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Introduction to Ocean Circulation and Modeling

Introduction to Ocean Circulation and Modeling

Introduction to Ocean Circulation and Modeling provide basics for physical oceanography covering ocean properties ocean circulations and their modeling. First part of the book explains concepts of oceanic circulation geostrophy Ekman Sverdrup dynamics Stommel and Munk problems two-layer dynamics stratification thermal and salt diffusion vorticity/instability and so forth. Second part highlights basic implementation framework for ocean models discussion of different models and their unique differences from the common framework with basin-scale modeling regional modeling and interdisciplinary modeling at different space and time scales. Features: Covers ocean properties ocean circulations and their modeling. Explains the centrality of a rotating earth and its implications for ocean and atmosphere in a simple manner. Provides basic facts of ocean dynamics. Illustrative diagrams for clear understanding of key concepts. Outlines interdisciplinary and complex models for societal applications. The book aims at Senior Undergraduate Students Graduate Students and Researchers in Ocean Science and Engineering Ocean Technology Physical Oceanography Ocean Circulation Ocean Modeling Dynamical Oceanography and Earth Science.

GBP 105.00
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Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ China’s Renewed Foreign and Security Policy

Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ China’s Renewed Foreign and Security Policy

Singh analyses the influence of Xi’s 'Chinese Dream' on China’s foreign relations and security postures. Xi Jinping’s rise has led to a paradigm shift in many aspects of China’s domestic and international politics. A key element of this has been the ideological vision shorthanded as the 'Chinese Dream' combining elements of nationalism Confucian ideology and economic expansionism. Singh evaluates the various changes in China’s nominally communist ideology in the post-Mao era with an emphasis on the implications for China’s economic and security relations with other countries. He particularly focusses on China’s approach to South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region key elements of China’s strategy. An insightful guide to understanding the direction of China’s foreign and security policy and especially its impact on India–China relations. | Xi Jinping’s ‘Chinese Dream’ China’s Renewed Foreign and Security Policy

GBP 120.00
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Indian Ocean The New Frontier

Indian Ocean The New Frontier

The present volume curates papers presented at an international conference organized at OUCIP to engage with the oceanic turn in different fields of knowledge embracing Social Sciences Humanities and Physical Sciences to project the Indian Ocean as the new frontier of research across various disciplines. The papers are divided into four sections: The Oceanic Reach has papers reflecting on the received knowledge regarding the historical role and reach of the Indian Ocean and providing new insights in the evolving dynamics of the region. The section on Literature and Culture has essays reflecting the different trajectories within Humanities and Cultural Studies through which Indian Ocean has stimulated the imagination of scholars intellectuals diasporic writers and culture historians. The section on Roots and Routes includes accounts of the historical cultural religious trade and diasporic linkages across oceanic communities inhabiting the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean. The final section on Power Games includes papers that deal with the increasing interests of various international powers in the Indian Ocean region particularly in the context of the shift from the Asian land mass to the enormous presence of the Indian Ocean and the economic political and strategic significance that it has for the entire region. Taken together these contributions offer both an opportunity and a challenge for interested scholars to engage with Indian Ocean as a new frontier of knowledge with enormous potential for research and exploration. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | Indian Ocean The New Frontier

GBP 130.00
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Human Rights and Ocean Governance The Potential of Marine Spatial Planning in Europe

Human Rights and Ocean Governance The Potential of Marine Spatial Planning in Europe

This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance. Maritime spatial planning (MSP) has become the dominant marine management paradigm with MSP frameworks already at various stages of elaboration and implementation in more than half of all coastal states. However as experience with MSP accrues a central systemic shortcoming has become apparent insofar as the normative frameworks that underpin MSP tend to be grounded in a rationalistic and economistic worldview. The result is a post-political neoliberal approach to the implementation of MSP which favours technocratic ‘fixes’ to complex societal problems over efforts to address underlying issues of power and inequality. Building upon the new field of critical MSP studies this book offers a much-neglected legal contribution. More specifically it analyses the extent to which law and particularly human rights law can be utilised to meaningfully challenge the unjust patterns of human-ocean interaction that MSP preserves or creates and so provide a vehicle for the formulation and realisation of transformative blue futures. The book looks to human rights as norms that are uniquely capable of bringing into relief the values cause-and-effect relationships and uncertainties that prevailing capitalist-industrial framings of the ocean tend to downplay or worse disregard. And so from a more pragmatic viewpoint the book argues that the policy and advocacy tools associated with human rights can be used within MSP processes to foster patterns of human-ocean interaction which are more conducive to social and environmental justice. This book will be of interest to legal and planning scholars geographers and others concerned with ocean governance and the ‘blue turn’ in the social sciences and humanities more generally. | Human Rights and Ocean Governance The Potential of Marine Spatial Planning in Europe

