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Production Management Advanced Models Tools and Applications for Pull Systems

Production Management Advanced Models Tools and Applications for Pull Systems

Inventory control is an essential task in production management. An effective inventory control can significantly reduce the holding cost and hence total production cost. Selecting and implementing a suitable production control system plays an important role in inventory reduction and performance improvement of a production system. Since the introduction of Toyota’s just-in-time philosophy pull control systems have been adopted by numerous companies worldwide both in the manufacturing and service sectors. This book provides some recent developments in production management and presents modeling and analysis tools for pull production control systems. It contributes by combining theoretical findings and case study analysis results with a practical and contemporary view on how to effectively manage and control production systems. Each chapter in this book focuses on a specific topic in production control systems allowing readers to identify the chapters that relate to their interests. More specifically the book is presented in three sections. The first section focuses on the design and implementation aspects of the pull production control systems as well as performance evaluation approaches for pull systems. The second section presents a recent and comprehensive literature review. Three different case studies on implementation of pull production control systems are presented in the last section. This book can be used as an essential source for students and scholars who need to specifically study the pull control systems. Since the superiority of these systems is controversial the book can also provide an interesting and informative read for practitioners managers and employees who need to deepen their knowledge on pull production management systems. | Production Management Advanced Models Tools and Applications for Pull Systems

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Setting Up a Successful Photography Business

Setting Up a Successful Photography Business

This revised second edition of the best-selling handbook provides practical actionable insights on how to establish a successful photography business in the current climate. Written from the perspective of a photographer's agent this book offers the perfect viewpoint to honestly assess what works what doesn't and why some photographers succeed where others fail. Packed with useful templates and advice from leading photographers and commissioners working in all areas of the profession today industry expert Lisa Pritchard covers all of the essentials: preparing the best portfolio and website; marketing yourself; getting clients; costing and producing shoots; finding representation; financing and running your business; navigating contracts and legal obligations; and more. Updated to take account of shifts in the industry and the increasing importance of digital marketing and social media this book provides fresh insight and inspiration for the budding and established professional. This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to be a professional photographer – whether studying to become one thinking of a change of career or wanting to know how to improve their existing photography business. | Setting Up a Successful Photography Business

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Leading School Change How to Overcome Resistance Increase Buy-In and Accomplish Your Goals

Leading School Change How to Overcome Resistance Increase Buy-In and Accomplish Your Goals

Being a cheerleader for innovation or change is great. Implementing specific strategies to increase the likelihood of success is essential. In this key book from bestselling author and speaker Todd Whitaker you’ll discover clear ways to lead and manage school change by setting realistic goals planning your approach and tracking your progress. You’ll also find out how to work effectively with others overcome resistance and gain widespread acceptance. Whether you are a district leader building leader instructional coach or teacher-leader you’ll come away from this book with all the tools and inspiration you need to make a positive immediate results-oriented change with the support of your staff. Bonus: This enhanced second edition includes a special Action Plan and Implementation Guide. The Action Plan will help you apply the ideas step by step to your own situation. The Implementation Guide can be used for independent reflection or as a study guide with book groups or professional learning communities. | Leading School Change How to Overcome Resistance Increase Buy-In and Accomplish Your Goals

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The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

This is the book you will need if you are considering setting up your own business. It is aimed at the new business owner who has a lot of questions to ask. It has been written by a successful business owner and provides advice on what and what not to do. While it is not intended to be a global reference book it does provide the reader with practical answers to the issues they will come across everyday and includes examples of successes and failures from both the US and U. K. perspectives. | The New Entrepreneur's Guide to Setting Up and Running a Successful Business

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Escaping Utopia Growing Up in a Cult Getting Out and Starting Over

Escaping Utopia Growing Up in a Cult Getting Out and Starting Over

We think of cults as bizarre inexplicable or otherworldly places that only strange people inhabit but cults and other abusive and high-demand groups (and relationships) are actually quite commonplace. In fact the behaviors social pressures and authoritarian structures that create cults exist to a greater or lesser extent in every human relationship and every human group. In the first in-depth research of its kind the author interviewed sixty-five people who were born in or grew up in thirty-nine different cultic groups spanning more than a dozen countries. What’s especially interesting about these individuals is that they each left the cult on their own without outside help or internal support. In Escaping Utopia: Growing Up in a Cult Getting Out and Starting Over the authors craft Lalich’s original and groundbreaking research into an accessible and engaging book the first of its kind focusing on this particular population. | Escaping Utopia Growing Up in a Cult Getting Out and Starting Over

