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Herbicide Resistance in Plants Biology and Biochemistry

Herbicide Resistance in Plants Biology and Biochemistry

The late 1980s saw an explosion in the amount and diversity of herbicide resistance posing a threat to crop production in many countries. The rapid escalation in herbicide resistance worldwide and in the understanding of resistance at the population biochemical and molecular level is the focus of this timely book. Leading researchers from North America Australia and Western Europe present lucid reviews that consider the population dynamics and genetics biochemistry and agro-ecology of resistance. Resistance to various herbicides is discussed in detail as well as the mechanisms responsible for cross resistance and multiple resistance. This reference is invaluable to those interested in evolution and the ability of species to overcome severe environmental stress. | Herbicide Resistance in Plants Biology and Biochemistry

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to Sinhala Fiction from Post-War Sri Lanka Resistance and Reconfiguration

The Routledge Companion to Sinhala Fiction from Post-War Sri Lanka Resistance and Reconfiguration

This companion presents a critical collection of Sinhala resistance literature from Sri Lanka. It includes translated short stories and excerpts from Sinhala novels written after the civil war in the country. Featuring national award-winning writers the selected texts share a common theme of resistance as the writers write against an exclusivist nationalism that was propagated through mass media and platforms of party politics in Sri Lanka during the war. The volume addresses crucial issues such as the fate of civilians in war the role of religion in Sri Lankan polity media censorship the experience of women in war as well as the current education system and youth problems in present day Sri Lanka. It highlights an alternate discourse that runs among the ethnic Sinhala group and contributes to the overall movement towards peace and reconciliation among the different ethnic communities in Sri Lanka. A unique addition to the growing oeuvre of translated Sinhala literature the companion will be indispensable to students scholars and researchers of ethnic studies war and peace studies peace and conflict studies literature cultural studies political sociology and South Asian studies particularly those interested in Sri Lankan literature. | The Routledge Companion to Sinhala Fiction from Post-War Sri Lanka Resistance and Reconfiguration

GBP 205.00
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Microbial Control of Vector-Borne Diseases

Microbial Control of Vector-Borne Diseases

Vector-borne diseases have increasingly emerged as significant causes of human illnesses worldwide largely due to environmental changes (deforestation) population movements (migration and travelling) international trades and buildup of drug resistance. These are presenting major challenge to the efficacy and use of conventional tools for controlling vector-borne diseases. Therefore use of microbial approach for the control of vector-borne diseases is gaining importance. This book comprehensively reviews vector-borne diseases and their microbial control emphasizing majorly on ecofriendly ways of microbial control. | Microbial Control of Vector-Borne Diseases

GBP 210.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd

The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd

The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music as well as music industry professionals and fans of the band. It brings together international researchers to assess evaluate and reformulate approaches to the critical study and interpretation of one of the world’s most important and successful bands. For the first time this Handbook will ‘tear down the wall ’ examining the band’s collective artistic creations and the influence of social technological commercial and political environments over several decades on their work. Divided into five parts the book provides a thoroughly contextualised overview of the musical works of Pink Floyd including coverage of performance and sound; media reception and fandom; genre; periods of Pink Floyd’s work; and aesthetics and subjectivity. Drawing on art design performance culture and counterculture emergent theoretical resources and analytical frames are evaluated and discussed from across the social sciences humanities and creative arts. The Handbook is intended for scholars and researchers of popular music as well as music industry professionals. It will appeal across a range of related subjects from music production to cultural studies and media/communication studies.

GBP 205.00
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Characterization of Nanocomposites Technology and Industrial Applications

