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Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB /SIMULINK

Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB /SIMULINK

This book introduces electrical machine modeling and control for electrical engineering and science to graduate undergraduate students as well as researchers who are working on modeling and control of electrical machines. It targets electrical engineering students who have no time to derive mathematical equations for electrical machines in particular induction machine (IM) and doubly fed induction machines (DFIM). The main focus is on the application of field oriented control technique to induction motor (IM) and doubly fed induction motor (DFIM) in details and since the induction motors have many drawback using this technique therefore the application of a nonlinear control technique (feedback linearization) is applied to a reduced order model of DFIM to enhance the performance of doubly fed induction motor. FeaturesServes as text book for electrical motor modeling simulation and control; especially modeling of induction motor and doubly fed induction motor using different frame of references. Vector control (field oriented control) is given in more detailed and is applied to induction motor. A nonlinear controller is applied to a reduced model of an doubly induction motor associated with a linear observer to estimate the unmeasured load torque which is used to enhance the performance of the vector control to doubly fed induction motor. Access to the full MATLAB/SIMULINK blocks for simulation and control. | Modeling and Control of AC Machine using MATLAB®/SIMULINK

GBP 18.99
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Simulation of Fluid Power Systems with Simcenter Amesim

Simulation of Fluid Power Systems with Simcenter Amesim

This book illustrates numerical simulation of fluid power systems by LMS Amesim Platform covering hydrostatic transmissions electro hydraulic servo valves hydraulic servomechanisms for aerospace engineering speed governors for power machines fuel injection systems and automotive servo systemsIt includes hydrostatic transmissions automotive fuel injection hydropower speed units governor aerospace servo systems along with case studies of specified companiesAids in predicting and optimizing the static and dynamic performances related to the systems under study | Simulation of Fluid Power Systems with Simcenter Amesim

GBP 39.99
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Workplace Culture Matters Developing Leaders Who Respect People and Deliver Robust Results

Workplace Culture Matters Developing Leaders Who Respect People and Deliver Robust Results

Written in a novel format this book addresses the challenge of changing a sick culture. Some organizations wake up one day and realize they have become something they never intended. Their employees run scared. There is no innovation only blind obedience. There are warlords within the ranks of management and they fight over turf without considering the best interests of customers their employees or their organization as a whole. At the Charleston SC branch of Copper-Bottom Insurance the wakeup call comes when an employee files a lawsuit against the company and its leaders. The Charleston division Vice President Jack Simmons is put on probation and given an ultimatum: Change the culture! Jack understands the or be fired implication all too well. He scrambles to find help and runs into an old friend Don Spears from Friedman Electronics. With Don’s help Jack begins the journey that will heal his organization. In the course of their first visit Don and his Director of Continuous Improvement Tim Stark help Jack to make an important discovery: Copper-Bottom’s executives are not showing their people respect. Don and Tim point to the following observations as proof. Copper-Bottom leaders are Using top-down command-and-control leadership behaviors rather than recognizing their people as Subject Matter Experts and listening to them Issuing instructions to their people rather than observing then improving performance through coaching Keeping employees in the dark as to the impact their work has on the organization’s mission Unaware of the obstacles in their people’s paths; hence never using the authority of their positions to remove those obstacles Staying in their offices aloof to the difficulties their subordinates face As Don and Tim see it Copper-Bottom’s problems stem from the way its leaders lead. After the executive who precipitated the lawsuit is let go the Friedman team begins the process of teaching Copper-Bottom’s executives that a healthy culture begins at the leadership level. Don Friedman’s General Manager states that cultures change when their leaders change. In short leaders need to initiate the changes in the culture by first demonstrating the desired behavior. So begins the process of reeducating Copper-Bottom’s leaders in the difference between managing and leading. In short order Tim begins to work with Jack’s leadership team while Don takes Jack to Friedman’s Oakland facility. There Jack learns To first concentrate on surrounding himself with the right people The importance of top-down metrics to which leaders first hold themselves accountable Cascading their metrics (KPIs) down through their organization and using a dialog about them as a way of developing relationships of respect Although a long way from complete by the end of Jack’s six-month probation Copper-Bottom has made significant strides and is well on its way to changing its culture. Jack will learn that he is not the only one to appreciate the new developments. | Workplace Culture Matters Developing Leaders Who Respect People and Deliver Robust Results

