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Cultural Complexes in China Japan Korea and Taiwan Spokes of the Wheel

Cultural Complexes in China Japan Korea and Taiwan Spokes of the Wheel

Thomas Singer presents a unique collection which examines cultural complexes in four parts of East Asia: China Japan Korea and Taiwan. From ancestor worship in China to the kimchi bitch meme of South Korea the wounded feminine in Taiwan and hikikomori in Japan the contributors take a Jungian lens to aspects of culture and shine a light on themes including gender archetypes consciousness social roles and political relations. This insightful and timely book will be essential reading for academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian ideas politics sociology and Asian studies. It will also be of great interest to Jungian analysts in practice and in training. | Cultural Complexes in China Japan Korea and Taiwan Spokes of the Wheel

GBP 32.99
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Road Vehicle Dynamics Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB

Road Vehicle Dynamics Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB

Road Vehicle Dynamics: Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB® Second Edition combines coverage of vehicle dynamics concepts with MATLAB v9. 4 programming routines and results along with examples and numerous chapter exercises. Improved and updated the revised text offers new coverage of active safety systems rear wheel steering race car suspension systems airsprings four-wheel drive mechatronics and other topics. Based on the lead author's extensive lectures classes and research activities this unique text provides readers with insights into the computer-based modeling of automobiles and other ground vehicles. Instructor resources including problem solutions are available from the publisher. | Road Vehicle Dynamics Fundamentals and Modeling with MATLAB®

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Soulfulness The Marriage of Shamanic And Contemporary Psychology

Soulfulness The Marriage of Shamanic And Contemporary Psychology

This book brings the wisdom of the ancient healing practice of shamanism together with the insights of contemporary psychology to provide an integrated approach to the treatment of traumatic symptoms. 'Soulfulness' has two historic shamanic roots: Mayan and Native American psychology - a psychology of Self - as expressed in the many aspects of the Medicine Wheel the wheel of health and wholeness; and the Shamanic Journey and Soul Retrieval as practiced in traditional societies throughout the world notably the Tungus tribes of Siberia. This book presents the ancient wisdom of shamanic theory and practice in a form which is fit for use within the mainstream of twenty-first century psychotherapeutic endeavour including an extensive explanation of Shamanic Psychology and a practical description of the ceremonies of the Shamanic Journey and Soul Retrieval. | Soulfulness The Marriage of Shamanic And Contemporary Psychology

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Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds From Modeling to Engineering

Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds From Modeling to Engineering

This book focuses on the role of modeling in the design of alloys and intermetallic compounds. It includes an introduction to the most important and most used modeling techniques such as CALPHAD and ab-initio methods as well as a section devoted to the latest developments in applications of alloys. The book emphasizes the correlation between modeling and technological developments while discussing topics such as wettability of Ultra High Temperature Ceramics by metals active brazing of diamonds to metals in cutting tools surface issues in medicine novel Fe-based superconductors metallic glasses high entropy alloys and thermoelectric materials. | Alloys and Intermetallic Compounds From Modeling to Engineering

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Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy The Neuro Update Edition—An Integrative Approach for Exploring Desire and Intimacy

Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy The Neuro Update Edition—An Integrative Approach for Exploring Desire and Intimacy

The revised edition of this award-winning book offers thirty-three Neuro Updates which provide evidence-based data to help you recognize and explain the deeply transformational nature of the work. Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy looks beyond behavioral treatments pharmaceutical interventions and performance goals to a comprehensive picture of what your clients want and need when they enter sex therapy and offers creative ways to engage your clients in their own therapeutic process whether or not you are trained as a sex therapist. Central to Gina Ogden’s approach is her Four-Dimensional Wheel of Sexual Experience an innovative template that recognizes the full range of sexual issues: physical emotional mental and spiritual. The text is organized into five practice-oriented sections that introduce the 4-D Wheel; show you how you can use it with individuals couples and groups; and encourage you to explore it on your own. | Expanding the Practice of Sex Therapy The Neuro Update Edition—An Integrative Approach for Exploring Desire and Intimacy

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Magnetic Sensors and Devices Technologies and Applications

