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Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

The only cure for a deadly plague sweeping the country is the crystal fang of a dragon that has terrorised the surrounding countryside for many years. Until now the location of its den on Dragon Ridge Mountain has remained a mystery. In a race against time Jack battles through a storm to reach the top of Dragon Ridge Mountain. With Merlin to guide him Jack enters the dragon’s den and comes face to face with the monstrous beast. This is a story of courage magic and one boy’s brave quest to fulfil a destiny foretold by the legends of long ago. Join Jack on his journey as he writes the story with the assistance of the magician Merlin and Punctua the Fairy Godmother of Writing to punctuate properly and become a bestselling author. Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4–6: Jack and the Crystal Fang is part of a short series of age-specific beautifully illustrated stories that can be read for pleasure and/or used as a contextualised resource containing a step-by-step guide to teaching punctuation. The characters from each story are used to demonstrate a range of punctuation rules in a fun and engaging way appropriate to the book’s age group. Areas covered include: formulating punctuation rules. the use of misconceptions to highlight common errors. teaching tips to provide a punctuation model. The book explores the impact of punctuation on reading understanding meaning and effect and can be used as a basis for pupils’ own punctuation or included in their ‘Writer’s Toolkit. ’ These new Descriptosaurus stories are an indispensable teaching aid for making punctuation fun for all primary teachers and literacy coordinators. | Descriptosaurus Punctuation in Action Years 4-6: Jack and the Crystal Fang

GBP 11.99
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Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing

Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing

Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives: Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing is a unique emotive and theorised narrative of a young girl’s experience of boarding school in Australia. Christine Jack traces its impact on the emerging identity of the child including sexual development and emotional capacity the transmission of trauma into adulthood and the long process of recovery. Interweaving her story with the experiences of Christopher Robin Milne she presents her memoir as an exemplar of how narrative writing can be employed in remembering and recovering from traumatic experiences. Unique and powerfully written Jack takes the reader on a journey into her childhood in Australian boarding school convents in the 1950s and 1960s. Comparing her experience with Christopher Robin Milne’s she interrogates his memoirs illustrating that boarding school trauma knows no boundaries of time and place. She investigates their emerging individuality before being sent to live an institutional life and traces their feelings of longing and loneliness as well as the impact of the abuse each endured there. As an educational historian Jack writes in a ground-breaking way from the perspective of an insider and outsider revealing how trauma remains in the unconscious wielding power over the life of the adult until the traumatic memories are recovered emotions released and associated dysfunctional behaviour changed restoring well-being. Engaging the lenses of history life-span and Jungian psychology feminist and trauma theory and boarding school trauma research this book positions narrative writing as a way of reducing the power of trauma over the lives of survivors. Personal and accessible this book will be essential reading for psychologists and educational historians as well as students and academics of psychology sociology trauma studies ex-boarders and those interested in the life of Christopher Robin Milne. | Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing

GBP 32.99
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Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes as well as the original illustrations by Kay Nielsen this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson – Green Magic (1928) Silver Magic (1929) and Red Magic (1930) – offers a combination of classic fairy tales alongside lesser known global and diverse tales. Red Magic contains such classics as “Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp” from the Arabian Nights “A Child’s Dream on a Star” by Dickens and “The Chimera” by Hawthorne. It also contains previously unpublished tales such as “Princess Silver Silk” and “The Enchanted Deer. ” It was Romer Wilson’s intention to combine the familiar with the unknown and to introduce authors and cultures from a variety of countries. As a researcher Wilson uncovered a remarkable amount of stories from other countries that remain unknown today. This collection gives voice to unique and intriguing tales that inspire children to have a better understanding of how people and their stories are alike despite major differences. Through his Preface and commentary Jack Zipes shows how all three books are a means to bring people together in the name of peace and justice. These books will therefore be of interest to anyone researching or studying fairy tales folklore and children’s literature as well as global or comparative literature and social justice. | Red Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson

GBP 120.00
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Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation. The practice-based research inquiry includes: interviews and interplay with five world-class jazz guitarists Lage Lund Jack Wilkins Ben Monder Rez Abbasi and Adam Rogers; a modal matrix for analyzing structure time and form in jazz guitar improvisation and musical analysis based on cognitive theories. By explaining the cognitive and musical foundations for expertise in jazz guitar improvisation this book illuminates how jazz guitarists' strategies are crucially dependent on context style and type of interplay. With accompanying video provided as an e-resource this material will be of interest to anyone fascinated by Jazz and Psychology of Music. | Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

GBP 38.99
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Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017

Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017

Beginning with Somerset Maugham’s innovative sexually dissident South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock’s gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second World War by Sylvia Townsend Warner Virginia Woolf George Orwell and the playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton. The final three chapters carry the discussion to the present in analyses of works by lesbian postcolonial and gay authors such as Sarah Waters Amitav Ghosh and Alan Hollinghurst. Focusing on questions about temporality and changes in gender and sexuality especially gay and lesbian straight and queer following the rejection of the Victorian patriarchal marriage model this study examines the continuing influence of late Victorian Aestheticist and Decadent culture in Modernist writing and its permutations in England. | Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017

GBP 38.99
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American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet

American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet

American Sports is a comprehensive analytical introduction to the history of American sports from the colonial era to the present. Pamela Grundy and Benjamin Rader outline the complex relationships between sports and class gender race religion and region in the United States. Building on changes in the previous edition which expanded the attention paid to women African Americans Native Americans and Latinos this edition adds numerous sidebars that examine subjects such as the Black Sox scandal the worldwide influence of Jack Johnson the significance of softball for lesbian athletes and the influence of the point spread on sports gambling. Insightful thorough and highly readable the new edition of American Sports remains the finest available introduction to the myriad ways in which sports have reinforced or challenged the values and behaviors of Americans as well as the structure of American society. | American Sports From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of the Internet

GBP 69.99
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Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness precarity failure and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness other authors such as Judith Butler Wendy Brown Jack Halberstam Lauren Berlant or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films memoirs and novels that deal with precarity alienation and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show unhappiness precarity vulnerability or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness—whatever that means. | Unhappy Beginnings Narratives of Precarity Failure and Resistance in North American Texts

GBP 130.00
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Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

‘The Woods are just Trees. The Trees are just Wood. ’ – All together In 1987 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine combined several classic fairy tales including Little Red Riding Hood Cinderella and Jack and the Beanstalk to create Into the Woods. Funny and heartfelt this musical explores what it might mean to act responsibly in society both as a parent and as a child. Situating the work within Sondheim’s oeuvre and the Broadway canon Olaf Jubin first offers a detailed reading of the show itself before discussing key productions in New York and London and 2014’s Oscar-nominated screen adaptation. The radically different approaches to staging Into the Woods are testament to how open the musical is to re-interpretation for new audiences. A combination of critical explication with performance and film analysis as well as an overview of popular and critical reception this book is meant for anyone who has enjoyed Into the Woods be it as a musical theatre fan an enchanted audience member a student or a dedicated theatre professional. | Sondheim and Lapine's Into the Woods

GBP 9.99
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Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

Originally published in 1987. In this book we find songs reflecting every aspect of life in the twentieth-century Royal Navy both upper and lower deck: war ship’s routine aviation submarines the antics of dockyard personnel not to mention the matelot’s shore-going adventures both amorous and bibulous. The compiler was well-known as a folk-singer though he began his career in the Royal Navy. Based on his personal collection of Navy songs this book proves that the sailor’s muse did not desert him with the passing of the sailing ship. It also dispels the notion that the modern Jack Tar when he produces any songs at all confines himself to the pornographic. With the songs Cyril Tawney interweaves a commentary on the Royal Navy setting providing a backdrop to the sailor’s own words. This book is of enduring appeal to all who have served as well as to students of twentieth-century oral tradition. | Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

GBP 31.99
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Plumbing Principles and Practice