GBP 26.99
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Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing

Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing

Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives: Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing is a unique emotive and theorised narrative of a young girl’s experience of boarding school in Australia. Christine Jack traces its impact on the emerging identity of the child including sexual development and emotional capacity the transmission of trauma into adulthood and the long process of recovery. Interweaving her story with the experiences of Christopher Robin Milne she presents her memoir as an exemplar of how narrative writing can be employed in remembering and recovering from traumatic experiences. Unique and powerfully written Jack takes the reader on a journey into her childhood in Australian boarding school convents in the 1950s and 1960s. Comparing her experience with Christopher Robin Milne’s she interrogates his memoirs illustrating that boarding school trauma knows no boundaries of time and place. She investigates their emerging individuality before being sent to live an institutional life and traces their feelings of longing and loneliness as well as the impact of the abuse each endured there. As an educational historian Jack writes in a ground-breaking way from the perspective of an insider and outsider revealing how trauma remains in the unconscious wielding power over the life of the adult until the traumatic memories are recovered emotions released and associated dysfunctional behaviour changed restoring well-being. Engaging the lenses of history life-span and Jungian psychology feminist and trauma theory and boarding school trauma research this book positions narrative writing as a way of reducing the power of trauma over the lives of survivors. Personal and accessible this book will be essential reading for psychologists and educational historians as well as students and academics of psychology sociology trauma studies ex-boarders and those interested in the life of Christopher Robin Milne. | Recovering Boarding School Trauma Narratives Christopher Robin Milne as a Psychological Companion on the Journey to Healing

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Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation is an examination of musical interplay and the ways implicit (sub-conscious) and explicit (conscious) knowledge appear during improvisation. The practice-based research inquiry includes: interviews and interplay with five world-class jazz guitarists Lage Lund Jack Wilkins Ben Monder Rez Abbasi and Adam Rogers; a modal matrix for analyzing structure time and form in jazz guitar improvisation and musical analysis based on cognitive theories. By explaining the cognitive and musical foundations for expertise in jazz guitar improvisation this book illuminates how jazz guitarists' strategies are crucially dependent on context style and type of interplay. With accompanying video provided as an e-resource this material will be of interest to anyone fascinated by Jazz and Psychology of Music. | Expertise in Jazz Guitar Improvisation A Cognitive Approach

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Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017

Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017

Beginning with Somerset Maugham’s innovative sexually dissident South Seas novel and tales and Alfred Hitchcock’s gay-inflected revisiting of the Jack the Ripper sensation in silent film this book considers the continuing presence of the past in future-oriented work of the 1930s and the Second World War by Sylvia Townsend Warner Virginia Woolf George Orwell and the playwright and novelist Patrick Hamilton. The final three chapters carry the discussion to the present in analyses of works by lesbian postcolonial and gay authors such as Sarah Waters Amitav Ghosh and Alan Hollinghurst. Focusing on questions about temporality and changes in gender and sexuality especially gay and lesbian straight and queer following the rejection of the Victorian patriarchal marriage model this study examines the continuing influence of late Victorian Aestheticist and Decadent culture in Modernist writing and its permutations in England. | Desire and Time in Modern English Fiction: 1919-2017

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Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

