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On Animation Set

On Animation Set

On Animation: The Director's Perspective is a collection of interviews with 21 animated feature-film directors. These extensive interviews were conducted over the past several years by filmmakers and educators (and peers to the directors interviewd) Tom Sito and Bill Kroyer. Interviews cover in-depth discussion of each director's career - focusing on their creative development their films lesson learned and advice. The interviews were edited and produced by Ron Diamond. Key Features Interviews with the greatest living legends in animation Offers profound insight into the creative process of these giants Grants advice and lessons for inspiring animators | On Animation Set

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International Organizations Perspectives on Global Governance

International Organizations Perspectives on Global Governance

Drawing on mainstream and critical theoretical approaches International Organizations offers a comprehensive examination of international organizations’ political and structural role in world politics. This text details the types and activities of international organizations and provides students with the conceptual tools needed to evaluate their effectiveness. Surveying key issue areas from international and human security to trade and the environment International Organizations looks at present and future possibilities for global governance from a broad range of perspectives. New to the Sixth Edition Focused on the seismic shifts caused by the rise of national populism and the effects on the more liberal institutions of global governance. Fully revised throughout with a feature on the EU in the face of Brexit the Greek financial crisis and global migration. Adds a new section on the Arab League expanded coverage of NGOs and updates on the Paris Climate Accords. Overhauls the chapter on International Security including expanded coverage of the UN’s present and historical role. Includes a new chapter on Regional Security covering NATO and ECOWAS. Provides new case studies on Syria Ukraine SDGs and the global migration crisis among several others. | International Organizations Perspectives on Global Governance

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Structural Genomics on Membrane Proteins

Structural Genomics on Membrane Proteins

While the genomic revolution has quickly led to the deposit of more than 30 000 structures in the protein data bank (PDB) less than one percent of those contributions represent membrane proteins despite the fact that membrane proteins constitute some 20 percent of all proteins. This discrepancy becomes significantly troublesome when it is coupled with the fact that 60 percent of current drugs are based on targeting this group of proteins a trend that does not seem likely to reverse. Structural Genomics on Membrane Proteins provides an excellent overview on novel research in bioinformatics and modeling on membranes as well as the latest technological developments being employed in expression purification and crystallography to obtain high-resolution structures on membrane proteins. This cutting-edge work also explains the difficulties facing researchers—both technical and ethical—that have slowed the process. Structural Genomics on Membrane Proteins provides researchers with an unprecedented look at the novel technologies that will ultimately allow them to conquer the last frontier in structural biology leading to accelerated breakthroughs in drug discovery.

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Electricians' On-Site Companion

Electricians' On-Site Companion

This book contains everything electricians need to know about working on site covering not only the health and safety aspects of site work but also the techniques and testing knowledge required from the modern-day electrician. Regulations issues are included alongside step-by-step instructions for each task after which testing information checklists and example forms are given so that site workers can ensure they have done everything required of them. | Electricians' On-Site Companion

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Routledge Handbook on Deviance

Routledge Handbook on Deviance

The Routledge Handbook on Deviance brings together original contributions on deviance with a focus on new emerging and hidden forms of deviant behavior. The editors have curated a comprehensive collection highlighting the relativity of deviance with chapters exploring the deviant behaviors related to sport recreation body modification chronic health conditions substance use religion and cults political extremism sexuality online interaction mental and emotional disorders elite societal status workplace issues and lifestyle. The selections review competing definitions and orientations and a wide range of theoretical premises while addressing methodological issues involved in the study of deviance. Each section begins with an introduction by the editors anchoring the topics in relevant theoretical and methodological contexts and identifying common themes as well as divergence. Providing state-of-the-art scholarship on deviance in modern society this handbook is an invaluable resource for researchers and students engaged in the study of deviance across a range of disciplines including criminology criminal justice sociology anthropology and interdisciplinary departments including justice studies social transformation and socio-legal studies.

