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Thinking the Sculpture Garden Art Plant Landscape

Thinking the Sculpture Garden Art Plant Landscape

This innovative book poses two deceptively simple questions: what is a sculpture garden and what happens when you give equal weight to the main elements of landscape planting and artwork? Its wide-ranging frame of reference including the USA Europe and Japan is brought into focus through Tremenheere Sculpture Garden Cornwall with which the book begins and ends. Effectively less than 15 years old and largely the work of one man Tremenheere affords an opportunity to examine as work-in-progress the creation of a new kind of sculpture garden. Including a historical overview the book traverses multiple ways of seeing and experiencing sculpture gardens culminating in an exploration of their relevance as 'cultural ecology' in the context of globalisation urbanisation and climate change. The thinking here is non-dualist and broadly aligned with New Materialisms and Material Feminisms to explore our place as humans in the non-human world on which we depend. Eminent contributors including John Dixon Hunt George Descombes Bernard Lassus and David Leatherbarrow approach these issues through practices and theories of landscape architecture; garden and art making; history and writing; and philosophy. Richly illustrated with over 100 images including a colour plate section the book will primarily appeal to those engaged in professional or academic research along with sculpture garden visitors who will find new and surprising ways of experiencing plants and art in natural and urban settings. | Thinking the Sculpture Garden Art Plant Landscape

GBP 36.99
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Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design Urban Water Features

Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design Urban Water Features

Following on from the author’s previous book Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Surfaces Steps and Margins this book Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design: Urban Water Features provides clear instruction for the construction of small to medium scale water features. With over 130 black and white CAD designs Hensey provides guidance on a range of different water features such as drainage water bowls and containers walls and edges structures and crossings and rills channels and cascades. This book offers technical references and a general knowledge of the basic principles materials and techniques needed when engineering with water. This practical guide would be beneficial for garden designers and landscape architects seeking accessible and relatable materials for designing water features. | Construction Detailing for Landscape and Garden Design Urban Water Features

GBP 34.99
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Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management

Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management

Technical Services Quarterly declared that the third edition ‘must now be considered the essential textbook for collection development and management…the first place to go for reliable and informative advice. ’ For the fourth edition expert instructor and librarian Johnson has revised and freshened this resource to ensure its timeliness and continued excellence. Each chapter offers complete coverage of one aspect of collection development and management including numerous suggestions for further reading and narrative case studies exploring the issues. Thorough consideration is given to: traditional management topics such as organization of the collection weeding staffing and policy making cooperative collection development and management licenses negotiation contracts maintaining productive relationships with vendors and publishers and other important purchasing and budgeting topics important issues such as the ways that changes in information delivery and access technologies continue to reshape the discipline the evolving needs and expectations of library users and new roles for subject specialists all illustrated using updated examples and data marketing liaison activities and outreach. | Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management

GBP 75.00
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The Data Book Collection and Management of Research Data

The Data Book Collection and Management of Research Data

The Data Book: Collection and Management of Research Data is the first practical book written for researchers and research team members covering how to collect and manage data for research. The book covers basic types of data and fundamentals of how data grow move and change over time. Focusing on pre-publication data collection and handling the text illustrates use of these key concepts to match data collection and management methods to a particular study in essence making good decisions about data. The first section of the book defines data introduces fundamental types of data that bear on methodology to collect and manage them and covers data management planning and research reproducibility. The second section covers basic principles of and options for data collection and processing emphasizing error resistance and traceability. The third section focuses on managing the data collection and processing stages of research such that quality is consistent and ultimately capable of supporting conclusions drawn from data. The final section of the book covers principles of data security sharing and archival. This book will help graduate students and researchers systematically identify and implement appropriate data collection and handling methods. | The Data Book Collection and Management of Research Data

GBP 44.99
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Access Resource Sharing and Collection Development