Originally published in 1987. In this book we find songs reflecting every aspect of life in the twentieth-century Royal Navy both upper and lower deck: war ship’s routine aviation submarines the antics of dockyard personnel not to mention the matelot’s shore-going adventures both amorous and bibulous. The compiler was well-known as a folk-singer though he began his career in the Royal Navy. Based on his personal collection of Navy songs this book proves that the sailor’s muse did not desert him with the passing of the sailing ship. It also dispels the notion that the modern Jack Tar when he produces any songs at all confines himself to the pornographic. With the songs Cyril Tawney interweaves a commentary on the Royal Navy setting providing a backdrop to the sailor’s own words. This book is of enduring appeal to all who have served as well as to students of twentieth-century oral tradition. | Grey Funnel Lines Traditional Song & Verse of the Royal Navy 1900-1970

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Medical Generalism Now Reclaiming the Knowledge Work of Modern Practice

Medical Generalism Now Reclaiming the Knowledge Work of Modern Practice

Medical Generalism Now! is a unique and timely consideration of generalist medical practice. With a focus on the knowledge work of clinical practice and by taking a whole healthcare system view the book responds to a recognized need to strengthen generalist practice within modern healthcare delivery in both primary and secondary care settings. Through a series of creative provocations directed to consulting clinicians and their trainers/educators service leaders and managers and policy makers readers are encouraged to challenge the orthodox view that generalism is an outdated 'jack of all trades’ sub-set of clinical medicine delivering the ‘simpler’ aspects of medicine with more complex issues requiring onward specialist referral. Case studies are used throughout to illustrate the challenges to be faced accompanied by a description of the principles of generalist knowledge work needed to tackle the scenarios described and discussing the implications for practice and service redesign. Essential reading for clinicians managers and policy makers across all healthcare settings the book concludes with a call to action synthesizing the learning from each chapter to define and describe delivery of the key changes needed. | Medical Generalism Now Reclaiming the Knowledge Work of Modern Practice

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The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

In a career spanning 70 years composer conductor and multi-instrumentalist David Amram is hailed today as the creator of symphonic works chamber music and two operas; as a brilliant jazz and vocal improviser; and the composer of memorable stage and film scores. He has collaborated with many leading musicians playwrights artists actors and writers including Jack Kerouac Woody Guthrie Leonard Bernstein Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker Arthur Miller Elia Kazan Bob Dylan Judy Collins Elmira Darvarova Paul Newman Willie Nelson Steve Earle and hundreds more. An innovator who blended jazz and global folk styles with classical traditions Amram’s career also emphasizes the creative potential of joyful collaboration. This new book offers a fascinating and wide-ranging picture of Amram’s work and influence from the rich pioneering days of 1950s America to today’s embrace of international cultures. It shows how Amram’s gift as an on-stage spontaneous creator enriches his formal classical composing. With multi-media links for readers it is possible to see and hear film and audio highlights and adventures described in this book by important conductors musicians performers scholars and journalists. This book is the essential guide to a major figure in contemporary music. | The Many Worlds of David Amram Renaissance Man of American Music

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Phenomenology and Naturalism

Phenomenology and Naturalism

At present ‘naturalism’ is arguably the dominant trend in both Anglo-American and European philosophy. Owing to the influence of the works of W. V. O. Quine Wilfred Sellars and Hillary Putnam among others naturalism both as a methodological and ontological position has become one of the mainstays of contemporary analytic approaches to knowledge mind and ethics. From the early 1990s onward European philosophy in the English-speaking world has been witnessing a turn from the philosophies of the subjects of phenomenology hermeneutics and existentialism and a revival of a certain kind of vitalism whether Bergsonian or Nietzschean and also of a certain kind of materialism that is close in spirit to Spinoza’s Ethics and to the naturalism and monism of the early Ionian thinkers. This book comprises essays written by experts in both the European and the Anglo-American traditions such as John Sallis David Papineau David Cerbone Dan Zahavi Paul Patton Bernhard Weiss Jack Reynolds and Benedict Smith who explore the limit of naturalism and the debate between naturalism and phenomenology. This book also considers the relation between Deleuze’s philosophy and naturalism as well as the critique of phenomenology by speculative realism. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. | Phenomenology and Naturalism

