Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups 2006-13 In the 1960s only 10% of peace agreements included some element of political-military accommodation – namely military integration. From Burundi to Bosnia to Zimbabwe that number had increased to over 50% by the 2000s. However relatively little is understood about this dimension of power-sharing often utilized during war-to-peace transitions. Through an examination of the case of South Sudan between 2006 and 2013 this book explores why countries undergoing transitions from war to peace decide to integrate armed groups into a statutory security framework. This book details how integration contributed to short-term stability in South Sudan allowing the government to overcome wartime factionalism and consolidate political-military power prior to the referendum on self-determination in 2011. It also examines how the integration process in South Sudan was flawed by its open-ended nature and lack of coordination with efforts to right-size the military and transform the broader defense sector and how this led the military to fragment during periods of heightened political competition. Furthermore the book explains why integration ultimately failed in South Sudan and identifies the wider lessons that could be applied to current or future war-to-peace transitions. This book will be of great interest to students of war and conflict studies peacebuilding post-conflict reconstruction African security issues and International Relations in general as well as to practitioners. | Military Integration during War-to-Peace Transitions South Sudan’s Attempt to Manage Armed Groups 2006-13 GBP 130.00 1
The MRCGP Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) Workbook This book is a guide to excellence in Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners clinical skills assessment (CSA). It includes 3 circuits of 13 cases each. Each circuit includes the variety of cases the readers would expect in the actual exam to comply with the CSA blueprint. | The MRCGP Clinical Skills Assessment (CSA) Workbook GBP 140.00 1
A Concise History Of American Painting And Sculpture Revised Edition This clear thorough and reliable survey of American painting and sculpture from colonial times to the present day covers all the major artists and their works outlines the social and cultural backgrounds of each period and includes 409 illustrations integrated with the text. Although some determining factors in American art are considered Matthew Baigell views the rich and diverse achievements of American art as the result of the efforts and talents of a pluralistic society rather than as fitting into a particular mold. This edition includes corrections and revisions to the text an updated bibliography and 13 new illustrations. | A Concise History Of American Painting And Sculpture Revised Edition GBP 130.00 1
Inquiry-Based Science in the Primary Classroom The chapters in this book represent a cross-section of research conducted in inquiry-based science education at primary levels of schooling in international contexts that include school settings in Australia India Singapore South Africa Turkey Northern Ireland and the United States. The book includes empirical studies on the role of inquiry-based learning in advancing students’ conceptual understanding and modelling proficiency students’ understandings about the nature of scientific inquiry classroom studies on teachers’ enactment of inquiry-based learning teachers’ facilitation of classroom discourse for inquiry-based learning and co-teaching in developing teachers in adopting an inquiry-based pedagogy. It was originally published as a special issue of the journal Education 3–13. | Inquiry-Based Science in the Primary Classroom GBP 130.00 1
The Macedonian Front 1915-1918 Politics Society and Culture in Time of War The ‘Macedonian question’ has been much studied in recent years as has the political history of the period from the Balkan Wars in 1912-13 to the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923. But for a variety of reasons connected with the political division of Greece and the involvement of outside powers the events at and behind the Macedonian front have been side-lined. The recent commemorations of the centenary of the end of the First World War in the UK illustrate how by comparison with the enormous and moving emphasis on the western front Macedonia has been not wholly but largely ignored. This volume illuminates this comparatively neglected period of Greek history and examines the strategic and military aspects of the war in Macedonia and the political social economic and cultural context of the war. | The Macedonian Front 1915-1918 Politics Society and Culture in Time of War GBP 130.00 1
The Teaching of Biology A Handbook for Teachers of Junior Classes First published in 1931 the original blurb reads: A practical handbook for those who are engaged in teaching elementary biology (Nature Study) to children of 10-13 years. Part I is devoted to general methods of teaching the subject. Part II consists of subject matter suitable for lessons together with suggestions as to practical work and classroom procedure. It was hoped that this work would help the move away from the tradition still prevalent at the time where observation of minute details and absence of associated physiological work left the children with little interest in the subject. This book would contribute to a type of teaching where more regard was paid to the ‘livingness’ of the organism resulting in the deepening of the pupil’s enjoyment of the beauty of animate nature. Today it can be read in its historical context. | The Teaching of Biology A Handbook for Teachers of Junior Classes GBP 90.00 1
Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Environment Development Strategies and Applications This book summarizes recent and critical aspects of advanced materials for environmental protection and remediation. It explores the various development aspects related to environmental remediation including design and development of novel and highly efficient materials aimed at environmental sustainability. Synthesis of advanced materials with desirable physicochemical properties and applications is covered as well. Distributed across 13 chapters the major topics covered include sensing and elimination of contaminants and hazardous materials via advanced materials along with hydrogen energy biofuels and CO2 capture technology. Discusses the development in design of synthesis process and materials with sustainable approach. Covers removal of biotic and abiotic wastes from the aqueous systems. Includes hydrogen energy and biofuels under green energy production. Explores removal of environmental (soil and air) contaminants with nanomaterials. Reviews advanced materials for environmental remediation in both liquid and gas phases. | Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Environment Development Strategies and Applications GBP 120.00 1
The Essential Criminology Reader Initially designed to accompany Mark Lanier and Stuart Henry's best-selling Essential Criminology textbook this new reader is an up-to-date companion text perfect for all students of introductory criminology and criminological theory courses. The Essential Criminology Reader contains 30 original articles on current developments in criminological theory. Commissioned specifically for The Reader these short essays were written by leading scholars in the field. Each chapter complements one of 13 different theoretical perspectives covered in Lanier and Henry's Essential Criminology text and contains between two and three articles from leading theorists on each perspective. Each chapter of The Reader features: a brief summary of the main ideas of the theory the ways the author's theory has been misinterpreted/distorted criticisms by others of the theory and how the author has responded a summary of the balance of the empirical findings the latest developments in their theoretical position policy implications/practice of their theory. GBP 130.00 1
A Study of Chinese Characters As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese ancient characters and newly unearthed literature this book brings together the author’s research articles that discuss the development of Chinese characters and the tradition of Chinese palaeography. The 23 chapters in this book focus on two aspects of Chinese characters. The first 13 chapters centre on the evolution of Chinese characters analysing the composition system and its transformation the motivation and mechanisms behind its evolution as well as the methodology of the study of ancient characters. The subsequent 10 chapters mainly revolve around Shuowen Jiezi one of the oldest character dictionaries in China. The author offers a novel understanding of the core issues related to this most important philological work such as the version of the dictionary misunderstandings in previous scholarship and its relations with other palaeographical materials. The title will appeal to students and scholars of Sinology Chinese philology and palaeography as well as Chinese characters. | A Study of Chinese Characters GBP 130.00 1
An Introduction to Sonar Systems Engineering An Introduction to Sonar Systems Engineering Second Edition Important topics that are fundamental to the understanding of modern-day sonar systems engineering are featured. Linear planar and volume array theory including near-field and far-field beam patterns beam steering and array focusing are covered. Real-world arrays such as the twin-line planar array and a linear array of triplets which are solutions to the port/starboard (left/right) ambiguity problem associated with linear towed arrays are examined in detail. Detailed explanations of the fundamentals of side-looking (side-scan) and synthetic-aperture sonars are presented. Bistatic scattering with moving platforms is explored with derivations of exact solutions for the time delay time-compression/time-expansion factor and Doppler shift at a receiver for both the scattered and direct acoustic paths. Time-domain and frequency-domain descriptions and the design of CW LFM and Doppler-invariant HFM pulses are explained. Target detection in the presence of reverberation and noise is examined. Time-domain and frequency-domain descriptions of MFSK MQAM and OFDM underwater acoustic communication signals are also discussed. Although the book is mathematically rigorous it is written in a tutorial style. Many useful practical design and analysis equations for both passive and active sonar systems are derived from first principles. No major steps in the derivation of important results are skipped – all assumptions and approximations are clearly stated. Particular attention is paid to the correct units for functions and parameters. Many figures tables examples and practical homework problems at the end of each chapter are included to aid in the understanding of the material covered. New to the Second Edition Chapter 15 Synthetic-Aperture Sonar Chapter 13 Section 13. 