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Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Understanding Post-Tonal Music is a student-centered textbook that explores the compositional and musical processes of twentieth-century post-tonal music. Intended for undergraduate or general graduate courses on the theory and analysis of twentieth-century music this book will increase the accessibility of post-tonal music by providing students with tools for understanding pitch organization rhythm and meter form texture and aesthetics. By presenting the music first and then deriving the theory Understanding Post-Tonal Music leads students to greater understanding and appreciation of this challenging and important repertoire. The updated second edition includes new Explorations features that guide students to engage with pieces through listening and a process of exploration discovery and discussion; a new chapter covering electronic computer and spectral musics; and additional coverage of music from the twenty-first century and recent trends. The text has been revised throughout to enhance clarity both by streamlining the prose and by providing a visual format more accessible to the student.

GBP 89.99
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Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights are small off-camera flashguns that can provide big results - if you know how to use them properly. Acclaimed Boston photographers Lou Jones Bob Keenan and Steve Ostrowski guide you through the technical and creative aspects of how to get the most out of these powerful tools in this indispensable guide packed full of inspirational images and comprehensive diagrams of the lighting set ups used to capture them. They are significantly more advanced lighter and considerably cheaper than a standard flashgun and have many advantages. They are small (and cheap) enough that a number can be carried in your kit and they can be used in combination triggered wirelessly. They use through-the-lens (TTL) metering which allows you to use the in-camera LCD and histograms to calculate the required power/direction rather than havng to use a light meter or trial and error. They use proprietary dedicated technology (from Canon and Nikon) that means there are no compatability issues. Getting the most out of them however remains a mystery - most photographers still just use their speedlights in the same way as a standard flash gun. This is where this book comes in. | Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

GBP 175.00
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The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy

The Spatialities of Radio Astronomy examines the multidisciplinary overlap between the spatial disciplines and the studies of science and technology through a comparative study of four of the world’s most important radio telescopes. Employing detailed analysis historical research interviews personal observations and various conceptual manoeuvres Guy Trangoš reveals the depth of spatial process active at these scientific sites and the territories they traverse. Through the conceptual frameworks of territory hyper-concentration and contingency Trangoš interprets the telescope as exploded across space and time present in multiple connected sites simultaneously and active in the production of space. He develops a historiographic and contemporary analysis of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA Chile); the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST China); the Arecibo Observatory (Puerto Rico); and the MeerKAT/SKA (South Africa). These case studies are global exemplars of the different spatial transformations that occur through science. Their relationships to surrounding communities and landscapes reveal deeper constitutional processes embodied in each institutional and spatial form. This book spans the modern history of architecture and science the studies of science technology and society and urban theory. It is of specific interest to architects and designers expanding their analysis of spatial production scholars in the study of geography landscape science technology and astronomy and people fascinated with how these radio telescopes were conceptualised built and operate today.

GBP 120.00
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Argentina’s Right-Wing Universe During the Democratic Period (1983–2023) Processes Actors and Issues

Argentina’s Right-Wing Universe During the Democratic Period (1983–2023) Processes Actors and Issues

Argentina’s Right-Wing Universe During the Democratic Period provides a comprehensive analysis of the course of right-wing politics in the country in the last 40 years. In 1983 after the fall of a violent military regime Argentina began the longest period of democratic stability in its history—40 years marked by economic institutional social and political crises. This book examines the trajectory of the different right-wing organisations and ideological developments during these years seeking to understand both the distinctions and the continuities that lie beneath its metamorphoses. Argentina has always acted as a laboratory in which to appreciate how the major problems and questions that concern those who have studied the right-wing in recent decades are translated into a particular political culture. In an international scenario marked by the social and political growth of different right-wing movements some of which pose a threat to liberal democracies the study of the Argentine case can provide greater clarity and a different perspective on problems that transcend this specific national case. This book will be of interest to scholars of Argentinian and Latin American politics and history as well as specialists on the comparative politics of the radical right. | Argentina’s Right-Wing Universe During the Democratic Period (1983–2023) Processes Actors and Issues

GBP 130.00
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Diatoms Ecology and Biotechnological Applications