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Solarnomics Setting Up and Managing a Profitable Solar Business

Solarnomics Setting Up and Managing a Profitable Solar Business

Solar power has come of age. Not only has it become one of the key alternatives to fossil fuels it can now be deployed in a way that makes a viable business with a financial profit. This book shows industry professionals and students how to do just that. Solarnomics describes the economics of building and operating a solar power plant today and provides a window into a future in which several technologies collaborate and in which all participants in the electricity grid become smarter at scheduling both the supply and demand for electric power to give humanity a future that is sustainable both environmentally and economically. The book shows how to estimate costs and revenues how to tweak the design of a project to improve profitability how to calculate return on investment how to assess and deal with risk how to raise capital how to combine solar with batteries to make a hybrid microgrid and how to be prepared for future developments in the evolving smart electricity grid. Solarnomics will enable professionals in the solar industry to assess the potential profitability of a proposed solar project and it will enable students to add an extra dimension to their understanding of sustainability. | Solarnomics Setting Up and Managing a Profitable Solar Business

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Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy as well as the exploration of race gender politics and conflicts urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia Finland France Iran Italy Morocco India and the USA. It also asks the question whether along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies media popular culture digital culture sociology digital sociology and anthropology and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki. | Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

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The Scale Model How to Set Up and Run a Successful Enterprise

The Scale Model How to Set Up and Run a Successful Enterprise

The Scale Model does one thing: makes it easy for business entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. Using a proven methodology that is easy to understand and implement business teams can learn how to diagnose and solve barriers to growth. The Scale Model equips CEOs and senior leaders with a framework to assess where the pain points lie in their business and easy-to-use templates to help them work out the solutions to enable continued growth. The Model has been used by high-growth companies around the world to achieve industry-beating growth in sales and profits with engaged and aligned teams. In a complicated business environment the straightforward advice and practical structure of the Scale Model provides for business planning. When you're busy running your business you want just one place to go to fix it. This is that place. Pick up The Scale Model today work through the tools inside and watch your business grow. That's how easy it is. | The Scale Model How to Set Up and Run a Successful Enterprise

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Profiting from Property in a Recession

Profiting from Property in a Recession

Written by an experienced property journalist with over twenty years of insider knowledge this book provides budding property developers and investors with all they need to know to profit from property. The author offers a new twist on buy-to-let and shows how the market for renting to some groups is expanding even in these tough times. Overseas opportunities are examined too identifying which countries offer the best opportunities to buy cheap let and then sell. For investors willing to get their hands dirty there is also an explanation of exactly how to pursue a self-build or renovation project and sell at a profit – with advice on finding the right craftsmen writing contracts and monitoring progress plus selecting the best estate agent. The book also looks at how amateur investors can enter the complicated commercial sector of shops and offices and discusses property investment trusts for those with faith in the stock market. | Profiting from Property in a Recession

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Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model A Bottom-Up Approach

Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model A Bottom-Up Approach

In sharp contrast with the current top-down medicalized method to treating addiction this book presents the felt sense polyvagal model (FSPM) a paradigm-shifting bottom-up approach that considers addiction as an adaptive attempt to regulate emotional states and trauma. The felt sense polyvagal model draws from Porges' polyvagal theory Gendelin's felt sense and Lewis' learning model of addiction to offer a graphically illustrated and deeply embodied way of conceptualizing and treating addiction through supporting autonomic regulation. This model de-pathologizes addiction as it teaches embodied practices through tapping into the felt sense the body’s inner wisdom. Chapters first present a theoretical framework and demonstrate the graphic model in both clinician and client versions and then teach the clinician how to use the model in practice by providing detailed treatment strategies. This text’s informed compassionate approach to understanding and treating trauma and addiction is adaptable to any school of psychotherapy and will appeal to addiction experts trauma specialists and clinicians in all mental health fields. | Treating Trauma and Addiction with the Felt Sense Polyvagal Model A Bottom-Up Approach

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Women's Resources in Business Start-Up A Study of Black and White Women Entrepreneurs

