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Science Advice to the President

Science Advice to the President

This is a provocative behind-the-scenes introduction to the vital and complex role science plays in United States politics. It includes the first formal statement from former President Clinton's former Science Advisor John H. Gibbons; a fresh retrospective from D. Allan Bromley on science advice in the George H. W. Bush Administration; and a unique viewpoint from John McTague about his brief tenure under President Reagan. Among the twenty-four contributors are former members of the President's Science Advisory Committee distinguished scholars and industrialists. | Science Advice to the President

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The Gallipoli Campaign The Turkish Perspective

The Gallipoli Campaign The Turkish Perspective

The war against the Ottomans on Gallipoli in Palestine and in Mesopotamia was a major enterprise for the Allies with important long-term geo-political consequences. The absence of a Turkish perspective written in English represents a huge gap in the historiography of the First World War. This timely collection of wide-ranging essays on the campaign drawing on Turkish sources and written by experts in the field addresses this gap. Scholars employ archival documents from the Turkish General Staff diaries and letters of Turkish soldiers Ottoman journals and newspapers published during the campaign and recent academic literature by Turkish scholars to reveal a different perspective on the campaign which should breathe new life into English-language historiography on this crucial series of events. | The Gallipoli Campaign The Turkish Perspective

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CIBSE Guide H: Building Control Systems

CIBSE Guide H: Building Control Systems

'Building Control Systems' provides the building services engineer with a comprehensive understanding of modern control systems and relevant information technology. This will ensure that the best form of control systems for the building is specified and that proper provision is made for its installation commissioning operation and maintenance. Beginning with an overview of the benefits of the modern building control system the authors describe the different controls and their applications and include advice on their set-up and tuning for stable operation. There are chapters on the practical design of control systems how to work from the hardware components and their inclusion in networks through to control strategies in Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems and whole buildings. The relationship between Building Management Systems (BMS) and information technology systems is discussed and the building procurement process and the importance of considering control requirements at an early stage in the design process | CIBSE Guide H: Building Control Systems

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The Ashgate Handbook of Legal Translation

The Ashgate Handbook of Legal Translation

This volume investigates advances in the field of legal translation both from a theoretical and practical perspective with professional and academic insights from leading experts in the field. Part I of the collection focuses on the exploration of legal translatability from a theoretical angle. Covering fundamental issues such as equivalence in legal translation approaches to legal translation and the interaction between judicial interpretation and legal translation the authors offer contributions from philosophical rhetorical terminological and lexicographical perspectives. Part II focuses on the analysis of legal translation from a practical perspective among different jurisdictions such as China the EU and Japan offering multiple and pluralistic viewpoints. This book presents a collection of studies in legal translation which not only provide the latest international research findings among academics and practitioners but also furnish us with a new approach to and new insights into the phenomena and nature of legal translation and legal transfer. The collection provides an invaluable reference for researchers practitioners academics and students specialising in law and legal translation philosophy sociology linguistics and semiotics. | The Ashgate Handbook of Legal Translation

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Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

Scholars have tended to portray T. H. Huxley John Tyndall and their allies as the dominant cultural authority in the second half of the 19th century. Defenders of Darwin and his theory of evolution these men of science are often seen as a potent force for the secularization of British intellectual and social life. In this collection of essays Bernard Lightman argues that historians have exaggerated the power of scientific naturalism to undermine the role of religion in middle and late-Victorian Britain. The essays deal with the evolutionary naturalists especially the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley the physicist John Tyndall and the philosopher of evolution Herbert Spencer. But they look also at those who criticized this influential group of elite intellectuals including aristocratic spokesman A. J Balfour the novelist Samuel Butler and the popularizer of science Frank Buckland. Focusing on the theme of the limitations of the cultural power of evolutionary naturalism the volume points to the enduring strength of religion in Britain in the latter half of the 19th century. | Evolutionary Naturalism in Victorian Britain The 'Darwinians' and their Critics

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The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) Proceedings of the First In

The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) Proceedings of the First In

This title was first published in 2001. Is there such a thing as Tudor literature? The question is the theme that binds the essays in this collection. Scholars from around the world address the question of whether there is a sense of continuity in the literature of the Tudor century. The volume begins by looking at early Tudor writers such as Thomas More and then moves on to look at Elizabethan poetry and prose ending by covering the late Tudor dramas and Shakespeare. | The Anatomy of Tudor Literature: Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Tudor Symposium (1998) Proceedings of the First In

