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Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and looks at phenomenological questions concerning respiratory methodology ontological experience of respiration respiratory spirituality and respiratory embodiment. Drawing on the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Gaston Bachelard Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl Luce Irigaray and David Kleinberg-Levin the book argues for the ontological primacy of breathing and develops a new principle of philosophy that the author calls “Silence of Breath Abyss/Yawn of Air”. It asserts that breathing is not a thing- or person-oriented relation but perpetual communication with the immense elemental atmosphere of open and free air. This new phenomenological method of breathing offers readers a chance to begin to wonder rethink re-experience and reimagine all questions of life in an innovative and creative way as aerial and respiratory questions of life. Part of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series the book breaks new ground in phenomenology and phenomenological ontology by offering a decisive and insightful treatment of breath. It will be indispensable for students and researchers of philosophy phenomenology and ontology. It will also be of special interest to Merleau-Ponty scholars as it investigates uncharted dimensions of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. | Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

GBP 120.00
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Nitric Oxide Sensing

Nitric Oxide Sensing

Although nitric oxide (NO) is an important biological signaling molecule its free-radical electronic configuration makes it a most reactive molecule and the scariest colorless gas causing immense environmental and health hazards. Detection of NO levels in biological samples and in the atmosphere is therefore crucial. In the past few years extensive efforts have been devoted to developing many active sensors and effective devices for detecting and quantifying atmospheric NO NO generated in biological samples and NO exhaled in the human breath. This book provides a concrete summary of recent state-of-the-art small-molecule probes and novel carbon nanomaterials used for chemical photoluminescent and electrochemical NO detection. One chapter is especially dedicated to the available devices used for detecting NO in the human breath that indirectly infers to lung inflammation. The authors with expertise in diverse dimensions have attempted to cover almost all areas of NO sensing. | Nitric Oxide Sensing

GBP 116.00
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Alcohol Drugs and Impaired Driving Forensic Science and Law Enforcement Issues

Alcohol Drugs and Impaired Driving Forensic Science and Law Enforcement Issues

Alcohol Drugs and Impaired Driving addresses many theoretical and practical issues related to the role played by alcohol and other psychoactive drugs on driving performance road-traffic safety and public health. Several key forensic issues are involved in the enforcement of laws regulating driving under the influence of alcohol and/or other drugs including analytical toxicology pharmacology of drug action as well as the relationships between dose taken concentration levels in the body and impairment of performance and behavior. Our knowledge of drunken driving is much more comprehensive than drugged driving so a large part of this book is devoted to alcohol impairment as well as impairment caused by use of drugs other than alcohol. For convenience the book is divided into four main sections. The first section gives some historical background about measuring alcohol in blood and breath as evidence for the prosecution of traffic offenders. The important role of the Breathalyzer instrument in traffic-law enforcement especially in Australia Canada and the USA is presented along with a biographical sketch of its inventor (Professor Robert F. Borkenstein of Indiana University) with focus on the man his work and his impact. The second section discusses several issues related to forensic blood and breath-alcohol alcohol analysis as evidence for prosecution of traffic offenders. This includes how the results should be interpreted in relation to impairment and an evaluation of common defense challenges. Because most countries have adopted concentration per se laws the main thrust of the prosecution case is the suspect’s measured blood- or breath-alcohol concentration. This legal framework necessitates that the analytical methods used are fit for purpose and are subjected to rigorous quality assurance procedures. The third section gives a broad overview of the current state of knowledge about driving under the influence of non-alcohol drugs in various countries. This includes adoption of zero-tolerance laws concentration per se statutes and clinical evidence of driver impairment based on field sobriety tests and drug recognition expert evidence. The fourth section deals with epidemiology enforcement and countermeasures aimed at reducing the threat of drunken and drugged driving. All articles have appeared previously in the international journal Forensic Science Review but all are completely updated with current data references and the latest research on developments since the articles were published. This book contains a convenient collection of the best articles covering recommendations for blood and breath testing methods public policy relating to such methods and forensic and legal implications of the enforcement of measures to counter driving under the influence. | Alcohol Drugs and Impaired Driving Forensic Science and Law Enforcement Issues

GBP 82.99
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World War II A Global History