Access Resource Sharing and Collection Development

This book first published in 1996 explores the role of libraries in acquiring storing and disseminating information in different formats to make better use of technology in sharing scarce resources and connecting library users with collections. With an expressed goal of encouraging continued debate and further investigation this book presents developing strategies and procedures to meet the challenges faced as a collection development librarian. Among the vital concerns addressed are the competition for limited resources trends in document delivery access vs. ownership the evaluation of document delivery products and libraries’ options for the future. | Access Resource Sharing and Collection Development

GBP 29.99
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The Garbage Collection Handbook The Art of Automatic Memory Management

The Garbage Collection Handbook The Art of Automatic Memory Management

Published in 1996 Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management captured the state of the field in 2012. Modern technology developments have made memory management more challenging interesting and important than ever. This second edition updates the handbook bringing together a wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management researchers and developers over the past sixty years. The authors compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art techniques in a single accessible framework. The book addresses new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage collectors. Along with simple and traditional algorithms the book covers state-of-the-art parallel incremental concurrent and real-time garbage collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations. Features of this edition Provides a complete up-to-date and authoritative sequel to the 1996 and 2012 books Offers thorough coverage of parallel concurrent and real-time garbage collection algorithms Discusses in detail modern high-performance commercial collectors Explains some of the trickier aspects of garbage collection including the interface to the run-time system Over 90 more pages including new chapters on persistence and energy-aware garbage collection Backed by a comprehensive online database of over 3 400 garbage collection-related publications The adoption of garbage collection by almost all modern programming languages makes a thorough understanding of this topic essential for any programmer. This authoritative handbook gives expert insight on how different collectors work as well as the various issues currently facing garbage collectors. Armed with this knowledge programmers can confidently select and configure the many choices of garbage collectors. http://gchandbook. org | The Garbage Collection Handbook The Art of Automatic Memory Management

GBP 59.99
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Mathematical Puzzles A Connoisseur's Collection

Mathematical Puzzles A Connoisseur's Collection

Collected over several years by Peter Winkler of Bell Labs dozens of elegant intriguing challenges are presented in Mathematical Puzzles. The answers are easy to explain but without this book devilishly hard to find. Creative reasoning is the key to these puzzles. No involved computation or higher mathematics is necessary but your ability to construct a mathematical proof will be severly tested-even if you are a professional mathematician. For the truly adventurous there is even a chapter on unsolved puzzles. | Mathematical Puzzles A Connoisseur's Collection

GBP 180.00
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Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings Young Lady’s Collection

Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings Young Lady’s Collection

In 1944 the novel Xie (Crabs) by Mei Niang (1916-2013) was honored with the Japanese Empire’s highest literary award Novel of the Year. Then at the peak of her popularity Mei Niang published in Japanese-owned Chinese-language journals and newspapers in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo (1932-1945) Japan and north China. Contemporaries lauded her writings especially for introducing liberalism to Manchuria’s literary world. In Maoist China however Mei Niang was condemned as a traitor and a Rightist with her life and career torn to shreds until her formal vindication in the late 1970s. In 1997 Mei Niang was named one of Modern China's 100 Writers. The collection that is translated in this volume Xiaojie ji (Young lady’s collection) was published in 1936 when she was 19 years old. Long thought forever lost in the violence of China’s civil war and Maoist strife the collection was only re-discovered in 2019. This is the first book-length English-language translation of the work of this high-profile prolific New Woman writer from Northeast China. Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings will appeal to those interested in Chinese literature the Japanese Empire historic fiction history women’s/gender history and students in undergraduate and graduate level courses. To date English-language volumes of translated Chinese literature have rarely focused on Manchukuo’s Chinese writers or centered on those who left the puppet state by1935. This volume fills an important historical lacuna – a teenaged Chinese woman’s views of life and literature in Japanese-occupied Manchuria. | Mei Niang’s Long-Lost First Writings Young Lady’s Collection

