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Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems: From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop provides a comprehensive technical guide on up-to-date new secure defending theories and technologies novel design and systematic understanding of secure architecture with practical applications. The book consists of 10 chapters which are divided into three parts. The first three chapters extensively introduce secure state estimation technologies providing a systematic presentation on the latest progress in security issues regarding state estimation. The next five chapters focus on the design of secure feedback control technologies in industrial control systems displaying an extraordinary difference from that of traditional secure defending approaches from the viewpoint of network and communication. The last two chapters elaborate on the systematic secure control architecture and algorithms for various concrete application scenarios. The authors provide detailed descriptions on attack model and strategy analysis intrusion detection secure state estimation and control game theory in closed-loop systems and various cyber security applications. The book is useful to anyone interested in secure theories and technologies for industrial control systems. | Cyber Security for Industrial Control Systems From the Viewpoint of Close-Loop

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All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

Classroom role-playing simulations bring the drama of politics to life and enrich traditional learning by plunging students into the midst of historical or current events. Ben-Yehuda gives students and instructors the resources and confidence to embark on a careful enactment of scenarios that will inspire enthusiasm in participants and stick in the memory long after the curtain falls. The book includes in-depth discussions of three possible theatrical simulations: appeasement in 1938 Munich the regional turmoil following the 1947 UN Palestine Partition decision and the Syrian civil war and ongoing global confrontation with ISIS. It is appropriate for students in global studies courses at all levels. | All the World’s a Stage The Theater of Political Simulations

GBP 36.99
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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

GBP 38.99
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Social Sciences And Farming Systems Research Methodological Perspectives On Agricultural Development

Social Sciences And Farming Systems Research Methodological Perspectives On Agricultural Development

The publication of this book has required the cooperation of many people along the way. From its very conception the project of bringing together experiences from ongoing Farming Systems Research projects has faced a problem of communication due to the dispersal of the participants. Dr. William Partridge and Lynne Goldstein were instrumental in the initial presentation of the symposium on Social Science participation in Farming Systems Research at the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Ben Wallace has done an admirable job not only as editor but 8s a ilpoint m-an- throughout the process or organizirig the conference and preparing the manuscript. He deserves credit tor expediting countless actMties that could never have otherwise been accomplished because of the vagaries or international mails and telecommunications. | Social Sciences And Farming Systems Research Methodological Perspectives On Agricultural Development

GBP 39.99
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The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

First Published in 1951 The Monarch of Wit presents John Donne’s poetry in its proper context. The chief purpose of the book is to enable the reader to approach Donne’s poetry without preconceptions of what ‘metaphysical’ poetry is or ought to be. Some of the questions which the author constantly has in mind are these: What are the main resemblances and differences on the one hand between Donne’s poetry and Ben Jonson’s and on the other hand between Donne’s poetry and that of poets who are commonly regarded as his disciples? How much of Donne’s poetry may be appropriately described as metaphysical as personal or autobiographical or as the expression of what has been called a unified sensibility? This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of English poetry English literature and European literature. | The Monarch of Wit An Analytical and Comparative Study of the Poetry of John Donne

GBP 27.99
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Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

In 1944 C. G. Jung experienced a series of visions which he later described as the most tremendous things I have ever experienced. Central to these visions was the mystic marriage as it appears in the Kabbalistic tradition and Jung’s experience of himself as Rabbi Simon ben Jochai the presumed author of the sacred Kabbalistic text the Zohar. Kabbalistic Visions explores Jung’s 1944 Kabbalistic visions the impact of Jewish mysticism on Jungian psychology Jung’s archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism and his claim late in life that a Hasidic rabbi the Maggid of Mezhirech anticipated his entire psychology. This book places Jung’s encounter with the Kabbalah in the context of the earlier visions and meditations of his Red Book his abiding interests in Gnosticism and alchemy and what many regard to be his Anti-Semitism and flirtation with National Socialism. Kabbalistic Visions is the first full-length study of Jung and Jewish mysticism in any language and the first book to present a comprehensive Jungian/archetypal interpretation of Kabbalistic symbolism. | Kabbalistic Visions C. G. Jung and Jewish Mysticism

