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Statebuilding Missions and Media Development A Context-Sensitive Approach

Statebuilding Missions and Media Development A Context-Sensitive Approach

This book examines the effects of media interventions in the global South and argues for a more adaptive and context-sensitive media development. The work investigates media development as part of statebuilding and the effects that Western-led media has in and on a newly built state. Drawing on extensive fieldwork including interviews observations and social surveys it analyses the effect media interventions has on global South countries from the population’s point of view. The findings show that in practice media development can be alien to the societies in which a free press is implemented which can lead to unintended and negative consequences for social relations in a country. While the book uses South Sudan as a case study it also presents different perspectives and shows that local views on the media are different from those of Western experts and policymakers. Therefore the book advocates taking local views seriously and an adaptive media development that is sensitive to the context in which it is set up. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding media studies development studies and international relations in general. | Statebuilding Missions and Media Development A Context-Sensitive Approach

GBP 38.99
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Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning

Cost-Sensitive Machine Learning

In machine learning applications practitioners must take into account the cost associated with the algorithm. These costs include: Cost of acquiring training dataCost of data annotation/labeling and cleaningComputational cost for model fitting validation and testingCost of collecting features/attributes for test dataCost of user feedback collectionCost of incorrect prediction/classificationCost-Sensitive Machine Learning is one of the first books to provide an overview of the current research efforts and problems in this area. It discusses real-world applications that incorporate the cost of learning into the modeling process. The first part of the book presents the theoretical underpinnings of cost-sensitive machine learning. It describes well-established machine learning approaches for reducing data acquisition costs during training as well as approaches for reducing costs when systems must make predictions for new samples. The second part covers real-world applications that effectively trade off different types of costs. These applications not only use traditional machine learning approaches but they also incorporate cutting-edge research that advances beyond the constraining assumptions by analyzing the application needs from first principles. Spurring further research on several open problems this volume highlights the often implicit assumptions in machine learning techniques that were not fully understood in the past. The book also illustrates the commercial importance of cost-sensitive machine learning through its coverage of the rapid application developments made by leading companies and academic research labs.

GBP 59.99
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Developments In Pressure-Sensitive Products

Developments In Pressure-Sensitive Products

Since the first groundbreaking edition of Developments in Pressure-Sensitive Products was introduced in 1998 heavy research has resulted in substantial progress in the field. Fully updated and expanded to reflect this activity Developments in Pressure-Sensitive Products Second Edition provides a detailed overview of the entire range of pressure-sensitive products both with and without adhesives. It explores the principles behind their design and manufacture along with a variety of applications in medicine electronics packaging and protection. The book establishes the link between underlying theory and practical applications exploring the physical molecular and chemical bases of PSPs while describing the manufacturing processes end uses and economic issues involved. This edition includes three new chapters: the first of these explains the new theory of pressure sensitivity considered as a process illustrating the principles of polymer science governing PSP technology; the second discusses the crosslinking of acrylics the most important domain in specialized products; and the third presents the latest developments in products based on plastomers such as hydrogels. Additional coverage includes biological applications of PSPs engineering problems of coating equipment web finishing for plastic films and confectioning. Offering cutting-edge information from the frontiers of research and industry Developments in Pressure-Sensitive Products Second Edition is an ideal reference to all aspects of pressure-sensitive technologies and materials.

GBP 59.99
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Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design

Design options and planning procedures must be critically examined to ensure that landscapes are created with sensitivity to water quality and management issues as well as overall ecological integrity. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design presents the history of water as a design and planning element in landscape architecture and describes new interpretations of water management. This text pushes the frontiers of standard water management in new directions challenging readers into abandoning the comfortable safety of conducting business-as-usual within narrow disciplinary confines and instead directing views outward to the exciting and incompletely mapped regions of true interdisciplinary water sensitive planning and design. With contributions from renowned practitioners Part I provides seventeen chapters addressing the subject of site-specific water sensitive design and Part II presents another seventeen chapters focusing on issues relating to the water sensitive planning of riparian buffers and watersheds. In addition Professor France has provided a "Response" to accompany each chapter which succinctly underscores the salient features in more detail and emphasizes cross-linking to other chapters in the book. The "Overview" provides a brief road-map to navigate through the section. Finally the discussion summaries at the end of each section elaborate on past problems current challenges and future directions. Handbook of Water Sensitive Planning and Design puts forward the very best of modern water sensitive planning and design and should be required reading for everyone involved in this dynamic and crucial field.

