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What Is In A Rim? Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

What Is In A Rim? Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

In this volume scholars question the current euphoria over the rapid growth of the Pacific rim - as an economic region and as a political ideal. They suggest that much of the discourse on the region is highly ideological focusing on its potential for capitalist development while ignoring the limitations of such development its human costs and consequences. This critique of the idea of a Pacific rim also seeks to redress the balance by focusing on the region in terms of human interactions. | What Is In A Rim? Critical Perspectives On The Pacific Region Idea

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The Complete Guide to the ABC Molecular Biology Certification Exam

The Complete Guide to the ABC Molecular Biology Certification Exam

In 2009 the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) authored the report Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward. In it the Committee expressed the need for accreditation and certification. Accreditation long recognized by public labs as an important benchmark in quality was recognized as an important way to standardize laboratories that provide forensic services. Certification can play an important role as a method of oversight in the forensic sciences—something also recommended by the - National Commission on Forensic Science in October 2014. The Complete Guide to the ABC's Molecular Biology is a professional certification examination preparation text for forensic scientists taking the American Board of Criminalistics Examination in Molecular Biology. The book serves as a resource for forensic scientists—who are facing more and more pressure to become certified—to support them in their pursuit of forensic certification. In the years since the NAS report was published there has been increased discussion of forensic certification requirements. ABC’s Molecular Biology exam is a quality certification and learning the concepts for it will invariably help any professional working in the field. The book prepares readers in all relevant topic areas including: accreditation safety biological screen principles anatomy and cell biology crime scene and evidence handling concepts in genetics biochemistry statistics DNA evidence and DNA testing. The book will be particularly helpful for forensic science laboratory technicians police and investigations professionals forensic serology and DNA analysts attorneys and forensic science students. This study guide follows the guidelines for the exam and presents all the information necessary to prepare individuals to pass the exam. | The Complete Guide to the ABC Molecular Biology Certification Exam

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Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim Place-making in Displacement

Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim Place-making in Displacement

Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim presents different aspects of place-making in displacement in the Pacific Rim region. It focuses focus on how people respond and readjust to changes and captures the long-term community development outcomes and the critical moments that facilitate this development. Interdisciplinary and using diverse research approaches the book includes contributions by authors from a variety of disciplines across disaster research sociology urban planning architecture anthropology earth science and education. Mixed methods are adopted to carry out the research projects that ground this volume including qualitative research for social scientific research ethnographic methods and more importantly Participatory Action Research (PAR) is also included by authors who have a background in design professions and a few indigenous scholars who are themselves survivors of disasters. The chapters are structured in the following five thematic sections: Learning as place-making in displacement Gender and place-making in response to displacement Community resilience in keeping indigenous sense of place Community (Re)building in displacement Transnational Place-making: Talk to the Actor Understanding how affected communities are recovering from their own perspectives this book will be of interest to academics in the fields of area studies political science disaster planning and human geography. | Community Responses to Disasters in the Pacific Rim Place-making in Displacement

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A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development The ABC of Quality Sustainable Design

A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development The ABC of Quality Sustainable Design

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment from those with no experience to those who have worked for many years in industry illustrating key principles that will secure higher quality more sustainable design in accessible jargon-free language. The author explains the design process in a straightforward way exploring the different roles and highlighting the opportunities and limitations different agencies have to influence design over the various stages of the process. Examples from the UK and worldwide look at how the system operates and how best practice can make a real difference on the ground. Case studies examine situations where quality or sustainability fell short – and how this could have been avoided. This book also showcases a variety of evaluation tools explaining how they operate and giving guidance on how to create project-specific tools to drive schemes forward. With community empowerment at its core the book explains technical language and shares bountiful knowledge to broaden place democracy and make influencing design accessible to many not just a few. This is a book that brings together all the various parties involved in shaping the built environment demonstrating that collaboration and mutual understanding are key to achieving better quality more sustainable design. | A Beginner's Guide to Urban Design and Development The ABC of Quality Sustainable Design

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The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim

