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Mies van der Rohe

Mies van der Rohe

The career and built works of this enigmatic and fascinating architect are carefully charted from his early work on housing design and high-rise offices in Berlin to his later and most famous work in Chicago Detroit Montreal and New York. Original illustrations from the architect's archives complement the excellent text. Spon's ARCHITECTURE COLLECTION presents the work of historic and contemporary masters of architecture in clear well-illustrated text accessible to non-specialists. This appealing series of monographs now available in English is launched by books on two great historic figures of the century Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe and two award-winning contemporary architects Sir Norman Foster and Alvaro Siza.

GBP 130.00
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The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

The 1920s and 1930s saw the rise of the city symphony an experimental film form that presented the city as protagonist instead of mere decor. Combining experimental documentary and narrative practices these films were marked by a high level of abstraction reminiscent of high-modernist experiments in painting and photography. Moreover interwar city symphonies presented a highly fragmented oftentimes kaleidoscopic sense of modern life and they organized their urban-industrial images through rhythmic and associative montage that evoke musical structures. In this comprehensive volume contributors consider the full 80 film corpus from Manhatta and Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Grosstadt to lesser-known cinematic explorations. | The City Symphony Phenomenon Cinema Art and Urban Modernity Between the Wars

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Detente Democracy and Dictatorship

Detente Democracy and Dictatorship

The subject of Detente Democracy and Dictatorship has been with us since the breakdown of the Cold War and the termination of the Soviet system indeed if not since the origins of Bolshevism. No more vigorous critic of the uneasy co-existence of democracy and dictatorship exists than the greatest writer that the Soviet era of Russian history produced Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. This third edition is based on major addresses especially aimed at Americans delivered in 1975 in Washington D. C. and New York and again in 1978 at Harvard University in Cambridge all on the subject of detente democracy and dictatorship. It also includes Solzhenitsyn's final 2007 interview with the German publication Der Spiegel. These major statements are brilliant and forthright comment on the risks of confusing ideology with diplomacy. But more than that they summarize the Soviet debacle the theoretical underpinnings and distill Solzhenitsyn's multi-volumed masterpiece the Gulag Archipelago.

GBP 130.00
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Group-Theoretic Methods in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

Group-Theoretic Methods in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

Group analysis of differential equations has applications to various problems in nonlinear mechanics and physics. For the first time this book gives the systematic group analysis of main postulates of classical and relativistic mechanics. The consistent presentation of Lie group theory is illustrated by plentiful examples. Symmetries and conservation laws of differential equations are studied. Specific equations and problems of mechanics and physics are considered and exact solutions are given for the following equations: dynamics of rigid body heat transfer wave hydrodynamics Thomas-Fermi and more. The author pays particular attention to the application of group analysis to developing asymptotic methods of applied mathematics in problems with small parameter. The methods are used to solve basic equations (Van Der Pol's equation Duffing equation etc. ) encountered in the theory of nonlinear oscillations. This book is intended for a wide range of scientists engineers and students in the fields of applied mathematics mechanics and physics. | Group-Theoretic Methods in Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

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Handbook of Item Response Theory Three Volume Set

Handbook of Item Response Theory Three Volume Set

Drawing on the work of 75 internationally acclaimed experts in the field Handbook of Item Response Theory Three-Volume Set presents all major item response models classical and modern statistical tools used in item response theory (IRT) and major areas of applications of IRT in educational and psychological testing medical diagnosis of patient-reported outcomes and marketing research. It also covers CRAN packages WinBUGS Bilog MG Multilog Parscale IRTPRO Mplus GLLAMM Latent Gold and numerous other software tools. A full update of editor Wim J. van der Linden and Ronald K. Hambleton’s classic Handbook of Modern Item Response Theory this handbook has been expanded from 28 chapters to 85 chapters in three volumes. The three volumes are thoroughly edited and cross-referenced with uniform notation format and pedagogical principles across all chapters. Each chapter is self-contained and deals with the latest developments in IRT. | Handbook of Item Response Theory Three Volume Set

GBP 140.00
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Collage and Architecture

Collage and Architecture

Collage and Architecture remains an invaluable resource for students and practitioners as the first book to cover collage as a tool for analysis and design in architecture. Since entering the contemporary art world over a century ago collage has profoundly influenced artists and architects throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. In Collage and Architecture Jennifer A. E. Shields explores its influence using the artworks and built projects of leading artists and architects such as Mies van der Rohe Daniel Libeskind and Teddy Cruz to illustrate the diversity of collage techniques. This new edition includes: A stronger focus on contemporary practices including digital methods; New designers and architects including Marshall Brown WAI Architecture Think Tank and Tatiana Bilbao bringing their methods and work to life; An expanded global and diverse perspective of architecture as collage; Collage is an important instrument for analysis and design. Through its 261 color images this book shows how this versatile medium can be adapted and transformed in your own work.

