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The Analytic Field A Clinical Concept

The Analytic Field A Clinical Concept

Until now no book has ever attempted to compare and contrast contributions on analytic field theory and at the same time to explore its clinical and technical implications. This volume is intended for the first time to link together many of these writings and to provide an initial wide-ranging survey of the subject - for it is our contention that a theory of the field in various of its loci can also be inhabited by different theories. A particular aim of this book is to present not only theoretical discussions of field theory but also contributions on clinical work and technique. For this reason we have given preference to articles with a substantial clinical component which exemplify specific underlying technical theory. In the Babel of psychoanalytic languages clinical practice is in our view the most effective way of comparing psychoanalytic models. ' | The Analytic Field A Clinical Concept

GBP 130.00
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The Ecology of Hedgerows and Field Margins

The Ecology of Hedgerows and Field Margins

Hedges and field margins are important wildlife habitats and deliver a range of ecosystem services and their value is increasingly recognised by ecologists. This book reviews and assesses the current state of research on hedgerows and associated field margins. With the intensification of agriculture in the second half of the last century field sizes were increased by amalgamation and the rooting out of hedges synthetic pesticide and inorganic fertiliser use increased and traditional methods of hedge management were largely abandoned. The book is split into two main sections. The first deals with definitions current and historic management the impact of pesticides the decline in hedge stock and condition and new approaches to hedge evaluation using remote sensing techniques. The second section explores the pollination and biological pest control benefits provided by hedges and field margins and examines the ecology of some of the major groups that are found in hedgerows and field margins: butterflies and moths carabid beetles mammals and birds. A case study on birds and invertebrates from a research farm managed as a commercial enterprise but which attempts to farm with wildlife in mind brings these themes together. A final chapter introduces the neglected area of hedges in the urban environment. The book will be of great interest to advanced students researchers and professionals in ecology agriculture wildlife conservation natural history landscape environmental and land management. | The Ecology of Hedgerows and Field Margins

GBP 44.99
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Lean Daily Management for Healthcare Field Book

Lean Daily Management for Healthcare Field Book

This book gives healthcare leaders a practical guide to implementing the 4 key components of lean daily management system - 1. LDM boards; 2. Leadership rounds 3. Leader daily disciplines and 4. Lean projects. Although lean is not new to healthcare effective LDM is just now taking hold with the best lean healthcare organizations in the U. S. and Canada. Leaders are realizing that sustaining their lean projects over time has proven to be a challenge without first addressing the organizations management system/model. LDM gives leaders a straightforward approach to do just that as well as improve their ability to spread and deploy lean to other areas of the organization and tie back to strategy. | Lean Daily Management for Healthcare Field Book

GBP 175.00
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A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

This book is an illustrative introduction to metamorphic rocks as seen in the field designed for advanced high school to graduate-level earth science and geology students to jump-start their observational skills. In addition to photographs of rocks in the field there are numerous line diagrams and examples of metamorphic features shown in thin section. The thin section photos are all at a scale and in a context that can be related to views seen in the field through a hand lens. | A Pictorial Guide to Metamorphic Rocks in the Field

GBP 175.00
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The Art of City Sketching A Field Manual

The Art of City Sketching A Field Manual

The Art of City Sketching: A Field Manual guides readers through the process of freehand architectural sketching and explains orthographic diagrammatic three-dimensional and perceptual-type drawings. The book presents hundreds of drawings of historic buildings and urban spaces examples and exercises which help readers develop their drawing skills and employ sketching as an analytical tool. The book is divided into three parts based on the reader’s skill level: beginner intermediate and advanced. As an architect and field sketching instructor the author shows that through drawing the reader can discover analyze and comprehend the built environment. The new edition of The Art of City Sketching expands on the drawing techniques of the previous version by adding new drawing examples exercises and two new chapters—Chiaroscuro and Storyboard. New drawing tips demonstrations and composition do’s and don’ts will support readers when they illustrate their viewpoint of the city by using simple drawing tools. The lessons in this book will allow readers to mix method with imagination and sensibility. | The Art of City Sketching A Field Manual

GBP 44.99
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Medical Anthropology in Europe Shaping the Field