World War II A Global History

Fully revised and restructured the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations home fronts brutal regimes and logistics. This textbook includes the following features: A lively narrative of facts events people and ideas that incorporates thoughtful analysis New material and restructured content on global factors that affected the causes conduct and consequences of World War II Balanced pace that does not bog readers down in too many details yet gives them sufficient depth and breadth for context Chapters sections and sidebars arranged in ways that can complement lectures and assignments Fifty new photographs that illustrate the human condition and weaponry during World War II. Global in focus by blending both geographic and thematic chapters to ensure readers gain a comprehensive understanding of impact of the war worldwide this is the perfect volume for all students of the biggest global conflict of the twentieth century. | World War II A Global History

GBP 115.00
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Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present

Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present

All cultures make and break images. Striking Images Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and disciplinary breadth this is the first book about iconoclasm (the breaking of images) and the transformation of broader sets of signs that includes contributions from archaeologists curators and museum conservators as well as historians of art literature and religious studies. The chapters examine themes critical to the study of iconoclasm: violence punishment memory intentionality ruins and relics and their survival. The conclusion shows how cross-disciplinary debate amongst the contributors informed Tate Britain’s 'Art under Attack' exhibition (2013) and addresses the challenges iconoclasm presents to the modern museum. By juxtaposing objects and places usually considered in isolation Striking Images raises provocative questions about our understandings of cross-cultural differences and the value of representational objects from the broken swords of pre-historical bog graves to the Bamiyan Buddhas and contemporary art. Are any such objects ever ’finished’ or are they simply subject to constant transformation? In dialogue with each other the essays consider this question and expand the field of iconoclasm - and cultural - studies.

GBP 42.99
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The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties

The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties

The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of the study of political parties provided by leading experts in the field. In an era of widespread political disillusionment political parties are often the main targets of citizen dissatisfaction yet they are the key institutions that make democracy work. Analysing political parties in unrivalled depth and breath with comparative thematic chapters throughout as well as a dedicated section on political parties and party politics in specific country and regional settings this handbook examines and illuminates the key questions around: how parties organise; how their ideologies have evolved over time; their relationship with society; how they differentiate themselves and how they respond to new social economic and political developments. The Routledge Handbook of Political Parties is essential reading and an authoritative reference for scholars students researchers and practitioners involved in and actively concerned about research in the study of political parties party systems and party politics.

GBP 190.00
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Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

Despite the expected decline in the mid-1970s in the use of computed tomography (CT) following the excitement of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) CT has confounded its detractors and remains the imaging modality of choice particularly for the chest and abdomen. Spiral/helical CT with the development of 64-multislice variant has revolutionized diagnostic imaging: image acquistion of large body volumes are obtained in short times during a single-breath hold. Scanning protocols without contrast enhancement are not a challenge; however with intravenous contrast agents critical choices are made and bad choices inevitably produce bad scans. This handy guide provides the reader with a simple introduction to the essential ideas involved and a practical guide to the implementation of rational scanning protocols for multislice spiral instruments. Written by Peter Dawson a well-respected figure in computed tomography and radiology and a world expert on contrast agents Scanning Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography is an essential guide for all those working with CT as well as those in training. | Protocols for Multislice Helical Computed Tomography The Fundamentals

GBP 59.99
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Everyday SEL in Middle School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

Everyday SEL in Middle School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

With this bestselling book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) mindfulness and well-being to help improve the human connection between you and your students. You’ll find out how to lead students through mindfulness activities simple yoga poses and breath-work techniques. Topics include mindful practices well-being strategies to combat stress and anxiety giving your students the space to understand their emotions and strengthen peer-to-peer communication developing the foremost and essential SEL competencies and engaging in experiential activities to strengthen SEL skills. The new edition reflects the latest CASEL guidelines and includes updated activities as well as a brand-new directory of terms and an intentional focus on educators’ and students’ socio-emotional well-being. Perfect for middle school educators at any level of experience the book will help you develop positive youth identity and promote connectedness so students can deal successfully with life’s stressors beyond school doors. | Everyday SEL in Middle School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

GBP 28.99
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Traveling through Video Games

Traveling through Video Games

This book unlocks an understanding of video games as virtual travel. It explains how video game design increasingly takes cues from the promotional language of tourism and how this connection raises issues of power and commodification. Bridging the disciplinary gap between game and tourism studies the book offers a comprehensive account of touristic gazing in games such as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Minecraft and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. Traveling through video games involves a mythological promise of open-ended opportunity summarized in the slogan you can go there. Van Nuenen discusses the scale of game worlds the elusive nature of freedom and control and the pivotal role of work in creating a sense of belonging. The logic of tourism is fundamentally consumptive—but through design choices players can also be invited to approach their travels more critically. This is the difference between moving through a game world and being moved by it. This interdisciplinary and innovative study will interest students and scholars of digital media studies game studies tourism and technology and the Digital Humanities.