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Foundations on Rock Engineering Practice Second Edition

Foundations on Rock Engineering Practice Second Edition

This second edition of the successful Foundations on Rock presents an up-to-date practical reference book describing current engineering practice in the investigation design and construction of foundations on rock. An extra chapter on Tension Foundations has been included. The methods set out are readily applicable to high rise buildings bridges dams and structures subject to uplift and turning loads. Foundations on Rock differs from the many texts and handbooks on soil foundations in that it focuses on the effect of geology on the stability and settlement of rock foundations. While the intact rock may be strong defects in the rock such as faults joints and cavities and the deterioration of the rock with time will have a significant effect on foundation performance. Methods of detecting such defects are described and their implications for foundation design and treatment are elaborated. | Foundations on Rock Engineering Practice Second Edition

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New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

The book highlights ‘new perspectives’ on volunteerism in sport covering frameworks methods context and variables on several levels from community sport clubs to international events. In analysing the processes of control within voluntary sport clubs a new theoretical framework – critical realism (CR) – challenges how we think about theory and how scientific inquiry should proceed. Further themes raised are: Should sports clubs be viewed as a crossing between a traditional volunteer culture dominated by collective solidarity and a modern volunteer culture focused on the individual benefits? Are former athletes a new group of possible volunteers? Can personal narratives of experiences of being a volunteer in a big international event provide us with new insight that has not previously been considered? Identity is suggested as a motive for understanding volunteers at sporting events. Two new theoretical models are presented one on the development of volunteer commitment and the other on a framework that incorporates both individual- and institutional-level variables. All chapters have recommendations for future research. The testing of these theories and influencing factors will provide new directions in the research of sport volunteerism. This book was originally published as a special issue of European Sport Management Quarterly. | New Perspectives on Sport Volunteerism

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Reflections on Inequality

Reflections on Inequality

Originally published in 1975 this anthology of essays focusses on the historical dimension of class inequality which has long concerned both sociologists and social philosophers but has often been neglected in literature. Although Marx is the first name to come to mind when social inequality and class struggles are mentioned most of the authors included here precede him. Each analyses and discusses the problems of class conflict as they understood them in the light of their own times. Taken together these writers treat stratification as essentially a pecking order where position is determined by relative power – a notion which subsumes rather than contradicts the economic interpretation of social inequality because wealth is a form of power. The relation between the views of these authors and the well-known theory of Marx is discussed in the Introduction. | Reflections on Inequality

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Advances on Models Characterizations and Applications

Advances on Models Characterizations and Applications

Statistical distributions are one of the most important applied mathematical tools across a wide spectrum of disciplines including engineering biological sciences and health and social sciences. Since they are used to model observed data and ultimately to develop inferential procedures understanding the properties of statistical distributions is critical to developing optimal inferential methods and validating the resulting model assumptions. Advances on Models Characterizations and Applications offers up-to-date information on many recent developments in the field. Comprising fourteen self-contained chapters contributed by internationally renowned experts this book delineates recent developments on characterizations and other important properties of several distributions inferential issues related to these models and several applications of the models to real-world problems. Each chapter is rich with references for further study or more in-depth information on each topic and reflects work presented at the International Conference on Advances on Characterizations Models and Applications held in Antalya Turkey in December 2001. Advances on Models Characterizations and Applications provides an updated account of important properties of statistical distributions that reflects their deep importance and broad application and is a welcome addition to the literature.