Medical Anthropology in Europe Shaping the Field

This collection brings together three generations of medical anthropologists working at European universities to reflect on past current and future directions of the field. Medical anthropology emerged on an international playing ground and while other recently compiled anthologies emphasize North American developments this volume highlights substantial ethnographic and theoretical studies undertaken in Europe. The first four chapters trace the beginnings of medical anthropology back into the two formative decades between the 1950s-1970s in Italy German-speaking Europe the Netherlands France and the UK supported by four brief vignettes on current developments. Three core themes that emerged within this field in Europe – the practice of care the body politic and psycho-sensorial dimensions of healing – are first presented in synopsis and then separately discussed by three leading medical anthropologists Susan Whyte Giovanni Pizza and René Devisch complemented by the work of three early career researchers. The chapters aim to highlight how very diverse (and sometimes overlooked) European developments within this rapidly growing field have been and continue to be. This book will spur reflection on medical anthropology’s potential for future scholarship and practice by students and established scholars alike. This book was originally published as a special issue of Anthropology and Medicine. | Medical Anthropology in Europe Shaping the Field

GBP 36.99
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Archaeological Field Schools A Guide for Teaching in the Field

Archaeological Field Schools A Guide for Teaching in the Field

The field school is often described as arite of passage among archaeologists. They are considered essential for the appropriate training of students for academic or professional archaeological careers and are perhaps the only universal experience in an increasingly diverse array of archaeological career paths. Jane Baxter‘s practical guide about how to run a successful field school offers archaeologists ways to maximize the educational and training benefits of these experiences. She presents a wide range of pedagogical theories and techniques that can be used to place field schools in an educational as well as an archaeological context. Baxter then offers ahow to guide for the design of field schools including logistical legal and personnel issues as well as strategies for integrating research and teaching in the field. Replete with checklists forms and cogent examples the author gives directors and staff a set ofbest practices for designing and implementing a school. | Archaeological Field Schools A Guide for Teaching in the Field

GBP 175.00
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The Secret Lives of Anthropologists Lessons from the Field

The Secret Lives of Anthropologists Lessons from the Field

This book addresses the difficult conditions researchers may face in the field and provides lessons in how to navigate the various social political economic health and environmental challenges involved in fieldwork. It also sheds important light on aspects often considered secret or taboo. From anthropologists just starting out to those with over forty years in the field these researchers offer the benefit of their experience conducting research in diverse cultures around the world. The contributions combine engaging personal narrative with consideration of theory and methods. The volume emphasizes how being adaptable and aware of the many risks and rewards of ethnographic research can help foster success in quantitative and qualitative data collection. This is a valuable resource for students of anthropological methods and those about to embark on fieldwork for the first time. | The Secret Lives of Anthropologists Lessons from the Field

GBP 36.99
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Football Club Management Insights from the Field

Football Club Management Insights from the Field

The rapid global growth of the sport industry has prompted the need for a more commercial approach to the management of sport clubs. This book is the first study of its kind to focus on the management of professional football clubs providing a real-world insight into management principles and their practical application. The international commercialisation of football has led to a fundamental transformation of the industry’s management practices given the financial rewards of success and the high price of failure. This book presents a critical examination of this transformation questioning why clubs are increasingly adopting management strategies from other industries. Each chapter analyses the role played by a key leadership figure within a club such as the owner chief executive officer (CEO) chief financial officer (CFO) chief operating officer (COO) director of football (DoF) and head coach. Full of exclusive interviews case studies and examples of best practice this book sheds new light on the challenges of working in this extraordinarily high-pressure environment. Football Club Management: Insights from the Field is fascinating reading for all those working in or studying the management marketing or administration of football. | Football Club Management Insights from the Field

GBP 44.99
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Field to Palette Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene

Field to Palette Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene

Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene is an investigation of the cultural meanings representations and values of soil in a time of planetary change. The book offers critical reflections on some of the most challenging environmental problems of our time including land take groundwater pollution desertification and biodiversity loss. At the same time the book celebrates diverse forms of resilience in the face of such challenges beginning with its title as a way of honoring locally controlled food production methods championed by field to plate movements worldwide. By focusing on concepts of soil functionality the book weaves together different disciplinary perspectives in a collection of dialogue texts between artists and scientists interviews by the editors and invited curators essays and poems by earth scientists and humanities scholars soil recipes maps and DIY experiments. With contributions from over 100 internationally renowned researchers and practitioners Field to Palette presents a set of visual methodologies and worldviews that expand our understanding of soil and encourage readers to develop their own interpretations of the ground beneath our feet. | Field to Palette Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene

GBP 59.99
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Basil Bernstein The thinker and the field