Characterization of Nanocomposites Technology and Industrial Applications

These days advanced multiscale hybrid materials are being produced in the industry studied by universities and used in several applications. Unlike for macromaterials it is difficult to obtain the physical mechanical electrical and thermal properties of nanomaterials because of the scale. Designers however must have knowledge of these properties to perform any finite element analysis or durability and damage tolerance analysis. This is the book that brings this knowledge within easy reach. What makes the book unique is the fact that its approach that combines multiscale multiphysics and statistical analysis with multiscale progressive failure analysis. The combination gives a very powerful tool for minimizing tests improving accuracy and understanding the effect of the statistical nature of materials in addition to the mechanics of advanced multiscale materials all the way to failure. The book focuses on obtaining valid mechanical properties of nanocomposite materials by accurate prediction and observed physical tests as well as by evaluation of test anomalies of advanced multiscale nanocomposites containing nanoparticles of different shapes such as chopped fiber spherical and platelet in polymeric ceramic and metallic materials. The prediction capability covers delamination fracture toughness impact resistance conductivity and fire resistance of nanocomposites. The methodology employs a high-fidelity procedure backed with comparison of predictions with test data for various types of static fatigue dynamic and crack growth problems. Using the proposed approach a good correlation between the simulation and experimental data is established. | Characterization of Nanocomposites Technology and Industrial Applications

GBP 193.00
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Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures SET Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Struct

Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures SET Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Struct

Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures focuses on the research of advanced structures and anti-seismic design in civil engineering. The proceedings present the most cutting-edge research directions and achievements related to civil and structural engineering. Topics covered in the proceedings include: · Engineering Structure and Seismic Resistance · Structural Mechanics Analysis · Components and Materials · Structural Seismic Design · 3D Printing Concrete · Other Related Topics The works of this proceedings will promote development of civil and structural engineering resource sharing flexibility and high efficiency. Thereby promote scientific information interchange between scholars from the top universities research centers and high-tech enterprises working all around the world. | Advances in Frontier Research on Engineering Structures SET Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Civil Architecture and Struct

GBP 200.00
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Semiconductor Quantum Optoelectronics From Quantum Physics to Smart Devices

Semiconductor Quantum Optoelectronics From Quantum Physics to Smart Devices

The development and application of low-dimensional semiconductors have been rapid and spectacular during the past decade. Ever improving epitaxial growth and device fabrication techniques have allowed access to some remarkable new physics in quantum confined structures while a plethora of new devices has emerged. The field of optoelectronics in particular has benefited from these advances both in terms of improved performance and the invention of fundamentally new types of device at a time when the use of optics and lasers in telecommunications broadcasting the Internet signal processing and computing has been rapidly expanding. An appreciation of the physics of quantum and dynamic electronic processes in confined structures is key to the understanding of many of the latest devices and their continued development. Semiconductor Quantum Optoelectronics covers new physics and the latest device developments in low-dimensional semiconductors. It allows those who already have some familiarity with semiconductor physics and devices to broaden and expand their knowledge into new and expanding topics in low-dimensional semiconductors. The book provides pedagogical coverage of selected areas of new and pertinent physics of low-dimensional structures and presents some optoelectronic devices presently under development. Coverage includes material and band structure issues and the physics of ultrafast nonlinear coherent intersubband and intracavity phenomena. The book emphasizes various devices including quantum wells visible quantum cascade and mode-locked lasers; microcavity LEDs and VCSELs; and detectors and logic elements. An underlying theme is high-speed phenomena and devices for increased system bandwidths. | Semiconductor Quantum Optoelectronics From Quantum Physics to Smart Devices

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies

The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies

This handbook provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Critical Autism Studies and explores the different kinds of knowledges and their articulations similarities and differences across cultural contexts and key tensions within this subdiscipline. Critical Autism Studies is a developing area occupying an exciting space of development within learning and teaching in higher education. It has a strong trajectory within the autistic academic and advocate community in resistance and response to the persistence of autism retaining an identity as a genetic disorder of the brain. Divided into four parts • Conceptualising autism • Autistic identity • Community and culture • Practice and comprising 24 newly commissioned chapters written by academics and activists it explores areas of education Critical Race Theory domestic violence and abuse sexuality biopolitics health and social care practices. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of disability studies sociology anthropology cultural studies education health social care and political science. | The Routledge International Handbook of Critical Autism Studies

GBP 190.00
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Physics of Sailing

