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The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

In this book Thomas B. Cochran takes a critical look at the economic and environmental arguments which have been made in favour of an early introduction of the liquid metal fast breeder reactor (LMFBR) as a central component of the United States electrical energy system. First published in 1974 Cochran presents LMFBR as having no environmental advantage over light water reactors and the high temperature gas reactor and seriously questions the economic advantages. This title should be a useful for students interested in environment and sustainability studies and it is a valuable resource for discussions of future energy strategy. | The Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor An Environmental and Economic Critique

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Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children The Fast Track Friendship Group Manual

Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children The Fast Track Friendship Group Manual

From leading authorities this volume presents a unique evidence-based group intervention for the 10–15% of children who are challenged by peer difficulties in elementary school. The book features 145 engaging full-color reproducible handouts posters and other tools. In addition to teaching core social skills (participation communication cooperation good sportsmanship conflict resolution) Friendship Group promotes emotional understanding and empathy self-control and effective coping with social stressors. Two complete sets of sessions are provided (grades K-2 and 3–5) including step-by-step implementation guidelines. The large-size format facilitates photocopying; purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. See also the authors' Fast Track Program for Children at Risk: Preventing Antisocial Behavior which describes the landmark study that used Friendship Group in tandem with other school- and family-based interventions. | Social and Emotional Skills Training for Children The Fast Track Friendship Group Manual

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The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry Fast Fashion and Its Negative Impact on Environment and Society

The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry Fast Fashion and Its Negative Impact on Environment and Society

When thinking about lowering or changing consumption to lower carbon footprints the obvious offenders come easily to mind: petroleum and petroleum products paper and plastic even food. But not clothes. Although the clothing industry is the second largest polluter after agriculture most consumers do not think of clothes as a source of environmental damage. The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry: Fast Fashion and its Negative Impact on Environment and Society exposes how clever marketing tactics designed to increase demand skillfully hide this reality. An in-depth examination of the international fashion trade and related goods this book raises visibility of the ethical aspects of promoting overconsumption through explaining the ecological damage resulting from the high rate of discarding old clothes. It focuses on the promotion globalization and integration of the apparel sector into our social and political landscape. It presents an expert overview of the garment industry highlighting the harsh realities of the environmental and labor problems associated with it. It tracks the commercial and cultural factors that have led to the growth of fast fashion retail and its dominance of the entire industry. The book covers current regulatory policies both national and international on production and labor and the author does not shy away from making recommendations for change. He examines marketing business and economic models to explain how assumptions of traditional economic theory on industrial growth and prosperity fall short in addressing the high social costs of promoting the overconsumption of cheap and readily disposable clothes. You will come away with a detailed holistic understanding of the garment industry as well as clarity regarding the larger issue of finding balance when it comes to the ethics of consumption. | The Dirty Side of the Garment Industry Fast Fashion and Its Negative Impact on Environment and Society

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Digital Governance Leading and Thriving in a World of Fast-Changing Technologies

Digital Governance Leading and Thriving in a World of Fast-Changing Technologies

Digital Governance provides managers with a simple and jargon-free introduction to the impact that digital technology can have on the governance of their organisations. Digital technology is at the heart of any enterprise today changing business processes and the way we work. But this technology is often used inefficiently riskily or inappropriately. Worse perhaps many organisational leaders fail to grasp the opportunities it offers and thus fail to transform their organisations through the use of technology. This book provides an explanation of the basic issues around the opportunities and risks associated with digital technology. It describes the role that digital technology can play across organisations (and not just behind the locked doors of the IT department) giving boards and top management the insight to develop strategies for investing in and exploiting digital technology as well as arming them with the knowledge required to ask the right questions of specialists and to detect when the answers given are evasive or irrelevant. International in its scope this essential book covers the fundamental principles of digital governance such as leadership capability accountability for value creation and transparency of reporting integrity and ethical behaviour. | Digital Governance Leading and Thriving in a World of Fast-Changing Technologies

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Naked Safety Exploring The Dynamics of Safety in a Fast-Changing World