Magnetic Sensors and Devices Technologies and Applications

This book presents in-depth coverage of magnetic sensors in industrial applications. It is divided into three sections: devices and technology for magnetic sensing industrial applications (automotive navigation) and emerging applications. Topics include transmission speed sensor ICs dynamic differential Hall ICs chopped Hall switches programmable linear output Hall sensors low power Hall ICs self-calibrating differential Hall ICs for wheel speed sensing dynamic differential Hall ICs uni- and bipolar Hall IC switches chopped mono cell Hall ICs and electromagnetic levitation. | Magnetic Sensors and Devices Technologies and Applications

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Multiscale Modeling From Atoms to Devices

Multiscale Modeling From Atoms to Devices

While the relevant features and properties of nanosystems necessarily depend on nanoscopic details their performance resides in the macroscopic world. To rationally develop and accurately predict performance of these systems we must tackle problems where multiple length and time scales are coupled. Rather than forcing a single modeling approach to predict an event it was not designed for a new paradigm must be employed: multiscale modeling. A brilliant solution to a pervasive problem Multiscale Modeling: From Atoms to Devices offers a number of approaches for which more than one scale is explicitly considered. It provides several alternatives from coarse-graining sampling of the atomic and mesoscale to Monte Carlo- and thermodynamic-based models that allow sampling of increasingly large scales up to multiscale models able to describe entire devices. Beginning with common techniques for coarse-graining the book discusses their theoretical background advantages and limitations. It examines the application-dependent parameterization characteristics of coarse-graining along with the finer-trains-coarser multiscale approach and describes three carefully selected examples in which the parameterization although based on the same principles depends on the actual application. The book considers the use of ab initio and density functional theory to obtain parameters needed for larger scale models the alternative use of density functional theory parameters in a Monte Carlo method and the use of ab initio and density functional theory as the atomistic technique underlying the calculation of thermodynamics properties of alloy phase stability. Highlighting one of the most challenging tasks for multiscale modelers Multiscale Modeling: From Atoms to Devices also presents modeling for nanocomposite materials using the embedded fiber finite element method (EFFEM). It emphasizes an ensemble Monte Carlo method to high field-charge transport problems and demonstrates the practical application of modern many-body quantum theories. The author maintains a website with additional information. | Multiscale Modeling From Atoms to Devices

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Tribology and Surface Engineering for Industrial Applications

Tribology and Surface Engineering for Industrial Applications

Tribology is a multidisciplinary science that encompasses mechanical engineering materials science surface engineering lubricants and additives chemistry with tremendous applications. Tribology and Surface Engineering for Industrial Applications discusses the latest in tribology and surface engineering for industrial applications. This book: Offers information on coatings and surface diagnostics Explains a variety of techniques for improved performance Describes applications in automotive wheel and rail materials manufacturing and wind turbines Written for researchers and advanced students this book encompasses a wide-ranging view of the latest in industrial applications of tribology and surface engineering for a variety of cross-disciplinary applications.

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Low Head Hydropower for Local Energy Solutions

Low Head Hydropower for Local Energy Solutions

The role of small hydropower is becoming increasingly important on a global level. Increasing energy demand and environmental awareness has further triggered research and development into sustainable low-cost technologies. In developing countries particularly in rural areas the possibility of local power generation could considerably improve living conditions. With this in mind the development of a next generation low-head hydropower machines was subject of investigation in the EU-project HYLOW. Being part of the research lines of that project this thesis presents a numerical modelling approach to improve the design of machines like water wheels for increased hydraulic efficiency. Nowadays Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) enables numerical models to be quite accurate and incorporate physical complexities like free surfaces and rotating machines. The results of the CFD simulations carried out in this research show that a change in blade geometry can result in higher torque levels thereby increasing performance. Numerical simulations also enabled to determine the optimal wheel-width to channel-width ratio and further improve performance by modifying the channel bed conditions upstream and downstream of the water wheel. With a power rating in the low kilowatt range low-head hydropower machines like optimised water wheels seem to have a clear potential for small-scale energy generation thereby contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by providing local energy solutions. | Low Head Hydropower for Local Energy Solutions

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Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential security concerns the case of Japan was altogether different. Japan never was a threat to Sweden militarily or economically. Nevertheless Stockholm maintained a close relationship with Tokyo until Japan’s surrender in 1945. This book explores the reasons for that and therefore provides a study on the rationale and the value of neutrality in the Long Second World War. Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War is a valuable resource for scholars of the Second World War and of the history of neutrality. | Sweden Japan and the Long Second World War 1931-1945

