuss issues such as misinformation and fake news psychological mechanisms such as motivated reasoning in processes of selective exposure and attention how people respond to evidence and fact-checking the role of political partisanship political polarization over factual beliefs and how knowledge resistance might be counteracted. This book will have a broad appeal to scholars and students interested in knowledge resistance primarily within philosophy psychology media and communication and political science as well as journalists and policymakers. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Knowledge Resistance in High-Choice Information Environments

GBP 130.00
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Coffee Rust: Epidemiology Resistance and Management

Coffee Rust: Epidemiology Resistance and Management

This highly informative monograph will provide a basic reference on coffee rust for both investigators in the field and those entering it. The research conducted has been organized based on principles of epidemiology and plant disease management providing both theoretical and practical information. This approach enables discussion of the past present and future of coffee rust research in broad plant patholog-ical areas of biology epidemiology genetics and breeding for disease resistance fungicide technology and application and disease management. In addition an analysis of epidemics breeding programs and other rust management practices in India Kenya and Brazil are included. This new text will contain over 45 figures and 40 tables for both investigators in the field and those just entering it. | Coffee Rust: Epidemiology Resistance and Management

GBP 140.00
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Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms this book provides a critical and political analysis of resistance in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer making the journey from lay-person to expert from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey but also to recognise that legal education is a key site in which the subject engages and is engaged by a particular structure—and here the particular structure of the law school. This book explores the resistance to that structure including: different ways in which law’s pedagogic structures might be incomplete or are being fought against; the use of less conventional elements of cultural discourse to resist the abstraction of the lawyer in students’ subject formation; the centralisation of queer and feminist discourses to disrupt the hierarchies of the legal curriculum; the use of digital technologies; the place of embodiment in legal education settings; and the impacts of posthuman knowledges and contexts on legal learning. Assembling original field-defining essays by both leading international scholars and emerging researchers this book constitutes an indispensable resource in legal education research and scholarship that will appeal to legal academics everywhere. | Biopolitics and Resistance in Legal Education

GBP 120.00
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Biofilm Associated Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Recovery

Biofilm Associated Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Recovery

A biofilm is a collection of microbial cells that have adhered to biotic surfaces such as plant cuticles or animal epithelia as well as abiotic surfaces such as rocky substratum or catheter exteriors. The life cycle of a microorganism includes the fundamental process of biofilm formation for survival in diverse and harsh environments since it is a protected mode of growth allowing colonisation of new habitats by dispersal of microbes from the microbial clusters. The biofilm bound microorganisms remain embedded in an extracellular polymeric matrix that protects the indwelling cells from surfactants biocides several invaders like protozoans and defences offered by the hosts like phagocytic cells. The biofilm bound recalcitrant microbes induce chronic and nosocomial diseases posing a serious threat to public health. It has been observed that various antimicrobial drugs are able to successfully remove the planktonic (freely suspended) states of microbes as compared to the sessile (substrate-bound) forms thus resulting in the development of antimicrobial resistance. Modern pharmacological strategies targeting the biofilm matrix differ from the conventional methods of antibiotic usage. This includes the use of natural compounds such as plant bioactive molecules antimicrobial peptides green synthesised nanoparticles or secondary metabolites from other organisms that not only prevent the rise of antimicrobial resistance but are also safe for the host tissues. Biofilm Associated Antimicrobial Resistance and Its Recovery provides a detailed and systematic review of alternative pharmacological developments in the field of biofilm research. Features: A narrative overview of the mechanism of biofilm formation and its role in the emergence of antimicrobial resistance Recent research in the development of antibiofilm remedies involving biogenic compounds Advancements in biofilm detection methodologies with cutting-edge technologies This book serves as a resource for researchers who need to understand and analyze the progression of events during microbial biofilm formation as well as design safer methodologies for its successful eradication. It may also be used as a textbook for a graduate level course in microbiology or microbial biotechnology.