GBP 48.99
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Everyday SEL in Elementary School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

Everyday SEL in Elementary School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

With this bestselling book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) mindfulness and well-being to help improve the human connection between you and your students. You’ll find out how to lead students through mindfulness activities simple yoga poses and breath-work techniques. Topics include mindful practices well-being strategies to combat stress and anxiety giving your students the space to understand their emotions and strengthen peer-to-peer communication developing the foremost and essential SEL competencies and engaging in experiential activities to strengthen SEL skills. The new edition reflects the latest CASEL guidelines and includes updated activities as well as a brand-new directory of terms and an intentional focus on educators’ and students’ socio-emotional well-being. Perfect for elementary school educators at any level of experience the book will help you develop positive youth identity and promote connectedness so students can deal successfully with life’s stressors beyond school doors. | Everyday SEL in Elementary School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

GBP 28.99
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Everyday SEL in High School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

Everyday SEL in High School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

With this bestselling book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) mindfulness and well-being to help improve the human connection between you and your students. You’ll find out how to lead students through mindfulness activities simple yoga poses and breath-work techniques. Topics include mindful practices well-being strategies to combat stress and anxiety giving your students the space to understand their emotions and strengthen peer-to-peer communication developing the foremost and essential SEL competencies and engaging in experiential activities to strengthen SEL skills. The new edition reflects the latest CASEL guidelines and includes updated activities as well as a brand-new directory of terms and an intentional focus on educators’ and students’ socio-emotional well-being. Perfect for high school educators at any level of experience the book will help you develop positive youth identity and promote connectedness so students can deal successfully with life’s stressors beyond school doors. | Everyday SEL in High School Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

GBP 28.99
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Everyday SEL in Early Childhood Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

Everyday SEL in Early Childhood Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

With this bestselling book from educational consultant Carla Tantillo Philibert you’ll gain practical strategies for teaching Social Emotional Learning (SEL) mindfulness and well-being to help improve the human connection between you and your students. You’ll find out how to lead students through mindfulness activities simple yoga poses and breath-work techniques. Topics include mindful practices well-being strategies to combat stress and anxiety giving your students the space to understand their emotions and strengthen peer-to-peer communication developing the foremost and essential SEL competencies and engaging in experiential activities to strengthen SEL skills. The new edition reflects the latest CASEL guidelines and includes updated activities as well as a brand-new directory of terms and an intentional focus on educators’ and students’ socio-emotional well-being. Perfect for early childhood educators at any level of experience the book will help you develop positive youth identity and promote connectedness so students can deal successfully with life’s stressors beyond school doors. | Everyday SEL in Early Childhood Integrating Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness Into Your Classroom

GBP 28.99
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Vitamin B12 Advances and Insights

Vitamin B12 Advances and Insights

Cobalamin (vitamin B12) was discovered in the first half of the 20th century. Vast amount of information on the role of the vitamins in human health and disease became available. Cobalamin science was however based on theoretical concepts that have been accepted without further proof of facts and hypotheses. Recently the breath-taking pace of development in research technologies has changed our understanding for the role of nutrients and the complex interaction between diet environment and diseases. Conditions like aging diet and drugs increase the risk of developing cobalamin deficiency probably because of diminished ability to liberate absorb or distribute the food-derived vitamin. From a basic science point of view understanding of the transport and function of the vitamin may pave the road for using this system for drug delivery. This book represents up-to-date literature on the discoveries and developments in the field of cobalamin. It includes multifaceted aspects of the vitamin in health and disease conditions. The book has been written by leading scientists who have significant contributions in this field and represents therefore a timely unique encyclopaedia on cobalamin. | Vitamin B12 Advances and Insights

