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Extreme Environments Unique Ecosystems – Amazing Microbes

Extreme Environments Unique Ecosystems – Amazing Microbes

The book Extreme Environments: Unique Ecosystems – Amazing Microbes is an attempt to showcase the uniqueness of extremophiles the largely unexplored group that has the abilities to function in hostile conditions and represent the very ancient life forms that thrived on earth billions of years ago. The book covers a wide range of research achievements in the field of microbiology of extreme environments right from the conventional approaches of cultivation to recently evolved high throughput sequencing technologies. The book provides a broad spectrum of information about the taxonomy physiology ecology and biotechnological applications of extremophiles from various extreme environments across the globe. | Extreme Environments Unique Ecosystems – Amazing Microbes

GBP 59.99
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Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis Methods and Applications

Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis Methods and Applications

Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis: Methods and Applications presents a broad overview of statistical modeling of extreme events along with the most recent methodologies and various applications. The book brings together background material and advanced topics eliminating the need to sort through the massive amount of literature on the subject. After reviewing univariate extreme value analysis and multivariate extremes the book explains univariate extreme value mixture modeling threshold selection in extreme value analysis and threshold modeling of non-stationary extremes. It presents new results for block-maxima of vine copulas develops time series of extremes with applications from climatology describes max-autoregressive and moving maxima models for extremes and discusses spatial extremes and max-stable processes. The book then covers simulation and conditional simulation of max-stable processes; inference methodologies such as composite likelihood Bayesian inference and approximate Bayesian computation; and inferences about extreme quantiles and extreme dependence. It also explores novel applications of extreme value modeling including financial investments insurance and financial risk management weather and climate disasters clinical trials and sports statistics. Risk analyses related to extreme events require the combined expertise of statisticians and domain experts in climatology hydrology finance insurance sports and other fields. This book connects statistical/mathematical research with critical decision and risk assessment/management applications to stimulate more collaboration between these statisticians and specialists. | Extreme Value Modeling and Risk Analysis Methods and Applications

GBP 44.99
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Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

Extreme intelligence is strongly correlated with the highest of human achievement but also paradoxically with higher relationship conflict career difficulty mental illness and high-IQ crime. Increased intelligence does not necessarily increase success; it should be considered as a minority special need that requires nurturing. This book explores the social development and predicaments of those who possess extreme intelligence and the consequent personal and professional implications for them. It uniquely integrates insights and knowledge from the research fields of intelligence giftedness genius and expertise with those from depth psychology emphasising the importance of finding ways to talk effectively about extreme intelligence and how it can better be supported and embraced. The author supports her arguments throughout reviewing the academic literature alongside representations of genius in history fiction and the media and draws on her own first-hand research interviews and consulting work with multinational high-IQ adults. This book is essential reading for anyone supporting or working with the highly gifted as well as those researching or interested by the field of intelligence. | Extreme Intelligence Development Predicaments Implications

GBP 27.99
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Agrometeorology in Extreme Events and Natural Disasters

Agrometeorology in Extreme Events and Natural Disasters

Despite the current technological advancement agriculture is still a vital source of livelihood. It is essentially dependent on weather and climate and adversely affected by extreme events in this respect. Over the past few decades extreme events such as droughts floods storms tropical cyclones and forest fires have destroyed economic and social infrastructure and at the same time endangered food security. The agricultural sector is affected through the impact on water resources damage to crops rangelands and forests due to incidence of droughts locust plagues and wildland fires. While natural hazards may not be avoided the integration of risk assessment and early warnings with prevention and mitigation measures can prevent them from becoming disasters. Improved forecast accuracy and mroe focused information on the location intensity and duration of climate extremes could underpin efforts to implement more effective risk management strategies. This book based on state of the art knowledge on the science and application of agricultural meteorology needed to better cope with extreme climate events should be of interest to all organizations and agencies engaged in planning disaster reduction strategies and mitigation of extreme events. | Agrometeorology in Extreme Events and Natural Disasters

GBP 140.00
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France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