Naked Safety Exploring The Dynamics of Safety in a Fast-Changing World

Workplace safety has never been seen as sexy clever or cool. Fraught with legislative hurdles ambiguous policy and complex procedures despite its alleged importance safety has lost its way. For many organisations safety is seen as burdensome and bureaucratic and has become little more than paperwork and performance charts: things done in fear of persecution – from the authorities the media or the civil arena – rather than doing the right thing. To change the game and build real risk literacy it’s vital to make things easier to strip things back to basics and think again about how we work. This is Naked Safety. Encouraging the reader to step outside their comfort zone this book demystifies workplace safety challenging traditional views and catalysing critical thought and high-impact action. With narratives on the central pillars of workplace safety including risk management; legal frameworks; performance; governance; leadership and culture as well as perspectives on key issues that affect safety – and business – more broadly such as worker wellbeing; employee engagement; the impact of globalisation; corporate social responsibility; sustainability and the role of the safety practitioner Naked Safety features over 100 actions to bring about positive sustainable organisational change. This book is a useful multi-purpose guide for professionals; an indispensable toolkit for practitioners business leaders and anyone with an interest in workplace risk and Occupational Safety and Health. Let’s get Naked! | Naked Safety Exploring The Dynamics of Safety in a Fast-Changing World

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Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Focussing on the relatively few small firms which grew rapidly this book originally published in 1993 uses face-to-face interviews as well as published records to identify and analyse the managerial factors most closely associated with successful small firms. The volume concentrates on the following key managerial issues: In what respects do the managerial backgrounds and aspirations of the founders of fast-growth small firms differ from those of non-fast-growth small firms? How is the process of growth managed? What incentives remuneration packages and communication systems are instituted? How do these characteristics and experiences differ in fast-growth small firms from both the traditional small firm and large-firm sector? To what extent is it possible to explain the relative economic performance of small firms in terms of differences in their ownership organizational and management structures. | Managerial Labour Markets in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

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Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality

Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality

Herbert Simon’s renowned theory of bounded rationality is principally interested in cognitive constraints and environmental factors and influences which prevent people from thinking or behaving according to formal rationality. Simon’s theory has been expanded in numerous directions and taken up by various disciplines with an interest in how humans think and behave. This includes philosophy psychology neurocognitive sciences economics political science sociology management and organization studies. The Routledge Handbook of Bounded Rationality draws together an international team of leading experts to survey the recent literature and the latest developments in these related fields. The chapters feature entries on key behavioural phenomena including reasoning judgement decision making uncertainty risk heuristics and biases and fast and frugal heuristics. The text also examines current ideas such as fast and slow thinking nudge ecological rationality evolutionary psychology embodied cognition and neurophilosophy. Overall the volume serves to provide the most complete state-of-the-art collection on bounded rationality available. This book is essential reading for students and scholars of economics psychology neurocognitive sciences political sciences and philosophy.

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Deploying the Zero Trust Framework in MSFT Azure

Deploying the Zero Trust Framework in MSFT Azure

The Cloud is fast becoming the de facto standard for businesses in Corporate America today with Microsoft Azure being one of the most widely used systems. However given its stature it has also become a prime target for the cyberattacker. Thus a Zero Trust Framework is strongly needed. Deploying the Zero Trust Framework in MSFT Azure takes a closer look at the Cloud the Zero Trust Framework and how to deploy from both the technical and psychological perspectives.

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Conducting Polymers-Based Energy Storage Materials

Conducting Polymers-Based Energy Storage Materials

Conducting polymers are organic polymers which contain conjugation along the polymer backbone that conduct electricity. Conducting polymers are promising materials for energy storage applications because of their fast charge–discharge kinetics high charge density fast redox reaction low-cost ease of synthesis tunable morphology high power capability and excellent intrinsic conductivity compared with inorganic-based materials. Conducting Polymers-Based Energy Storage Materials surveys recent advances in conducting polymers and their composites addressing the execution of these materials as electrodes in electrochemical power sources. Key Features: Provides an overview on the conducting polymer material properties fundamentals and their role in energy storage applications. Deliberates cutting-edge energy storage technology based on synthetic metals (conducting polymers) Covers current applications in next-generation energy storage devices. Explores the new aspects of conducting polymers with processing tunable properties nanostructures and engineering strategies of conducting polymers for energy storage. Presents up-to-date coverage of a large rapidly growing and complex conducting polymer literature on all-types electrochemical power sources. This book is an invaluable guide for students professors scientists and R&D industrial specialists working in the field of advanced science nanodevices flexible electronics and energy science.

