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FORCE Fabric How to Draw Clothes

FORCE Fabric How to Draw Clothes

The nude figure defines the best way to learn the fundamentals of drawing yet the end goal of most art presents clothed figures be it animation video games film or fine art. This sixth book in the ‘FORCE’ series instructs artists on how to understand fabric with FORCE thus leading to improved drawings of clothed figures. Expertly organized and beautifully illustrated the book instructs artists to see clothing in a new way through FORCE. Michael’s clear concise and informal writing coupled with Mritunjay and Michael’s FORCE drawings of clothed models comprehensibly informs you the curious artist to identify and draw FORCE clothing. Key Features: The unique dynamic FORCE Drawing learning system that has helped thousands of artists enhance their figure drawing abilities now brings clothing to the figure! Easy to follow fundamentals on drawing clothed figures for games animation film or fine art A clear organized and understandable step-by-step approach to learn about the effects of FORCE on fabric and how that pertains to drawing clothes Learn to see clothes through tight medium and loose-fit and discover the common fold types per category making it easier to identify and draw A ‘sticker system’ that presents the different types of folds found in different fit types of clothing Each chapter has exercises you can use to help you learn the process of drawing clothes Find out how line can bring the texture of different fabrics to your clothing drawings Includes robust author website with further information forums and videos Color-coded page edges to quickly find the material you need Unlock your imagination; put the theory into practice with detailed exercises to sharpen your skills | FORCE Fabric How to Draw Clothes

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The Ecology of Everyday Things

The Ecology of Everyday Things

Nature is all around us in the beautiful but also in the unappealing and functional and from the awe-inspiring to the mundane. It is vital that we learn to see the agency of the natural world in all things that make our lives possible comfortable and profitable. The Ecology of Everyday Things pulls back the veil of our familiarity on a range of ‘everyday things’ that surround us and which we perhaps take too much for granted. This key into the magic world of the everyday can enable us to take better account of our common natural inheritance. Professor James Longhurst Assistant Vice Chancellor University of the West of England (UWE Bristol) For many people ecosystems may be a remote concept yet we eat drink breathe and interface with them in every moment of our lives. In this engaging textbook ecosystems scientist Dr. Mark Everard considers a diversity of ‘everyday things’ including fascinating facts about their ecological origins: from the tea we drink to the things we wear read and enjoy to the ecology of communities and space flight and the important roles played by germs and ‘unappealing creatures’ such as slugs and wasps. In today’s society we are so umbilically connected to ecosystems that we fail to notice them and this oversight blinds us to the unsustainability of everyday life and the industries and policy environment that supports it. The Ecology of Everyday Things takes the reader on an enlightening fascinating voyage of discovery all the while soundly rooted in robust science. It will stimulate awareness about how connected we all are to the natural world and its processes and how important it is to learn to better treat our environment. Ideal for use in undergraduate- and school-level teaching it will also interest educate engage and enthuse a wide range of less technical audiences.

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More Grammar to Get Things Done Daily Lessons for Teaching Grammar in Context

More Grammar to Get Things Done Daily Lessons for Teaching Grammar in Context

CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Complementing Crovitz and Devereaux’s successful Grammar to Get Things Done this book demystifies grammar in context and offers day-by-day guides for teaching ten grammar concepts giving teachers a model and vocabulary for discussing grammar in real ways with their students. Through applied practice in real-world contexts the authors explain how to develop students’ mastery of grammar and answer difficult questions about usage demonstrating how grammar acts as a tool for specific purposes in students’ lives. Accessibly written and organized the book provides ten adaptable activity guides for each concept illustrating instruction from a use-based perspective. Middle and high school preservice and inservice English teachers will gain confidence in their own grammar knowledge and learn how to teach grammar in ways that are uniquely accessible and purposeful for students. | More Grammar to Get Things Done Daily Lessons for Teaching Grammar in Context

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17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