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Local Authority Property Management Initiatives Strategies Re-organisation and Reform

Local Authority Property Management Initiatives Strategies Re-organisation and Reform

First published in 1999 this volume aimed to provide a signpost marking a significant development in the transition from estate to property management in local authorities. It examines the debate that has surfaced in the property profession since the Audit Commission’s (AC 1988a b) reports on Local Authority Property Management (LAPM) and brings together sixteen studies from academics and practitioners with an interest in exchanging views opinions and experiences on the development of LAPM. Its content which links theory method and techniques with practice makes it a vital source of information for those with an interest in obtaining the most effective management of property. | Local Authority Property Management Initiatives Strategies Re-organisation and Reform

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Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect Transforming Law Enforcement and Police Training

Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect Transforming Law Enforcement and Police Training

Every day police officers face challenges ranging from petty annoyances to the risk of death in the line of duty. Coupled with these difficulties is in some cases lack of community respect for the officers despite the dangers these men and women confront while protecting the public. Exploring issues of courage integrity leadership and character Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect examines ways to effect organizational change that helps police officers inspire community trust and support with every citizen contact. The book begins by discussing why courage is often lacking in a bravery-rich culture such as law enforcement. It demonstrates how personal integrity is the foundation for unconditional respect and provides reasons why having and maintaining integrity are some of the most difficult struggles for individuals and law enforcement officers in particular. It enumerates some of the tactical benefits of unconditional respect as well as interpersonal benefits. Then the book explains the concept of anima-based leadership core competencies. It examines how unconditional respect affects law enforcement’s interaction with the communities in which it operates and describes how it creates and builds high character. Finally the book explores way to influence an organizational culture toward unconditional respect. There is a blog dedicated to the book. Jack Colwell also maintains a blog entitled Human Factors in Law Enforcement. The authors' animated Youtube video discusses relationships between police and communities. | Unleashing the Power of Unconditional Respect Transforming Law Enforcement and Police Training

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Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

What do seat belts life jackets and anti-jack knife technology have in common? They were all the subjects of campaigns run by the British Safety Council since its inception in 1957. James Tye its charismatic founder and leader for nearly 40 years created the British Safety Council to bring about a transformation in how Great Britain viewed safety and health. In 1957 hundreds if not thousands of workers were killed in accidents and James marshalled every conceivable technique to save lives including PR stunts training lobbying for better laws and crucially what he called ‘propaganda’ in the form of posters and other communication tools. In 2014 a long-lost collection of posters papers and letters were found gathering dust in a warehouse. The British Safety Council wanting to mark its 60-year history and its role in reducing deaths at work decided to preserve the collection and commissioned historian Mike Esbester to trace the history of health and safety in Britain from the late 1960s through the posters and photographs of the time. Transformative Propaganda: Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council offers a fascinating and vivid insight into the social and political realities of the 1960s 1970s and 1980s through a wealth of historical documents press cuttings correspondence photographs and posters. It offers a truly extraordinary window onto the evolution of health and safety within the UK and richly deserves a place on the bookshelf of every safety professional. | Transformative Propaganda Opening the Archives of the British Safety Council

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Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

The Liangzhu Culture (3 300-2 300 BC) represented the peak of prehistoric cultural and social development in the Yangtze Delta. With a wide sphere of influence centred near present-day Hangzhou City Liangzhu City is considered one of the earliest urban centres in prehistoric China. Although it remains a mystery for many in the West Liangzhu is well known in China for its fine jade-crafting industry; its enormous well-structured earthen palatial compound and recently discovered hydraulic system; and its far-flung impact on contemporary and succeeding cultures. The archaeological ruins of Liangzhu City were added to the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List in July 2019. Liangzhu Culture contextualises Liangzhu in broad socio-economic and cultural backgrounds and provides new first-hand data to help explain the development and structure of this early urban centre. Among its many insights the volume reveals how elites used jade as a means of acquiring social power and how Liangzhu and its centre stand in comparison to other prehistoric urban centres in the world. This book the first of its kind published in the English language will be a useful guide to students at all levels interested in the material culture and social structures of prehistoric China and beyond. | Liangzhu Culture Society Belief and Art in Neolithic China