GBP 110.00
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Indie Rock 101 Running Recording Promoting your Band

Indie Rock 101 Running Recording Promoting your Band

Indie Rock 101 is a clear concise all-in-one primer for beginning to mid-level musicians looking for the essential fundamentals behind running recording and promoting their band. It's all the basics that can take years to collate from more specialized or technical books magazines and websites-and it's written by a real independent musician. Part I Running Your Band covers the topics most relevant to forming and running the band: the people practice and songwriting Part II Recording covers pre-production considerations gear and how-to basics and timeless fundamentals and techniques around recording mixing and mastering Part III Promoting covers what you need to know to establish and grow your fan base including graphic design your press kit and website sharing and selling your music playing out and making a videoWhether you're just starting out or looking for a 360-degree primer to help take your music to the next level Indie Rock 101 is the one book that covers it all. Featuring photos and QandAs from:Birdmonster CDBaby founder Derek Sivers Juliana Hatfield John Vanderslice Karate Mark Kozelek of Sun Kil Moon Spanish for 100 World Air Guitar Champion Hot Lixx Hulahan and more | Indie Rock 101 Running Recording Promoting your Band

GBP 175.00
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Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture Voices of the Marginalized

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture Voices of the Marginalized

Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture: Voices of the Marginalized is a compendium of reflections on literary texts politics of literature and culture. The book proffers ruminations on the pivotal role of constructive and positive resistance to reconstruct identities for meaningful human existence. The disciplinary power and dominance coerce the natural body to resist and yearn for freedom. One can establish unique identity by refusing to conform to pressures of society that deform the natural body. Dominant forces and oppressive structures evoke resistance that can range from 'polite demurral' to 'refusal'. Resistance comes from the 'will' that refuses to be controlled and governed. The 'refusal' of the ordinary illuminates ordinary lives/ bodies. Language and literary texts contain essential truths of such human existence. Words and imaginary worlds in literary works reveal truth and suggest possibilities for reconfiguring the order. | Resistance and Identity in Twenty-First Century Literature and Culture Voices of the Marginalized

GBP 130.00
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The Dark Social Online Practices of Resistance Motility and Power

The Dark Social Online Practices of Resistance Motility and Power

This book explores how people interact online through anonymous communication in encrypted hidden or otherwise obscured online spaces. Beyond the Dark Web itself this book examines how the concept of ‘dark social’ broadens the possibilities for examining notions of darkness and sociality in the age of digitality and datafied life. The authors take into account technical moral ethical and pragmatic responses to ourselves and communities seeking to be/belong in/of/ the dark. Scholarship on the Darknet and Dark Social Spaces tends to focus on the uses of encryption and other privacy-enhancing technologies to engender resistance acts. Such understandings of the dark social are naturally in tension with social and political theories which argue that for politics and ‘acts’ to matter they must appear in the public light. They are also in tension with popular narratives of the ‘dark recesses of the web’ which are disparaged by structural powers who seek to keep their subjects knowable and locatable on the clear web. The binary of dark versus light is challenged in this book. The authors’ provocation is that practices of ‘dark’ resistance motility and power are enacted by emerging data cultures. This book draws together scholarship activism and creativity to push past conceptual binary positions and create new approaches to darknet and dark social studies. The Dark Social: Online Practices of Resistance Motility and Power will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of media studies cultural studies communication studies research methods and sociology. This book was originally published as a special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. | The Dark Social Online Practices of Resistance Motility and Power

GBP 130.00
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State Resistance and Change in South Africa

State Resistance and Change in South Africa

Originally published in 1988 this book describes and analyses the factors that were operative in South Africa during the 1980s at a time when Apartheid was under intense pressure. It focuses not only on the central arenas of political action but also on the non-institutional arenas which were increasingly the central forums of political action. Organised around the three linked themes of state action popular opposition and possible alternatives the work examines the manner in which such key institutions such as government business and the military responded to Apartheid in its crisis as well as the role of the ANC the black trade unions Inkatha and community movements in the townships. The final section deals with the South African left and the Freedom Charter. | State Resistance and Change in South Africa

GBP 105.00
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Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India

Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India

This book is a collection of essays that question how subalternity is constituted and contested in Indian society. It draws on Antonio Gramsci's work to investigate the dynamics of hegemony subalternity and resistance in India both past and present. Drawing on the author's extensive fieldwork Politics from Below presents detailed ethnographic studies of the movement against dam building in the Narmada Valley and Adivasi mobilization to democratize the local state in western India. The book will be relevant to students and scholars with an interest in social movements and the political economy of development and democracy in India as well as to activists and engaged members of the public more generally. This title is co-published with Aakar Books. Print editions not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan and Bhutan) | Politics from Below Essays on Subalternity and Resistance in India

GBP 130.00
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Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia A Case of Resistance

Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia A Case of Resistance

Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia: A Case of Resistance provides a detailed and in-depth analysis of the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Slovenia. This important intervention comes at a time when sexual and reproductive rights in Slovenia and around the world are assailed by populist and neoconservative discourses. The authors provide a detailed account of the history of the struggle for reproductive rights particularly the struggles for access to safe abortion insights based on interviews with fellow activists and an analysis of Slovenian public opinion on abortion in a temporal and comparative perspective. The scholar-activist authors put the issue of sexual and reproductive rights at the forefront of the social political and scientific agenda in the name of collectivity and solidarity reinforcing the potential apparent within civil society and social movements. This work will be of interest to researchers and activists with an interest in gender and reproductive rights in contemporary Europe. | Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia A Case of Resistance

GBP 130.00
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A Short Guide to Fraud Risk Fraud Resistance and Detection

A Short Guide to Fraud Risk Fraud Resistance and Detection

A Short Guide to Fraud Risk is for: anyone who needs to better understand fraud risks either company-wide or in a specific business unit; directors and managers who would like to add value by building fraud resistance into their organization and to demonstrate to shareholders regulators or other stakeholders that they are managing fraud risks rather than just reacting to incidents; regulators auditors and compliance professionals who need to assess the effectiveness of an organisation's fraud prevention measures. The book gives a concise but thorough introduction to the risk of fraud based on a six-element strategy. It includes practical steps to assess and treat fraud risks across an organisation including those relating to executive directors. It also provides practical steps to develop fraud awareness across an organisation and how to implement an effective fraud detection and incident management program. The application of the principles is illustrated with example documents and numerous case studies aimed at assisting the reader to implement either individual elements or a complete fraud risk management strategy. | A Short Guide to Fraud Risk Fraud Resistance and Detection

GBP 175.00
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(Un)sighted Archives of Migration Spaces of Encounter and Resistance

(Un)sighted Archives of Migration Spaces of Encounter and Resistance

(Un)sighted Archives of Migration acknowledges that migration is a fundamental part of social practice and collective memory. However archives that have undergone migration or were established by individuals or communities with migration experience gain little public and institutional attention. This volume with its transversal perspective across the fields of art anthropology and social activism offers new perspectives on the enormous potential of migratory archives as resourceful spaces for encounter and remembrance and as a contribution to the plural collective memories and identities of post-migratory societies. Emphasizing the archival agency by migrants the chapters raise new questions with regard to the multi-directional collaborative forms of knowledge production within and beyond an archive its boundaries and its materiality. Focusing on the complexities of power relations spatial and temporal dynamics media practices and meaning production involved in the making maintenance viewing appropriation destruction and loss of such archives the chapters contribute to a critical methodological and theoretical discussion about (un)sighted archives as spaces of encounter and resistance in a liminal zone of visibility and invisibility. This book was originally published as a special issue of Visual Anthropology. | (Un)sighted Archives of Migration Spaces of Encounter and Resistance

GBP 120.00
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Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness precarity failure and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness other authors such as Judith Butler Wendy Brown Jack Halberstam Lauren Berlant or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films memoirs and novels that deal with precarity alienation and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show unhappiness precarity vulnerability or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness—whatever that means. | Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

GBP 130.00
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Cape of Torments Slavery and Resistance in South Africa

Cape of Torments Slavery and Resistance in South Africa

Cape of Torments first published in 1983 is a detailed examination of slavery in the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope. It describes the reactions of the slaves to their conditions of slavery concentrating on those aspects of their lives which their masters considered criminal and above all on the large numbers of occasions when slaves ran away in an attempt to start a new life elsewhere. The book examines Cape society and slave organization; the complex relations between slaves and the other groups of population at the Cape – Khoisan Xhosa Sotho-Tswana Dutch East India Co servants and sailors – and the opportunities for escape; major uprisings and rebellions. The major theme of the book is the extent to which the Cape slaves were able to build a culture of their own and the legacy of slavery to their descendants in modern South Africa. | Cape of Torments Slavery and Resistance in South Africa

GBP 89.99
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Influence and Resistance in Post-Independence Egyptian Architecture

