Laser Plasma Interactions 5 Inertial Confinement Fusion: Proceedings of the Forty Fifth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics St This volume provides a broad overview in the increasingly important field of laser-plasma interactions. With the growth of research into fusion much international effort is being devoted to the problems of inertial confinement. This collection of lectures provides the novice researcher with the context in which current research papers can be understood. Laser Plasma Interactions 5 is one of the first publications to include recently declassified results from the United States inertial confinement fusion research program and as such is an indispensable reference for those wishing to find out about this previously inaccessible research. Presented by 14 speakers of international repute the emphasis throughout the volume is on inertial confinement fusion. Topics also covered include plasma radiation and transport processes diagnostic measurements dense plasmas high power lasers and X-ray lasers. | Laser Plasma Interactions 5 Inertial Confinement Fusion: Proceedings of the Forty Fifth Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics St GBP 190.00 1
Managerial Finance Managerial Finance provides a clear and readable explanation of the most important topics managers should understand about business finance. These include resource management investment and decision making as well as the practical use of financial rations and performance indicators. Real examples and case studies are used throughout to illustrate points in a practical context. The book is based upon the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs at Levels 4 & 5 and is also particularly suitable for managers on Certificate and Diploma in Management programmes including those accredited by the IM and Edexcel (formerly BTEC). Managerial Finance is part of the highly successful series of textbooks for managers which cover the knowledge and understanding required as part of any competency based management programme. The books cover the three main levels of management: supervisory/first-line management (NVQ level 3) middle management (Certificate/NVQ level 4) and senior management (Diploma/NVQ level 5). Alan Parkinson is the Hill Samuel Senior Lecturer in Accounting & Finance at the Open Business School. He was previously responsible as Director of the Open University MBA Programme for launching the highly successful MBA Course. GBP 180.00 1
Theoretical Statistics A text that stresses the general concepts of the theory of statistics Theoretical Statistics provides a systematic statement of the theory of statistics emphasizing general concepts rather than mathematical rigor. Chapters 1 through 3 provide an overview of statistics and discuss some of the basic philosophical ideas and problems behind statistical procedures. Chapters 4 and 5 cover hypothesis testing with simple and null hypotheses respectively. Subsequent chapters discuss non-parametrics interval estimation point estimation asymptotics Bayesian procedure and deviation theory. Student familiarity with standard statistical techniques is assumed. GBP 180.00 1
Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavi Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science contains papers presented at the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science 2016 (ICIBSoS 2016) held 5-6 November 2016 in Jogjakarta Indonesia. The 24 papers cover every discipline in all fields of social science discussing many current trends and issues 21st century society is facing especially in Southeast Asia. The topics include literature family culture studies behavior studies psychology and human development religion and values social issues such as urban poverty and juvenile crisis driving behavior well-being of women career women career performance happiness social adjustment quality of life among patients job stress and religious coping etc. The issues are discussed using scientific quantitative or qualitative methods from different academic viewpoints. | Trends and Issues in Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Science Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavi GBP 205.00 1
Spaces for the Future A Companion to Philosophy of Technology Focused on mapping out contemporary and future domains in philosophy of technology this volume serves as an excellent forward-looking resource in the field and in cognate areas of study. The 32 chapters all of them appearing in print here for the first time were written by both established scholars and fresh voices. They cover topics ranging from data discrimination and engineering design to art and technology space junk and beyond. Spaces for the Future: A Companion to Philosophy of Technology is structured in six parts: (1) Ethical Space and Experience; (2) Political Space and Agency; (3) Virtual Space and Property; (4) Personal Space and Design; (5) Inner Space and Environment; and (6) Outer Space and Imagination. The organization maps out current and emerging spaces of activity in the field and anticipates the big issues that we soon will face. | Spaces for the Future A Companion to Philosophy of Technology GBP 205.00 1
Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect 2-Volume Set Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (Roc Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect contains 153 scientific and technical papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics and Applications (RocDyn-4 Xuzhou China 17-19 August 2022). The two-volume set has 7 sections. Volume 1 includes the first four sections with 6 keynotes and 5 young scholar plenary session papers and contributions on analysis and theoretical development and experimental testing and techniques. Volume 2 contains the remaining three sections with 74 papers on numerical modelling and methods seismic and earthquake engineering and rock excavation and engineering. Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect will serve as a reference on developments in rock dynamics scientific research and on rock dynamics engineering applications. The previous volumes in this series (RocDyn-1 RocDyn-2 and RocDyn-3) are also available via CRC Press. | Rock Dynamics: Progress and Prospect 2-Volume Set Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Rock Dynamics And Applications (Roc GBP 280.00 1
