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Should You Choose to Live Forever? A Debate

Should You Choose to Live Forever? A Debate

In this book Stephen Cave and John Martin Fischer debate whether or not we should choose to live forever. This ancient question is as topical as ever: while billions of people believe they will live forever in an otherworldly realm billions of dollars are currently being poured into anti-ageing research in the hope that we will be able to radically extend our lives on earth. But are we wise to wish for immortality? What would it mean for each of us as individuals for society and for the planet? In this lively and accessible debate the authors introduce the main arguments for and against living forever along with some new ones. They draw on examples from myth and literature as well as new thought experiments in order to bring the arguments to life. Cave contends that the aspiring immortalist is stuck on the horns of a series of dilemmas such as boredom and meaninglessness or overpopulation and social injustice. Fischer argues that there is a vision of radically longer lives that is both recognizably human and desirable. This book offers both students and experienced philosophers a provocative new guide to a topic of perennial importance. Key Features: Gives a comprehensive overview of the main arguments for and against living forever Uses lively examples from myth literature and novel thought experiments Highly accessible—avoiding jargon and assuming no prior knowledge—without sacrificing intellectual rigour Includes helpful pedagogical features including chapter summaries an annotated reading list a glossary and clear examples | Should You Choose to Live Forever? A Debate

GBP 26.99
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Forever Chemicals Environmental Economic and Social Equity Concerns with PFAS in the Environment

Digital Video Recorders DVRs Changing TV and Advertising Forever

Colour and Light Spatial Experience

The Caribbean Blue Economy

Blue Economy People and Regions in Transitions

Blue Economy People and Regions in Transitions

This book presents state-of-the-art perspectives on the Blue Economy. It applies important geographical and sustainability transitions perspectives and underscores how Blue Economy dynamics are situated in regional contexts and shaped by the people who live there. The book highlights the Blue Economy concept as a potential driver of regionally sensitive ecologically embedded and community-focused sustainability. The scope for Blue Economy to form a core cog in our low-carbon future is obvious from the potential for renewable energy production and coastal resilience building to possibilities for sustainable food production and the delivery of economic opportunities for peripheral communities. However fundamental questions remain on how to meaningfully deliver these promises such as how to avoid embedding a model of damaging extractivism as per the terrestrial economy and how to deliver on the key social sustainability principles of human well-being equity and justice when planning and developing blue economies. As the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development opens this book provides a timely reminder of the richness diversity and potential of coastal and marine spaces. It advances geographical and transdisciplinary understandings of the Blue Economy and sets a baseline for continued scholarly engagement with the Blue Economy from a variety of perspectives. This timely contribution will be of interest to policy makers academics industry leaders decision makers and stakeholders working in or connected to the Blue Economy Sphere and working in the fields of Economic Geography Regional Development Public Policy and Planning Environmental Studies and Coastal Zone Management. | Blue Economy People and Regions in Transitions

GBP 34.99
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Ultraviolet Light in Food Technology Principles and Applications

Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

Satellite images acquired at night provide a visually arresting perspective of the Earth and the human activities that light up the otherwise mostly dark Earth. These night-time light satellite images can be compiled into a geospatial time series that represent an invaluable source of information for both the natural and social sciences. Night-time light remote sensing has been shown to be particularly useful for a range of natural science and social science applications including studies relating to urban development demography sociology fishing activity light pollution and the consequences of civil war. Key sensors for these time-series include the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s Operational Linescan System (DMSP/OLS) and the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership Satellite’s Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite Day/Night Band (Suomi NPP/VIIRS DNB). An increasing number of alternative sources are also available including high spatial resolution and multispectral sensors. This book captures key methodological issues associated with pre-processing night-time light data documents state of the art analysis methods and explores a wide range of applications. Major sections focus on NPP/VIIRS DNB processing; inter-calibration between NPP/VIIRS and DMPS/OLS; applications associated with socio-economic activities applications in monitoring urbanization; and fishing activity monitoring. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Remote Sensing. | Remote Sensing of Night-time Light

GBP 38.99
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A Blue Carbon Primer The State of Coastal Wetland Carbon Science Practice and Policy

A Blue Carbon Primer The State of Coastal Wetland Carbon Science Practice and Policy

