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Digital Transformation in Aviation Tourism and Hospitality in Southeast Asia

Digital Transformation in Aviation Tourism and Hospitality in Southeast Asia

Technological advances and the drive to digitalize business processes in aviation tourism and hospitality have forced the industries to go along with the digital movement. The results are often mixed. This book brings together contributions from leading scholars in the field and explores the digital transformation in these industries in Southeast Asia. The book looks at the impact of digital transformation on the region and the issues and challenges brought about by this transformation. It also addresses trends in the industries from blockchain technology AI biometric and mobile technology applications to in-flight catering. It examines the impact of COVID-19 on the industries and how the pandemic has led to businesses adopting new business models. Through the case studies of digital adoptions in the region readers will gain insights on how the countries have leveraged new technologies and the implementation processes to drive digital transformation. The book aims to help scholars and policy makers understand the digital advances in the industries to better formulate responses in research and policy making and deliver effective digital transformation. | Digital Transformation in Aviation Tourism and Hospitality in Southeast Asia

GBP 120.00
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From Psychoanalysis to the Group The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow

From Psychoanalysis to the Group The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow

This volume gathers a selection of psychoanalytic and group analytic essays by Trigant Burrow (1875-1950) precursor of group analysis and co-founder of the American Psychoanalytic Association. They show the development of the relational orientation in psychoanalysis and the origin and evolution of group analysis namely from drive to the relation and the group processes as the person's structure. The events that led Burrow from psychoanalysis to group analysis the censorship of the psychoanalytic orthodoxy the silence of group analysis and the distortions of historiography are reported in the editors' introductory essay. The book presents the richness and originality of the theoretic clinical and methodological themes developed by Burrow either in the psychoanalytic or the group analytic fields. | From Psychoanalysis to the Group The Pioneering Work of Trigant Burrow

GBP 130.00
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The Americanization Syndrome A Quest for Conformity

The Americanization Syndrome A Quest for Conformity

The Americanization Syndrome (1987) examines the historical role of education in the process of ‘Americanization’. It argues that beginning with seventeenth century puritan leaders such as John Winthrop and Cotton Maher the pattern of American education has been not the promotion of a blend of different cultures but the indoctrination of norms of belief of religion politics and economics and an explicit discouragement of cultural variety. It traces the political role of education at key junctures of American history – after Independence in the reconstruction of the South after the Civil War in the establishment of settlement houses and the use of scientific management techniques by employers. The author focuses on the period 1900–1925 when new waves of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe led to a new drive for orthodoxy. | The Americanization Syndrome A Quest for Conformity

GBP 90.00
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The Politics of Federalization in Myanmar

The Politics of Federalization in Myanmar

This book examines the trajectory of federalization in Myanmar's political development evaluating the attitudes of different political actors toward and negotiation strategies for designing federalism. It argues that three factors drive federalization in Myanmar namely constitutionalization conflict management and democratization. The confluence of these forces arrived at a critical juncture in 2011 the start of Myanmar's political transition leading to significant changes in Myanmar's federation process. By analyzing the changes and continuities in federalism building the book charts the dynamic pathway toward Myanmar's current federalization revealing how periods of progress and stagnation reflect varying world views and the individual strategies of prominent political actors. Offering a systematic conceptual framework on federalism in Myanmar this will be a useful resource for students and scholars of Political Science Comparative Politics and Southeast Asian Politics. | The Politics of Federalization in Myanmar

GBP 120.00
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Within and Beyond Capitalism A Twofold Transformation

Within and Beyond Capitalism A Twofold Transformation

This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic peace-oriented social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal but still bourgeois-capitalist society and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capitalism. Calling for the embrace of core values and institutions aligned with solidarity as opposed to capitalism it advances four guiding ideas for the pursuit of such a path: redistribution of life chances and power socio-ecological restructuring redesign of democratic institutions and reversal from confrontation to peace through international cooperation and solidarity. A presentation of the fundamental elements of a left strategy for socioecological transformation this volume will appeal to scholars of social political and economic theory with interests in post-capitalist futures. | Within and Beyond Capitalism A Twofold Transformation

GBP 130.00
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Conflict After the Cold War Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