Plumbing Principles and Practice

This book provides a complete introduction to plumbing services. It explains the principles and provides practical examples of the planning design installation and maintenance of the plumbing technologies applicable to single-storey buildings skyscrapers and everything in between. The book begins with an introduction to plumbing technology the trade and its evolution. Chapters then cover: Pipes fittings and accessories and their installation and testing Pumps and pumping systems Hydraulic principles Hot and cold water supply systems Fixtures and appliances Sanitary and storm drainage systems Special concerns such as seismic issues safety security and the state of the art. Written and the figures drawn by a registered professional engineer and experienced teacher this book is suitable for use on a wide range of courses from building services engineering civil engineering construction technology plumbing services environmental engineering water engineering and architectural technology. | Plumbing Principles and Practice

GBP 46.99
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Illustrated Theatre Production Guide

Illustrated Theatre Production Guide

Now in its fourth edition Illustrated Theatre Production Guide delivers a step-by-step approach to the most prevalent and established theatre production practices focusing on essential issues related to the construction of wooden fabric plastic and metal scenery used on the stage. Offering techniques and best-practice methods from experienced industry experts this book allows readers to create a foundation on which to build a successful and resourceful career behind the scenes in theatre production. The new edition has been fully updated to include the latest technology and current practices with four new chapters on Safety Automation Digital Fabrication and the Production Process and an emphasis on inclusivity and gender-neutral language. A must-have resource for both the community theatre worker who must be a jack of all trades and the student who needs to learn the fundamentals on his or her own Illustrated Theatre Production Guide covers all the necessities of theatre production through detailed lessons and hundreds of drawings. The book also includes access to a companion website featuring instruction videos tips for an eco-friendly production and additional images and resources.

GBP 52.99
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The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume 21 Special Issue 2023: Aesthetics Art Heidegger French Philosophy

The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume 21 Special Issue 2023: Aesthetics Art Heidegger French Philosophy

Volume XXI Special Issue 2023 Part 1: Phenomenological Perspectives on Aesthetics and Art Part 2: Heidegger and Contemporary French Philosophy Aim and Scope: The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy provides an annual international forum for phenomenological research in the spirit of Husserl’s groundbreaking work and the extension of this work by such figures as Reinach Scheler Stein Heidegger Sartre Levinas Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer. Contributors: Liliana Albertazzi Dimitris Apostolopoulos Gabriele Baratelli Anna Irene Baka Irene Breuer John Brough Peer Bundgaard Justin Clemens Richard Colledge Bryan Cooke Françoise Dastur Ivo De Gennaro Natalie Depraz Helena De Preester Daniele De Santis Madalina Diaconu Arto Haapala Robyn Horner Erik Kuravsky Donald Landes Elisa Magri Michelle Maiese Regina-Nino Mion Brian O’Connor Costas Pagondiotis Knox Peden Constantinos Picolas Hans Reiner Sepp Jack Reynolds Jon Roffe Claude Romano Maxine Sheets-Johnstone Michela Summa Panos Theodorou Fotini Vassiliou and Sanem Yazicioglu. Submissions: Manuscripts prepared for blind review should be submitted to the Editors (burt-crowell. hopkins@univ-lille3. fr and daniele. desantis@ff. cuni. cz) electronically via e-mail attachments. | The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy Volume 21 Special Issue 2023: Aesthetics Art Heidegger French Philosophy

GBP 130.00
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The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

In a career spanning 70 years composer conductor and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works chamber music and two operas; as a brilliant jazz and vocal improviser; and the composer of memorable stage and film scores. He has collaborated with many leading musicians playwrights artists actors and writers including Jack Kerouac Woody Guthrie Leonard Bernstein Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker Arthur Miller Elia Kazan Bob Dylan Judy Collins Elmira Darvarova Paul Newman Willie Nelson Steve Earle and hundreds more. An innovator who blended jazz and global folk styles with classical traditions Amram’s career also emphasizes the creative potential of joyful collaboration. This new book offers a fascinating and wide-ranging picture of Amram’s work and influence from the rich pioneering days of 1950s America to today’s embrace of international cultures. It shows how Amram’s gift as an on-stage spontaneous creator enriches his formal classical composing. With multi-media links for readers it is possible to see and hear film and audio highlights and adventures described in this book by important conductors musicians performers scholars and journalists. This book is the essential guide to a major figure in contemporary music. | The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

GBP 35.99
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The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 Utterly Resigned Terror