GBP 44.99
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Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment

Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment

Diversity-Sensitive Personality Assessment is a comprehensive guide for clinicians to consider how various aspects of client diversity—ethnicity gender sexual orientation age nationality religion regionalism socioeconomic status and disability status—can impact assessment results interpretation and feedback. Chapters co-written by leading experts in the fields of diversity and personality assessment examine the influence of clinician client interpersonal and professional factors within the assessment context. This richly informed and clinically useful volume encourages clinicians to delve into the complex ways in which individuals’ personal characteristics backgrounds and viewpoints intersect. This book fills an important gap in the personality assessment literature and is an essential resource for clinicians looking to move beyond surface-level understandings of diversity in assessment.

GBP 42.99
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Trauma Reporting A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories

Trauma Reporting A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories

Trauma Reporting provides vital information on developing a healthy professional and respectful relationship with those who choose to tell their stories during times of trauma distress or grief. Amid a growing demand and need for guidance this fascinating book is refreshingly simple engaging and readable providing a wealth of original insight. As an aspiring or working journalist how should you work with a grieving parent a survivor of sexual violence a witness at the scene of a traumatic event? How should you approach people interview them and film with them sensitively? Trauma Reporting features guidance from some of the industry’s most successful news correspondents and documentary makers including Louis Theroux Lucy Williamson Tulip Mazumdar Richard Bilton Jina Moore and many more all sharing their experience and expertise. It also features people who chose to tell their sensitive stories to journalists giving readers invaluable insight into what helped and what harmed. The book also includes: What your interviewees may be going through and how best to respond by trauma expert Professor Stephen Regel. A discussion on ethics rules and regulations by Dr Sallyanne Duncan of the University of Strathclyde. Making sure you look after yourself by Dr Cait McMahon of the Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. Insightful and innovative this book is essential for new and established journalists across all media students of journalism and broadcasting and anyone who wishes to share the stories of those affected by trauma. | Trauma Reporting A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories

GBP 28.99
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Life-Cycle of Structures Under Uncertainty Emphasis on Fatigue-Sensitive Civil and Marine Structures

Life-Cycle of Structures Under Uncertainty Emphasis on Fatigue-Sensitive Civil and Marine Structures

Life-cycle analysis is a systematic tool for efficient and effective service life management of deteriorating structures. In the last few decades theoretical and practical approaches for life-cycle performance and cost analysis have been developed extensively due to increased demand on structural safety and service life extension. This book presents the state-of-the-art in life-cycle analysis and maintenance optimization for fatigue-sensitive structures. Both theoretical background and practical applications have been provided for academics engineers and researchers. Concepts and approaches of life-cycle performance and cost analysis developed in recent decades are presented. The major topics covered include (a) probabilistic concepts of life-cycle performance and cost analysis (b) inspection monitoring and maintenance for fatigue cracks (c) estimation of fatigue crack detection (d) optimum inspection and monitoring planning (e) multi-objective life-cycle optimization and (f) decision making in life-cycle analysis. Life-cycle optimization covered in the book considers probability of fatigue crack detection fatigue crack damage detection time maintenance times probability of failure service life and total life-cycle cost. For the practical application and integration of recently developed approaches for inspection and maintenance planning efficient and effective multi-objective optimization and decision making are presented. This book will help engineers engaged in civil and marine structures including students researchers and practitioners with reliable and cost-effective maintenance planning of fatigue-sensitive structures and to develop more advanced approaches and techniques in the field of life-cycle maintenance optimization and safety of structures under various aging and deteriorating conditions. Key Features:Provides the state-of-the-art in life-cycle cost analysis and optimization for fatigue-sensitive structures Provides a solid foundation of theoretical backgrounds and practical applications both for academics and practicing engineers and researchers Covers illustrative examples and recent development for optimum service life management Deals with various structures such as bridges and ships subjected to fatigue . | Life-Cycle of Structures Under Uncertainty Emphasis on Fatigue-Sensitive Civil and Marine Structures

GBP 44.99
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FIDIC Red Book A Commentary