GBP 130.00
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Veterinary Forensics Investigation Evidence Collection and Expert Testimony

Veterinary Forensics Investigation Evidence Collection and Expert Testimony

Veterinary Forensics: Investigation Evidence Collection and Expert Testimony will provide anyone involved in an investigation of an animal involved crime or civil action with the knowledge and tools that can give guidance for their actions in completing a forensic investigation. All 50 U. S. states and numerous countries around the world have laws against animal abuse and cruelty. Law enforcement agents veterinarians the judiciary attorneys and forensic scientists may be involved in cases of animal cruelty neglect or human crimes that may have an animal element. Additionally the animal can be the victim suspect or in some instances the witness of a crime. Given that acquittal or conviction is dependent upon the nature and veracity of the evidence the quality of the evidence in an animal-related crime investigation must be beyond reproach. The book begins with a discussion of animal abuse and crimes against animals crime scene investigation and from there discusses various types of forensic examinations of the animal culminating in a review of the judicial system and testimony in a court of law. All contributing authors are practicing professionals in law veterinary medicine and the private sector who provide current best-practice evidence collection and forensic techniques. Chapters provide in-depth detail about the forensic clinical examination and forensic necropsy of small and large animal species forensic radiology forensic toxicology bitemark analysis and animal behavior. Various relevant forensic disciplines such as bloodstain pattern analysis DNA analysis animal sexual abuse agroterrorism animal hoarding ritual crimes against animals and animal fighting are discussed. Key Features:Presents established and accepted police techniques in animal crime scene investigation including identification documentation and packaging of physical evidence and scene photography and videographyIncludes essential techniques to collect and preserve biological and DNA evidence for animal DNA testing Review of the forensic clinical examination and forensic necropsy of small and large animalsProvides methods of evidence presentation in the courtroom the nature of court room testimony and the development of an expert reportVeterinary Forensics: Investigation Evidence Collection and Expert Testimony fills the void of applied real-world investigative techniques for the collection and presentation of veterinary forensic medical and scientific information. It will be a welcome reference to both the student and professional in the understanding all relevant evidentiary investigative and legal elements of the discipline. | Veterinary Forensics Investigation Evidence Collection and Expert Testimony

GBP 74.99
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Tourism and Hospitality Management in Practice A Case Study Collection

Tourism and Hospitality Management in Practice A Case Study Collection

Tourism and Hospitality Management in Practice: A Case Study Collection is a collection of real-world business cases with a particular focus on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in different countries from around the world. Fifteen compact cases capture a variety of business situations that present decisions opportunities or challenges. Organized into four parts the cases reflect the various impacts of changing external conditions and internal factors in tourism and hospitality SMEs. Each case tells the story of a particular business situation and context and the student takes on the role of the decision maker. All cases include a synopsis discussion questions a learning activity references and further reading. An introductory chapter written specifically for students offers advice on what to expect from learning with a case as well as hints on how to approach a case analysis. The cases offer multiple opportunities to connect tourism and hospitality knowledge and theory to practice with a particular emphasis on analytical skill development problem-solving and alternative generation. This case collection is suitable for undergraduate and graduate courses in tourism hospitality management and business as well as for professional development programs. For instructors who teach with the cases there are teaching notes comprising comprehensive teaching plans and resources learning activities reflective questions additional readings and external resources all available online. | Tourism and Hospitality Management in Practice A Case Study Collection

GBP 42.99
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Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture Ruinous Garden

Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture Ruinous Garden

This book examines four contemporary sites of visual culture in East Asia through the poetic prism of the “ruinous garden. ” Framing destroyed discarded and displaced material objects within a rhetoric of development and relating this to the experience of ethnic/national culture the book presents succinct analyses of visual works as well as cultural criticisms centered on space in metropolitan Japan and Hong Kong China. These analyses are placed in dialog with approaches from postcolonial texts addressing development and fractures in representation. Additionally the book suggests graphic design as a form of retrospective cultural thinking encompassing visual and invisible modernity as well as an attachment to disappearing space. Offering a unique and thorough analysis of Japanese visual culture combining discussion on photography installation art and graphic design as well as integrating material from Hong Kong visual culture in discussions of identity this book will appeal to students and scholars of visual culture in East Asia environmental art and environmental humanities. | Memory and Fabrication in East Asian Visual Culture Ruinous Garden

