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Innovation Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea Park to Park

Innovation Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea Park to Park

South Korea known as the hermit kingdom was wrenched from its isolation in the mid-seventies with the forced industialisation of its economy by Park Chung-hee during his dictatorial regime. This led South Korea to becoming the most rapidly industialised country in the world with world class technology and a population who are largely digitally proficient. The course is charted from the rule of Park Chung-hee to his democratically elected daughter President Park Geun-hye who is now on trial for corruption. The legacy of the Park to Park era is not only the most fruitful in Korean history but the most tumultuous most recently because of the accelerated nuclear ambitions of North Korea. The analysis is through the framework of investment innovation and intellectual property rights and the double edged sword of cult and rapid action so central to Korean culture. | Innovation Investment and Intellectual Property in South Korea Park to Park

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The Park Avenue Cubists Gallatin Morris Frelinghuysen and Shaw

The Park Avenue Cubists Gallatin Morris Frelinghuysen and Shaw

This title was first published in 2002. The Park Avenue Cubists explores the work of a group of American artists committed to the belief that American abstraction could make a unique contribution to the evolution of the visual experiments begun by the European Modernists. All were inspired by the work of Braque Picasso Gris and Leger which they witnessed at first hand during repeated trips to Paris. Dubbed the 'Park Avenue Cubists' for the wealth and social status that enabled them to promote their own work and patronise that of their fellow members of the American Abstract Artists (AAA) the group included Albert Eugene Gallatin George L. K. Morris Suzy Frelinghuysen and Charles G. Shaw. Featuring essays by Debra Bricker Balken and Robert S. Lubar on the group's place in the history of modern art along with individual studies of the four artists and an appendix bringing together the key statements written by the artists themselves this volume provides the first in-depth study of the group. | The Park Avenue Cubists Gallatin Morris Frelinghuysen and Shaw

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Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

On April 28 1858 municipal officials announced the winner of the design contest for a great new park for the people of New York City-Plan no. 33 Greensward by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Though the appropriated ground for what was to become Central Park was nothing more than a barren expanse occupied by squatters in a matter of a few years Olmsted turned the wasteland into a landscape of coherence elegance and beauty. It not only surpassed the design ingenuity of its existing European counterparts but gained the designer national acclaim in a profession that still lacked a name. Olmsted was an American visionary. He foresaw the day when New York and many other growing cities of the mid-nineteenth century would be plagued by what we presently term urban sprawl. And he was convinced of the critical importance of adapting land for the recreational and contemplative needs of city dwellers before the last remnants of natural terrain were engulfed by monotonous straight streets and piles of erect angular buildings. As a result of his early efforts to revolutionize the design of public parks many cities today are able to preserve the recreational space and greenery within their urban limits. In addition his thoughts and words on wilderness areas still echo across a century of preservation in the wild. This lively and insightful account of his prodigious life features many of his outstanding landscape projects including the Biltmore Estate Prospect Park (Brooklyn) the capitol grounds in Washington DC the Boston Park System the Chicago parks and the Chicago World Fair as well as measures to preserve the natural settings at Niagara Falls Yosemite and the Adirondacks. It traces his early years and describes events that were to form his artistic intellectual and deeply humanistic sensibilities. And it restores this lost American hero to his prominent place in history. In addition to being the acknowledged father of American landscape architecture Frederick Law Olmsted helped shape the political and philosophical climate of America in his own time and today. Elizabeth Stevenson is the author of the Bancroft Award-winning Henry Adams: A Biography; The Glass Lark a biography of Lafcadio Hearn; and Babbitts and Bohemians: From the Great War to the Great Depression all available from Transaction. | Park Maker Life of Frederick Law Olmsted

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The History of Live Music in Britain Volume II 1968-1984 From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

The History of Live Music in Britain Volume II 1968-1984 From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

To date there has been a significant gap in work on the social history of music in Britain from 1950 to the present day. The three volumes of Live Music in Britain address this gap and do so through a unique prism—that of live music. The key theme of the books is the changing nature of the live music industry in the UK focused upon popular music but including all musical genres. Via this focus the books offer new insights into a number of other areas including the relationship between commercial and public funding of music changing musical fashions and tastes the impact of changing technologies the changing balance of power within the music industries the role of the state in regulating and promoting various musical activities within an increasingly globalised music economy and the effects of demographic and other social changes on music culture. Drawing on new archival research a wide range of academic and non-academic secondary sources participant observation and a series of interviews with key personnel the books have the potential to become landmark works within Popular Music Studies and broader cultural history. The second volume covers the period from Hyde Park to the Hacienda (1968–84). | The History of Live Music in Britain Volume II 1968-1984 From Hyde Park to the Hacienda

