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Jørn Utzon and Transcultural Essentialism

Jørn Utzon and Transcultural Essentialism

This book introduces and defines the burgeoning concepts of transculturalism and essentialism and how they relate to one another as articulated with reference to the work of Jørn Utzon. It introduces critical contemporary perspectives of the design thinking and career of this renowned Danish architect internationally recognised for his competition-winning iconic design for the Sydney Opera House – an outstanding exemplar of transcultural essentialism in architecture. Transcultural essentialism is analysed through the lens of critical regionalism and architectural phenomenology with emphasis on the sense of place and tectonics in Utzon’s architectural works. It provides a new understanding of the Danish architect as an early proponent of a still emergent and increasingly relevant direction in architecture. Going beyond biographical studies it presents a more comprehensive understanding of the broad range of transcultural influences that formed his thinking. The volume includes numerous previously unpublished photographs drawings and interviews with Utzon’s family members former students and colleagues offering a significant contribution to the existing body of knowledge for any architecture scholar interested in Utzon’s work and design principles. The book also comprises a Foreword by eminent architecture theorist Juhani Pallasmaa in which he provides insights into the wider architectural and cultural context of Utzon’s worldview. | Jørn Utzon and Transcultural Essentialism

GBP 38.99
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God and the Book of Nature Experiments in Theology of Science

God and the Book of Nature Experiments in Theology of Science

God and the Book of Nature develops theological views of the natural sciences in light of the recent theological turn in science-and-religion scholarship and the ‘science-engaged theology’ movement. Centered around the Book of Nature metaphor it brings together contributions by theologians natural scientists and philosophers based in Europe and North America. They provide an exploration of complementary (and even contesting) readings of the Book of Nature particularly in light of the vexing questions that arise around essentialism and unity in the field of science and religion. Taking an experimental and open-ended approach the volume does not attempt to unify the readings into a single ‘plot’ that defines the Book of Nature still less a single ‘theology of nature’ but instead it represents a variety of hermeneutical stances. Overall the book embraces a constructive theological attitude toward the modern sciences and makes significant contributions to the research literature in science and religion. | God and the Book of Nature Experiments in Theology of Science

GBP 130.00
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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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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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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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A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion

A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion

A Critical Introduction to the Study of Religion introduces the key concepts and theories from religious studies that are necessary for a full understanding of the complex ways in which religious and cultural institutions and traditions influence society. This book provides readers with an arsenal of critical concepts for studying religious ideologies practices and communities. This edition has been thoroughly revised and now includes a new chapter on Belief and a rewritten chapter on Essentialism and has been restructured to clearly emphasize key topics including: problems with the concepts of religion and belief systems; functionalism and classification; essentialism socialization and habitus; and legitimation authority and authenticity All ideas and theories are clearly illustrated with contemporary and engaging examples and case studies throughout. It’s an essential text for all students approaching the subject area for the first time.

GBP 34.99
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The Europa World Year Book 2022

The Europa World Year Book 2022

Globally renowned for its accuracy consistency and reliability the Europa World Year Book 2022 is your source for detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical statistical and directory information for over 250 countries and territories. For more than ninety years since its first publication the Europa World Year Book has been the premier source of contemporary political and socioeconomic analysis for library reference shelves offering timely information with a global reach. The Europa World Year Book is also available online as an authoritative and regularly updated digital resource.

GBP 2000.00
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The Europa World Year Book 2023

The Europa World Year Book 2023

Globally renowned for its accuracy consistency and reliability the Europa World Year Book 2023 is your source for detailed country surveys containing the latest analytical statistical and directory information for over 250 countries and territories. For more than ninety years since its first publication the Europa World Year Book has been the premier source of contemporary political and socioeconomic analysis for library reference shelves offering timely information with a global reach. The Europa World Year Book is also available online as an authoritative and regularly updated digital resource.

GBP 2100.00
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The Experimental Book Object Materiality Media Design

The Experimental Book Object Materiality Media Design

The Experimental Book Object shows why and how books matter in the 21st century. Digital and audio platforms are commonplace and other fields of art beyond literature have increasingly embraced books and publication as their medium of choice. Nevertheless the manifold book object persists and continues to inspire various types of experimentation. This volume sets forth an unprecedented approach where literary and media theory are entangled with design practitioners’ artistic research and process descriptions. By probing the paradigm of the codex this collection of essays focuses on historical and contemporary experimentation that has challenged what books are and could be from the perspectives of materiality mediation and visual and typographic design. Investigations into less-studied areas and cases of performativity demonstrate what experimental books do by interacting with their systemic and cultural environments. The volume offers a multifaceted and multidisciplinary view of the book object the book design and publishing processes and their significance in the digital age. | The Experimental Book Object Materiality Media Design

GBP 130.00
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Continua With the Houston Problem Book