This book examines the extreme right in France during the interwar period. It begins by describing the background of the French right before 1914 and then provides commentary and analysis of the broad range of the extra-parliamentary right in interwar France. Organisations such as Action Française and the militant ligues are examined as well as prominent extreme-right intellectuals such as Lucien Rebatet Robert Brasillach and Pierre Drieu la Rochelle. The various forms of French anti-Semitism are assessed and the book also situates the French extreme right within a broader context by assessing its impact on other European countries including the UK. It concludes by exploring the complicated politics of wartime France where some extreme-right activists collaborated with the Nazis while others opposed them and where few generalisations prove possible. This volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of French history the extreme right and interwar politics. | France’s Purveyors of Hatred Aspects of the French Extreme Right and its Influence 1918–1945

GBP 36.99
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Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

In Living with Extreme Intelligence: Developing Essential Communication Skills Dr Sonja Falck provides a unique and practical manual of how to improve interpersonal interactions that involve adults who stand out from the neurotypical majority by having top 2% IQ. Her main message is that understanding the individual differences involved in extreme intelligence and mastering relevant communication skills can break through barriers of frustration underachievement and loneliness to bring about brain-changingly positive conversations and interpersonal effectiveness connection and joy. Dr Falck begins by explaining the neurophysiological and social foundations of why we communicate the way we do and then explains in detail seven essential communication skills. Following this she shows how to put these skills into practice applying insights from depth psychology and demonstrating how to have better conversations in a variety of contexts from general social gatherings to the workplace and intimate relationships. Particular attention is paid to areas that Dr Falck’s research and professional practice have repeatedly shown her are challenging for adults with extreme intelligence such as small talk office politics dating and handling conflict. She draws on case examples from her consulting work (psychotherapy and coaching) with clients who have extreme intelligence and examples from novels cinema the media the literature on giftedness and biographical material on high-profile high-IQ figures like Steve Jobs Elon Musk and Lady Gaga. Throughout she emphasizes the theme from her original model of interpersonal relating which is that experiencing freedom of self-expression with others who offer you a high level of acceptance is what puts you in a state of thriving. The book provides step-by-step guidance for engaging in numerous interpersonal situations such as how to handle difficult conversations how to write effective emails how to breathe listen play take a risk bond repair a broken connection and keep yourself well through changes like failure success and falling in love. It is essential reading for anyone affected by or interested in issues associated with extremely high intelligence. | Living with Extreme Intelligence Developing Essential Communication Skills

GBP 24.99
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Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

This volume uses the extreme case of misers to examine interlocking categories that undergirded the emergence of modern British society including new perspectives on charity morality and marriage; new representations of passion and sympathy; and new modes of saving spending and investment. Misers surveys this class of people—as invented and interpreted in sermons poems novels and plays; analyzed by economists and philosophers; and profiled in obituaries and biographies—to explore how British attitudes about saving money shifted between 1700 and 1860. As opposed to the century before the nineteenth century witnessed a new appreciation for misers as economists credited them with adding to the nation's stock of capital and novelists newly imagined their capacity to empathize with fellow human beings. These characters shared the spotlight with real people who posthumously donned that label populating into a cottage industry of miser biographies by the 1850s. By the time A Christmas Carol appeared in 1843 many Victorians had come to embrace misers as links that connected one generation’s extreme saving with the next generation’s virtuous spending. With a broad chronological period this volume is useful for students and scholars interested in representation of misers in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. | Misers British Responses to Extreme Saving 1700–1860

GBP 130.00
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Managing Extreme Behaviours in the Early Years

Managing Extreme Behaviours in the Early Years

Increasing numbers of children attending pre school provision have led to increasing referrals to the advisory services for behavioural issues. Children appear to be having difficulty conforming to social expectations in educational settings and are presenting us with more extreme behaviours. In spite of much advice already available in the form of written material books and TV programmes there appears to be an increase in behaviours reported and in practitioners searching for managing strategies. The suggested strategies are based upon long varied experiences in real life situations and have a grounding in practice designed to be manageable realistic and relevant to educational settings. They cover the following behaviours: Self harm Hitting Running away Sexualised behaviour Refusal to talk Uncooperative behaviour Aggressive behaviour Managing Extreme Behaviours in the Early Years the fifth of the Tried and Tested Strategies series is a ready-to-hand and easy to read guide for those dealing with problem behaviour and who do not always have the time to search for solutions.