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Somatic Art Therapy Alleviating Pain and Trauma through Art

Somatic Art Therapy Alleviating Pain and Trauma through Art

This book focuses on somatic art therapy for treating acute or chronic pain especially resulting from physical and/or psychological trauma. It discusses the role of the psyche in physical healing and encourages combining of traditional medicine and holistic perspectives in treatment. Translated from the French text this volume provides case studies and examples from the author’s art psychotherapy practice of 40 years including the four-quadrants method. Chapters review the current treatments for chronic pain and PTSD and focus on art therapeutic methods to treat those conditions such as art therapy protocols for PTSD. The book exposes the underlying rational of somatic art therapy covering art therapy effectiveness Levine’s somatic dissociation van der Kolk’s somatic memory and Scaer’s procedural memory concepts. Also featured are chapter contributions from art therapists Sophie Boudrias Mylène Piché and Dr. Patcharin Sughondhabirom. By providing a unique clear and concise synthesis of available art therapy methods this text will appeal both to the general and professional public including professional art therapists psychotherapists helping relation professionals and medical practitioners. | Somatic Art Therapy Alleviating Pain and Trauma through Art

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Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century. Its emergence reflected the desire of Jewish intellectuals to introduce modern forms of education and promote ideological agendas both in Eastern Europe and in immigrant communities elsewhere. Before the Second World War a number of publishing houses and periodicals in Europe and the Americas specialized in stories novels and poems for various age groups. Prominent authors such as Yankev Glatshteyn Der Nister Joseph Opatoshu Leyb Kvitko made original contributions to the genre while artists such as Marc Chagall El Lissitzky and Yisakhar Ber Rybak also took an active part. In the Soviet Union meanwhile children’s literature provided an opportunity to escape strong ideological pressure. Yiddish children’s literature is still being produced today both for secular and strongly Orthodox communities. This volume is a pioneering collective study not only of children’s literature but of the role played by children in literature. | Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

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Basics of Ramsey Theory

Basics of Ramsey Theory

Basics of Ramsey Theory serves as a gentle introduction to Ramsey theory for students interested in becoming familiar with a dynamic segment of contemporary mathematics that combines ideas from number theory and combinatorics. The core of the of the book consists of discussions and proofs of the results now universally known as Ramsey’s theorem van der Waerden’s theorem Schur’s theorem Rado’s theorem the Hales–Jewett theorem and the Happy End Problem of Erdős and Szekeres. The aim is to present these in a manner that will be challenging but enjoyable and broadly accessible to anyone with a genuine interest in mathematics. Features Suitable for any undergraduate student who has successfully completed the standard calculus sequence of courses and a standard first (or second) year linear algebra course Filled with visual proofs of fundamental theorems Contains numerous exercises (with their solutions) accessible to undergraduate students Serves as both a textbook or as a supplementary text in an elective course in combinatorics and aimed at a diverse group of students interested in mathematics

GBP 89.99
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The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models From Translating to Archiving Collecting and Displaying

The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models From Translating to Archiving Collecting and Displaying

Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination communication and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models and their ownership placement and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserve careful consideration. Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings this book fills a lacuna in current scholarship questioning the significance of the lives of drawings and models after construction. Including emerging well-known and world-renowned scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory and curatorial practices the thirty-five contributions define recent research in four key areas: drawing sites/sites of knowledge construction: drawing office construction site; the afterlife of drawings and models: archiving collecting displaying and exhibiting; tools of making: architectural representations and their apparatus over time; and the ethical responsibilities of collecting and archiving: authorship ownership copyrights and rights to copy. The research covers a wide range of geographies and delves into the practices of such architects as Sir John Soane Superstudio Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc Frank Lloyd Wright Wajiro Kon Germán Samper Gnecco A+PS Mies van der Rohe and Renzo Piano. | The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models From Translating to Archiving Collecting and Displaying

GBP 205.00
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Banditry and Security Crisis in Nigeria

Banditry and Security Crisis in Nigeria

This book examines the growing phenomenon of armed banditry in Nigeria and its implication for national security. Nigeria’s banditry crisis and deepening security challenges are fuelled by the existence of vast un(der)governed hinterland and trans-border spaces where various non-state armed groups operate unhindered and outside of the law engaging in various forms of transnational crime. This book explores the activities of these groups to assess the nature and significance of banditry as a complex threat to security. It does so against the backdrop of reports of increased bandit attacks on farms markets mining sites villages and rural communities and the rising tide of violent crimes in Nigeria especially the northern region. This book analyses the factors that are responsible for the emergence of banditry as a recent national and transnational security threat and outlines the contemporary dynamics of Nigeria’s banditry crisis and how it can be mitigated. This book will be of interest to researchers and students in the field of African Studies International Relations Security and Strategic Studies Political Studies Peace and Conflict Studies as well as policymakers and practitioners interested in complex security threats and their implications in Nigeria and beyond. | Banditry and Security Crisis in Nigeria