Continua With the Houston Problem Book

This volume contains the proceedings of the special session on Modern Methods in Continuum Theory presented at the 100th Annual Joint Mathematics Meetings held in Cincinnati Ohio. It also features the Houston Problem Book which includes a recently updated set of 200 problems accumulated over several years at the University of Houston. ;These proceedings and problems are aimed at pure and applied mathematicians topologists geometers physicists and graduate-level students in these disciplines. | Continua With the Houston Problem Book

GBP 120.00
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The Cloud Computing Book The Future of Computing Explained

The Cloud Computing Book The Future of Computing Explained

This latest textbook from bestselling author Douglas E. Comer is a class-tested book providing a comprehensive introduction to cloud computing. Focusing on concepts and principles rather than commercial offerings by cloud providers and vendors The Cloud Computing Book: The Future of Computing Explained gives readers a complete picture of the advantages and growth of cloud computing cloud infrastructure virtualization automation and orchestration and cloud-native software design. The book explains real and virtual data center facilities including computation (e. g. servers hypervisors Virtual Machines and containers) networks (e. g. leaf-spine architecture VLANs and VxLAN) and storage mechanisms (e. g. SAN NAS and object storage). Chapters on automation and orchestration cover the conceptual organization of systems that automate software deployment and scaling. Chapters on cloud-native software cover parallelism microservices MapReduce controller-based designs and serverless computing. Although it focuses on concepts and principles the book uses popular technologies in examples including Docker containers and Kubernetes. Final chapters explain security in a cloud environment and the use of models to help control the complexity involved in designing software for the cloud. The text is suitable for a one-semester course for software engineers who want to understand cloud and for IT managers moving an organization’s computing to the cloud. | The Cloud Computing Book The Future of Computing Explained

GBP 44.99
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The Big Book of Drones

The Big Book of Drones

Drones are taking the world by storm. The technology and laws governing them change faster than we can keep up with. The Big Book of Drones covers everything from drone law to laws on privacy discussing the history and evolution of drones to where we are today. If you are new to piloting it also covers how to fly a drone including a pre-flight checklist. For those who are interested in taking drones to the next level we discuss how to build your own using a 3D printer as well as many challenging projects for your drone. For the truly advanced The Big Book of Drones discusses how to hack a drone. This includes how to perform a replay attack denial of service attack and how to detect a drone and take it down. Finally the book also covers drone forensics. This is a new field of study but one that is steadily growing and will be an essential area of inquiry as drones become more prevalent.

GBP 26.99
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The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading

The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading

In January 2004 daytime television presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan launched their book club and sparked debate about the way people in Britain from the general reader to publishers to the literati thought about books and reading. The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader brings together historians of the book literature scholars and specialists in media and cultural studies to examine the effect of the club on reading practices and the publishing and promotion of books. Beginning with an analysis of the book club's history and its ongoing development in relation to other reading groups worldwide including Oprah's the editors consider issues of book marketing and genre. Further chapters explore the effects of the mass-broadcast celebrity book club on society literature and its marketing and popular culture. Contributors ask how readers discuss books judge value and make choices. The collection addresses questions of authorship authority and canon in texts connected by theme or genre including the postcolonial exotic disability and representations of the body food books and domesticity. In addition book club author Andrew Smith shares his experiences in a fascinating interview. | The Richard & Judy Book Club Reader Popular Texts and the Practices of Reading

GBP 46.99
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The Edu-Book Club: Making CPD Resources Work in the Classroom

The Edu-Book Club: Making CPD Resources Work in the Classroom

Educational books can help teachers engage in quality CPD (Continuing/Continuous Professional Development) but how do we find the time to read the latest literature? And if we have the time how do we know what to choose or what we should do with what we read? Born from a real-life book club The Edu-Book Club helps teachers and school leaders to navigate the wealth of evidence-based CPD by bringing together key publications on teaching assessment and curriculum. It shows how the ideas and research presented in these publications can be translated into everyday classroom practice to help teachers and school leaders develop and inform these practices for their own professional and classroom development. Drawing on a diverse range of books and including practical advice on how to set up and run a book club each book club session covers: The rationale for choosing that title An interview with the author with accompanying visual notes A summary of the key ideas Key takeaways and implications for classroom practice With an accompanying website featuring the video interviews and additional resources accessible at https://glt-alwayslearning. co. uk/posts/glt-friends-book-club-edu-book-club this will be a valuable resource for teachers and school leaders at all stages of their careers. | The Edu-Book Club: Making CPD Resources Work in the Classroom

GBP 18.99
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Intercultural Communication An advanced resource book for students