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Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence: Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems offers a chapter-by-chapter introductory survey of all aspects of emotional development from infancy to adolescence from delight surprise and love to anger distress and fear. Taking a chronological approach each chapter focuses on a specific emotion and covers the theories and research relating to its development from infants’ emotional capabilities to the changes in self-understanding and self-conscious emotions of adolescence. Hay integrates the approaches of classic developmental differentiation and differential emotions theory to create a comprehensive textbook with a unique approach to the subject matter showcasing a range of research linking emotions to biological underpinnings and early experiences. This wide-ranging book also includes coverage of differences in temperament developmental psychopathology emotion regulation and development of emotional understanding and attachment. It is core reading for students of developmental psychology health psychology child welfare and social work as well as anyone taking a course on social and emotional development courses. It will also be of interest to practitioners working in educational and clinical psychology and child psychiatry. | Emotional Development from Infancy to Adolescence Pathways to Emotional Competence and Emotional Problems

GBP 39.99
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Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

Writing well is an essential skill for sociologists but few books help students learn to write well. Designed to help students produce a manuscript that is clear concise and compelling Effective Writing for Sociology demonstrates and deconstructs what makes effective writing and how best to communicate scholarly ideas. The first half of the book addresses the fundamentals of good writing: writing clearly conveying emphasis writing concisely and crafting effective paragraphs. The second half then looks to the three most important sections of a research report: framing an introduction reporting results and discussing findings. Each chapter of the book describes strategies for effective writing illustrated with multiple examples and providing exercises where students can try their hand at implementing these strategies. The Epilogue provides tips on choosing a title as well as writing an abstract and method section; it also includes suggestions on how to master the tips described in the lessons. Ben Lennox Kail and Robert V. Kail’s book is essential reading in courses on research methods qualitative methods quantitative methods sociological writing and social science writing in allied disciplines such as education criminology health and all research fields. | Effective Writing for Sociology A Guide for Researchers and Students

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Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

If event is a proper name we reserve for monumental changes crises transitions and ruptures that are by their very nature unnameable or unthinkable then this volume is an attempt to set up an encounter between such eventhood as it comes to have a bearing on literary works and the work of reading literature. As the event continues to provide a valuable analytical paradigm for work undertaken within the newer subdisciplines of literary and critical theory including close reading bio- politics world literature and eco- criticism this volume makes a concerted effort to update the scholarship in this area and foreground the recent resurgence of interest in the concept. The book provides both a retrospective appraisal of the significance of events to literary studies and the literary humanities as well as contemporary and prospective appraisals of the same and thus would appeal scholars and instructors in the areas of literary theory comparative literature and philosophical aesthetics alike. Along with a specialist focus on thinkers such as Derrida Badiou Deleuze and Malabou the essays in this volume read a wide corpus of literature ranging from Han Kang Homer Renee Gladman Proust and Flaubert to Yoruba ideophones Browning Anne Carson Jenichiro Oyabe and Ben Lerner. | Literature and Event Twenty-First Century Reformulations

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Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

Since the ages of the Old Testament the Homeric myths the tragedies of Sophocles and the ensuing theological speculations of the Christian millennium the theme of loneliness has dominated and haunted the Western world. In this wide-ranging book philosopher Ben Lazare Mijuskovic returns us to our rich philosophical past on the nature of consciousness lived experience and the pining for a meaningful existence that contemporary social science has displaced in its tendency toward material reduction. Engaging key metaphysical discussions on causality space time subjectivity the mind body problem personal identity freedom religion and transcendence in ancient scholastic modern and contemporary philosophy he highlights the phenomenology of loneliness that lies at the very core of being human. In challenging psychoanalytic and neuroscientific paradigms Mijuskovic argues that isolative existence and self-consciousness is not so much of a problem of unconscious conflict or the need for psychopharmacology as it is the loss of a sense of personal intimacy. The issue of the criteria of personal identity in relation to loneliness has long engaged and consumed the interest of theologians ethicists philosophers novelists and psychologists. This book will be of great interest to academics and students of the humanities and all those with an interest in the philosophy of loneliness. | Metaphysical Dualism Subjective Idealism and Existential Loneliness Matter and Mind