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Geriatric Medicine 300 Specialty Certificate Exam Questions

Geriatric Medicine 300 Specialty Certificate Exam Questions

This book is an authoritative and well-structured text which is both topic and curriculum oriented aimed to appeal to a wider multi-professional audience in line with the current NHS workforce training needs in the UK. It is based on the ‘specialist certificate examination’ (SCE) awarded for the completion of higher specialist training. Following closely the published blueprint from the Royal College of Physicians and the curriculum from JRCPTB it provides an up-to-date bank of revision material. These 300 questions in the ‘single best answer’ (SBA) format (like the actual assessment) are complete with comprehensive well-evidenced explanations and explanatory further reading material. Key Features Maps the entire curriculum covered on the geriatric specialization exam Addresses the gap in the market to educate on the core curriculum for the busy professionals and post graduate medical trainees working towards this examination The book is thematically organized to make it an accessible quick reference for also those not planning to take the exam but seeking to broaden and deepen their own knowledge base | Geriatric Medicine 300 Specialty Certificate Exam Questions

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Early Medieval Europe 300–1050 A Guide for Studying and Teaching

Early Medieval Europe 300–1050 A Guide for Studying and Teaching

Early Medieval Europe 300–1050: A Guide for Studying and Teaching empowers students by providing them with the conceptual and methodological tools to investigate the period. Throughout the book major research questions and historiographical debates are identified and guidance is given on how to engage with and evaluate key documentary sources as well as artistic and archaeological evidence. The book’s aim is to engender confidence in creative and independent historical thought. This second edition has been fully revised and expanded and now includes coverage of both Islamic and Byzantine history surveying and critically examining the often radically different scholarly interpretations relating to them. Also new to this edition is an extensively updated and closely integrated companion website which has been carefully designed to provide practical guidance to teachers and students offering a wealth of reference materials and aids to mastering the period and lighting the way for further exploration of written and non-written sources. Accessibly written and containing over 70 carefully selected maps and images Early Medieval Europe 300–1050 is an essential resource for students studying this period for the first time as well as an invaluable aid to university teachers devising and delivering courses and modules on the period. | Early Medieval Europe 300–1050 A Guide for Studying and Teaching

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Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500

Introduction to Medieval Europe 300–1500 provides a comprehensive survey of this complex and varied formative period of European history within a global context covering themes as diverse as barbarian migrations the impact of Christianisation the formation of nations and states the emergence of an expansionist commercial economy the growth of cities the Crusades the effects of plague and the intellectual and cultural dynamism of the Middle Ages. The book explores the driving forces behind the formation of medieval society and the directions in which it developed and changed. In doing this the authors cover a wide geographic expanse including Western interactions with the Byzantine Empire the Islamic World North Africa and Asia. This fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect moves toward teaching the Middle Ages in a global context and contains a wealth of new features and topics that help to bring this fascinating era to life including: West Europe’s catching up through intensive exchange with the Mediterranean Islamic world growth of autonomous cities and civic liberties emergence of an empirical and rational worldview climate change and intercontinental pandemics European exchange with Africa and Asia chapter introductions to support students’ understanding of the topics a fully updated glossary to give modern students the confidence and language to discuss medieval history Clear and stimulating the fourth edition of Introduction to Medieval Europe is the ideal companion to studying the entirety of medieval history at undergraduate level.

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Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

The study of Syria as a Roman province has been neglected by comparison with equivalent geographical regions such as Italy Egypt Greece and even Gaul. It was however one of the economic powerhouses of the empire from its annexation until after the empire’s dissolution. As such it clearly deserves some particular consideration but at the same time it was a major contributor to the military strength of the empire notably in the form of the recruitment of auxiliary regiments several dozens of which were formed from Syrians. Many pagan gods such as Jupiter Dolichenus and Jupiter Heliopolitanus Dea Syra and also Judaism originated in Syria and reached the far bounds of the empire. This book is a consideration based on original sources of the means by which Syrians whose country was only annexed to the empire in 64 BC saw their influence penetrate into all levels of society from private soldiers and ordinary citizens to priests and to imperial families. | Syrian Influences in the Roman Empire to AD 300

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North America's Natural Wonders

