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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

GBP 39.99
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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

GBP 31.99
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Algae Refinery Up- and Downstream Processes

Algae Refinery Up- and Downstream Processes

Algae Refinery: Up- and Downstream Processes offers complete coverage of algae refinery including up- and downstream processes while proposing an integrated algal refinery for the advancement of existing technologies and summarizing the strategies and future perspectives of algal refinery. It provides a concise introduction to the algal science biology technology and application of algae. It explains downstream and upstream steps of algal refinery for the production of algal biomass with several social benefits. Features: Provides various aspects of algal bioprocess including upstream and downstream processes Explains the major research streams of algae structures and their pathways Covers algal-based CO2 capture technology Explores the potential applications of algae for socioeconomical benefits Deliberates algal bioremediation approach for clean and sustainable development | Algae Refinery Up- and Downstream Processes

GBP 110.00
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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.

GBP 29.99
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Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

Color Theory for the Make-up Artist: Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects (Second Edition) analyzes and explains traditional color theory for fine artists and applies it to make-up artistry. This beautifully illustrated guide begins with the basics of color theory – why we see color how to categorize and identify color and relationships between colors – and relates these concepts to beauty and special effects make-up. The book provides a wealth of information including how to mix flesh tones by using only primary colors how these colors in paints and make-up are sourced and created the reason for variations in skin colors and undertones and how to identify and match these using make-up while choosing flattering colors for the eyes lips and cheeks. Colors found inside the body are explained for special effects make-up like why we bruise bleed or appear sick. Ideas and techniques are also described for painting prosthetics in addition to using color as inspiration in make-up designs. The book also discusses how lighting affects color on film television theater and photography sets and how to properly light a workspace for successful applications. The second edition features: A brand-new chapter on color inspiration in make-up and design Additional and updated diagrams More real-life application photos and demonstrations including new examples of tattoo covering and prosthetic painting using optical mixtures airbrush and stippling Expanded discussion on undertones skin variations color correction pigments colored gels and more Filled with stunning photography and practical information Color Theory for the Make-up Artist provides guidance and inspiration for both professionals and beginners who wish to train their eye further to understand and recognize distinctions in color. | Color Theory for the Make-up Artist Understanding Color and Light for Beauty and Special Effects

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Close-up and Macro Photography Its Art and Fieldcraft Techniques

Close-up and Macro Photography Its Art and Fieldcraft Techniques

Focusing on fieldcraft techniques for macro and close-up photography Thompson covers the vital but often overlooked skills necessary to achieve consistent professional results in the field. Case studies covering a broad and often challenging group of subjects from the seashore to your back garden form the core of the lavishly illustrated book. Biology life history subject behaviour and ethics along with best practice approaches are discussed in detail and underpinned with photographic tips. The book is divided into four sections—Digital Fundamentals Fieldcraft & Methodology Portfolio Case Studies Digital Workflow & Presentation—covering the full photographic process from capture through to editing captioning development and storage are discussed. Moving beyond the surface-level approach to macro instruction this book provides readers with techniques that work in the field. Illustrated with over 250 of the author's own inspiring images this publication is a must for photographers naturalists and anyone interested in improving their macro skills in the field. | Close-up and Macro Photography Its Art and Fieldcraft Techniques

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Bacterial Cellulose Production Scale-up and Applications

Bacterial Cellulose Production Scale-up and Applications

This reference book provides updated information on the production and industrial significance of bacterial cellulose. Bacterial cellulose is a natural fiber produced by certain microbes mainly bacteria which belong to the Acetobacter genera. The book discusses its applications in different industrial sectors such as food pharmaceutical energy and wastewater treatment. It covers the production of cellulose from conventional and renewable feedstock and includes topics such as downstream processing characterization and chemical modification of bacterial cellulose. FEATURES: Addresses the challenges of the production technologies of bacterial cellulose up to pilot scale Discusses cost-effective green processes using agri-processing residues and medium formulation Includes efficient preparation of nanocomposites using in vitro and in vivo methods Provides the latest applications of bacterial cellulose in the food and pharmaceuticals fields Reviews the production of bacterial cellulose from conventional feedstock such as sugars and starches This book is designed for industry experts and researchers of applied microbiology bioprocesses and industrial microbiology. | Bacterial Cellulose Production Scale-up and Applications

GBP 140.00
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Stepping Up Teachers Advocating for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Schools

Stepping Up Teachers Advocating for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Schools

Stepping Up! offers inspiring suggestions for ways teachers and teacher educators can stand up and speak out for students to create welcoming classroom climates for LGBTQ and gender diverse youth. Building from ten years of collaborative longitudinal inquiry including interviews with parents students teachers and administrators the authors share stories from different perspectives to support teachers with concrete examples of advocacy. The authors show teachers how to ‘step up’ by working with students through and beyond curriculum and by working with families and administrators to improve school culture for LGBTQ and gender diverse students. Additionally they explore the potential constraints involved in such social justice work and share strategies and resources for transforming schools to be more queer-friendly. | Stepping Up Teachers Advocating for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Schools

