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Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy

This classic work not only records developments in the form and style of Greek drama it also analyses the reasons for these changes. It provides illuminating answers to questions that have confronted generations of students such as:* why did Aeschylus introduce the second actor?* why did Sophocles develop character drawing?* why are some of Euripides' plots so bad and others so good?Greek Tragedy is neither a history nor a handbook but a penetrating work of criticism which all students of literature will find suggestive and stimulating.

GBP 130.00
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Enjoyment of Laughter

Enjoyment of Laughter

Humor at its best is a somewhat fluid and transitory element but most books about it are illustrated with hardened old jokes from the comic papers or classic witticisms jerked out of their context. Max Eastman in this work avoids this catastrophe by quoting mainly from contemporary American humor. This is not an anthology in that selections have been made with a view to making a point rather than covering the field. The purpose of Eastman's fabled work is to make the reader laugh. Since his early school days it has seemed to him that textbooks are wrongly written in that they are conducted in a way which ignores the natural operation of the mind. As a result the opinion is universal and under the circumstances a fact that in order to learn anything you have to study. Since this introduction to humor is itself near to writing a textbook Eastman uses the very text he constructs to illustrate the manner in which textbooks should be written. Examination and classification of the kinds of humorous experience upon the basis of a theory is a science. As such this work offers a fair chance to illustrate a method of instruction. However the distinction between a good joke and a bad one will not prevent the reader from making bad jokes nor enable one to make good ones. There is an artistic and playful element that simply cannot be taught. Enjoyment of Laughter presents a total view of the science of laughter and draws upon some of the great American humorists to do so.

GBP 145.00
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Grammar: A Pocket Guide

Grammar: A Pocket Guide

If you've ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs commas and apostrophes clauses and prepositions then this is a must-have book for you. Easing readers gently into the study of the structure of English Grammar: A Pocket Guide covers common questions such as:Is it 10 items or less or 10 items or fewer?Should I say If I were you or if I was you?Can you start a sentence with And or Because?When do you use whom?What is the difference between lie and lay?Is it I feel bad or I feel badly? Using examples from everyday speech and writing this handy book cracks the code of off-putting grammatical jargon so that readers can enjoy learning how to think and talk about grammar. With practice exercises a glossary and suggestions for further reading Grammar: A Pocket Guide is the perfect foundation for anyone wanting to improve his or her writing and communication.

GBP 175.00
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Teacher Well-Being Looking After Yourself and Your Career in the Classroom

Teacher Well-Being Looking After Yourself and Your Career in the Classroom

All teachers experience negative stress in the workplace whether it is due to pressures of the job whilst at school or the perpetual need to take work home. In this informative book Elizabeth Holmes provides practical advice and solutions to enable teachers to experience less negative stress in their lives and understand the links between the way they function in the classroom and their personal well-being. Drawing on real life case studies and providing strategies for teachers wanting to be proactive in dealing with their well-being stress and career this book outlines all the different components that contribute to physical emotional spiritual and mental well-being. This includes: * good stress and bad stress* communication* enhancing personal well-being at school* well-being and career development. Written in a clear and accessible style with plenty of practical examples and advice Teacher Well-Being is an essential read for all teachers headteachers and school managers whether just entering the profession or experienced practitioners. | Teacher Well-Being Looking After Yourself and Your Career in the Classroom

GBP 115.00
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Toxic Leadership Research and Cases

Toxic Leadership Research and Cases

Toxic Leadership: Research and Cases presents research and cases on toxic leadership that emerged from qualitative research on the followers of toxic leaders. The goal is to help students researchers and academics understand how toxic leadership emerges how leaders can spot toxic leadership within their organizations and discuss what they can do to stop toxic leaders from destroying organizational value. The book pulls together various theories models and names (e. g. bad leadership destructive leadership) for toxic leadership. The authors cover how power culture personality disorders and followers contribute to the toxic leadership phenomenon. Readers will learn how toxic leaders impact organizations the types of toxic leaders signs of toxic leaders and the environments they create. The authors share case studies for each toxic leader type to illustrate themes coping strategies and organizational outcomes. Each case is accompanied by a series of questions for reflection study and leadership development. This book will be useful for students researchers and academics to help uncover signs of toxic leaders that are often hidden from upper management. It will also be helpful for leaders to develop organizational strategies and for followers to develop coping strategies. | Toxic Leadership Research and Cases