This book will help you learn practical ways to manage the stress of teaching and avoid burnout. Bestselling author and educational consultant Bryan Harris presents strategies for building resilience including reframing understanding the power of no focusing on what you can control building positive relationships advocating for yourself and more. Each chapter clearly presents concise and practical applications that you can implement right away. With this guidebook you’ll feel ready to bounce back from challenges and stay focused on the joys of the profession. | 17 Things Resilient Teachers Do (And 4 Things They Hardly Ever Do)

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Tim O'Brien The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells

Tim O'Brien The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells

This collection of seven essays like the carefully linked collection of vignettes within Tim O’Brien’s most popular book The Things They Carried contains multiple critical and biographical angles with recurring threads of life events themes characters creative techniques and references to all of O’Brien’s books. Grounded in through research Herzog’s work illustrates how O’Brien merges his life experiences with his creative production; he rarely misses an opportunity to introduce these critical life events into his writing. | Tim O'Brien The Things He Carries and the Stories He Tells

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What Great Teachers Do Differently Nineteen Things That Matter Most

What Great Teachers Do Differently Nineteen Things That Matter Most

What are the beliefs and behaviors that set great teachers apart? In this internationally renowned bestseller Todd Whitaker reveals 19 keys to becoming more effective in the classroom. This essential third edition features new sections on why it’s about more than relationships how to focus on a consistent engaging learning environment and the importance of choosing the right mode—business parent child—to improve your classroom management. Perfect for educators at any level of experience for independent reading or for schoolwide book studies this practical book will leave you feeling inspired and ready to do the things that matter most for the people who matter most—your students. | What Great Teachers Do Differently Nineteen Things That Matter Most

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Rhetorical Realism Rhetoric Ethics and the Ontology of Things

Rhetorical Realism Rhetoric Ethics and the Ontology of Things

Rhetorical Realism responds to the surging interest in nonhumans across the humanities by exploring how realist commitments have historically accompanied understandings of rhetoric from antiquity to the present. For a discipline that often defines itself according to human speech and writing the nonhuman turn poses a number of challenges and opportunities for rhetoric. To date many of the responses to the nonhuman turn in rhetoric have sought to address rhetoric’s compatibility with new conceptions of materiality. In Rhetorical Realism Scot Barnett extends this work by transforming it into a new historiographic methodology attuned to the presence and occlusion of things in rhetorical history. Through investigations of rhetoric’s place in Aristotelian metaphysics the language invention movement of the seventeenth century and postmodern conceptions of rhetoric as an epistemic art Barnett’s study expands the scope of rhetorical inquiry by showing how realist ideas have worked to frame rhetoric’s scope and meanings during key moments in its history. Ultimately Barnett argues that all versions of rhetoric depend upon some realist assumptions about the world. Rather than conceive of the nonhuman as a dramatic turning point in rhetorical theory Rhetorical Realism encourages rhetorical theorists to turn another eye toward what rhetoricians have always done—defining and configuring rhetoric within a broader ontology of things. | Rhetorical Realism Rhetoric Ethics and the Ontology of Things

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The Making of Things Modeling Processes and Effects in Architecture

The Making of Things Modeling Processes and Effects in Architecture

The Making of Things is about effect and intention in the schematic architectural model a deep dive into the nature of architectonic form as the underlying syntax for all architectural work. By focusing on primitive geometries alongside fundamental principles of architectural thinking and making this book enhances the reader’s capacity to intellectually and physically craft models that effectively communicate intention. With over 650 diagrams this book acts as an expansive visual glossary that reveals the underlying structure of architectonics and acts as an encyclopedia of formal possibilities. Supporting essays in the book explore the nature of perception abstraction and metaphor to provide a theoretical basis of formal effects in architecture. This structure enables readers to make clear and direct connections between the things you construct and the reasons you construct them. This book is a bridge from the what to the why of form-making. It is a pedagogical notebook a design primer that prompts discourse about the nature of objects. This is a must-have desk reference for beginning architecture and interior design students to stimulate their creative approaches and gain foundational knowledge of the underlying effects of formal typologies and how they manifest themselves in built forms around the world. | The Making of Things Modeling Processes and Effects in Architecture