The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 Utterly Resigned Terror

For the past 30 years the so-called 'Troubles' thriller has been the dominant fictional mode for representing Northern Ireland leading to the charge that the crudity of this popular genre appropriately reflects the social degradation of the North. Aaron Kelly challenges both these judgments showing that the historical questions raised by setting a thriller in Northern Ireland disrupt the conventions of the crime novel and allow for a new understanding of both the genre and the country. Two essays on crime fiction by Walter Benjamin and Berthold Brecht appear here for the first time in English translation. By demonstrating the relevance of these theorists as well as other key European thinkers such as Antonio Gramsci Louis Althusser and Slavoj Zizek to his interdisciplinary study of Irish culture and the crime novel Kelly refutes the idea that Northern Ireland is a stagnate anomaly that has been bypassed by European history and remained impervious to cultural transformation. On the contrary Kelly's examination of authors such as Jack Higgins Tom Clancy Gerald Seymour Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee shows that profound historical change and complexity have characterized both Northern Ireland and the thriller form. | The Thriller and Northern Ireland since 1969 Utterly Resigned Terror

GBP 44.99
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Phenomenology and Naturalism

Phenomenology and Naturalism

At present ‘naturalism’ is arguably the dominant trend in both Anglo-American and European philosophy. Owing to the influence of the works of W. V. O. Quine Wilfred Sellars and Hillary Putnam among others naturalism both as a methodological and ontological position has become one of the mainstays of contemporary analytic approaches to knowledge mind and ethics. From the early 1990s onward European philosophy in the English-speaking world has been witnessing a turn from the philosophies of the subjects of phenomenology hermeneutics and existentialism and a revival of a certain kind of vitalism whether Bergsonian or Nietzschean and also of a certain kind of materialism that is close in spirit to Spinoza’s Ethics and to the naturalism and monism of the early Ionian thinkers. This book comprises essays written by experts in both the European and the Anglo-American traditions such as John Sallis David Papineau David Cerbone Dan Zahavi Paul Patton Bernhard Weiss Jack Reynolds and Benedict Smith who explore the limit of naturalism and the debate between naturalism and phenomenology. This book also considers the relation between Deleuze’s philosophy and naturalism as well as the critique of phenomenology by speculative realism. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. | Phenomenology and Naturalism

GBP 42.99
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Local Authority Property Management Initiatives Strategies Re-organisation and Reform

Local Authority Property Management Initiatives Strategies Re-organisation and Reform

First published in 1999 this volume aimed to provide a signpost marking a significant development in the transition from estate to property management in local authorities. It examines the debate that has surfaced in the property profession since the Audit Commission’s (AC 1988a b) reports on Local Authority Property Management (LAPM) and brings together sixteen studies from academics and practitioners with an interest in exchanging views opinions and experiences on the development of LAPM. Its content which links theory method and techniques with practice makes it a vital source of information for those with an interest in obtaining the most effective management of property. | Local Authority Property Management Initiatives Strategies Re-organisation and Reform

GBP 35.99
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Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect Transforming Law Enforcement and Police Training

Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect Transforming Law Enforcement and Police Training

Every day police officers face challenges ranging from petty annoyances to the risk of death in the line of duty. Coupled with these difficulties is in some cases lack of community respect for the officers despite the dangers these men and women confront while protecting the public. Exploring issues of courage integrity leadership and character Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect examines ways to effect organizational change that helps police officers inspire community trust and support with every citizen contact. The book begins by discussing why courage is often lacking in a bravery-rich culture such as law enforcement. It demonstrates how personal integrity is the foundation for unconditional respect and provides reasons why having and maintaining integrity are some of the most difficult struggles for individuals and law enforcement officers in particular. It enumerates some of the tactical benefits of unconditional respect as well as interpersonal benefits. Then the book explains the concept of anima-based leadership core competencies. It examines how unconditional respect affects law enforcement’s interaction with the communities in which it operates and describes how it creates and builds high character. Finally the book explores way to influence an organizational culture toward unconditional respect. There is a blog dedicated to the book. Jack Colwell also maintains a blog entitled Human Factors in Law Enforcement. The authors' animated Youtube video discusses relationships between police and communities. | Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect Transforming Law Enforcement and Police Training