GBP 44.99
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An Introduction to Literature Criticism and Theory

An Introduction to Literature Criticism and Theory

Lively original and highly readable An Introduction to Literature Criticism and Theory is the essential guide to literary studies. Starting at ‘The Beginning’ and concluding with ‘The End’ chapters range from the familiar such as ‘Character’ ‘Narrative’ and ‘The Author’ to the more unusual such as ‘Secrets’ ‘Pleasure’ and ‘Ghosts’. Now in its sixth edition Bennett and Royle’s classic textbook successfully illuminates complex ideas by engaging directly with literary works so that a reading of Jane Eyre opens up ways of thinking about racial difference for example while Chaucer Monty Python and Hilary Mantel are all invoked in a discussion of literature and laughter. The sixth edition has been revised and updated throughout. In addition four new chapters – ‘Literature’ ‘Loss’ ‘Human’ and ‘Migrant’ – engage with exciting recent developments in literary studies. As well as fully up-to-date further reading sections at the end of each chapter the book contains a comprehensive bibliography and an invaluable glossary of key literary terms. A breath of fresh air in a field that can often seem dry and dauntingly theoretical this book will open the reader’s eyes to the exhilarating possibilities of reading and studying literature.

GBP 22.99
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Mind-Body Medicine in Clinical Practice

Mind-Body Medicine in Clinical Practice

Consumer demand for integrative medicine has increased over recent decades and cutting-edge research in neuroscience has identified opportunities for new treatment options. This text outlines the evidence behind mind-body medicine and provides rich case-based examples. . It is written by a clinician for clinicians to help practitioners stay current in this emerging field. Including foundational chapters on the relevance of mind-body medicine the effects of stress communication skills and methods for incorporating mind-body medicine into consultation this book then introduces various mind-body therapies and considers their use in selected clinical conditions. The therapies are grouped into chapters on breath work and relaxation; hypnosis and guided imagery; meditation mindfulness spirituality and compassion-based therapies; creative arts therapies; and movement therapies. Each chapter includes case studies background and history best use training requirements risks and benefits. The part focusing on specific conditions updates research and provides pediatric and adult examples in the areas of: anxiety and depression; acute and chronic pain; gastrointestinal and urologic conditions; auto-immune inflammatory; and surgery oncology and other conditions. Providing resources and practical tools to help clinicians incorporate evidence-based mind-body medicine therapies into patient care this book is an invaluable reference for medical and nursing students as well as for residents fellows nurse practitioners and physician assistants across a wide variety of specialties. | Mind-Body Medicine in Clinical Practice

GBP 46.99
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Musical Theatre for the Female Voice The Sensation Sound and Science of Singing

Musical Theatre for the Female Voice The Sensation Sound and Science of Singing

Female musical theatre singers produce some of the most exciting and expressive singing an audience can experience. They also face a unique and specific set of issues when approaching their craft from negotiating the registers of their voice to enable them to belt to vocal health challenges such as premenstrual voice syndrome. This is the only book that offers a full and detailed guide to tackling those issues and to singing with full expression and technical excellence. Musical Theatre for the Female Voice covers the origin of singing in musicals from the bel canto style of 300 years ago through to the latest developments in high belting in shows such as Wicked and Waitress. It offers the reader exercises and methods that have been used to train hundreds of singers at some of the UK’s leading musical theatre training institutions and are underpinned by the latest academic research in journals on singing psychology and health. Every element of a singer's toolkit is covered from a female perspective from breath and posture to character work and vocal health. This is an essential guidebook for female singers in musical theatre productions either training at university or conservatory level or forging a career as professional triple-threat performers. | Musical Theatre for the Female Voice The Sensation Sound and Science of Singing