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What Great Principals Do Differently Twenty Things That Matter Most

What Great Principals Do Differently Twenty Things That Matter Most

What are the attitudes and actions that make great principals stand out? In this internationally renowned bestseller Todd Whitaker reveals the 20 keys to effective school leadership. This essential third edition features helpful new strategies for recruiting talent through better interview and reference questions as well as tips for retaining talent. It also offers a new section on how leadership is not an event but rather requires a consistent approach to affect the climate and eventually shape the culture of your school. Perfect for new and experienced principals for independent professional reading or for leadership courses this practical book will leave you feeling inspired and ready to do the things that matter most for the people who ultimately matter most—the students. | What Great Principals Do Differently Twenty Things That Matter Most

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Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behaviors Do Things Your Way Be Yourself and Live a Purposeful Life

Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behaviors Do Things Your Way Be Yourself and Live a Purposeful Life

This book is essential for those who are prone to high-achieving self-starting and perfectionistic actions; people who relentlessly persistently and determinedly pursue their dreams goals and aspirations; people who hold their high standards principles and values close to their heart. Chapter by chapter you will learn acceptance and commitment skills to harness the power of perfectionism and high-achieving behaviors while living the life you want to live. You will learn how to be yourself keep your fears in perspective and do meaningful things without dwelling for hours on the different ways to make things right postponing things because they aren’t ready struggling for days with rumination anxiety and stress or wrestling periodically with harsh criticisms. This book will show you how you can give your best work hard and push yourself when you deeply care about things without sacrificing your well-being hurting your relationships or compromising your health. You will learn when to engage in high-achieving actions in an effective life-expansive and skillful way. You will develop a new workable relationship with all those narratives about not being good enough and treat yourself with kindness compassion and caring. Most importantly you will find that you can be yourself without losing yourself. | Acceptance and Commitment Skills for Perfectionism and High-Achieving Behaviors Do Things Your Way Be Yourself and Live a Purposeful Life

GBP 21.99
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The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure

The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure

Out of the numerous books and articles on the Third Reich few address its material culture and fewer still discuss the phenomenon of Nazi memorabilia. This is all the more surprising given that Nazi symbols so central to sustaining Hitler’s movement continue to live long after the collapse of his 12-year Reich. Neither did Nazi ideology die; far-right populists would like to see the swastika flown over the White House or Buckingham Palace. Against a backdrop of right-wing extremism military re-enactors think nothing of dressing up in Waffen-SS uniforms and romanticising the Third Reich in the name of living history. Auctioneers are prepared to hammer down Nazi artefacts to the highest bidder but who is buying them and why do they do so? Should collectors be allowed to decorate their homes with Nazi flags? The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia begins by examining the creation and context of Nazi artefacts and symbols during the volatile Weimar Republic to their wider distribution during the Third Reich. There were few people in Nazi Germany who did not wear a badge or uniform of some sort. Whether it be mothers soldiers or concentration camp inmates they were all branded. The chapter on the Second World War demonstrates that although German soldiers were cynical about being given medals in exchange for freezing in Russia. They still continued to fight for which more decorations were awarded. A large proportion of this book is therefore given to the meaning that Nazi symbols had before Nazi Germany was eventually defeated in May 1945. Equally important however and one of the characteristics of this book is the analysis of the meaning and value of Nazi material culture over time. The interpreters of Nazi symbols that this book focuses on are internationally based private collectors and traders. Sustained attention is given in a chapter outlining the development of the collectors’ market for Nazi memorabilia from 1945 onwards. No matter how much collectors go out of their way to paint the hobby in a positive light their activities do not fully escape the troubled past of the material that they desire. So contested are Nazi symbols that another chapter is devoted to the ethics and morals of destroying or preserving them. The issues surrounding private versus public custody and ownership of Nazi artefacts are also discussed. So far in this book the examination of Nazi artefacts has been restricted to physical objects within societies that are generally aware of the consequences of Hitlerism. As we increasingly move into the digital age however and there are few survivors of the Second World War left to relay their horrific experiences the final chapter contemplates the future of Nazi symbols both digitally and physically fake or real. This book will appeal to all those interested in the Third Reich Nazi ideology Neo-Nazism perceptions of the Nazis post-1945 modern European history and political symbolism. It will also hold particular appeal to those interested in the collecting and trading of contested and highly emotive artefacts. It considers aesthetics authenticity commodification gift exchange life histories of people and objects materiality and value theory. | The Anarchy of Nazi Memorabilia From Things of Tyranny to Troubled Treasure