GBP 120.00
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Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

This volume explores the impact of good governance upon social sectors’ development in India and other selected economies of the world. Economic development in the true sense depends on the development of different social sectors like education healthcare gender equality etc. as well as economic factors. Good governance makes the sectors perform well on the one hand and helps in economic growth and development on the other. Conversely bad or weak governance in the form of corruption and low effectiveness of the governments may lead to poor performance of the sectors and low growth and backwardness of the economies. This book explores the associations between different social sectors’ performances with quality of governance and growth and development of different economies and groups in detail and establishes theoretical and empirical examinations for the individual economies and groups from the different corners of the globe with the help of new theories and latest data. This book will be useful for students and researchers in the fields of Economics Sociology Political Studies Public Finance International Relations Social Sciences as well as policy makers and think tanks. | Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

GBP 130.00
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Dealing with Difficult Parents

Dealing with Difficult Parents

Communicating with parents is one of the most challenging and potentially stressful tasks that teachers face on a daily basis. Whether trying to resolve a heated argument or delivering bad news it is essential to know how to handle difficult situations and establish positive relationships with your students parents. In this updated second edition of the bestselling Dealing with Difficult Parents award-winning educators Todd Whitaker and Douglas J. Fiore help you develop a repertoire of tools and skills for comfortable and effective interaction with parents. The book‘s features include: Tools to help you understand parents motivations and how to work with them rather than against them; Detailed scripts for dealing with even the most stubborn and volatile parents; New strategies for increasing parent involvement to foster student success; An all-new chapter on the role that social media can play in interacting with parents; and A new chapter on initiating contact with parents to build positive credibility. This must-read book will equip you with the skills you need to expertly navigate even the most challenging encounters with parents and walk away feeling that you have made a positive and meaningful impact.

GBP 105.00
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Human Extinction A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation

Human Extinction A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation

This volume traces the origins and evolution of the idea of human extinction from the ancient Presocratics through contemporary work on existential risks. Many leading intellectuals agree that the risk of human extinction this century may be higher than at any point in our 300 000-year history as a species. This book provides insight on the key questions that inform this discussion including when humans began to worry about their own extinction and how the debate has changed over time. It establishes a new theoretical foundation for thinking about the ethics of our extinction arguing that extinction would be very bad under most circumstances although the outcome might be on balance good. Throughout the book graphs tables and images further illustrate how human choices and attitudes about extinction have evolved in Western history. In its thorough examination of humanity’s past this book also provides a starting point for understanding our future. Although accessible enough to be read by undergraduates Human Extinction contains new and thought-provoking research that will benefit even established academic philosophers and historians. | Human Extinction A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation

GBP 130.00
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Abolition of Antitrust

Abolition of Antitrust

The Abolition of Antitrust asserts that antitrust laws-on economic legal and moral grounds-are bad and provides convincing evidence supporting arguments for their total abolition. Every year new antitrust prosecutions arise in the U. S. courts as in the cases against 3M and Visa/MasterCard as well as a number of ongoing antitrust cases such as those involving Microsoft and college football's use of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). Gary Hull and the contributing authors show that these cases-as well as the Sherman Antitrust Act itself-are based on an erroneous interpretation of the history of American business premised on bad economics. They equivocate between economic and political power-the power to produce versus the power to use physical force. For Hull antitrust prosecutions are based on a horrible moral inversion: that it is acceptable to sacrifi ce America's best producers. The contributors explain how key antitrust ideas for instance monopoly restraint of trade and anticompetitive behavior have been used to justify prosecution and then make clear why those ideas are false. They sketch the historical legal economic and moral reasoning that gave rise to the passage and growth of antitrust legislation. All of the theoretical points in this volume are woven around a number of fascinating cases both historical and current-including the Charles River Bridge Alcoa General Electric and Kellogg/General Mills. Designed for the uninformed but educated layman The Abolition of Antitrust makes positive arguments in defense of wealth creation business and profi t explains the proper role of government and offers a rational view of the meaning of contract and economic freedom. AldineTransaction www. transactionpub. com ISBN: 978-1-4128-0502-5 Library of Congress: 2004058124 Printed in the U. S. A. Cover design by Ellen F. Kane The essays in this book present a sustained economic historical moral and legal broadside against the various federal statutes known as antitrust doctrine. They explode the cherished myths underlying the antitrust laws and expose their intellectual fountainhead in a morality of self-sacrifice that is incompatible with individual rights free enterprise and objective law. With the publication of this text businessmen lawyers economists policymakers legislators and judges finally have access to a systemic critique of the antitrust laws. From here on if antitrust continues to violate the rights of businessmen and to ravage the American economy it is not for lack of knowing how and why. Adam Mossoff assistant professor of law Michigan State University College of Law.

