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The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

In The End of Economic Man long recognized as a cornerstone work Peter F. Drucker explains and interprets fascism and Nazism as fundamental revolutions. In some ways this book anticipated by more than a decade the existentialism that came to dominate the European political mood in the postwar period. Drucker provides a special addition to the massive literature on existentialism and alienation since World War II. The End of Economic Man is a social and political effort to explain the subjective consequences of the social upheavals caused by warfare. Drucker concentrates on one specific historical event: the breakdown of the social and political structure of Europe which culminated in the rise of Nazi totalitarianism to mastery over Europe. He explains the tragedy of Europe as the loss of political faith resulting from the political alienation of the European masses. The End of Economic Man is a book of great social import. It shows not only what might have helped the older generation avert the catastrophe of Nazism but also how today's generation can prevent another such catastrophe. This work will be of special interest to political scientists intellectual historians and sociologists. The book was singled out for praise on both sides of the Atlantic and is considered by the author to be his most prescient effort in social theory. | The End of Economic Man The Origins of Totalitarianism

GBP 145.00
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The End of Tradition Country Life in Central Surrey

The End of Tradition Country Life in Central Surrey

First published in 1978 The End of Tradition is the history of four Surrey villages the Horsleys and Clandons close to London but isolated and protected from it by the Green Belt. Towards the end of the last century a period of rapid change began in rural England as a new way of life centred on the nearby towns and cities replaced a traditional rural village life. Estates were broken up agricultural life declined village schools and parish councils were set up and the pervasive influence of the village squire disappeared. But the coming of the railway and later the motor car provoked the most fundamental changes for the isolation of the village was ended. The railway linked the villages of Surrey with London. In exclusive housing estates of detached homes in culs-de-sac the exceptionally high status of the village was enhanced by the efforts of the newcomers to protect their new style of life through the most comprehensive countryside protection system in Britain. This is a must read for students and scholars interested in British history and sociology. | The End of Tradition Country Life in Central Surrey

GBP 90.00
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Why Should We Be Called ‘Coolies’? The End of Indian Indentured Labour

Why Should We Be Called ‘Coolies’? The End of Indian Indentured Labour

What are the dynamics of the abolition of the Indian indentureship system? Why was it ended? Who were the main players in the final end of the labour scheme? Were Indian labourers and/or the Indian middle classes actively involved in the processes leading towards complete abolition? This book examines the end of a labour system which lasted from 1838 until 1920 in various territories throughout the British Empire. It looks at methods of agitations which had their genesis in the territories of the Indian Ocean and compare/contrast these with those of other territories such as the British West Indies. The volume provides a comparative study of the abolition of the Indian indentureship system and shows the global interconnectedness of abolition with a strong subaltern focus. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Why Should We Be Called ‘Coolies’? The End of Indian Indentured Labour

GBP 130.00
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Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

The groundbreaking contribution made by this unique book draws on the experiences recorded by five people who are facing death – Jenny Diski Philip Gould Christopher Hitchens Michael Mayne and Cory Taylor. Analysing the key themes that emerge from a psychodynamic perspective the book describes how the memoirists respond to the first shock of receiving a terminal diagnosis how they meet the challenge of continuing an active life when the illusion of an open-ended future has gone and finally how they struggle with accepting death as it overtakes them. The author argues that the ability to accept personal death is the key to resolving the paradox of our need to survive at all costs while at the same time however much we might deny it we know that we must die. In a society where death and dying occur largely out of sight this book provides information about what it is like to die – physically psychologically and emotionally – and invites us to think about coming to terms with death. Exploring End of Life Experience is an important contribution to the interdisciplinary literature on death and dying relevant to scholars and practitioners in medicine nursing psychology and the wider medical humanities. | Exploring End of Life Experience Facing Death

GBP 130.00
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South Africa Past Present and Future Gold at the End of the Rainbow?

South Africa Past Present and Future Gold at the End of the Rainbow?

This is the first book to combine a discussion of post-apartheid development initiatives with an extended historical analysis of South Africa's dynamic race class gender and ethnic identities. Bringing together the research of an historical geographer and two development geographers the book enables us to locate the post-apartheid transition in a broad historical and spatial perspective. Within this perspective the limitations as well as the achievements of South Africa's current transformation are highlighted. | South Africa Past Present and Future Gold at the End of the Rainbow?