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A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture this book provides an index of ideas theories projects and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as “contemporism” through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements). The contemporary project has been trying to answer the postmodern question of how to move beyond modernism through a thread of architectural styles that tried to respond to deficiencies from the modern promise and contextual changes. Yet the question remains should this ongoing struggle to move beyond modernism be a stylistic battle? Has the present architectural practice ever left the modernist tendencies and is there a structure for a contemporary language in architecture? This book presents a collection of highly illustrated projects that have worked under these parameters to break away from modernism in order to present a holistic integration of topology and typology as a language for “contemporism. ” The index is illustrated with individual spreads which can be read sequentially or independently and encourages the reader to make their own connections. It also includes interviews and contributions from Toyo Ito Anthony Vidler Ben van Berkel Christian Kerez and Greg Lynn. This book is essential reading for undergraduate and graduate students in architecture. | A Language of Contemporary Architecture An Index of Topology and Typology

GBP 32.99
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Innovation A Systems Approach

Innovation A Systems Approach

It is a systems world. This concise book uses a systems-based approach to show how innovation is ubiquitous in all facets of endeavors including business industry government and academia. The systems approach facilitates process design evaluation justification and integration. This book explicitly highlights the crucial role of integration in any innovation project. It presents conceptual and operational definitions of innovation. Emphasis is placed on the context related to the theme of systems thinking. Features Covers the intrinsic basis for innovation from a systems perspective Describes the use of the DEJI systems model for actuating innovation Highlights the role of humans in the innovation loop Provides guidance for innovation project management Presents a case example of linking quality and innovation Introduces the Umbrella Theory of Innovation | Innovation A Systems Approach

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The Law of the United States An Introduction

The Law of the United States An Introduction

The Law of the United States offers an introduction and overview of the American legal system. With an emphasis throughout on up-to-date case law and current literature it is an ideal first point of entry for students and practitioners alike and a starting point for further independent research. Professor Hay provides a concise and straightforward explanation of the law and legal vocabulary as well as an introduction to the different types of law and legal techniques. He explains the role of Congress the Executive and the Courts and clarifies the mechanisms behind the branches of public and private law in the United States. He introduces the reader to the complexities of federal and state law emphasizing that the many areas of public law and virtually all areas of private law are the separate law of the 50 States the District of Columbia and the (U. S. dependent) Territories in which common language legal tradition and culture have served to bring about a basic legal unity. Several private law areas (contract law torts family law succession) receive detailed treatment as do criminal law and procedure. The book provides detailed references to legislation case law and the literature up-to-date through early 2016. Four appendices present a detailed case study with commentary to aid the civil law reader in understanding of the case law system; the text of the U. S. Constitution (referred to in several contexts throughout the book); a geographic map of the U. S. federal court system; and information on the Legal Profession in the United States. | The Law of the United States An Introduction

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A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education From Inception to Implementation

A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education From Inception to Implementation

As interest in competency-based education (CBE) continues to grow by leaps and bounds the need for a practical resource to guide development of high-quality CBE programs led the authors to write this book. Until now there has been no how-to manual that captures in one place a big picture view of CBE along with the down-to-earth means for building a CBE program. A variety of pressures are driving the growth in CBE including the need for alternatives to the current model of higher education (with its dismal completion rates); the potential to better manage the iron triangle of costs access and quality; the need for graduates to be better prepared for the workforce; and the demands of adult learners for programs with the flexible time and personalized learning that CBE offers. Designed to help institutional leaders become more competent in designing building and scaling high-quality competency-based education (CBE) programs this book provides context guidelines and process. The process is based on ten design elements that emerged from research funded by the Gates Foundation and sponsored by AAC&U ACE EDUCAUSE and the Competency-Based Education Network (C-BEN) with thought partners CAEL and Quality Matters. In short the book will serve administrators higher education leaders faculty staff and others who have an interest in CBE by:• Giving context to enable the audience to discover the importance of each design element and to help frame the CBE program (the “why”);• Providing models checklists and considerations to determine the “what” component for each design element;• Sharing outlines and templates for the design elements to enable institutions to build quality relevant and rigorous CBE programs (the “how”). | A Leader's Guide to Competency-Based Education From Inception to Implementation