GBP 130.00
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Democracy Religion and Commerce Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion

Democracy Religion and Commerce Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion

This collection considers the relationship between religion state and market. In so doing it also illustrates that the market is a powerful site for the cultural work of secularizing religious conflict. Though expressed as a simile with religious freedom functioning like market freedom “free market religion” has achieved the status of general knowledge about the nature of religion as either good or bad. It legislates good religion as that which operates according to free market principles: it is private with no formal relationship to government; and personal: a matter of belief and conscience. As naturalized elements of historically contingent and discursively maintained beliefs about religion these criteria have ethical and regulatory force. Thus in culture and law the effect of the metaphor has become instrumental not merely descriptive. This volume seeks to productively complicate and invite further analysis of this easy conflation of democracy religion and the market. It invites scholars from a variety of disciplines to consider more intentionally the extent to which markets are implicated and illuminate the place of religion in public life. The book will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics working in the areas of law and religion ethics and economics. | Democracy Religion and Commerce Private Markets and the Public Regulation of Religion

GBP 120.00
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New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech

New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech

This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy psychology political theory journalism literature and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies. Recent years have seen an explosion of academic interest in these topics. However most recent work has focused on constitutional protections for free speech and on issues related to academic freedom and campus politics. The chapters in this volume set their sights more broadly on the non-state problems that we collectively face in attempting to realize a healthy environment for free discourse. The volume’s contributors share the assumption that threats to free speech do not come exclusively from state sources or bad actors but from ordinary strategic situations in which all may be acting in good faith. Contributors take seriously the idea that our current cultural moment provides plenty of reason to be concerned about our intellectual climate and offer new insights for how to make things better. New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech will be of interest to researchers and students working in ethics political philosophy social theory and law. 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.

GBP 130.00
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A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility. The author advocates plausible reasoning as a general philosophical method and demonstrates how it can be applied to problems in argumentation theory scientific theory choice risk management ethics law economics and epistemology. Human decisions are conditioned by formidable uncertainty. The standard resource for dealing rationally with uncertainty is the mathematical concept of probability. The probability calculus is well-known but since the numerical demands for applying it cannot usually be met it is not widely applicable. By contrast the concept of plausibility is widely applicable but it is little known. This book relies on a generalized concept of plausibility whose strength is its adaptability. The adaptability is due to a novel form of decision theory that takes plausibilities as inputs. This form of decision theory remains applicable to decisions informed by sharp probabilities and utilities but it can also be applied to decisions that must be made without them. It can aid in the rationally critical enterprise of discriminating good arguments from bad and this can foster philosophical progress. A Plea for Plausibility will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in argumentation theory philosophy of science ethics epistemology economics law and risk management. | A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

GBP 120.00
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Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