GBP 130.00
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Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

This book considers the nature causes and consequences of extreme pro- and anti-sustainability rhetoric exploring how and why the expressions of radical views on sustainability-related themes may prevent real sustainable development. Following a thorough introduction on sustainability rhetoric on dialogue and on the role played by ideologies in the building of environmental beliefs Fracarolli Nunes and Lee Park examine positions and statements expressed or made by individuals companies governments and NGOs in the last decades. The outcomes of these considerations lead to the classification of expressions in different categories of sustainability rhetoric laying the groundwork for the development of a ‘sustainability spectrum’: a metric for the level of radicalization of sustainability positions which ranges from apocalyptic views to ultimate denial. Through the combination of historical perspectives theoretical frameworks and conceptual developments this book provides a foundation for a more informed and productive dialogue between radically opposing views on sustainability issues. This volume will be of great interest to students scholars and practitioners researching and working in the areas of environmental communication and media environmental politics and sustainable development. | Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development

GBP 130.00
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The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

Featuring a unique overview of the different forms of extreme violence this book considers the psychology of extreme violence alongside a variety of contributing factors such as brain abnormalities in homicide offenders. Featuring several contemporary real-world case studies this book offers insight into the psychology of serial homicide offenders mass shooters school shooters and lone-actor terrorists. The main purpose of this book is not to glorify or condemn the actions of these individuals but to attempt to explain the motivations and circumstances that inspire such acts of extreme violence. By adopting a detailed case study approach it aims to increase our understanding of the specific motivations and psychological factors underlying extreme violence. Using nontechnical language this book is the ideal companion for students researchers and forensic practitioners interested in the multidisciplinary nature of extreme violence. This book will also be of interest to students taking courses on homicide mass shooting school shooting terrorism forensic psychology and criminology and criminal justice. | The Psychology of Extreme Violence A Case Study Approach to Serial Homicide Mass Shooting School Shooting and Lone-actor Terrorism

GBP 35.99
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Femtosecond Laser-Matter Interactions Solid-Plasma-Solid Transformations at the Extreme Energy Density

Femtosecond Laser-Matter Interactions Solid-Plasma-Solid Transformations at the Extreme Energy Density

This book describes the ultra-short laser–matter interactions from the subtle atomic motion to the generation of extreme pressures inside the bulk of a transparent crystal. It is the successor to Femtosecond Laser–Matter Interactions: Theory Experiment and Applications (2011). Explanation and experimental verification of the exceptional technique for the phase transformations under high pressure are in the core of the book. The novel phase formation occurs along the unique solid-plasmasolid transformation path: the memory of the initial state is lost after conversion to plasma. New phase forms from chaos during the cooling to the ambient. The pressure-affected material remains detained inside a pristine crystal at the laboratory tabletop. Unique super-dense aluminium and new phases of silicon were created by the confined micro-explosions. The text also describes the recent studies that used the quasi-non-diffracting Bessel beams. The applications comprise the new high-pressure material formation and micromachining. The book is an appealing source for readers interested in the cutting-edge research exploring extreme conditions and creating nanostructures at the laboratory tabletop. | Femtosecond Laser-Matter Interactions Solid-Plasma-Solid Transformations at the Extreme Energy Density

GBP 139.00
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Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

As historians rediscover human society to be as much about desire fantasy and irrationality as it is about interest reality and reason the history of psychoanalytic thought takes on an increasing significance. Its growth and interconnection with other fields appealed to the eclectic and holistic interests of historians so much so that the term psychohistory was coined admiringly ambivalently or perjoratively. The methodological intersection of psychology and history also helped move us toward a more inclusive social history through investigation of the institutional history of medical sciences of the mind. Treating Mind and Body examines the recent history of psychotherapy psychoanalysis and medicine in Germany through a series of original essays by Geoffrey Cocks. The first section Psychotherapy analyzes the history of psychotherapy in the Third Reich and includes such essays as The Professionalization of Psychotherapy in Germany and The Nazis and C. G. Jung which examines Jung's association with the Nazi regime and the rift between Jungians and Freudians. Section two Psychoanalysis considers the repression of memory evident among German psychoanalysts a more disturbing historical reality than the traditional view of a Nazi destruction of psychoanalysis. Essays include Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in Germany Since 1939 as well as a discussion of Heinz Kohut's self psychology in light of Kohut's life experience in Austria and America. In section three Cocks treats medicine the history of professions and the increasing awareness among historians of the place of medicine hi Nazi plans and projects. Essays include Jews and Medicine in Modern German Society and The Nuremberg Doctor's Trial and Medicine in Modern Germany. As a historian of Germany psychoanalysis and medicine Cocks's writings reflect an abiding interest in the intersections of psychology and history. To his selection of previously published essays he adds a new introduction placing the essays in newer richer contexts. This book will be of interest to psychologists psychiatrists and psychotherapists as well as those in the fields of medicine history and sociology. | Treating Mind and Body Essays in the History of Science Professions and Society Under Extreme Conditions