Intercultural Communication An advanced resource book for students

Intercultural Communication provides a critical introduction to the dynamic arena of communication across different cultural and social strata. Throughout this book topics are revisited extended interwoven and deconstructed with the reader’s understanding strengthened by tasks and follow-up questions. The fourth edition of this popular textbook has been updated to feature: ■ new readings by Kwame Antony Appiah Yoshitaka Miike Edward Ademolu and Siobhan Warrington Helena Liu and Michael Zirulnik and Mark Orbe which reflect the most recent developments in the field; ■ refreshed and expanded examples and tasks including new material on an Asiacentric approach to intercultural communication selfies as a global discourse the impact on intercultural communication of English as a lingua franca in multinational organisations and representations of Africa in charity media campaigns; ■ extended discussions of topics including intercultural training voluntourism challenging essentialism in business contexts and intersectional approaches to identity; ■ revised further reading suggestions. Written by experienced teachers and researchers in the field this fourth edition of Intercultural Communication is an essential textbook for advanced students studying this topic. | Intercultural Communication An advanced resource book for students

GBP 34.99
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The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations

The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations

�Hell I don't break the soil periodically to 'reaffirm my status'. I do it because archeology is still the most fun you can have with your pants on. � - Kent V. Flannery. In her quest to make archaeology available to the public Kris Hirst has put together a collection of over 400 pithy quotes from archaeologists and others about the science of archaeology or the mysteries of history and the past. The quotations are categorized into subject areas with full citations and context and include sections on fieldwork the uses of archaeology ethics ownership of the past lessons of archaeology and many other topics. Hirst�s book is a great resource for students academics and others browsing for suitable quotes for use in classroom presentations student papers and research articles. | The Archaeologist's Book of Quotations

GBP 115.00
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THE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LAYERS BOOK

THE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LAYERS BOOK

Layers are the building blocks for working in Photoshop. With the correct use of the Layers Tool you can edit individual components of your images nondestructively to ensure that your end result is a combination of the best parts of your work. Despite how important it is for successful Photoshop work the Layers Tool is one of the most often misused and misunderstood features within this powerful software program. This book will show you absolutely everything you need to know to work with layers including how to use masks blending modes and layer management. You'll learn professional techniques as you become completely familiar with the power of layers as an organizational correction and revision tool that will quickly become an essential part of your overall Photoshop workflow. | THE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LAYERS BOOK

GBP 175.00
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The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

Judaism has long derived its identity from its sacred books. The book or scroll - rather than the image or idol - has been emblematic of Jewish faith and tradition. The People of the Book presents a study of a group of Orthodox Jews all of whom live in the modern world engaged in the time-honored practice of lernen the repeated review and ritualized study of the sacred texts. In preserving one of the activities of Jewish life Samuel C. Heilman argues these are the genuine People of the Book. For two years Heilman participated in and observed five study circles in New York and Jerusalem engaged in the avocation of lernen the Talmud the great corpus of Jewish law lore and tradition. These groups made up of men who felt the ritualized study of sacred texts to be not only a religious obligation but also an appealing way to spend their evenings weekends and holidays assembled together under the guidance of a teacher to review the holy books of their people. Having become part of this world the author is able to provide first-hand observation of the workings of the study circle. Heilman's study moves beyond the merely descriptive into an analysis of the nature and meaning of activity he observed. To explain the character and appeal of the study groups he employs three concepts: drama fellowship and religion. Inherent to the life of the study circle are various sorts of drama: social dramas playing out social relationships cultural performances reenacting the Jewish world view and interactional dramas and word plays involving the intricacies of the recitation and translation process. This book will be of interest to anthropologists and those interested in the academic study of religion. | The People of the Book Drama Fellowship and Religion

GBP 130.00
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The Data Book Collection and Management of Research Data

The Data Book Collection and Management of Research Data

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

GBP 44.99
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Deconstructing the Talmud The Absolute Book

Deconstructing the Talmud The Absolute Book

This monograph uses deconstruction—a philosophical movement originated by Jacques Derrida—to read the most authoritative book in Judaism: the Talmud. Examining deconstruction in comparison with Kant’s and Hegel’s philosophies the volume argues that the movement opens an innovative debate on Jewish Law. First the monograph interprets deconstruction within the major streams of continental philosophy; then it criticizes many aspects of Foucault’s and Agamben’s philosophy rejecting their notion of law. On these premises the research delivers a close examination of many fundamental aspects of the Talmud. Consequently it provides a short history of Rabbinic literature a history of the dissemination of the Talmud from Babylon to Northern France and an analysis of Talmudic vocabulary from a deconstructive perspective. Each key concept of the Talmud is analysed according to the deconstructive dialectics between orality and writing. Closing with a comparison between the Talmud and Derrida’s most enigmatic text Glas the study argues that deconstruction dismantles the traditional notion of the Talmud to outline a new approach to Jewish Law. Reading the Talmud through deconstruction this new angle makes the volume an essential resource for students and scholars interested in Jewish studies continental philosophy and the Middle East. | Deconstructing the Talmud The Absolute Book

GBP 39.99
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