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Foucault Art and Radical Theology The Mystery of Things

Foucault Art and Radical Theology The Mystery of Things

Michel Foucault wrote prolifically on many topics including art religion and politics. He also eloquently articulated how power structures are formed and how they also might assist resistance and emancipation. This book uses the hermeneutical lens of Foucault’s writings on art to examine the performative material and political aspects of contemporary theology. The borderland between philosophy theology and art is explored through Foucault’s analyses of artists such as Diego Velázquez Édouard Manet René Magritte Paul Rebeyrolle and Gerard Fromanger. Here special focus is placed on performativity and materiality—or what the book terms the mystery of things. At successive junctures the book discovers a postrepresentational critique of transcendence; an enigmatic material sacramentality; playful theopolitical accounts of the transformative force of stupidity and nonsense; and political imagery in motion enabling theological interpretations of contemporary collectives such as Pussy Riot and the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. In conversation with contemporary thinkers including Catherine Keller Louise-Marie Chauvet John Caputo Daniel Barber Mark C. Taylor Jeffrey W. Robbins and Mattias Martinson the book outlines this source of inspiration for contemporary radical theology. This is a book with a fresh and original take on Foucault art and theology. As such it will have great appeal to scholars and academics in theology religion and the arts the philosophy of religion political philosophy and aesthetics. | Foucault Art and Radical Theology The Mystery of Things

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Musical Stimulacra Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen

Musical Stimulacra Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen

The title coinage of this book stimulacra refers to the fundamental capacity of literary narrative to stimulate our minds and senses by simulating things through words. Musical stimulacra are passages of fiction that readers are empowered to transpose into mental simulations of music. The book theorizes how fiction can generate musical experience explains what constitutes that experience and explores the musical dimensions of three American novels: William T. Vollmann’s Europe Central (2005) William H. Gass’s Middle C (2013) and Richard Powers’s Orfeo (2014). Musical Stimulacra approaches fiction’s music from a readerly perspective. Instead of looking at how novels forever fail to compensate for music’s physical structural and affective properties the book concentrates on what literary narrative can do musically. Negotiating common grounds for cognitive audionarratology and intermediality studies Musical Stimulacra builds its case on the assumption that among other things fiction urges us to listen—to musical words and worlds. | Musical Stimulacra Literary Narrative and the Urge to Listen

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Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things Volume 54

Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things Volume 54

The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. Dr Karim's study is mainly focused on the Ma' Betisek communities on Carey Island off the west coast of Selangor and in particular threevillages - Sungei Sialang Sungei Mata and Sungei Bumbun. Few changes have taken place in the lives of the Betisek people on the island since 1975. On the mainland the Ma' Betisek are busy keeping pace with development and modem life. However despite increasing deforestation and new urban influences on the island the Carey Island communities continue to preservetheir naturistic ideas of how humans should live with plants and animals. Dr Karim's research focuses on this issue. | Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things Volume 54

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Youth Economy Crisis and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China Morning Sun in the Tiny Times

Youth Economy Crisis and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China Morning Sun in the Tiny Times

