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A History of Cast Iron in Architecture

A History of Cast Iron in Architecture

Originally published in 1948 A History of Cast Iron in Architecture is a comprehensive history of the part that has been played by cast iron in architecture and the allied arts in Britain. Any history of the rise and development of the iron-founding industry becomes virtually a history of the First Industrial Revolution. Examining the use of cast iron by builders and architects from late medieval times to the middle of the 20th Century the authors have also recorded a miniature history of British Industry. The introduction throws light on the early developments of iron-founding. The main sections of the book describe the rise and expansion of the cast-iron industry and its gradually increasing significance in architecture from 1650 to 1945. There are over 500 illustrations.

GBP 115.00
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New Technology in Sociology Practical Applications in Research and Work

New Technology in Sociology Practical Applications in Research and Work

When technology has been applied in business environments its justification has usually been cast in terms of saving time or saving money. In the social sciences the justification must be different; the viability of sociology as a profession for example will not be enhanced by cost reductions. The focus in this volume is on a different bottom line: the quality and content of work. | New Technology in Sociology Practical Applications in Research and Work

GBP 130.00
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Maintaining Nuclear Stability in South Asia

Maintaining Nuclear Stability in South Asia

Argues that while nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles cast a shadow over Indo-Pakistani relations they do not create strategic stability. He asserts that the development of command and control mechanisms would enhance stability but that diplomatic steps focused on missiles must also be considered. Improved command and control and diplomatic engagement will provide some insurance that nuclear weapons are not used in any future conflict. | Maintaining Nuclear Stability in South Asia

GBP 160.00
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The French Economy Theory And Policy

The French Economy Theory And Policy

This volume brings together the proceedings of a conference held at the Institut Europeen d' Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) at Fontainebleau on July 5 6 and 7 1982. Summer conferences abound in the Paris region. That it was possible to attract an imposing international cast of economists within walking distance of the historic castle of Fontainebleau and one hour away from central Paris by car during the month of July is nothing especially surprising. But in this case there was a particular motivation for choosing the French site. | The French Economy Theory And Policy

GBP 130.00
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Italy From Revolution to Republic 1700 to the Present Fourth Edition

Italy From Revolution to Republic 1700 to the Present Fourth Edition

This essential book fills a serious gap in the field by synthesizing modern Italian history and placing it in a fully European context. Emphasizing globalization Italy traces the country's transformation from a land of emigration to one of immigration and its growing cultural importance. Including coverage of the April 2008 elections this updated edition offers expanded examinations of contemporary Italy's economic social and cultural development a deepened discussion on immigration and four new biographical sketches. Author Spencer M. Di Scala discusses the role of women gives ample attention to the Italian South and provides a picture of how ordinary Italians live. Cast in a clear and lively style that will appeal to readers this comprehensive account is an indispensable addition to the field. | Italy From Revolution to Republic 1700 to the Present Fourth Edition

GBP 130.00
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Khilafat in History and Indian Politics

Khilafat in History and Indian Politics

This book is a brief historical account of Khilafat an Islamic political institution mired in controversies from its inception. It is an attempt to present an objective critique of the Islamic polity that in a way was primarily responsible for crafting schisms in Islam with its commencement. By the time the last Khilafat of the Ottomans came to an end in the aftershock of the Second World War the Muslim political elite in India launched a movement for the restoration and continuation of the Ottoman Khilafat. The most paradoxical dimension of the issue was that in the Arab peninsula the epicenter of Islam the people were struggling to cast away the yoke of the Ottoman Khilafat then why were the Indian Muslims emotionally involved in a movement that was vehemently condemned and assailed by a majority of Muslims outside the Indian subcontinent? | Khilafat in History and Indian Politics

GBP 130.00
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Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo – or do they?This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book a biographical dictionary and a myth-busting expose Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to history's most famous battle. Arranged in alphabetical order and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers politicians peasants surgeons artists novelists poets scientists entrepreneurs and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture politics medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources identifying myths irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battle's participants. | Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

GBP 175.00
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ELF and Applied Linguistics Reconsidering Applied Linguistics Research from ELF Perspectives

ELF and Applied Linguistics Reconsidering Applied Linguistics Research from ELF Perspectives

