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Go Green for Environmental Sustainability An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Theory and Applications

This book highlights topics ranging from green chemistry and engineering to bioremediation smart technologies and sustainable business practices. The common threads running through this volume are the need for urgent action a vision for a sustainable future and the awareness that solutions must be widely accessible and advance the welfare of all nations especially in the face of climate change. The authors delineate how we can protect and restore natural ecosystem potential to achieve environmental sustainability. They provide a clear idea of today’s environmental challenges and solutions focus on energy use patterns and the reduction of energy consumption advocate for increased environmental awareness and discuss environmental monitoring systems. The book contains many domestic and international case studies and showcases visionary ideas in action to illustrate sustainability principles. This volume provides an in-depth reference for stakeholders from academia government and industry on the latest research in environmental sustainability solutions. Inspired by the common wisdom that we do not inherit this Earth from our ancestors but instead borrow it from our children the authors offer solutions to emergent problems. This research comprises an important contribution to the global effort to build a more sustainable tomorrow. | Go Green for Environmental Sustainability An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Theory and Applications

GBP 105.00

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Child Development with the D-score

Children learn to walk speak and think at an astonishing pace. The D-score presents a unified framework that places children and their developmental milestones from different tools onto the same scale enabling comparisons in child development across populations groups and individuals. This pioneering text explains why we need the D-score how we construct it and how we calculate it. It will be of interest not just to professionals in child development but also to policymakers in international settings and to data scientists. Open Plus Books are published on an F1000-powered open research platform where they can be amended updated and extended in addition to being published as a print and open access ebook. The Open Plus Book version of this book available at gatesopenresearch. org/dscore and the Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. For more information about Open Plus Books go to www. routledge. com and for F1000 go to f1000. com. | Child Development with the D-score

GBP 16.99

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Handbook for Death Scene Investigators

Handbook for Death Scene Investigators provides concise information in a handy pocket-sized (3 1/2 x 6) format - perfect for on-the-scene reference. Details about sudden natural deaths by disease and accidents are emphasized in this guidebook complemented with practical information on:reviewing a medical chartcollecting evidenceobtaining a medical historyinteracting with other law enforcement personnel witnesses and relativesAnyone responsible for investigating natural deaths - from police investigators to medical examiners - can go direct to the information they need at a moment's notice with the Handbook for Death Scene InvestigatorsFeatures

GBP 190.00

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Intermediate C Programming

Teach Your Students How to Program Well Intermediate C Programming provides a stepping-stone for intermediate-level students to go from writing short programs to writing real programs well. It shows students how to identify and eliminate bugs write clean code share code with others and use standard Linux-based tools such as ddd and valgrind. The text covers numerous concepts and tools that will help your students write better programs. It enhances their programming skills by explaining programming concepts and comparing common mistakes with correct programs. It also discusses how to use debuggers and the strategies for debugging as well as studies the connection between programming and discrete mathematics.

GBP 175.00

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Dewatering Desalting and Distillation in Petroleum Refining

This book presents a detailed and practical description of various processes – dewatering desalting and distillation – that prepare refinery feedstocks for different conversion processes they will go through. Relevant process data are provided and process operations are fully described. This accessible guide is written for managers professionals and technicians as well as graduate students transitioning into the refining industry. Key Features: • Describes feedstock evaluation and the effects of elemental chemical and fractional composition. • Details the equipment and components and possible impacts due to composition. • Explores the process options and parameters involved in dewatering desalting and distillation. • Considers next-generation processes and developments. | Dewatering Desalting and Distillation in Petroleum Refining

GBP 150.00

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The Ocean Sunfishes Evolution Biology and Conservation

The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the world-record holding charismatic ocean behemoths in the family Molidae. From evolution and phylogeny to biotoxins biomechanics parasites husbandry and popular culture it outlines recent and future research from leading sunfish experts worldwide This synthesis includes diet foraging behavior migration and fisheries bycatch and overhauls long-standing and outdated perceptions. This book provides the essential go-to resource for both lay and academic audiences alike and anyone interested in exploring one of the ocean’s most elusive and captivating group of fishes. | The Ocean Sunfishes Evolution Biology and Conservation