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The Complex Lives of British Freshwater Fishes

The Complex Lives of British Freshwater Fishes

CHOICE 'Highly Recommended for all readers' June 2021 Vol. 58 No. 10 This stunningly illustrated book goes far beyond a run-of-the-mill nature guide. It explores the fascinating life histories of Britain’s freshwater fishes a group of animals which despite their importance and ubiquity in our diverse still and flowing fresh waters has before now been rarely regarded and respected as 'wildlife'. Our native fishes tend generally to be considered as simply something for anglers to catch or for people to eat yet they work enormously hard for us. Author Mark Everard avid nature-watcher angler and scientist shows how freshwater fish provide food ornamentation sport and cultural identity and highlights their huge importance for conservation as part of the living ecosystems upon which we all depend. He dives into the mysteries moving below the surface of our rivers and lakes bringing the wonderful and fascinating world of the diversity of British freshwater fish species into plain sight and into mind. This unique book features over 100 full-colour photographs by pioneering photographer and filmmaker Jack Perks whose work has featured on BBC Springwatch The One Show and Countryfile. The book is filled with technical detail useful to conservationists and biology students. Most importantly it is also presented in an accessible visually attractive and engaging manner that will appeal to anybody with an interest in the natural world: the conservation-minded public the angling community and our nation of wildlife enthusiasts. Whatever your background this book will open your eyes to our freshwater fishy wealth and the many ways in which it enriches our lives. | The Complex Lives of British Freshwater Fishes

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The Streetwise Subbie

The Streetwise Subbie

Very few books explore the problems which are particular to the relationship between Specialist Contractors and the Main Contractor or Clients with whom they are in contract. Fewer still provide solutions in such a down to earth no-nonsense way as The Streetwise Subbie does. The Streetwise Subbie is a highly regarded practical guide to contractual matters. Its original author Jack Russell was well known for his ‘contractual terrier’ column in Electrical Times. Now Barry Ashmore has updated and revised this work by drawing on his 46 years of construction experience and professional expertise gained at the sharp end resolving disputes and solving contractual problems for Specialist Contractors. Thousands of subbies have already benefited from the insights and the streetwise approach to avoiding or resolving contractual problems and the clarity of thought and advice the book provides. The fourth edition features all the old favourites such as payment delay and disruption extension of time and the all-important checklists and site records. But it has now been brought bang up to date to reflect the importance of the 2011 revisions to the Construction Act and the emergence of adjudication as the pre-eminent means of dispute resolution. It is an easy to read practical and essential guide aimed at Specialist Contractors of all sizes and specialisations be they sole traders company directors or any member of the subbie’s team that has to handle the commercial and contractual aspects of the projects they undertake. It’s the kind of book that you keep handy because it has so many answers that you can refer to it over and over again.

GBP 19.99
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Hydrology and Water Resource Systems Analysis

Hydrology and Water Resource Systems Analysis

Hydrology and water resources analysis can be looked at together but this is the only book which presents the relevant material and which bridges the gap between scientific processes and applications in one text. New methods and programs for solving hydrological problems are outlined in a concise and readily accessible form. Hydrology and Water Resource Systems Analysis includes a number of illustrations and tables with fully solved example problems integrated within the text. It describes a systematic treatment of various surface water estimation techniques; and provides detailed treatment of theory and applications of groundwater flow for both steady-state and unsteady-state conditions; time series analysis and hydrological simulation; floodplain management; reservoir and stream flow routing; sedimentation and erosion hydraulics; urban hydrology; the hydrological design of basic hydraulic structures; storage spillways and energy dissipation for flood control optimization techniques for water management projects; and methods for uncertainty analysis. It is written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students and for practitioners. Hydrologists and water-related professionals will be helped with an unfamiliar term or a new subject area or be given a formula the procedure for solving a problem or guidance on the computer packages which are available or shown how to obtain values from a table of data. For them it is a compendium of hydrological practice rather than science but sufficient scientific background is provided to enable them to understand the hydrological processes in a given problem and to appreciate the limitations of the methods presented for solving it.