Conflict After the Cold War Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field Richard K. Betts’s Conflict After the Cold War assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of international security. Offering broad historical and philosophical breadth the carefully chosen and excerpted selections in this popular reader help students engage in key debates over the future of war and the new forms that violent conflict will take. Conflict After the Cold War encourages closer scrutiny of the political economic social and military factors that drive war and peace. New to the Sixth Edition Eight new readings covering issues that have grown in salience since the previous edition or that present new interpretations of answers to old problems including pieces by Robert Kagan Edward O. Wilson Scott D. Sagan Robert Jervis and Jason Healey Jacqueline L. Hazelton Oystein Tunsjo and Michael Beckley. Updated volume and chapter introductions and a new reading by Richard K. Betts. | Conflict After the Cold War Arguments on Causes of War and Peace

GBP 105.00
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India in the World 1500 to the Present

India in the World 1500 to the Present

If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years it is evident that Indian ideas peoples and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to reach the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to Gandhi’s creed of non-violence that created transnational resistance movements India has been crucial to world history. In what ways have the movement of goods people and ideas from India served to connect the world? Conversely how has India’s global history shaped the many boundaries and inequalities that have divided the world despite—and at times because of—the transnational connections often lumped together under the aegis of globalization? Through its emphasis on both linkages and boundaries India in the World examines the range of connections between India and the world in a truly global perspective. | India in the World 1500 to the Present

GBP 130.00
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Nuclear Power in the Developing World

Nuclear Power in the Developing World

Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries. The sharp oil price rises of the 1970s attracted widespread attention to nuclear power as an alternative energy source while some developing countries began attaining the technological ability to develop nuclear weapons programmes. While the search for energy should not be thwarted the quest for nuclear weapons should not be promoted. The tension between these two goals has often led to confused export policies in the nuclear supplier nations. The author attacks this confusion at its source by examining first-hand the motives which drive nuclear policies in the developing world. He explores how security and economic objectives domestic policies and foreign influence shape nuclear policies enriching his analysis with examples from South American African and Asian experiences. This volume also takes into account those without active nuclear programmes to better understand how such programmes are born. This approach demonstrates that countries such as India Pakistan and Argentina entertain different priorities from countries such as Brazil Taiwan and the Philippines in promoting nuclear power.

GBP 90.00
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More Lacanian Coordinates On Love Psychoanalytic Clinic and the Ends of Analysis

More Lacanian Coordinates On Love Psychoanalytic Clinic and the Ends of Analysis

Psychoanalysis is an experience of truths and lies in language. It is also a discourse and it is a praxis. Lacanian Coordinates takes the reader from the beginning of Lacan's teaching from the logic of the signifier and the Lacanian subject to the drive and object a qua object a the paradoxes of guilt and finally to the desire of the Other love and femininity. Volume One explores the points of Lacanian orientation that lead us to the particularity of the subject and considers whether we find them not solely in the discourse of the universal to which religion science and philosophy testify but also in the analytic experience itself. Volume Two - More Lacanian Coordinates - opens with the question of love that for Lacan forms a discourse of fragments and letters addressed to the one which circumscribe the nonexistence of the sexual relation. Further Lacan situates love in relation to knowledge making ignorance alongside love and hatred the third passion. | More Lacanian Coordinates On Love Psychoanalytic Clinic and the Ends of Analysis

GBP 130.00
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The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms

The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms

Taking into account politics history and aesthetics this edited volume explores the main expressions of primitivism in Iberian and Transatlantic modernisms. Ten case studies are thoroughly analyzed concerning both the circulations and exchanges connecting the Iberian and Latin American artistic and literary milieus with each other and with the Parisian circles. Chapters also examine the patterns and paradoxes associated with the manifestations of primitivism including their local implications and cosmopolitan drive. This book opens up and deepens the discussion of the ties that Spain and Portugal maintained with their imperial pasts which extended into European twentieth-century colonialism as well as the nationalist and folk aesthetics promoted by the cultural industry of Iberian dictatorships. The book significantly rethinks long-established ideas about modern art and the production of primitivist imagery. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history Iberian studies Latin American studies colonialism and modernism. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The Primitivist Imaginary in Iberian and Transatlantic Modernisms

GBP 130.00
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Curating as Feminist Organizing

