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Heavy Metal at the Movies

Heavy Metal at the Movies

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to builds on and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that creates an intense and somewhat threatening atmosphere; at the other end the high level of performativity attached to the metal spectacle is emphasized. Alongside these tendencies the recent and ongoing wave of metal documentaries has taken off relying on either satire or hagiography. | Heavy Metal at the Movies

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Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Heritage is not what we see in front of us it is what we make of it in our heads. Heritage sites have been connected to a range of identarian projects both spatial and non-spatial. One of the most common links with heritage has been national identity. This book stresses that heritage has developed powerful links to regional and local identities. Contributors deal explicitly with regions of heavy industry in different parts of the world exploring non-spatial forms of identity: including class religious ethnic racial gender and cultural identities. In many heritage sites non-spatial forms of identity are interlinked with spatial ones. Civil society action has been important in representations of regional identities and industrial-heritage campaigns. Region-branding seems to determine the ultimate success of industrial heritage a process that is closely connected to the marketing of regions to provide a viable economic future and attract tourism to the region. Selected case-studies on coal and steel producing regions in this book provide the first global survey of how regions of heavy industry deal with their industrial heritage and what it means for regional identity and region-branding. This book draws a range of powerful conclusions about the path dependency of particular forms for post-industrial regional identity in former regions of heavy industry. It highlights both commonalities and differences in the strategies employed with regard to the regions’ industrial heritage. This book will appeal to lecturers students and scholars in the fields of heritage management industrial studies and cultural geography. | Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

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The Effect An Introduction to Research Design and Causality

The Effect An Introduction to Research Design and Causality

The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality is about research design specifically concerning research that uses observational data to make a causal inference. It is separated into two halves each with different approaches to that subject. The first half goes through the concepts of causality with very little in the way of estimation. It introduces the concept of identification thoroughly and clearly and discusses it as a process of trying to isolate variation that has a causal interpretation. Subjects include heavy emphasis on data-generating processes and causal diagrams. Concepts are demonstrated with a heavy emphasis on graphical intuition and the question of what we do to data. When we “add a control variable” what does that actually do? Key Features: • Extensive code examples in R Stata and Python • Chapters on overlooked topics in econometrics classes: heterogeneous treatment effects simulation and power analysis new cutting-edge methods and uncomfortable ignored assumptions • An easy-to-read conversational tone • Up-to-date coverage of methods with fast-moving literatures like difference-in-differences | The Effect An Introduction to Research Design and Causality

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Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

The achievements of the Greek cavalry on the battlefield were monumental and yet until now the heavy infantry - the hoplite - has received by far the most attention from military historians. This book traces the history of the Greek cavalry offering a reassessment of the place of mounted troops in the warfare of Ancient Greece. Its historical sweep is broad with coverage which extends from 1400 BC through the Archaic period to the Classical period. | Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

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Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái jiù dou and ye are in a specific use type shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm. This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure focus and contrastive topics and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics. | Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

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A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its traditional enemy the Arabs. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies know-how and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations raids sieges ambushes surprise attacks the treatment of prisoners of war and defectors distribution of booty punishment of military offences how to mount effective espionage and how to send and receive envoys. There is even advice on the personal qualities required by generals on how to neutralize enemy horses and on how to protect the troops against poisoned food. The work culminates in an account of the stratagems employed by great Greek and Roman military commanders of the past. While like so much of Byzantine literature the Sylloge often simply reproduces material found in earlier texts it also preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. It is the first Byzantine source to record the reappearance of a specialized heavy cavalry (the kataphraktoi) and of a specialized infantry (the menavlatoi) used to repel the attacks of the opposing heavy cavalry. There is also a great deal of information on new infantry and cavalry formations and on the new tactics that required them. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English. It is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work and by footnotes which explain obscure references and identify the author’s classical and Byzantine sources. An introduction places the work in its historical and literary context and considers some of the questions that | A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

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Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

