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Watch It The Risks And Promises Of Information Technologies For Education

Watch It The Risks And Promises Of Information Technologies For Education

Watch IT is an examination of several critical issues in the potential of new information technology (IT) for education. IT already central to many aspects of our lives is rapidly becoming an integral part of teaching and learning. This book takes a close look at the positive and negative consequences of new technologies in the classroom. In a se | Watch It The Risks And Promises Of Information Technologies For Education

GBP 130.00
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Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity Who Will Watch the Watchers?

Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity Who Will Watch the Watchers?

This book adopts a critical lens to look at the workings of Western intelligence and intelligence oversight over time and space. Largely confined to the sub-field of intelligence studies scholarly engagements with intelligence oversight have typically downplayed the violence carried out by secretive agencies. These studies have often served to justify weak oversight structures and promoted only marginal adaptations of policy frameworks in the wake of intelligence scandals. The essays gathered in this volume challenge the prevailing doxa in the academic field adopting a critical lens to look at the workings of intelligence oversight in Europe and North America. Through chapters spanning across multiple disciplines – political sociology history and law – the book aims to recast intelligence oversight as acting in symbiosis with the legitimisation of the state’s secret violence and the enactment of impunity showing how intelligence actors practically navigate the legal and political constraints created by oversight frameworks and practices for instance by developing transnational networks of interdependence. The book also explores inventive legal steps and human rights mechanisms aimed at bridging some of the most serious gaps in existing frameworks drawing inspiration from recent policy developments in the international struggle against torture. This book will be of much interest to students of intelligence studies sociology security studies and international relations. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Intelligence Oversight in Times of Transnational Impunity Who Will Watch the Watchers?

GBP 130.00
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Antidiabetic Plants for Drug Discovery Pharmacology Secondary Metabolite Profiling and Ingredients with Insulin Mimetic Activity

Antidiabetic Plants for Drug Discovery Pharmacology Secondary Metabolite Profiling and Ingredients with Insulin Mimetic Activity

This volume takes an in-depth look at the potential pharmacological applications of 11 important antidiabetic plants examining their antihyperglycemic hypoglycemic and anti-lipidemic properties along with current genome editing research perspectives. Plant natural products or phytoconstituents are promising candidates for antidiabetic pharmacological actions. The phytoconstituents such as fl avonoids terpenoids saponins carotenoids alkaloids and glycosides play vital roles in the current and future potent antidiabetic drug development programs Each chapter reviews a particular plant with antidiabetic properties explaining the therapeutic aspects its active antidiabetic compounds and relevant genome editing technology. The specific plants discussed include Azadirachta indica (commonly known as neem nimtree or Indian lilac) Gymnema sylvestre (commonly called gymnema Australian cowplant and Periploca of the woods) Syzygium cumini (commonly known as Malabar plum Java plum black plum jamun or jambolana) Ceylon cinnamon (or true cinnamon as opposed to cassia cinnamon) insulin plant (or Costus pictus) Trigonella foenum-graecum (better known as fenugreek) Mulberry Nigella sativa L. (black caraway also known as black cumin nigella kalojeera kalonji or kalanji) Aegle marmelos (L. ) (commonly known as bael (or bili or bhel) also Bengal quince golden apple Japanese bitter orange stone apple or wood apple) Ficus benghalensis (the banyan banyan fig and Indian banyan) and of course garlic (Allium sativum). Antidiabetic Plants for Drug Discovery: Pharmacology Secondary Metabolite Profiling and Ingredients with Insulin Mimetic Activity will serve as a valuable source of information for students drug researchers medical practitioners diabetic patients and many others in the effort to gain understand of how these plant drug molecules can help fight diabetes. | Antidiabetic Plants for Drug Discovery Pharmacology Secondary Metabolite Profiling and Ingredients with Insulin Mimetic Activity

GBP 139.00
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Inclusive Leadership

Inclusive Leadership

This book breaks important new ground in describing the enhancements in performance motivation and mental well-being that Inclusive Leadership brings to organisations. Illustrating these benefits through theory and practical examples the book also contrasts this style with Command and Control or ‘Transactional’ leadership a style that still holds sway in many organisations with leaders focused on mistakes rather than progress. Inclusive Leadership will transport you through time and geography – from the UK US and Australia to France and Norway – showing how much more nurturing an environment Inclusive Leadership provides than Transactional leadership. Read how Inclusive Leadership complements a competitive strategy emphasising innovation and how it dominates in four organisations – Royal Mail Sales the PageGroup Sevenoaks School and APAM - spanning sales recruitment education and real estate. The chapters also cover education and the associations between Inclusive Leadership and enhanced undergraduate student performance motivation and engagement both in Norway and in the UK. With a unique combination of both theoretical and practical perspectives this book is a useful tool for practitioners in the corporate world; business management and leadership students; and both emerging and established leaders. Watch the accompanying video here: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=8DEChx953_U&t=8s