The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim

This handbook addresses a growing list of challenges faced by regions and cities in the Pacific Rim drawing connections around the what why and how questions that are fundamental to sustainable development policies and planning practices. These include the connection between cities and surrounding landscapes across different boundaries and scales; the persistence of environmental and development inequities; and the growing impacts of global climate change including how physical conditions and social implications are being anticipated and addressed. Building upon localized knowledge and contextualized experiences this edited collection brings attention to place-based approaches across the Pacific Rim and makes an important contribution to the scholarly and practical understanding of sustainable urban development models that have mostly emerged out of the Western experiences. Nine sections each grounded in research dialogue and collaboration with practical examples and analysis focus on a theme or dimension that carries critical impacts on a holistic vision of city-landscape development such as resilient communities ecosystem services and biodiversity energy water health and planning and engagement. This international edited collection will appeal to academics and students engaged in research involving landscape architecture architecture planning public policy law urban studies geography environmental science and area studies. It also informs policy makers professionals and advocates of actionable knowledge and adoptable ideas by connecting those issues with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations. The collection of writings presented in this book speaks to multiyear collaboration of scholars through the APRU Sustainable Cities and Landscapes (SCL) Program and its global network facilitated by SCL Annual Conferences and involving more than 100 contributors from more than 30 institutions. The Open Access version of chapters 1 2 4 11 17 23 30 37 42 49 and 56 of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com/books/e/9781003033530 have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Cities and Landscapes in the Pacific Rim

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Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology Third Edition

Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology Third Edition

Since the first edition of Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology there have been many interesting developments in the use of likelihood-free methods of Bayesian inference for complex stochastic models. Having been thoroughly updated to reflect this this third edition covers everything necessary for a good appreciation of stochastic kinetic modelling of biological networks in the systems biology context. New methods and applications are included in the book and the use of R for practical illustration of the algorithms has been greatly extended. There is a brand new chapter on spatially extended systems and the statistical inference chapter has also been extended with new methods including approximate Bayesian computation (ABC). Stochastic Modelling for Systems Biology Third Edition is now supplemented by an additional software library written in Scala described in a new appendix to the book. New in the Third EditionNew chapter on spatially extended systems covering the spatial Gillespie algorithm for reaction diffusion master equation models in 1- and 2-d along with fast approximations based on the spatial chemical Langevin equationSignificantly expanded chapter on inference for stochastic kinetic models from data covering ABC including ABC-SMCUpdated R package including code relating to all of the new materialNew R package for parsing SBML models into simulatable stochastic Petri net modelsNew open-source software library written in Scala replicating most of the functionality of the R packages in a fast compiled strongly typed functional languageKeeping with the spirit of earlier editions all of the new theory is presented in a very informal and intuitive manner keeping the text as accessible as possible to the widest possible readership. An effective introduction to the area of stochastic modelling in computational systems biology this new edition adds additional detail and computational methods that will provide a stronger foundation for the development of more advanced courses in stochastic biological modelling.

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Handbook of Essential Oils Science Technology and Applications

Handbook of Essential Oils Science Technology and Applications

Handbook of Essential Oils: Science Technology and Applications presents the development use and marketing of essential oils. Exciting new topics include insecticidal applications but there is a continued focus on the chemistry pharmacology and biological activities of essential oils. The third edition unveils new chapters including the insect repellent and insecticidal activities of essential oils the synergistic activity with antibiotics against resistant microorganisms essential oil applications in agriculture plant-insect interactions and pheromones and contaminants in essential oils. Features Presents a wide range of topics including sources production analysis storage transport chemistry aromatherapy pharmacology toxicology metabolism technology biotransformation application utilization and trade Includes discussions of biological activity testing results of antimicrobial and antioxidant tests and penetration enhancing activities useful in drug delivery Covers up-to-date regulations and legislative procedures together with the use of essential oils in perfumes cosmetics feed food beverages and pharmaceutical industries Unveils new chapters including the insect repellent and insecticidal activities of essential oils the synergistic activity with antibiotics against resistant microorganisms essential oil applications in agriculture plant-insect interactions and pheromones and contaminants in essential oils The American Botanical Council (ABC) named the second edition as the recipient of the 2016 ABC James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award and recognized that essential oils are one of the fastest growing segments of the herbal product market | Handbook of Essential Oils Science Technology and Applications