Diatoms Ecology and Biotechnological Applications

This reference book covers the ecological impact and biotechnological applications of diatoms. Diatoms contribute to 40% of primary productivity in aquatic ecosystems. They have a unique biomonitoring ability and sensitivity toward different pollutants in wastewater and are thereby a tool for ecotoxicological monitoring. The book discusses the need for newer diatom-based indices for wastewater quality analysis. It describes the nutraceutical value of the myriad compounds like omega 3 fatty acids-DHA polysaccharides and phenols in diatoms. It also elaborates on the challenges in sustainable diatom biorefinery. This book is meant for microbiologists biotechnologists and marine biologists. | Diatoms Ecology and Biotechnological Applications

GBP 170.00
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Lowering Your Facility’s Electric Rates

Lowering Your Facility’s Electric Rates

Many energy practitioners are either uninformed or misinformed regarding how electricity is actually priced. Many are also unaware of how to properly calculate potential dollar savings from energy efficiency upgrades. Designed for commercial/industrial/institutional (C&I) power customers this book details ways to secure lower electric rates and pricing in both regulated and deregulated retail power markets. The range of options varies from simple methods (e. g. minimizing sales tax) to more complex techniques (e. g. intervening in regulatory rate proceedings). With 40+ years’ experience in energy services Mr. Audin provides an excellent understanding of power pricing and ways to reduce it. | Lowering Your Facility’s Electric Rates

GBP 99.99
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Ornamental Origami Exploring 3D Geometric Designs

Ornamental Origami Exploring 3D Geometric Designs

This book is a great resource for people who enjoy polyhedra symmetry geometry mathematics and origami. The types of models presented are similar in nature to the models in Mukerji's Marvelous Modular Origami but some of the chapters are more advanced and all of the designs are new. The reader can learn about polyhedra while making these models and is left with the ability to design one's own models. Step-by-step folding instructions for over 40 models are presented. Although the book is for intermediate folders beginners are encouraged to try because origami basics are explained. The diagrams are easy to follow and each model is accompanied by breathtaking finished model photographs. | Ornamental Origami Exploring 3D Geometric Designs

GBP 175.00
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Coffee Rust: Epidemiology Resistance and Management

Coffee Rust: Epidemiology Resistance and Management

This highly informative monograph will provide a basic reference on coffee rust for both investigators in the field and those entering it. The research conducted has been organized based on principles of epidemiology and plant disease management providing both theoretical and practical information. This approach enables discussion of the past present and future of coffee rust research in broad plant patholog-ical areas of biology epidemiology genetics and breeding for disease resistance fungicide technology and application and disease management. In addition an analysis of epidemics breeding programs and other rust management practices in India Kenya and Brazil are included. This new text will contain over 45 figures and 40 tables for both investigators in the field and those just entering it. | Coffee Rust: Epidemiology Resistance and Management

GBP 140.00
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Oceanography An Illustrated Guide

Oceanography An Illustrated Guide

Oceans cover over 70% of the planet's surface and are essential to life on earth yet their deepest mysteries remained unexplored until very recently when 20th century technological advances allowed the vast expansion of our frontiers of knowledge and worldwide interest in oceanography grew rapidly. Combining the skills of 40 contributors from world-renowned teaching and research establishments this richly illustrated introduction to oceanography is suitable for coursework and appeals to a wide readership without compromising standards of scientific rigour. With coverage ranging from history and instrumentation to the physical geography meteorology biology and chemistry of the sea and its ecosystems Oceanography provides the reader with an authoritative comprehensive guide while promoting awareness of current ecological concerns governing man's relationship with the oceans. | Oceanography An Illustrated Guide

GBP 145.00
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Anthology of Post-Tonal Music For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music

Anthology of Post-Tonal Music For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music

This anthology of over 40 scores and excerpts represents a wide range of music from across the twentieth century and into the twenty-first century from pieces by Debussy Stravinsky and Bartok to works by Arvo Pärt Thomas Adès and Kaija Saariaho. Showcasing the vast range of compositional styles encompassed in the post-tonal era this volume offers a convenient compendium including hard-to-find scores. Designed for use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music by Miguel A. Roig-Francolí which includes extensive analyses of the scores provided here this anthology can also stand alone for study and analysis in other courses on the history and analysis of post-tonal music. | Anthology of Post-Tonal Music For Use with Understanding Post-Tonal Music

GBP 130.00
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Gestalt Therapy Perspectives and Applications

