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The Struggle for the Middle East The Soviet Union and the Middle East 1958-68

The Struggle for the Middle East The Soviet Union and the Middle East 1958-68

This book first published in 1969 surveys Soviet policies and Middle Eastern responses during the turbulent 1960s. It deals with changing moods of Turkey and Iran the Arab-Israeli conflict in the context of big power rivalry in the Middle East the Russian naval presence in the Mediterranean and the new Soviet interest in Gulf oil. The author also reviews the changing orientations of Middle Eastern communism in the new age of polycentrism. | The Struggle for the Middle East The Soviet Union and the Middle East 1958-68

GBP 35.99
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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Thermal Spray Industry Practices Implementation and Challenges

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Thermal Spray Industry Practices Implementation and Challenges

This book details the emerging area of the induction of expert systems in thermal spray technology replacing traditional parametric optimization methods like numerical modeling and simulation. It promotes enlightens and hastens the digital transformation of the surface engineering industry by discussing the contribution of expert systems like Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) toward achieving durable Thermal Spray (TS) coatings. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Thermal Spray Industry: Practices Implementation and Challenges highlights how AI and ML techniques are used in the TS industry. It sheds light on AI’s versatility revealing its applicability in solving problems related to conventional simulation and numeric modeling techniques. This book combines automated technologies with expert machines to show several advantages including decreased error and greater accuracy in judgment and prediction enhanced efficiency reduced time consumption and lower costs. Specific barriers preventing AI’s successful implementation in the TS industry are also discussed. This book also looks at how training and validating more models with microstructural features of deposited coating will be the center point to grooming this technology in the future. Lastly this book thoroughly analyzes the digital technologies available for modeling and achieving high-performance coatings including giving AI-related models like Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) more attention. This reference book is directed toward professors students practitioners and researchers of higher education institutions working in the fields that deal with the application of AI and ML technology. | Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in the Thermal Spray Industry Practices Implementation and Challenges

GBP 100.00
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American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

Pop art was essential to the Americanization of global art in the 1960s yet it engendered resistance and adaptation abroad in equal measure especially in Paris. From the end of the Algerian War of Independence and the opening of Ileana Sonnabend’s gallery for American Pop art in Paris in 1962 to the silkscreen poster workshops of May ’68 this book examines critical adaptations of Pop motifs and pictorial devices across French painting graphic design cinema and protest aesthetics. Liam Considine argues that the transatlantic dispersion of Pop art gave rise to a new politics of the image that challenged Americanization and prefigured the critiques and contradictions of May ’68. | American Pop Art in France Politics of the Transatlantic Image

GBP 38.99
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Early Modern East Asia War Commerce and Cultural Exchange

Early Modern East Asia War Commerce and Cultural Exchange

This book presents a great deal of new primary research on a wide range of aspects of early modern East Asia. Focusing primarily on maritime connections the book explores the importance of international trade networks the implications of technological dissemination and the often unforeseen consequences of missionary efforts. It demonstrates the benefi ts of a global history approach outlining the complex interactions between Western traders and Asian states and entrepreneurs. Overall the book presents much interesting new material on this complicated and understudied period. . | Early Modern East Asia War Commerce and Cultural Exchange

GBP 44.99
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A Qualitative Approach to Translation Studies Spotlighting Translation Problems

A Qualitative Approach to Translation Studies Spotlighting Translation Problems

This collection invites readers to explore innovative or underexploited ways of working qualitatively with what in Translation Studies may be termed as elusive constructs. The volume adopts a functionalist approach to focus on one such concept namely the notion of translation problem using case studies to illustrate how a significant elusive construct can be addressed empirically. It explores different qualitative research methodologies which although well established in other fields are yet to be extensively used in TS but which may nevertheless prove to be of significance for future studies as they allow elusive concepts typically found in TS to be worked with more coherently. Chapters are structured around two core ideas: first the qualitative systematic analysis of source text content with emphasis on the detection of translation problems as a means of creating efficient frameworks for coherent decision-making from a functional perspective; and secondly the practical process of stereotyping and profiling specific problems within different contexts content types or services to help identify manage and resolve them in a number of settings from research to professional translator training and assessment environments. This book will be of interest to scholars in translation studies particularly those with an interest in qualitative approaches. | A Qualitative Approach to Translation Studies Spotlighting Translation Problems