GBP 62.99

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Project Feasibility Tools for Uncovering Points of Vulnerability

This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead be improved or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities. It offers a review of project feasibility analysis and more critically psychodynamic aspects that are often neglected including how stakeholders interact. It provides a complement to the common techniques used for analyzing technical financial and marketing feasibility. The goal is to identify hidden truths and eliminate those gray areas that jeopardize the success of a given project. The focus is on uncovering points of vulnerabilities in four key aspects of a project: People Power Processes and Plan. | Project Feasibility Tools for Uncovering Points of Vulnerability

GBP 46.99

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Transformer Design Principles Third Edition

In the newest edition the reader will learn the basics of transformer design starting from fundamental principles and ending with advanced model simulations. The electrical mechanical and thermal considerations that go into the design of a transformer are discussed with useful design formulas which are used to ensure that the transformer will operate without overheating and survive various stressful events such as a lightning strike or a short circuit event. This new edition includes a section on how to correct the linear impedance boundary method for non-linear materials and a simpler method to calculate temperatures and flows in windings with directed flow cooling using graph theory. It also includes a chapter on optimization with practical suggestions on achieving the lowest cost design with constraints. | Transformer Design Principles Third Edition

GBP 59.99

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The Pocket Mentor for Video Game Writers

Want to become a writer in the games industry? Then this is the book is for you. Award-winning game writer Anna Megill provides all the essential information and guidance you need to understand the industry and get your foot on the ladder. The book explains in simple clear language exactly what a beginner needs to know about education requirements finding job opportunities applying for roles and acing studio interviews. Professional writers will learn how to run a writers’ room manage a team create documentation for various project phases and navigate studio politics. The Pocket Mentor is designed to be a just-the-facts companion to The Game Writing Guide: Get Your Dream Job and Keep It but it stands on its own as an invaluable go-anywhere resource for beginners and seasoned pros alike. | The Pocket Mentor for Video Game Writers

GBP 29.99

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Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group

Covering the elementary aspects of the physics of phases transitions and the renormalization group this popular book is widely used both for core graduate statistical mechanics courses as well as for more specialized courses. Emphasizing understanding and clarity rather than technical manipulation these lectures de-mystify the subject and show precisely how things work. Goldenfeld keeps in mind a reader who wants to understand why things are done what the results are and what in principle can go wrong. The book reaches both experimentalists and theorists students and even active researchers and assumes only a prior knowledge of statistical mechanics at the introductory graduate level. Advanced never-before-printed topics on the applications of renormalization group far from equilibrium and to partial differential equations add to the uniqueness of this book. | Lectures On Phase Transitions And The Renormalization Group

GBP 130.00

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Greenhouse Technology Principle and Practices

This book is for people who are working on or are interested in the subject of 'Greenhouse Technology' or in dealing with subjects related to crop science. The book explains the reason to go for greenhouse technology its history and present scenario of greenhouse cultivation. Planning designing cost involved and all that is involved in setting up an efficient greenhouse system as per different climatic conditions find place in this book. Innovative technology of 'Bamboo Greenhouse Technology with information on control mechanisms required for different climatic components are also discussed in depth. This book targets researchers extension workers and individual entrepreneurs to provide a clear and handy idea about greenhouse technology. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This title is co-published with New India Publishing Agency. | Greenhouse Technology Principle and Practices

GBP 150.00

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Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care

This practical guide helps health or social care professionals across all settings to understand how important it is to prevent and manage their service users’ overweight and obesity and motivate them to achieve and maintain a healthy weight so reducing their risk of associated health conditions such as diabetes and now COVID-19. Obesity and associated health problems represent a growing health burden around the world with rates throughout Europe increasing sharply over the last forty years second only to the United States and closely followed by many nations in Asia. The book will be an invaluable manual for general practice primary care and community clinicians practice and community nurses and dietitians and a go-to reference for health professionals across all medical specialties and related support services as well as medical education public health and social care worker professionals. | Tackling Obesity and Overweight Matters in Health and Social Care

