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House Inspector

House Inspector

This book is a concise and comprehensive guide to building defects and building inspection. Whether as a practitioner you are employed in buying selling managing or maintaining houses or whether or as a layperson you are buying a property to invest or live in this book will help you make sound decisions and avoid costly mistakes. Written by two highly experienced authors House Inspector is a general and accessible book which describes how and why house construction has changed identifies some of the more common defects and provides a series of elemental check lists. Essential reading for trainees and general practice surveyors maintenance inspectors housing managers estate agents planners and even private purchasers and investors. This book will improve your knowledge and understanding of potential problems and provide a simple framework for a competent building inspection.

GBP 105.00
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The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

First published in 1966 The Manor House Hospital is a short history of the hospital from its difficult early days to its modern avatar with operating theatres spacious and airy wards comfortable waiting rooms and all other appurtenances which were often lacking in other institutions. It also documents the history of the remarkable men who made such a transformation possible. This book will be of interest to students of history medicine and public policy. | The Manor House Hospital A Personal Record

GBP 90.00
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From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe Behind and Beyond Lancaster House

From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe Behind and Beyond Lancaster House

First published in 1980. The aim of this collection of articles is to furnish information and perspective on the main economic and political elements present in the making of Zimbabwe. Although the articles were prepared before the conclusion of the Lancaster House negotiations they discuss matters which must be central to the future of this important newly independent state of Southern Africa. | From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe Behind and Beyond Lancaster House

GBP 175.00
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The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

This book explores the role of external powers and international organisations in media assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Through analysis of key documents media reports and interviews with key participants it examines the main actors their roles and the way in which they influenced the media and society. Bosnia and Herzegovina remains one of the biggest experiments in international intervention in modern history. Media assistance as well as international intervention was an enormous project which involved many donors and recipient organisations and large amounts of money but it is just one of many countries where democratisation and state-building took place with little to no input from the local community. Since the mid-1980s media assistance has been an integral part of international intervention used as a tool of democratisation in post-conflict countries and societies. The process is often led and created outside these countries and implemented by various international organisations led by technocrats and dictated by the will of donors. The author uses the case study of Bosnia and Herzegovina to assess this in a broader context. This volume will be of interest to scholars and students of Southeast Europe international organisations peace-building and rebuilding society in post-war countries as well as journalists and policy-makers. | The Media as a Tool of International Intervention House of Cards

GBP 130.00
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Home Beyond the House Transformation of Life Place and Tradition in Rural China

Home Beyond the House Transformation of Life Place and Tradition in Rural China

Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019 this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China? This question is particularly potent since rural China has experienced rapid and fundamental changes in the twenty-first century under the influences of national policies such as Building a New Socialist Countryside enacted in 2006 and Rural Revitalization announced in 2018. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork building surveys archival research and over 600 photographs taken by residents along with their life stories this book uncovers the meanings of home from rural residents’ perspectives who belong to a social group that is underrepresented in scholarship and underserved in modern China. In other words this study empowers rural residents by giving them voice. This book links the concepts of place home and tradition into an overarching argument: The meaning of home rests on the ideas of tradition including identity consanguinity collectivity social relations land ownership and rural lifestyle. The Introduction and Chapter 4 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. | Home Beyond the House Transformation of Life Place and Tradition in Rural China

GBP 120.00
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What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

In 1921 a young female doctor started analysis with Sigmund Freud. In a diary she recorded what moved her. The present volume not only contains a full translation of these records but also collects four essays by two psychoanalysts and two analytical historians who take their cue from the young doctor's notes to think about Freud and his methods. The discovery of the diary marks a small sensation for the history of social science. Three factors make the document unique: first it records not a training analysis but the analysis of an actual patient second the analysis took place before Freud fell ill with cancer and third the analysand obviously noted down what was said in the practice word by word. | What is this Professor Freud Like? A Diary of an Analysis with Historical Comments

GBP 130.00
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The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England

The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England

Having a conscience distinguishes humans from the most advanced AI systems. Acting in good conscience consulting one’s conscience and being conscience-wracked are all aspects of human intelligence that involve reckoning (deriving general laws from particular inputs and vice versa) and judgement (contemplating the relationship of the reckoning system to the world). While AI developers have mastered reckoning they are still working towards the creation of judgement. This book sheds light on the reckoning and judgement of conscience by demonstrating how these concepts are explored in Everyman Doctor Faustus The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. Academic student or general-interest readers discover the complexity and multiplicity of the early modern concept of conscience which is informed by the scholastic intellectual tradition juridical procedures of the court of Chancery the practical advice of Protestant casuistry and Reformation theology. The aims are to examine the rubrics for thinking through regulating and judging actions that define the various consciences of Shakespeare’s day to use these rubrics to interpret questions of truth and action in early modern plays and to offer insights into what it is about conscience that developers want to grasp to eliminate the difference between human and non-human intelligences and achieve true AI. | The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England