The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five The Ring and the Book Books 1-6 The Ring and the Book published serially in 1868–9 is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman Guido Franceschini for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browning’s discovery of the ‘old yellow book’ a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial on a second-hand market stall in Florence sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty adultery and greed which grew through four years of arduous labour into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete recognisably human beings. Fusing the technique of the dramatic monologue the form he had made his own with the grandeur of classical epic and the vivid realism of the modern novel Browning created a unique hybrid form that allowed him not only to bring to life an entire historical period but also to reflect on the process of artistic creation itself – the forging of the golden ‘ring’ of the poem from the ‘pure crude fact’ of its historical original. This edition comprising volumes 5 and 6 in the acclaimed Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Browning’s poems does full justice to the scope and depth of Browning’s achievement. The headnote in volume 5 gives an authoritative account of the poem’s composition publication sources and reception making use of hitherto unpublished letters and textual material. In addition to giving readers help where needed with historical and linguistic comprehension the notes track Browning’s formidable range of allusion from the most erudite to the most vulgar. The appendices in volume 6 present a selection from the original sources a list of variants from extant proofs and key passages from Browning’s fascinating and revealing correspondence with one of the earliest readers of the poem Julia Wedgwood. The aim is to enable readers not just to understand the poem as an object of study but to take pleasure in its abounding intellectual and emotional energies. | The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five The Ring and the Book Books 1-6 GBP 205.00 1
Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Essential and Advanced Techniques After Effects CS5. 5 Update: /tv. adobe. com/show/after-effects-cs55-new-creative-techniques/Chris and Trish Meyer have created a series of videos demonstrating how to use their favorite new and enhanced features in After Effects CS5. 5. Virtually all of these videos use exercise files from Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects (5th Edition for CS5) as their starting point extending the usefulness of this book for its owners. These videos may be viewed for free on AdobeTV. * 5th Edition of best-selling After Effects book by renowned authors Trish and Chris Meyer covers the important updates in After Effects CS4 and CS5* Covers both essential and advanced techniques from basic layer manipulation and animation through keying motion tracking and color management* The downloadable resources are packed with project files for version CS5 source materials and nearly 200 pages of bonus chaptersTrish and Chris Meyer share over 17 years of hard-earned real-world film and video production experience inside this critically acclaimed text. More than a step-by-step review of the features in AE readers will learn how the program thinks so that they can realize their own visions more quickly and efficiently. This full-color book is packed with tips gotchas and sage advice that will help users thrive no matter what projects they might encounter. Creating Motion Graphics 5th Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the new features introduced in both After Effects CS4 and CS5. New chapters cover the revolutionary new Roto Brush feature as well as mocha and mocha shape. The 3D section has been expanded to include working with 3D effects such as Digieffects FreeForm plus workflows including Adobe Repoussé Vanishing Point Exchange and 3D model import using Adobe Photoshop Extended. The print version is also accompanied by downloadable resources that contain project files and source materials for all the techniques demonstrated in the book as well as nearly 200 pages of bonus chapters on subjects such as expressions scripting and effects. Subjects include: Animation Techniques; Layer Management; Modes Masks and Mattes; Mastering 3D Space; Text Animation; Effects & Presets; Painting and Rotoscoping; Parenting Nesting and Collapsing; Color Management and Video Essentials; Motion Tracking and Keying; Working with Audio; Integrating with 3D Applications; Puppet Tools; Expressions; Exporting and Rendering; and much more. | Creating Motion Graphics with After Effects Essential and Advanced Techniques GBP 180.00 1
Roll Shooting TV News Shooting TV News:Views from Behind the Lens Roll! Shells fly overhead as night-scopes capture deadly fire fights with an eerie green hue a category 5 hurricane devastates the Big Easy hidden cameras enter a Cambodian village of brothels and a veteran journalist interviews himself throughout his own brain surgery. Part non-fiction drama part trade publication part text book all woven together giving the reader a look through the viewfinders of the very best television photojournalists. As 19 experts weigh in with their candid personal stories and photographic tips it's as if you're over their shoulders following their intuitions and hearing their thoughts as they shoot. The trade term for what they do is called ENG (Electronic News Gathering) and whether they're called Cameramen Backpack Journalists Television Photographers or any other moniker de jour they're all paid to bring the world's events into living rooms around the world. These are the men and women who capture the bleeding edge of history - as it happens. Written in a smooth unique interview style this book is a necessary read for photojournalists videographers and tv photojournalists. | Roll Shooting TV News Shooting TV News:Views from Behind the Lens GBP 180.00 1