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AI and SWARM Evolutionary Approach to Emergent Intelligence

AI and SWARM Evolutionary Approach to Emergent Intelligence

This book provides theoretical and practical knowledge on AI and swarm intelligence. It provides a methodology for EA (evolutionary algorithm)-based approach for complex adaptive systems with the integration of several meta-heuristics e. g. ACO (Ant Colony Optimization) ABC (Artificial Bee Colony) and PSO (Particle Swarm Optimization) etc. These developments contribute towards better problem-solving methodologies in AI. The book also covers emerging uses of swarm intelligence in applications such as complex adaptive systems reaction-diffusion computing and diffusion-limited aggregation etc. Another emphasis is its real-world applications. We give empirical examples from real-world problems and show that the proposed approaches are successful when addressing tasks from such areas as swarm robotics silicon traffics image understanding Vornoi diagrams queuing theory and slime intelligence etc. Each chapter begins with the background of the problem followed by the current state-of-the-art techniques of the field and ends with a detailed discussion. In addition the simulators based on optimizers such as PSO and ABC complex adaptive system simulation are described in detail. These simulators as well as some source codes are available online on the author’s website for the benefit of readers interested in getting some hands-on experience of the subject. The concepts presented in this book aim to promote and facilitate the effective research in swarm intelligence approaches in both theory and practice. This book would also be of value to other readers because it covers interdisciplinary research topics that encompass problem-solving tasks in AI complex adaptive systems and meta-heuristics. | AI and SWARM Evolutionary Approach to Emergent Intelligence

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Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy A Newcomer's Guide

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy A Newcomer's Guide

This straightforward guide introduces the newcomer to the core theoretical principles and therapeutic strategies of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT). Starting with the ABC model of emotion popularized by Albert Ellis from the outset when he developed his approach to CBT the guide then shows how REBT distinguishes between unhealthy and healthy negative emotions. From there it outlines the four irrational attitudes theorized to be at the core of emotional and behavioural disturbance. Finally the newcomer to REBT will develop an appreciation for how REBT inoculates clients against future problems and teaches them to maintain and extend their treatment gains. This Newcomer’s Guide will be a useful contribution to counsellors and psychotherapists in training either in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy or another cognitive-behavioural approach. | Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy A Newcomer's Guide

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Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children Enhancing Students’ Wellbeing Resilience and Success

Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children Enhancing Students’ Wellbeing Resilience and Success

Find the tools and knowledge you need to build resilience in all children from an early age through appropriate interactions and conversations. Presenting a wide range of research in an accessible format Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children explains how to understand and assess behaviors in the context of children’s developmental stages. This book introduces Bayat's original Resilience-based Interaction Model (RIM) which combines behavioral and emotion-based theories of development to provide practical steps for early childhood teachers and professionals. RIM features research-based practices including relationship building behavior guidance body-mind exercises for both teachers and students as well as strategies to promote strengths of character in children and aid future learning. Ideal for new and veteran educators alike Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children is an invaluable guide to early years behavior. | Positive Interactions with At-Risk Children Enhancing Students’ Wellbeing Resilience and Success

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An Introduction to Television Studies

An Introduction to Television Studies

This comprehensive textbook now substantially updated for its fourth edition provides students with a framework for understanding the key concepts and main approaches to Television Studies including audiences representation industry and global television as well as the analytical study of individual programmes. This new edition reflects the significant changes the television industry is undergoing in the streaming era with an explosion of new content and providers whilst also identifying how many existing practices have endured. The book includes a glossary of key terms with each chapter suggesting further reading. New and updated material includes: Chapters on style and form narrative industry and representation and identity Case studies on Bon Appétit’s YouTube channel Insecure British youth television ABC and Disney+ fixed-rig observational documentary streaming platforms' use of data to shape audience experience Chewing Gum Korean drama and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel Sections on medical drama YouTube creators Skam and scripted format sales the global spread of streaming platforms prestige TV and period drama With individual chapters addressing television style and form narrative histories industries genres and formats realities production audiences representation and identity and quality this book is essential reading for both students and scholars of Television Studies. | An Introduction to Television Studies