GBP 24.99
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The Camera Assistant's Manual

The Camera Assistant's Manual

Excel as a Cameraman in today’s evolving film industry with this updated classic. Learn what to do – and what NOT to do – during production and get the job done right the first time. This seventh edition covers the basics of cinematography and provides you with the multi-skill set needed to maintain and transport a camera troubleshoot common problems on location prepare for job interviews and work with both film and digital technologies. Illustrations checklists and tables accompany each chapter and highlight the daily workflow of an Assistant Cameraman (AC) with expanded sections on problems and troubleshooting updated formulas tables and checklists as well as new information on the differences between working in the United States and UK and additional information on working with digital technology. This is a must-have for anyone looking to succeed in this highly technical and ever-changing profession. This book features a comprehensive companion web site that offers plenty of useful resources including online tutorials that ACs can easily access while on location and supplementary downloadable forms and checklists. | The Camera Assistant's Manual

GBP 39.99
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Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

Now in its seventh edition Bird’s Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology introduces and covers theory through detailed examples and laboratory experiments enabling students to gain knowledge required by technicians in fields such as engineering electronics and telecommunications. This edition includes several new sections including glass batteries climate change the future of electricity production and discussions concerning everyday aspects of electricity such as watts and lumens electrical safety AC vs DC and trending technologies. The extensive and thorough topic coverage makes this a great text for a range of level 2 and 3 engineering courses which has helped thousands of students succeed in their exams. It is also suitable for BTEC First National and Diploma syllabuses City & Guilds Technician Certificate and Diploma syllabuses and Foundation Degrees in engineering. Its companion website at www. routledge. com/cw/bird provides resources for both students and lecturers including full solutions for all 900 further questions lists of essential formulae multiple-choice tests and illustrations as well as full solutions to revision tests and lab experiments for course instructors. | Bird's Electrical and Electronic Principles and Technology

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Re-crafting Rationalization Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

Re-crafting Rationalization Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

Re-crafting Rationalization contributes to debates relating to the public understanding of science regarding the conceptualization of the relationship between 'science' and 'the public'. It challenges the prevailing science-centred or 'top-down' framework that currently informs notions of 'public engagement' and 'knowledge-transfer' offering an alternative that remains firmly grounded in the discourse of classical social theory. By proposing an alternative version of rationalization to the standard interpretation of Weber's disenchantment thesis this book establishes the public understanding of science as a matter of fundamental sociological concern. As such it redefines this field to emphasize public meanings of science engaging with a range of topics of major interest to the public and popular meaning of science including science and religion science fiction and fantasy 'fringe' science and media representations of science. Combining rhetorical analysis with ethnomethodology and membership categorization analysis the book outlines the basis of a new approach to the sociology of knowledge in the light of which Weber's rationalization thesis is radically re-crafted in relation to studies of scientists' discourse the rhetoric of science popularization and public usages of science. This re-crafted rationalization is applied in a series of detailed empirical studies of enchanted science (creationism and intelligent design Scientology and reflexive spirituality superhero comics) and mundane mysteries (Fortean discourse conspiracy theory and media representations of 'the scientist' in the case of Jack the Ripper). Re-crafting Rationalization therefore redresses a significant shortcoming in contemporary social theory which currently overlooks or misrepresents important public meanings of science whilst excluding popular culture from attention. With profound implications for the ways in which we make sense of developments involving science this book will be of interest not only to sociologists and social theorists but also to those interested in popular culture and subcultures and the history philosophy and sociology of science. | Re-crafting Rationalization Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