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Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

This book illustrates how a dominant political party the Mapai under the leadership of P. M. David Ben-Gurion chose to ‘hug ’ honor and commemorate ‘Her Fallen’ and ‘Her Bereaved Families ’ whilst simultaneously ignoring the fallen that were identified with the rival political party Herut led by Menachem Begin. Designing legislation and cultural policy designated for Teaching the public that those who sacrificed themselves in the Israeli War of Independence – were Hagana Members one of three Israeli undergrounds movements associated with Mapai specific ideological viewpoint. By that - the Israeli state created political legitimacy and dominance for Mapai – which was framed as the only political party which were involved with the struggle for national independence. Her fighters battles and casualties became part of the collective memory and national ethos. This project was implemented by refusing to acknowledge the Other casualties of the Eztel and Lehi underground movements wich were ideological identified with Herut Party. The state excluded their bereaved families from the wider official military bereavement circle and forced them to experience disenfranchised grief With no access to official commemoration or to rehabilitative support. It was only after the Likud's (ex-Herut) victory in the 1977 elections that enabled P. M. Menachem Begin to correct this exile from national identity and to initiate the inclusion of His fighters and casualties to the military cemeteries to the history books and to the state commemorations as recognizing their families as part of the National Military Bereavement circles entitled to Honors and support. A thought provoking study about the dark side of the Israeli nation building era Politics of Memory explores the politics of historiography bereavement and military commemoration and the confrontation over boundaries of national pantheon examining the effects of these factors on Israel | Politics of Memory The Israeli Underground's Struggle for Inclusion in the National Pantheon and Military Commemoralization

GBP 38.99
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Fashion Ethics

Fashion Ethics

Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical issues in the fashion industry from collection design concept to upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ethics of the fashion industry. Sue Thomas goes beyond the usual contentious issues of environmental impact and human rights taking the reader deeper into the endemic issues including sizeism ageism animal rights and the lack of diversity in models and in the media. The book lays out the significant ethical issues within the fashion supply chain by mapping the lifecycle of a garment and exploring key topics such as deep ecology cultural copyright speciesism the role of the customer and technology in future ethics. It also features current international industry information and industry-relevant case studies from brands media and mobile technology and NGOs including Oxfam (UK) Redress (Hong Kong) Nimany (US) Labor Link (US) People Tree (UK) and Peppermint (Australia). Fashion Ethics provides much-needed information for fashion students industry professionals and customers.

GBP 36.99
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Quality Service Management A Guide to Improving Business Processes

Quality Service Management A Guide to Improving Business Processes

Providing clear guidance for anyone servicing internal or external customers this book offers a framework for analyzing and managing quality using a comprehensive closed-loop approach. This book cuts through the complexities of the mantra ‘better cheaper faster’ (BCF) and offers procedures for the evaluation of customer needs the determination of performance metrics and the design of effective customer satisfaction surveys. It details basic statistical techniques and packages the framework procedures and methods into a management construct that includes external quality certification systems and internal performance management systems. Importantly the book also describes how these systems can be implemented in a virtual workplace. This quality management book will be essential to service-oriented firms (financial government healthcare hospitality etc. ) as well as any firm with internal customer service processes such as human resource management purchasing and accounting. Professionals at all levels corporate trainers and students will welcome this book’s common set of principles and tools accompanied by many case studies that illustrate how they are applied in various environments. | Quality Service Management A Guide to Improving Business Processes

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The Reflective Administrator A Leader-Centered Focus