3 The Rectangular-Envelope HFM Pulse Chapter 10 Section 10. 7 Moving Platforms was rewritten which allowed for the elimination of Appendix 10C from the first edition New explanations/discussions were added to Subsections 1. 2. 1 and 1. 3. 1 in Chapter 1 Appendix 1A was rewritten and the new Table 1A-1 was added to Chapter 1 A solutions manual is available for adopting professors GBP 160.00 1
Origami 5 Fifth International Meeting of Origami Science Mathematics and Education Origami5 continues in the excellent tradition of its four previous incarnations documenting work presented at an extraordinary series of meetings that explored the connections between origami mathematics science technology education and other academic fields. The fifth such meeting 5OSME (July 13-17 2010 Singapore Management University) followed the precedent previous meetings to explore the interdisciplinary connections between origami and the real world. This book begins with a section on origami history art and design. It is followed by sections on origami in education and origami science engineering and technology and culminates with a section on origami mathematics the pairing that inspired the original meeting. Within this one volume you will find a broad selection of historical information artists descriptions of their processes various perspectives and approaches to the use of origami in education mathematical tools for origami design applications of folding in engineering and technology as well as original and cutting-edge research on the mathematical underpinnings of origami. | Origami 5 Fifth International Meeting of Origami Science Mathematics and Education GBP 175.00 1
A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores Indonesia Updated Paperback Edition In the most revolutionary archaeological find of the new century an international team of archaeologists led by Mike Morwood discovered a new diminutive species of human on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed theHobbit this was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy. The three foot tall skeleton with a brain the size of a chimpanzee‘s was a tool-using fire-making cooperatively hunting person who inhabited Flores alongside modern humans as recently as 13 000 years ago. This book is Morwoods description of this monumental discovery and the intense study that has been undertaken to validate his view of its relationship to our species. He chronicles the bitter debates over Homo Floresiensis the objections (some spiteful) of colleagues the theft and damage of some of the specimens and the endless battle against government and academic bureaucracies that hindered his research. This updated paperback edition contains an epilogue that reports on the most recent debates findings and analyses of this amazing discovery. | A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores Indonesia Updated Paperback Edition GBP 175.00 1
Stalin Era Intellectuals Culture and Stalinism This book focuses on the extent to which Soviet scholars and cultural theoreticians were able to act autonomously during the Stalin era. The authors question how we should consider certain intellectual achievements which took place despite the pressure of Stalinism and how best to recognise and describe such achievements. The chapters in this book offer suggestions for new interpretations on Soviet philosophy of science and humanities linguistics philosophy musicology literature and mathematics from the point of view of general cultural theory. In this way they challenge the received image of the Stalin-era humanities which reduces them into mere propaganda. Intended for scholars of Russian and Soviet studies this book will dispel many received views about the character of Stalinism and Soviet culture. Chapters 1 2 4 6 10 and 13 of this book are freely available as downloadable Open Access PDFs at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Stalin Era Intellectuals Culture and Stalinism GBP 120.00 1
Ideology and Congress A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting In Ideology and Congress authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history the authors find that despite a wide array of issues facing legislators over 81 percent of their voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism. In their classic 1997 volume Congress: A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting roll call voting became the framework for a novel interpretation of important episodes in American political and economic history. Congress demonstrated that roll call voting has a very simple structure and that for most of American history roll call voting patterns have maintained a core stability based on two great issues: the extent of government regulation of and intervention in the economy; and race. In this new paperback volume the authors include nineteen years of additional data bringing in the period from 1986 through 2004. | Ideology and Congress A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting GBP 130.00 1
Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice This edited collection presents a Nordic perspective on intensified discussions concerning digitalization and digital competence in the current trends of educational work. Using a multidisciplinary and holistic approach the book compares Nordic countries’ attitudes towards the digitalization of education and demonstrates the Nordic region’s position as digital front-runners in a European and a global context. The book provides up-to-date cases and future-oriented perspectives on digitalization and digital competence in educational work. Chapters use empirical data gained from policy documents interviews and questionnaires to present nuanced discussions theoretical perspectives and implications for the future of digitalization in education. Ultimately this book’s reach far exceeds that of its Nordic contexts and will be of use to postgraduate students researchers and scholars across the globe involved with digital education teacher education and educational policy and politics more broadly. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Digitalization and Digital Competence in Educational Contexts A Nordic Perspective from Policy to Practice GBP 130.00 1
Love and Technology An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin Love and Technology: An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin explores how dating apps fit into Berlin’s unique dating culture and brand of intimacy and form a tangible nucleus around which users navigate dating rituals romantic biographies and digitally mediated intimacies within city space. Drawing on the field of digital anthropology this book takes the form of an immersive ethnography resulting from 13 months of fieldwork with young dating app users across Tinder Bumble and OkCupid in Berlin. It argues that dating apps offer or impose depending on their context of use a series of affordances. These affordances and the technological devices they rely upon exist through the relation between users and their environment both in terms of physical spaces and cultural frameworks. The book posits that dating apps are woven into spatial practices and self-narrativisation constituting imagined communities for their users as well as a canvas alongside the city of Berlin against which to characterise romantic experiences. Scholars interested in digital anthropology ethnography dating and regional Berlin will find that Love and Technology offers a vibrant springboard for thinking through both theoretical and methodological concerns. | Love and Technology An Ethnography of Dating App Users in Berlin GBP 130.00 1
Handbook of Sodium-Ion Batteries Materials and Characterization The need for batteries has grown exponentially in response to the increase in global energy demand and to the ambitious goals that governments have set up for sustainable energy development worldwide especially in developed countries. While lithium-ion batteries currently dominate the energy storage market the limited and unevenly distributed lithium resources have caused huge concerns over the sustainability of the lithium-ion battery technology. Sodium-ion batteries have significant benefits over lithium-ion batteries including sodium’s abundance in the Earth’s crust. These batteries have therefore gained research interest and efforts are being made to use them in place of lithium-ion batteries. While the past decade has witnessed significant research advances and breakthroughs in developing the sodium-ion battery technology there still remain fundamental challenges that must be overcome to push the technology forward. This book comprises 13 chapters that discuss the fundamental challenges electrode materials electrolytes separators advanced instrumental analysis techniques and computational methods for sodium-ion batteries from renowned scientists. The book is a unique combination of all aspects associated with sodium-ion batteries and can therefore be used as a handbook. | Handbook of Sodium-Ion Batteries Materials and Characterization GBP 139.00 1
Get Through MRCOG Part 2: MCQs Get Through MRCOG Part 2: MCQs covers the breadth and depth of the MRCOG Part 2 examination syllabus and is an essential revision tool for candidates preparing for this examination. The comprehensive and wide collection of practice questions is designed to help the candidate test and assess their knowledge of the subject aiding them in thorough preparation for the exam. The text contains 750 multiple choice stems each with around four associated questions providing the reader with a total of 3000 individual questions with which to test themselves. The material is divided up by subject area allowing candidates to test their knowledge on a particular topic. The 13 'modules' are followed by two mock papers each containing a selection of questions on different subject areas which the reader can attempt under timed conditions. Answers are provided with useful explanatory information for all questions to help the reader understand why their answer is right or wrong. The author Paul Ayuk was clinical lecturer in obstetrics and gynaecology at Oxford University for 6 years and has run an on-line MRCOG course for over 5 years assisting over 8000 candidates worldwide. GBP 130.00 1