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The Spirit of Indian Philosophy

The Spirit of Indian Philosophy

First published in 1975 The Spirit of Indian Philosophy provides a systematic overview of Indian philosophy. The book is divided into four major parts dealing with Indian epistemology Indian metaphysics Indian ethics and Indian philosophy of religion. It makes a departure from usual method of investigating Indian philosophy by dealing with its different schools individually and separately. It discusses themes like sources of cognition; nature and criterion of true cognition; problem of error; materialism; realism; dualism; Indian theories of causation; reflective morality; the ethics of non-violence; Indian atheism and Indian religion of God to argue that the usual conception of Indian philosophy in general as religious spiritualistic and pessimistic is contrary to the fact that the doctrine of Karma transmigration and rebirth strictly speaking is incompatible with the Indian ways of thinking and in deed is an imposition upon them ab extra. This is an essential read for scholars and students of Indian philosophy.

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Road and Off-Road Vehicle System Dynamics Handbook

Road and Off-Road Vehicle System Dynamics Handbook

Featuring contributions from leading experts the Road and Off-Road Vehicle System Dynamics Handbook provides comprehensive authoritative coverage of all the major issues involved in road vehicle dynamic behavior. While the focus is on automobiles this book also highlights motorcycles heavy commercial vehicles and off-road vehicles. The authors of the individual chapters both from automotive industry and universities address basic issues but also include references to significant papers for further reading. Thus the handbook is devoted both to the beginner wishing to acquire basic knowledge on a specific topic and to the experienced engineer or scientist wishing to have up-to-date information on a particular subject. It can also be used as a textbook for master courses at universities. The handbook begins with a short history of road and off-road vehicle dynamics followed by detailed state-of-the-art chapters on modeling analysis and optimization in vehicle system dynamics vehicle concepts and aerodynamics pneumatic tires and contact wheel-road/off-road modeling vehicle subsystems vehicle dynamics and active safety man-vehicle interaction intelligent vehicle systems and road accident reconstruction and passive safety. Provides extensive coverage of modeling simulation and analysis techniques Surveys all vehicle subsystems from a vehicle dynamics point of view Focuses on pneumatic tires and contact wheel-road/off-road Discusses intelligent vehicle systems technologies and active safety Considers safety factors and accident reconstruction procedures Includes chapters written by leading experts from all over the world This text provides an applicable source of information for all people interested in a deeper understanding of road vehicle dynamics and related problems.

GBP 94.99
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Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree

Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree

You will see no false nothing false tonight the Hypnotist Tim Crouch's second play collapses a tale of loss and grief into an exploration of theatrical representation in a piece of theatre that is at once formally innovative and profoundly moving. Written for two actors An Oak Tree depicts the fraught meeting of a grieving father and the stage hypnotist who was behind the wheel of the car that killed his daughter with the father played by a different actor at each performance walking on stage with no prior knowledge of the play. Catherine Love explores An Oak Tree's connections with conceptual art the unique process of its creation its interrogation of stage representation its relationship with audiences and its place as part of Crouch's ongoing body of work. | Tim Crouch's An Oak Tree

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Skyrmions Topological Structures Properties and Applications

Skyrmions Topological Structures Properties and Applications

The book reviews all the aspects of recent developments in research on skyrmions from the presentation of the observation and characterization techniques to the description of physical properties and expected applications. It will be of great use for all scientists working in this field. – Albert Fert 2007 Nobel Laureate in Physics (from the Foreword) A skyrmion is a tiny region of reversed magnetization – quasiparticles since they are not present except in a magnetic state and also give rise to physics that cannot be described by Maxwell’s equations. These particles are fascinating subjects for theoretical and experimental studies. Moreover as a new type of magnetic domain structure with special topological structures skyrmions feature outstanding magnetic and transport properties and may well have applications in data storage and other advanced spintronic devices as readers will see in this book. Chapters address the relationships between physical properties of condensed matter such as the AB effect Berry phase effect quantum Hall effect and topological insulators. Overall it provides a timely introduction to the fundamental aspects and possible applications of magnetic skyrmions to an interdisciplinary audience from condensed matter physics chemistry and materials science. | Skyrmions Topological Structures Properties and Applications