Inspiration for the Weary Therapist is a companion for the modern practitioner. Addressing a diverse audience and written by a master clinician and supervisor Inspiration for the Weary Therapist helps modern therapists traverse the complicated landscape of practicing therapy in the age of COVID-19. Instead of a heavy theoretical approach that can leave the already exhausted therapist feeling more overwhelmed Inspiration for the Weary Therapist guides readers through challenging professional situations soothes them during upsetting clinical moments and encourages them to keep going during changing times. Rather than teaching mental health professionals how to practice this book helps them believe in themselves again and reconnect with their confidence as clinicians through increased self-compassion and personal growth. This practical and helpful guide is essential reading for all mental health practitioners who are searching for inspiration and motivation and who want to reconnect to what it means to be a therapist. | Inspiration for the Weary Therapist A Practical Clinical Companion

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Privacy in Practice Establish and Operationalize a Holistic Data Privacy Program

Privacy in Practice Establish and Operationalize a Holistic Data Privacy Program

Privacy is not just the right to be left alone but also the right to autonomy control and access to your personal data. The employment of new technologies over the last three decades drives personal data to play an increasingly important role in our economies societies and everyday lives. Personal information has become an increasingly valuable commodity in the digital age. At the same time the abundance and persistence of personal data have elevated the risks to individuals’ privacy. In the age of Big Data the Internet of Things Biometrics and Artificial Intelligence it is becoming increasingly difficult for individuals to fully comprehend let alone control how and for what purposes organizations collect use and disclose their personal information. Consumers are growing increasingly concerned about their privacy making the need for strong privacy champions ever more acute. With a veritable explosion of data breaches highlighted almost daily across the globe and the introduction of heavy-handed privacy laws and regulatory frameworks privacy has taken center stage for businesses. Businesses today are faced with increasing demands for privacy protections ever-more complex regulations and ongoing cybersecurity challenges that place heavy demands on scarce resources. Senior management and executives now acknowledge privacy as some of the biggest risks to the business. Privacy traditionally has existed in a separate realm resulting in an unintentional and problematic barrier drawn between the privacy team and the rest of the organization. With many regulatory frameworks to consider building an all-encompassing data privacy program becomes increasingly challenging. Effective privacy protection is essential to maintaining consumer trust and enabling a robust and innovative digital economy in which individuals feel they may participate with confidence. This book aims at helping organizations in establishing a unified integrated enterprise-wide privacy program. This book is aiming to help privacy leaders and professionals to bridge the privacy program and business strategies transform legal terms and dead text to live and easy-to-understand essential requirements which organizations can easily implement identify and prioritize privacy program gap initiatives and promote awareness and embed privacy into the everyday work of the agency and its staff. | Privacy in Practice Establish and Operationalize a Holistic Data Privacy Program

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Corporate Finance: The Basics

Corporate Finance: The Basics

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level. It aims to take the fear out of corporate finance and add the fun in presenting the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and demystify – the essential ideas of corporate finance avoiding the heavy use of maths and formulae. The calculations and figures in the book are purely to illustrate fundamental concepts appealing to readers’ common sense rather than stretch their ability to do number-crunching. Topics covered include: Financial statements through the corporate finance lens How to make investment decisions Cash versus profit Net working capital management How to determine the value of a business Through the use of a subject map this book explains how the key components of the subject are connected with each other strengthening the reader’s understanding. This book is the ideal introduction for anyone looking for a short yet scholarly overview of corporate finance.

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Data + Journalism A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting

Data + Journalism A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting

Taking a hands-on and holistic approach to data Data + Journalism provides a complete guide to reporting data-driven stories. This book offers insights into data journalism from a global perspective including datasets and interviews with data journalists from countries around the world. Emphasized by examples drawn from frequently updated sets of open data posted by authoritative sources like the FBI Eurostat and the US Census Bureau the authors take a deep dive into data journalism’s heavy lifting – searching for scraping and cleaning data. Combined with exercises video training supplements and lists of tools and resources at the end of each chapter readers will learn not just how to crunch numbers but also how to put a human face to data resulting in compelling story-driven news stories based on solid analysis. Written by two experienced journalists and data journalism teachers Data + Journalism is essential reading for students instructors and early career professionals seeking a comprehensive introduction to data journalism skills. | Data + Journalism A Story-Driven Approach to Learning Data Reporting

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The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