GBP 130.00
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America Enters the Cold War The Road to Global Commitment 1945–1950

America Enters the Cold War The Road to Global Commitment 1945–1950

America Enters the Cold War provides a succinct and insightful analysis of the foreign policy decisions which shaped America’s early involvement in the Cold War. In focusing on key documents and detailing the ideological foundations of U. S. foreign policy Kevin Grimm situates the events of the early Cold War in the context of postwar American history. Including the full text of primary source documents such as the Long Telegram the Truman Doctrine and NSC-68 this text provides an essential overview of this period for students of the Cold War diplomatic history and twentieth-century US history and foreign policy. | America Enters the Cold War The Road to Global Commitment 1945–1950

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Toxicology Biological Monitoring of Metals in Humans

Toxicology Biological Monitoring of Metals in Humans

As one of many tasks of an analytical chemistry program sponsored by the office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances Field Studies Branch U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) (EPA Prime Contract No. 68-02-3938) Midwest Research Institute (MRI) prepared these summaries of the mammalian toxicology of 52 individual elements (metals and metalloids) and the lanthanides (rare earth elements). MRI is assisting the EPA in developing protocols for the monitoring of selected metals and organic compounds in the blood of the general U. S. population. The monitoring will enable evaluation of changes in the blood levels over time and any trends associated with instituted control measures. This review will help EPA select the metals to be included in the monitoring effort based on toxicity relative exposure and the ability of blood measurements to reflect exposure. | Toxicology Biological Monitoring of Metals in Humans

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Design of Electrical Transmission Lines Structures and Foundations

Design of Electrical Transmission Lines Structures and Foundations

This book covers structural and foundation systems used in high-voltage transmission lines conductors insulators hardware and component assembly. In most developing countries the term “transmission structures” usually means lattice steel towers. The term actually includes a vast range of structural systems and configurations of various materials such as wood steel concrete and composites. This book discusses those systems along with associated topics such as structure functions and configurations load cases for design analysis techniques structure and foundation modeling design deliverables and latest advances in the field. In the foundations section theories related to direct embedment drilled shaf ts spread foundations and anchors are discussed in detail. Featuring worked out design problems for students the book is aimed at students practicing engineers researchers and academics. It contains beneficial information for those involved in the design and maintenance of transmission line structures and foundations. For those in academia it will be an adequate text-book / design guide for graduate-level courses on the topic. Engineers and managers at utilities and electrical corporations will find the book a useful reference at work. | Design of Electrical Transmission Lines Structures and Foundations

GBP 59.99
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Women Global Protest Movements and Political Agency Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

Women Global Protest Movements and Political Agency Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that decade rather than as a particular calendar year) focusing on cultural memory of the powerful signifier '68' and women’s experience of revolutionary agency. After an opening interrogation of the historical and contemporary significance of 1968 – why does it still matter? how and why is it remembered in the contexts of gender and geopolitics? and what implications does it have for broader feminist understandings of women and revolutionary agency? – the contributors explore women’s historical involvement in 1968 in different parts of the world and the different ways in which women’s experience as victims and perpetrators of violence are remembered and understood. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history politics and international relations sociology cultural studies and women’s studies. | Women Global Protest Movements and Political Agency Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

GBP 39.99
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Understanding Tourette Syndrome A guide to symptoms management and treatment

Understanding Tourette Syndrome A guide to symptoms management and treatment

Understanding Tourette Syndrome provides accessible concise evidence-based guidelines on this neurodevelopmental disorder offering parents and professionals a deeper scientific understanding of the condition and its consequences. Zanaboni Dina and Porta explore signs symptoms and treatment of the disease with the aim of demonstrating to all those involved in the life of a TS child solutions to manage a range of situations from diagnosis to day-to-day life. Therapies and social intervention including Habit Reversal Training and Deep Brain Stimulation are described allowing caregivers to evaluate the best course of treatment. With a focus on improving quality of life by offering practical recommendations for managing the condition at school and in the family it places additional emphasis on sibling relationships and the importance of childhood friendship. The authors’ expert subject knowledge and extensive experience of working with children and families makes the topic accessible for any reader and case studies demonstrate how to apply scientific understanding of the condition to a real-life situation. This unique guide is essential reading for parents and carers as well as practitioners in Clinical and Educational Psychology Counselling Mental Health Nursing Child Welfare Public Healthcare and those in Education. It will also be of interest to postgraduates studying courses in Psychology Neurology and Psychiatry. | Understanding Tourette Syndrome A guide to symptoms management and treatment