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Applying Personality-Informed Treatment Strategies to Clinical Practice A Theoretical and Practical Guide

Applying Personality-Informed Treatment Strategies to Clinical Practice A Theoretical and Practical Guide

A strategic approach for positive change tailored to the unique qualities of different individuals this text assists readers in factoring personality functioning into any psychotherapeutic undertaking providing a guide for comprehensive Personality-Informed assessment and treatment planning. Drawing upon research from across scientific disciplines chapters emphasize the importance of a multidisciplinary approach in effectuating enduring therapeutic change whilst dealing with clients’ unique personality styles. Also featured is Dr. Nevins’ Personality Wheel used throughout as a framework for therapeutically addressing the problematic personality patterns styles or traits related to most clients' presenting problems and for constructing healthy personality change. Graduate students and professionals will benefit from the book’s key insights into the major contributing factors underlying psychological distress due to maladaptive personality patterns styles and traits. | Applying Personality-Informed Treatment Strategies to Clinical Practice A Theoretical and Practical Guide

GBP 31.99
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Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East Production Use and Social Significance

Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East Production Use and Social Significance

The evolution and proliferation of plain and predominantly wheel-made pottery presents a characteristic feature of the societies of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean since the fourth millennium B. C. This plain pottery has received little detailed archaeological attention in comparison to aesthetically more pleasing and chronologically sensitive decorated traditions. Yet their simplicity and standardization suggest they are products of craft specialists the result of high-volume production and therefore important in understanding the social systems in early complex societies. This volume-reevaluates the role and significance of plain pottery traditions from both historically specific perspectives and from a comparative point of view;-examines the uses and functions of this pottery in relation to social negotiation and group identity formation;-helps scholars understand cross-regional similarities in development and use. | Plain Pottery Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East Production Use and Social Significance

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Animal Suffering and Public Relations The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal-Industrial Complex

Animal Suffering and Public Relations The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal-Industrial Complex

Animal Suffering and Public Relations conducts an ethical assessment of public relations mainly persuasive communication and lobbying as deployed by some of the main businesses involved in the animal-industrial complex—the industries participating in the systematic and institutionalised exploitation of animals. Society has been experiencing a growing ethical concern regarding humans’ (ab)use of other animals. This is a trend first promoted by the development of animal ethics—which claims any sentient being because of sentience deserves moral consideration—and more recently by other approaches from the social sciences including critical animal studies. In this volume we aim to start an entirely unaddressed discussion within the field of public relations: The need to problematise the ethics of persuasion when nonhuman animal suffering is involved particularly the impact of persuasion and lobbying on compassion towards other animals in the cases of food experimentation entertainment and environmental management. This book provides an interdisciplinary theoretical discussion illustrated with international case studies from experts in strategic communication public relations lobbying and advocacy animal ethics philosophy of law political philosophy and social psychology. This unique book merges the fields of critical public relations animal ethics and critical animal studies and will be of direct appeal to a wide range of researchers academics and doctoral students across related fields. | Animal Suffering and Public Relations The Ethics of Persuasion in the Animal-Industrial Complex

GBP 130.00
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Lean for the Process Industries Dealing with Complexity Second Edition