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A Frequency Dictionary of British English Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learners

A Frequency Dictionary of British English Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learners

A Frequency Dictionary of British English provides information about the frequency and distribution of words in British English. The dictionary presents rich information about word frequencies and distributions in an accessible manner. In addition to textual and numerical information the dictionary offers a range of visualisations to help understand the statistical properties of words. These visualisations are especially important for pedagogical uses of the book. This book also includes vocabulary exercises for learners of English to activate their vocabulary with the help of the dictionary. The dictionary is based on extensive research on current British English using the British National Corpus 2014 a 100-million-word corpus of contemporary British English developed at Lancaster University. The corpus represents a wide range of genres/registers of spoken and written English including informal speech fiction newspapers academic writing and e-language. Additional support materials for this book are available at https://lancslex. lancs. ac. uk This dictionary is designed to meet the needs of a wide variety of users interested in current British English vocabulary including students educators journalists material developers and researchers. | A Frequency Dictionary of British English Core Vocabulary and Exercises for Learners

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Snow Job The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking

Snow Job The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking

Cocaine has had a long and prominent position in the history of American substance abuse. As far back as the late 1800s cocaine was commonly found hi patent medicines elixirs and astonishingly in the earliest versions of Coca-Cola. Eventually the potency of cocaine was recognized and its purveyors came under gradual regulation. Events hi the early 1900s kept cocaine use down until World War II but the extensive drug use of the 1960s once again sparked a national temperance movement. Created in 1989 the Office of National Drug Control Policy maintains responsibility for coordinating and monitoring the nation's countemarcotics policy. But responsibility for coordination and monitoring is not the same thing as control. In Snow Job? Kevin Jack Riley examines source country control policies policies intended to control the production and export of cocaine from Latin America and their limitations. Part I draws together drug use drug production and drug control policies hi an analytic framework. It goes on to examine the recent history of U. S. drug control policies source country control policies the ways hi which cocaine prices affect cocaine use how cocaine is made and the vulnerable points in its production. Part II examines the economic effects that production and controls exert on the sources of cocaine Bolivia and Peru and probes the Colombian drug lord connection. Part III prescribes an appropriate path for source country cocaine policies and examines their implications for two other widely smuggled drugs heroin and marijuana. Riley disagrees with analysts who believe that source country control policies can lead to permanent victory hi the war against cocaine because of the potentially high costs associated with implementing source country control policies on a large scale. He suggests a better strategy would be one that recognizes the severe limits facing interdiction eradication and other source country policies and instead focuses on directing source country resources where they will be most useful. This necessitates defining a regional strategy that elevates political stability and institution building and demotes traditional countemarcotics objectives. Snow Job? offers original thinking and practical approaches to a multidimensional world problem and will be of interest to policymakers political scientists sociologists and law enforcement officials. | Snow Job The War Against International Cocaine Trafficking

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Recording Secrets for the Small Studio

