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Asian Expansions The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia

Asian Expansions The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia

Asia as we know it today is the product of a wide range of polity expansions over time. Recognising the territorial expansions of Asian polities large and small through the last several millennia helps rectify the fallacy long-held and deeply entrenched that Asian polities have been interested only in the control of populations not in expanding their command of territory. In countering this misapprehension this book suggests that Asian polities have indeed been concerned with territorial control and expansion over time whether for political or strategic advantage trade purposes defence needs agricultural expansion or increased income through taxation. The book explores the historical experiences of a set of polity expansions within Asia specifically in East and Southeast Asia and by examining the motivations mechanisms processes validations and limitations of these Asian territorial expansions reveals the diverse avenues by which Asian polities have grown. The chapters draw on these historical examples to highlight the connections between Asian polity expansion and centralised political structures and this aids in a broader and more comprehensive understanding of Asian political practice both past and present. Through these chapter studies and the integrative introduction the book interrogates key concepts such as imperialism and colonialism and the applicability and relevance of such terminology in Asian contexts both historical and contemporary. Comparisons and contrasts with European historical expansions are also suggested. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars of Asian history as well as by those with an interest in Asian interactions international relations polity expansion Asia-Europe historical comparisons and globalisation. | Asian Expansions The Historical Experiences of Polity Expansion in Asia

GBP 46.99
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War and Empire The Expansion of Britain 1790-1830

War and Empire The Expansion of Britain 1790-1830

The years 1790 to 1830 saw Britain engage in an extensive period of war-waging and empire-building which transformed its position as an imperial state established its reputation as a distinctive military power and secured naval preeminence. Despite this apparent success Britain did not become a world super power in the conventional sense. Instead as Professor Collins demonstrates it operated as an enclave power influencing or dominating many regions of the world without ever asserting global hegemony. Even in the 1820s Britain still had to fight to maintain influence and sometimes struggled to assert dominance on the borderlands of the empire. By locating naval and military power at the heart of Britain's relationship with the wider world Bruce Collins offers an insightful reinterpretation of the interaction between military and naval war-making the expansion of the empire and the nature of the British regime. Using examples of conflicts ranging from continental Europe and Ireland to North America Africa and India he argues that the state‘s effectiveness in war was crucial to its imperial expansion and gives new significance to British military conduct in an age of revolution and war. | War and Empire The Expansion of Britain 1790-1830

GBP 175.00
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Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) A Practical Approach to Economic Development

Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) A Practical Approach to Economic Development

Business retention and expansion (BRE) is regarded as the most practical and accessible method for economic development at the city town or neighborhood scale. This comprehensive volume centers on the belief that BRE is the top responsibility for a community economic development official. BRE is an asset-based approach designed to systematically strengthen the connection between businesses and the community while encouraging each business to continue operations and expand in the community. It focuses on the community’s existing businesses instead of those it doesn’t have. This book illustrates many different facets of BRE from big-picture and theory to lessons learned about BRE from practitioners and academics with diverse perspectives and backgrounds. The authors demonstrate diverse ways of reaching out and responding to existing businesses. They explore several topics related to or at the very heart of BRE including: business clusters entrepreneurship community outcomes business assistance transportation systems energy efficiency business succession and defining BRE success. These include research program evaluation and case studies. This book offers both theoretical and applied points of views and will be of great interest to local practitioners state/provincial officials and students of economic development. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Community Development. | Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) A Practical Approach to Economic Development

GBP 38.99
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Bion Intuition and the Expansion of Psychoanalytic Theory

Bion Intuition and the Expansion of Psychoanalytic Theory

Bion Intuition and the Expansion of Psychoanalytic Theory illuminates how Bion’s work on intuition has changed the landscape of contemporary psychoanalysis through his understanding of its supra-scientific and non-sub-scientific condition. Based on the work of the biannual Bion conference this book includes contributions from the most eminent voices on Bion’s work. The global cohort of contributors in this volume examine topics such as dream work the Infinite Unconscious the Spectral model of the mind the realm of the minus and observation and intuition. Each chapter explores different elements arising from Bion’s insistence on learning from experience and establishing the difference between knowing and becoming as an experiential process of the mind as a container in relation to its contents of sensations feelings dreams and thoughts. This book will be of key interest to analysts and analytic therapists of all schools and is an essential resource for those that follow the work of Bion.