This book surveys the explosive youth culture in twenty-first century China an active and powerful force catalysing cultural innovations social changes and collective efforts re-inventing a pluralistic and multivalent youth (qingnian) in an age of enormous change division and uncertainty. Providing a comprehensive analysis of literary cinematic musical televisual and social media representations about for and by disparate youth groups this book seeks to offer a systematic investigation of a trans-medial and multi-locale youth culture. In so doing it examines contributions from high school dropouts industrial workers migrant laborers and leftover women as well as best-selling writers and filmmakers cultural entrepreneurs queer idols and fans and young feminist activists. Observing the Chinese youths’ deployment of small genres such as light novels and short videos in addition to digital media this book ultimately demonstrates the renewal of cultural forms and the transformative power of networked small atomized individuals in reinventing a youthful coalition of silenced belittled and marginalized groups. A thoroughly interdisciplinary study Youth Economy Crisis and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese culture and society as well as Literary Studies Cultural Studies Gender Studies and Media Studies. | Youth Economy Crisis and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China Morning Sun in the Tiny Times

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A Galaxy of Things The Power of Puppets and Masks in Star Wars and Beyond

A Galaxy of Things The Power of Puppets and Masks in Star Wars and Beyond

A Galaxy of Things explores the ways in which all puppets masks makeup-prosthetic figures are material characters using iconic Star Wars characters like Yoda and R2-D2 to illustrate what makes them so compelling. As an epic franchise Star Wars has been defined by creatures droids and masked figures since the original 1977 movie. Author Colette Searls a theatre director and expert in puppetry studies uncovers how non-humans like Chewbacca semi-humans like Darth Maul and even concealed humans like Boba Fett tell meaningful stories that conventional human characters cannot. Searls defines three powers that puppets masked figures and other material characters wield—distance distillation and duality—and analyzes Star Wars’ most iconic robots and aliens to demonstrate how they work across nearly a half-century of live-action films. Yoda and Baby Yoda—two of popular culture’s greatest puppets—use these qualities to transform their human companions. Similarly Darth Vader’s mask functions as a performing object driving mystery and suspense across three film trilogies. The power of material characters has also been wielded in problematic ways such as stereotypes in the representation of service droids and controversial creatures like Jar Jar Binks. Bringing readers forward into the first Star Wars live-action streaming series the book also explores how the early 2020s stories centered material characters in particularly meaningful often redemptive ways. A Galaxy of Things is an accessible guide to puppets masks and other material characters for students and scholars of theatre film puppetry and popular culture studies. It also offers useful perspectives on non-human representation for researchers in object-oriented ontology posthumanism ethnic studies and material culture. | A Galaxy of Things The Power of Puppets and Masks in Star Wars and Beyond

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Supporting Children with OCD to Understand and Celebrate Difference A Get to Know Me Workbook and Guide for Parents and Practitioners

Supporting Children with OCD to Understand and Celebrate Difference A Get to Know Me Workbook and Guide for Parents and Practitioners

The ‘Get to Know Me’ resources aim to support children with those around them who may have additional/special educational needs. They are designed to empower the professionals and adults who support those with identified needs. Developed by child psychologist Dr Louise Lightfoot the series includes activities specific to anxiety depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In supporting the social and emotional health of students it equips them with the ability to thrive personally and academically. This book has been created for key adults (teachers therapists and parents) as a complement to the picture book and draw along versions of Tidy Tim – a traditional narrative story exploring thoughts feelings and sensations experienced by many children with OCD. The activities in this book offer practical tools and strategies to support the child and those around them in addition to the information specific to the condition to improve understanding of a child’s needs to promote empathy and acceptance. Picture book and draw along versions of Tidy Tim are available separately and as part of the Get to Know Me: Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) set. | Supporting Children with OCD to Understand and Celebrate Difference A Get to Know Me Workbook and Guide for Parents and Practitioners

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Supporting Children with Depression to Understand and Celebrate Difference A Get to Know Me Workbook and Guide for Parents and Practitioners

Supporting Children with Depression to Understand and Celebrate Difference A Get to Know Me Workbook and Guide for Parents and Practitioners