North America's Natural Wonders

Although millions of Americans and international travelers take road trips through North America every year most have no understanding of how the landscape came to be. North America’s Natural Wonders provides everything these travelers need to understand the landscape. Written by a career geologist with decades of experience in the field it guides readers through the most iconic geologically significant scenery in North America and explains what they are seeing. Volume I focuses on western North America including the Canadian Rockies the Southwest Great Basin and Tetons-Yellowstone Country. The trips detailed in this volume include stops at the glaciers and mountains of Banff National Park the Grand Canyon numerous parks in Utah and the geysers and hot springs of Yellowstone. It also features lesser known but equally interesting geologic formations and how to access these sites. Volume II focuses on central and eastern North America including the Appalachians of Virginia and West Virginia the Colorado Rockies Austin-Big Bend Country and the Sierra Madre Oriental of Mexico. The trips detailed in this volume include stops at the Blue Ridge in Shenandoah National Park Carlsbad Caverns National Park Big Bend National Park Garden of the Gods and Pikes Peak the Colorado Mineral Belt Aspen and the Maroon Bells giant salt-cored uplifts of the La Popa Basin Mexico and many others. It also features lesser known but equally interesting geologic formations and how to access these sites. This detailed guide will help the curious layman the rock hound the geology student and the professional geologist understand what they are seeing when they look at a roadcut quarry or landscape. A full understanding of natural formations will enhance the traveler’s experience beyond simple sightseeing. | North America's Natural Wonders

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Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

How are the far-away invisible landscapes where materials come from related to the highly visible urban landscapes where those same materials are installed? Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements traces five everyday landscape construction materials – fertilizer stone steel trees and wood – from seminal public landscapes in New York City back to where they came from. Drawing from archival documents photographs and field trips the author brings these two separate landscapes – the material’s source and the urban site where the material ended up – together exploring themes of unequal ecological exchange labor and material flows. Each chapter follows a single material’s movement: guano from Peru that landed in Central Park in the 1860s granite from Maine that paved Broadway in the 1890s structural steel from Pittsburgh that restructured Riverside Park in the 1930s London plane street trees grown on Rikers Island by incarcerated workers that were planted on Seventh Avenue north of Central Park in the 1950s and the popular tropical hardwood ipe from northern Brazil installed in the High Line in the 2000s. Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements considers the social political and ecological entanglements of material practice challenging readers to think of materials not as inert products but as continuous with land and the people that shape them and to reimagine forms of construction in solidarity with people other species and landscapes elsewhere. | Reciprocal Landscapes Stories of Material Movements

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Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

This book provides the first comprehensive economic valuation of U. S. National Parks (including monuments seashores lakeshores recreation areas and historic sites) and National Park Service (NPS) programs. The book develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the economic value of protected areas with particular application to the U. S. National Park Service. The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs including on-site visitation carbon sequestration and intellectual property such as in education curricula and filming of movies/ TV shows with case studies of each included. Examples are drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Golden Gate National Recreation Area Everglades National Park and Chesapeake Bay. The editors conclude with a chapter on innovative approaches for sustainable funding of the NPS in its second century. The framework serves as a blueprint of methodologies for conservationists government agencies land trusts economists and others to value public lands historical sites and related programs such as education. The methodologies are relevant to local and state parks wildlife refuges and protected areas in developed and developing countries as well as to national parks around the world. Containing a series of unique case studies this book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics land management and nature conservation as well as the more general reader interested in National Parks. | Valuing U. S. National Parks and Programs America’s Best Investment

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Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

The large parks and green infrastructure presented here illustrate the diverse uses and many benefits of large urban parks across 30 major cities. Demand for large urban parks emerged at the height of the First Industrial Revolution in the mid-1800s when large urban parks represented new ideas of accessible public spaces often established on land previously owned by aristocracy royalty or the army. They represented new ideas on how city life could be improved and how large green spaces could enhance urban citizens’ physical and psychological well-being (e. g. Birkenhead Park in Liverpool Bois de Boulogne in Paris Tiergarten in Berlin and Central Park in New York City). Today large urban parks are habitats for biodiversity and spaces of climate change adaptation. For people living in cities this biodiversity may represent high cultural recreational and aesthetic values but is also important for other aspects of health and well-being for example by reducing the urban heat island effect air pollution and risks of flooding. At a time when we are seriously reconsidering how we live in cities and our urban quality of life while also grappling with serious challenges of climate change the authors of this book detail the much-needed evidence pathways and vision for a future of more liveable resilient cities where large urban parks are at the core. This book will help park managers NGOs landscape architects and city planners to develop the green city of the future. | Why Cities Need Large Parks Large Parks in Large Cities

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The Man Farthest Down

The Man Farthest Down

The Man Farthest Down represents an early contribution to the study of comparative social systems. Its treatment of life in the East European shtetls is as moving as the analysis of ghetto life in America. In his new introduction to this edition Drake illustrates the intellectual camaraderie shared between Park and Washington in their studies of race. Drake also details their individual observations philosophies and activities in both their academic and political lives.