Key features: Captures the historic context and recent developments in science and policy arenas that address the potential for coastal wetlands to be considered as significant contributors to carbon sequestration Links multiple levels of science (biogeochemistry geomorphology paleoclimate etc. ) with blue carbon concepts (science policy mapping operationalization economics) in a single compendium Concludes with a discussion of future directions which covers integrated scientific approaches impending threats and specific gaps in current knowledge Includes 7 case studies from across the globe that demonstrate the benefits and challenges of blue carbon accounting Written by over 100 leading global blue carbon experts in science and policy. Blue Carbon has emerged as a term that represents the distinctive carbon stocks and fluxes into or out of coastal wetlands such as marshes mangroves and seagrasses. The Blue Carbon concept has rapidly developed in science literature and is highly relevant politically as nations and markets are developing blue carbon monitoring and management tools and policies. This book is a comprehensive and current compendium of the state of the science the state of maps and mapping protocols and the state of policy incentives (including economic valuation of blue carbon) with additional sections on operationalizing blue carbon projects and 7 case studies with global relevance. | A Blue Carbon Primer The State of Coastal Wetland Carbon Science Practice and Policy

GBP 56.99
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Designing with Light An Introduction to Stage Lighting

Beautiful Light An Insider’s Guide to LED Lighting in Homes and Gardens

Theory of Nonclassical States of Light

Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices

Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices

Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices provides a single source of information covering all aspects of OLEDs including the systematic investigation of organic light-emitting materials device physics and engineering and manufacturing and performance measurement techniques. This Second Edition is a compilation of the advances made in recent years and of the challenges facing the future development of OLED technology. Featuring chapters authored by internationally recognized academic and industrial experts this authoritative text: Introduces the history fundamental physics and potential applications of OLEDs Reviews the synthesis properties and device performance of electroluminescent materials used in OLEDs Reflects the current state of molecular design exemplifying more than 600 light-emitting polymers and highlighting the most efficient materials and devices Explores small molecules-based OLEDs detailing hole- and electron-injection and electron-transport materials electron- and hole-blocking materials sensitizers and fluorescent and phosphorescent light-emitting materials Describes solution-processable phosphorescent polymer LEDs energy transfer processes polarized OLEDs anode materials and vapor deposition manufacturing techniques employed in OLED fabrication Discusses flexible display the backplane circuit technology for organic light-emitting displays and the latest microstructural characterization and performance measurement techniques Contains abundant diagrams device configurations and molecular structures clearly illutrating the presented ideas Organic Light-Emitting Materials and Devices Second Edition offers a comprehensive overview of the OLED field and can serve as a primary reference for those needing additional information in any particular subarea of organic electroluminescence. This book should attract the attention of materials scientists synthetic chemists solid-state physicists and electronic device engineers as well as industrial managers and patent lawyers engaged in OLED-related business areas.

GBP 74.99
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Blue Marble Evaluation Premises and Principles

Blue Space Health and Wellbeing Hydrophilia Unbounded

Blue Space Health and Wellbeing Hydrophilia Unbounded

Health geography makes critical contributions to contemporary and emerging interdisciplinary agendas of nature-based health and health-enabling places. Couched in theory and critical empirical work on nature and health this book addresses questions on the relationships between water health and wellbeing. Water and blue space is a key focus in current health geography research and a new hydrophilic turn has emerged with a particular focus on the aspects of water which are affective life-enhancing and health-enabling. Research considers the benefits and risks associated with blue space from access to safe and clean water in the Global South to health promoting spaces found around urban waters to the deeper implications of climate change for water-based livelihoods and indigenous cultures. This book reflects recent theoretical debates within health geography drawing from research in the public health anthropology and psychology sectors. Broad thematic sections focus on interdisciplinary experiential and equity-based elements of blue space with individual chapters that consider indigenous and global health water’s healing properties leisure and blue yogic culture coastal landscapes surfing swimming and sailing along with more contested hydrophobic dimensions. The interdisciplinary lens means this book will be extremely valuable to human geographers and cultural geographers. It will also appeal to practitioners and researchers interested in environmental health leisure and tourism health inequalities and public health more broadly. | Blue Space Health and Wellbeing Hydrophilia Unbounded

GBP 39.99
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An Introduction to the Blue Humanities

An Introduction to the Blue Humanities

An Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water utilizing literary cultural historical and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking. Comprised of multinational texts and materials each chapter will provide readers with a range of primary and secondary sources offering a fresh look at the major oceanic regions saltwater and freshwater geographies and the physical properties of water that characterize the Blue Humanities. Each chapter engages with carefully chosen primary texts including frequently taught works such as Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner ” Homer’s Odyssey and Luis Vaz de Camões’s Lusíads to provide the perfect pedagogy for students to develop an understanding of the Blue Humanities chapter by chapter. Readers will gain insight into new trends in intellectual culture and the enduring history of humans thinking with and about water ranging across the many coastlines of the World Ocean to Pacific clouds Mediterranean lakes Caribbean swamps Arctic glaciers Southern Ocean rainstorms Atlantic groundwater and Indian Ocean rivers. Providing new avenues for future thinking and investigation of the Blue Humanities this volume will be ideal for both undergraduate and graduate courses engaging with the environmental humanities and oceanic literature.