GBP 31.99

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Decision Modes in Complex Task Environments

Despite intense research on decision-making in action we still know little about when decision-makers rely on deliberate vs. intuitive decision-making in decision situations under complexity and uncertainty. Building on default-interventionist dual-processing theory this book studies decision-making modes (deliberate vs. intuitive) in complex task environments contingent on perceived complexity experience and decision style preference. We find that relatively inexperienced decision-makers respond to increases in subjective complexity with an increase in deliberation and tend to follow their decision style preference. Experienced decision-makers are less guided by their decision preference and respond to increases in subjective complexity only minimally. This book contributes to a developing stream of research linking decision-making with intra-personal and environmental properties and fosters our understanding of the conditions under which decision-makers rely on intuitive vs. deliberate decision modes. In doing so we go one step further towards a comprehensive theory of decision-making in action. | Decision Modes in Complex Task Environments

GBP 69.99

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Cardamom The Genus Elettaria

Cardamom otherwise known as Malabar cardamom true cardamom or small cardamom second only to pepper in its importance during the Renaissance period is often qualified as the Queen of Spices because of its very pleasant aroma and taste. The Western Ghat forest of the Malabar coast India is the center of origin and diversity for cardamom and it might have been nature's design that the King and Queen of spices (black pepper and cardamom) originated in the same forest. This volume contains sixteen chapters fourteen on cardamom and one each on large cardamom and false cardamoms. All aspects of the cardamom crop have been covered in this volume and each chapter is written by experts in their respective fields. This volume is visualized as both a textbook and reference work for scientists and students of horticulture plantation crops botany and related fields and will go on to serve as the main reference volume on cardamom for many years to come. | Cardamom The Genus Elettaria

GBP 59.99

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Fluid Mechanics Hydraulics Hydrology and Water Resources for Civil Engineers

One of the core areas of study in civil engineering concerns water that encompasses fluid mechanics hydraulics and hydrology. Fluid mechanics provide the mathematical and scientific basis for hydraulics and hydrology that also have added empirical and practical contents. The knowledge contained in these three subjects is necessary for the optimal and equitable management of this precious resource that is not always available when and where it is needed sometimes with conflicting demands. The objective of Fluid Mechanics Hydraulics Hydrology and Water Resources for Civil Engineers is to assimilate these core study areas into a single source of knowledge. The contents highlight the theory and applications supplemented with worked examples and also include comprehensive references for follow-up studies. The primary readership is civil engineering students who would normally go through these core subject areas sequentially spread over the duration of their studies. It is also a reference for practicing civil engineers in the water sector to refresh and update their skills.

GBP 66.99

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Making Sense of Sleep Medicine A Hands-On Guide

This is a practical and patient-complaint focused handbook directed to motivate non-sleep experts and beginners in sleep medicine and technology. This book provides a basic review of the area of sleep identifies some common patient presentations and illustrates the types of investigations that should be requested. With sleep and breathing problems being so common and affecting many other chronic clinical conditions it is important that primary care and other general physicians as well as allied health practitioners have a greater appreciation of this area. This text is a valuable “go-to” handbook for the occasional “sleep” practitioner to refer to. Key Features:• Contains specially packaged with Specific Learning Objectives to each chapter followed by self-assessment questions case scenarios basic sleep monitoring techniques in detail with sample reports. • Provides direction to health care professionals who encounter patients with sleep and breathing disorders in their practice. • Uses algorithms and concept maps for dealing with specific symptoms. | Making Sense of Sleep Medicine A Hands-On Guide

GBP 34.99

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Head and Neck Oncology A Concise Guide