GBP 27.99
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Pocket Handbook of Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine

Pocket Handbook of Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine

Sources of clinical treatment information on nonhuman primates are generally scattered across journals textbooks conferences personal conversations and more. However when a clinician on the treatment floor is faced with a patient requiring an immediate treatment decision time spent on making an informed decision becomes a critical factor. An alternative to conducting a literature search in time-sensitive situations the Pocket Handbook of Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine supplies guidance and initial direction on diagnosis and treatment including working doses based on past case experience. It is the frank to-the-point nature of the writing that makes readers feel as if they had just asked a colleague how to approach a clinical problem and obtained a quick what you need to know answer. The chapter authors draw on personal experience to describe commonly encountered clinical conditions and how to treat these cases including not only the dos but also the don ts. This format gives readers easy access to clinical signs diagnostic criteria and options for treatment. The Pocket Handbook of Nonhuman Primate Clinical Medicine is a convenient concise case-based handbook written by and for clinicians in charge of the diagnosis and treatment of nonhuman primate patients. Available in both print and electronic formats this handbook saves readers from having to wade through pages of data and case studies to find answers when time is a factor on the clinic floor.

GBP 175.00
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Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture

Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture

In the contemporary practice of architecture digital design and fabrication are emergent technologies in transforming how architects present a design and form a material strategy that is responsible equitable sustainable resilient and forward-looking. This book exposes dialogue between history theory design construction technology and sensory experience by means of digital simulations that enhance the assessment and values of our material choices. It offers a critical look to the past to inspire the future. This new edition looks to Alvar Aalto as the primary protagonist for channeling discussions related to these topics. Architects like ALA Shigeru Ban 3XN Peter Zumthor and others also play the role of contemporary guides in this review. The work of Aalto and selected contemporary architects along with computer modeling software showcase the importance of comprehensive design. Organized by the five Ts of contemporary architectural discourse—Typology Topology Tectonics Technic Thermodynamics—each chapter is used to connect history through Aalto and develop conversations concerning historical and contemporary models digital simulations ecological and passive/active material concerns construction and fabrications and healthy sensorial environments. Written for students and academics this book bridges knowledge from academia into practice and vice versa to help architects become better stewards of the environment make healthier and more accountable buildings and find ways to introduce policy to make technology a critical component in thinking about and making architecture. | Alvar Aalto and the Future of Architecture

GBP 35.99
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The OEE Primer Understanding Overall Equipment Effectiveness Reliability and Maintainability

The OEE Primer Understanding Overall Equipment Effectiveness Reliability and Maintainability

A valuable tool for establishing and maintaining system reliability overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) has proven to be very effective in reducing unscheduled downtime for companies around the world. So much so that OEE is quickly becoming a requirement for improving quality and substantiating capacity in leading organizations as well as a required area of study for the ISO/TS 16949. Breaking down the methodology from a historical perspective The OEE Primer: Understanding Overall Equipment Effectiveness Reliability and Maintainability explores the overall effectiveness of machines and unveils novel methods that focus on design improvement—including hazard analysis rate of change of failure (ROCOF) analysis failure rate finite element analysis (FEA) and theory of inventive problem solving (TRIZ). It covers loss of effectiveness new machinery electrical maintenance issues Weibull distribution measurement techniques and mechanical and electrical reliability. The book also: Discusses Reliability and Maintainability (R&M) not as tools to be used in specific tasks rather as a disciplineCovers the application of OEE as an overall improvement toolAssesses existing and new equipment from classical reliability and maintainability perspectives Includes downloadable resources with more than 100 pages of appendices and additional resources featuring statistical tables outlines case studies guidelines and standardsIntroducing the classical approach to improvement this book provides an understanding of exactly what OEE is and how it can be best applied to address capacity issues. Highlighting mechanical and electrical opportunities throughout the text includes many tables forms and examples that clearly illustrate and enhance the material presented. | The OEE Primer Understanding Overall Equipment Effectiveness Reliability and Maintainability

GBP 175.00
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The Anti-Oedipus Complex Lacan Critical Theory and Postmodernism

