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A Practical Guide to Post-Occupancy Evaluation and Researching Building User Experience

A Practical Guide to Post-Occupancy Evaluation and Researching Building User Experience

A Practical Guide to Post-Occupancy Evaluation offers high-level pragmatic guidance and case study examples on how to conduct a Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) to determine whether a workplace project is successful and uncover the lessons learned for future projects. For designers POEs provide essential predesign feedback informing the design brief to determine occupant requirements and help focus expenditure. For those in charge of a building or buildings POE offers proactive building management and can also be used as part of the change management programme in larger projects informing the occupants of progress. The practical guidance offered in this book will help the workplace industry understand if a design meets the requirements of an occupier and measure the success of and value offered by a workplace project. This book will be of interest to professionals in the workplace industry responsible for delivering and evaluating capital projects as well as those studying interior design architecture surveying facilities management and building services engineering. | A Practical Guide to Post-Occupancy Evaluation and Researching Building User Experience

GBP 39.99
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Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity 1780-1850 Subjects Texts and Print Culture

Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity 1780-1850 Subjects Texts and Print Culture

This book makes an important contribution to transatlantic literary studies and an emerging body of work on identity formation and print culture in the Atlantic world. The collection identifies the ways in which historically-situated but malleable subjectivities engage with popular and pressing debates about class slavery natural knowledge democracy and religion. In addition the book also considers the ways in which material texts and genres including for example the essay the guidebook the travel narrative the periodical the novel and the poem can be scrutinized in relation to historically-situated transatlantic transitions transformations and border crossings. The volume is underpinned by a thorough examination of historical and conceptual frameworks and prioritizes notions of circulation and exchange as opposed to transfer and continuance in its analysis of authors texts and ideas. The collection is concerned with the movement of people texts and ideas in the currents of transatlantic markets and politics taking a fresh look at a range of canonical and popular writers of the period including Austen Poe Crèvecoeur Brockden Brown Sedgwick Hemans Bulwer-Lytton Dickens and Melville. In different ways the essays gathered together here are concerned with the potentially empowering realities of the transitive circulatory and contingent experiences of transatlantic literary and cultural production as they are manifest in the long nineteenth century. | Transatlantic Literature and Transitivity 1780-1850 Subjects Texts and Print Culture

GBP 39.99
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Politics Lies and Conspiracy Theories A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

Politics Lies and Conspiracy Theories A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

Politics Lies and Conspiracy Theories: A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective shows how language influences mechanisms of cognition perception and belief and by extension its power to manipulate thoughts and beliefs. This exciting and original work is the first to apply cognitive linguistics to the analysis of political lies and conspiracy theories both of which have flourished in the internet age and which many argue are threatening democracy. It unravels the verbal mechanisms that make these different truths so effective and proliferative dissecting the verbal structures (metaphor irony connotative implications etc. ) of a variety of real-life cases concerning politicians conspiracy theorists and influencers. Marcel Danesi goes on to demonstrate how these linguistic structures switch on or switch off alternative mind worlds. This book is essential reading for students of cognitive linguistics and will enrich the studies of any student or researcher in language and linguistics more broadly as well as discourse analysis rhetoric or political science. | Politics Lies and Conspiracy Theories A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

GBP 35.99
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A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature Reading the Reader

