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Not the Future We Ordered Peak Oil Psychology and the Myth of Progress

The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

Musicians suffer greatly from industry-related injury and illness and many of these problems are established during student days or even before. This affects all forms of music-making from classical through jazz and rock to traditional folk. Hearing damage is of serious concern in most forms of music-making but the most stressful situations and the most physical damage is recorded in the practice of classical music. The long hours of practice at the beginning of a musician's career are the main source of problems that sometimes only reveal themselves in later life. This book is aimed equally at student musicians practising musicians and instrumental and vocal teachers and it aims to help them to begin to understand how and why their bodies function as they do when they perform and also how they may avoid professionally related illness or injury and achieve the highest standards of performance. The principal author Dr Jaume Rosset i Llobet is a medical expert and an internationally acclaimed researcher on the subject. He is the Director of a Centre for the Physiology of The Arts in Terrassa Catalonia one of the few clinics in the world to which musicians dancers and performing artists can go for assessment and treatment. The book provides examples and references to the health of musicians covering a wide range of musical genres based on current research practice and treatment. As well as physiological exposition copiously illustrated with medical and humorous diagrams the book covers ergonomics risk factors posture breathing matters of diet and accommodation of professional needs in daily life. | The Musician's Body A Maintenance Manual for Peak Performance

GBP 175.00
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International Aid The Flow of Public Resources from Rich to Poor Countries

International Aid The Flow of Public Resources from Rich to Poor Countries

This is a comprehensive analysis of the economics of international aid that provides a systematic framework for understanding planning and executing aid programs. Though much has been written on different aspects of international aid this book was the first to synthesize information on all facets of aid and to investigate the consequences for both donor and recipient nations of the transfer of public resources in aid programs. The authors first present the history of aid discuss the principles that govern aid as practiced by the United States the United Kingdom Russia China the United Nations and other donors and then provide a broad theoretical structure in which to discuss particular questions taken up in subsequent chapters. The book systematically covers all aspects of the aid relationship and in addition to broad coverage of aid programs analyzes details of the aid relationship to discern the function of the different variables of aid. In one coherent volume International Aid outlines sound theoretical bases for discussion of aid programs provides valuable insights into contemporary practices and offers far-reaching suggestions on the future of aid programs. On first publication in the mid-1960s in the midst of the Cold War this book had considerable influence and its interest outlasts its parochial times as one of the first to discuss the effects of aid on both donor and recipient countries. | International Aid The Flow of Public Resources from Rich to Poor Countries

GBP 130.00
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Emission Trajectories and Mitigation Schemes for China

Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology

Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology

Rivers are significant geomorphological agents they show an amazing diversity of form and behaviour and transfer water and sediment from the land surface to the oceans. This book examines how river systems respond to environmental change and why this understanding is needed for successful river management. Highly dynamic in nature river channels adjust and evolve over timescales that range from hours to tens of thousands of years or more and are found in a wide range of environments. This book provides a comprehensive overview of recent developments in river channel management clearly illustrating why an understanding of fluvial geomorphology is vital in channel preservation environmentally sensitive design and the restoration of degraded river channels. It covers: flow and sediment regimes: flow generation; flow regimes; sediment sources transfer and yield channel processes: flow characteristics; processes of erosion and sediment transport; interactions between flow and the channel boundary; deposition channel form and behaviour: controls on channel form; channel adjustments; floodplain development; form and behaviour of alluvial and bedrock channels response to change: how channels have responded to past environmental change; impacts of human activity; reconstructing past changes river management: the fluvial hydrosystem; environmental degradation; environmentally sensitive engineering techniques; river restoration; the role of the fluvial geomorphologist. Fundamentals of Fluvial Geomorphology is an indispensable text for undergraduate students. It provides straightforward explanations for important concepts and mathematical formulae backed up with conceptual diagrams and appropriate examples from around the world to show what they actually mean and why they are important. A colour plate section also shows spectacular examples of fluvial diversity.