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Advanced Number Theory with Applications

Advanced Number Theory with Applications

Exploring one of the most dynamic areas of mathematics Advanced Number Theory with Applications covers a wide range of algebraic analytic combinatorial cryptographic and geometric aspects of number theory. Written by a recognized leader in algebra and number theory the book includes a page reference for every citing in the bibliography and more than 1 500 entries in the index so that students can easily cross-reference and find the appropriate data. With numerous examples throughout the text begins with coverage of algebraic number theory binary quadratic forms Diophantine approximation arithmetic functions p-adic analysis Dirichlet characters density and primes in arithmetic progression. It then applies these tools to Diophantine equations before developing elliptic curves and modular forms. The text also presents an overview of Fermat’s Last Theorem (FLT) and numerous consequences of the ABC conjecture including Thue–Siegel–Roth theorem Hall’s conjecture the Erdös–Mollin-–Walsh conjecture and the Granville–Langevin Conjecture. In the appendix the author reviews sieve methods such as Eratothesenes’ Selberg’s Linnik’s and Bombieri’s sieves. He also discusses recent results on gaps between primes and the use of sieves in factoring. By focusing on salient techniques in number theory this textbook provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive material for a second course in this field. It prepares students for future study at the graduate level.

GBP 69.99
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NATO and the North Atlantic Revitalising Collective Defence

NATO and the North Atlantic Revitalising Collective Defence

The book analyses the renewed importance of the North Atlantic for NATO in the face of new security challenges This Whitehall Paper explores the renewed importance of the North Atlantic Ocean to NATO’s security through the lenses of the United States United Kingdom and Norway in particular. These three NATO members form the territorial rim around the North Atlantic and its peripheral seas. All are maritime nations that have historically taken prime responsibility for security in the region and together with Iceland they form the front line to a resurgent Russian maritime capability. These three counties with support from the rest of the northern region must take the lead to ensure that NATO and its partners devote sufficient resources to this aspect of NATO’s area of responsibility. | NATO and the North Atlantic Revitalising Collective Defence

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Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

This book provides a synoptic view of the Indian Ocean and maritime security in its contested waters. Using a historical approach it reveals vital links to events in the present day. The volume: Highlights the competition between major Asian powers to control the ‘String of Pearls’ — a reference to the Chinese attempts at controlling the Indian Ocean periphery. Shows that cooperation amongst the major powers of the region could abate the threat of the potential of conflict becoming global and inviting external intervention. Discusses India’s Look-East policy and the deepening relation between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Argues for the need of Indian Ocean states and particularly the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) members of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to look afresh at their political and security issues and common interests. Suggests measures for evolving a robust mechanism of maintaining the Indian Ocean as a sustainable zone of commerce energy security and peace rather than threat. A major contribution on a critical area in Asian geopolitics this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of international relations politics defence studies and maritime security studies along with strategic affairs experts and think tanks. | Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat

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Indian Ocean Regionalism

Indian Ocean Regionalism

Pan-regional constructions in the Indian Ocean are of relatively recent origin are contested and remain relatively weak at present. Sub-regional constructions on the other hand have tended to be more focussed especially in terms of security and have generally been more successful. The principal purpose of this volume is to critically evaluate the debates surrounding these issues and to elucidate some of the main strengths and weaknesses of regionalism at both scales. The discussion begins at the pan-regional scale with an evaluation of pan-regional contestation followed up by a chapter on the main pan-regional grouping – Indian Ocean Region-Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) – which was renamed Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) in 2013. Thereafter key examples of sub-regional groupings – South Asia ASEAN SADC and GCC – are critically discussed in turn. The principal readership for this volume will be: scholars of geography politics and international relations; students of Indian Ocean studies; regionalism experts; bureaucrats and politicians both within and outside the Indian Ocean Region who wish to gain insights into Indian Ocean matters; scholars who appreciate a view of regional relations ‘from the inside’. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. | Indian Ocean Regionalism

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Wellbeing in Higher Education Cultivating a Healthy Lifestyle Among Faculty and Students