GBP 130.00
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Towards a Transformation of Philosophy

Towards a Transformation of Philosophy

First Published in 1980 (English Translation) Towards a Transformation of Philosophy presents selected essays from Karl -Otto Apel’s two- volume German collection that was published in 1973 under the title Transformation der Philosophie. Karl -Otto Apel’s studies in philosophy and the social sciences can be said to have bridged the gap that had hitherto existed between the Anglo-Saxon traditions of analytical philosophy of language and pragmatism and the philosophical traditions of the European continent of phenomenology existentialism and hermeneutics. Apel points to language as the crucial dimension in the constitution of historical meaning and therefore as the historical condition for the possibility of truth. In this context he discusses the hermeneutic dimension of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and that of his followers together with the development of pragmatism and with recent trends in Chomsky’s linguistics. In arguing for the complementarity of technical and practical interests in acquiring knowledge for a critical theory of society Apel examines the preconditions for an emancipatory critique of ideology and the communication community as the predeterminate of both the social sciences and moral discourse. In all the essays Apel sets out to counter the positivistic and scientistic restrictions placed upon a satisfactory understanding of the preconditions for the possibility and validity of human knowledge. This is a must read for scholars and researchers of philosophy.

GBP 105.00
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Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions Display Identity and Narrative

Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions Display Identity and Narrative

Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions offers an in-depth analysis of the multiple roles that exhibition graphics perform in contemporary museums and exhibitions. Drawing on a study of exhibitions that took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum London the Museum of London and the Haus der Geschichte Bonn Piehl brings together approaches from museum studies design practice and narrative theory to examine museum exhibitions as multimodal narratives in which graphics account for one set of narrative resources. The analysis underlines the importance of aspects such as accessibility and at the same time problematises conceptualisations that focus only on the effectiveness of graphics as display device by drawing attention to the contributions that graphics make towards the content on display and to the ways in which it is experienced in the museum space. Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions argues for a critical reading of and engagement with exhibition graphic design as part of wider debates around meaning-making in museum studies and exhibition-making practice. As such the book should be essential reading for academics researchers and students from the fields of museum and design studies. Practitioners such as exhibition designers graphic designers curators and other exhibition makers should also find much to interest them in the book. | Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions Display Identity and Narrative

GBP 35.99
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2D Monoelemental Materials (Xenes) and Related Technologies Beyond Graphene

2D Monoelemental Materials (Xenes) and Related Technologies Beyond Graphene

Monoelemental 2D materials called Xenes have a graphene-like structure intra-layer covalent bond and weak van der Waals forces between layers. Materials composed of different groups of elements have different structures and rich properties making Xenes materials a potential candidate for the next generation of 2D materials. 2D Monoelemental Materials (Xenes) and Related Technologies: Beyond Graphene describes the structure properties and applications of Xenes by classification and section. The first section covers the structure and classification of single-element 2D materials according to the different main groups of monoelemental materials of different components and includes the properties and applications with detailed description. The second section discusses the structure properties and applications of advanced 2D Xenes materials which are composed of heterogeneous structures produced by defects and regulated by the field. Features include: Systematically detailed single element materials according to the main groups of the constituent elements Classification of the most effective and widely studied 2D Xenes materials Expounding upon changes in properties and improvements in applications by different regulation mechanisms Discussion of the significance of 2D single-element materials where structural characteristics are closely combined with different preparation methods and the relevant theoretical properties complement each other with practical applications Aimed at researchers and advanced students in materials science and engineering this book offers a broad view of current knowledge in the emerging and promising field of 2D monoelemental materials. | 2D Monoelemental Materials (Xenes) and Related Technologies Beyond Graphene

GBP 115.00
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Neuroaesthetics

Neuroaesthetics

The beginning of psychological aesthetics is normally traced back to the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner's seminal book Vorschule der Aesthetik in 1876. Following in the footsteps of this rich tradition editors Martin Skov and Oshin Vartanian view neuroaesthetics - the emerging field of inquiry concerned with uncovering the ways in which aesthetic behavior is caused by brain processes - as a natural extension of Fechner's 'empirical spirit' to understand the link between the objective and subjective worlds inherent in aesthetic experience. The editors had two specific aims for this book. The first was to highlight the diversity of approaches that are underway under the banner of neuroaesthetics. Currently this topic is being investigated from experimental evolutionary neuropsychological and neuroimaging perspectives to tackle problems in the visual arts literature music and film. Its quintessentially interdisciplinary nature has functioned as a breeding ground for generating and testing hypotheses in multiple domains. The second goal was more integrative and involved distilling some of the key features common to these diverse strands of work. The book presents a possible framework for neuroaesthetics by highlighting what the contributors consider to be its defining features and offering a working definition of neuroaesthetics that captures these features. Neuroaesthetics will provide an empirical and theoretical framework to motivate further work in this area. Ultimately the hope is that puzzles in aesthetics can be solved through insights from biology but that the contribution can be truly bidirectional.