GBP 32.99
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Acting The Basics

Acting The Basics

Acting: The Basics 3rd Edition is a dynamic response to recent societal and entertainment industry changes focusing on inclusion diversity and equity and the actor's trajectory from training to rehearsal to performance on stage and screen with hands-on tools and global perspectives. The book offers vital ways of building a practical acting toolkit through breath body voice emotions imagination and spirit. We begin with a socio-cultural look at actor as magician storyteller healer and social changer. Throughout there are insights from Black Indigenous First Nations South/East Asian intercultural and feminist practitioners together with methods focusing on disability and accessibility intimacy directives mindfulness and intersectionality. Key 'canonical' figures still feature (e. g. Stanislavsky Meisner Brecht and Suzuki) with re-visioned perspective. Scattered throughout are post-COVID insights plus expanded sections on screen acting (including self-tapes) and Shakespeare. This book is useful for beginner or expert as it's always helpful getting back to basics. Because the author is both an actor and an actor trainer the tools are steeped in user-friendly application. At the same time transferable skills (e. g. dynamic listening and empathy) are shown as relevant to everyone. With a glossary of terms and useful online suggestions (including blogs videos and podcasts) this is ideal for anyone learn anew about the practice and history of acting or to take their acting and teaching into new terrain. | Acting The Basics

GBP 18.99
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Sensing Art in the Atmosphere Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices

Sensing Art in the Atmosphere Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices

This book engages artistic interventions in the aerial elements to investigate the aesthetics and politics of atmosphere. Sensing Art in the Atmosphere: Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices traces the potential of artistic community-driven experiments to amplify our sensing of atmosphere marrying attentions to atmospheric affect with visceral awareness of the materials institutions and processes hovering in the air. Drawing on six years of practice-led research with artistic and activist initiatives Museo Aero Solar and Aerocene initiated by artist Tomás Saraceno each chapter develops creative relations to atmosphere from the studio to stratospheric currents. Through narrative-led writing the voices of artists and collaborators are situated and central. In dialogue with these aerographic stories and sites the book develops a notion of elemental lures: the sensual and imaginative propositions of aerial atmospheric and meteorological phenomena. The promise of elemental lures Engelmann suggests is to reconcile our sensing of atmosphere with the myriad social cultural and political forces suspended in it. Through tales of floating journeys shared envelopes of breath and surreal levitations the book foregrounds the role of art in crafting alternative modes of perceiving moving and imagining (in) the air. The book ends with a call for elemental experiments in the geohumanities. It makes an important and original contribution to elemental geographies the geohumanities and interdisciplinary scholarship on air and atmosphere. | Sensing Art in the Atmosphere Elemental Lures and Aerosolar Practices

GBP 38.99
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Jain Paintings and Material Culture of Medieval Western India 1100–1650

Jain Paintings and Material Culture of Medieval Western India 1100–1650

Through a curated collection of key Jain paintings this volume offers a glimpse into the way people lived in western India during the medieval times: What they wore how they ornamented themselves what they amused themselves with what furniture they sat on which modes of transport they used. It includes Jain paintings from various collections in India and abroad to underscore the value of pictorial evidence in piecing together the past. The book takes the reader on a breath-taking visual journey through the varied costumes exquisite textiles handcrafted ornaments curiously shaped vessels and containers musical instruments arms and armour conveyances and many such articles of everyday use. These articles of everyday use are corroborated with the descriptions left by foreign travellers passing through western India at that time. It explores contemporary lexicons and vernacular literature from this period for possible names in vogue for the articles of Material Culture. The work is richly illustrated with line drawings by the author to highlight the objects being referred to. What comes across clearly through this book is that art is the mirror of the times and as such paintings reflect the society in which they are created. A magnificent read this book will be essential for scholars and researchers of Indian painting art history Indian art arts and aesthetics Jainism visual arts South Asian history Indian history heritage studies and cultural history. It will also be a must-have for history and visual arts enthusiasts all over the world. | Jain Paintings and Material Culture of Medieval Western India 1100–1650

GBP 130.00
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Sports Nutrition Vitamins and Trace Elements Second Edition