FIDIC Red Book A Commentary

Written by a member of the FIDIC President’s List of Adjudicators this detailed and critical commentary on the FIDIC Red Book provides authoritative guidance and recommendations for best practice. Focusing on each Clause of the Condition of Contract this book identifies pitfalls and logistics issues associated with its enforcement and ancillary processes to give readers an advantage when operating with the FIDIC Red Book. Intended to promote the best use and growth of FIDIC this guide will be essential for all users of the FIDIC Red Book be they contractors lawyers engineers students training to join these industries or any professional involved in the resolution of disputes involving the FIDIC Red Book. | FIDIC Red Book A Commentary

GBP 125.00
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Architect's Pocket Book

Architect's Pocket Book

This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis – on-site or in the studio. It provides clear guidance and invaluable detail on a wide range of issues from planning policy through environmental design to complying with Building Regulations from structural and services matters to materials characteristics and detailing. This sixth edition includes the updating of regulations standards and sources across a wide range of topics with a particular focus on sustainability issues. Compact and easy to use the Architect’s Pocket Book has sold well over 100 000 copies to the nation’s architects architecture students designers and construction professionals who do not have an architectural background but need to understand the basics fast. This is the famous little blue book that you can’t afford to be without. | Architect's Pocket Book

GBP 28.99
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FIDIC Yellow Book: A Commentary

FIDIC Yellow Book: A Commentary

The book analyses every aspect of the ease or otherwise of implementing the FIDIC Yellow Book Conditions of Contract. On a clause-by-clause basis it highlights important structural features and suggests alternative text to avoid problems with the contract. Written in a user-friendly manner by an expert user of the FIDIC Suite of Contracts who is a Member of the FIDIC President’s List of Adjudicators this book will be a vital reference point for contractors lawyers engineers arbitrators and all others concerned with the FIDIC contracts. | FIDIC Yellow Book: A Commentary

GBP 130.00
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Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

This new Routledge Pocket Book provides a user-friendly guide to the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2018). This Pocket Book contains topic-based chapters that link areas of working practice with the specifics of the Regulations themselves. The requirements of the Regulations are presented in an informal easy-to-read style that strips away confusion. Packed with useful hints and tips that highlight the most important or mandatory requirements the book is a concise reference on all aspects of the 18th edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. This handy guide provides an on-the-job reference source for Electricians Designers Service Engineers Inspectors Builders and Students. | Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

GBP 24.99
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Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice

Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice

Books orient intrigue provoke and direct the reader while editing interpreting encapsulating constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists’ books in particular – that is a book made as an original work of art with an artist designer or architect as author – have certain qualities and characteristics quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality the structure and objecthood of the book and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived constructed and read. In five main sections Binding Space examines the relationships between the drawing the building and the book. It proposes thinking through the book as a form of spatial practice one in which the book is cast as object outcome process and tool. Through the book we read spatial practice anew.

GBP 48.99
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Landscape Architect's Pocket Book

Landscape Architect's Pocket Book

This third edition of the bestselling Landscape Architect’s Pocket Book written by leading practitioners incorporates updates and revisions to environmental and building regulations contracts and a range of design guidelines including materials SuDS environmental impact and landscape character assessment. The book is an indispensable tool for all landscape architects providing a timesaving guide and first point of reference to everyday topics both out on site and in the office. The pocket book covers all major subjects including hard and soft landscaping national guidelines and standards and key planning policy and legislation. Providing concise easy-to-read reference material useful calculations and instant access to a wide range of topics it is an essential resource for landscape architects construction industry professionals and students. | Landscape Architect's Pocket Book

GBP 27.99
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Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

This handy book brings together a wealth of useful information that building surveyors need on-site or in the office. It provides clear guidance and fundamental principles in key practice areas such as building pathology building performance and building forensics. The book is not overly bound by the regulation and legislation of one region and the principles can be applied internationally. Compact portable and easy to use the Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book helps surveyors anyone studying for their RICS APC and students get access to the basics fast.