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Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

This handy book brings together a wealth of useful information that building surveyors need on-site or in the office. It provides clear guidance and fundamental principles in key practice areas such as building pathology building performance and building forensics. The book is not overly bound by the regulation and legislation of one region and the principles can be applied internationally. Compact portable and easy to use the Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book helps surveyors anyone studying for their RICS APC and students get access to the basics fast.

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Spanish Grammar Made Easy

Spanish Grammar Made Easy

Spanish Grammar Made Easy is the ideal introduction to the basics of Spanish grammar for anyone new to the language or looking to refresh their knowledge. This second edition features: concise and jargon-free explanations supported by examples exercises throughout to reinforce learning a 'fast-track' option for more advanced learners a full answer key making the Grammar ideal for self-study. Spanish Grammar Made Easy presents the essential patterns and rules of the Spanish language in a clear and accessible manner. It is the ideal Grammar for those wishing to supplement their learning and move beyond the phrasebook level.

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Fashion Buying and Merchandising The Fashion Buyer in a Digital Society

Fashion Buying and Merchandising The Fashion Buyer in a Digital Society

Fashion buying and merchandising has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. Aspects such as the advent of new technologies and the changing nature of the industry into one that is faster paced than ever before as well as the shift towards more ethical and sustainable practices have resulted in a dramatic change of the roles. As a result contemporary fast fashion retailers do not follow the traditional buying cycle processes step by step critical paths are wildly different and there has been a huge increase in ‘in-season buying’ as a response to heightened consumer demand. This textbook is a comprehensive guide to 21st-century fashion buying and merchandising considering fast fashion sustainability ethical issues omnichannel retailing and computer-aided design. It presents an up-to-date buying cycle that reflects key aspects of fashion buying and merchandising as well as in-depth explanations of fashion product development trend translation and sourcing. It applies theoretical and strategic business models to buying and merchandising that have traditionally been used in marketing and management. This book is ideal for all fashion buying and merchandising students specifically second- and final-year undergraduate as well as MA/MSc fashion students. It will also be useful to academics and practitioners who wish to gain a greater understanding of the industry today. | Fashion Buying and Merchandising The Fashion Buyer in a Digital Society

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Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

Originally published in 1987 this book traces the broad outlines of urban food policy drawing attention to the limited knowledge of regional social history. Urban food supply systems in Africa have developed very fast in the midst of societies in which food production was not in general oriented to feeding distant populations of 'specialist consumers'. Institutional and political links had to be forged between town and country if food supply was to be cheap and predictable. This volume explores the political and material dynamics of urban food supply through 4 case studies: Kano Yaoundé Dar es Salaam and Harare. | Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

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50 Landmark Papers every Pediatric Surgeon Should Know

50 Landmark Papers every Pediatric Surgeon Should Know

This book identifies the 50 key scientific articles in the field of pediatric surgery. It provides a commentary to each carefully selected paper and explains why these papers are so important thus providing every surgeon with the foundation stones of knowledge in this fast-moving area. The key advances in neonatal pediatric and fetal surgery – game-changers if you will – that have led to the significant improvements in clinical outcome and results are all included. The choice of papers provides an insight into the development of pediatric surgery and offers an important aid to understanding the subject for practicing pediatric surgeons and residents. | 50 Landmark Papers every Pediatric Surgeon Should Know

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Gaussian Markov Random Fields Theory and Applications

Gaussian Markov Random Fields Theory and Applications

Gaussian Markov Random Field (GMRF) models are most widely used in spatial statistics - a very active area of research in which few up-to-date reference works are available. This is the first book on the subject that provides a unified framework of GMRFs with particular emphasis on the computational aspects. This book includes extensive case-studies and online a c-library for fast and exact simulation. With chapters contributed by leading researchers in the field this volume is essential reading for statisticians working in spatial theory and its applications as well as quantitative researchers in a wide range of science fields where spatial data analysis is important. | Gaussian Markov Random Fields Theory and Applications

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Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use

Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use

Ethics in Mental Health-Substance Use aims to explore the comprehensive concerns and dilemmas occurring from mental health and substance use problems and to inform develop and educate by sharing and pooling knowledge and enhancing expertise in this fast developing region of ethics and ethical care and practice. This volume concentrates on ethical concerns dilemmas and concepts specifically interrelated as a collation of problem(s) that directly or indirectly affect the life of the individual and family. Whilst presenting a balanced view of what is ethically best practice today this title challenges concepts and stimulates debate exploring all aspects of the development in treatment intervention and care responses and the adoption of research-led best practice.