GBP 31.99
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Education Inequality and Social Class Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity

Education Inequality and Social Class Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity

Education Inequality and Social Class provides a comprehensive discussion of the empirical evidence for persistent inequality in educational attainment. It explores the most important theoretical perspectives that have been developed to understand class-based inequality and frame further research. With clear explanations of essential concepts this book draws on empirical data from the UK and other countries to illustrate the nature and scale of inequalities according to social background discussing the interactions of class-based inequalities with those according to race and gender. The book relates aspects of inequality to the features of educational systems showing how policy choices impact on the life chances of children from different class backgrounds. The relationship between education and social mobility is also explored using the concepts of social closure positionality and social congestion. The book also provides detailed discussions of the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Basil Bernstein two important theorists whose contributions have generated thriving research traditions much used in contemporary educational research. Education Inequality and Social Class will be essential reading for postgraduate and advanced undergraduate students engaged in the study of education childhood studies and sociology. It will also be of great interest to academics researchers and teachers in training. | Education Inequality and Social Class Expansion and Stratification in Educational Opportunity

GBP 39.99
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Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

Building a Global Learning Organization: Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group describes how a multinational company developed a global structure for learning based on the TWI (Training Within Industry) program to create and sustain standardized work across multiple language and cultural platforms. In this book Shingo Prize-winning author Patrick Graupp collaborates with two practitioners who performed the planning and implementation of the LEGO Group‘s worldwide Learning Organization. The book outlines the organizational and planning models used by the LEGO Group to create the internal ability to give and receive tacit skills and knowledge. Describing how and why TWI is used as the foundation for success in knowledge transfer across diverse languages and cultures it provides step-by-step guidance on how to establish a solid organizational foundation for your own Learning Organization. Providing expert insight into the work of culture change the book explains how to work with people to create motivation for moving to a new system of learning. It details the critical elements that made the implementation at the LEGO Group a success identifies the stumbling blocks they encountered along the way and explains how they were overcome. Case studies describe in detail what these efforts looked and felt like in actual application. The TWI program has long been recognized for its ability to generate results. After reading this book you will gain valuable insight into how your organization whether large or small national or international can integrate this timeless tool into your operating structure and your daily culture. | Building a Global Learning Organization Using TWI to Succeed with Strategic Workforce Expansion in the LEGO Group

GBP 175.00
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Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History Early Humans to Global Expansion (Vol. 1 Grades 7-10)

Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History Early Humans to Global Expansion (Vol. 1 Grades 7-10)

Spanning the time period from 15 000 BCE to 1500 CE Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History (Vol. 1) focuses on creating global connections between people and places using primary sources in standards-based lessons. With sections on early humans the ancient world classical antiquity and the world in transition this book provides teachers with inquiry-based ready-to-use lessons that can be adapted to any classroom and that encourage students to take part in the learning process by reading and thinking like historians. Each section contains chapters that correspond to the scope and sequence of most world history textbooks. Each inquiry lesson begins with an essential question and connections to content and literacy standards followed by primary source excerpts or links to those sources. Lessons include step-by-step directions incorporate a variety of literacy strategies and require students to make a hypothesis using evidence from the texts they have read. Grades 7-10 | Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History Early Humans to Global Expansion (Vol. 1 Grades 7-10)

GBP 29.99
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Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

This book examines suburban development in New Zealand and its conflict with and impact on local horticulture and food security. Drawing on an ethnographic study of Auckland’s rapidly expanding urban periphery combined with comparative case studies from California in the USA and Victoria in Australia the book examines how the profit-making strategies of property developers and landowners drastically reshapes work and life at the edge of cities. With a significant portion of the world's croplands lying adjacent to cities the accelerating pace of urban sprawl across the planet places unprecedented pressure on the productivity and even existence of these vital food bowl regions. The book examines how the demand for more land for development at the urban periphery collides with concerns over local food security and the protection of ecosystem services. It analyses land use policy historical records and physical patterns of development alongside participant observation of local events. It combines this with interviews with government officials property developers landowners local residents and horticulturists. By combining these narratives of the hectic and lucrative business of suburban property development with the collapse of local horticulture this book shows how the realignment of the New Zealand's interests of financial profitability over other concerns led to the transformation of urban peripheries from a productive food bowl to an investment vehicle. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of urban food and agriculture urban planning and development and rural-urban studies. | Urban Expansion and Food Security in New Zealand The Collapse of Local Horticulture