With help from a global cast of scholars Kumiko Murata explores the remodelling of the discipline of applied linguistics which traditionally regarded Anglophone native-speaker English as the standard for English as a lingua franca (ELF). This edited volume probes the dichotomy between the current focus of applied linguistic research and a drastically changed English use in a globalised world. This division is approached from diverse perspectives and with the overarching understanding of ELF as an indispensable area of applied linguistics research. The volume includes theoretical backgrounds to English as a lingua franca the nature of ELF interactions language policy and practice from an ELF perspective and the relationship between multilingualism and ELF. A resourceful book not only to ELF researchers but also applied linguists in general as well as policy makers administrators practicing teachers and university students from diverse linguacultural backgrounds. | ELF and Applied Linguistics Reconsidering Applied Linguistics Research from ELF Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Permission to Narrate Explorations in Group Analysis Psychoanalysis Culture

Permission to Narrate Explorations in Group Analysis Psychoanalysis Culture

Permission to Narrate develops exciting new theory and explorations for group analysis. They are diverse in range and from differing bases in theory and research aim to cast light on how clients find voice and speak out in groups and the importance of rhetoric in the understanding of communication. It addresses the ways in which silenced submerged and less confident voices emerge finding permission and narration often against the odds. Positioning and dialogical theory is used to show how such voices are caught up in and defined by discourses and also how we can transcend the definitions and positions into which we are thrown. Accessible clinical and historical examples bring theory to life. Permission to Narrate also uses applied group analytic theory to consider the cultural role and rhetoric of monsters and what these representations tell us about the position in which human beings conceive themselves. Also explored using applied group theory are the meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous and Quakers both serving as remarkable examples of different alternative group formations. | Permission to Narrate Explorations in Group Analysis Psychoanalysis Culture

GBP 130.00
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Shotcrete Materials Performance and Use

Shotcrete Materials Performance and Use

Shotcrete: Materials Performance and Use is a comprehensive textbook covering the current state-of-the-art shotcrete technology. It provides an overview of the many and various uses of shotcrete. Shotcrete is well suited for construction of curvilinear structures (domes shells bobsleigh/luge tracks etc. ) and overhead shotcrete applications (seismic retrofit repairs ground support etc. ) that could not be constructed technically and/or economically using conventional formed cast-in-place concrete construction methods. It contains chapters on history shotcrete materials and mixture proportioning performance shotcrete research equipment and shotcrete application. It is also comprised of shotcrete case history examples including buildings and structures infrastructure repair and rehabilitation ground support and shoring underground support in tunnels and mines swimming pools and spas and finally architectural shotcrete. This text should be of interest to design engineers and architects considering the use of the technology as well as academics. It serves as a useful guide to contractors using shotcrete in one or more of its many and various applications. | Shotcrete Materials Performance and Use

GBP 145.00
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The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan

The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan

This book examines Japan’s Heisei era through the lens of the crisis in Japanese professional baseball of 2004 challenging the narrative of decline that dominates the discourse on the period. The story of this crisis reveals much about the Japanese psyche during the “Lost Decade ” about the nature of change during Heisei Japan and of the nation’s resilience. The business of professional baseball provides crucial insights as it achieved its basic form at the same time as Japan’s postwar political economy and shared many characteristics with it including systemic inefficiencies that post-“bubble” Japan could no longer sustain. The book traces how the crisis unfolded and the cast of characters who appeared during it (including team owners players IT entrepreneurs and ordinary fans) revealing much about the push and pull of continuity and change in Japan. Featuring an in-depth analysis of the key participants and developments of the crisis in baseball this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of sports management Japanese history and Japanese culture particularly of the Heisei era. | The Crisis in Pro Baseball and Japan’s Lost Decade The Curious Resilience of Heisei Japan

GBP 130.00
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Gendered Injustice Uncovering the Lived Experience of Detained Girls

Gendered Injustice Uncovering the Lived Experience of Detained Girls

Without strong proof policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform. Such studies have called for a shift back to rehabilitative ideals augmented by innovative strategies that emphasize cultures of care and in the cases of system-involved girls ‘gender-responsive’ programs anchored in feminist literature. These programs have also caught the attention of feminist scholars who cast doubt on both their design and implementation. Gendered Injustice offers a unique contribution to the latter line of scholarship and critically examines claims of innovation empowerment and gender-responsivity in youth correction that currently dominate the field. Drawing on rich ethnographic data this book uncovers the reality of and gives voice to the experiences and continued mistreatment of marginalized girls housed in locked institutions in the US State of California. By providing detailed insight into the detention experiences and the pathways of several young women this book draws stark comparisons between the lived experience of young women in detention with the official rhetoric of empowerment that dominates public discourse. This book reveals the ways in which institutional policies and practices are designed to neglect and in many instances re-victimize inmates. This is essential reading for those engaged in corrections juvenile justice gender and crime and feminist criminology. | Gendered Injustice Uncovering the Lived Experience of Detained Girls