Wellbeing in Higher Education Cultivating a Healthy Lifestyle Among Faculty and Students

Academic staff and students within higher education settings are confronted by a learning environment that is academically stimulating informative career-focused and socially rich which can be intensely competitive and highly charged. Within this learning environment academic staff and students are often at risk of compromising their wellbeing in their pursuit of academic excellence. This book provides an examination of the key areas that are important to the sustenance of wellbeing within higher education settings with a view to promoting healthy learning environments. The chapter authors are predominantly working in the Asia-Pacific rim but the book also includes more universal perspectives. The synthesis of the issues covered in the book is crucial to the understanding of higher education as not only an environment for gaining knowledge and skills relevant for success in academic and career domains but also as an environment for developing socially adept and authentic communication skills. The ideas presented in this book will further assist academic staff and students to consider ways to more fully participate in their learning environment so that they can optimize their valuable contributions to the professional communities they serve. | Wellbeing in Higher Education Cultivating a Healthy Lifestyle Among Faculty and Students

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The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa The Impact of World War II

The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa The Impact of World War II

Incorporating published and archival material this volume fills an important gap in the history of the Jewish experience during World War II describing how the war affected Jews living along the southern rim of the Mediterranean and the Levant from Morocco to Iran. Surviving the Nazi slaughter did not mean that Jews living in the Middle East and North Africa were unaffected by the war: there was constant anti-Semitic propaganda and general economic deprivation; communities were bombed; and Jews suffered because of the anti-Semitic Vichy regulations that left them unemployed homeless and subject to forced labor and deportation to labor camps. Nevertheless they fought for the Allies and assisted the Americans and the British in the invasion of North Africa. These men and women were community leaders and average people who despite their dire economic circumstances worked with the refugees attempting to escape the Nazis via North Africa Turkey or Iran and connected with international aid agencies during and after the war. By 1945 no Jewish community had been left untouched and many were financially decimated a situation that would have serious repercussions on the future of Jews in the region. Covering the entire Middle East and North Africa region this book on World War II is a key resource for students scholars and general readers interested in Jewish history World War II and Middle East history. | The Jews of the Middle East and North Africa The Impact of World War II

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The Swahili World

The Swahili World

The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization exploring the archaeology history linguistics and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1 500-year sweep of history from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. Swahili towns contain monumental palaces tombs and mosques set among more humble houses; they were home to fishers farmers traders and specialists of many kinds. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society which has incorporated such influences into the region’s long-standing cosmopolitan tradition. This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the region’s past written by the leading scholars on the subject. The result is a book that allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to explore the diversity of the Swahili tradition how Swahili society has changed over time as well as how our understandings of the region have shifted since Swahili studies first began. Scholars of the African continent will find the most nuanced and detailed consideration of Swahili culture language and history ever produced. For readers unfamiliar with the region or the people involved the chapters here provide an ideal introduction to a new and wonderful geography at the interface of Africa and the Indian Ocean world and among a people whose culture remains one of Africa’s most distinctive achievements.

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Transpacific Americas Encounters and Engagements Between the Americas and the South Pacific

Transpacific Americas Encounters and Engagements Between the Americas and the South Pacific

This volume explores cultural social and economic connections between the Americas and the South Pacific. It reaches beyond Sino-American collaborations to focus on rather neglected and sometimes invisible Southern linkages asking how these connections originated and have developed over time which local responses they have generated and what impact these processes have in the region in terms of representational forms and strategies new cultural practices and empowerment of individuals in (post)colonial contexts. The volume also compares and contrasts intriguing parallels of politics and identity formation. By extending the focus beyond East Asia to the Southern Pacific region including Island connections with the Americas the volume provides a more comprehensive understanding of recent dynamics and shifting relations across the Pacific. By approaching the Transpacific Americas as an assemblage or relational space which is created and becomes meaningful through multiple localities and their translocal connections the book complicates the Euro-American distinction between centre and rim. While the collection offers a distinctive geographical focus it simultaneously emphasizes the translocal qualities of specific locations through their entanglements in transpacific assemblages within and across cultural social and economic spheres. Furthermore without neglecting the inextricable historical dimension of anthropological perspectives the focus is on the diverse and unexpected contemporary forms of cultural social and economic encounters and engagements and on (re)emerging Indigenous networks. Primarily based on empirical research the volume explores face-to-face encounters relations from below and transcultural interactions and relationships in as well as ideas and conceptualizations of cultural spaces across localities that have long been perceived as separate but are indeed closely interconnected. | Transpacific Americas Encounters and Engagements Between the Americas and the South Pacific