GBP 27.99
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Wind Loading of Structures

Wind Loading of Structures

Wind forces from extreme wind events are the dominant loading for many parts of the world exacerbated by climate change and the continued construction of tall buildings and structures. This authoritative source for practising and academic structural engineers and graduate students ties the principles of wind loads on structures to the relevant aspects of meteorology bluff-body aerodynamics probability and statistics and structural dynamics. This new edition covers: Climate change effects on extreme winds – particularly those from tropical cyclones hurricanes and typhoons Modelling of potential wind vulnerability and damage Developments in extreme value probability analysis of extreme wind speeds and directions Explanation of the difference between ‘return period’ and ‘average recurrence interval’ as well as ‘bootstrapping’ techniques for deriving confidence limits Wind over water and profiles and turbulence in non-synoptic winds An expanded chapter on internal pressures produced by wind for various opening and permeability scenarios Aerodynamic shaping of high- and low-rise buildings Recent developments in five major wind codes and standards A new chapter on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) as applied to wind engineering A greatly expanded appendix providing the basic information on extreme wind climates for over 140 countries and territories Additional examples for many chapters in this book | Wind Loading of Structures

GBP 66.99
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Concrete Structures Subjected to Impact and Blast Loadings and Their Combinations

Concrete Structures Subjected to Impact and Blast Loadings and Their Combinations

Although much research focuses on investigating the responses of reinforced concrete (RC) structures under sole impact or blast loads the responses of RC structures under a combination of impact and blast loads currently represent a gap in our knowledge. The combined actions of impact and blast loadings may be applied to RC structures during accidental or intentional collision of vessels vehicles etc. carrying explosive materials. A comprehensive study on the vulnerability of various structural members is carried out using finite element (FE) simulations under combination of impact and blast loads with the variations of various loading- and structural-related parameters and key parameters. This book introduces various structural analysis approaches for concrete structures when subjected to extreme loads such as impact and blast loadings. The theory of the combinations of impact and blast loads is proposed that can provide primary insights to the specific readers to develop new ideas in impact and blast engineering including combined actions of extreme loads arising from real-world intentional or accidental events. This book will be of value to students (undergraduate or postgraduate) engineers and researchers in structural and civil engineering and specifically those who are studying and investigating the performances of concrete structures under extreme loads. | Concrete Structures Subjected to Impact and Blast Loadings and Their Combinations

GBP 82.99
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Global Heating and the Australian Far Right

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right

Global Heating and the Australian Far Right examines the environmental politics of far-right actors and movements in Australia exploring their broader political context and responses to climate change. The book traces the development of far-right pseudo-environmentalism and territorial politics from colonial genocide and Australian nationalism to extreme-right political violence. Through a critical analysis of news and social media it reveals how denialist and resignatory attitudes towards climate change operate alongside extreme right accelerationism in a wider Australian political context characterised by reactionary fossil fuel politics and neoliberal New Right climate change agendas. The authors scrutinise the manipulation of environmental politics by contemporary Australian far- and extreme-right actors in cross-national online media. They also assess the political-ideological context of the contemporary far right addressing intergovernmental approaches to security threats connected to the far right and climate change and the emergence of radical environmentalist traditions in ‘New Catastrophism’ literature. The conclusion synthesises key insights analysing the mainstreaming of ethnonationalist and authoritarian responses to global heating and potential future trajectories of far-right movements exploiting the climate crisis. It also emphasises the necessity for radical political alternatives to counter the far right’s exploitation of climate change. This book will be of interest to researchers of climate change the far right neoliberal capitalism extremism and Australian politics.