Recording Secrets for the Small Studio

In this new edition discover how to achieve commercial-grade recordings even in the smallest studios by applying power-user techniques from the world’s most successful producers. Recording Secrets for the Small Studio is based on the backroom strategies of more than 250 famous names. This thorough and down-to-earth guide leads you through a logical sequence of practical tasks to build your live-room skills progressively from the ground up with user-friendly explanations that introduce technical concepts on a strictly need-to-know basis. On the way you’ll unravel the mysteries of many specialist studio tactics and gain the confidence to tackle a full range of real-world recording situations. Specifically designed for small-studio enthusiasts this book provides an intensive training course for those who want a fast track to releasing quality results while the chapter summaries assignments and extensive online resources are perfect for school and college use. Learn the fundamental principles of mic technique that you can apply in any recording scenario – and how to avoid those rookie mistakes that all too often compromise the sonics of lower-budget productions. Explore advanced techniques which help industry insiders maintain their competitive edge even under the most adverse conditions: creative phase manipulation improvised acoustics tweaks inventive monitoring workarounds and subtle psychological tricks. Find out where you don’t need to spend money as well as how to make a limited budget really count. Make the best use of limited equipment and session time especially in situations where you’re engineering and producing single-handed. Pick up tricks and tips from celebrated engineers and producers across the stylistic spectrum including Steve Albini Neal Avron Roy Thomas Baker Joe Barresi Howard Benson Tchad Blake T-Bone Burnett Geoff Emerick Brian Eno Paul Epworth Shawn Everett Humberto Gatica Imogen Heap Ross Hogarth Trevor Horn Rodney Jerkins Leslie Ann Jones Eddie Kramer Jacquire King Daniel Lanois Sylvia Massy Alan Meyerson Justin Niebank Gary Paczosa Tony Platt Jack Joseph Puig David Reitzas Bob Rock Laura Sisk Fraser T Smith Young Guru and many more. Now extensively expanded and updated with new sections on contact mics software instruments squash mics and ensemble depth distortion.

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Solution Focused Team Coaching

Solution Focused Team Coaching

Solution Focused Team Coaching offers readers a simple practical and effective way to coach teams. Its evidence-based approach which has been applied successfully to many fields is presented in an engaging pragmatic and approachable way making this book a must read for anyone who wants to broaden their horizon within the team coaching space. This book presents the background and philosophy of Solution Focused team coaching and then moves on to explore its practical application in various formats of team coaching with different audience dimensions. The reader will find a useful structure for team coaching processes as well as detailed descriptions for facilitating team coaching “moves” (conventionally called “techniques” or “tools”) for both online and live settings. With this book it is easy to plan a Solution Focused team coaching process from contract negotiation through workshop design to follow-up and evaluation. It covers difficult team situations such as conflicts and different forms of teams from shop-floor to executive teams Agile teams and special formats of team coaching as well as how to facilitate larger teams. Additionally readers who want to achieve certification and/or accreditation will find it extremely useful to read about ICF EMCC and AC team coaching competencies and how Solution Focused team coaching is an easy way of embedding those competencies. Solution Focused Team Coaching is a must for any coach from those who would like to learn a pragmatic impactful and easy way to move into team coaching to experienced team coaches who would like to learn a new approach and expand their skills and anybody interested in exploring the fascinating world of team coaching.

GBP 29.99
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Electronics for Scientists

Electronics for Scientists

Electronics for Scientists provides a practical and concise introduction to electrical circuits signals and instrumentation for undergraduate students in the physical sciences. No previous familiarity with electronics is required and concepts are grounded in the relevant physics. The book aims to give students the electronics background needed to be successful in experimental science. The book begins with the fundamentals of DC circuits. This is followed by AC circuits and their analysis using the concept of impedance. The transfer function is introduced and used to analyze different types of filter circuits. The conversion between time-domain and frequency-domain signal representations is reviewed. Transmission lines are introduced and used to motivate the different approach to designing microwave-frequency circuits as compared to lower-frequency circuits. The physics of semiconductors is reviewed and used to understand the behavior of diodes and transistors and a number of diode and transistor circuits are analyzed. The operational amplifier (op-amp) is introduced and several op-amp circuits are analyzed. Techniques for quantifying noise in electrical measurements are described and common sources of noise are discussed. The last major topic is digital circuits which include analog-to-digital conversion logic gates and digital memory circuits. The book concludes with a brief introduction to quantum computing. Designed for a one-semester course this book brings together a range of topics relevant to experimental science that are not commonly found in a single text. Worked examples are provided throughout the book and each chapter concludes with a set of problems to reinforce the material covered. The subject of electronics is indispensable to a wide array of scientific and technical fields and this book seeks to provide an approachable point of access to this rich and important subject.

GBP 32.99
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