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Heavy Metal at the Movies

Heavy Metal at the Movies

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to builds on and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that creates an intense and somewhat threatening atmosphere; at the other end the high level of performativity attached to the metal spectacle is emphasized. Alongside these tendencies the recent and ongoing wave of metal documentaries has taken off relying on either satire or hagiography. | Heavy Metal at the Movies

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Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

Metal Music Manual shows you the creative and technical processes involved in producing contemporary heavy music for maximum sonic impact. From pre-production to final mastered product and fundamental concepts to advanced production techniques this book contains a world of invaluable practical information. Assisted by clear discussion of critical audio principles and theory and a comprehensive array of illustrations photos and screen grabs Metal Music Manual is the essential guide to achieving professional production standards. The extensive companion website features multi-track recordings final mixes processing examples audio stems etc. so you can download the relevant content and experiment with the techniques you read about. The website also features video interviews the author conducted with the following acclaimed producers who share their expertise experience and insight into the processes involved: Fredrik Nordström (Dimmu Borgir At The Gates In Flames) Matt Hyde (Slayer Parkway Drive Children of Bodom) Ross Robinson (Slipknot Sepultura Machine Head) Logan Mader (Gojira DevilDriver Fear Factory) Andy Sneap (Megadeth Killswitch Engage Testament) Jens Bogren (Opeth Kreator Arch Enemy) Daniel Bergstrand (Meshuggah Soilwork Behemoth) Nick Raskulinecz (Mastodon Death Angel Trivium) Quotes from these interviews are featured throughout Metal Music Manual with additional contributions from: Ross Drum Doctor Garfield (one of the world’s top drum sound specialists with Metallica and Slipknot amongst his credits) Andrew Scheps (Black Sabbath Linkin Park Metallica) Maor Appelbaum (Sepultura Faith No More Halford) | Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

GBP 69.99
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Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

In the years Bbetween the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the beginning of the war mobilization boom in 1930 collieries in Europe and America embraced new technologies and had long since been excluded women from working underground. In Japan however mining women witnessed no significant changes in working practices over this period. The availability of the cheap and abundant labor of these women allowed the captains of the coal industry in Japan to avoid expensive investments in new machinery and sophisticated mining methods; instead they continued to intensely exploit workers and markets intensively making substantial profits without the burdens of extensive mechanization. This unique book explores the lives of the thousands of women who labored underground in Japan’s coal mines in the years 1868 to 1930. It examines their working lives their family lives their aspirations achievements and disappointments. Drawing heavily on interview material with the miners themselves W. Donald Burton combines translations of their stories with features of Japanese society at the time and coal mining technology. In doing so he presents a complex account of the women’s lives as well as providing a keen insight intoon gender relations and the industrial and labor history of Japan. Coal Mining Women in Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japanese history gender studies and industrial history. | Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

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Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Heritage is not what we see in front of us it is what we make of it in our heads. Heritage sites have been connected to a range of identarian projects both spatial and non-spatial. One of the most common links with heritage has been national identity. This book stresses that heritage has developed powerful links to regional and local identities. Contributors deal explicitly with regions of heavy industry in different parts of the world exploring non-spatial forms of identity: including class religious ethnic racial gender and cultural identities. In many heritage sites non-spatial forms of identity are interlinked with spatial ones. Civil society action has been important in representations of regional identities and industrial-heritage campaigns. Region-branding seems to determine the ultimate success of industrial heritage a process that is closely connected to the marketing of regions to provide a viable economic future and attract tourism to the region. Selected case-studies on coal and steel producing regions in this book provide the first global survey of how regions of heavy industry deal with their industrial heritage and what it means for regional identity and region-branding. This book draws a range of powerful conclusions about the path dependency of particular forms for post-industrial regional identity in former regions of heavy industry. It highlights both commonalities and differences in the strategies employed with regard to the regions’ industrial heritage. This book will appeal to lecturers students and scholars in the fields of heritage management industrial studies and cultural geography. | Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

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Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