GBP 24.99
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Inside Book Publishing

Inside Book Publishing

Now fully revised and updated for its sixth edition Inside Book Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing industry. Giles Clark and Angus Phillips offer authoritative coverage of all sectors of the industry from commercial fiction and non-fiction to educational publishing and academic journals. They reveal how publishers continue to adapt to a fast-changing and highly interconnected world in which printed books have proved resilient alongside ebooks and the growth of audio. Major themes are explored including the development of digital products and the use of social media in book marketing as well as those that affect publishers’ businesses such as the rise of internet retailing; rental models for student textbooks; and open access where academic content is free to the user. Case studies from industry experts give fascinating perspectives on topics such as crowdfunding self-publishing and how authors can market themselves. The book provides excellent overviews of the main aspects of the publishing process: commissioning authors product development design and production marketing sales and distribution. As a manual for those in the profession and a guide for the potential publishers of the future Inside Book Publishing remains a seminal work for anyone with an interest in the industry. It will also be of interest to authors seeking an insider’s view of this exciting industry.

GBP 36.99
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Architect's Legal Pocket Book

Architect's Legal Pocket Book

A little book that's big on information the Architect's Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference on legal issues for architects and architectural students. This handy pocket guide covers key legal principles which will help you to quickly understand the law and where to go for further information. Now in a fully updated new edition this bestselling book covers a wide range of subjects focused on the UK including building legislation negligence liability planning policy and development listed buildings party wall legislation and rights of light. This edition also contains greater coverage of contracts including the RIBA contracts dispute resolution and legal issues in professional practice. Illustrated with clear diagrams and featuring key cases this is an invaluable source of practical information and a comprehensive guide of the current law for architects. It is a book no architect should be without.

GBP 160.00
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A Feminist Approach to Sensitive Research Designing the Clay Embodiment Research Method

A Feminist Approach to Sensitive Research Designing the Clay Embodiment Research Method

This book explores the development and implementation of the Clay Embodiment Research Method (CERM) with one of the most stigmatized oppressed and marginalized groups of women in Nepal: sex-trafficked women. It argues for the use of a feminist approach to such research given the prevailing patriarchal norms cultural sensitivity of reproductive health stigmatization of sex trafficking and low literacy of the women involved. Beginning with an exploration of the author’s relationship with Nepal and the women who guide the study and the realization that a more accessible research approach was needed than the techniques otherwise commonly used it discusses the use of clay and photography as ideal entry points to engaging with the women in the research and creating this ethical methodology for self-empowerment. Not only does the volume highlight extraordinary insights offered by the women involved in this study through the application of CERM but also the recognition that its use requires expertise that can deal with the potential elicitation of trauma. The book makes the case for further study on improving the method’s use in research education and therapy involving low-literate stigmatized oppressed and marginalized populations particularly where cultural sensitivity is an important consideration. A Feminist Approach to Sensitive Research is suitable for students scholars and researchers in Gender Studies Sociology Health Studies Anthropology and Asian Studies. | A Feminist Approach to Sensitive Research Designing the Clay Embodiment Research Method

GBP 44.99
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Architect's Legal Pocket Book

Architect's Legal Pocket Book

A little book that’s big on information the Architect’s Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference guide on legal issues for architects and architectural students. This handy pocket guide covers key legal principles which will help you to quickly understand the law and where to go for further information. Now in its third edition this bestselling book has been fully updated throughout to provide you with the most current information available. Subjects include contract administration building legislation planning listed buildings contract law negligence liability and dispute resolution. This edition also contains new cases and legislation government policy contract terms and certificates including the RIBA contract administration certificates inspection duties and practical completion The Building a Safer Future Proposals for Reform of the Building Safety Regulatory System Report the Hackitt review the Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Construction of Edinburgh Schools and practical issues facing architects. Illustrated with clear diagrams and featuring key cases this is a comprehensive guide to current law for architects and an invaluable source of information. It is a book no architect should be without. | Architect's Legal Pocket Book

GBP 31.99
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Depth Psychology and Climate Change The Green Book