GBP 56.99
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Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices explores how the changing modes of representation in architecture and urbanism relate to the transformation of how the addressees of architecture and urbanism are conceived. The book diagnoses the dominant epistemological debates in architecture and urbanism during the 20th and 21st centuries. It traces their transformations paying special attention to Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s preference for perspective representation to the diagrams of Team 10 architects to the critiques of functionalism and the upgrade of the artefactual value of architectural drawings in Aldo Rossi John Hejduk Peter Eisenman and Oswald Mathias Ungers and finally to the reinvention of architectural programme through the event in Bernard Tschumi and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Particular emphasis is placed on the spirit of truth and clarity in modernist architecture the relationship between the individual and the community in post-war era architecture the decodification of design process as syntactic analogy and the paradigm of autonomy in the 1970s and 1980s architecture the concern about the dynamic character of urban conditions and the potentialities hidden in architectural programme in the post-autonomy era. This book is based on extensive archival research in Canada the USA and Europe and will be of interest to architects artists researchers and students in architecture architectural history theory cultural theory philosophy and aesthetics. | Architectural Drawings as Investigating Devices Architecture’s Changing Scope in the 20th Century

GBP 130.00
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Embodied Trauma and Healing Critical Conversations on the Concept of Health

Embodied Trauma and Healing Critical Conversations on the Concept of Health

What if philosophy could solve the psychological puzzle of trauma? Embodied Trauma and Healing argues just that suggesting that one might be needed in order to understand the other. The book demonstrates how the body-mind problem that haunted Descartes was addressed by phenomenologists whilst also proposing that the human experience is lived subjectively as embodied consciousness. Throughout this book the author suggests that the phenomenological tools that are used to explore the body can also be an effective way to discuss the physical and mental aspects of embodied trauma. Drawing on the work of Paul Ricœur Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Emmanuel Lévinas the book outlines a phenomenological approach to the embodied and relational subject. It offers a reading of embodied trauma that can connect it to wider conversations in psychological underpinnings of trauma through Peter Levine’s somatic research and Bessel van der Kolk’s embodied remembering. Connecting to the analytic tradition the book suggests that phenomenology can unify both language-based and body-based therapeutic practice. It also presents a compelling discussion that ties the embodied experience of relation in trauma to the wider causal factors of social suffering and relational rupture intergenerational trauma and the trauma of land as informed by phenomenology. Embodied Trauma and Healing is essential reading for researchers within the fields of philosophy psychology and medical humanities for it actively engages with contemporary configurations of trauma theory and recent research developments in healing and mental disorder diagnosis. | Embodied Trauma and Healing Critical Conversations on the Concept of Health

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Military and Society in 21st Century Europe A Comparative Analysis

Military and Society in 21st Century Europe A Comparative Analysis

This compendium on Europe's military situation is written by leading analysts of military studies representing every major nation of Europe. Also included are three overview chapters that set the tone for this volume. These chapters - Martin Shaw on the evolution of a common risk society Christopher Dandeker on the military in democratic societies and Wilfried von Bredow on the re-nationalization of military strategy - provide an introduction to the work. Although the Cold War is now two decades removed from Europe the challenges of transition to new defense systems and institutional structures still confront those who plan the future for military establishments. The country studies as well as the final analysis of the trends and probable future developments in Europe should be required reading throughout the national security structure for politicians and decision makers seeking to understand the dilemmas facing European militaries and the societies they defend. The chapters cover a wide range of nations. Jean Callaghan Christo Domoztov and Valery Ratchcev examine the Bulgarian armed forces after the 1997 elections and Marie Vlachova and Stefan Sarvas review civil-military relations in the Czech Republic. Janos Szabo studies the defense sector in Hungary. Adriana Stanescu sees Romania as a case of delayed modernization. Vladimir Rukavishnikov studies the military in post-communist Russia. Paul Klein and Jürgen Kuhlmann review the German armed forces in the context of a peace dividend. Bernard Boene and Didier Danet consider France and the post draft situation. Marina Nuciari and Giuseppe Caforio consider the Italian military in a democratic context. Jan van der Meulen and his colleagues look upon the Netherlands military as a case study in post-modernization. The final contribution summarizes lessons learned in assessing the contemporary civil-military complex. | Military and Society in 21st Century Europe A Comparative Analysis

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