GBP 120.00
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Addictions From an Attachment Perspective Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

Total Operations Solutions

Pocket Guide to Business Finance

The World of Indigenous North America

Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Financing Construction Cash Flows and Cash Farming

National Resources and Urban Policy

Faith in Science

Faith in Science

There is growing academic interest in addressing the relationship of religion and science. There are also very generous funding sources that encourage scientists to demonstrate the reality of purpose in the world. Still there are organizations offering support to community groups dedicated to discussing religion and science. Contributors explore this development in Faith in Science. The intellectual initiatives analyzed here seem far removed from the deep religious and cultural divisions that dominate the contemporary geopolitical landscape. This emerging industry however originates in a cultural debate that set the evolutionary view of Nature against revelation's conception of Nature as the fulfillment of God's creation. The two worldviews are hopelessly mismatched although scientific creationism purports to have uncovered scriptural evidence that invites another look. Along the way the imposition of theological themes onto the geological record became a tendency for many naturalists. Peter Medawar's scathing review of Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man in 1961 remains as a warning for those who mix Darwinian orthodoxy and theological parlance. The challenge Medawar would have us believe is not to abandon the exacting methods and logic of science in favor of a poetic dream of how consciousness is a manifestation of energy. But does this mean that science and religion are only methodologically demarcated? Must we insist on the traditional boundaries instituted by scientific conventions and religious beliefs? From various historical religious and scientific vantage points contributors to this volume who include Guy Consolmagno Donald Kraybill David Ray Griffin Gerald L. Schroeder Robert Pollack Robert Pennock Carol Wayne Wright Bill Durbin Kathleen Duffy and Anthony Matteo take up these challenges.

GBP 130.00
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Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Math Workshop in Action Strategies for Grades K-5

Nineteenth-Century Interiors Volume I: Theories and Discourses Around the Home

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technology through a comparative study of four of the world’s most important radio telescopes. Employing detailed analysis historical research interviews personal observations and various conceptual manoeuvres Guy Trangoš reveals the depth of spatial process active at these scientific sites and the territories they traverse. Through the conceptual frameworks of territory hyper-concentration and contingency Trangoš interprets the telescope as exploded across space and time present in multiple connected sites simultaneously and active in the production of space. He develops a historiographic and contemporary analysis of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA Chile); the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST China); the Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico); and the MeerKAT/SKA (South Africa). These case studies are global exemplars of the different spatial transformations that occur through science. Their relationships to surrounding communities and landscapes reveal deeper constitutional processes embodied in each institutional and spatial form. This book spans the modern history of architecture and science the studies of science technology and society and urban theory. It is of specific interest to architects and designers expanding their analysis of spatial production scholars in the study of geography landscape science technology and astronomy and people fascinated with how these radio telescopes were conceptualised built and operate today.

GBP 120.00
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Pathways to Data Craft and Methods for Studying Social Organizations

Pathways to Data Craft and Methods for Studying Social Organizations

It is much better observed C. Wright Mills in an essay on intellectual craftsmanship to have one account by a working student of how he is going about his work than a dozen 'codifications of procedure' by specialists who often as not have never done much work of consequence. This observation underscores the premise of this book: that there is a need for students to communicate the procedures and strategies of field research they have found consequential in their own studies to the less instructed or less experienced. The contributors to this book are well known researchers and share their field-developed techniques of research craftsmanship. The pathways to data they describe wind in a common direction toward a concern with research happenings in situations: in agencies associations institutions campaigns demonstrations and goal-directed social movements. The selections included in Pathways to Data are neither biographies of research projects nor subjective evaluations of personal experiences. Rather the writers emphasize techniques operations and know-how. Pathways to Data's chapters are collateral cousins to the collection of research biographies found in Sociologists at Work another classic in the field. But the lineage or progression of thought traces back to the Webbs' Methods of Social Study and is most closely related to the Glaser and Strauss volume The Discovery of Grounded Theory. The contributors to this book reflect a common concern with organization in the down home sense of social bonds opening and closing of self-involvement and most importantly social structure. Process is stressed above system becoming over being. Seen programatically field methods deliver data to concepts and techniques are grounded in the heuristic value such data display. Theory is grounded in concepts validated by the effectiveness with which they give meaning to the data. The production of social knowledge is symmetrical reciprocal but analytically divisible. The student of society will consequently find an assortment of knowledges that makes large portions of our society more understandable. | Pathways to Data Craft and Methods for Studying Social Organizations

GBP 130.00
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An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

Passive Solar Architecture Pocket Reference

Managing Football

Transport Revolutions Moving People and Freight Without Oil

Sports Business Management Decision Making Around the Globe

Feminine Law Freud Free Speech and the Voice of Desire

Bassett's Environmental Health Procedures