Offering diverse perspectives on Hawaiʻi’s food system this book addresses themes of place and identity across time. From early Western contact to the present day the way in which people in Hawaiʻi grow import and consume their food has shifted in response to the pressures of colonialism migration new technologies and globalization. Because of Hawaiʻi’s history of agricultural abundance its geographic isolation in the Pacific Ocean and its heavy reliance on imported foods today it offers a rich case study for understanding how food systems develop in-place. In so doing the contributors implicitly and explicitly complicate the narrative of the local which has until recently dominated much of the existing scholarship on Hawaiʻi’s foodways. With topics spanning GMO activism agricultural land use trends customary access and fishing rights poi production and the dairy industry this volume reveals how local food is emplaced through dynamic and complex articulations of history politics and economic change. This book was originally published as a special issue of Food Culture and Society. | The Foodways of Hawai'i Past and Present

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Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

Originally published in 2004. The essays in this engaging book catalogue a wide and varied range of instances where 'things go wrong' in the practices of criminal justice. The contributions document instances where laws policies and practices have produced unintended consequences of the most deleterious kind drawing attention to the prison system 'boot camps' detention centres and specific penal policies such as the 'short sharp shock' parental penalty and 'three strikes and you're out'. Also examined are policing practices such as 'zero tolerance' 'saturation policing' and punitive laws in the areas of drug use sex offences and prostitution. It is demonstrated that in each of these cases the objectives of government resulted in the creation of new and unforeseen problems requiring further reform of the criminal justice system. This is a familiar tale characteristic of the modernist impulses of contemporary government based on the notion that crime can be identified managed and controlled through the application and administration of institutionalised polices and practices. The present culture of 'high crime' - despite a top-heavy apparatus of crime control - appears to indicate the very opposite. | Hard Lessons Reflections on Governance and Crime Control in Late Modernity

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China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy

China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy

China a still developing economy comprising a fifth of the world’s population will play a key role in the global movement towards reducing carbon emissions. The aims of the Paris Agreement may stand or fall with China both for its own contribution and the example it will set the developing world. China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions discusses the prospects for China achieving radical reductions in carbon emissions within the context of the current economic and political landscape. With a particular focus on technologies such as such as wind power solar power and electric vehicles Toke examines how China is transitioning to a state of stable energy consumption via a service-based economy and heavy investment in non-fossil energy sources. The book concludes that China may be set to reduce its carbon emissions by approximately two-thirds by 2050. This book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of climate change sustainable development political science and energy as well as energy professionals seeking to understand the implications of recent developments in China. | China’s Role in Reducing Carbon Emissions The Stabilisation of Energy Consumption and the Deployment of Renewable Energy

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5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

Once upon a time. children's nonfiction books were stodgy concise and not very kid friendly. Most were text heavy with just a few scattered images decorating the content and meaning rather than enhancing it. Over the last 20 years children's nonfiction has evolved into a new breed of visually dynamic and engaging texts. In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books Melissa Stewart and Dr. Marlene Correia present a new way to sort nonfiction into five major categories and show how doing so can help teachers and librarians build stronger readers and writers. Along the way they: Introduce the 5 kinds of nonfiction: Active Browseable Traditional Expository Literature and Narrative -;and explore each category through discussions classroom examples and insights from leading children's book authorsOffer tips for building strong diverse classroom texts and library collectionsProvide more than 20 activities to enhance literacy instructionInclude innovative strategies for sharing and celebrating nonfiction with students. With more than 150 exemplary nonfiction book recommendations and Stewart and Correia's extensive knowledge of literacy instruction 5 Kinds of Nonfiction will elevate your understanding of nonfiction in ways that speak specifically to the info-kids in your classrooms but will inspire all readers and writers. | 5 Kinds of Nonfiction Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children's Books

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Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

Metal Rap and Electro in Tunisia is a trip into the music scenes of Tunisia after the Arab Springs. Based on extensive field research the book explores the social life of heavy metal rap and electronic music in a North African country whose mass revolution of 2010/2011 led the way to a troubled and yet unique democracy. What is it like to be part of a music scene in a place affected by poverty and inequality? How do the many conflicted souls of Tunisian Islam shape local metal rap and electro? What are the social and cultural stakes for music in a nation constantly represented as a bridge between Europe and the Middle East? How do music scenes articulate the complex political scenario that followed the Tunisian revolution of 2011? Barone answers these questions by offering new theoretical reflections on youth cultures and popular music in a global perspective and thus pushing the debate on post-subcultures and scenes forward. At the same time the book offers a dense sociological analysis of youth and music in reality - the Tunisian one - whose society culture religion and politics are at stake in a historical transformation. | Metal Rap and Electro in Post-Revolutionary Tunisia A Fragile Underground