A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature Reading the Reader

What are the unconscious processes involved in reading literature? How does literature influence our psychological development and existential challenges? A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature offers a unique glimpse into the unconscious psychic processes and development involved in reading. The author listens to the 'free associations' of various literary characters in numerous scenarios where the characters are themselves reading literature thus revealing the mysterious ways in which reading literature helps us and contributes to our development. The book offers an introduction both to classic literature (Poe Proust Sartre Semprún Pessoa Agnon and more) and to the major psychoanalytic concepts that can be used in reading it – all described and widely explained before being used as tools for interpreting the literary illustrations. The book thus offers a rich lexical psychoanalytic source alongside its main aim in analysing the reader’s psychological mechanisms and development. Psychoanalytic interpretation of those literary readers opens three main avenues to the reader’s experience: the transference relations toward the literary characters; the literary work as means to transcend beyond the reader’s self-identity and existential boundaries; and mobilization of internal dialectic tensions towards new integration and psychic equilibrium. An Epilogue concludes by emphasising the transformational power embedded in reading literature. The fascinating dialogue between literature and psychoanalysis illuminates hitherto concealed aspects of each discipline and contributes to new insights in both fields. A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature will be of great interest not only to psychoanalytic-psychotherapists and literature scholars but also to a wider readership beyond these areas of study. | A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Reading Literature Reading the Reader

GBP 31.99
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R Markdown Cookbook

R Markdown Cookbook

This new book written by the developers of R Markdown is an essential reference that will help users learn and make full use of the software. Those new to R Markdown will appreciate the short practical examples that address the most common issues users encounter. Frequent users will also benefit from the wide ranging tips and tricks that expose ‘hidden’ features support customization and demonstrate the many new and varied applications of the software. After reading this book users will learn how to: Enhance your R Markdown content with diagrams citations and dynamically generated text Streamline your workflow with child documents code chunk references and caching Control the formatting and layout with Pandoc markdown syntax or by writing custom HTML and LaTeX templates Utilize chunk options and hooks to fine-tune how your code is processed Switch between different language engineers to seamlessly incorporate python D3 and more into your analysis | R Markdown Cookbook

GBP 28.99
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From Texting to Teaching Grammar Instruction in a Digital Age

From Texting to Teaching Grammar Instruction in a Digital Age

Don’t blame technology for poor student grammar; instead use technology intentionally to reach students and actually improve their writing! In this practical book bestselling authors Jeremy Hyler and Troy Hicks reveal how digital tools and social media – a natural part of students’ lives – can make grammar instruction more authentic relevant and effective in today’s world. Topics Covered: Teaching students to code switch and differentiate between formal and informal sentence styles Using flipped lessons to teach the parts of speech and help students build their own grammar guides Enlivening vocabulary instruction with student-produced video Helping students master capitalization and punctuation in different digital contexts Each chapter contains examples screenshots and instructions to help you implement the ideas. With the strategies in this book you can empower students to become better writers with the tools they already love and use daily. Additional resources and links are available on the book’s companion wiki site: textingtoteaching. wikispaces. com | From Texting to Teaching Grammar Instruction in a Digital Age

GBP 24.99
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The Transformation of Egypt (RLE Egypt)

The Transformation of Egypt (RLE Egypt)

The assassination of Sadat brings to an end another era in Egyptian history. This book examines the crucial issues in the transformation of Egypt in the period between the death of Nasser and the murder of Sadat. Focusing on the upheavals in the Egyptian political and economic structure over the last twenty years the book explains the change in Egypt's international orientation through a careful examination of domestic factors. The switch from Nasser's state socialist-political economy to Sadat's more laissez-faire approach and the institutional and structural links between the two are analysed as the key to understanding the dynamic developments within Egypt. The book argues that the propagation of a new political economy was the primary basis of Sadat's ability to remain in power while the weaknesses in that economy drove Sadat to seek external solutions and ultimately undermined his domestic support. His conduct of the 1973 war his trip to Jerusalem his enthusiasm for the United States and his whole perception of Middle Eastern affairs must be seen in terms of his domestic policies and internal troubles. First published 1982. | The Transformation of Egypt (RLE Egypt)

GBP 39.99
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The Beatles and Film From Youth Culture to Counterculture