'Gyorgy Scrinis exposes the folly of the reductionist approach and proposes an alternative food quality paradigm based on respecting traditional dietary patterns and reducing technological processing. It may offend nutritionists and will upset the food industry but it could also herald a delicious revolution in our ability to eat well. ' - Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM NutritionistFrom the fear of 'bad nutrients' such as fat and cholesterol to the celebration of supposedly health-enhancing vitamins and omega-3 fats our understanding of food and health has been dominated by a reductive scientific focus on nutrients. It is on this basis that butter and eggs have been vilified yet highly processed foods such as margarine have been promoted as being healthier than whole foods. Gyorgy Scrinis argues that this ideology of nutritionism has narrowed and distorted our appreciation of food quality while promoting nutrition confusion and nutritional anxieties. The food industry exploits these anxieties by nutritionally modifying their food products and marketing them with nutritional and health claims. Through a fascinating investigation into such issues as the butter versus margarine debate the battle between low-fat low-carb low-calorie and low-GI weight-loss diets the limitations of dietary guidelines and the search for the optimal dietary pattern - from Mediterranean and vegetarian to paleo diets - Scrinis builds a revealing history of the scientific social and economic factors driving our modern fascination with nutrition and explores alternative ways of understanding food quality. | Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

GBP 130.00
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The Data of Ethics

The Data of Ethics

In this amazingly prophetic work done late in his career Herbert Spencer offers an approach to ethics that anticipates developments throughout the twentieth century. He moves away from the twin evils of ethical doctrines bequeathed to us by an ancient past that are simply no longer feasible but also avoids modern standards of ethical conduct that are simply impossible to attain. By association with rules that cannot be obeyed Spencer writes rules that can be obeyed lose their authority. The volume opens with three chapters on conduct: its evolution good and bad and ways of judgment. This is followed by a series of chapters that examine ethics from a variety of scientific perspectives: physics biology psychology and sociology. The work then moves on to specific issues of deep human concern: the relativity of pleasures and pain egoism versus altruism in explaining actions and trial and compromise in decision-making about ethical concerns. Spencer's work anticipates the movement toward pragmatic naturalistic and even positivist approaches to ethics. He emphasizes that a relativist approach while in keeping with the spirit of the industrial age also poses a variety of problems that admit only of empirical solutions. He understands that his critical stance on absolutism should not blind researchers to the ideals assumed by the ancients that assist people in their everyday living. In short this is a remarkable work entirely modern and yet containing a sharp evaluation of how ethical data serve to enhance ethical conduct. | The Data of Ethics

GBP 130.00
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Cyberbullying and Values Education Implications for Family and School Education

Cyberbullying and Values Education Implications for Family and School Education

Written by scholars from both the Western and Chinese contexts this monograph discusses the relation between cyberbullying socio-emotional-moral competencies and feasible interventions by integrating values education and provides future directions in the field of cyberpsychology. Cyberbullying has become a growing concern in the digital age as it brings devastating impacts on its victims. Educating the younger generation particularly through values education also known as character moral or social-emotional learning helps equip children and adolescents with the necessary ethical and moral attitudes and foster the necessary socio-emotional competencies for them to navigate the digital world as responsible cyber-citizens. A central focus of the book is intervention and education. Cultivating competencies and responsible use of technology in the younger generation through values education and evidence-based intervention helps combat cyberbullying. Families schools and communities can work together with suitable school programmes teacher education and parents/school collaboration to help students cope with cyberbullying and create safer online spaces for them. Technology itself is not inherently good or bad but shaped by human choices and values. Supported by empirical evidence and theoretical insights this book suggests ways to promote moral and emotional skills foster digital citizenship and encourage ethical technology design. This book provides a comprehensive understanding of cyberbullying. This timely resource will contribute to creating a safer and more positive online environment for all. It will inform researchers educators parents and the community in combating cyberbullying by enabling children and adolescents to be responsible ethical and happy netizens. | Cyberbullying and Values Education Implications for Family and School Education

GBP 130.00
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The Science of Wind Power

