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Masonry Wall Construction

Masonry Wall Construction

This volume provides a concise overview of the main facets of masonry wall construction including materials structural design types of walls movement insulation rain exclusion site practice defects and repair. The subject is covered in sufficient depth for a comprehensive introduction with reading lists after each chapter for those interested in further detail. Drawing on a wealth of experience the authors present an essential and comprehensive coverage of masonry wall design and construction for students of civil and structural engineering architecture building surveying and related courses. It will also be a useful guide for practising engineers and other professionals who require a general knowledge of masonry construction.

GBP 175.00
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Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires including wildland WUI (wildland-urban interface) and urban fires. The spread of outdoor fires can be viewed as a successive occurrence of physical and chemical processes – solid fuel combustion heat transfer to surrounding combustibles and ignition of heated combustibles – which are explained herein. Engineering equations frequently used in practical hazard analyses are derived and then integrated to implement a computational code predicting fire spread among discretely distributed combustibles. This code facilitates learning the procedure of hazard evaluation for large outdoor fires. Chapters cover underlying assumptions for analyzing fire spread behavior in large outdoor fires namely wind conditions near the ground surface and fundamentals of heat transfer; the physical mechanism of fire spread in and between combustibles specifically focusing on fire plumes (both reacting and non-reacting) and firebrand dispersal; and the spatial modeling of 3D objects and developing the computational framework for predicting fire spread. The book is ideal for engineers researchers and graduate students in fire safety as well as mechanical engineering civil engineering disaster management safety engineering and planning. Companion source codes are available online.

GBP 90.00
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Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning

Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning

Advancements in the technology and availability of data sources have led to the `Big Data' era. Working with large data offers the potential to uncover more fine-grained patterns and take timely and accurate decisions but it also creates a lot of challenges such as slow training and scalability of machine learning models. One of the major challenges in machine learning is to develop efficient and scalable learning algorithms i. e. optimization techniques to solve large scale learning problems. Stochastic Optimization for Large-scale Machine Learning identifies different areas of improvement and recent research directions to tackle the challenge. Developed optimisation techniques are also explored to improve machine learning algorithms based on data access and on first and second order optimisation methods. Key Features: Bridges machine learning and Optimisation. Bridges theory and practice in machine learning. Identifies key research areas and recent research directions to solve large-scale machine learning problems. Develops optimisation techniques to improve machine learning algorithms for big data problems. The book will be a valuable reference to practitioners and researchers as well as students in the field of machine learning.

GBP 150.00
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Iterative Methods and Preconditioning for Large and Sparse Linear Systems with Applications

Iterative Methods and Preconditioning for Large and Sparse Linear Systems with Applications

This book describes in a basic way the most useful and effective iterative solvers and appropriate preconditioning techniques for some of the most important classes of large and sparse linear systems. The solution of large and sparse linear systems is the most time-consuming part for most of the scientific computing simulations. Indeed mathematical models become more and more accurate by including a greater volume of data but this requires the solution of larger and harder algebraic systems. In recent years research has focused on the efficient solution of large sparse and/or structured systems generated by the discretization of numerical models by using iterative solvers. | Iterative Methods and Preconditioning for Large and Sparse Linear Systems with Applications

GBP 150.00
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Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

In large surface mining operations drilling and blasting activities constitute more than 15% of the total costs. In order to optimize performance and minimize costs a thorough knowledge of drill and blast operations is therefore extremely important. In this unique reference volume rotary blasthole drilling and surface blasting as applied in large surface mines are comprehensively covered. Both new and classic concepts techniques and methodologies are presented supported by numerous illustrations and practical data. In 26 chapters drilling surface blasting rock rock mass machinery tools and accessories compressors and air flushing computing and practice are many other relevant subjects are treated; the first 16 chapters deal with rotary blasthole drilling and the 10 next chapters with the concepts theory and practice of blasting. Moreover the 14 appendices provide vital technical and commercial data to further support the reader to design plan execute and calculate blasthole drilling operations. This volume is intended for professionals and technicians in mining exploration geological and mechanical engineering who are involved with the design planning and execution of rotary drilling and blasting operations in surface mines. | Rotary Drilling and Blasting in Large Surface Mines

GBP 94.99
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Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

This book grapples with fundamental questions about the evolving nature of pictorial representation and the role photography has played in this ongoing process. These issues are explored through a close analysis of key themes that underpin the photography practice of Canadian artist Jeff Wall and through examining important works that have defined his oeuvre. Wall’s strategic revival of ‘the picture’ has had a resounding influence on the development of contemporary art photography by expanding the conceptual and technical frameworks of the medium and introducing a self-reflexive criticality. Naomi Merritt brings a new and original contribution to the scholarship on one of the most significant figures to have shaped the course of contemporary art photography since the 1970s and shines a light on the multilayered connections between photography and art. This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of photography art and visual culture and contemporary art history. | Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture

GBP 130.00
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Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

This book is a remarkable tribute to the memory of Pat de Mare. You will find in these pages a selection of his work that represents his new and different understanding of groups both large and small that has not only had a significant impact on the practice of group therapy in his lifetime but also a potential for revolutionizing current thinking both now and in the future. The editors are owed a great debt of gratitude for putting so much important work together. They have organized the book around three sections on the small median and large groups. What is particularly moving is that each section is introduced by some of Pat's closest friends and colleagues. These introductions are not only invaluable preparation for reading the articles by Pat that follow but are also a poignant tribute to the writers' lives work their thinking and much happiness that came from their close relationship with Pat. | Small Large and Median Groups The Work of Patrick de Mare

GBP 130.00
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The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop manage and deliver such projects practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book researchers from the Norwegian Concept Research Programme explore the paradoxes between theory and practice in collaboration with experts in the field of project governance. This book delves into the reality of large public projects to show how they can be managed effectively and efficiently recognising the realities of their context. It offers a range of practical conclusions as to the paradoxes of the governance and management of public projects. The international spectrum of authors draw their examples from the UK Norway Canada France Australia and the Netherlands. Bridging the gap between research theory and practice this book will benefit academics and researchers in the field of project management and corporate governance as well as those in the practice of public project governance civil servants and industry practitioners. | The Front-end of Large Public Projects Paradoxes and Ways Ahead

GBP 130.00
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Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

This book challenges the binary distinction of developed and underdeveloped in the categorization of any country while proposing to erase this binary with a yardstick of parity. Through a sample comparative historical study focusing on the question of the emergence of the large-scale steel industry (1880-1914) of four chosen countries two considered developed (Imperial UK and Post-colonial Imperial USA) and two considered underdeveloped (Imperial Russia and Colonial India) it is shown how this yardstick of parity can be applied without the categorization of societies as either developed or underdeveloped. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India Sri Lanka Nepal Bangladesh Pakistan or Bhutan) | Erasing the Binary Distinction of Developed and Underdeveloped A Comparative Study of the Emergence of the Large-Scale Steel Industry in Imp

GBP 130.00
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Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

This comprehensive reference text discusses simulation with case studies and realworld applications related to energy system models the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems. The text covers analysis and modeling of the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems. It further discusses economic aspects useful for policy makers and industrial professionals. It covers important topics including smart grids architectures wide-area situational awareness (WASA) energy management systems (EMS) demand response (DR) smart grid standardization exertions virtual power plants battery degradation modeling optimization approaches in modeling and smart metering infrastructure. The book: Discusses the analysis and modeling of the large-scale integration of renewable energy systems electric vehicles and energy storage systems Covers issues and challenges encountered in the large-scale integration of electric vehicles energy storage systems and renewable energy systems into future smart grid design Provides simulation with case studies and real-world applications related to energy system models electric vehicles and energy storage systems Discusses the integration of large renewable energy systems with the presence of a large number of electric vehicles and storage devices/systems Discussing concepts of smart grids together with the deployment of electric vehicles energy storage systems and renewable energy systems this text will be useful as a reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering electronics and communication engineering renewable energy and clean technologies. It further discusses topics including electric grid infrastructure architecture interfacing standardization protocols security reliability communication and optimal control. | Smart Grids for Renewable Energy Systems Electric Vehicles and Energy Storage Systems

GBP 110.00
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Looking Through Freud's Photos

Looking Through Freud's Photos

A moody Freud posed against a background of holiday pictures pinned to a wall; or lurking at the very edge of a large family group; or lost in a crowd of nineteenth-century scientists. These snapshots or posed portraits not only tell stories they also carry a specific emotional charge. The earlier essays in this book follow traces of Freud's early years through the evidence of such album photographs; the later essays use them to reconstruct the stories of various family members. An unknown photo of his half-brother Emanuel initiates an investigation into the Manchester Freuds. An identity photo of his daughter Anna and the document to which it is attached throw light on the critical final days of her trip to England in 1914. A faded idyllic print of children playing evolves into a discussion of Ernst Freud's luck and childhood. The suicide of Anna's artist cousin Tom Seidmann Freud emerges from a snap of her infant daughter Angela. | Looking Through Freud's Photos

GBP 130.00
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Deficit Politics in the United States Taxes Spending and Fiscal Disconnect