Sports Nutrition Vitamins and Trace Elements Second Edition

In competitive sports where an extra breath or a millisecond quicker neural response can spell the difference between fame and mediocrity a number of myths have persisted around the impact of what might be considered megadoses of various vitamins and trace elements. We do know that a growing body of research indicates that work capacity oxygen consumption and other measures of physical performance are affected by a deficiency or borderline deficiency in specific vitamins or essential trace elements. However when it comes to providing larger doses the research is conflictedThe second edition of Sports Nutrition: Vitamins and Trace Elements edited by two of the most respected experts in sports nutrition provides an updated critical review of these reports. The latest volume of this highly popular work includes a collection of chapters written by top researchers from several academic disciplines. Applying their expertise in specific vitamin or trace element nutrition as it relates to exercise and sports they weigh in on the full alphabet of vitamins as well as a variety of trace elements incorporating the most recent research. This edition adds chapters on choline and iodine. It also emphasizes new findings on vitamin and mineral metabolic reactions and provides in-depth discussion on the overuse of vitamins to toxic levels and its effect on physical performance. Sports nutritionists sports medicine and fitness professionals researchers exercise physiologists students health practitioners as well as those lay-persons interested in optimal nutrition will find this book especially timely and highly helpful in sorting myth from truth. | Sports Nutrition Vitamins and Trace Elements Second Edition

GBP 56.99
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Choreography Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s

Choreography Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s

‘Winner of the 2023 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics The American Society for Aesthetics. ’ This book traces the history of engagements between dance and the visual arts in the mid-twentieth century and provides a backdrop for the emerging field of contemporary intermedial art practice. Exploring the disciplinary identity of dance in dialogue with the visual arts this book unpacks how compositional methods that were dance-based informed visual art contexts. The book provokes fresh consideration of the entangled relationship between and historiographic significance of visual arts and dance by exploring movements in history that dance has been traditionally mapped to (Neo-Avant Garde Neo-Dada Conceptual art Postmodernism and Performance Art) and the specific practices and innovations from key people in the field (like John Cage Anna Halprin and Robert Rauschenberg). This book also employs a series of historical and critical case studies which show how compositional approaches from dance—breath weight tone energy—informed the emergence of the intermedial. Ultimately this book shows how dance and choreography have played an important role in shaping visual arts culture and enables the re-imagination of current art practices through the use of choreographic tools. This unique and timely offering is important reading for those studying and researching in visual and fine arts performance history and theory dance practice and dance studies as well as those working within the fields of dance and visual art. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com | Choreography Visual Art and Experimental Composition 1950s–1970s

GBP 35.99
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The Tower of Pisa History Construction and Geotechnical Stabilization

The Tower of Pisa History Construction and Geotechnical Stabilization

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is known worldwide for its five-degree lean. The Tower is the Campanile of the Cathedral which together with the Baptistry and Cemetery form a breath-taking collection of monuments which are regarded as supreme examples of early Renaissance Romanesque architecture. In March 1990 the Tower was closed to the public as it was declared unsafe and close to collapse. A Commission was set up by the Italian Government with the task of developing and implementing stabilization measures. This book begins with a brief description of the history of the Tower and its construction. The reader is then introduced to the huge challenges faced by the Commission in designing and implementing appropriate stabilization measures whilst at the same time satisfying the demanding requirements of conserving a world heritage monument. In particular two historical studies are described which proved to be most valuable in arriving at suitable stabilization measures. The first was a deduction of the history of inclination of the tower during and subsequent to construction. The results of this study were used to calibrate a sophisticated numerical model of the tower and the underlying very soft ground which proved vital in evaluating the effectiveness of various stabilization schemes. The second study was of measurements of movement made since 1911. This latter study revealed an unexpected mechanism of foundation movement which proved crucial in developing the temporary and permanent stabilization measures and which resulted in the Tower being re-opened to the public in June 2001. The book will appeal to both professionals and students in the fields of Architecture and Civil Engineering. It will also interest specialised audiences of geotechnical engineers and conservation architects. It may also be of wider interest to anyone planning to visit Pisa or who is intrigued as to what caused the Tower to lean and how it was stabilized. | The Tower of Pisa History Construction and Geotechnical Stabilization

GBP 54.99
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Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