Lean for the Process Industries Dealing with Complexity Second Edition

Compared to its widespread implementation across almost all areas of production Lean improvement efforts lag within the process industries. While many innovators have successfully applied Lean principles to these industries during the past three decades most of those pioneering efforts were never recorded to guide the improvement efforts of others. Drawing on more than 40 years of application experience at one of the world’s largest chemical and materials manufacturers coupled with 10 years in private practice Peter King corrects this void by providing the first comprehensive resource written explicitly for change agents within the process industries. Focusing on areas where the improvement needs of the process industry differ from parts assembly manufacturing Lean for the Process Industries: Dealing with Complexity Second Edition: Covers each of the eight wastes commonly described in Lean literature looking at how they manifest themselves in process operations. Explains how to adapt value stream mapping for process operations. Shows how to identify the root causes of bottlenecks and how to manage them to optimize flow until they can be eliminated. Provides practical techniques to overcome the barriers which have prevented the application of Cellular Manufacturing to process operations. Discusses the role of business leadership in a Lean strategy describing both enabling and counter-productive management behaviors Since the publication of the first edition of this book Peter King has been busy consulting with food beverage gasoline additive and nutraceutical companies - these new experiences have broadened his perspectives on certain Lean processes and have given him a richer set of examples to discuss in this new edition. While Value Stream Mapping is a very powerful tool to understand flow bottlenecks and waste in an operation the traditional format as presented in many other books does not describe all of the data required to fully understand process flow and its detractors. This new edition highlights the necessary additions with examples of why they are useful. Product wheel scheduling achieves production leveling in a far more comprehensive and effective way than traditional heijunka methods. This edition has a more thorough description of the wheel concept and design steps and more examples from actual applications. | Lean for the Process Industries Dealing with Complexity Second Edition

GBP 48.99
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The Science of Motorsport

The Science of Motorsport

Despite its worldwide following high levels of investment and scientific complexity there is a lack of evidence-based literature on the science of human performance in motorsport. Focusing on the physiological psychological and sport medicine aspects of training performance injury and safety The Science of Motorsport is the first book to provide an accessible and up-to-date resource for stakeholders at all levels of motorsport. Addressing the physiological and psychological stresses of racing across a full range of sports from Formula 1 and IndyCar to NASCAR and endurance racing the book includes chapters on: • nutritional and physical training strategies for drivers; • the driver’s neck; • injury rates and pathologies of open-wheel driving; • return to competition from concussion; • driver safety; • and considerations for pit crews and safety staff. Accessibly written and made up of contributions from world-leading authorities in motorsport science research this is a crucial resource for racing drivers physical trainers pit crew members and safety personnel as well as researchers and students with an interest in applied sport physiology applied sport psychology or sport medicine.

GBP 36.99
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Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

Pictures of Angela Merkel in a Nazi uniform the burning of German flags newspaper articles portraying Southern Europe as work-shy and Northern Europe as tight-fisted: The Eurozone crisis has thrown up old stereotypes; often digging into well-established historical images of ‘the other’. The conscious or tacit (ab)use of national prejudices by politicians and parts of the media and the strong emotional reactions among European citizens have caused a lot of public concern about the likely negative implications of such reawakening of national clichés and the newly hardening boundaries they construct for the process of European integration. It is evident that current and recent crises confront European citizens with profound dilemmas which they seek to make sense of and in response to which much new political mobilisation takes place. At the same time some of the interpretative and political reactions thus generated also have the potential to become very destructive processes putting into question years of integration efforts. This book brings together scholars who examine the nexus between (economic) crisis national identities and the use of historical images and prejudices and stereotypes by focusing particularly on media and political discourses in different European countries. In addition to detailed empirical discussions covering diverse national settings across Europe the different contributions discuss and offer a variety of conceptual and methodological approaches within the inter-disciplinary study of national identities prejudice and stereotyping in the context of socio-economic and political crises. This book was originally published as a Special Issue of National Identities. | Dividing United Europe From Crisis to Fragmentation?

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The Developing Mind How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

The Developing Mind How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

This highly influential work-now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field-gives clinicians educators and students a new understanding of what the mind is how it grows and how to promote healthy development and resilience. Daniel J. Siegel synthesizes cutting-edge research from multiple disciplines revealing the ways in which neural processes are fundamentally shaped by interpersonal relationships throughout life. And even when early experiences are not optimal building deeper connections to other people and to one's own internal experience remains a powerful resource for growth. Professors praise the book’s utility in courses from developmental psychology and child development to neuroscience and counseling. New to This Edition *Incorporates findings from a huge body of recent research; over 1 000 citations added. *Revisits and refines the core hypotheses of interpersonal neurobiology. *Chapter on the experience of belonging and the development of identity. *New or expanded discussions of behavioral epigenetics the default mode network of the brain social neuroscience cultural and gender issues theory of mind the Wheel of Awareness contemplative practice the science of consciousness and more. | The Developing Mind How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

GBP 49.99
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The Unconscious A Contemporary Introduction