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Handbook of Algal Technologies and Phytochemicals Two Volume Set

Handbook of Algal Technologies and Phytochemicals Two Volume Set

This two-volume set explores the aspects of diversity of micro and macro algal forms their traditional uses; their constituents which are of value for food feed specialty chemicals bioactive compounds for several novel applications and bioenergy molecules. The industrial production systems downstream processing utilization of the biomass and the metabolites of importance for various applications are addressed. Innovations in production technologies coupled with the biological activities of their novel metabolites and molecules offer tremendous scope for the exploitation of these micro and macro algal forms through industrial production processes in a sustainable manner. These two volumes offer a treasure house of information to the students and researchers of plant sciences biological sciences agricultural sciences foods and nutrition sciences health sciences and environmental sciences. Their practical value will benefit professionals including agriculture and food experts biotechnologists ecologists environmentalists and biomass specialists. This set will also aid industries dealing with foods nutraceuticals pharmaceuticals cosmecuticals health care products and bioenergy. | Handbook of Algal Technologies and Phytochemicals Two Volume Set

GBP 175.00
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Evolution of the British Party System 1885-1940

Evolution of the British Party System 1885-1940

By the end of the nineteenth century reform and development of the British electoral system had inaugurated a new style of mass politics which fundamentally transformed the face of the British party system. This book traces the evolution of recognisably modern parties from their roots in the 1880s through half a century of dramatic change in organisational structure electoral competition and constitutional thought. In the House of Commons the Labour Party replaced the Liberals as the radical answer to the Conservative Party. In the country at large the complex web of Victorian social regional and religious allegiances gave way to a cruder but more dynamic model of modern political loyalties. The transformation at Westminster and in the constituencies is surveyed in relation to changes to the franchise (including the vote for women) class consciousness political organisation and doctrine. The comprehensive account explains the varying fortunes of the parties in the face of mass democracy collectivism the First World War and economic uncertainty. It also provides a critical insight into the debates and conflicts of interpretation which surround this pivotal period in British political history. | Evolution of the British Party System 1885-1940

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John McGahern Ways of Looking

John McGahern Ways of Looking

John McGahern (1934–2006) believed that fiction could act as a window on the world. Such windows however frame our fields of vision alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being static the artist’s perspective must continually evolve. This book provides a literary analysis of John McGahern’s artistic and poetic vision – his ‘ways of looking’ examining the shifting focus of this vision: how and why it develops what effects such developments have on the work’s forms and how these forms evolve at what times and in response to what stimuli. This volume demonstrates that such developments mirror an analogous social expansion during the latter half of the twentieth century and argues that McGahern’s literary spaces relate to his efforts to realise a more accommodating form to envelop the structureless society. While the number of critical studies on McGahern has increased markedly in recent years research still tends to fall into the well-established camps of social realism or literary aestheticism. This text aims to explore the common ground between the material context and social worlds of each work and the hermeneutics of a ‘traditional’ literary investigation. It traverses such divides through close readings of McGahern’s work with attention to the topopoetical production of images of the house the home and the family unit. The book ultimately shows how attention to McGahern’s literary spaces provides a greater understanding of the aesthetic vision and form of each novel and allows us to understand those aspects relative to the social cultural and political undercurrents of the works individually and collectively. | John McGahern Ways of Looking

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The Words of Winston Churchill Speeches 1933-1940

The Words of Winston Churchill Speeches 1933-1940

This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war during the rise of Hitler and concentrates on foreign affairs. The study will appeal to those interested in Churchill freedom tyranny diplomacy war and conflict democracy politics the 1930s the Second World War Britain the English-speaking world Canada the United States the British Empire and Commonwealth Europe France Asia Germany totalitarianism Parliament and legislative assemblies rhetoric language style speech-writing oral and written communication literature history and other areas. The debate between autocracy and the tyrannical totalitarian on the one hand and democracy on the other is the debate of those times and ours. The reader will find many parallels some chilling with our own times. Churchill and his contemporaries have much to teach us. Churchill was key to our world history and is a key to understanding what is at stake in the world now. | The Words of Winston Churchill Speeches 1933-1940