The ‘Get to Know Me’ resources aim to support children with those around them who may have additional/special educational needs. They are designed to empower the professionals and adults who support those with identified needs. Developed by child psychologist Dr Louise Lightfoot the series includes activities specific to anxiety depression and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). In supporting the social and emotional health of students it equips them with the ability to thrive personally and academically. This book has been created for key adults (teachers therapists and parents) as a complement to the picture book and draw along versions of Silver Matilda – a traditional narrative story exploring thoughts feelings and sensations experienced by many children with depression. The activities in this book offer practical tools and strategies to support the child and those around them in addition to the information specific to the condition to improve understanding of a child’s needs to promote empathy and acceptance. Picture book and draw along versions of Silver Matilda are available separately and as part of the Get to Know Me: Depression set. | Supporting Children with Depression to Understand and Celebrate Difference A Get to Know Me Workbook and Guide for Parents and Practitioners

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Reading to Learn

Reading to Learn

Originally published in 1982. This book is concerned with the new kinds of demands on our reading ability made by the work we undertake for A-level or in college or at university or indeed at work. It is not a speed reading book or a reading skills book. Anyone with a lot of reading to get through may not want to read all of it quickly. Some things can be skimmed through; others take a lot of reading. This book helps readers discriminate and gives techniques to assume responsibility for their own reading. The book takes the form of a reading workbook and consists of a number of exercises together with an interleaving commentary along with suggestions for further work. It can be used by the individual student by students in groups or with a teacher and as a sourcebook for courses in study skills. | Reading to Learn

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75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow With Less Stress and Quick Success

75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow With Less Stress and Quick Success

Highly effective teachers have something in common: They do simple things extraordinarily well—simple uncomplicated things on a daily basis. In this new book by bestselling authors and presenters Annette Breaux and Todd Whitaker you’ll learn the secrets of these tried-and-true techniques that will help to improve your teaching your students’ learning and your students’ behavior. Annette and Todd who have years of experience working in schools across the globe reveal 75 easily-implemented strategies that will improve teaching and instruction classroom management student motivation student achievement parent communication and more-with no new programs! Each tip provides practical takeaways that can be used immediately and with remarkable success. | 75 Ways to Be a Better Teacher Tomorrow With Less Stress and Quick Success

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An Introduction to the Spaceport Industry Runways to Space

An Introduction to the Spaceport Industry Runways to Space

This book provides a contemporary look at spaceports not only from relevant technological drivers policies and legal perspectives but also from impacts associated with airspace use and aviation stakeholders. Economic business financial and environmental considerations; issues facing airports transitioning to air and space ports; and spaceport planning are discussed. Through case and event studies research and analysis along with information obtained through professional experience this book provides an overview of the many benefits unique challenges and issues facing commercial spaceports and spaceport operators. Each chapter is a standalone key topic such that the reader can focus on the most compelling issues relevant for them or can view the book as an integrated whole for a full perspective. While examples and case studies come largely from the United States the reader can draw conclusions that are independent of country and situation. Information on other nation-state policies and advancements among other topics is provided to give a global perspective further expanding the relevancy and benefits of the book to both domestic and international audiences. An Introduction to the Spaceport Industry: Runways to Space fills a gap in the literature providing professionals government officials researchers professors and students deep insights into the fast-growing commercial spaceport industry. | An Introduction to the Spaceport Industry Runways to Space

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The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics Integrated Platforms and Industry Use Cases

The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics Integrated Platforms and Industry Use Cases

This book comprehensively conveys the theoretical and practical aspects of IoT and big data analytics with the solid contributions from practitioners as well as academicians. This book examines and expounds the unique capabilities of the big data analytics platforms in capturing cleansing and crunching IoT device/sensor data in order to extricate actionable insights. A number of experimental case studies and real-world scenarios are incorporated in this book in order to instigate our book readers. This bookAnalyzes current research and development in the domains of IoT and big data analyticsGives an overview of latest trends and transitions happening in the IoT data analytics spaceIllustrates the various platforms processes patterns and practices for simplifying and streamlining IoT data analytics The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics: Integrated Platforms and Industry Use Cases examines and accentuates how the multiple challenges at the cusp of IoT and big data can be fully met. The device ecosystem is growing steadily. It is forecast that there will be billions of connected devices in the years to come. When these IoT devices resource-constrained as well as resource-intensive interact with one another locally and remotely the amount of multi-structured data generated collected and stored is bound to grow exponentially. Another prominent trend is the integration of IoT devices with cloud-based applications services infrastructures middleware solutions and databases. This book examines the pioneering technologies and tools emerging and evolving in order to collect pre-process store process and analyze data heaps in order to disentangle actionable insights. | The Internet of Things and Big Data Analytics Integrated Platforms and Industry Use Cases