Deficit Politics in the United States Taxes Spending and Fiscal Disconnect

From the clashes between Federalists and Republicans in the 1790s until today partisan battles over taxing spending and public debt have shaped American political development. These battles were formerly constrained by fiscal norms that mandated balanced budgets and low debt. In his Farewell Address President George Washington counseled the nation to cherish public credit by using it as sparingly as possible. In the 1980s however tax cuts and spending increases created large structural deficits and much higher debt levels. With only a brief interruption in the late 1990s deficit politics has been a mainstay ever since. Over this period the Republican Party has passed large tax cuts but failed to retrench the large entitlement programs that continue to raise spending. Likewise the Democratic Party has expanded the domestic role of government but has abandoned the broad-based taxation it supported in the 1990s. Funding their domestic agenda with matching revenues is now as unappealing for Democrats as entitlement cutbacks are for Republicans contributing to the current stalemate of Republican tax policy Democratic spending policy and soaring deficits and debt. The economic risks this entails are serious yet an end to the era of deficit politics is nowhere in sight. | Deficit Politics in the United States Taxes Spending and Fiscal Disconnect

GBP 130.00
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Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

The explosive growth of bioeconomy and bioscience coupled with an interconnected planet increases the potential impact of large-scale bio-events. Either causing public health threats as in epidemics or posing food security issues from mass poisonings to large-scale starvation such eventualities are direct threats and indirect destabilizers in a planetary context. The issue of Biosecurity thus pervades every affected aspect from exploitations of the agro-sector and the food industry to the Public Health management the novel therapeutic/treatment approaches the new age of space deep-sea and subterranean explorations and the interface with the cyber world and the massive or small-scale projection of violence. It has been present since ancient times tacitly and discreetly but only recently took its present guise the different aspects of which are explored in this book. | Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

GBP 105.00
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The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

This collection studies the representations of the character of the monarch in literature and cinema. Being a person an institution a character archetype and a narrative role the characters of the monarch and other royal or regal characters oscillate between humanity and the non-human. As such they are hybrid forms of existence and subjectivity. The authors of this collection explore this hybridity across large spectra of genres historical periods and cultural contexts. Some of the most prolific and widely read scholars analyze the archetype of the monarch on the page the stage and the screen. They cover large swathes of intersecting creative and interpretive territories including ancient epic and religious poetry Arthurian legends British Renaissance and modern drama British horror films and Hollywood crime and sports films. This collection also features interviews with six prominent comic book writers and artists who discuss the influence of classical royal archetypes on their works. | The Monarch and the (Non)-Human in Literature and Cinema Western and Global Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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The Future of Rural Development Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

The Future of Rural Development Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

This book gives a practitioner's account of international experiences with rural development seen from a German angle. It argues for a development co-operation for rural areas that actively supports popular participation beneficiaries' self-organization decentralization and consequently smaller self-managed (para)projects rather than large top-down organized rural development projects. | The Future of Rural Development Between the Adjustment of the Project Approach and Sectoral Programme Desig

GBP 175.00
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The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

The Living Land sets out a new 'stakeholder' vision for rural regeneration in Europe. It integrates three themes: sustainable agriculture localised food systems and rural community development. All three offer ways of rebuilding natural and social capital and a large 'sustainability dividend' is waiting to be released from current practices - creating more jobs more wealth and better lives from less. | The Living Land Agriculture Food and Community Regeneration in the 21st Century

GBP 175.00
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Swine Production and Management

Swine Production and Management

This book elaborately covers all topics of swine management like breeding feeding housing health management and pork production technology. The book is well supported by a large number of illustrations and tables which makes the understanding of the text very simple and easy. It will be very useful for all students as well as professionals. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Swine Production and Management

GBP 99.99
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Nanomaterials in Architecture and Art Conservation

Nanomaterials in Architecture and Art Conservation

The conservation and protection of buildings that constitute our cultural heritage are complex tasks calling for a comprehensive knowledge of the historical background of the buildings as well as the construction technologies and materials used. Nanomaterials in Architecture and Art Conservation gives a comprehensive overview of the state of the art of using nanomaterials in conservation sciences mainly for stone mortar and plaster strengthening but also for the consolidation of wall paintings. The book compiles and details deterioration mechanisms of stone and historical mortars as well as methods of characterising and testing consolidation effects. The non- or semi-destructive characterisation methods that will be presented allow additional measurements to characterise objects before and after any interventions. Besides general aspects of inorganic consolidants are targeted. The focus in particular is the application of nanolime as a new consolidation agent. Basic characteristics and application advices as well as beneficial combinations with other consolidation agents such as silicic acid esters are emphasised. What makes this book so special is the large number of practical applications described from the viewpoint of different restorers offering a direct inside view of the procedure for the conservation of historical monuments. Restorers dealing with stone mortar and plaster conservation; artists; advanced undergraduate- and graduate-level students of conservation science art and nanotechnology; offices for the protection of monuments and heritage agencies; and researchers in materials science conservation nanotechnology and chemistry especially those with an interest in applied sciences will find this book a great reference.

GBP 139.00
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