GBP 110.00
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The Politics and Culture of Globalisation India and Australia

The Politics and Culture of Globalisation India and Australia

We experience the culture of globalisation every time we visit a Tandoori restaurant in Chicago or a Pizza Hut in Hyderabad or as we watch Bollywood films in Australia. Globalisation is a label used for a wide range of political social and cultural phenomena many of which are explored in this volume. The Politics and Culture of Globalisation: India and Australia brings together Indian and Australian experts in the fields of political science international relations philosophy cultural theory and political economy. Its timeliness and unifying theme derive from comparisons between Indian and Australian perspectives and analyses by Australian writers on developments in India. Indian-Australian relations are explored in several chapters. The neo-liberal form of globalisation is a key focus of critique in this volume. Several chapters examine the search for alternative forms of governance as the nation-state undergoes profound change due to global interconnectedness. | The Politics and Culture of Globalisation India and Australia

GBP 130.00
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Game Development for iOS with Unity3D

Game Development for iOS with Unity3D

Demystifies the Processes of Game DevelopmentGame Development for iOS with Unity3D takes you through the complete process of Unity iOS game development. A game developer for over 12 years the author presents production-proven techniques and valuable tips and tricks needed to plan build test and launch games for the iPhone iPod and iPad. He walks you through all the necessary procedures including how to publish your game to the App Store. Encompasses the Whole Range of iOS Game DevelopmentThis practical book begins with advice on writing a game design document and getting Apple developer certification. It then covers the build processes of the Unity Remote application and explains how to use the Unity editor. After focusing on debugging and optimization the author describes tips for designing and marketing a successful App Store page. The book also features two iOS-ready games to explore adapt and play. Source files for the game examples are available at www. crcpress. com. Guides You in Creating a Functional iOS Game Accessible to indie game developers and small- to medium-sized studios this hands-on guide gives you the tools and knowledge needed to start building and launching iOS games. It helps you create games using Unity3D and publish them to the App Store.

GBP 175.00
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Logic Pro X Audio and Music Production

Logic Pro X Audio and Music Production

From initial demos to mixing and mastering seasoned authors Mark Cousins and Russ Hepworth-Sawyer show you how to get the most from Logic Pro X. By exploring the essential workflow and the creative possibilities offered by Logic’s virtual instruments and effects Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production leads you through the music creation and production process giving you all the tips and tricks used by the pros to create release-quality recordings. Using full color screenshots throughout alongside related boxouts that expand on the key concepts Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production is an informative and easy-to-read guide to using Logic Pro X. Key features include: Production FAQs – Instructional Walkthroughs and Knowledgebases present information clearly and answer common production–specific problems. Methods – Professional techniques for recording and editing in Logic Pro X – whether you’re dealing with real musicians or cutting-edge virtual instruments. Workflow – Use Logic Pro X’s tools and functions in an optimal way. Website – Access audio examples samples (Apple Loops) Logic projects sampler instruments and instrument patches at www. focalpress. com/cw/cousins Logic Pro X: Audio and Music Production covers more than just the software; it will help you make the most out of every recording session and will illuminate and inspire your creative and sonic endeavors! | Logic Pro X Audio and Music Production

GBP 145.00
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City for Conquest

City for Conquest

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured with even greater acuity in the pages of Aben Kandel's nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life City for Conquest (1936). The source of the classic 1940s James Cagney film of the same name this panoramic New York novel captures the complex patterns of city life vividly evoking a metropolis of dreams and nightmares. Kandel portrays a volatile city inhabited by the aristocrat the criminal the idealist the bohemian the driven the entrapped and the impoverished all equally striving to make a dent in this town. The city itself is booming its new constructions callously built on destruction supplanting with equal disdain the slums of Brooklyn and the farm fields of the Bronx. This feverish microcosm of humanity inhabits a world of immense inequality where six blocks from Wall Street people haven't got a dime six blocks from duplex apartments people live in hovels and between the scarlet sore and the apple of the eye there lay a thick eyebrow of indifference. A literary triumph in the tradition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and out of print for far too long City for Conquest is the inaugural work of fiction in Transaction's new Lost Urban Classics series.