GBP 38.99
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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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Housing Provision and Bottom-up Approaches Family Case Studies from Africa Asia and South America

Housing Provision and Bottom-up Approaches Family Case Studies from Africa Asia and South America

First published in 1999 this book consists of in-depth family case studies from Africa Asia and South America. The purpose of the book is to give a clear understanding of the physical and non-physical structures in bottom-up housing approaches. Physical structures include design aspects materials infrastructure and construction methods and stages. Non-physical structures include finance sources participation and decision processes. All these elements present a challenging task for academics research policy makers and non-governmental organizations when intervening in bottom-up housing approaches. The book consists of four sections. Section I is an overview of conceptual issues and cross-national studies. Section II through IV are composed of case studies and fieldwork experiences from Africa Asia (including the Middle East) and South America. | Housing Provision and Bottom-up Approaches Family Case Studies from Africa Asia and South America

GBP 21.99
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Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

Want to get the best out of your digital camera? Not quite sure how to capture up-close shots? Want easy to follow expert advice on the best ways to creatively capture macro shots you can be proud of? This is your ticket to go beyond a snapshot to create a fine art print that you'll be so proud of. Macro and close-up photography involves a unique skill set in terms of exposure lighting and of course composition in particular. You can take a quick photo of a sunflower in your back yard that will look mundane and typical OR you could learn how to take a picture of just a part of it-up close-and create a work of art. Let this book be your guide! | Focus On Close-Up and Macro Photography Focus on the Fundamentals

GBP 130.00
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Levelling Up Left Behind Places The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge

Levelling Up Left Behind Places The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge

This book aims to understand the predicaments of ‘left behind places’ and the scale of the policy challenge of ‘levelling up’ their economic prosperity. Drawing out lessons of wider international significance it examines how places (cities towns and localities) have grown apart over recent decades amidst deindustrialisation post-industrial transition and the disruptive shocks of the global financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. Using the UK case to illustrate its arguments the analysis identifies the different types of ‘left behind places’ and their distinctive economic experiences. The key features of urban and regional institutions and policies are reviewed to understand more about why despite some successes geographical inequalities remain an entrenched feature of the UK blighting the life chances and quality of life of its citizens and national economic progress as a whole. The weaknesses of past policies are highlighted and the case is made for a new mission-oriented policy model because only a radical shift in economic thinking governance and management is likely to achieve the ‘levelling up’ that is now a prominent refrain in the political lexicon. | Levelling Up Left Behind Places The Scale and Nature of the Economic and Policy Challenge

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Growing Up Muslim in Europe and the United States

Growing Up Muslim in Europe and the United States

This volume brings together scholarship from two different and until now largely separate literatures—the study of the children of immigrants and the study of Muslim minority communities—in order to explore the changing nature of ethnic identity religious practice and citizenship in the contemporary western world. With attention to the similarities and differences between the European and American experiences of growing up Muslim the contributing authors ask what it means for young people to be both Muslim and American or European how they reconcile these at times conflicting identities how they reconcile the religious and gendered cultural norms of their immigrant families with the more liberal ideals of the western societies that they live in and how they deal with these issues through mobilization and political incorporation. A transatlantic research effort that brings together work from the tradition in diaspora studies with research on the second generation to examine social cultural and political dimensions of the second-generation Muslim experience in Europe and the United States this book will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in migration diaspora race and ethnicity religion and integration. | Growing Up Muslim in Europe and the United States

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Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

First published in 1983 Which Way is Up presents a selection of Bob Connell’s writings on three key issues of modern social analysis- sex and gender class and power and culture. The essays range from psychoanalysis and contemporary feminism to the role theory from the analysis of class and culture to the debate about intellectuals and the ‘new class’. In critically reviewing contemporary thought on these issues the author has developed a perspective centred on the analysis of social practice. Easy to read often witty the essays represent an attempt to shift social theory into the real world of the late twentieth century to go beyond the limits of orthodox sociology and radical dogmas to think through theoretical questions without losing touch with practical politics. This is a must read for students and scholars of sociology. | Which Way is Up? Essays on Class Sex and Culture

GBP 90.00
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Adolescents Cultures and Conflicts Growing Up in Contemporary Europe

Adolescents Cultures and Conflicts Growing Up in Contemporary Europe

First published in 1998. Adolescent development and well-being are both affected by socio-political change political violence immigrant status and various types of cultural social and institutional diversity. These are realities faced by many adolescents in Europe today. This book examines these circumstances and also the impact of recent socio-political changes in Eastern Europe and conflicts in Northern Ireland. Adolescent identities are looked at as well as the effects of prejudice towards immigrant youths from their host societies. | Adolescents Cultures and Conflicts Growing Up in Contemporary Europe

GBP 32.99
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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

GBP 35.99
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Victims of Political Violence and Terrorism Making Up Resilient Survivors