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Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe

Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe

This book sets out a novel conceptual and analytical framework to explain why risk analysis cost-benefit analysis and similar analytical tools have gained sizeable currency in public administrations in comparative perspective. Situated in critical interpretive policy analysis methodology the book systematizes and innovates respective debates in three ways. First it develops a novel typology of actors’ appreciations of analytical tools as instrumental problem-solving legitimacy-seeking and power-seeking. It conceptualizes the latter two as polity policies with actors seeking to confirm or rework decision-making structures. Second the book theorizes how executive fragmentation and the multiplication of coordination requirements – often treated as hindrances to substantial analytical turns in an administration – nourish actors’ ideal typical appreciations of analytical tools in distinct ways. Lastly it scrutinizes varieties of risk analysis across three risk-heavy policy domains in Germany (including the EU) and discusses the potential of risk analysis to stabilize or transform decision-making in multi-level settings. This book will be of key interest to policy analysts and risk analysts and scholars of European politics comparative politics policy studies public administration multi-level governance EU studies risk analysis policy evaluation and the political sociology of quantification. | Varieties of Risk Analysis in Public Administrations Problem-Solving and Polity Policies in Europe

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The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

This volume brings together the latest results and discussions from research carried out in the eastern Fertile Crescent the so-called hilly flanks and adjacent regions as well as providing key historical perspectives on earlier fieldwork in the region. The emergence of sedentary food producing societies in southwest Asia ca. 10 000 years ago has been a key research focus for archaeologists since the 1930s. This book provides a balance to the weight of work undertaken in the western Fertile Crescent namely the Levant and southern Anatolia. This preference has led to a heavy emphasis on these regions in discussions about where when and how the transition from hunting and gathering to plant cultivation and animal domestication occurred. Chapters assess the role of the eastern Fertile Crescent as a key region in the Neolithization process in southwest Asia highlighting the key and important contributions people in this region made to the emergence of sedentary farming societies. This book is primarily aimed at academics researching the transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia. It will also be of interest to archaeologists working on this transition in other parts of Eurasia. | The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic in the Eastern Fertile Crescent Revisiting the Hilly Flanks

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The Notebook of a New Clinical Neuropsychologist Stories From Another World

The Notebook of a New Clinical Neuropsychologist Stories From Another World

Have you ever looked at a heavy volume on neuropsychology and wondered what it would actually be like to become a professional clinician working every day with neurological patients in a busy hospital while simultaneously learning your craft? This book tells the story of that journey. The Notebook of a New Clinical Neuropsychologist vividly details the experience of starting work in clinical neuropsychology exploring early-career learning and development through an intimate case-based approach. Topics include the learning of basic clinical skills and knowledge counter-transference the clinician’s emotional experiences ethical and moral dilemmas and the development of clinical reasoning. The book is structured around individual studies from the author’s early caseload with each vignette containing the relevant neuropathology clinical presentation history neuropsychological test finding and other clinical data. Chapters are also organized around key neuropathological conditions including traumatic brain injury stroke and brain infections which provide a broader context for the narrative focus of the book. Few academic books explore the personal intellectual and ethical dilemmas that face a new clinician working with patients in a neuropsychological setting. Tailored to facilitate experiential learning via case studies reflective practice and problem based-learning the book will be of interest to students and professionals working within the broad area of neuropsychology and brain injury services. | The Notebook of a New Clinical Neuropsychologist Stories From Another World

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Corporate Finance The Basics

Corporate Finance The Basics

Corporate Finance: The Basics is a concise introduction to the inner workings of finance at the company level. It aims to take the fear out of corporate finance and add the fun in presenting the subject in a way that is simple to grasp and easy to digest. Its aim is to explain – and demystify – the essential ideas of corporate finance avoiding the heavy use of maths and formulae. The calculations and figures in the book are purely to illustrate fundamental concepts appealing to readers’ common sense rather than stretching their ability to do number-crunching. This fully revised edition takes into account the most recent developments in the corporate financial landscape including: the longer-term ramifications of the 2008 financial crisis the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic rising inflation and the current economic climate and the effect of environmental social and governance (ESG) on a company’s financial decisions. A brand-new chapter which seeks to answer the question of how to manage growing businesses from a finance perspective is also included. Through the use of a subject map this book explains how the key components of the subject are connected with each other strengthening the reader’s understanding. This book is the ideal introduction for anyone looking for a short yet scholarly overview of corporate finance. | Corporate Finance The Basics