Young People Media and Politics in the Digital Age The book explores the relationship among young people politics and the media. It presents a novel multidimensional analytical framework – The Circle Line Media Model which accounts for the importance of a range of processes actors and social structures in the political socialisation process. By defining political socialisation as a lifelong interactive process that develops civic cultures collective identities and citizenship underpinned by social structures nationality and generational order the author draws attention to its manifestation in acts of political participation and interactions with authoritative actors such as school/teachers family the media and friends/peers. The volume’s longitudinal study on young people Europe and the media spanning 13 years of research in two very different countries also makes recommendations for more effectively engaging young people with politics and political media based on Generation Z’s own views about current deficiencies in their relationship with news media. Shedding new light on the changing nature of young people’s engagement with politics this book will be of interest to researchers lecturers/professors and upper level undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of media studies communication and journalism studies as well as politics and sociology. | Young People Media and Politics in the Digital Age GBP 130.00 1
Migratory Men Place Transnationalism and Masculinities Foregrounding the ways in which men experience transnational migration Migratory Men: Place Transnationalism and Masculinities considers how we conceptualise and theorise mobile men in a global context. Bringing together studies from around the world (e. g. Australia Pakistan Tunisia Zimbabwe and Italy) this collection foregrounds how the transnational migratory experience profoundly reshapes men’s complex identity practices. Specifically the collection highlights how transnational migratory aspirations and experiences often lead men to reimagine local patterns of masculinity and/or reaffirm prescriptive gender roles as they encounter new spaces/places. In presenting interdisciplinary research the international scholars consider the powerful roles of economics politics and social class in shaping masculinities. Furthermore the contributors emphasise how men affectively and agentically experience migration and how interaction with new spaces/places can often lead to negotiations between disempowerment and empowerment. As such this collection will appeal to both non-academic readers who share transnational migratory aspirations and experiences and academic readers across the social sciences with interests in gender and sexuality migration and diaspora transnationalism and contemporary masculinities. Chapter 13 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | Migratory Men Place Transnationalism and Masculinities GBP 130.00 1
Multilingual Digital Humanities Multilingual Digital Humanities explores the impact of monolingualism—especially Anglocentrism—on digital practices in the humanities and social sciences. The volume explores a wide range of applied contexts such as digital linguistic injustice critical digital literacy digital learning digital publishing low-resourced minoritised or endangered languages in a digital space and multilingual historical intertextuality. These discussions are situated within wider work on language technologies language documentation and international (in particular European) language-based infrastructure creation. Drawing on both primary and secondary research this four-part book features 13 diverse case studies of infrastructural projects pedagogical resources computational models interface building and publishing initiatives in a range of languages including Arabic French Russian Portuguese Italian German Spanish Bengali Hindi Malayalam and Tamil. All the debates are contextualised within a wider cultural frame thus bridging the gap between the linguistic focus of the multilingual initiatives and wider discussion of cultural criticism in DH. Multilingual Digital Humanities recognizes the digital as a culturally situated and organic multilingual entity embedding past present and future worlds which reacts to and impacts on institutional and methodological frameworks for knowledge creation. It is essential reading for students scholars and practitioners working in digital humanities and digital studies. GBP 130.00 1
The Philosophy of Fiction Imagination and Cognition This book presents new research on the crucial role that imagination plays in contemporary philosophy of fiction. The first part of the book challenges the main paradigm set by Kendall Walton and Gregory Currie according to which there is a necessary connection between fiction and a prescription that we engage imaginatively with its content. The contributors address the fundamental questions of how we can define fiction and especially whether we can define fiction in terms of imagination. The second part focuses on a distinct but related question: can we point to some distinctive experiential features of our engagement with fiction? In the third part the focus lies on the cognitive value of fiction and on the role that imagination plays in that respect. The chapters in this part discuss the cognitive value of fiction with respect to issues such as the training of the faculty of imagination phenomenal experience empathy and the emotions. The Philosophy of Fiction will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in aesthetics philosophy of mind epistemology and literary studies. Chapter 13 of this book is available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | The Philosophy of Fiction Imagination and Cognition GBP 120.00 1