The achievements of the Greek cavalry on the battlefield were monumental and yet until now the heavy infantry - the hoplite - has received by far the most attention from military historians. This book traces the history of the Greek cavalry offering a reassessment of the place of mounted troops in the warfare of Ancient Greece. Its historical sweep is broad with coverage which extends from 1400 BC through the Archaic period to the Classical period. | Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

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Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái jiù dou and ye are in a specific use type shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm. This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure focus and contrastive topics and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics. | Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

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A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its traditional enemy the Arabs. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies know-how and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations raids sieges ambushes surprise attacks the treatment of prisoners of war and defectors distribution of booty punishment of military offences how to mount effective espionage and how to send and receive envoys. There is even advice on the personal qualities required by generals on how to neutralize enemy horses and on how to protect the troops against poisoned food. The work culminates in an account of the stratagems employed by great Greek and Roman military commanders of the past. While like so much of Byzantine literature the Sylloge often simply reproduces material found in earlier texts it also preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. It is the first Byzantine source to record the reappearance of a specialized heavy cavalry (the kataphraktoi) and of a specialized infantry (the menavlatoi) used to repel the attacks of the opposing heavy cavalry. There is also a great deal of information on new infantry and cavalry formations and on the new tactics that required them. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English. It is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work and by footnotes which explain obscure references and identify the author’s classical and Byzantine sources. An introduction places the work in its historical and literary context and considers some of the questions that | A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

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Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

Inspiration for the Weary Therapist is a companion for the modern practitioner. Addressing a diverse audience and written by a master clinician and supervisor Inspiration for the Weary Therapist helps modern therapists traverse the complicated landscape of practicing therapy in the age of COVID-19. Instead of a heavy theoretical approach that can leave the already exhausted therapist feeling more overwhelmed Inspiration for the Weary Therapist guides readers through challenging professional situations soothes them during upsetting clinical moments and encourages them to keep going during changing times. Rather than teaching mental health professionals how to practice this book helps them believe in themselves again and reconnect with their confidence as clinicians through increased self-compassion and personal growth. This practical and helpful guide is essential reading for all mental health practitioners who are searching for inspiration and motivation and who want to reconnect to what it means to be a therapist. | Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

GBP 31.99
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The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

Advanced and developing countries across the globe are embracing the liberal arts approach in higher education to foster more innovative human capital to compete in the global economy. Even as interest in the tradition expands outside the United States can the democratic philosophy underlying the liberal arts tradition be sustained? Can developing countries operating under heavy authoritarian systems cultivate schools predicated on open discussion and debate? Can entrenched specialist systems in Europe and Asia successfully adopt the multidisciplinary liberal arts model? These are some of the questions put to leading scholars and senior higher education practitioners within this edited collection. Beginning with historical context international contributors explore the contours of liberal arts education amid public calls for change in the United States the growing global interest in the approach outside the United States as well as the potential of liberal arts philosophy in a global knowledge economy. | The Evolution of Liberal Arts in the Global Age

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Corporate Finance: The Basics

Corporate Finance: The Basics

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level. It aims to take the fear out of corporate finance and add the fun in presenting the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and demystify – the essential ideas of corporate finance avoiding the heavy use of maths and formulae. The calculations and figures in the book are purely to illustrate fundamental concepts appealing to readers’ common sense rather than stretch their ability to do number-crunching. Topics covered include: Financial statements through the corporate finance lens How to make investment decisions Cash versus profit Net working capital management How to determine the value of a business Through the use of a subject map this book explains how the key components of the subject are connected with each other strengthening the reader’s understanding. This book is the ideal introduction for anyone looking for a short yet scholarly overview of corporate finance.

GBP 19.99
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Construction Equipment Management

Construction Equipment Management

This revised and updated edition of Construction Equipment Management fills a gap on this subject by integrating both conceptual and hands-on quantitative knowledge on construction equipment into a process that facilitates student learning. The first six chapters summarize interdisciplinary concepts that are necessary to ground students' learning on construction equipment management including both engineering and economics. Each of the next 16 chapters covers a different type of construction equipment and associated methods of use. The final chapter introduces the more advanced concept of operation analysis. This allows the book to be used on numerous courses at different levels to prepare graduates to apply skills on construction equipment when planning for a new project estimating its costs and monitoring field operations. Organized around the major categories of construction equipment including both commercial and heavy civil examples case studies and exercises this textbook will help students develop independence in applying concepts to hands-on scenarios. A companion website provides an instructor manual solutions additional examples lecture slides figures and diagrams.