Physics of Sailing

Breaking down the complicated concepts of speed acceleration torque fluid mechanics and surface physics Physics of Sailing provides a lively easily accessible introduction to the basic science underlying the sport of sailing. It illustrates the many ways physics can be used to understand the principles of sailboat propulsion and how a scientific understanding of the boat wind and water can lead to more skillful sailing. After a brief but insightful tour of the history of sailing the book explores the physics involved in making faster sailing crafts for both upwind and downwind sailing including Newton‘s impact theory of fluid resistance and lift and drag phenomena. It compares possible sail shapes presents measurements of hull smoothness and describes wind turbulence the nature of water waves and the structure of wakes. Using the physics of optics the author also explains the connection between water‘s appearance and the wind. Along with a glossary of sailing terms he includes many examples throughout to illustrate the concepts in practice. Avoiding unnecessary formalisms this book skillfully applies the principles of fluid mechanics to sailboat technology and the art of sailing. It should help you become a more knowledgeable sailor.

GBP 180.00
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The Tokugawa World

The Tokugawa World

With over 60 contributions The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope. In its early modern period under the Tokugawa shoguns Japan was a world apart. For over two centuries the shogun’s subjects were forbidden to travel abroad and few outsiders were admitted. Yet in this period Japan evolved as a nascent capitalist society that could rapidly adjust to its incorporation into the world system after its forced opening in the 1850s. The Tokugawa World demonstrates how Japan’s early modern society took shape and evolved: a world of low and high cultures comic books and Confucian academies soba restaurants and imperial music recitals rigid enforcement of social hierarchy yet also ongoing resistance to class oppression. A world of outcasts puppeteers herbal doctors samurai officials businesswomen scientists scholars blind lutenists peasant rebels tea-masters sumo wrestlers and wage workers. Covering a variety of features of the Tokugawa world including the physical landscape economy art and literature religion and thought and education and science this volume is essential reading for all students and scholars of early modern Japan.

GBP 270.00
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Pharmaceutical Biocatalysis Fundamentals Enzyme Inhibitors and Enzymes in Health and Diseases

Pharmaceutical Biocatalysis Fundamentals Enzyme Inhibitors and Enzymes in Health and Diseases

This book provides an overview of the world market of therapeutic enzymes and enzyme inhibitors rare diseases orphan drugs the costs of drug development and therapies and enzymes in downstream processing of pharmaceuticals. It discusses carbonic anhydrase inhibitors and their multiple drug interactions carboxylesterase inhibitors for pharmaceutical applications employment of inhibitors for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases use of engineered proteins bioactive peptides and fibrinolytic enzymes for thrombolytic therapy and enzymes important for the design and development of new drugs/drug metabolites such as aldehyde oxidases and cytochrome P450 enzymes and the role the latter play in vascular biology and pathophysiology. The treatment of cancer is explored in connection with enzymatic amino acid deprivation therapies and new drugs that act as chemical degraders of oncogenic proteins. The book also introduces the resistance mechanisms of cancer. Furthermore it provides an insight into the relationship between pathological conditions of cardiovascular disease and oxidative stress. The text also focuses on the potential use of nanoparticles as carriers for enzymes with medical relevance computer-aided drug design for the identification of multi-target directed ligands and the development of improved therapeutics through a glycan-“designer” approach. It concludes with an introduction to the chemoenzymatic synthesis of drugs. | Pharmaceutical Biocatalysis Fundamentals Enzyme Inhibitors and Enzymes in Health and Diseases

GBP 193.00
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The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West

The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West

This is the first major collection to remap the American West though the intersectional lens of gender and sexuality especially in relation to race and Indigeneity. Organized through several interrelated key concepts The Routledge Companion to Gender and the American West addresses gender and sexuality from and across diverse and divergent methodologies. Comprising 34 chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into four parts: Genealogies Bodies Movements Lands The volume features leading and newer scholars whose essays connect interdisciplinary fields including Indigenous Studies Latinx and Asian American Studies Western American Studies and Queer Feminist and Gender Studies. Through innovative methodologies and reclaimed archives of knowledge contributors model fresh frameworks for thinking about relations of power and place gender and genre settler colonization and decolonial resistance. Even as they reckon with the ongoing gendered and racialized violence at the core of the American West contributors forge new lexicons for imagining alternative Western futures. This pathbreaking collection will be invaluable to scholars and students studying the origins myths histories and legacies of the American West. This is a foundational collection that will become invaluable to scholars and students across a range of disciplines including Gender and Sexuality Studies Literary Studies Indigenous Studies and Latinx Studies.