Gestalt Therapy Perspectives and Applications

Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Applications is a classic text which when it was first released in 1992 signaled a renaissance of Gestalt scholarship throughout the world. In this volume Edwin Nevis one of the foremost Gestalt writers thinkers and practitioners of the last 40 years skillfully draws together a diverse selection of essays from Gestalt therapists of every persuasion united here by the clarity of their thought and the constancy of commitment to the development and extension of the Gestalt model. Here you will find one of the finest overviews of classical Gestalt therapy theory and practice available: groundbreaking essays on such topics as diagnosis and ethics from a Gestalt perspective and an assortment of pragmatic clinical essays of immediate value to the working practitioner. | Gestalt Therapy Perspectives and Applications

GBP 115.00
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The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin

The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin

The book is the first biography of Raphael Lemkin to draw on a comprehensive body of research into Lemkin as a person and his background and will be of interest to both non-specialists and academics. Drawing on archival materials a nuanced description is provided of the ethnically mixed Belarusian-Polish-Jewish border region where Lemkin grew up and which shaped him clarifying at the same time some of the misinterpretations that have surrounded Lemkin’s life. Lemkin’s professional career and intellectual interests up to the time of his flight from Poland after the German aggression of 1939 are exhaustively described. In the latter part of the book the author poses among other things the question of how Lemkin’s activities in the United States were influenced by the experience of the first almost 40 years of his life. | The Biographical Landscapes of Raphael Lemkin

GBP 130.00
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Paul Weller and Popular Music Identity Idiolect and Image

Paul Weller and Popular Music Identity Idiolect and Image

Using research analysis and a range of historical sources Paul Weller and Popular Music immerses the reader in the excitement of Paul Weller’s unique creative journey covering topics such as the artist’s position within his field; his creative processes; the contexts in which the music was made; the artist as collaborator; signifiers that mark the trajectory of the music; and formative influences. Focusing on over 40 years of recorded work from ‘In the City’ to ‘Fat Pop (Volume One)’ this study explores why Paul Weller's music is widely considered both timeless and of its time and with reference to a wide range of interviews reviews and texts it offers an in-depth critical analysis of Paul Weller’s music. It will be of particular interest to scholars and researchers of popular music popular culture performance studies and music production. | Paul Weller and Popular Music Identity Idiolect and Image

GBP 120.00
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Excursions in World Music

Excursions in World Music

Excursions in World Music is a comprehensive introductory textbook to the musics of the world creating a panoramic experience for students by engaging the many cultures around the globe and highlighting the sheer diversity to be experienced in the world of music. At the same time the text illustrates the often profound ways through which a deeper exploration of these many different communities can reveal overlaps shared horizons and common concerns in spite of and because of this very diversity. The new eighth edition features six brand new chapters including chapters on Japan Sub-Saharan Africa China and Taiwan Europe Maritime Southeast Asia and Indigenous Peoples. General updates have been made to other chapters replacing visuals and updating charts/statistics. Another major addition to the eighth edition is the publication of a companion Reader entitled Critical Themes in World Music. Each chapter in the Reader is designed to introduce students to a theoretical concept or thematic area within ethnomusicology and illustrate its possibilities by pointing to case studies drawn from at least three chapters in Excursions in World Music. Chapters include the following topics: Music Gender and Sexuality; Music and Ritual; Coloniality and World Music; Music and Space; Music and Diaspora; Communication Technology Media; Musical Labor Musical Value; and Music and Memory. Instructors can use this resource as a primary or secondary path through the materials either assigning chapters from the textbook and then digging deeper by exploring a chapter from the Reader or starting with a Reader chapter and then moving into the musical specifics offered in the textbook chapters. Having available both an area studies and a thematic approach to the materials offers important flexibility to instructors and also provides students with additional means of engaging with the musics of the world. A companion website with a new test bank and fully updated instructor’s manual is available for instructors. Numerous resources are posted for students including streamed audio listening additional resources (such as links to YouTube videos or websites) a musical fundamentals essay (introducing concepts such as meter melody harmony form etc. ) interactive quizzes and flashcards. PURCHASING OPTIONS Textbook and Reader Package (Paperback): 9781138354630 Textbook Only (Hardback): 9781138359369 Textbook Only (Paperback): 9781138359390 Textbook Only (eBook): 9780429433757 Reader Only (Hardback): 9781138354562 Reader Only (Paperback): 9781138354609 Reader Only (eBook): 9780429424717 **VISIT THE COMPANION WEBSITE** www. routledgetextbooks. com/textbooks/9781138359390