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Counter-Terrorist Financing Law and Policy An analysis of Turkey

Counter-Terrorist Financing Law and Policy An analysis of Turkey

Since the 9/11 attacks the world has witnessed the creation of both domestic and international legal instruments designed to disrupt and interdict the financial activities of terrorists. This book analyses the counter-terrorist financing law (CTF) policy and practice at the national level focusing on Turkey. The work examines the limits and capabilities of CTF efforts on terrorism threats and determines the effectiveness of CTF efforts in Turkey a country which has a pivotal role in terms of countering terrorism regionally and internationally. The Turkish case-study is supported by an empirical study involving 37 semi-structured interviews with CTF practitioners and law enforcement experts with different affiliations and backgrounds. The findings illustrate that Turkey’s CTF system has not obtained an adequate level of effectiveness as a result of lack of proper implementation of its policy in the bureaucratic legal and operational spheres. It is evident that the administrative and legal systems in Turkey are established according to the ‘one-size-fits-all’ international CTF standards and thus are compliant with the international CTF benchmarks yet the interviews reveal significant challenges at the implementation level including lack of training and financial security heavy handed bureaucracy inadequate coordination and communication between international and national levels. The book will be an invaluable resource for academics students and policy-makers working in the areas of financial crime and terrorism. | Counter-Terrorist Financing Law and Policy An analysis of Turkey

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Gravitational Waves A History of Discovery

Gravitational Waves A History of Discovery

The historic detection of gravitational waves on September 14 2015 prompted by the highly energetic fusion of two black holes has made events in the universe audible for the first time. This expansion of the scientific sensorium has opened a new chapter in astronomy and already led to among others fascinating new insights about the abundance of black holes the collision of neutron stars and the origin of heavy chemical elements. The history of this event which is epochal for physics is reconstructed in this book along with a walk-through of the main principles of how the detectors operate and a discussion of how the search for gravitational waves is conducted. The book concludes with an update of the latest detections and developments to date and a brief look into the future of this exciting research field. This book is accessible to non-specialist readers from a general audience and is also an excellent introduction to the topic for undergraduates in physics. Features: Provides an introduction to the historic discovery of gravitational waves Explains the inner workings of the detectors and the search to find the waves hidden in the data Authored by a renowned specialist involved in the ground-breaking discovery Hartmut Grote is a Professor of physics at Cardiff University UK. His main expertise is in experimental gravitational-wave physics and he has worked on building and improving gravitational wave detectors for over 20 years. From 2009 to 2017 he was the scientific leader of the British-German gravitational-wave detector: GEO600. | Gravitational Waves A History of Discovery

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Building Your Inclusive Classroom A Toolkit for Adaptive Teaching and Relational Practice

Building Your Inclusive Classroom A Toolkit for Adaptive Teaching and Relational Practice

Building Your Inclusive Classroom explores why we need to adapt our teaching – and our approaches to children and young people – and how this will support the achievement of everyone in the classroom including the teacher. It will help educators in mainstream settings across all key stages to adapt not only their resources but also their approaches for children with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND) and their peers. This accessible resource provides a toolkit of ideas methods and motivation to enable teachers to make their classrooms fully inclusive. Chapters present the most effective evidence-based approaches – exploring both relational restorative practice and traditional methods – to provide the foundations upon which to build inclusive classrooms. The book: Offers practical suggestions along with examples and case studies Includes reflective questions to encourage readers to consider their current settings Provides clear summaries and breakdowns of key guidelines and concepts Does the heavy lifting for you and presents evidence-based approaches in an engaging manner Incorporates the voices of staff and parents throughout Inspires the reader to take risks enhance current practice and to make meaningful change for children and young people. Adaptive teaching has traversed beyond just the mini-whiteboard and the writing frame and we need now more than ever to differentiate and adapt our approaches too for children both with and without diagnosed SEND. This book will be essential reading for mainstream teachers Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities Co-ordinators (SENDCOs) and trainee teachers across all key stages. | Building Your Inclusive Classroom A Toolkit for Adaptive Teaching and Relational Practice