GBP 160.00
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Arabesque without End Across Music and the Arts from Faust to Shahrazad

Arabesque without End Across Music and the Arts from Faust to Shahrazad

Featuring multidisciplinary research by an international team of leading scholars this volume addresses the contested aspects of arabesque while exploring its penchant for crossing artistic and cultural boundaries to create new forms. Enthusiastically imported from its Near Eastern sources by European artists the freely flowing line known as arabesque is a recognizable motif across the arts of painting music dance and literature. From the German Romantics to the Art Nouveau artists and from Debussy’s compositions to the serpentine choreographies of Loïe Fuller the chapters in this volume bring together cross-disciplinary perspectives to understand the arabesque across both art historical and musicological discourses. | Arabesque without End Across Music and the Arts from Faust to Shahrazad

GBP 130.00
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A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

This is a book about the end of childhood. Much of it is drawn directly from a diary the author kept while he was a bright but insecure freshman at Harvard in the 1950s. From these pages emerges a precise description of the raw half-understood experience of late adolescence-the anguish and arguments the rivalry and anxiety about sex the facile cynicism and desperate fumblings for purpose the bull sessions held late at night-just as Peter Prescott recorded them only hours after the event. These diary excerpts are contained in a narrative that examines that freshman experience from a vantage point of twenty years. Thus we are able to look at the past with a double perspective: The exact record unclouded by memory or nostalgia of what was said and done is set in a structure that reveals the form of the experience. The result is an ironic witty and often moving book. Writing with some compassion and even more asperity Peter S. Prescott not only captures the conflicts and emotions of a single year but probes beneath the surface of memory to explore certain tribal customs and rites of passage as they are played out in the classrooms and living quarters of the college. A few famous people-T. S. Eliot and Edith Sitwell among them-play brief parts in this chronicle but young Prescott's attention was primarily engaged in his struggle with his extravagant roommates and an assortment of eccentric undergraduates. | A Darkening Green Notes on Harvard the 1950s and the End of Innocence

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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Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana

Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana

This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United States – a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in articulating postcoloniality to imperial control – in relation to knowledge and knowledge production. Through targeted case studies on the historical relationship between regional areas and the United States the authors explore possibilities and obstacles to epistemic decolonization. By highlighting the connection between the control of work and the control of communication that has been at the core of the colonial regimes of accumulation (‘classic colonialism’) they present an entirely new form of disciplinary practice not based on the equation of evolution and knowledge. An extensive introduction outlines the historical genealogy of Pax Americana epistemic hegemony while individual chapters examine the implications for different regions of the world and different domains of activity including visual culture economy migration the arts and translation. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to students and scholars in many fields including Asian studies American studies postcolonialism and political theory. | Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana

GBP 130.00
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EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

This book examines EU and US bilateral trade and investment relations with China their attempts to level the economic playing field and to narrow the ‘reciprocity gap’ in market openness. It explores the extent of EU and US policy change the underlying factors accounting for this change and compares EU and US foreign economic policy answers to an adversary increasingly perceived as an unfair economic competitor and as a systemic rival. The book covers a broad range of policy areas from ‘trade wars’ trade defense instruments their reform and use investment screening and export control to industrial policies. It makes eclectic use of different strands of International Relations International Political Economy and Policy Analysis theorizing to account for the extent of and differences in the EU and US responses. The People’s Republic of China’s stellar economic and political rise combined with the resilience of its unfair trade practices its reinforced authoritarian repression at home and its ever more assertive foreign (economic) policy has triggered a shift in perceptions of China followed by equally profound policy change in the European Union and the US. This book expertly charts and explains this significant shift in stance. This book will be of key interest to scholars students and practitioners in the fields of EU trade policymaking US foreign/ foreign economic policy EU-China-US economic relations European political economy and more broadly to European studies Asian studies International Relations International Political Economy and transatlantic relations. | EU and US Foreign Economic Policy Responses to China The End of Naivety

GBP 130.00
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Religion and Ecological Crisis Christian and Muslim Perspectives from John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Religion and Ecological Crisis Christian and Muslim Perspectives from John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

Religion and Ecological Crisis delves into the complex relationship between religions and ecology presenting Christian and Islamic perspectives on ecological issues through the work of John Boswell Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. It examines how faith traditions of the world see and respond to our current unprecedented climate change issues. This is the first comparative study of Cobb and Nasr’s eco-religious understanding and explores how their prescriptions can contribute alternatively to techno-scientific initiatives in environmental sustainability. Taking Cobb’s economism and Nasr’s scientism as the key concepts for surveying the roots of the ecological crisis the book offers interdisciplinary and interreligious insights into the debates about ecological equilibrium motivational awareness in human mind and about entanglements between religion and the environment. This will be an insightful resource for policy makers faith leaders and for academics working in Environmental Studies and Religious Studies. | Religion and Ecological Crisis Christian and Muslim Perspectives from John B. Cobb and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