Basil Bernstein The thinker and the field

Basil Bernstein: The Thinker and the Field provides a comprehensive introduction to the work of Basil Bernstein demonstrating his distinctive contribution to social theory by locating it within the historical context of the development of the sociology of education and Sociology in Britain. Although Bernstein had a particular interest in education he did not see himself as a sociologist of education alone. By exploring Bernstein’s intellectually collaborative character and the evolving system of ideas drawing upon anthropology and linguistics the originality of Bernstein’s contribution to the social sciences can be truly identified. Rob Moore’s text offers a provocative and challenging account both of Bernstein and of British sociology and education approaching Bernstein’s work as a complex model of intertwining ideas rather than a single theory. Continued interest in Bernstein’s work has opened up a world-wide network of scholarship and Moore considers contemporary research alongside classical sources in Durkheim and Marx to provide a historical analysis of the fields of British Sociology and the sociology of education pinpointing Bernstein’s position within them. The book is organised into two main parts: The Field Background and Beginnings Durkheim Cosmology and Education The Problematic The Structure of Pedagogic Discourse Bernstein and Theory Bernstein and research The Pedagogic Device Written by a leading authority in the field this text will be valuable reading for post-graduate students of sociology and education along with active researchers and their research students. | Basil Bernstein The thinker and the field

GBP 42.99
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Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

A comprehensive guide to social work praxis this book provides a clear conceptual understanding of fieldwork supervision in India. It elaborates on the dynamic components of fieldwork instruction – the methodologies and effective strategies the supervisor–student–agency triad challenges and the future. The volume underlines the importance of student mentoring and the imperative need to develop creative and competent strategies to make fieldwork education more responsive and effective. It also emphasises the need for the inclusion of social justice-oriented perspectives and approaches in fieldwork training in India. Instructive and anecdotal the chapters in this volume reflect on the challenges which students and supervisors face on a regular basis in different environments while dealing with critical circumstances. The focus of the book is to delineate strategies and approaches which promote skill building and the ability in students to understand sociocultural contexts of the field and engage with them effectively. This volume will be an essential resource for social work educators field practitioners and students of social work law public policy sociology and social entrepreneurship. | Field Instruction in Social Work Education The Indian Experience

GBP 34.99
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Quantum Field Theory Of Point Particles And Strings

Quantum Field Theory Of Point Particles And Strings

The purpose of this book is to introduce string theory without assuming any background in quantum field theory. Part I of this book follows the development of quantum field theory for point particles while Part II introduces strings. All of the tools and concepts that are needed to quantize strings are developed first for point particles. Thus Part I presents the main framework of quantum field theory and provides for a coherent development of the generalization and application of quantum field theory for point particles to strings. Part II emphasizes the quantization of the bosonic string. The treatment is most detailed in the path integral representation where the object of interest the partition function is a sum over random surfaces. The relevant mathematics of Riemann surfaces is covered. Superstrings are briefly introduced and the sum over genus 0 supersurfaces is computed. The emphasis of the book is calculational and most computations are presented in step-by-step detail. The book is unique in that it develops all three representations of quantum field theory (operator functional Schr�dinger and path integral) for point particles and strings. In many cases identical results are worked out in each representation to emphasize the representation-independent structures of quantum field theory. | Quantum Field Theory Of Point Particles And Strings

GBP 130.00
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Electric Field Analysis

Electric Field Analysis

Electric Field Analysis is both a student-friendly textbook and a valuable tool for engineers and physicists engaged in the design work of high-voltage insulation systems. The text begins by introducing the physical and mathematical fundamentals of electric fields presenting problems from power and dielectric engineering to show how the theories are put into practice. The book then describes various techniques for electric field analysis and their significance in the validation of numerically computed results as well as: Discusses finite difference finite element charge simulation and surface charge simulation methods for the numerical computation of electric fieldsProvides case studies for electric field distribution in a cable termination around a post insulator in a condenser bushing and around a gas-insulated substation (GIS) spacerExplores numerical field calculation for electric field optimization demonstrating contour correction and examining the application of artificial neural networksExplains how high-voltage field optimization studies are carried out to meet the desired engineering needsElectric Field Analysis is accompanied by an easy-to-use yet comprehensive software for electric field computation. The software along with a wealth of supporting content is available for download with qualifying course adoption.