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Employment Law 9e

Employment Law 9e

Packed with a wealth of case law and legislation this book will enable you to fully understand the intricacies of this fast-changing subject with ease. With features such as chapter summaries and further reading suggestions Employment Law is well-suited to support you in your studies. The ninth edition has been fully updated to include coverage of the latest legislative and case law developments including: issues around shared parental leave; the national living wage; legal developments in the area of non-standard work. Offering comprehensive coverage of all the key aspects of individual and collective employment law in a clear and accessible way Employment Law is ideal for both LLB and HRM students. | Employment Law 9e

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Upgrade Your French

Upgrade Your French

Upgrade Your French is the ideal guide for students looking to improve their written French rapidly. It offers a complete revision programme to improve your skills focusing on three key strategies for improving your written French: Eliminating common errors Increasing and consolidating vocabulary Using a wider range of expression and sentence structure This third edition includes enhanced coverage of the subjunctive and a new section on prepositions new revision exercises at the end of each grammar and vocabulary unit (including translation sentences) and a companion website with further practice exercises for each chapter. This is the ideal book for all intermediate students looking for a simple way to improve their French fast.

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The Law and Practice of Extradition

The Law and Practice of Extradition

The Law and Practice of Extradition provides an in-depth overview of extradition law and practice providing students with an understanding of how key elements have been shaped by the state the fugitive and the international community. The process of globalisation has offered huge opportunities for organised crime both in terms of expansion of operations and the possibility to evade justice confronting states with considerable challenges. The Law and Practice of Extradition addresses all key topics in this fast-evolving area including extradition and international crimes terrorism and human rights. This textbook is particularly suitable for master's and post-doctoral students with a basic background knowledge of international law criminal law and international relations and will interest legal practitioners who seek a better understanding of extradition.

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Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast brings together works by such writers as Mark Twain P. T. Barnum Marietta Holley and the literary comedians Artemus Ward and Josh Billings. The northern writers chronicled a fast-moving world dominated by government and business. In this anthology David Sloane recovers satiric writings of the north-eastern humourists of the nineteenth century a literary school that was formed in the crucible of the daily newspaper. Written to appeal to a newly urbanized audience experiencing the impact of the Industrial Revolution these humorous articles sketches and ballads responded to a rapidly changing nation still clinging to rural preconceptions but at the same time beginning to know a sharper more precarious kind of existence. | Routledge Revivals: The Literary Humour of the Urban Northeast 1830-1890 (1983)

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Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

Serious Games in Personalized Learning investigates game-based teaching and learning at a time when learning and training systems are increasingly integrating serious games machine-learning artificial intelligence models and adaptive technologies. Game-based education provides rare data for measuring assessing and evaluating not just a game’s effectiveness but the acquisition of information and knowledge that a student may gain through playing a learning game. This book synthesizes contemporary research frameworks and models centered on the design and delivery of serious games that truly personalize the learning experience. Scholars of educational technology instructional design human performance and more will find a comprehensive guide to the history practical implications and data-collection potential inherent to these fast-evolving tools. | Serious Games in Personalized Learning New Models for Design and Performance

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Maritime Archaeology A Technical Handbook Second Edition

Maritime Archaeology A Technical Handbook Second Edition

Jeremy Green's systematic overview of maritime archaeology offers a step-by-step description of this fast-growing field. With new information about the use of computers and Global Positioning Systems the second edition of this handbook shows how to extract as much information as possible from a site how to record and document the data and how to act ethically and responsibly with the artifacts. Treating underwater archaeology as a discipline the book demonstrates how archaeologists looters academics and governments interact and how the market for archaeological artifacts creates obstacles and opportunities for these groups. Well illustrated and comprehensive in its approach to the subject this book provides an essential foundation for everybody interested in underwater environments submerged land structures and conditions created by sea level changes. | Maritime Archaeology A Technical Handbook Second Edition

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