Women's Resources in Business Start-Up A Study of Black and White Women Entrepreneurs

Women-owned businesses are the fastest growing segment of new business start-ups and black women’s businesses are a larger share of black-owned businesses than white women’s businesses are of all white firms. Most studies compare men’s and women’s businesses but few examine differences among women. This book first published in 2000 makes a significant contribution not only to the literature on entrepreneurial business but also to the experiences of African American women. | Women's Resources in Business Start-Up A Study of Black and White Women Entrepreneurs

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Warm-up in Football Optimize Performance and Avoid Injuries

Warm-up in Football Optimize Performance and Avoid Injuries

Every football training session and match should begin with a warm-up in order to improve performance and reduce the risk of injuries. Warm-up in Football provides scientific evidence for the effect of warming up and describes how performance is closely related to muscle temperature. Furthermore the book explains how the right warm-up prior to a match and at halftime improves the outcome in football. This book provides a basic understanding of the value of warming up and presents a significant number of warm-up programs that can be used whether you are training professional amateur or youth players. The warm-up programs and exercises are tailored to different training and match situations both on and off the pitch. Highlights from the book include: • New inspiring and effective ways of warm-up for training. • Warm-up programs before matches. • Warm-up programs to improve performance at the start of the second half. Warm-up in Football is critical reading for all who have an interest in the coaching and physiology of football. | Warm-up in Football Optimize Performance and Avoid Injuries

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Dissertation Research Methods A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences

Dissertation Research Methods A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences

Dissertation Research Methods: A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences focuses specifically on the methodology for planning writing and submitting your dissertation thesis. Written by two methodology experts in the social sciences the book provides a step-by-step guide through each stage of the dissertation process. It covers all aspects of the methodological considerations needed from choosing a topic or research question developing a literature review identifying research gaps accessing potential study participants utilizing the right sampling strategies analyzing data and writing up findings. Readers are introduced to the main research methods normally used in dissertations and their characteristics and they are guided to choose an appropriate research method for their study provide a substantial description of the selected method and articulate strong arguments in support of it. The book is filled with templates exemplars and tools to help students write about methodology in their thesis and to equip readers to successfully troubleshoot any methodology challenges they may face. This compact book will be of use to all graduate students and their supervisors in the Social Sciences and Education and Behavioural Sciences who are looking for a guide to working with robust and defensible methodological principles in their dissertation research and theses. | Dissertation Research Methods A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing Up Your Research in the Social Sciences

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Buying Your Home A Practical Guide for First-Time Buyers

Buying Your Home A Practical Guide for First-Time Buyers

Many young people aspire to own their own home but face a myriad of challenges such as high property prices the need to raise a large deposit and difficulties of getting a mortgage. The process of buying a property is also stressful fraught with complexity and uncertainty and a mistake can prove very costly. This book therefore provides a much-needed step-by-step guide to help those seeking to buy a property for the first time. Packed with helpful and practical tips this book gives a complete overview of the house-buying process including finance legal and property aspects. The authors discuss a wide range of topics including: creating the right mindset the pros and cons of home ownership how to choose a suitable property how to save for a deposit how to negotiate for a better price how to get a mortgage the steps in the house-buying process how to ensure that mortgage payments can always be met The book is written by experienced property buyers who have bought multiple properties who have worked as a mortgage adviser and financial planner and who understand personal finance. It will be essential reading for undergraduate students in the field of accounting and finance and will also appeal to the general public particularly those seeking to buy a property for the first time. After reading the book readers will be able to map out a plan to buy their first property with greater confidence and make a better and more informed decision that will bring financial rewards. | Buying Your Home A Practical Guide for First-Time Buyers

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Growing Up with Two Languages A Practical Guide for Multilingual Families and Those Who Support Them

Growing Up with Two Languages A Practical Guide for Multilingual Families and Those Who Support Them