GBP 130.00
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The Marketization of Religion

The Marketization of Religion

The Marketization of Religion provides a novel theoretical understanding of the relationship between religion and economy of today’s world. A major feature of today's capitalism is ‘marketization’. While the importance that economics and economics-related phenomena have acquired in modern societies has increased since the consumer and neoliberal revolutions and their shock waves worldwide social sciences of religion are still lagging behind acknowledging the consequences of these changes and incorporating them in their analysis of contemporary religion. Religion as many other social realities has been traditionally understood as being of a completely different nature than the market. Like oil and water religion and the market have been mainly cast as indissoluble into one another. Even if notions such as the marketization commoditization or branding of religion and images such as the religious and spiritual marketplace have become popular some of the contributions aligned in this volume show how this usage is mostly metaphorical and at the very least problematic. What does the marketization of religion mean? The chapters provide both theoretical and empirical discussion of the changing dynamics of economy and religion in today’s world. Through the lenses of marketization the volume discusses the multiple at times surprising connections of a global religious reformation. Furthermore in its use of empirical examples it shows how different religions in various social contexts are reformed due to growing importance of a neoliberal and consumerist logic. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Religion.

GBP 130.00
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The Role of Law in Transboundary River Basin Disputes Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement

The Role of Law in Transboundary River Basin Disputes Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement

This book examines the role legal rules play in the resolution of disputes in transboundary river basins. When states fail to resolve disputes over shared water resources many cast such failures on inadequate or ineffective legal rules. With this view in mind this book examines the role that legal rules do and can play in aiding the peaceful settlement of disputes and furthering cooperation between different parties. Building on the interactional theory of law this book formulates three analytical frameworks: the effect of norm-generating processes the effects of water-related agreements and/ or arrangements in the basins and the effect of international water. It uses these frameworks to assess the role of law in the processes of cooperation and peaceful settlement of disputes on transboundary river basin by drawing on four illustrative case studies: the Jordan River Basin the Nile River Basin the Mekong River Basin and the Indus River Basin. In doing so this book presents a unique perspective on the multi-functional role of legal rules in those processes. Tapping into the global discussion on water security and water-related conflicts this book stimulates readers to explore broader or interdisciplinary perspectives for understanding water-related issues. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars interested in water resource management water law environmental politics conflict resolution and sustainable development more generally. | The Role of Law in Transboundary River Basin Disputes Cooperation and Peaceful Settlement

GBP 130.00
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Defending Traditional Islam in Indonesia The Resurgence of Hadhrami Preachers

Defending Traditional Islam in Indonesia The Resurgence of Hadhrami Preachers

Defending Traditional Islam in Indonesia examines the rise of young preachers of Arab descent (habaib) and their sermon groups in the region and shows how Islam and politics coexist flourish interlace and strive in Indonesia in complex pragmatic and mutually beneficial relationships. The book argues that the emergence of Arab preachers in the late 1990s when traditional forms of Islamic authority came under growing challenge from a diverse array of Muslim groups and ideologies is closely tied to contestation between traditionalists and their puritanical rivals the Salafi-Wahhabi. Not only have the habaib featured prominently in defending traditionalism they have also used this contestation as an opportunity to build their authority and religious capital through marketisation and their ties to the Middle East. The author explores the ways in which habaib promote themselves to the mostly young urban Muslim community and also analyses the use of new media and marketing strategies by habaib to attract young followers. The use of merchandise utilising popular culture and group identity markers is especially salient in the preachers’ outreach to urban audiences. In addition public staging and entertainment during preaching activities are means by which the habaib cast their Islamic preaching (dakwah) as the Prophet’s mission and encourage their followers’ participation. A novel socio-cultural and religious study and a contribution to the growing discussion on new media market and religion this book will be of interest to anthropologists social scientists and area studies scholars interested in Indonesia Southeast Asia and Islamic studies. | Defending Traditional Islam in Indonesia The Resurgence of Hadhrami Preachers