The Reflective Administrator A Leader-Centered Focus

The Reflective Administrator takes the well-grounded theories of reflective thought out of the classroom setting and delivers them into the public sector workplace. The intentional practice of reflection is useful not only with regard to experiential learning in public administration education but also within the profession itself. The text dispels misconceptions about what reflective practice entails and offers the reader practical tools to implement in both the classroom and professional environments. The book begins by walking the reader through a foundational overview of reflective thought theory cultivates understanding of reflection in practice then closes the loop by helping the reader to conceptualize the ideas presented and offering applicable takeaways for both students and practitioners. Chapters utilize real-world case studies which detail work environment interactions planning and outcomes. These provide opportunities to examine and dissect individual and group dynamics using a reflective practice lens. The Reflective Administrator offers a fresh perspective on the utility of reflective thought in public service for professional growth and leadership development and it will be a key resource for students as well as public administration practitioners. | The Reflective Administrator A Leader-Centered Focus

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The Play Cycle Theory Research and Application

The Play Cycle Theory Research and Application

Twenty years after Gordon Sturrock and the late Professor Perry Else’s 'Colorado Paper' introduced the Play Cycle this theory of play now supports professional playwork practice training and education. The Play Cycle: Theory Research and Application is the first book of its kind to explain the theoretical concept of the Play Cycle supported by recent research and how it can be used as an observational method for anyone who works with children in a play context. The book investigates the understandings of the Play Cycle within the playwork field over the last 20 years and its future application. It addresses each aspect of the Play Cycle (metalude play cue play return play frame loop and flow and annihilation) and combines the theoretical aspect of the Play Cycle with empirical research evidence. The book also provides an observational tool for people to observe and record play cycles. This book will appeal to playworkers teachers play therapists and professionals working in other contexts with children such as hospitals and prisons. It will support practitioners and students in learning about play and provide lecturers and trainers with a new innovative teaching and training aide. | The Play Cycle Theory Research and Application

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AI for Scientific Discovery

AI for Scientific Discovery

AI for Scientific Discovery provides an accessible introduction to the wide-ranging applications of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in scientific research and discovery across the full breadth of scientific disciplines. AI technologies support discovery science in multiple ways. They support literature management and synthesis allowing the wealth of what has already been discovered and reported on to be integrated and easily accessed. They play a central role in data analysis and interpretation in the context of what is called ‘data science’. AI is also helping to combat the reproducibility crisis in scientific research by underpinning the discovery process with AI-enabled standards and pipelines and supporting the management of large-scale data and knowledge resources so that they can be shared and integrated and serve as a background ‘knowledge ecosystem’ into which new discoveries can be embedded. However there are limitations to what AI can achieve and its outputs can be biased and confounded and thus should not be blindly trusted. The latest generation of hybrid and ‘human-in-the-loop’ AI technologies have as their objective a balance between human inputs and insights and the power of number-crunching and statistical inference at a massive scale that AI technologies are best at.

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Surrogates Gaussian Process Modeling Design and Optimization for the Applied Sciences

Surrogates Gaussian Process Modeling Design and Optimization for the Applied Sciences

Surrogates: a graduate textbook or professional handbook on topics at the interface between machine learning spatial statistics computer simulation meta-modeling (i. e. emulation) design of experiments and optimization. Experimentation through simulation human out-of-the-loop statistical support (focusing on the science) management of dynamic processes online and real-time analysis automation and practical application are at the forefront. Topics include:Gaussian process (GP) regression for flexible nonparametric and nonlinear modeling. Applications to uncertainty quantification sensitivity analysis calibration of computer models to field data sequential design/active learning and (blackbox/Bayesian) optimization under uncertainty. Advanced topics include treed partitioning local GP approximation modeling of simulation experiments (e. g. agent-based models) with coupled nonlinear mean and variance (heteroskedastic) models. Treatment appreciates historical response surface methodology (RSM) and canonical examples but emphasizes contemporary methods and implementation in R at modern scale. Rmarkdown facilitates a fully reproducible tour complete with motivation from application to and illustration with compelling real-data examples. Presentation targets numerically competent practitioners in engineering physical and biological sciences. Writing is statistical in form but the subjects are not about statistics. Rather they’re about prediction and synthesis under uncertainty; about visualization and information design and decision making computing and clean code. | Surrogates Gaussian Process Modeling Design and Optimization for the Applied Sciences