GBP 130.00
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Dream of the Red Chamber Literary and Translation Perspectives

Dream of the Red Chamber Literary and Translation Perspectives

This edited volume contains an excellent collection of contributions and presents various informative topics under the central theme: literary and translation approaches to China’s greatest classical novel Hongloumeng. Acclaimed as one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature Hongloumeng (known in English as The Dream of the Red Chamber or The Story of the Stone) epitomizes 18th century Chinese social and cultural life. Owing to its kaleidoscopic description of Chinese life and culture the novel has also exerted a significant impact on world literature. Its various translations either full-length or abridged have been widely read by an international audience. The contributors to this volume provide a renewed perspective into Hongloumeng studies by bringing together scholarship in the fields of literary and translation studies. Specifically the use of corpora in the framework of digital humanities in a number of chapters helps re-address many issues of the novel and its translations from an innovative angle. The book is an insightful resource for both scholars of Chinese literature and for linguists with a focus on translation studies. | Dream of the Red Chamber Literary and Translation Perspectives

GBP 125.00
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Representations of Children and Success in Asia Dream Chasers

Representations of Children and Success in Asia Dream Chasers

This edited volume explores how success is conceptualized and represented in texts for young people in Asia. The essays in this collection examine how success for children relates to education family gender race class community and the nation. It answers the following questions: How is success for children represented in literature cinema and popular media? In what ways are these images grounded in the historical political and cultural contexts in which they are produced and consumed? How does childhood agency influence ideas about success in Asia? Highlighting the similarities and differences in how success is defined for children and young adults in Japan South Korea People’s Republic of China Singapore Taiwan Indonesia Vietnam and India this volume argues that success is an important keyword in the literary and cultural study of childhood in Asia. | Representations of Children and Success in Asia Dream Chasers

GBP 130.00
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Foreclosing the Dream How America's Housing Crisis is Reshaping our Cities and Suburbs

Foreclosing the Dream How America's Housing Crisis is Reshaping our Cities and Suburbs

That America entered a profound housing crisis in 2008 is well known. The wave of foreclosures that began to sweep the nation has had radical economic effects. But the force ramifications and implications for communities across America have never been spelled out as clearly and thoroughly as they are in this volume. As he did in Tomorrow's Cities Tomorrow's Suburbs the author has taken a clear-eyed and meticulous look at the latest data and found lessons that the mainstream discussion has overlooked - particularly with regard to the spatial and demographic implications of the housing crisis. The housing market did not collapse uniformly and the pain has not been felt equally in all age groups. Planners public officials activists students and others will benefit from the author's's analysis of the real shape of the crisis for what happens next will reflect these inequities. The author pulls no punches in this taut readable assessment of what the crisis will mean for the shapes of our exurbs older suburbs and central cities. | Foreclosing the Dream How America's Housing Crisis is Reshaping our Cities and Suburbs

GBP 130.00
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The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions

The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions

This book clarifies the crucial role of periodical press in the advance of colonial print cultures and public debates in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. The Colonial Periodical Press in the Indian and Pacific Ocean Regions is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE) which also invests in comparative studies and conceptual discussions. Moving around urban shores of the Indian and Pacific Oceans it approaches the crucial role of periodical press in the development of colonial print cultures and public debates in these regions. By being mostly focused on press from spaces and peoples under the domain of the Portuguese Empire it addresses a bibliographical gap in international discussions moved by the field. The outcome reflects an investment in offering decentred and de-nationalized approaches to the colonial print cultures and press histories under study working as a platform for regional dialogues and comparative perspectives. The studies presented allow a better understanding of transits and connections of both an imperial and a trans-imperial nature contributing to the consolidation of comparative approaches in the studies of European empires and colonialisms. This volume is indispensable for scholars and students in media studies modern history cultural studies literary studies and political science.