Growing Up with Two Languages provides a highly accessible account of the stages of language development describes and evaluates the various systems and strategies that can be adopted and looks at the problems that can occur when a child is exposed to two languages and cultures. Combining research-informed advice and the experience of parents raising children as speakers of a wide range of languages in every populated continent in the world this book and its associated web material will answer questions offer tried and tested strategies to keep children speaking a minority language and provide material to enlist the support of the extended family teachers and others. The perspective of adults who were themselves raised speaking more than one language is included. New to this edition is a chapter focusing on families raising children as speakers of indigenous and threatened languages as well as chapters for teachers and health professionals who want to know more about multilingual child language development and how they can support parents to continue speaking their language with their children. With new and updated first-hand advice Internet resources and examples throughout this book also includes a chapter that introduces important recent research into multilingual children and further reading guides for those who want to know more. This book is for parents who are raising or plan to raise children as speakers of more than one language and for the teachers and healthcare workers who meet and can support them. | Growing Up with Two Languages A Practical Guide for Multilingual Families and Those Who Support Them

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A Mental Health Treatment Program for Inmates in Restrictive Housing Stepping Up Stepping Out

A Mental Health Treatment Program for Inmates in Restrictive Housing Stepping Up Stepping Out

This treatment program targets the criminal behavioral and mental health problems of inmates in segregated housing that prevents them from living prosocially and productively within the general prison population. The program makes use of a bi-adaptive psychoeducational and cognitive-behavioral treatment model to increase inmates’ understanding about the psychological and criminal antecedents that contributed to their current placement and to teach them the skills necessary for managing these problem areas. This flexible intervention assists inmates with significant problem behaviors by reducing psychological impairment and improving their ability to cope with prison life. This book includes a program introduction and guide for clinicians the inmate workbook and accompanying eResources to assist clinicians in both successful program implementation and evaluation of treatment outcomes. Designed to account for the safety and physical limitations that make the delivery of needed mental and behavioral health services difficult this guide is essential reading for practitioners working with high-needs high-risk inmate populations. | A Mental Health Treatment Program for Inmates in Restrictive Housing Stepping Up Stepping Out

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Starting a Practice A Plan of Work

Starting a Practice A Plan of Work

Running your own practice can bring immense job satisfaction but it is not without its risks. Do you have all the information at hand to set up confidently on your own? Comprehensive accessible and easy to use Starting a Practice helps architects navigate the pitfalls associated with establishing a successful business. This fully updated 3rd edition is mapped to the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 and approaches starting a business as if it were a design project complete with briefing sketching layouts and delivery. It features new material on professionalism and ethics sustainable development and achieving a net-zero carbon emission built environment. Invaluable for Part 3 students early practitioners and those considering setting up from scratch or wanting to consolidate an existing business Starting a Practice gives architects the tools they need to thrive when setting out alone. Features essential guidance on: Preparing a business plan Choosing the right company structure Setting aspirations Monitoring finances Getting noticed Securing work Retaining and developing staff Planning for disaster. | Starting a Practice A Plan of Work

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Stand Up and Teach

Stand Up and Teach

What do you need for a well-run classroom full of engaged students? Kathy Lundy takes you step-by-step through the nitty-gritty details of creating a classroom that works for you and your students. Based on extensive classroom experience strategies throughout the book will help you become the teacher you want to be. From building a safe and inclusive classroom to teaching with imagination and innovation to engaging the school community Stand Up and Teach has it all.

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Continuous Improvement Seek Perfection Embrace Scientific Thinking Focus on Process Assure Quality at the Source and Improve Flow & Pull

Continuous Improvement Seek Perfection Embrace Scientific Thinking Focus on Process Assure Quality at the Source and Improve Flow & Pull

In this third book of the Shingo Model series Continuous Improvement focuses on five of the Shingo Guiding Principles: seek perfection embrace scientific thinking focus on process assure quality at the source and improve flow and pull. Each chapter in Continuous Improvement is designed to enhance your comprehension of one or more aspects of the Continuous Improvement dimension of the Shingo Model and to increase your understanding of how the dimension interrelates with and complements the other principles in the Shingo Model. Ultimately this explanation grounds the technical science of continuous improvement with a powerful social science that focuses on people development. It is this combination that creates the opportunity for improvement to be truly continuous. Because tacit learning is critical to deepening your continuous improvement knowledge Reader Challenges are included throughout the text to encourage you to apply what you have read within the context of your own organization. This hands-on practice is necessary to understand the interrelatedness of principles systems and tools that are inherent in the Shingo Model. The Shingo Institute recognizes that the transformation from traditional philosophy and practices to organizational excellence does not occur without the courage creativity and persistence of everyone in the organization—from executives to managers to team members on the frontline. | Continuous Improvement Seek Perfection Embrace Scientific Thinking Focus on Process Assure Quality at the Source and Improve Flow & Pull