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The Architecture of Waste Design for a Circular Economy

The Architecture of Waste Design for a Circular Economy

Global material crises are imminent. In the very near future recycling will no longer be a choice made by those concerned about the environment but a necessity for all. This means a paradigm shift in domestic behavior manufacturing construction and design is inevitable. The Architecture of Waste provides a hopeful outlook through examining current recycling practices rethinking initial manufacturing techniques and proposing design solutions for second lives of material-objects. The book touches on a variety of inescapable issues beyond our global waste crisis including cultural psyches politics economics manufacturing marketing and material science. A series of crucial perspectives from experts cover these topics and frames the research by providing a past present and future look at how we got here and where we go next: the historical the material and the design. Twelve design proposals look beyond the simple application of recycled and waste materials in architecture—an admirable endeavor but one that does not engage the urgent reality of a circular economy—by aiming to transform familiar yet flawed material-objects into closed-loop resources. Complete with over 150 color images and written for both professionals and students The Architecture of Waste is a necessary reference for rethinking the traditional role of the architect and challenging the discipline to address urgent material issues within the larger design process. | The Architecture of Waste Design for a Circular Economy

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Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

In the World Library of Psychologists series international experts present themselves career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books key articles salient research findings and their major theoretical and practical contributions. Alan Baddeley has an international reputation as an eminent scholar and pioneer in the field of human memory and is principally known for the theory of working memory devised with Graham Hitch. This model continues to be valuable today in recognising the functions of short-term memory. This volume includes a specially written introduction by Alan Baddeley which gives an overview of the start of his career and his entry into the field of Psychology. Throughout the book he also provides introductions to the selection of works included and contextualises them in relation to changes in the field during this time. Exploring Working Memory includes the author’s most influential publications on topics including short-term memory the distinctions between short and long-term memory the theory of working memory the phonological loop the concept of the central executive and the episodic buffer. This exceptional selection concludes with an article giving a broad overview of the author’s current views on working memory and its relation to other theories in the field. Through his outstanding work Alan Baddeley has become known as a world-leading expert on human memory. Exploring Working Memory is a unique collection which will be of great interest to both students and researchers interested in human memory from psychology backgrounds. | Exploring Working Memory Selected works of Alan Baddeley

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Midcourse Correction for the College Classroom Putting Small Group Instructional Diagnosis to Work

Midcourse Correction for the College Classroom Putting Small Group Instructional Diagnosis to Work

This book is about using the Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) method to make improvements to the educational experience midcourse. The idea is to use this structured interview process to involve students in helping faculty improve a course while they are in it potentially making a difference for themselves as well as for future students. Faculty gain the opportunity to work on a course before it ends and can see what changes work without waiting for the next time the course is offered or the end of semester student evaluations. SGID is a consultation method developed to collect midsemester feedback from students using structured small and large group conversations involving four conversations between students a learned colleague the authors refer to as the SGID consultant and the instructor. First student talk with each other in small groups about the learning happening in a course under the guidance of a consultant (SGID Conversation #1- Student & Students). Then the SGID consultant engages the students in a conversation about how the feedback provided impacts the learning in the course (SGID Conversation #2 - Students & Consultant). Then there is a conversation between the consultant and the instructor where they discuss how the feedback provided by the students can best inform the pedagogical approaches and strategies used by the instructor (SGID Conversation #3 - Consultant & Instructor). Finally the instructor closes the feedback loop with a conversation with their students about what they learned and how best to move forward (SGID Conversation #4 - Instructor & Students). These conversations during the middle of the semester change the way students think about the teaching and learning endeavor the way instructors perceive the learning challenges of their courses and the quality of the institutional academic culture. Most importantly the SGID equips the instructor with the knowledge to make midsemester course corrections that can profoundly impact the ways students navigate the course communicate with the instructor and realize the ways effective teaching can enhance learning. | Midcourse Correction for the College Classroom Putting Small Group Instructional Diagnosis to Work

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