This concise handbook has a unique approach and covers all important aspects of head and neck cancers from basic topics like carcinogenesis to advanced treatment options such as immunotherapy electrochemotherapy and robotic surgery in a succinct way. As every treatment center manages its patients with a different modality as per their institutional protocol this book endeavors to standardize the processes by discussing the management of cancers of all anatomic areas in view of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines which is the committee that prepares protocols for management of cancers and every head and which neck oncosurgeons must adhere to for their clinical practice. Key Features Explains the topics through flowcharts and diagrammatic representations that are helpful for exam preparation This book aims to serve as a valuable resource for postgraduate residents of maxillofacial surgery ENT and otolaryngology general surgery plastic surgery and junior specialists Serves as a comprehensive evidence-based quick reference for the clinician on the go | Head and Neck Oncology A Concise Guide

GBP 77.99

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Forensic Biomechanics and Human Injury Criminal and Civil Applications - An Engineering Approach

Forensic Biomechanics and Human Injury: Criminal and Civil Applications – An Engineering Approach provides a concise comprehensive overview of human anatomy and the biomechanical factors involved in human injury. It describes the methodologies used to compute the various forces stresses and energies required to injure the human body. The book covers the theoretical mathematics behind understanding how injuries occur classifying certain types of injuries age and biomechanical factors impact loading injury investigation and the importance of expert witnesses and testimony in civil and criminal cases. It contains a significant number of sizes of all the pertinent materials in the human body classified by age sex and in some instances by race as well as stress–strain curves and tables of the strengths of these materials. Forensic Biomechanics and Human Injury provides a valuable source of information with tools to help the professional determine the nature of injuries understand the implications of accidents and the calculations that go into determining such things for both civil and criminal investigations. | Forensic Biomechanics and Human Injury Criminal and Civil Applications - An Engineering Approach

GBP 62.99

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Essentials of Foot and Ankle Surgery

This book is a ‘go-to’ guide for postgraduate Orthopaedic examinations as well as for Orthopaedic surgeons for trauma and elective foot and ankle surgery. A streamlined approach ensures that the 22 core topics are covered in a succinct and practical way. Foot and ankle surgery is a vast topic that can be daunting to revise due to the complex and diverse nature of associated pathologies. This highly illustrated succinct text together with key learning points ensures a rapid understanding of all the essential elements of foot and ankle surgery. * Provides ‘need -to-know’ information for Orthopaedic surgeons * Assists with exam preparation for postgraduate exit exams such as the FRCS (Trauma & Orth) * Simple succinct and concise * Over 500 illustrations to aid learning * Accompanying website with MCQs and videos of clinical examination and surgical techniques Orthopaedic surgeons registrars and trainees other specialty doctors general practioners and physiotherapists with musculoskeletal interest and podiatrists will all find here ‘gold standard’ answers to foot and ankle conditions. | Essentials of Foot and Ankle Surgery

GBP 66.99

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A Complete Guide to Character Rigging for Games Using Blender

This book is a comprehensive guide to using Blender to create character rigs for games breaking down the technicalities of rigging tools and techniques into easily digestible chunks. It provides all the tools needed to go from a static character model to an animation-ready high quality and fast performing game rig. Written to be accessible and easy to follow the book covers character rigging theory that is supported by industry standard examples of how to apply that theory to character rigs for video games. It demonstrates the reasoning behind rigging decisions followed by instructions and examples on how to apply that knowledge to rig creation. It includes chapters that focus on the character deformation techniques that raise the visual quality of the model and subsequently of the animation and game it will be used in. This book will be vital reading to those studying games animation as well as early-career rigging artists character animators modeling artists technical animators and technical artists. | A Complete Guide to Character Rigging for Games Using Blender

GBP 48.99

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Modern Magnetooptics and Magnetooptical Materials

Modern Magnetooptics and Magnetooptical Materials provides a comprehensive account of the principles and applications of magnetooptics bridging the gap between textbooks and specialist accounts in the research and review literature. The book is aimed at the graduate physicist and electrical engineer but assumes no specialist knowledge of magnetooptics. Chapters have been designed to be reasonably independent so that readers in search of information on a particular topic can go straight to the appropriate place in the book with only occasional reference to material elsewhere. Divided into three main parts the book begins with the principles of magnetooptics to provide the necessary theoretical background. This section's emphasis is on introducing practical considerations through examples taken from real-life situations. The next part surveys a wide range of magnetooptic materials including metals alloys and granular structures. The final part explores applications of magnetooptics in practical devices such as modulators switches memory devices and waveguides. This book provides a thorough introduction for graduate students of physics and electrical engineering and a useful reference for researchers.