GBP 31.99
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Engineering Applications of Pneumatics and Hydraulics

Engineering Applications of Pneumatics and Hydraulics

Requiring only a basic knowledge of the physics of fluids Engineering Applications of Pneumatics and Hydraulics provides a sound understanding of fluid power systems and their uses within industry. It takes a strongly practical approach in describing pneumatics and hydraulics in modern industry and is filled with diagrams of components equipment and plant. The pneumatic and hydraulic graphical symbols used in everyday fluid power systems and circuits are particularly explained and well illustrated. In addition to descriptions of equipment and plant maintenance and troubleshooting is also covered with an emphasis on safety systems and safety regulations. This second edition delves into the same fluid power technical areas as in the first edition but with a complete update of current safety legislation and guidance on the latest regulations. Codes of practice technical standards and standardisation organisations have also been updated to enable readers to search for the newest information and requirements regarding the use and application of pneumatics and hydraulics in industry whilst reflecting advances in technology. The book is written for students from levels 3 to 5 and for a wide range of practising engineers especially in the engineering disciplines of mechanical plant process and operations engineering as well as measurement and control engineering within mechatronics. | Engineering Applications of Pneumatics and Hydraulics

GBP 44.99
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Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

What do seat belts life jackets and anti-jack knife technology have in common? They were all the subjects of campaigns run by the British Safety Council since its inception in 1957. James Tye its charismatic founder and leader for nearly 40 years created the British Safety Council to bring about a transformation in how Great Britain viewed safety and health. In 1957 hundreds if not thousands of workers were killed in accidents and James marshalled every conceivable technique to save lives including PR stunts training lobbying for better laws and crucially what he called ‘propaganda’ in the form of posters and other communication tools. In 2014 a long-lost collection of posters papers and letters were found gathering dust in a warehouse. The British Safety Council wanting to mark its 60-year history and its role in reducing deaths at work decided to preserve the collection and commissioned historian Mike Esbester to trace the history of health and safety in Britain from the late 1960s through the posters and photographs of the time. Transformative Propaganda: Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council offers a fascinating and vivid insight into the social and political realities of the 1960s 1970s and 1980s through a wealth of historical documents press cuttings correspondence photographs and posters. It offers a truly extraordinary window onto the evolution of health and safety within the UK and richly deserves a place on the bookshelf of every safety professional. | Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

GBP 35.99
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Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

How can we change things in an age in which governments are fixated on the bottom line and conventional protest rallies have lost their punch?Coalitions can be important tools for social change and union revitalisation. What makes them successful? What causes them to fail? Community organiser Amanda Tattersall examines successful coalitions between unions and community organisations in three countries: the public education coalition in Sydney Toronto's Ontario Health Coalition fighting to save universal health care and Chicago's living wage campaign run by the Grassroots Collaborative. She explores when and how coalitions can be a powerful strategy for social change organisational development and union renewal. Power in Coalition is essential reading for unionists community activists and anyone passionate about social change. 'A fascinating insight into the potential for coalitions to restore the balance of power between governments and the communities they are supposed to serve. ' - Julian Burnside AO QC'Amanda Tattersall shows that coalitions though hard work at times are the best means we have to rebalance power beat poverty and injustice and build a future that includes all of us especially the weakest. ' - Tim Costello AO CEO World Vision Australia'If unions are to maximise their influence in the 21st century they must build alliances with other organisations around economic social and ecological concerns affecting humanity. This book shows it is possible to build the necessary coalitions to achieve this end. ' - Jack Mundey AO instigator of the 1970s Green Bans movement in Sydney | Power in Coalition Strategies for strong unions and social change

GBP 130.00
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Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management

Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management

The tools of environmental economics guide policymakers as they weigh development against nature present against future and certain benefits against uncertain consequences. The policies and research findings explained in this textbook are relevant to decisions made daily by individuals firms and governments. This textbook offers instructors and students a user-friendly relevant and up-to-date introduction to these topics while covering recent advancements in the field and significant political and economic changes. The fifth edition has been thoroughly updated while retaining the story-based narratives and visual emphasis of previous editions capturing students’ attention with full-color photos graphs and illustrations. It addresses the impact of changes in world leaders national priorities and international agreements along with key developments in the energy sector. These include the way hydraulic fracturing and the surging popularity of natural gas have revolutionized the fossil fuel industries; how new green-energy technologies are bringing prices down and efficiency levels up; and the arrival of innovative energy sources such as ocean-thermal energy conversion. Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management promotes environmental and economic literacy with policy-oriented application-based content all delivered in concise accessible discussions. Through its engaging approach the text brings the economic way of thinking into discussions of personal community corporate and government activities that affect environmental assets and the quality of life.