GBP 69.99
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Data + Journalism A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting

Data + Journalism A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting

Taking a hands-on and holistic approach to data Data + Journalism provides a complete guide to reporting data-driven stories. This book offers insights into data journalism from a global perspective including datasets and interviews with data journalists from countries around the world. Emphasized by examples drawn from frequently updated sets of open data posted by authoritative sources like the FBI Eurostat and the US Census Bureau the authors take a deep dive into data journalism’s heavy lifting – searching for scraping and cleaning data. Combined with exercises video training supplements and lists of tools and resources at the end of each chapter readers will learn not just how to crunch numbers but also how to put a human face to data resulting in compelling story-driven news stories based on solid analysis. Written by two experienced journalists and data journalism teachers Data + Journalism is essential reading for students instructors and early career professionals seeking a comprehensive introduction to data journalism skills. | Data + Journalism A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting

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The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

Offering diverse perspectives on Hawaiʻi’s food system this book addresses themes of place and identity across time. From early Western contact to the present day the way in which people in Hawaiʻi grow import and consume their food has shifted in response to the pressures of colonialism migration new technologies and globalization. Because of Hawaiʻi’s history of agricultural abundance its geographic isolation in the Pacific Ocean and its heavy reliance on imported foods today it offers a rich case study for understanding how food systems develop in-place. In so doing the contributors implicitly and explicitly complicate the narrative of the local which has until recently dominated much of the existing scholarship on Hawaiʻi’s foodways. With topics spanning GMO activism agricultural land use trends customary access and fishing rights poi production and the dairy industry this volume reveals how local food is emplaced through dynamic and complex articulations of history politics and economic change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Food Culture and Society. | The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

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Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

Originally published in 2004. The essays in this engaging book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances where 'things go wrong' in the practices of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind drawing attention to the prison system 'boot camps' detention centres and specific penal policies such as the 'short sharp shock' parental penalty and 'three strikes and you're out'. Also examined are policing practices such as 'zero tolerance' 'saturation policing' and punitive laws in the areas of drug use sex offences and prostitution. It is demonstrated that in each of these cases the objectives of government resulted in the creation of new and unforeseen problems requiring further reform of the criminal justice system. This is a familiar tale characteristic of the modernist impulses of contemporary government based on the notion that crime can be identified managed and controlled through the application and administration of institutionalised polices and practices. The present culture of 'high crime' - despite a top-heavy apparatus of crime control - appears to indicate the very opposite. | Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

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China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy

China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy

China a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world’s population will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions. The aims of the Paris Agreement may stand or fall with China both for its own contribution and the example it will set the developing world. China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions discusses the prospects for China achieving radical reductions in carbon emissions within the context of the current economic and political landscape. With a particular focus on technologies such as such as wind power solar power and electric vehicles Toke examines how China is transitioning to a state of stable energy consumption via a service-based economy and heavy investment in non-fossil energy sources. The book concludes that China may be set to reduce its carbon emissions by approximately two-thirds by 2050. This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of climate change sustainable development political science and energy as well as energy professionals seeking to understand the implications of recent developments in China. | China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy

GBP 42.99
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The Language of Pick-Up Artists Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry

The Language of Pick-Up Artists Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry

This book adopts a corpus-based discourse analysis approach to the study of the communicative practices of pick-up artists offering a systematic exploration of distinct language use in an online community that uses speed-seduction practices for short-term dating and sex. Drawing on a multi-million-word corpus comprising data from online forums social media informational websites and YouTube videos the volume explores the verbal practices and narrative framing techniques that pick-up artists (PUAs) draw upon in their interactions with women and the terminology-heavy language used in teaching pick-up to foster perceptions of scientific validity. The book also unpacks videos and reports of live interactions to study naturally occurring PUA discourse from different perspectives but also to more closely examine conceptual metaphors of competition and violence and critically reflect on the ethical considerations of working with such communities. This book will appeal to students and scholars in such disciplines as discourse analysis corpus linguistics computer-mediated communication and language and media as well as those interested in the study of language use online. | The Language of Pick-Up Artists Online Discourses of the Seduction Industry