Introduction to Environmental Management for the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management This endorsed handbook is directly aligned to the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management with each element of the syllabus explained in detail. Includes sample NEBOSH questions and case studies to aid learning Up to date and aligned with the revised 2012 specification Over 100 images tables and diagrams all in full colour Written by an expert in this field of study. Environmental pressures have been increasing on businesses over many years. New legislation has forced companies to look at their impact on the environment through such issues as use of resources emissions energy use transport and waste management. Accidents such as the recent pollution incident by BP in the Gulf of Mexico grab the attention of the media and bring it into the public domain. In addition to its focus on the NEBOSH course this book covers all of the essential elements managers will need to understand correct environmental health and safety management including the broad legal framework risk assessment and pointers to relevant standards. Brian Waters has 15 years experience in the water supply industry and 13 years of experience in senior management roles with the National Rivers Authority and the Environment Agency. He has subsequently worked in training and consultancy giving him a wealth of experience in this area. | Introduction to Environmental Management for the NEBOSH Certificate in Environmental Management GBP 175.00 1
Topical Issues of Rational use of Natural Resources 2019 Proceedings of the XV International Forum-Contest of Students and Young Researchers Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 contains the contributions presented at the XV International Forum-Contest of Students and Young Researchers under the auspices of UNESCO (St. Petersburg Mining University Russia 13-17 May 2019). The Forum-Contest is a great opportunity for young researchers to present their work to the academics involved or interested the area of extraction and processing of natural resources. The topics of the book include: Volume 1 • Geotechnologies of resource extraction: current challenges and prospects • Solid minerals mining technologies. Industrial and labour safety • Underground space development technologies. Rock mechanics and control of rock conditions • Cutting edge technologies of geological mapping search and prospecting of mineral deposits • Digital and energy saving technologies in mineral resource complex Volume 2 • Breakthrough technologies of integrated processing of mineral hydrocarbon and technogenic raw materials with further production of new generation materials • The latest management and financing solutions for the development of mineral resources sector • Environment protection and sustainable nature management • New approaches to resolving hydrocarbon sector-specific issues Topical Issues of Rational Use of Natural Resources 2019 collects the best reports presented at the Forum-Contest and is of interest to academics and professionals involved in the extraction and processing of natural resources. | Topical Issues of Rational use of Natural Resources 2019 Proceedings of the XV International Forum-Contest of Students and Young Researchers GBP 160.00 1
Marketplaces Movements Representations and Practices This edited volume portrays marketplaces from a mobility perspective as dynamic and open entities consisting of flows of people goods and ideas. There is a renewed interest in research and policy arenas in marketplaces as the core of cities’ spatial and economic development and sociocultural life as incubators of urban renewal and platforms of alternative consumption models and as source of livelihood for many people worldwide. Contributions of this book draw on notions of movements representations and practices to illustrate that markets have physical reality but are also culturally and socially encoded and experienced through practice. It brings together empirically evidenced scholarly and practice-based works from the United Kingdom the Netherlands Switzerland Spain Bulgaria Turkey Lebanon Peru Brazil Vietnam South Africa and India. This book is primarily intended for scholars and graduate students of urban geography urban design and planning sociology anthropology who are interested in the relation between place and mobility in general and markets as ‘knots’ in the city in particular. It also informs policy-makers how urban planning policies and design interventions for marketplaces may foster more socially inclusive and environmentally just cities. Chapters 1 12 and 13 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Marketplaces Movements Representations and Practices GBP 130.00 1