GBP 205.00
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Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare

Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare

This handbook presents a much-needed and comprehensive exploration of the rapidly growing fields of animal welfare and law. In recent years there has been increasing attention paid to our complex multifaceted relationships with other animals and in particular the depth and breadth of various societal uses of animals. This has led to a reconsideration of their moral and social status which has sometimes challenged the interests of those who use animals. In such a contested domain sound evidence and reasoning become particularly important. Through firm commitment to such principles this book explores the biological foundations for the moral consideration of animals and for evolving conceptualisations of animal welfare. It reviews in detail the welfare concerns associated with numerous forms of animal use. The inclusion of key recent developments such as climate change pandemics and antimicrobial resistance ensures this text is among the most current in its field. The ethical implications of the various uses of animals by society are considered and chapters provide important recommendations for reforms of practice law or policy. The status of animal law internationally and in major world regions is reviewed. Finally the book considers human behavioural change and strategies for improving stakeholder communication and education. The handbook is essential reading for students and scholars of animal welfare animal law and animal ethics everywhere and for policy-makers and other professionals working in the animal welfare sector. | Routledge Handbook of Animal Welfare

GBP 210.00
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Principles of Ecotoxicology

Principles of Ecotoxicology

Cutting across traditional subject boundaries Principles of Ecotoxicology Fourth Edition gives readers an integrated view of ecotoxicology from molecules to ecosystems. This new edition of a bestselling textbook continues to emphasize principles rather than practice providing the interdisciplinary perspective and grounding required for research. Organized into three sections the book first describes the molecular structures properties and environmental fate of pollutants. It then deals with the effects of pollutants on living organisms at the molecular cellular and individual levels. Moving into population biology and population genetics the third part of the book addresses a question of great interest to ecologists: What effects do pollutants have at the levels of population community and the whole ecosystem? The book also looks at how ecotoxicology is used in the biomonitoring of environmental pollution the investigation of pollution problems the conducting of field trials the study of the development of resistance and the growing area of environmental risk assessments. Throughout examples and case studies illustrate the principles. This updated fourth edition includes new material on nanoparticle pollution bioaccumulation biomarkers and chemical warfare in nature as well as a new chapter on the future directions of ecotoxicology. A concise textbook that will also appeal to practicing ecotoxicologists it provides a solid basis for understanding what happens to chemicals in the real world where they go how they ultimately degrade and how they affect the individuals and populations that encounter them. What‘s New in This Edition Revised and updated material throughout A chapter on future directions of ecotoxicology New material on nanoparticle pollution and chemical warfare in nature Ex

GBP 180.00
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The Physics of Phonons

The Physics of Phonons

This fully updated second edition of The Physics of Phonons remains the most comprehensive theoretical discussion devoted to the study of phonons a major area of condensed matter physics. It contains exciting new sections on phonon-related properties of solid surfaces atomically thin materials (such as graphene and monolayer transition metal chalcogenides) in addition to nano- structures and nanocomposites thermoelectric nanomaterials and topological nanomaterials with an entirely new chapter dedicated to topological nanophononics and chiralphononics. Although primarily theoretical in approach the author refers to experimental results wherever possible ensuring an ideal book for both experimental and theoretical researchers. The author begins with an introduction to crystal symmetry and continues with a discussion of lattice dynamics in the harmonic approximation including the traditional phenomenological approach and the more recent ab initio approach detailed for the first time in this book. A discussion of anharmonicity is followed by the theory of lattice thermal conductivity presented at a level far beyond that available in any other book. The chapter on phonon interactions is likewise more comprehensive than any similar discussion elsewhere. The sections on phonons in superlattices impure and mixed crystals quasicrystals phonon spectroscopy Kapitza resistance and quantum evaporation also contain material appearing in book form for the first time. The book is complemented by numerous diagrams that aid understanding and is comprehensively referenced for further study. With its unprecedented wide coverage of the field The Physics of Phonons is an indispensable guide for advanced undergraduates postgraduates and researchers working in condensed matter physics and materials science. Features Fully updated throughout with exciting new coverage on graphene nanostructures and nanocomposites thermoelectric nanomaterials and topological nanomaterials. Authored by an authority on phonons. Interdisciplinary with broad applications through condensed matter physics nanoscience and materials science.