GBP 130.00
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Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

This book addresses early modern concepts of the body and the self – focussing on three self-narratives authored by the nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634–1710) a body description from head to foot autobiographical writings and a brief chronicle of the House of Trapp-Caldonazzo. Approaching the complex theme of the question of the early modern self and the historical body this book intertwines consistent contextualisation and historicisation of self-interpretation and biography. This is done in three steps: first the content and function of these self-narratives are analysed with reference to current research on early modern self-narratives. In a second step the life and family history of Osvaldo Ercole Trapp are examined from a microhistorical perspective and placed within the context of the early modern history of Tyrol’s nobility. A third step then goes into detail on individual contexts and discourses that refine one’s comprehension of these self-narratives: noble masculinity; family house and line; theories of procreation and education; body experience and body images. It combines textual analysis historical anthropology with a strong gender-historical perspective microhistory and the history of the body as a history of experience and discourse. With this approach the study makes an innovative contribution to early modern studies on self-narratives social history of early modern nobility and the history of the body as the history of experience and discourse. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars alike interested in intellectual social and cultural history. | Body Self and Melancholy The Self-Narratives and Life of the Nobleman Osvaldo Ercole Trapp (1634-1710)

GBP 130.00
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The British Constitution

The British Constitution

First published in 1938 The British Constitution discusses the basic features of the British Constitution. The author argues that the Constitution is more than a body of institutions working in accordance with principles laid down in law or expressed in conventions. It is society in its political aspect. In addition to the features of the Constitution the book also explains the functions of the House of Commons the House of Lords the King the Cabinet the parties the administration and the armed forces. This book will be of interest to anyone keen on learning about the British Constitution as well as students of political science and history.

GBP 90.00
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Undertones of Insurrection Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative

Undertones of Insurrection Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative

A basic tenet of literary studies is that aesthetic structures are politically significant because they represent an artist's response to the political implications of cultural codes with which the recipient of the modern work is also acquainted. This tenet provides the basis for the ideological associations attending the appearance of music in the modern German narrative. With his understanding of the arts as involved in often unacknowledged ideological forces within a culture Marc Weiner's Undertones of Insurrection bridges the gap between the New Musicology's rewarding infusion of modern cultural and literary theory into the study of music politically insightful examinations of narrative structures in the modern novel and the methodologically conservative area of musical-literary relations in Germanic Studies. In other words the questions it raises are different from those pursued in most examinations of music and literature because previous works of this kind concerning the literature of German-speaking Europe have often disregarded social concerns in general and political issues in particular. Ranging from 1900 to Doctor Faustus (1947) Weiner study sets the stage by examining public debates that conflated such issues as national identity racism populism the role of the sexes and xenophobia with musical texts. In the literary analyses that follow Weiner discusses both obvious connections between music and sociopolitical issues-Hesse's equation of jazz and insurrection in Steppenwolf-and covert ones the suppression of music in Death in Venice and the use of politically charged musical subtexts in Werfel's Verdi and Schnitzler's Rhapsody. By uncovering the ideological agendas informing cultural practice in modernist Germany Undertones of Insurrection calls for a reevaluation of the function of music in the modern German narrative. | Undertones of Insurrection Music and Cultural Politics in the Modern German Narrative

GBP 130.00
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Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands

Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands

Mollusks and Marine Environments of the Ten Thousand Islands provides the first comprehensive overview of the shells and habitats that are present in the last unexplored coastal area of southwestern Florida. The mysterious and primordial Ten Thousand Islands where the rivers and marshlands of the Everglades empty into the Gulf of Mexico house a number of remarkable marine ecosystems many shown here in detail for the first time. Primary among these are unique worm shell “reef systems ” composed entirely of immense masses of vermetid gastropod mollusks. These previously unexplored and unstudied gastropod reefs which are often many acres in size are shown here to mimic coral reefs in their growth structure and represent the only large-scale molluscan reefs found anywhere on Earth. Living in association with the zonated gastropod reefs are a number of rare and unusual mollusks some of which represent endemic species that are unique to the Ten Thousand Islands. These and many other southwestern Florida shells are illustrated throughout this book along with detailed illustrations and descriptions of the marine and estuarine environments that dominate the archipelago and its adjacent lagoon systems.