GBP 38.99
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Poetry and Psychoanalysis The Opening of the Field

Poetry and Psychoanalysis The Opening of the Field

Poetry and Psychoanalysis: The Opening of the Field provides a guide to applying a poet’s imagination and precision of language to the healing endeavours of psychoanalysis while making a lucid journey through 2 000 years of transformative poetry from Virgil Dante and Blake to the contemporary poet Claudia Rankine. Patients enter treatment with the hope of being recognized and the hope for transformation of a painful experience. David Shaddock shows how poetry can guide psychoanalysts towards meeting that hope. The book is based on the proposition that an accurate recognition of what is leads to the opening of what could be. The imaginative space that opens between poem and reader or therapist and patient can be a place of healing and transformation. Poetry and Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists interested in using literature and creativity as inspiration for both their clinical work and personal growth as well as all who love poetry. | Poetry and Psychoanalysis The Opening of the Field

GBP 32.99
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Human Variation From the Laboratory to the Field

Human Variation From the Laboratory to the Field

The transition in anthropological and biomedical research methods over the past 50 years from anthropometric and craniometric measurements to large-scale microarray genetic studies has resulted in continued revision of opinions and ideas relating to the factors and forces that drive human variation. Human Variation:From the Laboratory to the Field brings together the contributions of 22 scientists working in four continents to identify and address challenges imposed by variability. It reviews the way we examine and analyze human variation paying specific attention to genetics growth and development and physiology. In presenting new evidence and findings it also discusses current developments in methodology and analytical techniques detailing both field and laboratory approaches and looking at how the two perspectives complement each other. In bridging that gap between laboratory trials and studies of the human in context this book covers a number of interesting research areas including — Human adaptation to natural and artificial light including variations in circadian photosensitivity and effects of light on GI activity Cold tolerance and lifestyle in modern society Genetics of body weight and obesity Human adaptability to emotional and intellectual mental stresses Geography migration climate and environmental plasticity as contributors to human variation Impact of natural environmental stressors including pollution on physiological and morphological processes This book is the latest volume in a series of works from the Society for the Study of Human Biology (SSHB) which for half a century has advanced and promoted research in the biology of human populations in all of its branches including human viability genetics human adaptability and ecology and evolution. It holds two scientific meetings a year. This volume represents work presented during its most recent gathering. | Human Variation From the Laboratory to the Field

GBP 74.99
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Shark Research Emerging Technologies and Applications for the Field and Laboratory

Shark Research Emerging Technologies and Applications for the Field and Laboratory

Over the last decade the study of shark biology has benefited from the development refinement and rapid expansion of novel techniques and advances in technology. These have given new insight into the fields of shark genetics feeding foraging bioenergetics imaging age and growth movement migration habitat preference and habitat use. This pioneering book written by experts in shark biology examines technologies such as autonomous vehicle tracking underwater video approaches molecular genetics techniques and accelerometry among many others. Each detailed chapter offers new insights and promises for future studies of elasmobranch biology provides an overview of appropriate uses of each technique and can be readily extended to other aquatic fish and marine mammals and reptiles. Including chapter authors who were pioneers in developing some of the technologies discussed in the book this book serves as the first single-source reference with in-depth coverage of techniques appropriate for the laboratory and field study of sharks skates and rays. It concludes with a unique section on Citizen Science and its application to studies of shark biology. This is a must-read for any marine biologist or scientist working in the field of shark biology as well as marine biology students and graduates. | Shark Research Emerging Technologies and Applications for the Field and Laboratory

GBP 44.99
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Quantitative Phase Field Modelling of Solidification

Quantitative Phase Field Modelling of Solidification

This book presents a study of phase field modelling of solidification in metal alloy systems. It is divided in two main themes. The first half discusses several classes of quantitative multi-order parameter phase field models for multi-component alloy solidification. These are derived in grand potential ensemble thus tracking solidification in alloys through the evolution of the chemical potentials of solute species rather than the more commonly used solute concentrations. The use of matched asymptotic analysis for making phase field models quantitative is also discussed at length and derived in detail in order to make this somewhat abstract topic accessible to students. The second half of the book studies the application of phase field modelling to rapid solidification where solute trapping and interface undercooling follow highly non-equilibrium conditions. In this limit matched asymptotic analysis is used to map phase field evolution equations onto the continuous growth model which is generally accepted as a sharp-interface description of solidification at rapid solidification rates. This book will be of interest to graduate students and researchers in materials science and materials engineering. Key Features Presents a clear path to develop quantitative multi-phase and multi-component phase field models for solidification and other phase transformation kinetics Derives and discusses the quantitative nature of the model formulations through matched interface asymptotic analysis Explores a framework for quantitative treatment of rapid solidification to control solute trapping and solute drag dynamics | Quantitative Phase Field Modelling of Solidification

GBP 99.99
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Mean-Field-Type Games for Engineers