The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment This handbook explores the critically important topic of embodied carbon providing advanced insights that focus on measuring and reducing embodied carbon from across the built environment including buildings urban areas and cities and construction materials and components. Split into five distinct sections international experts researchers and professionals present the recent developments in the field of embodied carbon from various perspectives and at different scales of material building and city. Following an introduction to the embodied carbon question the chapters in Section 1 then cover the key debates around issues such as the politics of embodied carbon links between embodied carbon and thermal mass and the misuse of carbon offsets. Section 2 reviews the embodied carbon policies in a selected number of countries. Sections 3 4 and 5 approach the topic of embodied carbon from urban- building- and material-scale perspectives respectively and use case studies to demonstrate estimation techniques and present opportunities and challenges in embodied carbon mitigation. This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers in Architecture Urban Planning Engineering and Construction disciplines. Presenting case studies of embodied carbon assessment this book will also help practicing architects engineers and urban planners understand embodied carbon estimation techniques and different mitigation strategies. | The Routledge Handbook of Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment GBP 205.00 1
The Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organization This Handbook offers state of the art scholarship on the perspective known as the Communicative Constitution of Organization (CCO). Offering a unique outlook on how communication accounts for the emergence change and continuity of organizations and organizing practices this Handbook systematically exposes the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of CCO displays its empirical diversity and articulates its future trajectory. Placing communication firmly at the centre of the organizational equation an international team of expert authors covers: The key theoretical inspirations and the main themes of the field The debates that animate the CCO community CCO’s methodological approaches How CCO handles classic management themes Practical applications Offering a central statement of CCO’s contributions to the fields of organization studies communication and management this Handbook will be of interest to organization studies and communication scholars faculty and graduate and advanced undergraduate students as well as anyone associated with CCO theorizing seeking a comprehensive overview of the theoretical methodological and practical tenets of this growing area. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license https://www. taylorfrancis. com/chapters/oa-edit/10. 4324/9781003224914-7/communicative-constitution-worlda-luhmannian-view-communication-organizations-society-michael-grothe-hammer?context=ubx&refId=6fe411e1-fbed-41c9-8d95-03ca74450c1d | The Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organization GBP 205.00 1
Parenteral Medications Fourth Edition Parenteral Medications is an authoritative comprehensive reference work on the formulation and manufacturing of parenteral dosage forms effectively balancing theoretical considerations with practical aspects of their development. Previously published as a three-volume set all volumes have been combined into one comprehensive publication that addresses the plethora of changes in the science and considerable advances in the technology associated with these products and routes of administration. Key Features: Provides a comprehensive reference work on the formulation and manufacturing of parenteral dosage forms Addresses changes in the science and advances in the technology associated with parenteral medications and routes of administration Includes 13 new chapters and updated chapters throughout Contains the contributors of leading researchers in the field of parenteral medications Uses full color detailed illustrations enhancing the learning process The fourth edition not only reflects enhanced content in all the chapters but also highlights the rapidly advancing formulation processing manufacturing parenteral technology including advanced delivery and cell therapies. The book is divided into seven sectionss: Section 1 - Parenteral Drug Administration and Delivery Devices; Section 2 - Formulation Design and Development; Section 3 - Specialized Drug Delivery Systems; Section 4 - Primary Packaging and Container Closure Integrity; Section 5 - Facility Design and Environmental Control; Section 6 - Sterilization and Pharmaceutical Processing; Section 7 - Quality Testing and Regulatory Requirements | Parenteral Medications Fourth Edition GBP 240.00 1
The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research The Routledge International Handbook of Practice-Based Research presents a cohesive framework with which to conduct practice-based research or to support manage and supervise practice-based researchers. It has been written with an inclusive approach with the intention of presenting deep and meaningful knowledge for the benefit of all readers. This handbook has been designed to present specific detail of practice-based research by outlining its shared traits with all forms of research and to highlight its core distinguishing features into a cohesive principled and methodical approach. To this end the handbook is presented in five sections: 1. Practice-Based Research 2. Knowledge 3. Method 4. The Practice-Based PhD and 5. Practitioner Voices. Each section begins with a leading chapter that outlines each of the distinct areas as they relate to practice-based research. This is followed by a series of contributing chapters that discuss pertinent themes in more detail. Practitioners from a broad range of backgrounds will find these chapters helpful: research students or final year graduates will be introduced to the principled nature of practice-based research PhD researchers embarking on a research project or are in the flow of research will find this guidance supportive professionals such as designers makers engineers artists and creative technologists wishing to strengthen their research into their practice will be guided through the principled and focused nature of practice-based research supervisors managers and policy makers will benefit from the potential and rigour of practice-based researchers in the pursuit of new knowledge. GBP 230.00 1
Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics Modelling and Design of Structural Systems Proceedings of The Eighth International Con Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics Modelling and Design of Structural Systems comprises 330 papers that were presented at the Eighth International Conference on Structural Engineering Mechanics and Computation (SEMC 2022 Cape Town South Africa 5-7 September 2022). The topics featured may be clustered into six broad categories that span the themes of mechanics modelling and engineering design: (i) mechanics of materials (elasticity plasticity porous media fracture fatigue damage delamination viscosity creep shrinkage etc); (ii) mechanics of structures (dynamics vibration seismic response soil-structure interaction fluid-structure interaction response to blast and impact response to fire structural stability buckling collapse behaviour); (iii) numerical modelling and experimental testing (numerical methods simulation techniques multi-scale modelling computational modelling laboratory testing field testing experimental measurements); (iv) design in traditional engineering materials (steel concrete steel-concrete composite aluminium masonry timber); (v) innovative concepts sustainable engineering and special structures (nanostructures adaptive structures smart structures composite structures glass structures bio-inspired structures shells membranes space structures lightweight structures etc); (vi) the engineering process and life-cycle considerations (conceptualisation planning analysis design optimization construction assembly manufacture maintenance monitoring assessment repair strengthening retrofitting decommissioning). Two versions of the papers are available: full papers of length 6 pages are included in an e-book while short papers of length 2 pages intended to be concise but self-contained summaries of the full papers are in this printed book. This work will be of interest to civil structural mechanical marine and aerospace engineers as well as planners and architects. | Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics Modelling and Design of Structural Systems Proceedings of The Eighth International Con GBP 230.00 1
Toxicologic Pathology Nonclinical Safety Assessment Second Edition Following the success of the first edition this book is designed to provide practical and timely information for toxicologic pathologists working in pharmaceutical drug discovery and development. The majority of the book (Organ Systems) will provide detailed descriptions of histopathological lesions observed in drug development. In addition it will provide information to assist the pathologist in making determinations of the origin of lesions as well as its relevance to human risk. Toxicologic Pathology: Nonclinical Safety Assessment Second Edition includes 2 new concept chapters. The first of the new chapters address approaches for the evaluation of unique therapeutic modalities such as cell therapies gene therapies and gene expression knockdown therapies. While these still represent new developing therapeutic approaches there has been significant experience with the therapeutic modalities in the last 5 years. The second new chapter addresses the nonclinical safety assessment of medical devices a topic of increasing importance that was not addressed in a unique chapter in the first edition. The other concept chapters have been updated and cover important topics including the overview of drug development; principles of nonclinical safety assessment; an introduction to toxicologic pathology; techniques used in toxicologic pathology clinical pathology toxicokinetics and drug development toxicogenomics; and spontaneous lesions. The 13 organ system chapters provide the specifics related to pathologic characteristics differential diagnosis and interpretation of toxic responses in each organ system. These chapters are specifically important for the bench pathologist but also for the toxicologist who interacts with pathologists and function as study toxicologists and project team representatives in the drug development arena. | Toxicologic Pathology Nonclinical Safety Assessment Second Edition GBP 270.00 1
Handbook of Egg Science and Technology Eggs are one of the most popular foods worldwide due to their great taste and versatility economical value and high nutritional content. The egg plays an important role in the human diet both for the nutritional value of its many components (e. g. proteins vitamins minerals choline specific long chain fatty acids) as well for its wide range of functional characteristics including foaming gelling and emulsifying properties. The egg sector is a vibrant field with many new developments in terms of production processing and commercialization as well as research. Since the beginning of the 21st century the global production of eggs has grown by 69. 5% farm production systems have evolved to improve the welfare of laying hens many eggshell and egg products have been developed to address the changing demands of consumers and our knowledge of the composition of the egg has been boosted by the latest gene-based technologies. Information on the science and technology of egg and egg processing is essential to governments academia and industry. The Handbook of Egg Science and Technology aims to be the first book providing a complete source of information about egg science and technology covering topics such as world egg production marketing of eggs chemistry of egg components functional properties of egg components egg processing egg product development eggshell quality grading egg microbiology egg pasteurization egg nutrition and bioactive components egg biotechnology and sustainability of egg production. Features Includes the most current and comprehensive scientific and technical information about egg science and technology Presents an ideal guide for professionals in related food industries egg business consultants regulatory agencies and research groups Answers the need for a comprehensive textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses in food science animal science and poultry departments A global panel of experts in the field of egg science was gathered with the aim to provide the most updated information and development on many topics likely to interest readers ranging from academia and food science students to managers working in the food production and egg processing sectors. This handbook is an excellent resource for the food and poultry industry R&D sectors as well as experts in the field of food and nutrition. GBP 210.00 1