The Anti-Oedipus Complex Lacan Critical Theory and Postmodernism

The Anti-Oedipus Complex critically explores the post-‘68 dramatic developments in Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis and cultural theory. Beginning with the decline of patriarchy and the master exemplified by Freud’s paean for the Father the revolutionary path was blown wide open by anti-psychiatry schizoanalysis and radical politics the complex antinomies of which are traced here in detail with the help of philosophers such as Nietzsche Baudrillard Levinas Steiner Žižek Badiou Derrida and Girard as well as theologians analysts writers musicians and film makers. In this book Rob Weatherill starting from the clinic considers the end of hierarchies the loss of the Other new subjectivities so-called ‘creative destruction’ the power of negative thinking revolutionary action divine violence and new forms of extreme control. Where does this leave the psychoanalytic clinic – adrift in postmodern indifference? Does the engagement of the Radical Orthodoxy movement offer some hope? Or should we re-situate psychoanalysis within a ‘genealogy of responsibility’ (Patočka / Derrida) as it emerges out of the sacred demonic via Plato and Christianity? The Anti-Oedipus Complex will be of interest to psychoanalysts psychotherapists counsellors social workers and scholars in critical theory philosophy cultural theory literary theory and theology. | The Anti-Oedipus Complex Lacan Critical Theory and Postmodernism

GBP 46.99
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Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Interpersonal Trauma STAIR Narrative Therapy

Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Interpersonal Trauma STAIR Narrative Therapy

Now revised and expanded with 50% new content reflecting important clinical refinements this manual presents a widely used evidence-based therapy approach for adult survivors of chronic trauma. Skills Training in Affective and Interpersonal Regulation (STAIR) Narrative Therapy helps clients to build crucial social and emotional resources for living in the present and to break the hold of traumatic memories. Highly clinician friendly the book provides everything needed to implement STAIR-including 68 reproducible handouts and session plans-and explains the approach's theoretical and empirical bases. The large-size format facilitates photocopying; purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. First edition title: Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse: Psychotherapy for the Interrupted Life. New to This Edition *Reorganized simplified sessions make implementation easier. *Additional session on emotion regulation with a focus on body-based strategies. *Sessions on self-compassion and on intimacy and closeness in relationships. *Chapter on emerging applications such as group and adolescent STAIR and clinical contexts such as primary care and telemental health. *Many new or revised handouts-now downloadable. *Updated for DSM-5 and ICD-11. | Treating Survivors of Childhood Abuse and Interpersonal Trauma STAIR Narrative Therapy

GBP 40.99
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Guide to Research Projects for Engineering Students Planning Writing and Presenting

Guide to Research Projects for Engineering Students Planning Writing and Presenting

Presents an Integrated Approach Providing Clear and Practical Guidelines Are you a student facing your first serious research project? If you are it is likely that you‘ll be firstly overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task and secondly lost as to how to go about it. What you really need is a guide to walk you through all aspects of the research project from planning and conducting your research project to writing and presenting it. Guide to Research Projects for Engineering Students: Planning Writing and Presenting is the guide you need to do the job efficiently. Specifically Designed with Engineering and Technical Science Students in Mind The book is organized into three sections broken down into concise chapters that focus on a specific topic and the skills required. The section on planning shows you how to choose a project research a topic write a project proposal plan the project select methods and methodologies and keep records. The section on writing provides help on writing the different sections of a research report as well as introduces you to the strategies and language conventions required for writing an effective research report. Finally the section on presenting covers creating effective figures and layout preparing for a project presentation and the dos and don ts in delivering a presentation. Advice on how to use IT tools effectively is given throughout the book. Contains highly practical content includes tips on how to conduct research write it up effectively and avoid common errors and pitfalls in grammar and style Offers guidance on using IT tools (which are indispensable in research) Includes pertinent examples of best practices on conducting research and research writing The authors have drawn on their many years of experience teaching | Guide to Research Projects for Engineering Students Planning Writing and Presenting

GBP 175.00
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Biculturalism at New Zealand’s National Museum An Ethnography of Te Papa