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Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up

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130 Years of Catching Up with the West A Comparative Perspective on Hungarian Science and Technology Policy-making Since Industrialization

130 Years of Catching Up with the West A Comparative Perspective on Hungarian Science and Technology Policy-making Since Industrialization

This title was first published in 2000: Issues such as globalization and the fight against joblessness as well as the growth dynamics of economies in general have been linked with science and technology. Accordingly the growing public interest in the effects of science and technology on society and politics and vice versa have been the foremost reason for the creation of this study. One of the central questions for politicians as well as for scholars in the field of science and technology is How can I influence a given science and technology system in a way so as to achieve optimal outcomes for a given national economy?. The study at hand tries to answer this question by analyzing the Hungarian research sphere from industrialization until the late-20th century. Since the beginning of industrialization Hungary has made a number of attempts to catch up with the economically more developed Western European countries. The problems encountered in the course of the Hungarian efforts are surprisingly similar to the difficulties that modern fully industrialized economies are facing today. | 130 Years of Catching Up with the West A Comparative Perspective on Hungarian Science and Technology Policy-making Since Industrialization

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Flipped Learning A Guide for Higher Education Faculty

Flipped Learning A Guide for Higher Education Faculty

Flipped learning is an approach to the design and instruction of classes through which with appropriate guidance students gain their first exposure to new concepts and material prior to class thus freeing up time during class for the activities where students typically need the most help such as applications of the basic material and engaging in deeper discussions and creative work with it. While flipped learning has generated a great deal of excitement given the evidence demonstrating its potential to transform students’ learning engagement and metacognitive skills there has up to now been no comprehensive guide to using this teaching approach in higher education. Robert Talbert who has close to a decade’s experience using flipped learning for majors in his discipline in general education courses in large and small sections as well as online courses – and is a frequent workshop presenter and speaker on the topic – offers faculty a practical step-by-step “how-to” to this powerful teaching method. He addresses readers who want to explore this approach to teaching those who have recently embarked on it as well as experienced practitioners balancing an account of research on flipped learning and its theoretical bases with course design concepts to guide them set up courses to use flipped learning effectively tips and case studies of actual classes across various disciplines and practical considerations such as obtaining buy-in from students and getting students to do the pre-class activities. This book is for anyone seeking ways to get students to better learn the content of their course take more responsibility for their work become more self-regulated as learners work harder and smarter during class time and engage positively with course material. As a teaching method flipped learning becomes demonstrably more powerful when adopted across departments. It is an idea that offers the promise of transforming teaching in higher education. | Flipped Learning A Guide for Higher Education Faculty

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Developing a Sport Psychology Consultancy Practice A Toolkit for Students and Trainees

Developing a Sport Psychology Consultancy Practice A Toolkit for Students and Trainees

Sport and exercise psychology as a profession is becoming increasingly popular with a growth in the number of students applying for and studying Undergraduate and Postgraduate degrees in sport and exercise psychology in recent years within the UK and International Higher Education landscape. Developing a Sport Psychology Consultancy Practice: A Toolkit for Students and Trainees provides logistical and practical information about becoming and working as an applied sport psychology practitioner and the critical processes involved in setting up a consultancy practice. The book focuses on three broad areas: Pathways into Applied Sport Psychology Practice Setting up a Sport Consultancy Practice Personal and Professional Development Within these areas the chapters provide coverage on topics related to UK and International training and qualification routes setting up operating and marketing successful consultancy practices engaging in administrative and quality assurance processes and optimising technology for effective practice. The chapters further focus on the practitioner’s journey of personal and professional development including the importance of maintaining a healthy work–life balance for mental health integrating self-care strategies into daily lives developing cultural competence and engaging in lifelong learning. This book is a valuable resource for students who are considering training as an applied practitioner including students enrolled on undergraduate and postgraduate Sport and Exercise Psychology Sport and Exercise Science and Psychology programmes. It is also a vital aid for current trainees and recently qualified Sport and Exercise Psychologists. | Developing a Sport Psychology Consultancy Practice A Toolkit for Students and Trainees

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Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation - highlighting the challenges and opportunities on both small and large projects. | Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

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