GBP 130.00
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5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

Once upon a time. children's nonfiction books were stodgy concise and not very kid friendly. Most were text heavy with just a few scattered images decorating the content and meaning rather than enhancing it. Over the last 20 years children's nonfiction has evolved into a new breed of visually dynamic and engaging texts. In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books Melissa Stewart and Dr. Marlene Correia present a new way to sort nonfiction into five major categories and show how doing so can help teachers and librarians build stronger readers and writers. Along the way they: Introduce the 5 kinds of nonfiction: Active Browseable Traditional Expository Literature and Narrative -;and explore each category through discussions classroom examples and insights from leading children's book authorsOffer tips for building strong diverse classroom texts and library collectionsProvide more than 20 activities to enhance literacy instructionInclude innovative strategies for sharing and celebrating nonfiction with students. With more than 150 exemplary nonfiction book recommendations and Stewart and Correia's extensive knowledge of literacy instruction 5 Kinds of Nonfiction will elevate your understanding of nonfiction in ways that speak specifically to the info-kids in your classrooms but will inspire all readers and writers. | 5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

GBP 28.99
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Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

Metal Rap and Electro in Tunisia is a trip into the music scenes of Tunisia after the Arab Springs. Based on extensive field research the book explores the social life of heavy metal rap and electronic music in a North African country whose mass revolution of 2010/2011 led the way to a troubled and yet unique democracy. What is it like to be part of a music scene in a place affected by poverty and inequality? How do the many conflicted souls of Tunisian Islam shape local metal rap and electro? What are the social and cultural stakes for music in a nation constantly represented as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East? How do music scenes articulate the complex political scenario that followed the Tunisian revolution of 2011? Barone answers these questions by offering new theoretical reflections on youth cultures and popular music in a global perspective and thus pushing the debate on post-subcultures and scenes forward. At the same time the book offers a dense sociological analysis of youth and music in reality - the Tunisian one - whose society culture religion and politics are at stake in a historical transformation. | Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

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Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe

Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe

This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis cost-benefit analysis and similar analytical tools have gained sizeable currency in public administrations in comparative perspective. Situated in critical interpretive policy analysis methodology the book systematizes and innovates respective debates in three ways. First it develops a novel typology of actors’ appreciations of analytical tools as instrumental problem-solving legitimacy-seeking and power-seeking. It conceptualizes the latter two as polity policies with actors seeking to confirm or rework decision-making structures. Second the book theorizes how executive fragmentation and the multiplication of coordination requirements – often treated as hindrances to substantial analytical turns in an administration – nourish actors’ ideal typical appreciations of analytical tools in distinct ways. Lastly it scrutinizes varieties of risk analysis across three risk-heavy policy domains in Germany (including the EU) and discusses the potential of risk analysis to stabilize or transform decision-making in multi-level settings. This book will be of key interest to policy analysts and risk analysts and scholars of European politics comparative politics policy studies public administration multi-level governance EU studies risk analysis policy evaluation and the political sociology of quantification. | Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe

GBP 35.99
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Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

This book defines the key ideas scholarly debates and research activities that have contributed to the formation of the international and interdisciplinary field of Metal Studies. Drawing on insights from a wide range of disciplines including popular music cultural studies sociology anthropology philosophy and ethics this volume offers new and innovative research on metal musicology global/local scenes studies fandom gender and metal identity metal media and commerce. Offering a wide-ranging focus on bands scenes periods and sounds contributors explore topics such as the riff-based song writing of classic heavy metal bands and their modern equivalents and the musical-aesthetics of Grindcore Doom metal Death metal and Progressive metal. They interrogate production technologies sound engineering album artwork and band promotion logos and merchandising t-shirt and jewellery design and fan communities that define the global metal music economy and subcultural scene. The volume explores how the new academic discipline of metal studies was formed also looking forward to the future of metal music and its relationship to metal scholarship and fandom. With an international range of contributors this volume will appeal to scholars of popular music cultural studies and sociology as well as those interested in metal communities around the world. | Global Metal Music and Culture Current Directions in Metal Studies