Victims of Political Violence and Terrorism Making Up Resilient Survivors

This book examines the survivors of political violence and terrorism considering both how they have responded and how they have been responded to following critical incidents. As this work demonstrates survivors of comparatively rare and spectacular violence hold a mirror up to society’s normative assumptions around trauma recovery and resilience. Drawing on two years of observational field research with a British NGO who work with victims and former perpetrators of PVT this book explores contested notions of ‘resilience’ and what it might mean for those negotiating the aftermaths of violence. Examining knowledge about resilience from a multitude of sources including security policy media academic literature and the survivors themselves this book contends that in order to make empirical sense of resilience we must reckon with both its discursive and practical manifestations. An accessible and compelling read this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology victimology criminal justice and all those interested in the stories of survivors. | Victims of Political Violence and Terrorism Making Up Resilient Survivors

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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

GBP 31.99
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Handbook of Nutraceuticals Volume II Scale-Up Processing and Automation

Handbook of Nutraceuticals Volume II Scale-Up Processing and Automation

Due in part to an absence of universally accepted standardization methods nutraceuticals and functional foods face regulatory ignorance marketing incompetence and ethical impunity. Even though many researchers believe that there is a connection between nutraceuticals and functional foods and reduced health care expenses as well as disease prevention the credibility and quality control challenge remains. The industry needs more standardized testing reliable reproducible clinical studies to prove the efficacies of products in vivo and in-process controls to maintain universal product quality. The first volume of the Handbook of Nutraceuticals re-defined Nutraceuticals covering the regulatory aspect as well as insisting on the cGMP’s and SOP’s for the nutraceutical manufacturing. This second volume focuses on the scale up processing and automation of nutraceutical production under cGMP production regulations. It covers: Advancements in extraction methods Unit operations involved in scaling up and processing Rheological and flow properties of products as characterization parameters Fortification and value enhancement using nanotechnology Green concepts in food industry Flavoring of nutraceuticals Clinical batch nutraceutical manufacturing New technologies to prevent counterfeiting Automation in nutraceutical industry The nutraceutical market is at the crossroads. With a nearly $200 billion market for nutraceuticals and functional foods by end of 2013 and promising developments in product design and discovery the industry must be ready for intense scrutiny. The standardization of testing clinical studies and adherence to rigorous industry and scientific methods is necessary for the advancement acceptance and development of high quality effective nutraceuticals. With contributions from leading authorities this book brings together hundreds of years of combined experience to provide guidance on how to increase the quality and credibility of nutraceutical products. | Handbook of Nutraceuticals Volume II Scale-Up Processing and Automation

GBP 74.99
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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

GBP 34.99
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Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts What Can We Learn from 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up?

Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts What Can We Learn from 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up?

China has experienced tremendous developmental success since its reform and opening-up policy in 1978. What has contributed to China’s high-speed economic growth? What lessons can be learned from China’s successful case? What might be the challenges that China would face on its path to becoming a high-income country? These are some critical questions this book addresses. Based on the facts and economic logic this book briefly narrates the history of China’s successful development in the past 40 years and explains why China's reform and opening-up has boosted the high-speed growth of its economy. Recognizing the change in the stage of economic development the author reveals the emerging challenges facing China when transitioning from a middle-income country to a high-income country. He proposes that the country should transition from the demographic dividend to reform dividend to sustain the long-term development. With its scholarly analysis and plain language this book would not only attract scholars and students in economics and China studies but also readers interested in the development of the Chinese economy. | Perceiving Truth and Ceasing Doubts What Can We Learn from 40 Years of China’s Reform and Opening-Up?

GBP 38.99
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The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

To anyone who wants to make a doc but doesn’t have a lot of time money or experience Anthony Artis says: It’s time to get down and dirty!—a filmmaking mentality that teaches you how to be creative with your resources and do more with less. Written by a guerrilla filmmaker for guerrilla filmmakers this all new edition of a bestselling classic doesn’t just tell you it shows you how to make your projects better faster and cheaper and has been updated to include: Fresh coverage of DSLR cameras new lighting gear visual storytelling postproduction techniques and distribution in an online era. 500+ full color illustration timesaving tips and practical input from filmmakers that you can immediately apply to your own projects New sections on fundraising choosing lenses shooting internationally the 4K format shooting on iPhones previsualization wireless microphones dolly and slider shots staging remote interviews transcripts and more This bonus website (www. focalpress. com/cw/artis) features video and audio tutorials storyboards releases equipment guides and checklists. Hustle up a winning documentary crew and choose the right equipment for the job. Learn to shoot more polished professional-looking footage and interviews on any budget any camera any time. Plan through all the obstacles avoid common filmmaking pitfalls and tighten your lighting audio and visual storytelling skills before you hit the streets. The hotly anticipated second edition of The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide will help you do all this and more! | The Shut Up and Shoot Documentary Guide A Down & Dirty DV Production

GBP 130.00
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