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Human Rights in the Media Fear and Fetish

Human Rights in the Media Fear and Fetish

This collection sets about untangling some of the knotty issues in the underexplored relationship between human rights and the media. We investigate how complex debates in political judicial academic and public life on the role and value of human rights are represented in the media particularly in print journalism. To focus the discussion we concentrate on media representation of the controversial proposals in the United Kingdom to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to replace it with a British Bill of Rights. The collection is underpinned by the observation that views on human rights and on the proposals to repeal and replace are polarised. On the one hand human rights are presented as threatening and therefore utterly denigrated; on the other hand human rights are idolised and therefore uncritically celebrated. This is the ‘fear and fetish’ in our title. The media plays a decisive role in constructing this polarity through its representation of political and ideological viewpoints. In order to get to grips with the fear the fetish and this complex interrelationship the collection tackles key contemporary themes amongst them: the proposed British Bill of Rights Brexit prisoner-voting the demonisation of immigrants press freedom tabloid misreporting trial by media and Magna Carta. The collection explores media representation investigates media polarity and critiques the media’s role. | Human Rights in the Media Fear and Fetish

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The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States

The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States

The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States is a comprehensive introduction to the most important trends and developments in the study of modern United States history. Driven by interdisciplinary scholarship the thirty-four original chapters underscore the vast range of identities perspectives and tensions that contributed to the growth and contested meanings of the United States in the twentieth century. The chronological and topical breadth of the collection highlights critical political and economic developments of the century while also drawing attention to relatively recent areas of research including borderlands technology and disability studies. Dynamic and flexible in its possible applications The Routledge History of the Twentieth-Century United States offers an exciting new resource for the study of modern American history.

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The Right to a Fair Trial

The Right to a Fair Trial

The right to a fair trial is often held as a central constitutional protection. It nevertheless remains unclear what precisely should count as a 'fair' trial and who should decide verdicts. This already difficult issue has become even more important given a number of proposed reforms of the trial especially for defendants charged with terrorism offences. This collection The Right to a Fair Trial is the first to publish in one place the most influential work in the field on the following topics: including the right to jury trial; lay participation in trials; jury nullification; trial reform; the civil jury trial; and the more recent issue of terrorism trials. The collection should help inform both scholars and students of both the importance and complexity of the right to a fair trial as well as shed light on how the trial might be further improved.

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The British Empire and the First World War

The British Empire and the First World War

The British Empire played a crucial part in the First World War supplying hundreds of thousands of soldiers and labourers as well as a range of essential resources from foodstuffs to minerals mules and munitions. In turn many imperial territories were deeply affected by wartime phenomena such as inflation food shortages combat and the presence of large numbers of foreign troops. This collection offers a comprehensive selection of essays illuminating the extent of the Empire’s war contribution and experience and the richness of scholarly research on the subject. Whether supporting British military operations aiding the British imperial economy or experiencing significant wartime effects on the home fronts of the Empire the war had a profound impact on the colonies and their people. The chapters in this volume were originally published in Australian Historical Studies The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History First World War Studies or The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs. | The British Empire and the First World War

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The European Union and the Black Sea The State of Play

The European Union and the Black Sea The State of Play

The idea for this book is derived from the scantiness of academic references on the European Union’s policies towards the Black Sea relative to this region’s officially stated significance for the EU. Even though the EU plays a vital role in Black Sea political agendas the EU’s cooperation with the region is not extensively covered by academic discussions and literature. This is mostly due to the fact that the EU’s focus on foreign affairs is mainly associated with the Balkans as part the current and potential expansion and the Middle East as a direct consequence of the upheaval of the Arab Spring. The Black Sea region is crucially important for the EU because of the opportunities and challenges that the region presents both politically and socio-economically. Contributions to this book mostly focus on specific issues of EU–Black Sea cooperation from conflict to the environment to democracy and how these particular relationships are perceived within the region as well as through the lenses of stakeholders such as Russia Turkey and the USA. Overall the collection focuses on projecting a more efficient role and a holistic strategy for the EU in its approach towards the Black Sea region testifying to the need for a strong EU presence. For this reason the Black Sea area remains ‘the neighbourhood too close to yet still far from the European Union’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies. | The European Union and the Black Sea The State of Play