GBP 130.00
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Policing Welfare Fraud The Government of Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance

Policing Welfare Fraud The Government of Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance

Policing Welfare Fraud charts and interrogates the suite of measures ostensibly designed to combat welfare fraud and non-compliance. In Australia which serves as the empirical focus of this book these strategies include stringent ID checks pre-emptive data surveillance technologies including the infamous and illegal ‘robodebt’ programme a dedicated fraud hotline and an ‘intelligence-led’ fraud investigation framework. Drawing on original documentary and interview data including interviews with fraud investigators this book unpacks the logics that underpin these anti-fraud initiatives with a focus on how these initiatives are imbued with logics and practices more readily associated with the criminal justice system. The central argument of the book is that the emergence of contemporary welfare compliance regimes represents a form of ‘governing through fraud’ in which the threat of welfare fraud has effectively necessitated a regime of criminalisation within the welfare state. This has been enabled by a broader process of neoliberal welfare reform which has cast suspicion over all welfare use. The overall effect of this regime is to restrict access to social security punish welfare recipients and stigmatise welfare use. Policing Welfare Fraud also highlights points of contradiction and multiplicity in the enactment of specific welfare compliance initiatives including attempts by welfare officials to moderate or reformulate these strategies ‘on the ground’. These findings demonstrate that the criminalisation of welfare is neither uniform nor inexorable and that more progressive welfare reform is possible. An accessible and compelling read this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology politics and those interested in the policing of welfare recipients. | Policing Welfare Fraud The Government of Welfare Fraud and Non-Compliance

GBP 130.00
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Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

In Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self Les Roberts extends his earlier work on spatial anthropology to consider questions of time spaciousness and the phenomenology of self. Across the book’s four main chapters – which range from David Bowie’s long-standing interest in Buddhism to street photography of 1980s Liverpool to the ambient soundscapes of Derek Jarman’s Blue or to the slow contemplative cinema of Tsai Ming-Liang – Roberts lays the groundwork for the concept of ‘dwellspace’ as a means by which to unpick the shifting spatial temporal and experiential modalities of everyday mediascapes. Understood as a particular disposition towards time Roberts’s foray into dwellspace proceeds from a Pascalian reflection on the self/non-self in which being content in an empty room vies with the demands of having content in an empty room. Taking the idea of posthuman Buddhism as a heuristic lens Roberts sets in motion a number of interrelated lines of enquiry that prompt renewed focus on questions of boredom distraction and reverie and cast into sharper relief the psychosocial and creative affordances of ambience spaciousness and slowness. The book argues that the colonisation of ‘empty time’ by 24/7 digital capitalism has gone hand-in-hand with the growth of the corporate mindfulness industry and with it the co-option commodification and digitisation of dwellspace. Posthuman Buddhism is thus in part an exploration of the dialectics of dwellspace that orbits around a creative self-praxis rooted in the negation and dissolution of the self one of the foundational cornerstones of Buddhist theory and practice. | Posthuman Buddhism and the Digital Self The Production of Dwellspace

GBP 130.00
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Rats Lice and History

Rats Lice and History

When Rats Lice and History appeared in 1935 Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about historical events. Although he had published under a pseudonym virtually all of his previous writings had dealt with infections and immunity and had appeared either in medical and scientific journals or in book format. Today he is best remembered as the author of Rats Lice and History which gone through multiple editions and remains a masterpiece of science writing for a general readership. To Zinsser scientific research was high adventure and the investigation of infectious disease a field of battle. Yet at the same time he maintained a love of literature and philosophy. His goal in Rats Lice and History was to bring science philosophy and literature together to establish the importance of disease and especially epidemic infectious disease as a major force in human affairs. Zinsser cast his work as the biography of a disease. In his view infectious disease simply represented an attempt of a living organism to survive. From a human perspective an invading pathogen was abnormal; from the perspective of the pathogen it was perfectly normal. This book is devoted to a discussion of the biology of typhus and history of typhus fever in human affairs. Zinsser begins by pointing out that the louse was the constant companion of human beings. Under certain conditions to wash or to change clothing lice proliferated. The typhus pathogen was transmitted by rat fleas to human beings who then transmitted it to other humans and in some strains from human to human. Rats Lice and History is a tour de force. It combines Zinsser's expertise in biology with his broad knowledge of the humanities

GBP 145.00
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