GBP 105.00
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Vanadium Dioxide-Based Thermochromic Smart Windows

Vanadium Dioxide-Based Thermochromic Smart Windows

The usage of building energy accounts for 30–40% of total energy consumption in developed countries exceeding the amount for industry or transportation. Around 50% energy for building services is contributed by heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems. More importantly both building and HVAC energy consumptions are predicted to increase in the next two decades. Windows are considered as the least energy-efficient components of buildings. Therefore smart windows are becoming increasingly important as they are capable of reducing HVAC energy usage by tuning the transmitted sunlight in a smart and favoured way: blocking solar irradiation on hot days while letting it pass through on cold days. Compared with other type of smart windows thermochromic windows have the unique advantages of cost-effectiveness rational stimulus and passive response. This book covers fabrication of vanadium dioxide–based smart windows discusses various strategies to enhance their performance and shares perspectives from the top scientists in this particular field. | Vanadium Dioxide-Based Thermochromic Smart Windows

GBP 139.00
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The Integrative Functions of The Basal Ganglia

The Integrative Functions of The Basal Ganglia

This volume is the first comprehensive and single-authored book on the functions of the basal ganglia. The goal is to provide a new synthesis of diverse areas of research on the basal ganglia from cellular mechanisms of synaptic transmission and plasticity to neural circuit mechanisms underlying behavior. A global theory of basal ganglia function incorporating research from the last 40 years is presented. I hope to explain for the first time how the basal ganglia generate behavior how they contribute to learning and memory and how impairments in basal ganglia function can lead to neurological and psychiatric disorders. Features The only single-authored book on the basal ganglia with coverage of the latest literature Spans multiple levels of analysis from cellular physiology to behavior Includes coverage of clinical symptoms encompassing neuropsychology movement disorders and psychiatric disorders Discusses the role of the basal ganglia in learning and memory | The Integrative Functions of The Basal Ganglia

GBP 150.00
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Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness

Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness

Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness is a comprehensive text that will provide students with meaningful lab experiences-whether they have access to sophisticated laboratories and expensive equipment or they are looking for procedures that can be done without costly materials. It will be a useful resource as they prepare for a career as an exercise science professional athletic trainer coach or physical educator. The more than 40 labs cover seven major components of physical fitness. They are practical and easy to follow consisting of a clear logical format that includes background information step-by-step procedures explanatory photographs sample calculations norms and classification tables and worksheets. Lab-ending activities and questions provide additional opportunities to practice the procedures and explore issues of validity reliability and accuracy. Readers will find this manual a valuable tool in learning to apply physiological concepts and to perform exercise tests as well as an essential resource for any career involving physical fitness and performance testing.

GBP 145.00
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Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey

Seamus Heaney’s American Odyssey describes with a new archive of correspondence interviews and working drafts the some 40 years that Seamus Heaney spent in the United States as a teacher lecturer friend and colleague and as an active poet on the reading circuit. It is anchored by Heaney’s appointments at Berkeley and Harvard but it also follows Heaney’s readings “on the road” at three important points in his career. It argues that Heaney was initially receptive to American poetry and culture while his career was still plastic but as he developed more assurance and fame he became much more critical of America as a superpower especially in the military reaction to 9/11. This study emphasizes “the heard Heaney” as much as the “writerly Heaney” by listening in on key poetry readings at different times and to recorded but unpublished lectures on American and British poets at Harvard. It includes accounts by his creative writing students aspiring poets who testify to his mentoring as well as modeling for them how one can be “a poet in the world” as he was most strikingly.

GBP 120.00
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Post-Tensioning in Building Construction

Post-Tensioning in Building Construction

Worldwide growth and application of post-tensioning in recent years is one of the major developments in building construction. The growth is propelled by a burgeoning demand for construction of serviceable and safe buildings. Unlike traditional construction post-tensioning is based on new design methodology often not covered in traditional engineering courses. With more than 40 years of experience of study teaching and work on post-tensioning applications around the world the author has written this book for students as well as practicing engineers contractors and academics. While the book covers the basics and concepts of post-tensioning in simple and clear language it also focuses on the application and detailed design through real world examples. Topics of the book include the European and the American building Codes for post-tensioning design. The codes are detailed in the book’s examples such as column-supported floors and beam frames. The book explains and highlights the importance of shortening specific to post-tensioned members and construction detailing for serviceable and safe performance. | Post-Tensioning in Building Construction

