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The SOS Guide to Live Sound Optimising Your Band's Live-Performance Audio

The SOS Guide to Live Sound Optimising Your Band's Live-Performance Audio

If you‘ve ever handled live sound you know the recipe for creating quality live sound requires many steps. Your list of ingredients shall we say requires an understanding of sound and how it behaves the know-how to effectively use a sound system) and the knowledge to choose and use your gear well. Add a dash of miking ability stir in a pinch of thinking on your feet for when your system starts to hum or the vocals start to feed back and mix. In practice there really is no recipe for creating a quality performance. Instead musicians and engineers who effectively use sound systems have a wealth of knowledge that informs their every move before and during a live performance. You can slowly gather that knowledge over years of live performance or you can speed up the process with The SOS Guide to Live Sound. With these pages you get practical advice that will allow you to accomplish your live-sound goals in every performance. Learn how to choose set up and use a live-performance sound system. Get the basics of live-sound mixing save money by treating your gear well with a crash course in maintenance and fix issues as they happen with a section on problem-solving full of real-world situations. You‘ll also get information on stage-monitoring both conventional and in-ear along with the fundamentals of radio microphones and wireless mixing solutions. Finally a comprehensive glossary of terminology rounds out this must-have reference. | The SOS Guide to Live Sound Optimising Your Band's Live-Performance Audio

GBP 180.00
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The Little Adsorption Book A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

The Little Adsorption Book A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

This unique approach to the basic concepts of adsorption is written for students engineers scientists and others who need a clear presentation of adsorption processes. Unlike other texts on this subject which are written for the specialist and rely heavily on advanced mathematics this unique book helps you solve everyday problems in applications of adsorption without complex mathematics or computers. The author a recognized expert in the field gives you a quick introduction to the underlying physics of absorption and explains how to apply adsorption to solve analytical and design problems. Rich with practical examples and enhanced by illustrations that support the text this refreshingly straightforward presentation helps you cut through the complexities of adsorption to find fast answers to pressing real-world questions. | The Little Adsorption Book A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists

GBP 180.00
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The BUGS Book A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

The BUGS Book A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

Bayesian statistical methods have become widely used for data analysis and modelling in recent years and the BUGS software has become the most popular software for Bayesian analysis worldwide. Authored by the team that originally developed this software The BUGS Book provides a practical introduction to this program and its use. The text presents complete coverage of all the functionalities of BUGS including prediction missing data model criticism and prior sensitivity. It also features a large number of worked examples and a wide range of applications from various disciplines. The book introduces regression models techniques for criticism and comparison and a wide range of modelling issues before going into the vital area of hierarchical models one of the most common applications of Bayesian methods. It deals with essentials of modelling without getting bogged down in complexity. The book emphasises model criticism model comparison sensitivity analysis to alternative priors and thoughtful choice of prior distributions all those aspects of the art of modelling that are easily overlooked in more theoretical expositions. More pragmatic than ideological the authors systematically work through the large range of tricks that reveal the real power of the BUGS software for example dealing with missing data censoring grouped data prediction ranking parameter constraints and so on. Many of the examples are biostatistical but they do not require domain knowledge and are generalisable to a wide range of other application areas. Full code and data for examples exercises and some solutions can be found on the book‘s website. | The BUGS Book A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

GBP 180.00
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Eargle's The Microphone Book From Mono to Stereo to Surround - A Guide to Microphone Design and Application

Eargle's The Microphone Book From Mono to Stereo to Surround - A Guide to Microphone Design and Application

Eargle's Microphone Book is the only guide you will ever need for the latest in microphone technology application and technique. This new edition features more on microphone arrays and wireless microphones new material on digital models; the latest developments in surround; expanded advice on studio set up recording and mic selection. Ray A. Rayburn provides detailed analysis of the different types of microphones available and addresses their application through practical examples of actual recording sessions and studio operations. The book takes you into the studio or concert hall to see how performers are positioned and how the best microphone array is determined. Problem areas such as reflections studio leakage and isolation are analyzed from practical viewpoints. Creative solutions to stereo sound staging perspective and balance are covered in detail. Eargle's Microphone Book is an invaluable resource for learning the 'why' as well as the 'how' of choosing and placing a microphone for any situation. | Eargle's The Microphone Book From Mono to Stereo to Surround - A Guide to Microphone Design and Application

GBP 180.00
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The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five The Ring and the Book Books 1-6

The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five The Ring and the Book Books 1-6