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The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy. | The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

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The Cultural Critics From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams

The Cultural Critics From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams

Originally published in 1979 the central focus of this study is the concept of culture as employed by English literary intellectuals over the preceding 100 years a period characterized by a constant process of re-definition and change. The tradition of criticism in which these intellectuals wrote represented the artistic imagination as a moral force in society and a fundamental mechanism for social change. The author traces this tradition through the writings of various English intellectuals using the three main figures of Matthew Arnold F. R. Leavis and Raymond Williams to elucidate the concept. She shows through the writings of their contemporaries how the concept was employed and modified and her analysis ranges from J. S. Mill John Ruskin and William Morris through George Bernard Shaw D. H. Lawrence T. S. Eliot and R. H. Tawney to Richard Hoggard Richard Wollheim and R. S. Peters. By discussing the questions of the role of art in society and examining their treatment by different groups of intellectuals the author has supplied a basis for a forceful critique of the quality of life in modern industrial society. This book will be of interest to students of literature cultural history and the sociology of culture. | The Cultural Critics From Matthew Arnold to Raymond Williams

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The Craft of Criticism Critical Media Studies in Practice

The Craft of Criticism Critical Media Studies in Practice

With contributions from 30 leading media scholars this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies. Chapters address various methods of textual analysis as well as reception studies policy production studies and contextual multi-method approaches like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection which also addresses emergent technologies and new research tools in such areas as software studies gaming and digital humanities. Each chapter includes an intellectual history of a particular method or approach a discussion of why and how it was used to study a particular medium or media relevant examples of influential work in the area and an in-depth review of a case study drawn from the author's own research. Together the chapters in this collection give media critics a complete toolbox of essential critical media studies methodologies. | The Craft of Criticism Critical Media Studies in Practice

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Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union A Collection of Essays in Memory of Pr

Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union A Collection of Essays in Memory of Pr

With the achievement of further EU and NATO enlargement a critical political and economic lens is now focused on East Central Europe and to a lesser extent the other former communist states. Economic growth in each transition state - and more broadly the region - pivots around the prospects for foreign direct investment (FDI) with decisions on where foreign investors will locate their projects now vitally important. This book - the first one devoted to a geographical survey concentrating specifically on FDI in the region - brings together a wide range of prominent authors from the US and Europe including the late Frank Carter to provide a timely and critical examination of the importance of foreign investment. It presents a detailed analysis of location patterns and their significance for regional development with particular emphasis given to the important socioeconomic and political consequences of uneven distribution of FDI across the region and its constituent countries. Divided into two parts the book first deals with general overarching themes and issues before applying these to more specific country case studies. The second part deals with regional studies focusing broadly on the Western Balkans and Bulgaria before looking at specific economic sectors in individual countries. | Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in East Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union A Collection of Essays in Memory of Pr

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The Routledge Companion to Auditing

The Routledge Companion to Auditing

Auditing has been a subject of some controversy and there have been repeated attempts at reforming its practice globally. This comprehensive companion surveys the state of the discipline including emerging and cutting-edge trends. It covers the most important and controversial issues including auditing ethics auditor independence social and environmental accounting as well as the future of the field. This handbook is vital reading for legislators regulators professionals commentators students and researchers involved with auditing and accounting. The collection will also prove an ideal starting place for researchers from other fields looking to break into this vital subject. | The Routledge Companion to Auditing

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The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking

WINNER OF THE 2019 SOCIETY OF ETHNOMUSICLOGY ELLEN KOSKOFF PRIZE FOR EDITED COLLECTIONSThe Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking provides a reference to how cross-culturally musicking constructs locality and how locality is constructed by the musicking that takes place within it that is how people engage with ideas of community and place through music. The term musicking has gained currency in music studies and refers to the diverse ways in which people engage with music regardless of the nature of this engagement. By linking musicking to the local this book highlights the ways in which musical practices and discourses interact with people’s everyday experiences and understandings of their immediate environment their connections and commitment to that locality and the people who exist within it. It explores what makes local musicking local. By viewing musicking from the perspective of where it takes place the contributions in this collection engage with debates on the processes of musicking identity construction community-building and network formation competitions and rivalries place and space making and local-global dynamics.