Influence and Resistance in Post-Independence Egyptian Architecture

This book is an effort towards an in-depth understanding of the architectural discourse in Egypt developed over more than eight decades. It offers a distinctive theoretical interpretation of the forces shaping the kaleidoscopic shifts in Egyptian architecture through the analysis of the micro space of architectural representation of twentieth century Egyptian architecture. Predicated on historical contextualization theoretical integration and global conceptualization Edward Said’s analytical method of contrapuntal reading and the spatial discourse analysis posited by C. Greig Crysler are lucidly assimilated to generate insights into various voices within the architectural discourse in Egypt. The analysis and critique of two important professional magazines al-‘Imarah (1939–1959) and ‘Alam al-Bena’a (1980–2000) which shaped the collective psyche of both the academic and professional communities in Egypt and the wider region coupled with the exploration of two other short-lived magazines M‘imaryah (1982–1989) Medina (1998–2002) and other less-influential professional magazines discloses the structure of attitude and reference or the exclusions and inclusions that defined the boundaries of the space of the discourse. Influence and Resistance in Post-Independence Egyptian Architecture paves the way to genuinely debate a yet to mature twenty-first century’s architectural discourse in Egypt. This book is a key resource for architects architectural historians and critical theorists and will appeal to academics and to both graduate and advanced undergraduate students in architectural history and theory and Middle East and Global South studies.

GBP 130.00
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Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

Resource extraction and conflicts over natural resources are a global phenomenon including in India. Indigenous tribes like the Ho community in Jharkhand are affected by these dynamics as their cultural practices and livelihoods are intertwined with the local ecology. This book explores the process of state formation through developmental intervention in the resource-rich areas of Jharkhand in eastern India which are inhabited by the indigenous Ho community. The conflict in Jharkhand is intertwined with State development projects and capitalist interventions. This book examines the history of these projects and the issues of territorialization dispossession accumulation and marginalization which communities have been fighting against for many decades. It examines the process of development policies and projects shaping and restructuring the resource-rich ecology in the region and addresses the interrelated issues of development-induced dispossession resistance ecological transformation governance illegalities and state-building. It focuses on the questions: what do development projects bring to the Ho community; what induces them to resist and negotiate? How do State decentralization schemes and local governance in resource conflict areas strengthen State capacities? The book highlights the consequences on the livelihoods and cultural practices of the local people because of ecological transformation and everyday resistance. Comprehensive and important this book will be of interest to students and researchers of anthropology sociology political ecology social work development studies ecology developmental sociology indigenous studies law and economic anthropology. | Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

GBP 130.00
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Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Between Loyalty and Resistance

Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Between Loyalty and Resistance

Approaching subalternity from a broad Gramscian angle this edited collection contributes to the understanding of popular politics in parliamentary autocratic and colonial contexts. The book explores individual stories and micro-histories of complaints requests rumors and other mediated and unmediated interactions between political institutions and the subjects they claimed to govern or represent. It challenges the approaches of institutionally oriented political historiography and its attention to the top-down construction of political representation citizenship and power and powerlessness. The book discusses more subtle forms of agency and the spaces these pertained to which could indicate contestation or resistance taking place within a framework of loyalty towards the existing political institutions. This research does not only bridge the divide between political and apolitical frames of reference but it also provides a new perspective on the dichotomy between loyalty and resistance by acknowledging the nuances of these seemingly opposing stances. With case studies from Europe North Africa South America and India the chapters cover political communication in proto-democratic democratic imperial and authoritarian contexts. This volume is crucial reading for undergraduates postgraduates and scholars in history and social sciences who are interested in political culture and the mechanisms of negotiating local national or imperial identities. Chapter 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution 4. 0 International (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. | Subaltern Political Subjectivities and Practices in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Between Loyalty and Resistance

GBP 130.00
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Insurgency in India's Northeast Identity Formation Postcolonial Nation/State-Building and Secessionist Resistance

Insurgency in India's Northeast Identity Formation Postcolonial Nation/State-Building and Secessionist Resistance

Insurgency in India’s Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and original explanatory framework focusing primarily on the postcolonial period. This book presents a parsimonious analytic narrative involving a rich sequential account of the historical evolution of Mizo Naga Meitei and ethnic Assamese identities from precolonial to colonial to postcolonial times. Avoiding essentialist or primordialist arguments the chapters in the book demonstrate how ethnic/(sub)national identities are dynamic and malleable phenomenon not immutable natural givens. In particular it argues that the postcolonial Indian state has attempted to integrate these ethnic/sub-state national groups into the Indian Union through a combination of democratic accommodation/consociationalism and hegemonic/violent control strategically designed to encapsulate their evolving (sub) national identities into the overarching state-sponsored Indian nationality. Through this book readers will gain a rich understanding of the dynamics of ethnicity/ nationality and the nation/state-building process in postcolonial India. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Asian studies ethnicity nationalism separatism security studies border studies and international relations. | Insurgency in India's Northeast Identity Formation Postcolonial Nation/State-Building and Secessionist Resistance

GBP 130.00
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From Classroom to War of Resistance Chinese Military Interpreter Training during World War II