GBP 130.00
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War as Protection and Punishment Armed International Intervention at the 'End of History’

War as Protection and Punishment Armed International Intervention at the 'End of History’

This book provides an analysis of how penal discourses are used to legitimate post-Cold War military interventions through three main case studies: Kosovo Iraq and Libya. These cases reveal the operation of diverse modalities of punishment in extending the ambit of international liberal governance. The argument starts from an analysis of these discourses to trace the historical arc in which military interventions have increasingly been launched through reference to both the human rights discourse and humanitarian sentiments and a desire to punish the perpetrators. The book continues with the analysis of practices involved in the post-intervention phase looking at the ways in which states have been established as modes of governance (Kosovo) how punitive atmospheres have animated soldiers’ violence in the conduct of war (Iraq) and finally how interventions can expand moral control and a system of devolved surveillance in conjunction with both border control and the engagement of the International Criminal Court (Libya). In all these case tensions and ambiguities emerge. These practices underscore how punitive intents were also present in the expansion of liberal governance demonstrating how the rhetoric of punishment was useful in legitimating Western state powers and recomposing the borders of the liberal world at the periphery. War as Protection and Punishment ends with a number of critical comments on the diffusion of punitive discourse in the international arena considering how issues of crime and justice have also animated at least in part the current engagement with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. An accessible and compelling read this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology sociology politics and those interested in how penal discourses are used to legitimize military conventions. | War as Protection and Punishment Armed International Intervention at the 'End of History’

GBP 130.00
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The Progress of a Biographer

The Progress of a Biographer

First published in 1949 The Progress of a Biographer follows a general principle that there are absolute truths which an individual can in some degree apprehend and live by but which churches and institutions can only obscure and pervert. This principle is followed for the sketches in this book most of which were written between the end of World War II and the spring of 1948. The subjects range from P. G. Wodehouse to Karl Marx from W. B. Yeats to Thackeray and from Rainer Maria Rilke to Lloyd George. Believing that to understand a man’s work one must form a coherent impression of the man the author has tried to suggest the leading characteristics and governing impulses of his subjects. His intention has been to clarify rather than to criticise though doubtless the affect may sometimes be one of criticism falling short of clarification. The book will be of interest to students across disciplines but will particularly appeal to students of English literature.

GBP 99.99
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Introductory Mathematics for the Life Sciences

Introductory Mathematics for the Life Sciences

Introductory Mathematics for the Life Sciences offers a straightforward introduction to the mathematical principles needed for studies in the life sciences. Starting with the basics of numbers fractions ratios and percentages the author explains progressively more sophisticated concepts from algebra measurement and scientific notation through the linear power exponential and logarithmic functions to introductory statistics. Worked examples illustrate concepts applications and interpretations and exercises at the end of each chapter help readers apply and practice the skills they develop. Answers to the exercises are posted at the end of the text.

GBP 175.00
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3D Television (3DTV) Technology Systems and Deployment Rolling Out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment

3D Television (3DTV) Technology Systems and Deployment Rolling Out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment

Going beyond the technological building blocks of 3DTV 3D Television (3DTV) Technology Systems and Deployment: Rolling Out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment offers an early view of the deployment and rollout strategies of this emerging technology. It covers cutting-edge advances theories and techniques in end-to-end 3DTV systems to provide a system-level view of the topic and what it takes to make this concept a commercial reality. The book reflects the full-range of questions being posed about post-production 3D mastering delivery options and home screens. It reviews fundamental visual concepts supporting stereographic perception of 3DTV and considers the various stages of a 3DTV system including capture representation coding transmission and display. Presents new advances in 3DTV and display techniques Includes a 24-page color insert Identifies standardization activities critical to broad deployment Examines a different stage of an end-to-end 3DTV system in each chapter Considers the technical details related to 3DTV including compression and transmission technologies Discussing theory and application the text covers both stereoscopic and autostereoscopic techniques the latter eliminating the need for special glasses and allowing for viewer movement. It also examines emerging holographic approaches which have the potential to provide the truest three-dimensional images. The book contains the results of a survey of a number of advocacy groups to provide a clear picture of the current state of the industry research trends future directions and underlying topics. | 3D Television (3DTV) Technology Systems and Deployment Rolling Out the Infrastructure for Next-Generation Entertainment

GBP 175.00
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Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent

Sexual Harassment and Sexual Consent serves as a compelling forum for the analysis of ethical cultural social and political issues related to sexual relationships and sexual behavior. These issues include but are not limited to: sexual consent and sexual responsibility; sexual harassment and freedom of speech and association; sexual privacy; censorship and pornography; impact of film/literature on sexual relationships; and university and governmental regulation of intimate relationships. The premier volume deals with a central theme: sexual harassment and sexual consent with emphasis on academia. Theoretical articles research reports editorials and book reviews analyze issues from psychological sociological political and artistic perspectives. Contributions include: Eight Reasons Not to Prohibit Relationships between Professors and Students by Peg Tittle; The Impact of Sexual Misconduct on the Reputation of Martin Luther King Jr. by A. B. Assensoh and Y. Alex-Assensoh; Homosexuality Sexual Harassment and Military Readiness by Deborah E. Kapp and Gary A. Kustis; and College Students' Perceptions of the Relationship between Sex and Drinking by Gwendell W. Gravitt Jr. and Mary M. Krueger. Also included are reviews of Sexual Harassment on Campus edited by B. R. Sandler and R. J. Shoop; Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture by S. B. Ortner; The Power of Beauty by N. Friday; Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America by L. Kipnis; and Mediated Sex by B. McNair. In addition Warren Farrell reviews the film First Wives Club. This initial volume of Sexuality and Culture will be of interest to all those who participate in campus life as well as sociologists psychologists and government and university policymakers.

GBP 130.00
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Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control

Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control

Acceptance Sampling in Quality Control Third Edition presents the state of the art in the methodology of sampling while integrating both theory and best practices. It discusses various standards including those from the ISO MIL-STD and ASTM and explores how to set quality levels. The book also includes problems at the end of each chapter with solutions. This edition improves upon the previous editions especially in the areas of software applications and compliance sampling plans. New to the Third Edition: Numerous Microsoft Excel templates to address sampling plans are used. Commercial software applications are discussed at the end of many chapters. Discussion of quick switching systems has been expanded to account for the considerable recent activity in this area. Added discussion of zero acceptance number chained quick switching systems.

GBP 115.00
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The Journey of Caste in India Voices from Margins

The Journey of Caste in India Voices from Margins

This book provides a comprehensive overview of caste in contemporary India. With contributions from scholars like Valerian Rodrigues B. B. Mohanty Surinder Jodhka and Anand Teltumbde it discusses wide-ranging themes like the trajectory of caste in post-independence India; Dalits and cultural identity; the paradox of being a Dalit woman; caste violence and social mobility; Ambedkar’s quest for the right of social equality; social security for the inclusive development of Dalits; discrimination and exclusion of Dalits in education; and Dalit merit and institutional injustice and presents an overview of the struggles for distributive justice in India. This volume will be of importance to scholars and researchers of Dalit studies social justice exclusion studies caste studies affirmative action political studies sociology social anthropology and South Asian politics. | The Journey of Caste in India Voices from Margins

GBP 130.00
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5G Mobile Communications Concepts and Technologies

5G Mobile Communications Concepts and Technologies

This book will help readers comprehend technical and policy elements of telecommunication particularly in the context of 5G. It first presents an overview of the current research and standardization practices and lays down the global frequency spectrum allocation process. It further lists solutions to accommodate 5G spectrum requirements. The readers will find a considerable amount of information on 4G (LTE-Advanced) LTE-Advance Pro 5G NR (New Radio); transport network technologies 5G NGC (Next Generation Core) OSS (Operations Support Systems) network deployment and end-to-end 5G network architecture. Some details on multiple network elements (end products) such as 5G base station/small cells and the role of semiconductors in telecommunication are also provided. Keeping trends in mind service delivery mechanisms along with state-of-the-art services such as MFS (mobile financial services) mHealth (mobile health) and IoT (Internet-of-Things) are covered at length. At the end telecom sector’s burning challenges and best practices are explained which may be looked into for today’s and tomorrow’s networks. The book concludes with certain high level suggestions for the growth of telecommunication particularly on the importance of basic research departure from ten-year evolution cycle and having a 20–30 year plan. Explains the conceivable six phases of mobile telecommunication’s ecosystem that includes R&D standardization product/network/device & application development and burning challenges and best practices Provides an overview of research and standardization on 5G Discusses solutions to address 5G spectrum requirements while describing the global frequency spectrum allocation process Presents various case studies and policies Provides details on multiple network elements and the role of semiconductors in telecommunication Presents service delivery mechanisms with special focus on IoT | 5G Mobile Communications Concepts and Technologies

GBP 170.00
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