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Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca Volume 1

Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca Volume 1

Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods) occurring in virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important a few are pests and some carry diseases while many non-marine molluscs are threatened by human impacts which have resulted in more extinctions than all tetrapod vertebrates combined. This book and its companion volume provide the first comprehensive account of the Mollusca in decades. Illustrated with hundreds of colour figures it reviews molluscan biology genomics anatomy physiology fossil history phylogeny and classification. This volume includes general chapters drawn from extensive and diverse literature on the anatomy and physiology of their structure movement reproduction feeding digestion excretion respiration nervous system and sense organs. Other chapters review the natural history (including ecology) of molluscs their interactions with humans and assess research on the group. Key features of both volumes: up to date treatment with an extensive bibliography;thoroughly examines the current understanding of molluscan anatomy physiology and development;reviews fossil history and phylogenetics;overviews ecology and economic values; andsummarises research activity and suggests future directions for investigation. Winston F Ponder was a Principal Research Scientist at The Australian Museum in Sydney where he is currently a Research Fellow. He has published extensively over the last 55 years on the systematics evolution biology and conservation of marine and freshwater molluscs as well as supervised post graduate students and run university courses. David R. Lindberg is former Chair of the Department of Integrative Biology Director of the Museum of Paleontology and Chair of the Berkeley Natural History Museums all at the University of California. He has conducted research on the evolutionary history of marine organisms and their habitats on the rocky shores of the Pacific Rim for more than 40 years. The numerous elegant and interpretive illustrations were produced by Juliet Ponder. | Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca Volume 1

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Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

This book traces the origins of a faith-perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries-the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris Berlin London and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905 March 1917 and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors people who preached social justice transcending traditional national ethnic and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as remarkable learned and lively while The New Yorker noted that Billington pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing. It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life. | Fire in the Minds of Men Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

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Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts First Supplement

Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts First Supplement

Delay and disruption in the course of construction impacts upon building projects of any scale. Now in its 5th edition Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts continues to be the pre-eminent guide to these often complex and potentially costly issues and has been cited by the judiciary as a leading textbook in court decisions worldwide see for example Mirant v Ove Arup [2007] EWHC 918 (TCC) at [122] to [135] per the late His Honour Judge Toulmin CMG QC. Whilst covering the manner in which delay and disruption should be considered at each stage of a construction project from inception to completion and beyond this book includes: An international team of specialist advisory editors namely Francis Barber (insurance) Steve Briggs (time) Wolfgang Breyer (civil law) Joe Castellano (North America) David-John Gibbs (BIM) Wendy MacLaughlin (Pacific Rim) Chris Miers (dispute boards) Rob Palles-Clark (money) and Keith Pickavance Comparative analysis of the law in this field in Australia Canada England and Wales Hong Kong Ireland New Zealand the United States and in civil law jurisdictions Commentary upon and comparison of standard forms from Australia Ireland New Zealand the United Kingdom USA and elsewhere including two major new forms New chapters on adjudication dispute boards and the civil law dynamic Extensive coverage of Building Information Modelling New appendices on the SCL Protocol (Julian Bailey) and the choice of delay analysis methodologies (Nuhu Braimah) Updated case law (to December 2014) linked directly to the principles explained in the text with over 100 helpful Illustrations Bespoke diagrams which are available for digital download and aid explanation of multi-faceted issues This book addresses delay and disruption in a manner which is practical useful and academically rigorous. As such it remains an essential reference for any lawyer dispute resolver project manager architect engineer contractor or academic involved in the construction industry. | Delay and Disruption in Construction Contracts First Supplement

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