From Classroom to War of Resistance Chinese Military Interpreter Training during World War II

This book focuses on a long- neglected yet important topic in China’s translation history: interpreter/ translator training and wartime translation studies. It examines the military interpreter training programmes after the outbreak of the Pacific War (1941–1945) further revealing the indispensable role of translation and interpreting in war. The author explores the relationship between linguistic education and war context in the China- Burma- India Theatre where international cooperation was salient. Some 4 000 interpreting officers played a vital role in assisting in air defence transportation training of the Chinese army and coordinating expeditionary operations. The book seeks to bring these interpreters to life telling the stories of why they joined the war how they were trained and what they did in the war. Through the study of training programmes historical archives accounts and trainees’ memoirs discussions revolve around key strands of education including curriculums textbooks and training methods. Utilising foreign language education practices as its main case study the book analyses these through the framework of linguistic and translation theories. The book contributes to Chinese interpreting history by exploring its first-ever nationwide professional interpreting (and translation) training practices and will inspire scholars of translation/ interpreting training world modern history and foreign language education in general. | From Classroom to War of Resistance Chinese Military Interpreter Training during World War II

GBP 130.00
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Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

Working with Violent Men gives a detailed insight into working with men who have been violent towards intimate partners. As such this monograph aims to contribute to a gap in knowledge and understanding within an important social and criminal justice topic. The book is underpinned by research based on participant observation at domestic abuse groups allowing for direct observation of behaviours and interactions including gestures and emotional responses as well as semi-structured interviews with group facilitators and participants. It also draws on the author’s experience of working with domestically abusive men as a probation officer and facilitator of domestic abuse programmes. He argues that groups involve a micro social order involving rules and rituals. These are continuously constructed and negotiated by participants against a backdrop of ideas about masculinity and involve the performance of gendered roles. Understanding the perspectives of these men as well the interactional rules rituals and dynamics of programmes enables facilitators to navigate the hostility that men display and engage them in a process of change. Attention to these considerations has implications for the effectiveness of group-based interventions in reducing violence against intimate partners and the training of those who deliver programmes. More general extrapolations are also drawn about contemporary understandings of gender masculinity identity and effective communication within groups. This book will be of value to undergraduate and postgraduate students with interests in domestic violence gender probation and the rituals of social interactions. It will also be useful to academics researchers and policymakers wishing to explore and develop approaches to work with domestically violent men. | Working with Violent Men From Resistance to Change Talk in Probation Domestic Abuse Programmes

GBP 130.00
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Next Generation Wireless Terahertz Communication Networks

Next Generation Wireless Terahertz Communication Networks

The rapid growth of the data traffic demands new ways to achieve high-speed wireless links. The backbone networks data centers mission-critical applications as well as end-users sitting in office or home all require ultra-high throughput and ultra-low latency wireless links. Sophisticated technological advancement and huge bandwidth are required to reduce the latency. Terahertz band in this regard has a huge potential to provide these high-capacity links where a user can download the file in a few seconds. To realize the high-capacity wireless links for future applications in this book different aspects of the Terahertz band wireless communication network are presented. This book highlights the Terahertz channel characteristics and modeling antenna design and beamforming device characterization applications and protocols. It also provides state-of-the-art knowledge on different communication aspects of Terahertz communication and techniques to realize the true potential of the Terahertz band for wireless communication. | Next Generation Wireless Terahertz Communication Networks

GBP 115.00
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Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin Action

Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin Action

The brain is crucial for the regulation of whole-body metabolism and behavior. The pancreas-derived hormone insulin modulates brain function and affects energy metabolism as well as cognition. This is partially achieved by modulating several types of brain cell populations including those relevant to satiety and reward. Importantly brains of Alzheimer´s disease patients exhibit a signature of brain insulin resistance with perturbed brain metabolism. This book will cover the basics of insulin signaling in the brain and will describe concepts of insulin resistance a feature of type 2 diabetes. Moreover insulin´s effect on cognitive function will be pointed out and the association between brain insulin resistance and neurodegenerative diseases discussed. Additionally potential behavioral and pharmacological concepts which can affect brain insulin signaling will be summarized. Key Features: Summarizes insulin and the closely related IGF-1 receptor signaling Depicts concepts of insulin resistance Highlights the importance of conserved brain insulin signaling for brain function metabolism and behavior Describes potential behavioral and pharmacological approaches to support brain insulin signaling | Physiological Consequences of Brain Insulin Action

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