Surviving the Twentieth Century celebrates the achievements of the renowned sociologist Joseph Maier. A superb teacher and respected scholar of formidable scope Maier's work encompassed a variety of disciplines including sociology philosophy and political science. He is well known for his comparative research on Latin America as well as Jewish law and tradition. As Judith Marcus observes Maier helped to establish comparative-historical sociology as an acknowledged field of study. This volume records and pays tribute to his scholarship and significant public service. The volume is divided into parts reflecting the breath of Maier's intellectual interests. Contributors are drawn from a variety of fields and geographical arenas. Part 1 consists of biographical interviews and personal observations on Maier and his work by Herman Berlinski David Berlinski Geoffrey Lloyd Enrique Krauze and Aaron W. Warner. Part 2 includes contributions addressing some of the main themes in Maier's work: the interaction of nationalism community and personal identity; the impact of politics on social science; culture politics and religion. Contributors include Abraham Edel William Safran Reinhard Kreckel Zoltan Tarr Sandro Segre Ludwig von Friedberg Irving Louis Horowitz Judith Marcus Editfi Kurzweil Paul Neurath Ruth Rubinstein Andrew P. Lyons and Harriet D. Lyons Tony Carnes and Elfriede Uner. Part 3 reflects the impact of Maier's work on other scholars. It includes essays on philosophy religion literature and intellectual responsibility. Contributors include Tom Rockmore Laurent Stern Edmund Leites Alfred Schmidt Norbert Altwicker Rita Kuczynski Gerard Raulet and Peter Gottwald. Part 4 covers the influence of crisis on Jewish intellectual life and includes contributions by Herbert Strauss Emanuel Maier Leon A. Feldman Hannelore Kunzl and Johann Maier. The volume concludes in part 5 with personal tributes to Maier by Curt C. Silberman C. Alexander Weinstock and Helen Hacker. The volume includes an illuminating introduction by Judith Marcus thematic essay by Joseph Maier and a selected bibliography of his work. Scholars who have been influenced by Maier will welcome this volume. Those who are not familiar with the scope of his contributions will benefit from the experience of seeing how his work has affected the choices of others. This is the 24th volume issued in Transaction's distinguished scholar (festschrift) series. | Surviving the Twentieth Century Social Philosophy from the Frankfurt School to the Columbia Faculty Seminars

GBP 39.99
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Evidence-Based Policymaking Envisioning a New Era of Theory Research and Practice

Evidence-Based Policymaking Envisioning a New Era of Theory Research and Practice

New thinking is needed on the age-old conundrum of how to connect research and policymaking. Why does a disconnect exist between the research community which is producing thousands of studies relevant to public policy and the policy community which is making thousands of decisions that would benefit from research evidence? The second edition updates community dissonance theory and provides an even stronger more substantiated story of why research is underutilized in policymaking and what it will take to connect researchers and policymakers. This book offers a fresh look into what policymakers and the policy process are like as told by policymakers themselves and the researchers who study and work with them. New to the second edition: • The point of view of policymakers is infused throughout this book based on a remarkable new study of 225 state legislators with an extraordinarily high response rate in this hard-to-access population. • A new theory holds promise for guiding the study and practice of evidence-based policy by building on how policymakers say research contributes to policymaking. • A new chapter features pioneering researchers who have effectively influenced public policy by engaging policymakers in ways rewarding to both. • A new chapter proposes how an engaged university could provide culturally competent training to create a new type of scholar and scholarship. This review of state-of-the-art research on evidence-based policy is a benefit to readers who find it hard to keep abreast of a field that spans the disciplines of business economics education family sciences health services political science psychology public administration social work sociology and so forth. For those who study evidence-based policy the book provides the basics of producing policy relevant research by introducing researchers to policymakers and the policy process. Strategies are provided for identifying research questions that are relevant to the societal problems that confront and confound policymakers. Researchers will have at their fingertips a breath-taking overview of classic and cutting-edge studies on the multi-disciplinary field of evidence-based policy. For instructors the book is written in a language and style that students find engaging. A topic that many students find mundane becomes germane when they read stories of what policymakers are like and when they learn of researcher’s tribulations and triumphs as they work to build evidence-based policy. To point students to the most important ideas the key concepts are highlighted in text boxes. For those who desire to engage policymakers a new chapter summarizes the breakthroughs of several researchers who have been successful at driving policy change. The book provides 12 innovative best practices drawn from the science and practice of engaging policymakers including insights from some of the best and brightest researchers and science communicators. The book also takes on the daunting task of evaluating the effectiveness of efforts to engage policymakers around research. A theory of change identifies seven key elements that are fundamental to increasing policymaker’s use of research along with evaluation protocols and preliminary evidence on each element. | Evidence-Based Policymaking Envisioning a New Era of Theory Research and Practice

GBP 48.99
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