GBP 100.00
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Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

This volume celebrates the career of John Martin Fischer whose work on a wide range of topics over the past 40 years has been transformative and inspirational. Fischer’s semicompatibilist view of free will and moral responsibility is perhaps the most widely discussed view of its kind and his emphasis on the significance of reasons-responsiveness as the capacity that underlies moral accountability has been widely influential. Aside from free will and moral responsibility Fischer is also well-known for his work on freedom and foreknowledge the problem of evil the badness of death the meaning of life and the allure of immortality. This volume gathers new essays by leading scholars on some of the major themes of Fischer's work and it also includes a new piece by Fischer in which he offers a systematic reflection on and defense of the motivations that have shaped his theorizing about moral responsibility. Freedom Responsibility and Value will be of interest to scholars and students working on a variety of issues in metaphysics ethics and philosophy of religion. | Freedom Responsibility and Value Essays in Honor of John Martin Fischer

GBP 130.00
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Psoralen Dna Photobiology Volume I

Psoralen Dna Photobiology Volume I

In one form or another psoralens have been in use dating back to biblical times for the treatment of depigmented patches of skin. However it has only been in the past 40 years that the structure and function of psoralens have been elucidated. Although several volumes have been published on photobiology and photomedicine no one volume has ever been devoted to the psoralen photobiology. In these two volumes we focus on the properties and uses of photoactivated psoralens. In these volumes the various aspects of psoralens are presented in a review of the field as it stands in mid 1986. In retrospect we may find that this particular time was crucial in the development of new therapeutic modalities as many of the applications of modem molecular biology are beginning to impact on the practice of medicine. This book was written with two purposes in mind. First to serve as an update (the last collective review of the field was in 1982). Second it is hoped that newcomers to the fields of photobiology andphotomedicine both scientists and clinicians would find it a useful introduction. | Psoralen Dna Photobiology Volume I

GBP 89.99
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Hegemony and the Politics of Labour Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism

Hegemony and the Politics of Labour takes up a question that goes to the heart of the debate about politics capitalism and discourse: how can labour relations and value production be understood as discursive processes? When they launched their poststructuralist discourse theory almost 40 years ago Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe positioned the contingency of discourse and politics in sharp contrast to the deterministic tendencies of the Marxist critique of capitalism. Moving beyond Marxism as an essentialist ‘other’ discourse theory has since remained notoriously silent on questions related to the core workings of capitalism. This book is the first to bring the central categories of discourse theory into conversation with Marx’s critique of political economy. Reintegrating both traditions it argues that the social relations of labour in capitalism emerge as a hegemonic formation. Its contribution is to extend the reach of discourse theory to the capitalist economy exploring how a post- Marxist account of labour value and class connects to the contingent politics of populism. Hegemony and the Politics of Labour is an original and important contribution to the fields of discourse theory and critique of political economy. | Hegemony and the Politics of Labour Towards a Discourse Theory of Value in Contemporary Capitalism

GBP 130.00
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Engineering Maintenance A Modern Approach

Engineering Maintenance A Modern Approach

Of the more than $300 billion spent on plant maintenance and operations U. S. industry spends as much as 80 percent of this amount to correct chronic failures of machines systems and people. With machines and systems becoming increasingly complex this problem can only worsen and there is a clear and pressing need to establish comprehensive equipment management programs that incorporate the diverse considerations that are essential to effective maintenance. Engineering Maintenance: A Modern Approach presents a cradle-to-grave strategy to preserve equipment function avoid the consequences of failures and ensure the productive capacity of equipment. Moving well beyond traditional approaches this strategy incorporates quality and safety human error and software maintenance considerations along with costing reliability and maintainability. From specialized books and technical articles the author has gathered and integrated the latest advances in engineering maintenance into practical step-by-step plans designed to optimize maintenance activities extend equipment life and minimize failures. The elimination of chronic failures through effective maintenance can reduce maintenance costs by 40 to 60 percent. Engineering Maintenance: A Modern Approach not only collects recent advances into a single volume but also directs you on a path that can lead to a more successful cost-effective maintenance program. | Engineering Maintenance A Modern Approach

GBP 160.00
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