The Beatles and Film From Youth Culture to Counterculture

This concise yet comprehensive study explores the emblematic journey by four young men from Liverpool from the epicentre of teen-led youth culture to the experimentation of the counterculture and beyond. Beginning with the celebration of Britain’s own ‘youthquake’ in the joyous and genre-shifting A Hard Day’s Night (1964) the author delves into how the Beatles’ film work allows us to chart their subsequent musical maturation and retreat from the tribulations of stardom in Help! their tentative attempts at improvised filming in the televised Magical Mystery Tour (1967) their acceptance of cartoon representations as leaders of the hippie counterculture in Yellow Submarine (1968) and the final implosion of their musical dynamic in the recording studios of Let It Be (1970). The book analyses how as they grew with their fanbase the Beatles’ films alternate stylistically between mimetic representation and allegorical interpretation and switch narratively between fan-filled and welcoming worlds to films relaying introspection and isolation. Offering an in-depth case study of the successes and failures of British youth culture in a volatile decade The Beatles and Film is an engaging text for both scholars and general readers alike. | The Beatles and Film From Youth Culture to Counterculture

GBP 18.99
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Breakthrough Conversations for Coaches Consultants and Leaders

Breakthrough Conversations for Coaches Consultants and Leaders

Conversational effectiveness is a barometer of human thriving and facilitating insightful conversations is a powerful method for accelerating psychological change and collaboration. This ground-breaking professional book provides a map of Breakthrough Conversations together with a practical toolkit for enhancing awareness emotional resilience and creativity. Neuroscience mindfulness and psychological research shows that awareness is pivotal to skilful conversations. By supporting clients to observe and manage their own body-brain states during conversation they can learn to switch on the physiological systems that support more authentic agile and attuned interactions. Three body-brain states reactive habitual and reflective – characterised as Red Amber and Green (RAG) - are differentiated in terms of body-sensations and behaviours and these correspond to predictable interactive patterns. Facilitated to experience more emotionally resilient conversations clients access their natural capacities for collaboration compassion and shared creativity. This journey through the five stages of Breakthrough Conversations drawing on the RAG frame and a number of other practical models is richly illustrated with case studies from working one-to-one and with pairs. Coming to see conversations as a dance driven by the interactions of underlying needs and emotions frees clients to make paradigm shifts in their self-awareness and interpersonal effectiveness. This book and the approach it outlines will be essential reading for coaches consultants leaders and all professionals seeking to choreograph more insightful conversations. | Breakthrough Conversations for Coaches Consultants and Leaders

GBP 22.99
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Empowering Women in STEM Personal Stories and Career Journeys from Around the World

Empowering Women in STEM Personal Stories and Career Journeys from Around the World

Women in STEM are constantly facing new challenges every day. By sharing their stories and the ways in which they already have and continue to overcome these hurdles they can help others find the strength to persevere and succeed in these fields. This mix of authors from varying backgrounds all share the same passion – to encourage more women into STEM – and they have placed their proverbial hearts on their sleeves and documented their journeys to inspire readers to either enter or stay within STEM fields. Empowering Women in STEM: Personal Stories and Career Journeys from Around the World discusses the application process of root cause analysis and ways to introduce STEM to other generations. It offers an insider view of the armed forces and allows readers to gain more perspective on ways male advocates can help female colleagues in STEM fields. It includes a father’s perspective on change within the engineering industry how he’s mentoring new female engineers and ways to help them as they evolve. The book captures firsthand accounts of STEM professionals in various fields as they recount experiences that have helped them to navigate their own career paths. This book also demonstrates how life doesn’t have to follow the timelines proposed by society and how females can become CEOs and command other top-level positions in engineering companies. In addition to having women from across the globe share their stories about various fields readers will hear from both military and civilian male advocates who share ways to empower others within the industry. This book is written for professionals who may be considering a switch of career or deciding to leave STEM. It is also useful to university students who are trying to figure out their career choices and paths and gain more insight into possible career opportunities in STEM. Meet the Authors! http://strategicreliabilitysolutions. com/empowering-women-in-stem-personal-stories-and-career-journeys-from-around-the-world/ | Empowering Women in STEM Personal Stories and Career Journeys from Around the World

GBP 26.99
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