GBP 150.00
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Handbook of Parenting Volume 5: The Practice of Parenting Third Edition

Handbook of Parenting Volume 5: The Practice of Parenting Third Edition

This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of parenting. Contributors to the Handbook look to the most recent research and thinking to shed light on topics every parent professional and policy maker wonders about. Parenting is a perennially hot topic. After all everyone who has ever lived has been parented and the vast majority of people become parents themselves. No wonder bookstores house shelves of how-to parenting books and magazine racks in pharmacies and airports overflow with periodicals that feature parenting advice. However almost none of these is evidence-based. The Handbook of Parenting is. Period. Each chapter has been written to be read and absorbed in a single sitting and includes historical considerations of the topic a discussion of central issues and theory a review of classical and modern research and forecasts of future directions of theory and research. Together the five volumes in the Handbook cover Children and Parenting the Biology and Ecology of Parenting Being and Becoming a Parent Social Conditions and Applied Parenting and the Practice of Parenting. Volume 5 The Practice of Parenting describes the nuts-and-bolts of parenting as well as the promotion of positive parenting practices. Parents meet the biological physical and health requirements of children. Parents interact with children socially. Parents stimulate children to engage and understand the environment and to enter the world of learning. Parents provision organize and arrange their children’s home and local environments and the media to which children are exposed. Parents also manage child development vis-à-vis childcare school the circles of medicine and law as well as other social institutions through their active citizenship. The chapters in Part I on Practical Parenting review the ethics of parenting parenting and the development of children's self-regulation discipline prosocial and moral development and resilience as well as children’s language play cognitive and academic achievement and children’s peer relationships. The chapters in Part II on Parents and Social Institutions explore parents and their children’s childcare activities media schools and healthcare and examine relations between parenthood and the law public policy and religion and spirituality. | Handbook of Parenting Volume 5: The Practice of Parenting Third Edition

GBP 99.99
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F.D. Ascoli Early Revenue History of Bengal and The Fifth Report 1812

F.D. Ascoli Early Revenue History of Bengal and The Fifth Report 1812

Early Revenue History of Bengal and the Fifth Report 1812 was the outcome of a series of four lectures delivered at the Dacca College by the distinguished Bengali civil servant F. D. Ascoli. It embodies the text of the Fifth Report on the affairs of the East India Company by the Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed with a view to form the charter of 1813 and also careful and detailed summary of the discussions that led up to Lord Cornwallis's Permanent Revenue Settlement of Bengal (including Behar). The condensed arguments of Mr. James Grant Sir John Shore and Lord Cornwallis on the subject of the Permanent Settlement enable us to see the objectives desired for in the Permanent Revenue Settlement. The book also affords valuable glimpses on the methods adopted for carrying out the settlement and working it successfully in the early days when the zamindars themselves did not look upon it as a boon and the sale of estates for arrears were frequent. Ascoli's excellent and dispassionate account of the Company’s difficulties and the unsuccessful remedies that were from time to time applied to meet them disposes of pet theories that are sometimes advanced with regard to the Permanent Settlement. Mr. Ascoli's masterly analysis and partial text of the Fifth Report from the Select Committee 1812 will be of material assistance to students of revenue history in Bengal and of Colonial India generally. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | F. D. Ascoli Early Revenue History of Bengal and The Fifth Report 1812

GBP 130.00
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Fundamentals of Internet of Things

Fundamentals of Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) networks have revolutionized the world and have innumerable real-time applications on automation. A few examples include driverless cars remote monitoring of the elderly remote order of tea or coffee of your choice from a vending machine and home/industrial automation amongst others. Fundamentals of Internet of Things build the foundations of IoT networks by leveraging the relevant concepts from signal processing communications net-works and machine learning. The book covers two fundamental components of IoT networks namely the Internet and Things. In particular the book focuses on networking concepts protocols clustering data fusion localization energy harvesting control optimization data analytics fog computing privacy and security including elliptic curve cryptography and blockchain technology. Most of the existing books are theoretical and without many mathematical details and examples. In addition some essential topics of the IoT networks are also missing in the existing books. Features: • The book covers cutting-edge research topics• Provides mathematical understanding of the topics in addition to relevant theory and insights• Includes illustrations with hand-solved numerical examples for visualization of the theory and testing of understanding• Lucid and crisp explanation to lessen the study time of the reader The book is a complete package of the fundamentals of IoT networks and is suitable for graduate-level students and researchers who want to dive into the world of IoT networks.