The Science of Wind Power

Concern for the environment and for the impacts of environmental pollution has brought about the need to shift from the reliance on hydrocarbons to energy sources that are nearly pollution neutral and renewable. The Science of Wind Power is designed to provide a fundamental understanding for wind technicians and students alike essentially examining how to harness the wind to produce energy for transmission and use while keeping environmental impacts in mind. Wind power is one of the fastest-growing energy sources as it offers many advantages such as being sustainable and a renewable energy source that has a much smaller impact on the global environment compared to fossil fuels. It is important to point out however that like wind itself wind power has a good and bad side advantages and disadvantages (challenges) and these different aspects are discussed in detail herein. Features: Examines the mechanical electrical hydraulic and electronic aspects of wind turbines Provides the fundamentals of wind turbine aerodynamics modeling and testing Includes design standards for wind turbines and electrical distribution systems Delineates the differences between offshore and land-based wind power Discusses special-purpose applications such as energy distribution and storage A must-have volume that includes the latest data diagrams and useful illustrations The Science of Wind Energy offers a complete examination of one of the most promising sources of renewable energy and serves as a great introduction to the cross-disciplinary field for students and practicing engineers. The concepts and guidelines presented will equip readers with the scientific rationale required to make decisions that could directly affect the environment around them.

GBP 99.99
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Corruption and Economic Growth in Africa The Impact on Development

Corruption and Economic Growth in Africa The Impact on Development

Corruption is one of the major challenges impeding Africa’s growth and development efforts and its impact is much more pronounced at this point of the continent’s development trajectory. Corruption has political economic and social consequences and this book argues that any efforts to help Africa grow and develop must prioritise the fight against it so that the aid and funding given for projects in the region can continue to be sustained. The book also tackles the issue of national security and instability caused by corruption. The author argues that progress cannot happen in countries and environments where instability exists and persists. Corruption in Africa has contributed to instability and other national security challenges especially in fragile states on the continent. The book starts by looking at the three major types of corruption: petty grand and systemic and then goes on to address the different categories of corruption such as bureaucratic legislative political as well as public and private sector aspects. It also deals with common forms of corruption as well as some of the causes such as bad governance and excessive greed to mention a few. Further it critically examines how current political systems on the continent contribute to this condition. The book argues that some of the solutions that have been proposed to date are not viable or have not worked in practice and through applied research offers workable solutions that policy makers African politicians academics and students of economics and development can use as a reference guide in the fight against corruption. | Corruption and Economic Growth in Africa The Impact on Development

GBP 130.00
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The Controller as Lean Leader A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System

The Controller as Lean Leader A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System

Traditional accounting systems have become inadequate for today‘s increasingly competitive global manufacturing environment. They are too complex and too focused on past performance. As manufacturing techniques change and become less labor intensive accounting methods must also evolve. Regardless of what you call it Lean accounting is a management accounting system that should be part of every worker‘s daily activities. The Controller as Lean Leader: A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System delineates the differences between cost accounting and cost management. It uses a story format to present a compilation of experiences; some good some bad and some humorous. The story follows a fictional manufacturing entity embarking on a Lean change management journey for the second time having failed at its first attempt at Lean implementation a few years earlier. As the story progresses readers gain an understanding of what the company will do differently this time around to ensure it doesn‘t slip backward again as the transformation unfolds. Illustrates the various approaches to Lean implementation Explains Target Costing and describes how to use it to get your budget right the first time around Examines the concept of systems and the importance of defining values in your business Describes what the purpose of a Lean Human Resources (HR) system should be Introduces with visuals the little-known importance of the timing of the implementation and integration of the four integral parts of the Lean Cost Management System with the five Lean principles The main character the Lean Controller presents her ideas with visuals throughout the book. Discussions between the Lean controller and employees at various levels of the organization illustrate valuable lessons. The many faces of the Lean Controller as expressed thro | The Controller as Lean Leader A Novel on Changing Behavior with a Lean Cost Management System

GBP 170.00
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Photographic Composition A Visual Guide