Curating as Feminist Organizing

What makes curating feminist organizing? How do curators relate to contemporary feminist concerns in their local conditions and the globalized artworld? The book brings together twenty curatorial case studies from diverse regions of the globe. Reflecting their own curatorial projects or analyzing feminist-inspired exhibitions the authors in this book elaborate feminist curating as that which is inspired to challenge gender politics not only within but also beyond the doors of the museum and gallery. Connecting their wider feminist politics to their curatorial practices the book provides case studies of curatorial practice that address the legacies of racialized and ethnic violence including colonialism; which seek to challenges the state's regulation of citizenship and sexuality; and which realize the drive for economic justice in the organizations and roles in which curators work. The settings in which this work is done range from university art galleries to artist-run spaces and educational or activist programmes. This collection will be enjoyed by those studying and researching curating exhibitions socially and ecologically engaged contemporary art practices and feminist transnational movements in diverse geographic contexts. The essays are of relevance to practicing curators critical cultural practitioners and artists. | Curating as Feminist Organizing

GBP 120.00
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Interaction and Knowledge Construction in Online English Teaching A Learning Analytics Perspective

Interaction and Knowledge Construction in Online English Teaching A Learning Analytics Perspective

Within a Chinese English as a Foreign Language (EFL) learning context this book investigates how teachers and learners interacted and articulated their understanding of English for Research Publication Purposes (ERPP)-related knowledge in a synchronous EFL classroom. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way people receive education causing an almost overnight switch from on-campus instruction to distance learning. Under the use of three different learning analytics approaches this book has moved beyond the usual descriptive understanding of the online learning process to an in-depth exploratory and inferential analysis of the entities structures relations and processes of learning. The findings enrich current understandings of the complexity of ERPP teaching and learning in synchronous learning contexts. These findings also drive us to rethink and reshape the way ERPP instruction is delivered post-pandemic. An essential read for students and scholars of education and academic English. This book will also be a vital source for researchers in the field of learning analytics data analysis and data interpretation in language teaching and learning. | Interaction and Knowledge Construction in Online English Teaching A Learning Analytics Perspective

GBP 130.00
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The Sexual/Political Freud with Marx Fanon Foucault

The Sexual/Political Freud with Marx Fanon Foucault

The Sexual/Political engages with contemporary political issues in sexuality through a survey of modern philosophy psychoanalytic thought 20th-century political theory and more recent queer philosophies. The book investigates how the sexual has perturbed philosophical political and psychoanalytic thought and how this has fed into discrimination against the LGBTQI community. It analyses the social stigmas applied to public and private sexual acts and the psychopolitical processes leading to the prevalence of neo-fascist populism in Italy and the world. Tracing the history of sexuality through Freud Marx Fanon and Foucault among many others Bernini considers why the sexual has always been an exceptionally difficult object to consider in political theory. This book will be of key interest to scholars in queer theory; antisocial theory; psychoanalysis and politics; drive theory; political philosophy; critical theory; LGBTQIA+ issues; gender and sexuality studies; and Italian studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | The Sexual/Political Freud with Marx Fanon Foucault

GBP 130.00
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Sustainability Accounting Management Control and Reporting A European Perspective

Sustainability Accounting Management Control and Reporting A European Perspective

Sustainability Accounting Management Control and Reporting: A European Perspective traces a picture of innovative performance measurement tools and approaches to drive organizations to implement their shared value and sustainability strategy considering different perspectives around accounting managerial control and reporting. In recent years organizations managing their responsible approach with relevance and pressure from stakeholders and regulations has proven to be a major challenge. During the first two decades of the 21st century many companies have reached a real maturity in this area and have deployed coherent responsible approaches that are integrated into their overall strategy. It is now a matter of steering these responsible approaches from an accounting and managerial standpoint but also of reporting on them. It requires the simultaneous use of comprehensive accounting controlling and reporting tools. This book provides an innovative perspective on sustainable management control comprehensive accounting and integrated reporting presenting the most recent proposals and the main critical issues. Aimed at researchers academics managers business leaders and advanced students the book will be especially valuable to those in the fields of corporate social responsibility strategic management and accounting. | Sustainability Accounting Management Control and Reporting A European Perspective

GBP 145.00
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Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