GBP 44.99

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Practical Handbook of Thematic Cartography Principles Methods and Applications

Maps are tools used to understand space discover territories communicate information and explain the results of geographical analysis. This practical handbook is about thematic cartography. With more than 120 colorful amazing illustrations numerous boxed texts definitions and helpful tools this step-by-step introduction to cartography is both the art of understanding the world and a powerful tool for explaining it. Through many hands-on tests the reader will learn how to produce an interesting and communicative map applied to any spatial theme. Written by experienced scholars and experts in cartography this book is an excellent resource for undergraduate students and non-cartographers interested in designing understanding and interpreting maps. It includes practical exercises explained in the form of a game and provides a concise accessible and current address of cartographic principles allowing readers to go deeper into cartographic design. It can be read from beginning to end like an essay or just by dipping into it for information as needed. | Practical Handbook of Thematic Cartography Principles Methods and Applications

GBP 42.99

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Monte-Carlo Simulation An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists

Monte-Carlo techniques have increasingly become a key method used in quantitative research. This book introduces engineers and scientists to the basics of using the Monte-Carlo simulation method which is used in Operations Research and other fields to understand the impact of risk and uncertainty in prediction and forecasting models. Monte-Carlo Simulation: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists explores several specific applications in addition to illustrating the principles behind the methods. The question of accuracy and efficiency with using the method is addressed thoroughly within each chapter and all program listings are included in the discussion of each application to facilitate further research for the reader using Python programming language. Beginning engineers and scientists either already in or about to go into industry or commercial and government scientific laboratories will find this book essential. It could also be of interest to undergraduates in engineering science and mathematics as well as instructors and lecturers who have no prior knowledge of Monte-Carlo simulations. | Monte-Carlo Simulation An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists

GBP 82.99

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Freelance Video Game Writing The Life & Business of the Digital Mercenary for Hire

In the competitive world of video game writing and narrative design developers are losing permanent positions while freelancing careers are on the rise. Many developers don’t understand how to seize these freelancing opportunities such as understanding the business of freelancing how to go about finding work how to establish strong relationships with clients and how to sustain themselves as freelancers. Freelance Video Game Writing: The Life & Business of the Digital Mercenary for Hire offers developers guidance on achieving their freelancing goals as telecommuters. Dr. Toiya Kristen Finley presents practical insight into the profession and how to further enhance your freelancing business whether you are a newcomer in the field or an experienced freelancer. Key Features: Two sections covering the life of the freelancer and the freelance business Fifteen interviews from narrative designers game writers and other developers on topics from maintaining a healthy work–life balance to figuring out your rates to working a full-time job and freelancing on the side A comprehensive list of definitions with which freelancers need to be familiar Exercises to help augment your understanding of freelancing and improve your business | Freelance Video Game Writing The Life & Business of the Digital Mercenary for Hire

GBP 35.99

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Cybersecurity for Decision Makers

This book is aimed at managerial decision makers practitioners in any field and the academic community. The chapter authors have integrated theory with evidence-based practice to go beyond merely explaining cybersecurity topics. To accomplish this the editors drew upon the combined cognitive intelligence of 46 scholars from 11 countries to present the state of the art in cybersecurity. Managers and leaders at all levels in organizations around the globe will find the explanations and suggestions useful for understanding cybersecurity risks as well as formulating strategies to mitigate future problems. Employees will find the examples and caveats both interesting as well as practical for everyday activities at the workplace and in their personal lives. Cybersecurity practitioners in computer science programming or espionage will find the literature and statistics fascinating and more than likely a confirmation of their own findings and assumptions. Government policymakers will find the book valuable to inform their new agenda of protecting citizens and infrastructure in any country around the world. Academic scholars professors instructors and students will find the theories models frameworks and discussions relevant and supportive to teaching as well as research. | Cybersecurity for Decision Makers