GBP 130.00
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Information Processing in Animals Memory Mechanisms

Information Processing in Animals Memory Mechanisms

First published in 1982. During the past fifty years dramatic changes have occurred in the use of laboratory animals to study learning and memory. Yet the basic reasons for this research diverse as they are have not changed. At one extreme is the need for relatively direct application of findings with animal models to medical or educational problems of humans; at the other extreme the quest for understanding animal behavior for its own sake. It is probably fair to say that no chapters in this book represent either of these extremes although in each case the author’s purposes can be said to be like those of some scientists working in this area fifty years ago. In contrast to this continuity of purpose the approach that scientists now take in this area of study is really quite different from that of most or all scientists in the 1930s. | Information Processing in Animals Memory Mechanisms

GBP 175.00
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The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia–Ukraine Conflict provides a comprehensive account of the postwar parliamentary and extra parliamentary far right in Italy. This book explores the ideology movements and activism of the extreme right and neo- fascists. The recent victory in the Italian parliamentary elections of the ‘post-fascist’ party Fratelli d’Italia and its leader Giorgia Meloni highlights the importance of such research. The book examines why some of these movements participated with CIA- backing in the ‘Strategy of Tension’ in the years of the Cold War where terrorist actions aimed to keep Italy in NATO and prevent the Communist Party from coming to power while other extreme- right groups vehemently opposed this and what they considered the dangerous ‘Americanization’ of the country. It debunks the myth that there was a unified postwar fascist movement in Italy but instead excavates the complex battles within the extreme right as well as with their opponents from the left and the authorities. This study is necessary to clarify the history and ideological dynamics of a political area still too often shrouded in mystery and whose geopolitical role is still poorly understood and generally underestimated. The analysis is contextualized in the present day by looking at the different perspectives of the Italian far right on the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The book will be of interest to researchers of political history the Cold War and Italian history and politics. | The Italian Far Right from 1945 to the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

GBP 35.99
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High Hopes The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition

High Hopes The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition

Now in paperback this perceptive psychological portrait of Clinton and his presidency investigates whether Clinton has demonstrated the necessary qualities of judgment vision character and skill as well as his ambition and extreme self-confidence. Renshon traces the development of Clinton's character from his early family experiences to his adolescence and long political career including the controversy surrounding Clinton's draft-dodging and marriage. | High Hopes The Clinton Presidency and the Politics of Ambition

GBP 160.00
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Statistics for the 21st Century Methodologies for Applications of the Future

Statistics for the 21st Century Methodologies for Applications of the Future

A selection of articles presented at the Eighth Lukacs Symposium held at the Bowling Green State University Ohio. They discuss consistency and accuracy of the sequential bootstrap hypothesis testing geometry in multivariate analysis the classical extreme value model the analysis of cross-classified data diffusion models for neural activity estimation with quadratic loss econometrics higher order asymptotics pre- and post-limit theorems and more. | Statistics for the 21st Century Methodologies for Applications of the Future

GBP 44.99
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The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber A Psychoanalytic Essay

The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber A Psychoanalytic Essay

Why does someone resolve to take his own life in order to murder other people? What is the state of mind which allows him to commit such a monstrous act? This book explores the mental state that compels certain individuals to perform murderous suicidal acts and emphasizes that whereas a suicidal terrorist attack can be described as a crime against humanity its protagonists cannot necessarily be classified as criminal or insane. There is no such a thing as a typical suicide terrorist - each attacker differs in age sex family status culture and even religion. Indeed the common elements in suicide terrorism should perhaps be sought not so much in the individuals concerned as in the dynamics rooted in their group family history or country. It may be extreme situations experienced by the group situations that are either objectively extreme or perceived as such that give rise to paradoxical behaviour at individual level. Psychoanalysis is well placed to consider this terrain. | The Enigma of the Suicide Bomber A Psychoanalytic Essay

GBP 130.00
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