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Emotions Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious A Complex Topography of the Social Making of Things

Emotions Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious A Complex Topography of the Social Making of Things

Emotions Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious argues for the need to consider many other factors drawn from disciplines such as socio-biology evolutionary psychology the study of the emotions the adaptive unconscious the senses and conscious deliberation in analysing the complex topography of social action and the making of things. These factors are taken as ecological conditions that shape the contemporary expression of complex societies not as constraints on human plasticity. Without ‘foundations’ complex society cannot exist nor less evolve. This is the familiar pairing from complexity theory: path dependency and dynamic emergence. Inter-disciplinary and complexity perspectives need to be incorporated into the social sciences. Routinely sociologists think of social phenomena as a distinct field expressed in the term: the ‘social construction of’ without apparent need to refer to other material biological psychological material or ecological conditions or agents. This book shows how the familiar sociological dynamics of identity solidarity differentiation and communication are shaped through the persistent interaction of unconscious and affective processing with conscious deliberation in newly emergent contexts. It is this re-expression not the surpassing of human characteristics in contemporary social action that needs to re-inform a complex ecological approach to the theory and methodologies of the social sciences. The book is intended for a postgraduate/research audience and doctoral students to introduce and synthesise inter-disciplinary contributions to research into complexity theory in the social sciences. | Emotions Embodied Cognition and the Adaptive Unconscious A Complex Topography of the Social Making of Things

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Departing Radically in Academic Writing Alternative Approaches to Writing and Methods in Qualitative Research

Departing Radically in Academic Writing Alternative Approaches to Writing and Methods in Qualitative Research

Departing Radically in Academic Writing (DRAW) seeks to show qualitative researchers that there are ways to embrace creatively alternative approaches to writing whilst fulfilling the demands of an academic tenure system. Putting forward playful arts-based and creative writing/fiction approaches to writing up research the contributions in this book demonstrate how theorisation can happen in different ways particularly for younger career scholars struggling with their thesis submissions. Some of the contributions in the book come from those who have successfully defended a DRAWn thesis. Whilst this is not a handbook or how to it does show DRAW and radical departure work can work in practice without disadvantaging the researcher. Each chapter includes Author's Notes on the chapter and Radical Writing Prompts to stimulate creative thinking. Drawing on the work of Sara Ahmed Ruth Behar bell hooks Helene Cixous Virginia Woolf Laurel Richardson and other literary and creative feminist qualitative thinkers Departing Radically in Academic Writing will appeal to graduate students and researchers in Education the social sciences and humanities who are interested to advance critical thinking through radically departured work. | Departing Radically in Academic Writing Alternative Approaches to Writing and Methods in Qualitative Research

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The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1 400 years of Roman history from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin Greek Syriac Armenian and Arabic and relying on a host of inscriptions archaeological data and the evidence from ancient art architecture and coinage The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad brings to the fore the men and women who chronicled the story of the city and its empire. Richly illustrated with 71 maps and 228 illustrations—including 20 in colour—and featuring a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading this volume examines a broad range of topics including ancient climate change literature historiography slavery war and conquest the development of Christianity the Jewish revolts and the role of powerful imperial women. The author also considers the development of Islam within a Roman historical context examines the events that led to the formation of the post-Roman states in Western Europe and contemplates aff airs on the imperial periphery in the Caucasus Ethiopia and the Arabian Peninsula. Emphasising the voices of antiquity throughout The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the beguiling history of the world’s most famous empire. | The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

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