GBP 145.00
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British Representations of the Middle East in the Exhibition Space 1850–1932 Race Gender and Morality

British Representations of the Middle East in the Exhibition Space 1850–1932 Race Gender and Morality

This volume analyses British exhibitions of Middle Eastern (particularly ancient Egyptian and Persian) artefacts during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – examining how these exhibitions defined British self image in response to the Middle Eastern ‘other’. This study is an original interpretation of the exhibition space along intersectional constructionist lines revealing how forces such as gender race morality and space come together to provide an argument for British supremacy. The position of museums as instruments of representation of display made them important points of contact between the British national imperialist scheme and the public. Displays in the British Museum Victoria and Albert Museum and Burlington House provide a focus for analysis. Through the employment of a constructionist lens the research outlines a complex relationship between British society and the Middle Eastern artefacts presented in museums during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This allows a dialogue to emerge which has consequences for both societies which is achieved through intersections of gender race and morality in space. This book will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in museology cultural studies history and art history. | British Representations of the Middle East in the Exhibition Space 1850–1932 Race Gender and Morality

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Handbook of Philosophy of Education

Handbook of Philosophy of Education

The Handbook of Philosophy of Education is a comprehensive guide to the most important questions about education that are being addressed by philosophers today. Authored by an international team of distinguished philosophers its thirty-five chapters address fundamental timely and controversial questions about educational aims justice policy and practices. Part I (Fundamental Questions) addresses the aims of education authority to educate the roles of values and evidence in guiding educational choices and fundamental questions about human cognition learning well-being and identity. Part II (Virtues of Mind and Character) is concerned with the educational formation of personal attributes that are often seen as essential to flourishing individuals and societies. This section includes chapters on the cultivation of intellectual and character virtues the nature and formation of expertise Stoic virtues and intellectual vices. Part III (Education and Justice) addresses fundamental and emerging issues of educational justice from equal educational opportunity racial domination and linguistic justice in education to educational problems of mass migration global educational justice the education of working children around the world and the costs of higher education and upward mobility. Part IV (Educational Practices) addresses controversial aspects of contemporary education – pedagogical curricular and managerial practices – that deserve careful examination. These include controversies surrounding free speech and instruction in controversial issues; anti-racist sustainability and sex education; and the unfulfilled promises and demoralizing impact of high-stakes accountability schemes. The format and jargon-free writing in this volume ensure that topics are interesting and accessible helping facilitate the work of advanced students and professionals in Education.

GBP 99.99
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On Education

On Education

Jane Addams the founder of Hull House in Chicago may be best known as a social activist. She was also a brilliantly critical intellectual. Implicit in her many speeches articles and books is a view of education as a broad process of cultural transformation and renewal a view that remains as compelling today as when it was first presented. Addams sees education as the foundation of democracy the basis for the free expression of ideas. Addams's writings on education are interpreted in an enlightening bio-graphical introduction by Ellen Lagemann. After the initial publication of this work Barbara L. Jacquette of the Delta Group Inc. in Phoenix wrote Professor Lagemann has brought life and immediacy to Jane Addams's work. Better she has given us a context that shows us that some of our most pressing issues today are simply old problems in new guises problems for which some of the old solutions may still be of use. Gerald Lee Gutek of Loyola University of Chicago commented Lagemann's insightful and sensitive biography reveals Addams's transformation from a reserved graduate of a small women's college into the Progressive reformer and pioneer of the settlement house movement. The essays collected here span a significant portion of Jane Addams's life from the time she spent in college to her founding of Hull House and beyond. Addams's constant interest in education is reflected in her writings. This book also reveals the many influences on Addams's life including the philosopher and educator John Dewey. On Education is an important work for educators women's studies specialists social workers and historians.

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Smart Innovation of Web of Things

Smart Innovation of Web of Things

The Web of Things (WoT) is a concept that describes approaches programming tools and software architectural systems which interface networks of real-world objects with the World Wide Web. The book is organized into 11 chapters each focusing on a unique wireless technological aspect of the Web of Things and it aims to comprehensively cover each of its various applications including: A strong emphasis on WoT problems and solutions identifying the main open issues innovations and latest technologies behind WoT A blend of theoretical and simulation-based problems for better understanding of the concepts behind WoT Various exemplifying applications in which the use of WoT is very attractive and an inspiration for future applications The book will be useful to researchers software developers and undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners. | Smart Innovation of Web of Things

GBP 120.00
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