GBP 130.00
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Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

Inside the Black Box of ‘White Backlash’ researches the contents of the letters of support sent to British politician Enoch Powell in the wake of his so-called ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech of April 20 1968. Never has a politician received so much written support in so short a time. This book takes a thematic approach to investigate the way British whites used Powell’s speech to vent their frustrations anger hostility against (non-white) immigrants and the evolution of British society in the late 1960s. Each chapter unpacks one facet of a 10 000-letter sample out of the approximately 100 000 letters Powell received: Race State War Empire America Class Gender Elites Parties ‘Against’ - with this last chapter analysing letters of protest against Powell. This extraordinary archival material provides an altogether unique window into British society in the late 1960s and reads like a (white) anthropology of nativist Britons in times of swift change. The book will be of interest to both students and academics of race immigration and ethnicity as well as by the general public. Olivier Esteves appears in this short video about the book: https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=o0lA5Nb9cso | Inside the Black Box of 'White Backlash' Letters of Support to Enoch Powell (1968-1969)

GBP 120.00
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iTunes Music: Mastering High Resolution Audio Delivery Produce Great Sounding Music with Mastered for iTunes

iTunes Music: Mastering High Resolution Audio Delivery Produce Great Sounding Music with Mastered for iTunes

Apple‘s exciting new Mastered for iTunes (MFiT) initiative introduced in early 2012 introduces new possibilities for delivering high-quality audio. For the first time record labels and program producers are encouraged to deliver audio materials to iTunes in a high resolution format which can produce better-sounding masters. In iTunes Music author and world-class mastering engineer Bob Katz starts out with the basics surveys the recent past and brings you quickly up to the present where the current state of digital audio is bleak. Katz explains the evolution of standards for dynamic range through the present and with implications for the future. He details the new methods that Apple is developing to accept high resolution audio and shows step by step how audio engineers and producers can take advantage of them. This book is designed for all those dealing with sound from sound engineers to music industry executives and musicians and those aspiring to all these roles. This book will help you understand the issues around delivering high-quality environment and get all your facts straight for when you encounter resistance to good sound. Topics covered include: Contrasting the production of CD albums with iTunes albumsHigh Resolution audioDitheringDistortion (and how to avoid it)Lossy CodingLoudness MeteringSound Check and how it affects our production techniquesApple‘s tools for Mastered for iTunes Foreword by renowned mastering engineer Bob Ludwig. Join the forums at www. digido. com/iTunes for the latest information and discussions! | iTunes Music: Mastering High Resolution Audio Delivery Produce Great Sounding Music with Mastered for iTunes

GBP 170.00
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Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Making the Creative Leap

Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Making the Creative Leap

Updates and addendum for the new version of FCPX (10. 0. 3) are available on the companion website fcpxbook. com. Are you an iMovie or Final Cut Express user ready to make the jump to Final Cut Pro? If so look no further. Take your movies to the next level with this easy-to-follow hand-on guide from one of the preeminent Apple trainers in the world today. Author Tom Wolsky starts with the basics of Final Cut Pro X allowing you to easily make the leap from Final Cut Express or iMovie then gradually introduces you to more complex techniques with step-by-step tutorials. Tom specifically shows you how certain techniques and concepts you utilized in iMovie and Final Cut Express translate to Final Cut Pro. More than a button-pushing manual this editing workshop gives your firsthand experience with the art and technique of editing with Final Cut Pro. It includes in-depth information on the application's features interface elements and tools. You will develop a working knowledge of the principles and methods taught in film schools with tutorials that covers the essentials: . Nuances of system set-up to ensure smooth operation . Getting your tape-based and file-based AVCHD and DSLR media into Final Cut Pro and getting it organized . Editing to build and trim a sequence of shots. Working with audio split edits back-timing and level control . Adding transitions. Final Cut Pro titling tools. Color correction image animation and special effects . Compositing to enhance your projects . Outputting your material | Final Cut Pro X for iMovie and Final Cut Express Users Making the Creative Leap

GBP 145.00
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Animation from Pencils to Pixels Classical Techniques for the Digital Animator

Animation from Pencils to Pixels Classical Techniques for the Digital Animator

Just add talent! Award-winning animator Tony White brings you the ultimate book for digital animation. Here you will find the classic knowledge of many legendary techniques revealed paired with information relevant to today's capable state-of-the-art technologies. White leaves nothing out. What contemporary digital animators most need to know can be found between this book's covers - from conceptions to creation and through the many stages of the production pipeline to distribution. This book is intended to serve as your one-stop how-to animation guide. Whether you're new to animation or a very experienced digital animator here you'll find fundamentals key classical techniques and professional advice that will strengthen your work and well-roundedness as an animator. Speaking from experience White presents time-honored secrets of professional animaton with a warm masterly and knowledgeable approach that has evolved from over 30 years as an award-winning animator/director. The book's enclosed downloadable resources presents classic moments from animation's history through White's personal homage to traditional drawn animation Endangered Species. Using movie clips and still images from the film White shares the 'making of' journal of the film detailing each step with scene-by-scene descriptions technique by technique. Look for the repetitive stress disorder guide on the downloadable resources called Mega-hurts. Watch the many movie clips for insights into the versatility that a traditional pencil-drawn approach to animaton can offer. | Animation from Pencils to Pixels Classical Techniques for the Digital Animator