GBP 120.00
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Physiology of Molluscs A Collection of Selected Reviews Volume 2

Physiology of Molluscs A Collection of Selected Reviews Volume 2

Physiology of Molluscs: A Collection of Selected Reviews is an informative two-volume sent that brings together some of the most important recent and unique developments in molluscan physiology. Volume Two includes reviews on the neural mechanisms of learning reproductive behavior responses to environmental stress and hormones and neurotransmitters. With the rapid development of cutting-edge proteomic molecular biological and cellular imaging techniques our understanding of molluscan physiology specifically in the areas of neurobiology reproductive biology and shell formation has increased exponentially over the last several years. With contributions from some of the world's leading experts in the field of molluscan physiology this valuable two-volume set fills this void and will serve as an important resource for researchers professors and students. | Physiology of Molluscs A Collection of Selected Reviews Volume 2

GBP 82.99
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Data Analytics in Football Positional Data Collection Modelling and Analysis

Data Analytics in Football Positional Data Collection Modelling and Analysis

Data Analytics in Football provides students researchers and coaches with a firm grounding in the principles of modern performance analysis. It offers an insight into the use of positional data exploring how they can be collected modeled analyzed and interpreted. Introducing cutting-edge methods the book challenges long-held assumptions and encourages a new way of thinking about football analysis. The book seeks to define the role of positional data in football match analysis by exploring topics such as the following: What is positional data analysis and how did it emerge from conventional match analysis? How can positional data be collected and which technologies can be used? What key performance indicators based on positional data should be used? How can traditional match analysis be complemented by using positional data and advanced KPIs? How can these new methods evolve in the future? Based on data collected from active leagues and fully revised for the new second edition the text now also examines data collection in relation to other sports how a data-driven approach in decision-making is achieved by professional teams the potential of the new methods of data collection and how they could evolve in the future. Accessibly written packed full of examples from elite football and supplemented with expert interviews Data Analytics in Football is a thought-provoking rigorously evidence-based guide to the use of data analytics in football performance analysis. As such it is a vital resource for any student researcher or coach interested in performance analysis and skill acquisition or anyone interested in football more generally. | Data Analytics in Football Positional Data Collection Modelling and Analysis

GBP 36.99
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Wilhelm von Bode and the American Art Market The Rudolphe Kann Collection

Wilhelm von Bode and the American Art Market The Rudolphe Kann Collection

Based on an extensive and very meticulous study of different archives and the evaluation of original previously unpublished archival material this book highlights the key aspects and trends of the European and American art markets in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular the book focuses on how these markets influenced each other from the viewpoint of one of the most prominent museum directors of this period Wilhelm von Bode (1845–1929). Given the complexity of the topic the book is structured into two parts. The first part focuses on Bode’s interactions with the German banker and dedicated art collector based in Paris Rudolphe Kann (1845–1905). The second part follows the sale of the Kann Collection to the dealer Joseph Duveen and follows on the relationship between Bode Duveen and the American collectors. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history museum studies and the art market. | Wilhelm von Bode and the American Art Market The Rudolphe Kann Collection

GBP 130.00
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Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 5)

Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 5)

First published in 1998. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in many forms perhaps the most intimate and fascinating of these for gaining behind-the-scenes insights is the autobiography. Thus the autobiographies in this volume as in the five companion volumes offer the reader not only a glimpse of the subjective determinants and personal experiences of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates but also a deeper understanding of what management is and what it is becoming. The various accounts reflect a diversity of approaches interests and experiences. | Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 5)