GBP 58.99
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Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

The Liangzhu Culture (3 300-2 300 BC) represented the peak of prehistoric cultural and social development in the Yangtze Delta. With a wide sphere of influence centred near present-day Hangzhou City Liangzhu City is considered one of the earliest urban centres in prehistoric China. Although it remains a mystery for many in the West Liangzhu is well known in China for its fine jade-crafting industry; its enormous well-structured earthen palatial compound and recently discovered hydraulic system; and its far-flung impact on contemporary and succeeding cultures. The archaeological ruins of Liangzhu City were added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in July 2019. Liangzhu Culture contextualises Liangzhu in broad socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and provides new first-hand data to help explain the development and structure of this early urban centre. Among its many insights the volume reveals how elites used jade as a means of acquiring social power and how Liangzhu and its centre stand in comparison to other prehistoric urban centres in the world. This book the first of its kind published in the English language will be a useful guide to students at all levels interested in the material culture and social structures of prehistoric China and beyond. | Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

GBP 38.99
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The Streetwise Subbie

The Streetwise Subbie

Very few books explore the problems which are particular to the relationship between Specialist Contractors and the Main Contractor or Clients with whom they are in contract. Fewer still provide solutions in such a down to earth no-nonsense way as The Streetwise Subbie does. The Streetwise Subbie is a highly regarded practical guide to contractual matters. Its original author Jack Russell was well known for his ‘contractual terrier’ column in Electrical Times. Now Barry Ashmore has updated and revised this work by drawing on his 46 years of construction experience and professional expertise gained at the sharp end resolving disputes and solving contractual problems for Specialist Contractors. Thousands of subbies have already benefited from the insights and the streetwise approach to avoiding or resolving contractual problems and the clarity of thought and advice the book provides. The fourth edition features all the old favourites such as payment delay and disruption extension of time and the all-important checklists and site records. But it has now been brought bang up to date to reflect the importance of the 2011 revisions to the Construction Act and the emergence of adjudication as the pre-eminent means of dispute resolution. It is an easy to read practical and essential guide aimed at Specialist Contractors of all sizes and specialisations be they sole traders company directors or any member of the subbie’s team that has to handle the commercial and contractual aspects of the projects they undertake. It’s the kind of book that you keep handy because it has so many answers that you can refer to it over and over again.

GBP 19.99
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The Grip Book The Studio Grip’s Essential Guide

The Grip Book The Studio Grip’s Essential Guide

Gain the essential skills of a professional grip to become the jack and master of all trades on any movie or television show set. This new edition has been fully updated and revised and will enable aspiring and professional grips to discover vital insider tips ranging from how to operate cutting-edge rigging and lighting equipment to performing difficult camera mounts on aircraft boats trains and cars. Seasoned Hollywood grip Michael G. Uva teaches you to install set up maintain and ensure the safety of all equipment on a set such as C-stands cameras and any specialty gear needed for a shoot. Expanded content on navigating the set including set etiquette and how to succeed as a technical crew member will jump-start your career and make you a valuable asset on any film or television crew. This seventh edition has been updated to include the latest technology further explanations of equipment and how to use it for those new to the role a new chapter on working as a grip on virtual sets. Other features include technical expertise on maintaining the latest and greatest filmmaking equipment; a self-test section containing over one hundred questions and answers; a comprehensive appendix containing a robust glossary of insider and equipment terms; and guidelines on what a grip has to be physically able to perform in their day-to-day duties. The book is ideal for the aspiring or working grip to use on the role as well as aspiring students looking to break into the industry. | The Grip Book The Studio Grip’s Essential Guide

GBP 44.99
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