GBP 130.00
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An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean

An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean

John Martin (1789-1869) was a London-based Edinburgh-educated physician interested in anthropological matters. This is his only book. He was inspired to write it by a chance encounter with its subject William Mariner (1791-1853) who spent four years (1806-1810) in Tonga in the South Pacific one of the earliest European residents at a time before European influence disturbance or modification society. Mariner an extraordinarily mature and perceptive youth became thoroughly imbued with Tongan language and culture as the adopted son of the most powerful chief in Tonga. Thanks to Martin’s intelligent engagement with Mariner resulted in a compelling narrative and a comprehensive account of Tongan society which became a classic. Often celebrated as an extraordinary real-life adventure story it is a pioneering work of anthropology and for 200 years it has been a primary and authoritative source for research into Tongan history and culture. | An Account of the Natives of the Tonga Islands in the South Pacific Ocean

GBP 120.00
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Research in the Islamic Context Political and Methodological Reflections from South Asia Indian Ocean and the Arab World

Research in the Islamic Context Political and Methodological Reflections from South Asia Indian Ocean and the Arab World

This book explores some of the political and methodological directions that collectively lead to the repositioning of Islam in social science research as both an epistemic/ontological category and as a method. Chapters by experts in the field explore research in the Islamic context vis-à-vis these two distinct yet somehow interrelated frames. The question being raised here is how Islam as socio-religious notion is related to Islam as a theoretical/methodological framework. Taking cues from the experience of contributors this book also examines the question if current methodologies or frames of references are pluralized enough to accommodate the question of Muslims or could the scholars themselves create alternative directions around the dominant spaces. The book offers ethnographic studies of Muslim communities mostly in minority settings and engages with a number of issues researchers encounter when dealing with the lived or everyday Islam. This book is essential reading for anyone engaged in the study of Muslims in the contemporary world. It will appeal to scholars of religious studies studies of Islam in the West anthropology sociology cultural studies human geography and research methods. | Research in the Islamic Context Political and Methodological Reflections from South Asia Indian Ocean and the Arab World

GBP 130.00
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Dreamwork and Self-Healing Unfolding the Symbols of the Unconscious

Dreamwork and Self-Healing Unfolding the Symbols of the Unconscious

There have been many previous books on the physiology of dreaming the history of dream interpretation and the meaning of specific dream symbols. But there have been relatively few books exploring the moment-by-moment process of interpreting dreams. This book guides you through this interpretive process and illustrates how dreamwork promotes emotional relational and spiritual transformation. It explores how working with dreams enhances our emotional life deepens our capacity for relationship and helps us gracefully navigate change and transitions. The author shows that dreamwork is a natural antidepressant is effective in transforming anger bereavement couples conflicts and impasses and aids the process of individuation. The book explores archetypal themes and complexes synchronistic experiences and spiritual awakening in dreams and representations of the body in dreams. The final chapter Taming Wild Horses explores animal dream symbolism and its importance for enhancing our human sexuality. The book also describes the Dream Mandala a method of self-transformation through the union of opposites - the charged polarities of the personality. | Dreamwork and Self-Healing Unfolding the Symbols of the Unconscious

GBP 130.00
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Filippo Sassetti on Trade Institutions and Empire

Filippo Sassetti on Trade Institutions and Empire

The Florentine traveler merchant and academician Filippo Sassetti was one of the premier economic thinkers of the late Renaissance. Well known for his ethnographic observations Sassetti was also a commercial writer of the highest caliber—at once an original thinker and a remarkable witness to how Europeans even at the margins of empire were beginning to reconceptualize power and wealth. Unique among commercial theorists of the period Sassetti offers a first-hand perspective on commerce in both the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. This volume translates (for the first time) the Discourse on Mediterranean Trade and a selection of the principal Indian Letters with extensive historical notes. These are preceded by a lengthy essay positioning Sassetti as a figure in late Renaissance political economy. It makes the case that Sassetti was an early theorist of what might be termed the pragmatic tradition of free trade—in his case a project linked to his analysis of commercial institutions in the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. Provoking an invaluable overview of trade in the Indian Ocean in the late sixteenth century this volume is an excellent specialist text for postgraduate students and professional historians. | Filippo Sassetti on Trade Institutions and Empire