This book unveils the legendary life and the mystic poems of the iconic Chinese Tang poet Han-shan (known by his pen name “Cold Mountain”) and investigates the dissemination and reception of the Cold Mountain Poems (CMPs) attributed to him. Han-shan and the CMPs are amongst the most legendary literary landscapes and cultural memories in the history of world scholarly exchange. The maniac poet recluse hidden in the Cold Mountains the delicate poetic realms of Confucianism Buddhism Zen and Taoism contained in the Cold Mountain Poems and the incredible pervasiveness of its text travel and canon construction worldwide as well as the profound impact of CMPs on comparative literature world literature and Chinese studies provide the perfect lens to learn about Chinese language literature culture and society. This book is thus intended to investigate CMPs in a coherent global context. Considering the vertical studies of the Chinese literature polysystem it highlights the horizontal influence of CMPs literarily or non-literarily. Furthermore it addresses the making and developing of the Han-shan phenomenon and its implications for translation studies travel writing canon construction and literary historiography. This book is for scholars researchers and students in literary history and East Asian Studies focusing on Chinese literature and culture and those interested in the history of poetry in general. | Cold Mountain Poems Text Travel and Canon Construction

GBP 130.00
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Foreignness and Selfhood Sino-British Encounters in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Foreignness and Selfhood Sino-British Encounters in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

In inviting a rethinking of ideas of foreignness and selfhood this book explores Sino-British encounters in eighteenth-century English literature providing detailed critical and literary analysis of individual texts pertaining to China from this period. The author provides a synthesis of approaches to China in eighteenth-century English literature involving fictional writing related to China adaptations of Chinese source texts and translations of Chinese literary works. By discussing various writings about tea and tea-drinking Arthur Murphy’s The Orphan of China (1759) Oliver Goldsmith’s The Citizen of the World (1760–62) and Thomas Percy’s Hau Kiou Choaan (1761) she highlights the significance of reading these texts not simply as documents of a historical kind but as texts that are worthy of literary and artistic attention on the basis of their rich variety in genre style and themes. The author proposes that Chinese and British cultures are not antithetical entities: they exist in relation to one another and create possibilities in the continuing appreciation of diversity amidst a drive to universality. This study will be primarily helpful to university students and professors of English literature comparative literature and history worldwide. | Foreignness and Selfhood Sino-British Encounters in English Literature of the Eighteenth Century

GBP 130.00
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Strategic Management and Sustainability Transitions Theory and Practice

Strategic Management and Sustainability Transitions Theory and Practice

The subject of sustainability transitions has in the past decade or so become an established research field for academics policy makers and practitioners alike. Conceptual and theoretical developments in the filed have gradually advanced from the perspectives of socio-technical systems and business models. Scholars contend that it is the interactions of the networks of actors technologies and institutions that drive transition processes toward sustainability. In this volume we further advance this line of inquiry with a special reference to strategic management of sustainability transitions in both theory and practice. In theoretical development we have selected three chapters to encompass the themes of (1) the interactions between ecological systems and human systems; (2) a critique on the continuous expansion of large multinational companies and their strategic control of key resource inputs through the lenses of circular economy and natural resource-based view; and (3) a multi-stakeholder ecosystems framework for the management of sustainability transitions with structural alignment of focal value propositions. The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are critically addressed and empirically examined. It will become an essential reader and a reference book for researchers and postgraduate students interested in strategic management international business innovation studies consumer behavior and public administration. | Strategic Management and Sustainability Transitions Theory and Practice

GBP 130.00
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Ecoflourishing and Virtue Christian Perspectives Across the Disciplines

Ecoflourishing and Virtue Christian Perspectives Across the Disciplines

This book brings together the interdisciplinary reflections of Christian scholars and poets to explore how ecological virtues can foster the flourishing of our home planet in the face of unprecedented environmental change and devastation. Its central questions are: What virtues are needed for us to be better caretakers of our home planet? What vices must we extinguish if we are to flourish on the earth? What is the connection between such virtues and vices and the flourishing of all creatures? Each contribution offers insight on ecological virtue ethical questions through disciplinary lenses ranging from biology geology and economics to literature theology and philosophy. The chapters feature the legacy and lessons of senior scholars reflecting on a lifetime of earthkeeping work highlight global concerns and perspectives and include compelling poetic reflections. Focusing on the way in which human vices and virtues drive so many of our ecological problems and solutions the volume engages timely issues of environmental importance – such as environmental racism interfaith dialogue ecological philosophies of work and economics marine pollution ecological despair hope and humility – encouraging fresh reflection and action. It will be of interest to those working in theology and religious studies philosophy ethics and environmental studies. | Ecoflourishing and Virtue Christian Perspectives Across the Disciplines

GBP 130.00
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The Political Economy of Education Reforms in Vietnam