Depth Psychology and Climate Change The Green Book

Depth Psychology and Climate Change offers a sensitive and insightful look at how ideas from depth psychology can move us beyond psychological overwhelm when facing the ecological disaster of climate change and its denial. Integrating ideas from disciplines including anthropology politics spirituality mythology and philosophy contributors consider how climate change affects psychological well-being and how we can place hope and radical uncertainty alongside rage and despair. The book explores symbols of transformation myths and futures; and is structured to encourage regular reflection. Each contributor brings their own perspective – green politics change and loss climate change denial consumerism and our connection to nature – suggesting responses to mental suffering arising from an unstable and uncertain international outlook. They examine how subsequent changes in consciousness can develop. This book will be essential reading for analytical psychologists Jungian analysts and psychotherapists as well as academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies. It will also be of great interest to academics and students of the politics and policy of climate change anthropology myth and symbolism and ecopsychology and to anyone seeking a new perspective on the climate emergency. | Depth Psychology and Climate Change The Green Book

GBP 32.99
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Historical Networks in the Book Trade

Historical Networks in the Book Trade

The book trade historically tended to operate in a spirit of co-operation as well as competition. Networks between printers publishers booksellers and related trades existed at local regional national and international levels and were a vital part of the business of books for several centuries. This collection of essays examines many aspects of the history of book-trade networks in response to the recent ‘spatial turn’ in history and other disciplines. Contributors come from various backgrounds including history sociology business studies and English literature. The essays in Part One introduce the relevance to book-trade history of network theory and techniques while Part Two is a series of case studies ranging chronologically from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Topics include the movement of early medieval manuscript books the publication of Shakespeare the distribution of seventeenth-century political pamphlets in Utrecht and Exeter book-trade networks before 1750 in the English East Midlands the itinerant book trade in northern France in the late eighteenth century how an Australian newspaper helped to create the Scottish public sphere the networks of the Belgian publisher Murquardt and transatlantic radical book-trade networks in the early twentieth century. | Historical Networks in the Book Trade

GBP 42.99
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Better Book Clubs Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation

Better Book Clubs Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation

In her comprehensive guide Better Book Clubs: Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation literacy coach and staff developer Sara Kugler shows you how to combine the power of book clubs with assessment-driven instruction to support your students as they talk and think about texts together. Using authentic book club conversations as an assessment of academic talk and text understanding Kugler raises the bar on typical professional discussions about book clubs moving beyond teacher-directed interactions and surface-level conversations to include: Structures teaching methods and routines that support authenticity and independence in book clubs Suggestions for starting scaffolding and sustaining effective student-centered book clubs Tips for listening in on clubs as a way to assess academic talk and text understanding Methods for moving from observation into instruction that improves conversation and comprehension Touchstone anchor charts and sample lessons for launching and maintaining strong clubs at a variety of independence levels With a dual focus on stronger comprehension and improved conversations Better Book Clubs will help you establish effective book clubs that will engage your readers enhance your learning communities and become an indispensable component of your literacy classroom. | Better Book Clubs Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation

GBP 27.99
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Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

Bestselling author Max van Manen’s Researching Lived Experience introduces a human science approach to research methodology in education and related fields. The book takes as its starting point the everyday lived experience of human beings in educational situations. Rather than rely on abstract generalizations and theories in the traditional sense the author offers an alternative that taps the unique nature of each human situation. First published in 1990 this book is a classic of social science methodology and phenomenological research selling tens of thousands of copies over the past quarter century. Left Coast is making available the second edition of this work never before released outside Canada. Researching Lived Experience offers detailed methodological explications and practical examples of inquiry. It shows how to orient oneself to human experience in education and how to construct a textual question which evokes a fundamental sense of wonder and it provides a broad and systematic set of approaches for gaining experiential material which forms the basis for textual reflections. The author: -Discusses the part played by language in educational research-Pays special attention to the methodological function of anecdotal narrative in research-Offers approaches to structuring the research text in relation to the particular kinds of questions being studied | Researching Lived Experience Human Science for an Action Sensitive Pedagogy

GBP 36.99
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The Benchmarking Book

The Benchmarking Book

With growing demands for increased operational efficiency and process improvement in organizations of all sizes more and more companies are turning to benchmarking as a means of setting goals and measuring performance against the products services and practices of other organizations that are recognized as leaders. The Benchmarking Book is an indispensable guide to process improvement through benchmarking providing managers practitioners and consultants with all the information needed to carry out effective benchmarking studies. Covering everything from essential theory to important considerations such as project management and legal issues The Benchmarking Book is the ideal step-by-step guide to assessing and improving your company‘s processes and performance through benchmarking.

GBP 175.00
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