GBP 130.00
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Desertification and Land Degradation Concept to Combating

Desertification and Land Degradation Concept to Combating

Desertification and land degradation are complex phenomena and we need to understand their causes consequences and means to mitigate and combat their impact. Therefore this book aims to explain the concept and characteristics of drylands desert and desertification land degradation wastelands and the concept of ecosystem services. It also discusses various types of processes of land degradations their characteristics physics and indicators along with mapping monitoring and assessment of methods involved. Concept of Ocean Biological Deserts is discussed along with international and regional efforts towards combating land degradation and desertification. Key Features:• Provides all the aspect of desertification and land degradation at one place • Includes comprehensive methods to monitor different desertification/land degradation processes • Comprehensive overview of the mapping monitoring and modelling techniques • Role of space borne data in identifying monitoring and combating desertification is evaluated and reported with real case studies • Explains the concept of ocean biological deserts their characteristics and mapping | Desertification and Land Degradation Concept to Combating

GBP 160.00
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US-China Global Maritime Relations

US-China Global Maritime Relations

This book explores the U. S. China maritime relationship examining the development and implementation of the maritime strategies of both the United States and China. Delving into the U. S. China maritime relationship within the global context the book investigates six key maritime regions: the South China Sea the Northeast Asia waters (the East China Sea the Yellow Sea) the Indian Ocean the South Pacific Ocean as well as the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Its observations form a comprehensive exploration of these regions and their significance in shaping the dynamics between the two nations and this analysis reveals that an expanded view is necessary to discover and clearly display the role that these maritime regions currently—and could potentially—play in overarching U. S. China relations. Examining both the ongoing conflicts and opportunities for cooperation in the global maritime domain between the United States and China this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of international relations Chinese and U. S. politics strategic studies and maritime studies. | US-China Global Maritime Relations

GBP 130.00
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China Football and Development Socialism and Soft Power

China Football and Development Socialism and Soft Power

This book uses football as a lens through which to examine China’s economic development its political economy and its political thought. Focusing on the Chinese Football Development Plan this book opens up new perspectives on the concepts of hegemony soft power socialism with Chinese characteristics and China’s rise to the position of geopolitical superpower. Presenting a critical Marxist analysis of “soft power” and drawing on Gramsci’s conceptualisation of hegemony this book argues that football can be seen as a resource for seduction and persuasion and therefore as an instrument to be used in the “hegemonic clash”. Reflecting on the idea of soft power in relation to imperialism and ideology and standing in contrast to prevailing Western orthodox analyses of Chinese development this book shows how the “Chinese Football Dream” is a significant component of the “Chinese Dream” of “rejuvenation of the nation” and shows how football can help us to better understand the role of the state as an inducer of development and creative destruction. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport policy public policy sport and society football development studies political economy or political thought. | China Football and Development Socialism and Soft Power

GBP 130.00
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Narrating Africa in South Asia

Narrating Africa in South Asia

The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several centuries have reverberated in the memories literatures travelogues and religious architectural and socio-political imaginations of both the regions. And they continue to do so in various forms and platforms. This book explores nuances of various narratives on these long-term transcultural exchanges with a special focus on India. It explores the ways in which Africa and Africans have been narrated in South Asian history and culture in order to unravel the nuanced layers of reflexive rhetorical stereotypical populist racialist racist and casteist frameworks that informed diverse narratives in vernacular texts songs films and newspaper reports. Emphasizing the interdisciplinary approaches of narratology Afro-Asian studies and Indian Ocean studies the contributors enunciate how the African lives in South Asia have been selectively remembered or systematically forgotten. Through multi-sited ethnographies multilingual archival researches and interdisciplinary frameworks each chapter provides theoretical engagements on the basis of empirical research in such regions as Gujarat Kerala Karnataka Goa Hyderabad and Mumbai as well as in Sri Lanka. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian History and Culture. | Narrating Africa in South Asia