The Political Economy of Education Reforms in Vietnam

This book drawing on a political economic perspective of education development is a comprehensive account of the question why some education systems flourish while others falter. It provides a state-of-the-art review of the Vietnamese way of education development figuring out the pitfalls challenges and opportunities of neoliberal reform. It also sheds new light on the rise of neoliberal capitalism in contemporary Vietnam as the country intensifies its market-oriented economic transition. Starting from educational development concerns this book differentiates the growth and development concepts in education. While growth with limited development is well reflected in many developing education systems the Vietnamese experience of education development stands to provide readers with unique insights about education in developing economies especially in understanding how a socialist-oriented education system is struggling to thrive in the times of neoliberal capitalism. Authored by scholars specialising in Vietnamese education and politics the chapters address key issues pertaining to the political economy of education reform in Vietnam and the government’s enduring efforts to drive education toward international standards through its costly market-infused education reforms. This book will appeal to postgraduate students educators educational policy-makers and scholars interested in Vietnamese studies Vietnam education reforms education governance education for sustainability internationalisation of education and the politics of education reforms. | The Political Economy of Education Reforms in Vietnam

GBP 130.00
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HR Leadership

HR Leadership

What is HR leadership and what difference can it make to business success? Who is demonstrating HR leadership now and what might HR leadership look like in the future? How can aspiring HR leaders gain the skills behaviours and credibility to navigate new and complex career structures and move up the career ladder?These are just some of the questions addressed by Linda Holbeche in her latest book. HR leadership is a rapidly evolving concept. It is as much a mindset philosophy and set of capabilities as a role. HR Leadership draws on the personal experiences of some of today‘s most talented HR professionals who through their leadership are making a real difference to their organisations no matter what industry they work in. Holbeche looks at the experiences which shaped them and the values and priorities which drive them. The book contains: Revealing interviews with Senior HR leaders from Google McDonalds the UK‘s National Policing Improvement Agency and other major organisations offering insights into their own career development An overview of the capabilities needed for success as an HR leader and suggestions about how to develop these Practical illustrations from leading companies demonstrate how effective HR leaders play a driving role in building healthy and effective organisations to offer competitive edge HR Leadership illustrates to business managers what effective HR looks like at its best. Its well-informed and practical advice make this book a must-read for anyone wanting to develop their career as an HR leader.

GBP 175.00
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Moral Teleology A Theory of Progress

Moral Teleology A Theory of Progress

This book develops a unified theory of moral progress. The author argues that there are mechanisms in place that consistently drive societies towards moral improvement and that a sophisticated naturalistically respectable form of teleology can be defended. The book’s main aim is to flesh out the process of moral progress in more detail and to show how when the right mechanisms and institutions of moral progress are matched together they create pressure for the desired types of moral gains to manifest. The first part of the book deals with two issues: the conceptual one about what moral progress is and the broadly empirical one whether it is possible. It shows that cultural evolution successfully explains the origins of modern forms of morally welcome change. The second part argues that there is logical space for a moderate scientifically credible form of teleology and that the converse case for moral decline is weak. It addresses the types drivers and institutions of moral progress that allow for the storage transmission and cumulative improvement of our normative infrastructure over time. Finally the third part demonstrates why moral progress cannot be accounted for in metaethically realist terms. Moral Teleology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in ethics moral epistemology and moral psychology. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Moral Teleology A Theory of Progress

GBP 130.00
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Controlling International Shipping and Aviation Emissions Governing the Global Climate Crisis

Controlling International Shipping and Aviation Emissions Governing the Global Climate Crisis

This book assesses the extent to which two specialized UN agencies – the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) in Montreal – have been able to regulate environmental pollution in the global commons. Since the Kyoto Protocol and its tasking of these two public International Organizations (IOs) in 1997 to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the fast-growing international shipping and aviation sectors they have struggled with the assignment even as the external pressure has mounted for them to act. David Deese examines why these two UN agencies have largely failed to execute their critical missions to date and explores the most promising emerging and feasible routes to control and reduce these emissions by other means. Drawing on a range of sources including interviews with key actors in the IMO and ICAO as well as from industry and national governments Deese looks at the multifaceted politics that drive these IOs and considers how this has delayed and frustrated the execution of their assigned climate mitigation missions. He also explains how the limitations of the IMO and ICAO are likely to be found to a degree in other UN specialized agencies and examines how lessons learned here will be helpful in understanding the operations of other IOs. The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of global governance and IOs transport and environment and climate change. It will also be a useful resource for industry and non-profit experts and public officials working in shipping and aviation regulation. | Controlling International Shipping and Aviation Emissions Governing the Global Climate Crisis