The Ring and the Book published serially in 1868–9 is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman Guido Franceschini for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browning’s discovery of the ‘old yellow book’ a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial on a second-hand market stall in Florence sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty adultery and greed which grew through four years of arduous labour into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete recognisably human beings. Fusing the technique of the dramatic monologue the form he had made his own with the grandeur of classical epic and the vivid realism of the modern novel Browning created a unique hybrid form that allowed him not only to bring to life an entire historical period but also to reflect on the process of artistic creation itself – the forging of the golden ‘ring’ of the poem from the ‘pure crude fact’ of its historical original. This edition comprising volumes 5 and 6 in the acclaimed Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Browning’s poems does full justice to the scope and depth of Browning’s achievement. The headnote in volume 5 gives an authoritative account of the poem’s composition publication sources and reception making use of hitherto unpublished letters and textual material. In addition to giving readers help where needed with historical and linguistic comprehension the notes track Browning’s formidable range of allusion from the most erudite to the most vulgar. The appendices in volume 6 present a selection from the original sources a list of variants from extant proofs and key passages from Browning’s fascinating and revealing correspondence with one of the earliest readers of the poem Julia Wedgwood. The aim is to enable readers not just to understand the poem as an object of study but to take pleasure in its abounding intellectual and emotional energies. | The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five The Ring and the Book Books 1-6

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to William Morris

The Routledge Companion to William Morris

William Morris (1834–96) was an English poet decorative artist translator romance writer book designer preservationist socialist theorist and political activist whose admirers have been drawn to the sheer intensity of his artistic endeavors and efforts to live up to radical ideals of social justice. This Companion draws together historical and critical responses to the impressive range of Morris’s multi-faceted life and activities: his homes travels family business practices decorative artwork poetry fantasy romances translations political activism eco-socialism and book collecting and design. Each chapter provides valuable historical and literary background information reviews relevant opinions on its subject from the late-nineteenth century to the present and offers new approaches to important aspects of its topic. Morris’s eclectic methodology and the perennial relevance of his insights and practice make this an essential handbook for those interested in art history poetry translation literature book design environmentalism political activism and Victorian and utopian studies. | The Routledge Companion to William Morris

GBP 205.00
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The Law of Liability Insurance

The Law of Liability Insurance

Now it its second edition this book is an authoritative and comprehensive review on all aspects of the law that relate to liability insurance contracts. It aims to cover the all the major types of liability insurance not just professional indemnity insurance and presents the issues according to the general principles of contract law. Updated to include the impact of the Insurance Act 2015 the book takes a comparative view of the law tailored to those professionals operating in a global economy as well as academics and post-graduate students. | The Law of Liability Insurance

GBP 290.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish

The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish

The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish provides an up-to-date overview of the latest research examining sociolinguistic approaches to analyzing variation in Spanish. Divided into three sections the book includes the most current research conducted in Spanish variationist sociolinguistics. This comprehensive volume covers phonological morphosyntactic social and lexical variation in Spanish. Each section is further divided into subsections focusing on specific areas of language variation highlighting the most salient and current developments in each subfield of Hispanic sociolinguistics. As such this Handbook delves further into the details of topics relating to variation and change in Spanish than previous publications with a focus on the symbolic sociolinguistic value of specific phenomena in the field. Encouraging readers to think critically about language variation this book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers seeking to explore lesser-known areas of Hispanic sociolinguistics. The Routledge Handbook of Variationist Approaches to Spanish will be a welcome addition to specialists and students in the fields of linguistics Hispanic linguistics sociolinguistics and linguistic anthropology.

GBP 205.00
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The New Cosmic Onion Quarks and the Nature of the Universe

The New Cosmic Onion Quarks and the Nature of the Universe

Not since Newton�s apple has there been a physics phenomenon as deliciously appealing to the masses as Frank Close�s Cosmic Onion. Widely embraced by scientists and laypersons alike the book quickly became an international bestseller. Translated into seven languages it propelled the author to become a worldwide celebrity as well as an inspiration to a generation of scientists. The book�s title itself has entered popular usage as a metaphor for the layers that can be peeled away to understand the foundations of the physical world from dimensions and galaxies to atoms and quarks. �Close is a lucid reliable and enthusiastic guide to the strange and wonderful microcosmic world that dwells deep within reality� � Frank Wilczek Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics MIT 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics NEW Material Explains the principles behind the Hadron Collider as well as the potential it presents Considers the recent development of the Electroweak Theory as a law of nature Explores the mysteries uncovered and the ones that may be in store with regard to top and bottom quarks Keeping still-pertinent contents from the original volume that caught the world�s attention in 1983 this fresh edition of the Cosmic Onion includes extensive new material to reflect new views of the | The New Cosmic Onion Quarks and the Nature of the Universe