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Youth Sport and Social Capital Bleachers and Boardrooms

Youth Sport and Social Capital Bleachers and Boardrooms

This book examines the youth sport parent experience through the lens of social capital a cornerstone social science concept of the past 30 years. Social capital reflects the value of one’s social networks and the actual and potential benefits – and costs – of relationships. Bringing together a team of kids for a season also brings together their families who all must negotiate this new social world. Within this world relationships are bound to form and these are the foundation upon which this project rests. Youth sport scholars have traditionally been interested in questions such as: how many kids play sports what sports they play how and why do they start playing and stop playing and the costs and benefit of participation. However aside from sensational examples of youth sport parents behaving badly scholars know far less about the parental experience. This time is meaningful for parents because parents often spend as much or even more time at the fields than their children. It is thus worth examining what they might get out of this investment. Utilizing two years of fieldwork and over 30 interviews with parents and board members of a youth baseball league in the southwestern United States this book provides an inside look at the beneficial relationships that can be found in the bleachers of a kids’ baseball game as well as the unseen high-stakes games waged in the boardroom where relationships can carry heavy costs as well. This book was originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society. | Youth Sport and Social Capital Bleachers and Boardrooms

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The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

Volume II of The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent provides an authoritative and in-depth examination of the British government’s strategic nuclear policy from 1964 to 1970. Written with full access to the UK documentary record Volume II examines the controversies that developed over nuclear policy following the arrival in office of a Labour government led by Harold Wilson in October 1964 that openly questioned the independence of the deterrent. Having decided to preserve the Polaris programme Labour ministers were nevertheless committed not to develop another generation of nuclear weapons beyond those in the pipeline placing major doubts over the long-term future of the nuclear programme and collaboration with the United States. Defence planners also became increasingly concerned that the deployment of Soviet anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defences around Moscow threatened to undermine the ability of Polaris to fulfil its role as a national strategic nuclear deterrent. During 1967 under heavy pressures to control defence spending a protracted debate was conducted within Whitehall over the future of Polaris and how to respond to the evolving ABM challenge. The volume concludes with Labour’s defeat at the general election of June 1970 by which time the Royal Navy had assumed the nuclear deterrent role from the RAF and plans had already been formulated for a UK project to improve Polaris which could both ensure its continuing credibility and rejuvenate the Anglo-American nuclear relationship. This book will be of much interest to students of British politics Cold War history nuclear proliferation and international relations. | The Official History of the UK Strategic Nuclear Deterrent Volume II: The Labour Government and the Polaris Programme 1964-1970

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Drug Control and International Law

Drug Control and International Law

This book provides for an extensive legal analysis of the international drug control system in light of the growing challenges and criticism that this system faces. In the current debate on global drug policy the central pillars of the international drug control system – the UN Drug Conventions as well as its institutions – are portrayed as outdated suppressive and seen as an obstacle to necessary changes. The book’s objective is to provide an in-depth and positivist insight into drug control’s present legal framework and thus provide for a better understanding of the normative assumptions upon which drug control is currently based. This is attained by clarifying the objectives of the international drug control system and the premises by which these objectives are to be achieved. The objective of the current global framework of international drug control is the limitation of drugs to medical and scientific purposes. The meaning of this objective and its concrete implications for States’ parties as well as its problems from the perspective of other regimes of international law most notably international human rights law are extensively analysed. Additionally the book focuses on how the international drug control system attempts to reach the objective of confining drugs to medical and scientific purposes i. e. by setting up a universal system that exercises a rigid control on drug supply. The consequences of this heavy focus on the reduction of drug supply are outlined and the book concludes by making suggestions on how the international drug control system could be reformed in the near future in order to better meet the existing challenges. The analysis occurs from a general international law perspective. It aims to map the international drug control system within a wider context of international law and to understand whether the problems that the international drug control system faces are exemplary for the difficulties that institutionalized systems of global scope face in the twenty-first century. | Drug Control and International Law

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