Photographic Composition A Visual Guide

A note from the author Richard Zakia P. H. Emerson reminds us that Every artist is at first an amateur. One of the great American photographers of the 20th Century Edward Weston as a young photographer only got honourable mention in a photographic contest sponsored by an amateur camera magazine. Ansel Adams Paul Strand and others also began as amateurs. Wynn Bullock began his outstanding photographic career later in life when he was in his 40s Today in our digital age everyone is a photographer. Recognizing this and the fact that there are some basic proven guidelines for creating winning photographs we put together this highly visual book especially for beginning photographers who want to improve their photography. In doing so we discovered that some professional photographers also found it helpful. One can think of our book as a visual grammar that will help you better compose what you desire to express and to do so with clarity. However amazing the subject or technically excellent the photography the single biggest factor in deciding whether a photograph is good or bad is how well it is composed. Photographic Composition Visualized offers a unique take on this fundamental issue by offering instruction in a visual format - the book is laid out in a unique spread format of a beautiful image on one page with an in-depth break down of why the rule of composition works in the image but also how a photographer can apply it to their own photography. Inspirational instructive and most importantly visually stunning and beautiful photography master Richard Zakia teaches the lessons he has learned from over 40 years as a photographer. This is the book every photographer needs to own in order to create the outstanding images they always wanted to - but didn't know how. | Photographic Composition A Visual Guide

GBP 175.00
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Safety Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry

Safety Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry

When accidents occur in the oil and gas industry the impacts can be profound. Serious injury or death to workers environmental disasters and colossal costs for insurance or clean ups make the industry a hazardous one to operate in. Disasters become major news events such as the Prestige oil spill Piper Alpha Exxon Valdez oil spill and Deepwater Horizon. A move towards improving the health and safety of the industry is underway. This book emphasizes controlling managing and mitigating the risk of hazards in the oil and gas industry increasing safety and protecting the environment by identifying the hazards in the oil and gas industry through safety engineering techniques and management methods. Safety Engineering in the Oil and Gas Industry discusses how to improve safety and reliability in the oil and gas industry so that hazards can be reduced to the lowest level feasible. It covers the techniques needed to operate safely in an oil and/or gas industry setting the standards that should be adhered to the impacts of PPE fire and explosions equipment and infrastructure failures and storage and reliability engineering amongst many other topics. This book is written in an easy-to-read and appealing style and multiple-choice questions are included to help with learning and understanding the concepts included. Underpinned by real life case studies and examples this book aims to allow readers to consider how they can reduce the costs associated with bad safety practices to their business through maintained and consistent health safety and environmental (HSE) standards. This book is a must-read for any student or professional studying or working in the oil and gas industries. It also has additional appeal to those with an academic or professional interest in occupational health and safety civil engineering offshore engineering and maritime engineering.

GBP 130.00
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Practical Criticism A Study of Literary Judgment

Practical Criticism A Study of Literary Judgment

Linguist critic poet psychologist I. A. Richards (1893-1979) was one of the great polymaths of the twentieth century. He is best known however as one of the founders of modern literary critical theory. Richards revolutionized criticism by turning away from biographical and historical readings as well as from the aesthetic impressionism. Seeking a more exacting approach he analyzed literary texts as syntactical structures that could be broken down into smaller interacting verbal units of meaning. Practical Criticism first published in 1929 is a landmark volume in demonstrating this method. Practical Criticism was born of an experiment Richards undertook to discern the psychological foundations of reading and interpretation and a means for readers to discover how they think and feel about poetry. He submitted thirteen poems for analysis without date or author given to some four hundred of his Cambridge students. Poets of stature went in undifferentiated from obscure and forgotten figures. The results were mixed at best with many of the interpretations shockingly bad. These readings were based in large part not on the texts themselves but on then-current opinions presuppositions theories and beliefs. The results led Richards to define a set of interrelated mental obstacles to intelligent and accurate reading including irrelevant associations stock responses sentimentality and a general misunderstanding of the purpose or doctrine of poetry. Richards' concerns in Practical Criticism went well beyond the merely formal. In the humanist tradition he believed that the ability to read critically and use language truthfully was culturally regenerative a necessary skill in the modern world of mass-produced art and advertising. This classic volume will be of interest to teachers of literature cultural studies specialists and intellectual historians. | Practical Criticism A Study of Literary Judgment

GBP 145.00
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Security and Resilience of Cyber Physical Systems