GBP 130.00
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The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

Discussion of medieval European expansion tends to focus on expansion eastward and the crusades. The selection of studies reprinted here however focuses on the other end of Eurasia where dwelled the warlike Celts and beyond whom lay the north seas and the awesome Atlantic Ocean formidable obstacles to expansion westward. This volume looks first at the legacy of the Viking expansion which had briefly created a network stretching across the sea from Britain and Ireland to North America and had demonstrated that the Atlantic could be crossed and land reached. The next sections deal with the English expansion in the western and northern British Isles. In the 12th century the Normans began the process of subjugating the Celts thus inaugurating for the English an experience which was to prove crucial when colonizing the Americas in the 17th century. Medieval Ireland in particular served as a laboratory for the development of imperial institutions attitudes and ideologies that shaped the creation of the British Empire and served as a staging area for further expansion westward. | The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe Vikings and Celts

GBP 48.99
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Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History Global Expansion to the Post-9/11 World (Vol. 2 Grades 7-10)

Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History Global Expansion to the Post-9/11 World (Vol. 2 Grades 7-10)

Spanning the time period from 750 CE to the present day Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History (Vol. 2) focuses on creating global connections between people and places using primary sources in standards-based lessons. With sections on the world in transition the era of revolutions imperialism and global war and the modern world this book provides teachers with inquiry-based ready-to-use lessons that can be adapted to any classroom and that encourage students to take part in the learning process by reading and thinking like historians. Each section contains chapters that correspond to the scope and sequence of most world history textbooks. Each inquiry lesson begins with an essential question and connections to content and literacy standards followed by primary source excerpts or links to those sources. Lessons include step-by-step directions incorporate a variety of literacy strategies and require students to make a hypothesis using evidence from the texts they have read. Grades 7-10 | Inquiry-Based Lessons in World History Global Expansion to the Post-9/11 World (Vol. 2 Grades 7-10)

GBP 29.99
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Expanding US Military Command in Africa Elites Networks and Grand Strategy

Expanding US Military Command in Africa Elites Networks and Grand Strategy

This book discusses the systematic expansion of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) across the continent of Africa. This book posits that AFRICOM expansion in Africa is part of a broader system of accumulation based on a government-business-media (GBM) complex. Applying the concept at both structural and descriptive levels the GBM complex is a function of the synergy between the state’s quest for power businesses’ need for expansion and the informational and hegemonic functions of media actors. The United States’ GBM complex in Africa is supported—and in some locations spearheaded—by its military with dispossessing effects on local actors. Drawing from African case studies analytical accounts and empirical case studies this book explores AFRICOM’s role within this broader strategy. The volume maps both the methods and the scope of this expansion as well as local resistance to this process and comprises perspectives from the five regions of Africa key sub-regional organizations and voices from Africa’s regional hegemons. This book will be of much interest to students of security studies strategic studies African politics and International Relations. | Expanding US Military Command in Africa Elites Networks and Grand Strategy

GBP 130.00
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World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

This latest volume in the World Yearbook of Education Series focuses on assessment systems and efforts to advance equity in education at a time of growing inequalities. It considers new economic trends and investigates how constraints appear to be influencing assessment and identification practices. The volume is organized around the following main issues: political motives behind the expansion of an assessment industry; the associated expansion of an SEN industry and; growth in consequential accountability systems. It ultimately seeks to provide reframings and reconceptualizations of assessment and identification by offering new insights into economic and cultural trends influencing them. | World Yearbook of Education 2017 Assessment Inequalities

GBP 35.99
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Swahili The Rise of a National Language

Swahili The Rise of a National Language

Originally published in 1969 this book examines the factors which at different historical periods led people to use one language (Swahili) rather than another or within a given period to use a particular language in one set of circumstances. The national language of Tanzania and much of East Africa Swahili is unique among African languages in its verse literature which dates back to the 18th Century and was written in the Arabic script. This book traces the remarkable expansion of Swahili which was linked with the expansion of trace missionary activities and the establishment of Colonial administrations and the development of education. | Swahili The Rise of a National Language

GBP 70.00
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Media as Politics in South Asia