Mean-Field-Type Games for Engineers

The contents of this book comprise an appropriate background to start working and doing research on mean-field-type control and game theory. To make the exposition and explanation even easier we first study the deterministic optimal control and differential linear-quadratic games. Then we progressively add complexity step-by-step and little-by-little to the problem settings until we finally study and analyze mean-field-type control and game problems incorporating several stochastic processes e. g. Brownian motions Poisson jumps and random coefficients. We go beyond the Nash equilibrium which provides a solution for non- cooperative games by analyzing other game-theoretical concepts such as the Berge Stackelberg adversarial/robust and co-opetitive equilibria. For the mean-field-type game analysis we provide several numerical examples using a Matlab-based user-friendly toolbox that is available for the free use to the readers of this book. We present several engineering applications in both continuous and discrete time. Among these applications we find the following: water distribution systems micro-grid energy storage stirred tank reactor mechanism design for evolutionary dynamics multi-level building evacuation problem and the COVID-19 propagation control. With such a demand from engineering audiences this book is very timely and provides a thorough study of mean-field-type game theory. The strenuous protagonist of this book is to bridge between the theoretical findings and engineering solutions. The book introduces the basics first and then mathematical frameworks are elaborately explained. The engineering application examples are shown in detail and the popular learning approaches are also investigated. Those advantageous characteristics will make this book a comprehensive handbook of many engineering fields for many years and I will buy one when it gets published. Zhu Han | Mean-Field-Type Games for Engineers

GBP 105.00
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Field Theory of Nonimaging Optics

Field Theory of Nonimaging Optics

This book aims to overcome the traditional ray paradigm and provide an analytical paradigm for Nonimaging Optics based on Field Theory. As a second objective the authors address the connections between this Field Theory of Nonimaging Optics and other radiative transfer theories. The book introduces the Field Theory of Nonimaging Optics as a new analytical paradigm not statistical to analyze problems in the frame of nonimaging geometrical optics with a formulation based on field theory of irradiance vector D. This new paradigm provides new principles and tools in the optical system design methods complementary to flowline method overcoming the classical ray paradigm. This new Field paradigm can be considered as a generalization of the ray paradigm and new accurate and faster computation algorithms will be developed. In a parallel way the advance in the knowledge of the principles of Field Theory of Nonimaging Optics has produced clear advances in the connection between nonimaging optics and other apparently disconnected theories of radiation transfer. The irradiance vector D can be considered as the macroscopic average of Poynting vector with a clear connection with radiation pressure. Lorentz geometry techniques can also be applied to study irradiance vector D. There are clear thermodynamic connections between the nonimaging concentrator and Stefan-Boltzmann law of radiation. From this thermodynamic connection nonimaging optics and irradiance vector D can also be studied from a phase space point of view. This book is intended for researchers graduate students academics and professionals looking to analyze design and optimize optical systems.

GBP 120.00
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Craft Breweries and Cities Perspectives from the Field

Craft Breweries and Cities Perspectives from the Field

This book brings together a diverse collection of case studies perspectives and research to explore how craft breweries have interacted with cities and neighborhoods in meaningful ways. It provides a deeper understanding of the important issues facing neighborhoods city government and breweries such as economic development race and equity crime and sustainability. It demonstrates how craft breweries are meaningful contributors and participants in addressing these critical challenges. Written in an accessible style this book contains contributions from a diverse array of research and professional backgrounds and personal perspectives. It allows readers to increase the dialogue across disciplines and build an evidence base regarding the interaction between communities and craft breweries. This book appeals to undergraduate and graduate students as well as policy makers and industry professionals working in urban studies planning public policy business administration economic development and the craft brewery industry. | Craft Breweries and Cities Perspectives from the Field

GBP 48.99
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Transference Love Being Essential Essays from the Field

Transference Love Being Essential Essays from the Field

Through a series of expansive essays Transference Love Being explores the centrality of love in psychoanalytic practice. Starting with the immersion of the analyst this book reimagines several aspects of the psychoanalytic process including transference countertransference boundaries embodiment subjectivity and eroticism. To love is to cultivate to be. Psychoanalysis as essentially vitalizing is a playspace for taboo subjects within clear and safe parameters. Interweaving loving being and perceiving this book provides challenging new perspectives on the analysts's subjectivity receptivity and its immersive influence on the analytic process. These essays refine theoretical understandings of the irreducible and omnipresent nature of love in psychoanalysis thereby offering clarity to psychoanalysts psychodyanmic therapists and scholars through the often-prohibited love and eroticism here viewed as indispensible psychoanalytic theory and practice. | Transference Love Being Essential Essays from the Field

GBP 21.99
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