Biculturalism at New Zealand’s National Museum An Ethnography of Te Papa

The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa has been celebrated as an international leader for its bicultural concept and partnership with Māori in all aspects of the museum but how does this relationship with the indigenous partner work in practice? Biculturalism at New Zealand’s National Museum reveals the challenges benefits and politics of implementing a bicultural framework in everyday museum practice. Providing an analysis of the voices of museum employees the book reflects their multifaceted understandings of biculturalism and collaboration. Based on a year of intensive fieldwork behind the scenes at New Zealand’s national museum and drawing on 68 interviews and participant observations with 18 different teams across the organisation this book examines the interactions and cultural clashes between Māori and non-Māori museum professionals in their day-to-day work. Documenting and analysing contemporary museum practices this account explores how biculturalism is enacted negotiated practised and envisioned on different stages within the complex social institution that is the museum. Lessons learnt from Te Papa will be valuable for other museums NGOs the public service and organisations facing similar issues around the world. Biculturalism at New Zealand’s National Museum addresses a gap in the literature on biculturalism and reaffirms the importance of ethnography to the anthropological enterprise and museum studies research. As such it will be essential reading for academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of cultural anthropology museum anthropology museum studies and Māori studies or indigenous studies. It should also be of great interest to museum professionals. | Biculturalism at New Zealand’s National Museum An Ethnography of Te Papa

GBP 38.99
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Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management

Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management

This book explores the link between the Food-Water-Energy nexus and sustainability and the extraordinary value that small tweaks to this nexus can achieve for more resilient cities and communities. Using data from Urban Living Labs in six participating cities (Eindhoven Gdańsk Miami Southend-on-Sea Taipei and Uppsala) to co-define context-specific challenges the results from each city are collated into an Integrated Decision Support System to guide and improve robust decision-making on future urban development. The book presents contributions from CRUNCH a transdisciplinary team of scholars and practitioners whose expertise spans urban climate modelling; food water and energy management; the design of resilient public space; collecting better urban data; and the development of smart city technology. Whilst previous works on the Food-Water-Energy nexus have focused on large transnational cases this book explores local ways to use the Food-Water-Energy nexus to improve urban resilience. It suggests tangible ways in which the cities and communities around us can become both more efficient and more climate resilient through small changes to their existing infrastructure. Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas and this is expected to increase to 68% by 2050. We urgently need to make our cities more resilient. This book provides a planning tool for decision-making and concludes with policy recommendations making it relevant to a range of audiences including urbanists environmentalists architects urban designers and city planners as well as students and scholars interested in alternative approaches to sustainability and resilience. Chapter 2 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. | Designing Sustainable and Resilient Cities Small Interventions for Stronger Urban Food-Water-Energy Management

GBP 31.99
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CRC World Dictionary of Palms Common Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology (2 Volume Set)

CRC World Dictionary of Palms Common Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology (2 Volume Set)

From the ForewordUmberto Quattrocchi has brought us some amazing and useful works through the various dictionaries that he has compiled. This time it is for two very important plant families the palms and the cycads that are synthesized here in these two volumes. Each entry is fascinating not just for the botany and full nomenclature of the plant species but for all the associated uses folklore and interactions with other organisms. . These entries are fascinating glimpses of natural history. . Botanists conservationists ethnobotanists anthropologists geographers bird watchers naturalists historians and those of many other disciplines will find these volumes a most valuable and useful resource. It is the sort of book that will be in frequent use in my library. - Professor Sir Ghillean Prance FRS VMH Former Director Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Following the same format as Umberto Quattrocchi’s highly praised and well-used previous works The CRC World Dictionary of Palms: Common Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology brings together the vast and scattered literature on palms and cycads to provide better access to information on these economically important plants. Each genus and species has a detailed morphological description and includes a list of synonyms and vernacular names in many languages. Bibliographies accompany each entry which are comprehensive up-to-date and multi-lingual. The detailed information for every entry on habitats economic uses historical and biographical data botanical exploration and linguistics will be useful for any library involved with botany herbal medicine pharmacognosy medicinal and natural product chemistry ecology ethnobotany systematics general plant science agriculture or horticulture. Umberto Quattrocchi is the author of the bestselling CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names winner of the prestigious Hanbury Botanical Garden Award. His most recent multi-volume work CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants received strong praise as being . an unparalleled starting place—a tool of first resort for any thoughtful researcher. Quattrocchi and CRC have delivered a dictionary like no other a learned finger pointing in the right direction. —John de la Parra Northeastern University Boston Massachusetts USA from Economic Botany Vol. 68 2014 | CRC World Dictionary of Palms Common Names Scientific Names Eponyms Synonyms and Etymology (2 Volume Set)

GBP 300.00
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