GBP 130.00
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The Epic of America

The Epic of America

There is a tradition of one-volume narrative histories of the United States in which the political military diplomatic social and economic strands are skillfully interwoven. Rather than add to these volumes The Epic of America paints a sweeping picture of the diverse past that has created America's national story. In this important narrative James Truslow Adams reviews how the ordinary American has matured over time in outlook character and opinion. Adams grew increasingly conscious of how different an American is now from the man or woman of any other advanced nation. He is equally interested in the whole of American history how it began and what it represented in the first half of the twentieth century. Adams traces the historical origins of the American concept of bigger and better attitudes toward business the American Dream and other characteristics generally considered typically American. Ever since America became an independent nation each generation has seen an uprising of its citizens to save the American Dream from forces seeking to overwhelm and dispel it. Possibly the greatest of these struggles is still ahead not a struggle of revolutionists against established order but of the ordinary person who seeks to hold fast to the rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. This classic book is valuable for a new age and as important for this new century as it was when originally written.

GBP 145.00
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Fluid Dynamics via Examples and Solutions

Fluid Dynamics via Examples and Solutions

Fluid Dynamics via Examples and Solutions provides a substantial set of example problems and detailed model solutions covering various phenomena and effects in fluids. The book is ideal as a supplement or exam review for undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid dynamics continuum mechanics turbulence ocean and atmospheric sciences and related areas. It is also suitable as a main text for fluid dynamics courses with an emphasis on learning by example and as a self-study resource for practicing scientists who need to learn the basics of fluid dynamics. The author covers several sub-areas of fluid dynamics types of flows and applications. He also includes supplementary theoretical material when necessary. Each chapter presents the background an extended list of references for further reading numerous problems and a complete set of model solutions.

GBP 175.00
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Colonial North America and the Atlantic World A History in Documents

Colonial North America and the Atlantic World A History in Documents

A comprehensive collection of primary documents for students of early American and Atlantic history Colonial North America and the Atlantic World gives voice to the men and women¿Amerindian African and European¿who together forged a new world. These compelling narratives address the major themes of early modern colonialism from the perspective of the people who lived at the time: Spanish priests and English farmers Indian diplomats and Dutch governors French explorers and African abolitionists. Evoking the remarkable complexity created by the bridging of the Atlantic Ocean Colonial North America and the Atlantic World suggests that the challenges of globalization¿and the growing reality of American diversity¿are among the most important legacies of the colonial world. | Colonial North America and the Atlantic World A History in Documents

GBP 130.00
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Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression An Underground Stream that Guides and Heals

Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression An Underground Stream that Guides and Heals

This book describes how dreamwork can help alleviate depression in both long-term and time-limited psychotherapy and in self-treatment. The author shows how dreams shed light on issues contributing to depression-including drug and alcohol abuse divorce death and bereavement conflicts about sex health and body image parenting workplace stress and burnout and ancestral intergenerational trauma. Greg Bogart presents a synthesis of Jungian and existential psychotherapy detailing how attention to archetypal symbolism brings into immediate focus new responses to pressing life challenges. He shows that allowing oneself to be affected by dream images and narratives promotes emotional relational and spiritual rejuvenation. | Dreamwork in Holistic Psychotherapy of Depression An Underground Stream that Guides and Heals

GBP 130.00
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Learning Professional Python Two Volume Set

Learning Professional Python Two Volume Set

Learning Professional Python is a resource for students who want to learn Python even if they don’t have any programming knowledge and for teachers who want a comprehensive introduction to Python to use with their students. This book helps the students achieve their dream job in the IT Industry and teaches the students in an easy understandable manner while strengthening coding skills. Learning Professional Python Objectives: Become familiar with the features of Python programming language Introduce the object-oriented programming concepts Discover how to write Python code by following the object-oriented programming concepts Become comfortable with concepts such as classes objects inheritance dynamic dispatch interfaces and packages Learn the Python generics and collections Develop exception handling and the multithreaded applications Design graphical user interface (GUI) applications | Learning Professional Python Two Volume Set

GBP 89.99
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