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Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

Regreening the Built Environment examines the relationship between the built environment and nature and demonstrates how rethinking the role and design of infrastructure can environmentally economically and socially sustain the earth. In the past infrastructure and green or park spaces have been regarded as two opposing factors and placed in conflict with one another through irresponsible patterns of development. This book attempts to change this paradigm and create a new notion that greenspace parks and infrastructure can indeed be one in the same. The case studies will demonstrate how existing gray infrastructure can be retrofitted with green infrastructure and low impact development techniques. It is quite plausible that a building can be designed that actually creates greenspace or generates energy; likewise a roadway can be a park an alley can be a wildlife corridor and a parking surface can be a garden. In addition to examining sustainability in the near future the book also explores such alternatives in the distant and very distant future questioning the notion of sustainability in the event of an earth-altering cataclysmic disaster. The strategies presented in this book aim to stimulate discussions within the design profession and will be of great interest to students and practitioners of environmental studies architecture and urban design. | Regreening the Built Environment Nature Green Space and Sustainability

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Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

Despite publicity given to the successes of British and American codebreakers during the Second World War the study of signals intelligence is still complicated by governmental secrecy over even the most elderly peacetime sigint. This book first published in 1986 lifts the veil on some of these historical secrets. Christopher Andrew and Keith Neilson cast new light on how Tsarist codebreakers penetrated British code and cypher systems. John Chapman’s study of German military codebreaking represents a major advance in our understanding of cryptanalysis during the Weimar Republic. The history of the Government Code and Cypher School – forerunner of today’s GCHQ – by its operational head the late A. G. Denniston provides both a general assessment of the achievements of British cryptanalysis between the wars and a tantalising glimpse of what historians may one day find in GCHQ’s forbidden archives. The distinguished cryptanalyst of Bletchley Park the late Gordon Welchman describes in detail how the Ultra programme defeated the German Enigma machine while another Bletchley Park cryptographer Christopher Morris reminds us in his account of the valuable work on hand cyphers that wartime sigint consisted of much more than Ultra. Roger Austin’s study of surveillance under the Vichy regime shows the continuing importance of older and simpler methods of message interception such as letter-opening. Taken together the articles establish sigint as an essential field of study for both the modern historian and the political scientist. | Codebreaking and Signals Intelligence

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Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

First published in 1987 this book engages directly with a selection of major texts from the traditional English literature syllabus and applies some of the techniques from the work of theorists such as Macherey Balibar Derrida Foucault Lacan and Deleuze. Focusing on questions of class and gender on the nature of knowledge and power on the distinction between the public and the private display and consciousness the work traces and celebrates the dispersal of Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Mansfield Park Vanity Fair and the novels of Charles Dickens. This work will be of interest to those studying nineteenth century English literature. | Partings Welded Together Politics and Desire in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel

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The Immersive Worlds Handbook Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces

The Immersive Worlds Handbook Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces

Scott Lukas famed industry expert on designing themed spaces brings you a book that focuses on the imaginative world of themed immersive and consumer spaces. Whether or not you are involved in designing a theme park cultural museum shop or other entertainment space you will benefit from the insider tips experiences and techniques highlighted in this practical guide. Make your themed spaces come to life and become true immersive worlds. The book features informative sidebars addressing possible design issues and current trends; case studies and interviews with real-world designers and further reading suggestions. The book also includes a companion website as well as exercises that accompany each chapter lavish photos illustrations and tables. | The Immersive Worlds Handbook Designing Theme Parks and Consumer Spaces

GBP 180.00
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Post-Tensioned Concrete Floors

Post-Tensioned Concrete Floors

Post-tensioning is the most versatile form of pre-stressing a technique which enables engineers to make the most effective use of the material properties of concrete and so to design structural elements which are strong slender and efficient. Design in post-tensioned concrete is not difficult and if done properly can contribute significantly to the economy and the aesthetic qualities of a building. Post-tensioned floors have found widespread use in office buildings and car park structures and are also frequently employed in warehouses and public buildings. However in spite of this most prestressed concrete texts devote comparatively little attention to floors concentrating instead on beam elements. This book answers the need for a comprehensive treatment of post-tensioned floor design. | Post-Tensioned Concrete Floors

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Masonry Design

Masonry Design

Masonry is found extensively in construction throughout the world. It is economical and strong. Masonry Design—part of the Architect’s Guidebook to Structures series—presents the fundamentals in an accessible fashion through beautiful illustrations simple and complete examples and from the perspective of practicing professionals with hundreds of projects under their belt and decades of teaching experience. Masonry Design provides the student with and reminds the practitioner of fundamental masonry design principles. Beginning with an intriguing case study of the Mesa Verde National Park visitor center the subsequent chapters present the fundamentals of masonry design bending shear compression design wind and seismic design and connection design. It is a refreshing change in textbooks for architectural materials courses and is an indispensable reference for practicing architects.

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