GBP 18.99
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Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 4)

Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 4)

First published in 1996. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in many forms perhaps the most intimate and fascinating of these for gaining behind-the-scenes insights is the autobiography. Thus the autobiographies in this volume as in the five companion volumes offer the reader not only a glimpse of the subjective determinants and personal experiences of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates but also a deeper understanding of what management is and what it is becoming. The various accounts reflect a diversity of approaches interests and experiences. | Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 4)

GBP 27.99
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Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 2)

Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 2)

First published in 1993. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in many forms perhaps the most intimate and fascinating of these for gaining behind-the-scenes insights is the autobiography. Thus the autobiographies in this volume as in the five companion volumes offer the reader not only a glimpse of the subjective determinants and personal experiences of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates but also a deeper understanding of what management is and what it is becoming. The various accounts reflect a diversity of approaches interests and experiences. | Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 2)

GBP 27.99
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Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 1)

Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 1)

First published in 1992. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in many forms perhaps the most intimate and fascinating of these for gaining behind-the-scenes insights is the autobiography. Thus the autobiographies in this volume as in the five companion volumes offer the reader not only a glimpse of the subjective determinants and personal experiences of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates but also a deeper understanding of what management is and what it is becoming. The various accounts reflect a diversity of approaches interests and experiences. | Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 1)

GBP 35.99
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Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 6)

Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 6)

First published in 2002. This volume compiles the autobiographies of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates. Prior to this publication the available management literature provided little insight into the personal and intellectual lives - the frustrations as well as the triumphs - of the individuals in the management discipline. Although such understanding could be conveyed in many forms perhaps the most intimate and fascinating of these for gaining behind-the-scenes insights is the autobiography. Thus the autobiographies in this volume as in the five companion volumes offer the reader not only a glimpse of the subjective determinants and personal experiences of the management discipline’s most distinguished laureates but also a deeper understanding of what management is and what it is becoming. The various accounts reflect a diversity of approaches interests and experiences. | Management Laureates A Collection of Autobiographical Essays (Volume 6)

GBP 35.99
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In the Garden of the Gods Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids

In the Garden of the Gods Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids

Examining the evolution of kingship in the Ancient Near East from the time of the Sumerians to the rise of the Seleucids in Babylon this book argues that the Sumerian emphasis on the divine favour that the fertility goddess and the Sun god bestowed upon the king should be understood metaphorically from the start and that these metaphors survived in later historical periods through popular literature including the Epic of Gilgameš and the Enuma Eliš. The author’s research shows that from the earliest times Near Eastern kings and their scribes adapted these metaphors to promote royal legitimacy in accordance with legendary exempla that highlighted the role of the king as the establisher of order and civilization. As another Gilgameš and later as a pious servant of Marduk the king renewed divine favour for his subjects enabling them to share the 'Garden of the Gods'. Seleucus and Antiochus found these cultural ideas as they had evolved in the first millennium BCE extremely useful in their efforts to establish their dynasty at Babylon. Far from playing down cultural differences the book considers the ideological agendas of ancient Near Eastern empires as having been shaped mainly by class — rather than race-minded elites. | In the Garden of the Gods Models of Kingship from the Sumerians to the Seleucids

GBP 38.99
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Walter Pater: an Imaginative Sense of Fact A Collection of Essays

Walter Pater: an Imaginative Sense of Fact A Collection of Essays

First Published in 1981. Pater is certainly the least widely read and understood of any of the Victorian critics and creative writers though there are signs of a coming revival of interest in him. Each of the discussions included in this issue devoted to Pater touches in some significant way on his imaginative sense of fact on his struggle with the objective ‘givens’ of experience (ideas or individuals) and on his efforts to co-opt or turn that Other into a reordered reflection of his own image. | Walter Pater: an Imaginative Sense of Fact A Collection of Essays

GBP 130.00
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