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The Critical Pedagogy Reader

The Critical Pedagogy Reader

Since its publication The Critical Pedagogy Reader has firmly established itself as the leading collection of classic and contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of critical pedagogy. While retaining its comprehensive introduction this thoroughly revised fourth edition includes updated section introductions expanded bibliographies and up-to-date classroom questions. The book is arranged topically around such issues as class racism gender/sexuality language and literacy and classroom issues for ease of usage and navigation. New reading selections cover topics such as youth activism agency and affect and practical implementations of critical pedagogy. Carefully attentive to both theory and practice this new edition remains the definitive source for teaching and learning about critical pedagogy.

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The Curriculum Studies Reader

The Curriculum Studies Reader

In this sixth edition of David J. Flinders and Stephen J. Thornton’s ground-breaking anthology the editors assemble the best in past and present curriculum studies scholarship. From John Dewey’s nineteenth-century creed to Nel Noddings’ provocative call to revive the spirit of the liberal arts this thoughtful combination of well-recognized and pivotal work provides a complete survey of the discipline coupled with concrete examples of innovative curriculum and an examination of current topics. New to this edition is a dynamic set of contemporary and historical contributions tackling issues such as high-stakes testing multicultural literacy white supremacy in the curriculum and climate change. Carefully balanced to engage with the history of curriculum studies while simultaneously looking ahead to its future The Curriculum Studies Reader continues to be the most authoritative collection in the field.

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The Handbook of Communication and Security

The Handbook of Communication and Security

The Handbook of Communication and Security provides a comprehensive collection and synthesis of communication scholarship that engages security at multiple levels including theoretical vs. practical international vs. domestic and public vs. private. The handbook includes chapters that leverage communication-based concepts and theories to illuminate and influence contemporary security conditions. Collectively these chapters foreground and analyze the role of communication in shaping the economic technological and cultural contexts of security in the 21st century. This book is ideal for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students and scholars in the numerous subfields of communication and security studies.

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The Routledge Companion to Scenography

The Routledge Companion to Scenography

The Routledge Companion to Scenography is the largest and most comprehensive collection of original essays to survey the historical conceptual critical and theoretical aspects of this increasingly important aspect of theatre and performance studies. Editor and leading scholar Arnold Aronson brings together a uniquely valuable anthology of texts especially commissioned from across the discipline of theatre and performance studies. Establishing a stable terminology for a deeply contested term for the first time this volume looks at scenography as the totality of all the visual spatial and sensory aspects of performance. Tracing a line from Aristotle’s Poetics down to Brecht and Artaud and into contemporary immersive theatre and digital media The Routledge Companion to Scenography is a vital addition to every theatre library.

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The Critical Pedagogy Reader

The Critical Pedagogy Reader

For fifteen years The Critical Pedagogy Reader has established itself as the leading collection of classic and contemporary essays by the major thinkers in the field of critical pedagogy. While retaining its comprehensive introduction this thoroughly revised third edition includes updated section introductions expanded bibliographies and up-to-date classroom questions. The book is arranged topically around issues such as class racism gender/sexuality critical literacies and classroom issues for ease of usage and navigation. New to this edition are substantive updates to the selections of contemporary readings including pieces that reflect issues such as immigrant and refugee students the role of social justice in teacher education and an emphasis on practical elements of pedagogy as well as it significance to forging democratic life. Carefully attentive to theory and practice this much-anticipated third edition remains the definitive foundational source for teaching and learning about critical pedagogy.

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The Atlantic World

The Atlantic World

As the meeting point between Europe colonial America and Africa the history of the Atlantic world is a constantly shifting arena but one which has been a focus of huge and vibrant debate for many years. In over thirty chapters all written by experts in the field The Atlantic World takes up these debates and gathers together key original scholarship to provide an authoritative survey of this increasingly popular area of world history. The book takes a thematic approach to topics including exploration migration and cultural encounters. In the first chapters scholars examine the interactions between groups which converged in the Atlantic world such as slaves European migrants and Native Americans. The volume then considers questions such as finance money and commerce in the Atlantic world as well as warfare government and religion. The collection closes with chapters examining how ideas circulated across and around the Atlantic and beyond. It presents the Atlantic as a shared space in which commodities and ideas were exchanged and traded and examines the impact that these exchanges had on both people and places. Including an introductory essay from the editors which defines the field and lavishly illustrated with paintings drawings and maps this accessible volume is invaluable reading for all students and scholars of this broad sweep of world history.

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