GBP 130.00
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Natural Hazards Earth's Processes as Hazards Disasters and Catastrophes

Natural Hazards Earth's Processes as Hazards Disasters and Catastrophes

The new revised fifth edition of Natural Hazards remains the go-to introductory-level survey intended for university and college courses that are concerned with earth processes that have direct and often sudden and violent impacts on human society. The text integrates principles of geology hydrology meteorology climatology oceanography soil science ecology and solar system astronomy. The textbook explains the earth processes that drive hazardous events in an understandable way illustrates how these processes interact with our civilization and describes how we can better adjust to their effects. Written by leading scholars in the area the new edition of this book takes advantage of the greatly expanding amount of information regarding natural hazards disasters and catastrophes. The text is designed for learning with chapters broken into small consumable chunks of content for students. Each chapter opens with a list of learning objectives and ends with revision as well as high-level critical thinking questions. A Concepts in Review feature provides an innovative end-of-chapter section that breaks down the chapter content by parts: reviewing the learning objectives summary points important visuals and key terms. New case studies of hazardous events have been integrated into the text and students are invited to actively apply their understanding of the five fundamental concepts that serve as a conceptual framework for the text. Figures illustrations and photos have been updated throughout. The book is designed for a course in natural hazards for nonscience majors and a primary goal of the text is to assist instructors in guiding students who may have little background in science to understand physical earth processes as natural hazards and their consequences to society. | Natural Hazards Earth's Processes as Hazards Disasters and Catastrophes

GBP 115.00
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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. However until now no attempt has been made to make these letters widely available in their complete form. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters and contributor to scholarship and political activism. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). The edition focuses on those letters concerning the writing ideas and aesthetics that influenced Lee’s articles books and stories. Full transcriptions of some 500 letters covering the years 1856-1935 are arranged in chronological order along with newly written introductions that explain their context and identifies the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. Since scholarship on Lee’s critical and creative output is still in the beginning stages these letters will serve a purpose to students and researchers in a number of academic fields. In this second volume covering the years 1885–1889 the 421 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee in her early thirties. Recovering from the stinging reception of her first novel and from Annie Meyer’s death she turns to essay writing on aesthetics and ethics and ghost stories. After Mary Robinson’s engagement to marry French orientalist Prof. Darmesteter she travels to Spain Gibraltar and Tangiers and briefly falls under the spell of the Orient. She also takes a liking to Scotland and many of her close friends are Scottish -Alice Callander Lady Archie (Janey Sevilla Archibald Campbell)—and so is her future partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson. The letters reflect the expansion of her subject matter from cultural studies art history and aesthetic philosophy. Her charity work in hospitals in Florence and her readings in Political Economy lead her thinking towards social reform and political issues. Her brother’s mental illness and her own breakdown bring about an awareness of body and mind balance and a taste for outdoor pursuits (mountaineering; bicycling; horse riding; swimming) and for experimental psychology (rotating mirrors; hypnosis) and therapies (hydrotherapy). The Pagets move away from the city center of Florence into the Villa Il Palmerino then in the countryside where both Eugene and Vernon recover. Correspondents include Lee’s parents Matilda and Henry Ferguson Paget; her step-brother poet Eugene Lee-Hamilton; English poetess Mary Robinson; English poet Robert Browning; British novelist and journalist Ellen Mary Abdy-Williams; British social reform activist and editor Percy William Bunting; Irish journalist and activist Frances Power Cobbe; Irish scholar and novelist Bella Duffy; British eugenicist Karl Pearson; British publisher William Blackwood; Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson; American novelist Henry James; American connoisseur and arts patron Isabella Stuart Gardner; French translator and critic Marie-Thérèse Blanc (Th. Bentzon); Lady Louisa Wolseley; Irish historian and activist Alice Stopford-Green; Italian Countess Angelica (Pasolini) Rasponi; Italian poet writer and critic Enrico Nencioni; Italian novelist essayist and critic Mario Pratesi; Italian editor and man of letters Francesco Protonotari; Italian painter Telemaco Signorini. | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 Volume II - 1885-1889

GBP 115.00
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