GBP 180.00
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Innovative Approaches in Diagnosis and Management of Crop Diseases 3-volume set

Innovative Approaches in Diagnosis and Management of Crop Diseases 3-volume set

This new 3-volume set Innovative Approaches in Diagnosis and Management of Crop Diseases provides an abundance of new research and information on major diseases of various crops along with new techniques and technology for the detection of plant pathogens along with appropriate management strategies. Divided into three volumes and with chapters written by renowned and expert scientists working in different areas of plant pathology the volumes cover important diseases of crops incited by bacteria fungi viruses viroids phytoplasma and nematodes. They address these disease challenges to commercial field and horticultural crops and their management. Volume 1 focuses on the Mollicute class of bacteria. It looks at the detection diagnosis and management of phytoplasma diseases and viroids CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in plants for virus resistance next-generation sequencing technologies and more. Volume 2 focuses on recent advances in diagnosis detection and management of diseases of specific crops such as cotton sesame rice wheat millet maize field pea and pigeonpea ginger and turmeric guava aonla and vegetable cruciferous crops. Volume 3: Nanomolecules and Biocontrol Agents explores the use of novel new ways to prevent and mitigate plant diseases. These include novel green nanotechnologies; biosensors; biological management using phyllosphere- rhizosphere- and endosphere-derived biocontrol agents; employing biofumigation techniques; and plant immunization approaches. The book also considers the special challenge of plant disease management under the present climate change scenario. Key features: Presents diverse research of leading plant pathologists on detection diagnosis and management of crop diseases Shares innovative and emerging techniques for diagnosis and management of major plant diseases Covers a vast array of important crops and their diseases Diagnosis and management of biotic stresses play a pivotal role in efficient agriculture production and together these volumes of Innovative Approaches in Diagnosis and Management of Crop Diseases provide reviews of crucial research to effectively advance the detection diagnosis and management of crop diseases. | Innovative Approaches in Diagnosis and Management of Crop Diseases 3-volume set

GBP 385.00
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The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work New Perspectives and Agendas

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work New Perspectives and Agendas

The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work is a companion volume to the Routledge Handbook of Critical Social Work. It brings together world-leading scholars in the field to provide additional in-depth and provocative consideration of alternative and progressive ways of thinking about social work. Critical social work is increasingly involved in a global conversation and as a subfield of social work it is rapidly becoming an interdisciplinary field in its own right and promoting novel forms of political activism. The Handbook showcases the global influences and path-breaking ideas of critical social work and examines the different stances taken on important political and ethical issues. It provides the first complete survey of the vibrant field of critical social work in a rich international context. This definitive volume is one of the most comprehensive source books on crucial social work that is available on the international stage and an essential guide for anyone interested in the politics of social work. The Handbook is divided into sever sections • Thinking the Political • Politics and the Ruins of Neoliberalism • Negotiating the State: Resistance Protest and Dissent • Race Bordering Practices and Migrants • Post Colonialism Subaltern and the Global South • Critical Feminism Sexuality and Gender Politics • Posthumanism Pandemics and Environment The Handbook is comprised of 46 newly written chapters (and one reprint) which concentrate on differences between European and American contributions in this field as well as explicitly identifying the significance of critical social work in the context of Latin America. It provides a further vital trajectory of intellectual practice theory via interdisciplinary discussion of areas such as biopolitics critical race theory boundaries of gender and sexuality queer studies new conceptions of community issues of public engagement racism and Roma people ecological feminism environmental humanities and critical animal studies. The Handbook is an innovative and authoritative guide to theory and method as they relate to policy issues and practice and focus on the primary debates of today in social work from a critical perspective and will be required reading for all students academics and practitioners of social work and related professions. | The Routledge Handbook of International Critical Social Work New Perspectives and Agendas

GBP 190.00
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