Security and Resilience of Cyber Physical Systems

In this era of 5G digital communication the implementation of industry 4. 0 is the need of the hour. The main aim of this industrial revolution is to completely automate the industry for better productivity correct decision making and increased efficiency. All the concepts of industry 4. 0 can only be implemented with the help of Cyber Physical System aka CPS. This is a smart system in which complete mechanism is monitored and controlled by computer-based algorithms. Confidentiality Integrity and Availability are the three major concern for providing the add on security to any organization or a system. It has become a biggest challenge among the security professionals to secure these cyber physical systems. Hackers and bad guys are planning various kinds of attacks on daily basis on these systems. This book addresses the various security and privacy issues involved in the cyber physical system. There is need to explore the interdisciplinary analysis to ensure the resilience of these systems including different types of cyber threats to these systems. The book highlights the importance of security in preventing detecting characterizing and mitigating different types of cyber threats on CPS. The book offers a simple to understand various organized chapters related to the CPS and their security for graduate students faculty research scholars and industry professionals. The book offers comprehensive coverage of the most essential topics including: Cyber Physical Systems and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) Role of Internet of Things and their security issues in Cyber Physical Systems. Role of Big data analytic to develop real time solution for CPS. DDoS attacks and their solutions in CPS. Emulator Mininet for simulating CPS. Spark-based DDoS Classification System for Cyber-Physical Systems | Security and Resilience of Cyber Physical Systems

GBP 89.99
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Motivation to Work

Motivation to Work

Quality work that fosters job satisfaction and health enjoys top priority in industry all over the world. This was not always so. Until recently analysis of job attitudes focused primarily on human relations problems within organizations. While American industry was trying to solve the unsolvable problem of avoiding interpersonal dissatisfaction problems with the potential for solution such as training and quality production were ignored. When first published 'The Motivation to Work' challenged the received wisdom by showing that worker fulfillment came from achievement and growth within the job itself. In his new introduction Herzberg examines thirty years of motivational research in job-related areas. Based on workers' accounts of real events that have made them feel good or bad on the job the findings of Herzberg and his colleagues have stimulated research and controversy that continue to the present day. The authors surprisingly found that while a poor work environment generated discontent improved conditions seldom brought about improved attitudes. Instead satisfaction came most often from factors intrinsic to work: achievements job recognition and work that was challenging interesting and responsible. The evidence marshaled by this volume called into question many previous assumptions about job satisfaction and worker motivation. Feelings about intrinsic and extrinsic factors could not be validly averaged on a single scale of measurement. Motivation and performance are not merely dependent upon environmental needs and external rewards. Frederick Herzberg and his staff based their motivation—hygiene theory on a variety of human needs and applied it to a strategy of job enrichment that has widely influenced motivation and job design strategies. 'Motivation to Work' is a landmark volume that is of enduring interest to sociologists psychologists labor studies specialists and organization analysts.

GBP 145.00
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Building the Integrated Company

Building the Integrated Company

This title was first published in 2000: Global competition is increasingly impacting on even the most isolated of companies; the only way for any company to sustain competitive advantage is by tapping into the single remaining area of great potential - the management of people. If we want to be an above-average company we will need an above-average ratio of above-average people who perform at above-average levels. None of which will happen without above-average levels of management. Malcolm Birkin’s Building the Integrated Company offers a model for exploiting the human potential within organizations. This potential is one which in previous decades through an absence of focus on business basics and an adherence to mistaken ideas about sustainable competitive advantage we have contrived to turn into all-too-limited performance. The first stage in any new learning process is to unlearn the misplaced concepts and bad habits we have developed. Section One of the book describes and contrasts the similarities and differences of American European and Japanese management and then describes the characteristics of the Integrated Company which has absorbed and perfected the best systems and philosophies from around the world. Anyone seeking to follow this lead needs to be able to distinguish the realities of these management systems from the myths. Section Two is built around a series of 13 detailed and scored questionnaires containing over 240 individual questions enabling the reader to assess every aspect of their business from management focus to the behaviours of the workforce against the Integrated Company model. Section Three the largest and most important section deals with integration addressing the practical implementation of the systems and philosophies in a clear logical and hands-on manner. As the name suggests the Integrated Company is a holistic model involving every aspect of the business. Nevertheless managing people - the unlimited potential - remains the most complex

GBP 115.00
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