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean. It highlights the methodological diversity of qualitative research by drawing on various approaches to the study of Caribbean society addressing the lack of published qualitative research on the region. Featuring 17 chapters the book covers five key areas namely Overview and Introduction; Gender Crime and Violence; Gender and Intimate Partner Violence; Health Management and Public Policy; and Migration and Tourism. Throughout the course of the book the chapters explore how different kinds of qualitative research can be used to inform public policy and help deal with a myriad of socioeconomic problems that affect Caribbean people. The book further uses distinct approaches to showcase a diverse selection of qualitative research methods such as autoethnography life history narrative enquiry participants’ observation grounded theory case study and critical discourse. The book will be beneficial for students and scholars both from the Caribbean and internationally who are engaged in the conduct of qualitative empirical enquiry. It will further hold appeal to advanced undergraduate level classes and postgraduate students along with scholars in the fields of social sciences and education. | The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions

The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions

The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Sanctions examines the core issues and debates surrounding this controversial topic introducing readers to essential concepts and terms. It communicates the evolving character of international sanctions from diverse perspectives with a particular emphasis on questions of efficacy legality and legitimacy of sanctions as well as the mechanisms by which they are applied. This interdisciplinary book explores the international political economy of sanctions in the constantly changing context of geopolitical rivalry. The authors investigate various theoretical and historical approaches to sanctions and apply these to specific case studies such as the African Union China Cuba India Russia Turkey and the United States. The book gives a voice to sanctioned states and considers the impact of secondary sanctions. It analyses sanctions with reference to wider political debates such as national security state sovereignty economic warfare and sustainability. This handbook will be of immense interest to students researchers and scholars in the fields of political economy international sanctions political science international relations and foreign policy. It will also be useful for all those employed by political institutions businesses and nongovernmental organisations when assessing current sanctions regimes.

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity. Critically surveying the contemporary scholarship on the American landscape this companion brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who focus their work on understanding the polyphonic evolution of the United States’ landscape. It simultaneously assesses the development of the US landscape as well as the scholarly thought that has driven innovation and continued research about that landscape. Four broad sections focus on key areas of scholarship: environmental landscapes social cultural and popular identities in the landscape political landscapes and urban/economic landscapes. A special essay American Landscapes Under Siege and accompanying short case studies call attention to the legacies and realities of race in the American landscape bridging the discussion of social and political landscapes. This companion offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide for scholars and graduate students to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of place including Geography Cultural Studies and History as well as the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies Environmental Studies and Planning.

GBP 190.00
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The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy

The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy

Research on the growth of the precarious economy is of signifi cant interest as the economy increasingly becomes dependent on gig work. However as platform and automated service work has grown there remains a chasm in understanding the key aspects of digital labour. This handbook presents comprehensive theoretical empirical and historical accounts of the political economy of informal work from the late 20th century to the present. It examines the rich and varied analysis and critique of the informalisation of work focusing on its most signifi cant theories intellectual traditions and authors. It highlights the political social cultural and developmental impact of the deterioration of employment in the Global North and Global South as well as the extreme threat posed to the planet by the growth of contingent work poverty and enduring and increasing inequalities produced and reproduced by the reformation of capitalism in the contemporary age of neoliberal capitalism. The period from the 1980s to the present is marked by the expanded extraction of surplus value from workers through the creation of non-standard jobs and the restructuring of work. A central component of the restructuring of work is the extension of gig employment through the development of algorithmic platforms which direct labourers to perform discrete tasks. This is a definitive collection representing the primary reference work contributing to our understanding of the subject. The book is written and presented in a clear manner accessible to scholars and researchers of international political economy labour economics and sociology who are eager for new research examining this phenomenon as well as specialists in the field of labour relations. Chapter 11 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. Funded by the University of Amsterdam. | The Routledge Handbook of the Gig Economy

GBP 190.00
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The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance

The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge comprehensive overview of the foundations epistemologies methodologies key topics and current debates and future directions in the field. It brings together work from the disciplines of anthropology and performance studies as well as adjacent fields. Across 31 chapters a diverse range of international scholars cover topics including: Ritual Theater Storytelling Music Dance Textiles Land Acknowledgments Indigenous Identity Visual Arts Embodiment Cognition Healing Festivals Politics Activism The Law Race and Ethnicity Gender and Sexuality Class Religion Spirituality and Faith Disability Leisure Gaming and Sport In addition the included Appendix offers tools exercises and activities designed by contributors as useful suggestions to readers both within and beyond academic contexts to take the insights of performance anthropology into their work. This is a valuable reference for scholars and upper-level students in anthropology performance studies and related disciplines including religious studies art philosophy history political science gender studies and education.