The Unconscious A Contemporary Introduction

In The Unconscious: A Contemporary Introduction Joseph Newirth presents a critical and comparative analysis of the unconscious and its evolution from a positivist to a postmodern frame of reference. This book presents five theories each of which offers different and important conceptualizations of the unconscious and each of which contains a rich palate of ideas through which to approach clinical work. These psychoanalytic theories are thought of as spokes on a wheel emanating from the center of Freud’s concept of the unconscious. In addition to presenting Freud’s development of the unconscious Newirth includes discussions of interpersonal/relational psychoanalysis; developmental approaches to the unconscious including Kohut Winnicott and Fonagy; Kleinian approaches to the unconscious; and linguistic theories of the unconscious including Matte Blanco and Lacan. The last chapter illustrates the use of contemporary psychoanalytic concepts in the clinical work with a contemporary patient. The book encourages a comparative view of psychoanalytic theory and technique and aims to move to a more useful generalizable concept of the unconscious for the contemporary patient. This book will be of great interest to psychoanalysts psychologists and anyone interested in the evolution and application of the unconscious as a concept. | The Unconscious A Contemporary Introduction

GBP 19.99
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Soluzioni A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian

Soluzioni A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian

Soluzioni: A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian combines an engaging reference and practice grammar explained in clear and concise language with numerous supporting exercises. Aimed at keen students of all levels Soluzioni offers: a complete grammar review in tabular form for easy navigation and at-a-glance comprehension; 650 graded practice exercises with an answer key for self-assessment; extensive examples using a wide range of useful up-to-date vocabulary; authentic material from Italian media and literature with vocabulary notes and linked exercises to show how grammar works in practice; special help sections throughout dedicated to clarifying tricky points or avoiding common pitfalls; a comprehensive user-friendly index for ease of access in both Italian and English; a glossary of grammatical terms; a companion website at www. routledge. com/cw/derome with over 240 free interactive language quizzes for on-the-spot testing plus supplementary downloadable material such as a comprehensive verb section and full answer key to the book exercises. This fourth edition continues the accessible methodology and focus on contemporary usage that has made Soluzioni the clearest and most comprehensive pedagogic grammar on the market today. Fully updated it covers key areas of difficulty such as tense usage the subjunctive causative verbs combined pronouns and word order. It also pays attention to the links between grammar and communicative functions as well as those between grammar context and register. Suitable for class use and independent study Soluzioni is the ideal reference and practice resource for learners of Italian. It is particularly suitable for fast-track use in ab initio courses at university and college. | Soluzioni A Practical Grammar of Contemporary Italian

GBP 36.99
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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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Techniques in Inorganic Chemistry

Techniques in Inorganic Chemistry

Inorganic chemistry continues to generate much current interest due to its array of applications ranging from materials to biology and medicine. Techniques in Inorganic Chemistry assembles a collection of articles from international experts who describe modern methods used by research students and chemists for studying the properties and structures of inorganic chemicals. Crystallography and diffraction methods The book begins by examining developments in small-molecule x-ray crystallography. It identifies some of the major advances discusses current attitudes toward crystallography and its uses and considers challenges and future prospects. It then examines how ab initio x-ray powder diffraction (XRPD) methods are used to determine structure with discussions on metal pyrazolates metal imidazolates and metal pyrimidinolates. This is followed by a description of single crystal neutron diffraction a powerful structural technique. The text highlights what can presently be achieved in neutron diffraction and discusses future applications of neutron scattering. Quantum chemistry Reflecting the popularity of density functional calculations the book includes a chapter that focuses on quantum chemistry. It examines the latest computational techniques and describes how these techniques can be applied to solve a wide range of real-world problems encountered in the realm of inorganic chemistry and particularly in transition metal chemistry. It also explains the intelligent use of quantum chemical methods for the determination of molecular structure reactivity and spectra of coordination and organometallic compounds. Spectroscopy Lastly the text explores important spectroscopic approaches. It first describes intermolecular nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) NMR experiments and diffusion experiments offering examples that demonstrate theoretical aspects of the methodology. The final chapter summarizes recent experimental and theoretical work on pressure effects on the d-d and luminescence spectra of transition metal complexes. Derived from select articles in Comments on Inorganic Chemistry this volume provides a solid background in the array of techniques available in the researcher’s toolkit.

GBP 74.99
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