GBP 34.99
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Night Photography and Light Painting Finding Your Way in the Dark

Prussian Blue-Type Nanoparticles and Nanocomposites: Synthesis Devices and Applications

Visual and Non-Visual Effects of Light Working Environment and Well-Being

Visual and Non-Visual Effects of Light Working Environment and Well-Being

The introduction of artificial lighting extends the time of wakefulness after dark and enables work at night thus disturbing the human circadian rhythm. The understanding of the physiological mechanisms of visual and non-visual systems may be important for the development and use of proper light infrastructure and light interventions for different workplace settings especially for shift work conditions. Visual and Non-Visual Effects of Light: Working Environment and Well-Being presents the impact of lighting in the working environment on human health well-being and visual performance. The physiological explanation of the visual and non-visual effects of light on humans which discusses the biological bases of image and non-image forming vision at the cellular level may be of particular interest to any professional in the field of medicine physiology and biology. It is one of the intentions of this book to put forward some recommendations and examples of lighting design which take into account both the visual and non-visual effects of light on humans. These may be of particular interest to any professional in the field of lighting occupational safety and health and interior design. What effects on health can a light ‘overdose’ or light deficiency have? What is bad light? The authors of the monograph provide answers to these questions. Just as for a physicist the dual nature of light comprises an electromagnetic wave and a photon the duality of light for a physician comprises visual and non-visual effects. -Prof Jacek Przybylski Medical University of Warsaw This is a unique publication in the field of lighting technology. The authors have skillfully combined both the technical and biomedical aspects involved which is unprecedented in the literature available. As a result an important study has been created for many professional groups with a significant impact on the assessment of risks associated with LED sources. Prof Andrzej Zając Military University of Technology Warsaw | Visual and Non-Visual Effects of Light Working Environment and Well-Being

GBP 44.99
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Polarized Light and Optical Systems

Polarized Light and Optical Systems

Polarized Light and Optical Systems presents polarization optics for undergraduate and graduate students in a way which makes classroom teaching relevant to current issues in optical engineering. This curriculum has been developed and refined for a decade and a half at the University of Arizona’s College of Optical Sciences. Polarized Light and Optical Systems provides a reference for the optical engineer and optical designer in issues related to building polarimeters designing displays and polarization critical optical systems. The central theme of Polarized Light and Optical Systems is a unifying treatment of polarization elements as optical elements and optical elements as polarization elements. Key Features Comprehensive presentation of Jones calculus and Mueller calculus with tables and derivations of the Jones and Mueller matrices for polarization elements and polarization effects Classroom-appropriate presentations of polarization of birefringent materials thin films stress birefringence crystal polarizers liquid crystals and gratings Discussion of the many forms of polarimeters their trade-offs data reduction methods and polarization artifacts Exposition of the polarization ray tracing calculus to integrate polarization with ray tracing Explanation of the sources of polarization aberrations in optical systems and the functional forms of these polarization aberrations Problem sets to build students’ problem-solving capabilities.

GBP 180.00
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Light — Science & Magic An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

Light — Science & Magic An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

Photographic lighting is a topic that will never go out of style no matter how sophisticated cameras and other technology get. Even with the most high-tech gear photographers still need to put a lot of thought and vision into lighting their photographs in order to get great results. Mastering this key skill has the power to dramatically and quickly improve your photographs as well as your efficiency. Light—Science & Magic provides you with a comprehensive theory of the nature and principles of light with examples and instructions for practical application. Featuring photographs diagrams and step-by-step instructions this book speaks to photographers of varying levels. It provides invaluable information on how to light the most difficult subjects such as surfaces metal glass liquids extremes (black-on-black and white-on-white) and portraits. This new edition includes: • Expanded chapters on portraiture and lighting equipment • Chapters on necessary equipment when working on location versus in the studio • An updated appendix of reliable photo gear sources • Over 100 new photographs and informational sidebars • Updated information about advances in flash equipment LED panels and fluorescent lights Lighting styles will evolve but the science of light will always remain the same. Once photographers understand the basic physics of lighting (without having to become physicists) they can apply that knowledge to a broad range of photographic styles. | Light — Science & Magic An Introduction to Photographic Lighting

GBP 46.99
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Photodegradation and Light Stabilization of Heterochain Polymers

An Analysis of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space