GBP 205.00
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Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala

Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala

With its flexibility for programming both small and large projects Scala is an ideal language for teaching beginning programming. Yet there are no textbooks on Scala currently available for the CS1/CS2 levels. Introduction to the Art of Programming Using Scala presents many concepts from CS1 and CS2 using a modern JVM-based language that works well for both programming in the small and programming in the large. The book progresses from true programming in the small to more significant projects later leveraging the full benefits of object orientation. It first focuses on fundamental problem solving and programming in the small using the REPL and scripting environments. It covers basic logic and problem decomposition and explains how to use GUIs and graphics in programs. The text then illustrates the benefits of object-oriented design and presents a large collection of basic data structures showing different implementations of key ADTs along with more atypical data structures. It also introduces multithreading and networking to provide further motivating examples. By using Scala as the language for both CS1 and CS2 topics this textbook gives students an easy entry into programming small projects as well as a firm foundation for taking on larger-scale projects. Many student and instructor resources are available at www. programmingusingscala. net

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor

The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor

The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and presents the breadth of a growing and vital subfield of anthropology. As we enter a new crisis-ridden age some laboring people are protected while others face impoverishment and death as they work in unsafe conditions migrate to gain livelihoods languish in the unwaged sector and become targets of law enforcement. The contributions to this volume address questions surrounding the categorization and visibility of work the relationship of labor to the state and how divisions of labor map onto racial gendered sexual and national inequalities. In addition to the emotional dimensions and subjectivities of labor the book also examines how laborers can articulate common experiences and identities build organizational forms and claim power together. Bringing together the work of an impressive group of international scholars this Handbook is essential for anthropologists with an interest in labor and political economy as well as useful for scholars and students in related fields such as sociology and geography.

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

This book provides a conceptual and global overview of the field of Surrealist studies. Methodologically the companion considers Surrealism’s many achievements but also its historical shortcomings to illuminate its connections to the historical and cultural moment(s) from which it originated and to assess both the ways in which it still shapes our world in inspiring ways and the ways in which it might appear problematic as we look back at it from a twenty-first-century vantage point. Contributions from experienced scholars will enable professors to teach the subject more broadly by opening their eyes to aspects of the field that are on the margins of their expertise and it will enable scholars to identify new areas of study in their own work by indicating lines of research at a tangent to their own. The companion will reflect the interdisciplinarity of Surrealism by incorporating discussions pertaining to the visual arts as well as literature film and political and intellectual history. | The Routledge Companion to Surrealism

GBP 190.00
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Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea

Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea

For years exploration of seabed natural resources has been ongoing while exploitation in deep marine areas remained unrealistic due to land-based mineral availability and costs. However mounting pressures from the green transition climate change and long-lasting fears of terrestrial minerals scarcity now bring exploitation prospects closer to reality. This has caused concern to a growing chorus of States scientists industries NGOs and parts of civil society due to the potential environmental and social impacts of these activities. As a result the idea of a moratorium or ‘precautionary pause’ is gaining ground. Yet an important number of interpretation and implementation issues of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and the 1994 Agreement remain to be answered as a means to move forward in accordance with international law. This multidisciplinary book designed to become the essential handbook on the matter provides a global overview of the national regional and international regulatory frameworks applicable to the exploration and exploitation of seabed minerals on the continental shelf and the Area as well as the related state of the science on the matter. By presenting historical and geopolitical context crucial to understanding regulation evolution the book equips readers with foundational legal and policy knowledge. It furthermore addresses contemporary and prospective issues and offers unique insights into regional and national practices including non-Party States to UNCLOS. Chapter VI. 1. 4 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Routledge Handbook of Seabed Mining and the Law of the Sea

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture

Comprising 45 chapters written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections: Artforms History Questions of form style and address Art and science Comparisons among the arts Questions of value Philosophers of art Institutional questions Individual topics include art and cognitive science evolutionary origins of art art and perception pictorial realism artistic taste style issues of race and gender art and religion art and philosophy and the end of art. The work of selected philosophers is also discussed including Diderot Hegel Ruskin Gombrich Goodman Wollheim and Danto. With an introduction from the editors and comprehensively indexed The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture serves as a point of entry to the subject for a broad range of students as well as an up-to-date reference for scholars in the field.