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The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

This volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent the so-called hilly flanks and adjacent regions as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region. The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10 000 years ago has been a key research focus for archaeologists since the 1930s. This book provides a balance to the weight of work undertaken in the western Fertile Crescent namely the Levant and southern Anatolia. This preference has led to a heavy emphasis on these regions in discussions about where when and how the transition from hunting and gathering to plant cultivation and animal domestication occurred. Chapters assess the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia highlighting the key and important contributions people in this region made to the emergence of sedentary farming societies. This book is primarily aimed at academics researching the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia. It will also be of interest to archaeologists working on this transition in other parts of Eurasia. | The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

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Linear Optimization for Business Theory and practical application

Linear Optimization for Business Theory and practical application

This book takes a unique approach to linear optimization by focusing on the underlying principles and business applications of a topic more often taught from a mathematical and computational perspective. By shifting the perspective away from heavy math students learn how optimization can be used to drive decision making in real world business settings. The book does not shy away from the theory underlying linear optimization but rather focuses on ensuring students understand the logic without getting caught up in proving theorems. Plenty of examples applications and case studies are included to help bridge the gap between the theory and the way it plays out in practice. The author has also included several Excel spreadsheets showing worked-out models of linear optimization that have been used to drive decisions ranging from configuring a police force to purchasing crude oil and media planning. How can the routes and pricing structures of airlines be optimized? How much should be invested in the prevention and punishment of crimes? These are everyday problems that can be solved using linear optimization and this book shows students just how to do that. It will prove a useful math-free resource for all students of management science and operations research. | Linear Optimization for Business Theory and practical application

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Protest Studies of Collective Behaviour and Social Movements

Protest Studies of Collective Behaviour and Social Movements

This volume addresses three major issues: What are the circumstances in which people elect to protest; what are the forms of such action; and how do people organize to do so? Phrased differently what are the contexts of protest (collective behavior) personal readiness for protest (conversion) and finally joining together for protest in movement organizations and movement strategies. The key to the book's value is its theoretical sophistication. These studies address in a systematic way fundamental alternatives to organizing protests and outline in detail options for structuring units of social movement. The author deals especially with movement organization locals including corps and cells. Such units are examined in terms of how they coexist and how they exist sequentially through time. Several case studies of movement organization are included such as the Unification Church and Mankind United. The work places a heavy emphasis on protest action or strategy. In the final section four chapters examine the entire gamut of strategic possibilities ranging from polite politics to violent action. Protest is a distinctive and complex strategy. The work carefully evaluates varieties of protest that have become significant in the 1980s. In each section of the book Lofland draws out underlying themes and issues that interrelate the studies and places protest in the larger context of political and social change and theories to date. | Protest Studies of Collective Behaviour and Social Movements

GBP 130.00
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Metanarrative and the Environment A Story of Morality Agency and Governance

Metanarrative and the Environment A Story of Morality Agency and Governance

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change the ruination of ecosystems and habitat the precipitous loss of biodiversity and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human behaviour. However all such efforts to manually correct the course of history have been dwarfed by the magnitude and heavy forward momentum of modern industrial society. In Metanarrative and the Environment Stephen James Purdey argues that material approaches to the environmental crisis cannot succeed without the power of a legitimating discourse – a new metanarrative – which fundamentally changes the ideational landscape of human development. Dr. Purdey begins in Part I by establishing the pragmatics of our environmental predicament – its roots and responses to it. He focuses on the concept definition and key features of metanarrative introducing the hegemonic story that now rules the contemporary global mindscape. Part II takes on the moral problematic more directly encouraging the evolution of a new metanarrative by bringing our potential for agency in the face of danger into sharper relief. Metanarrative and the Environment is multidisciplinary with a particular emphasis on the creative humanities. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students alike as well as environmental activists and academics looking for a new way forward. | Metanarrative and the Environment A Story of Morality Agency and Governance

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