GBP 175.00
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Video Editing with Avid: Media Composer Symphony Xpress

Video Editing with Avid: Media Composer Symphony Xpress

This is the first comprehensive guide to editing on Avid from a PAL standpoint also including NTSC information where appropriate making this book a worldwide manual. If you are already using Media Composer Symphony or Xpress and want to improve and consolidate your basic methods or if you need to learn these systems from scratch then this book is for you. This invaluable reference source explains from beginner to intermediate level the similarities and differences of these three packages and will ensure you get the most out of your Avid system. Based on his experience as a film and video editor and trainer Roger Shufflebottom imparts all the information you need in a clear accurate and easy to follow format. He provides a comprehensive guide to all the main editing tools of Media Composer Symphony and Xpress. The text covers Media Composer versions 7-10 Xpress versions 2-4 and Symphony versions 1-3. Extra information is also included on Media Composer version 10. 5 Symphony version 3. 5 and Xpress version 4. 5. Specific Apple Mac and Windows NT information is included. Moving beyond basic editing 2D effects 3D effects and graphic import are explained in detail. By working through the text you will be able to complete an Avid project competently and intuitively and you will learn some efficient and powerful working techniques. Roger Shufflebottom has been an editor since 1974 began training in 1993 and has run courses for major broadcasters including the BBC Carlton BskyB Pearson Television and the American Forces Network as well as many facility companies. He is an Avid Certified Instructor and has written many articles for 'Avid User' magazine. | Video Editing with Avid: Media Composer Symphony Xpress

GBP 175.00
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Technology and Terrorism

Technology and Terrorism

In this volume thirteen authors from all points of the English-speaking world provide a tour of the entwined labyrinths of technology and terrorism. They describe terrorism as an epistemological contact sport. With espionage one can often deduce from a few pieces of the puzzle a plan's goals and its roots its sources. But the goals of terrorists are both vague and hopelessly specific while their means are restrained by rational institutional thought. Thus terrorists can be equally expected to flail out without any thought at all as a child might exhibit in a temper tantrum and to be hyper-rational probing at the edges of the target for any weakness. Therefore how terrorists use technology may not be determined by any particular level of technology but in the probabilities for the target's expectation and defense regarding particular technologies. Fred Allen asks why Bin Laden and his organization were effective against the Russians but may have more trouble with free societies. Edward Tenner muses on the ironies of low-tech attacks and the dangers of over-reliance on high-tech sophistication. Such thoughts are tempered by direct and unreassuring reportage from the federal security front. Ann Larabee turns the telescope around with a history showing that bomb-throwing is as American as apple pie. Toby Blyth takes us inside the theorists' backroom for a look at the ever-mutating ways means and motives of war. It used to be about power money land resources or the ever-popular Pamir Knot Great Game. Now it seems that globalization has coughed up groups of people with little in common except for simultaneous feelings of helplessness and cultural superiority. Modern technology which once seemed to hold only promise now seems to harbor the potential for danger and destruction. The contributors to this volume are interested in the broader culture and how terrorism affects that culture-including how people go about researching terrorism.

GBP 130.00
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Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery A Practical Guide

Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery A Practical Guide

Minimally invasive cardiac surgery(MICS) is an integral component of every future cardiac surgeon’s training. There continues to be a growing global demand towards less invasive surgical techniques. Both cardiologist and cardiac surgeon form heart teams to provide patients with novel minimally invasive procedures with all their benefits. Less invasive techniques are often complex and require special knowhow and skills. This book offers an innovative approach to learning utilizing QR code technology which refers the reader to essential audio-visual material which along with the didactic text focuses on practical aspects of minimally invasive cardiac surgery. In modern Heart Teams and with the advent of the hybrid era surgeons will only be able to survive if they have state-of-the-art skills in less invasive technologies which can be incorporated in the hybrid theatre and/or trans-catheter arena. This text accompanies the surgeon along this path and provides clinical advice and practical solutions beyond the necessary basic knowledge. Which courses to visit which videos to watch which centres to join for serious training? How best to exploit public and multimedia? How to consent a patient into a MICS procedure? How to set up a MICS program or practice? In the era of value driven outcomes and a shift towards shorter and better patient journeys MICS is a skill that no heart surgeon can be without. Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery: A Practical Guide is a teaching resource reference book and manual written by surgeons who both operate and teach the procedures described within. Provides access to online resources via QR codes Includes links to videos and the e-version of the text Acts as a gateway to a huge choice of minimally invasive cardiac surgery materials | Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery A Practical Guide

GBP 170.00
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