Media as Politics in South Asia

The dramatic expansion of the media and communications sector since the 1990s has brought South Asia on the global scene as a major center for media production and consumption. This book is the first overview of media expansion and its political ramifications in South Asia during these years of economic reforms. From the puzzling liberalization of media under military dictatorship in Pakistan to the brutal killings of journalists in Sri Lanka and the growing influence of social media in riots and political protests in India Nepal and Bangladesh the chapters analyse some of the most important developments in the media fields of contemporary South Asia. Attentive to colonial histories as well as connections within and beyond South Asia in the age of globalization the chapters combine theoretically grounded studies with original empirical research to unravel the dynamics of media as politics. The chapters are organized around the three frames of participation control and friction. They bring to the fore the double edged nature of publicity and containment inherent in media thereby advancing postcolonial perspectives on the massive media transformation underway in South Asia and the global South more broadly. For the first time bringing together the cultural regulatory and social aspects of media expansion in a single perspective this interdisciplinary book fills the need for overview and analytical studies on South Asian media. | Media as Politics in South Asia

GBP 38.99
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Psychology Moving East The Status Of Western Psychology In Asia And Oceania

Psychology Moving East The Status Of Western Psychology In Asia And Oceania

Psychologists from nineteen countries in Asia and Oceania report on the expansion of western psychology in the region at both the academic and the professional levels. With its own network of associations conferences and journals the comminity of psychologists in the East has braved new frontiers for the discipline yet its achievements are litt | Psychology Moving East The Status Of Western Psychology In Asia And Oceania

GBP 39.99
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Black Women and White Women in the Professions Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender 1960-1980

Black Women and White Women in the Professions Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender 1960-1980

Women of all racial\ethnic backrounds and minority men have been hailed as the major beneficiaries of the expansion in political economic and employment opportunities of the 1960s and 1970s. The author uses data derived from a twenty year span of census material to provide a thorough analysis of gender and race segregation throughout the professional occupations in the U. S. during this period of massive social change. She makes clear the advances achieved by all groups-men and women black and white-during this period of economic expansion as well as insightfully evaluating the differential advantage of white men against all other race/gender groups. At the same time Professor Sokoloff provides compelling evidence challenging several myths such as that of the two-fer myth whereby black women are said to benefit two-fold from their race and gender statuses from affirmative action. | Black Women and White Women in the Professions Occupational Segregation by Race and Gender 1960-1980

GBP 175.00
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Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century

Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century

This book explores the anti-Islamic turn and expansion of the far right in Western Europe North America and beyond from 2001 and onwards. Driven by terror attacks and other moral shocks the anti-Islamic cause has undergone four waves of transnational expansion in the period since 2001. The leaders and intellectuals involved have varied backgrounds many coming from the left uniting historically opposed sets of values under their banner of a civilizational struggle against Islam. The findings presented in this book indicate that anti-Islamic initiatives in Western Europe and the United States form a transnational movement and subculture characterized by a fragile balance between liberal and authoritarian values. The author draws on a broad array of data sources and methods including network analysis and sentiment analysis to analyze the impact of the anti-Islamic expansion and turn at a macro level and the theoretical implications for our understanding of the current far right flowing from this. Offering an overview of anti-Islamic activism the book explores the background of their leaders and ideologues provides an in-depth look at their ideology online organizational networks and the views expressed by their online members as well as which emotions and messages continue to drive their mobilization. The book will be of interest to scholars in the social movement field as well as political scientists sociologists and general readers interested in issues such as populism extremism and understanding the ways in which the contemporary far right challenges liberal democracies. | Liberal Roots of Far Right Activism The Anti-Islamic Movement in the 21st Century

GBP 36.99
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Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

This edition represents a thorough reworking expansion and updating of an earlier work distributed in manuscript from under the title Acquisition through Creative Teaching (ACT). This book is written for teachers that is for a wide range of professional communicators and facilitators of learning. It is designed as a practical guide for teachers who wish to learn how to use the art of suggestion to help students tap remarkable brain capacities. | Act Approach:Artful Use/Sugges

GBP 175.00
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Western Germany From Defeat to Rearmament

Western Germany From Defeat to Rearmament

This book first published in 1955 examines the total economic political and social breakdown that Germany suffered in the last year of the Second World War and in its immediate aftermath and the beginnings of the recovery in the Western half of the now-divided nation. The process of ‘denazification’ is analysed as are the policies of the occupying powers and the subsequent political stability and economic expansion. | Western Germany From Defeat to Rearmament

GBP 27.99
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