GBP 250.00
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The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South

The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South

The established canon of architectural pedagogy has been predominantly produced within the Northern hemisphere and transposed – or imposed – across schools within the Global South more often with scant regard for social economic political or ecological culture and context nor regional or indigenous pedagogic principles and practices. Throughout the Global South architecture’s academic community has been deeply affected by this regime how it shapes and influences proto-professionals and by implication architectural processes and outcomes too. The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South resituates and recenters an array of pedagogic approaches that are either produced or proliferate from the ‘Global South’ while antagonizing the linguistic epistemological and disciplinary conceits that under imperialist imperatives ensured that these pedagogies remained maligned or marginalized. The book maintains that the exclusionary implications of architectural notions of the ‘orders’ the ‘canon’ and the ‘core’ have served to constrain and to calcify its contents and in doing so imperiled its relevance and impact. In contrast this companion of pedagogic approaches serves to evidence that architecture’s academic and professional advancement is wholly contingent on its ability to fully engage in an additive and inclusive process whereby the necessary disruptions that occur when marginalized knowledge confronts established knowledge result in a catalytical transformation through which new co-created knowledge can emerge. Notions of tradition identity modernity vernacularism post-colonialism poverty migration social and spatial justice climate apartheid globalization ethical standards and international partnerships are key considerations in the context of the Global South. How these issues originate and evolve within architectural schools and curricula and how they act as drivers across all curricula activities are some of the important themes that the contributors interrogate and debate. With more than 30 contributions from 55 authors from diverse regional racial ethnic gender and cultural backgrounds this companion is structured in four sections that capture critique and catalog multifarious marginalized pedagogical approaches to provide educators and students with an essential source book of navigational steers core contestations propositional tactics and reimagined rubrics. The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South pioneers a transposable strategy for academics from all disciplines looking to adopt a tested approach to decolonizing the curriculum. It is only through a process of destabilizing the hegemonic epistemological and disciplinary frameworks that have long-prescribed architecture’s pedagogies that the possibility of more inclusive representative and relevant pedagogical practices can emerge.

GBP 190.00
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The Practice of Management

The Practice of Management

This classic volume achieves a remarkable width of appeal without sacrificing scientific accuracy or depth of analysis. It is a valuable contribution to the study of business efficiency which should be read by anyone wanting information about the developments and place of management and it is as relevant today as when it was first written. This is a practical book written out of many years of experience in working with managements of small medium and large corporations. It aims to be a management guide enabling readers to examine their own work and performance to diagnose their weaknesses and to improve their own effectiveness as well as the results of the enterprise they are responsible for. | The Practice of Management

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Handbook on the History of Development

The Routledge Handbook on the History of Development

This bold and ambitious handbook is the first systematic overview of the history of development ideas themes and actors in the twentieth century. Taking stock of the field the book reflects on blind spots points out avenues for future research and brings together a greater plurality of regions actors and approaches than other publications on the subject. The book offers a critical reassessment of how historical experiences have shaped contemporary understandings of development demonstrating that the seemingly self-evident concept of development has been contingent on a combination of material conditions power structures and policy choices at different times and in different places. Using a world history approach the handbook highlights similarities in development challenges across time and space and it pays attention to the meanings of ideological cultural and economic divides in shaping different understandings and practices of development. Taking a thematic approach the book shows how different actors – governments non-governmental organizations individuals corporations and international organizations – have responded to concerns regarding the conditions in their own or other societies such as the provision of education health or food; approaches to infrastructure development and industrialization; the adjustment of social conditions; population policies and migration; and the maintenance of stability and security. Bringing together a range of voices from across the globe this book will be perfect for advanced students and researchers of international development history. | The Routledge Handbook on the History of Development

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

In recent years Australian literature has experienced a revival of interest both domestically and internationally. The increasing prominence of work by writers like Christos Tsiolkas heightened through television and film adaptation as well as the award of major international prizes to writers like Richard Flanagan and the development of new high-profile prizes like the Stella Prize have all reinvigorated interest in Australian literature both at home and abroad. This Companion emerges as a part of that reinvigoration considering anew the history and development of Australian literature and its key themes as well as tracing the transition of the field through those critical debates. It considers works of Australian literature on their own terms as well as positioning them in their critical and historical context and their ethical and interactive position in the public and private spheres. With an emphasis on literature’s responsibilities this book claims Australian literary studies as a field uniquely positioned to expose the ways in which literature engages with produces and is produced by its context provoking a critical re-evaluation of the concept of the relationship between national literatures cultures and histories and the social function of literary texts. | The Routledge Companion to Australian Literature

GBP 200.00
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