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Elliptic Theory on Singular Manifolds

Elliptic Theory on Singular Manifolds

The analysis and topology of elliptic operators on manifolds with singularities are much more complicated than in the smooth case and require completely new mathematical notions and theories. While there has recently been much progress in the field many of these results have remained scattered in journals and preprints. Starting from an elementary level and finishing with the most recent results this book gives a systematic exposition of both analytical and topological aspects of elliptic theory on manifolds with singularities. The presentation includes a review of the main techniques of the theory of elliptic equations offers a comparative analysis of various approaches to differential equations on manifolds with singularities and devotes considerable attention to applications of the theory. These include Sobolev problems theorems of Atiyah-Bott-Lefschetz type and proofs of index formulas for elliptic operators and problems on manifolds with singularities including the authors' new solution to the index problem for manifolds with nonisolated singularities. A glossary numerous illustrations and many examples help readers master the subject. Clear exposition up-to-date coverage and accessibility-even at the advanced undergraduate level-lay the groundwork for continuing studies and further advances in the field. | Elliptic Theory on Singular Manifolds

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Applied Research on Polymer Composites

Applied Research on Polymer Composites

This new volume presents leading-edge research in the rapidly changing and evolving field of polymer science as well as on chemical processing. The topics in the book reflect the diversity of research advances in the production and application of modern polymeric materials and related areas focusing on the preparation characterization and applications of polymers. Also covered are various manufacturing techniques. The book helps to fill the gap between theory and practice in industry. The book introduces current state-of-the-art technology in modern materials with an emphasis on the rapidly growing technologies. It takes a unique approach by presenting specific materials and then progresses into a discussion of the ways in which these materials and processes are integrated into today's functioning manufacturing industry. Readers will also discover how material properties relate to the process variables in a given process as well as how to perform quantitative engineering analysis of manufacturing processes. | Applied Research on Polymer Composites

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Essays on African Population

Essays on African Population

Originally published in 1961 this book comprises of 14 studies by scholars and officials with first-hand experience of Africa and deals with the nature and organization of population censuses and with the many uses to which their results may be put. Written at a time of political transition on the African continent it was vitally important that the collection and interpretation of statistics dealing with distribution density migration and occupation in Africa continued. This volume shows how demographers sociologists anthropologists and geographers were using the research to be followed in the interpretation of the numerous censuses being conducted in the early 1960s. | Essays on African Population

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On Shell Structure

On Shell Structure

This volume collects together core papers by Richard K. Larson developing what has since come to be known as the VP Shell or Split VP analysis of sentential structure. The volume includes five previously published papers together with two major unpublished works from the same period: Light Predicate Raising (1989) which explores the interesting consequences of a leftward raising analysis of NP Shift phenomena and The Projection of DP (and DegP) (1991) which extends the shell approach to the projection of nominal and adjectival structure showing how projection can be handled in a uniform way. In addition to published unpublished and limited distribution work the volume includes extensive new introductory material. The general introduction traces the conceptual roots of VP Shells and its problems in the face of subsequent developments in theory and offers an updated form compatible with modern Minimalist syntactic analysis. The section introductions to the material on datives complex predicates and nominals show how the updated form of shell theory applies in the empirical domains where it was originally developed. | On Shell Structure

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Critics on George Eliot

Critics on George Eliot

First published in 1973 Critics on George Eliot brings together a selection of the best critical essays and discussions on the novels of George Eliot including many that are not easily available outside well established and comprehensive libraries. The selection covers the whole range of George Eliot’s work and by setting different critical points of view side by side helps the student to find a position of her own. The intention is not to limit the student’s critical reading to one small volume but to stimulate to explore the critics more widely for herself and to read the novels again with greater understanding and pleasure. This is a must read for students of English literature.

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Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension

Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension

This esteemed reference work and professional resource now substantially revised integrates classic and cutting-edge research on how children and adolescents make meaning from text. The comprehension tasks and challenges facing students at different grade levels are explored with attention to multiple text types and reading purposes. Preeminent researchers offer a range of perspectives-cognitive neuroscientific sociocultural pedagogical and technological-on key aspects of comprehension. Effective approaches to assessment instruction and intervention are reviewed. The volume also addresses issues in teaching specific populations including struggling readers and English language learners. New to This Edition *A decade's worth of significant research advances are reflected in 10 entirely new chapters. *Revised throughout to incorporate new studies and timely topics: the expanding role of technology changing school populations the Common Core standards international research and more. *Chapters on graphic scientific and multiple digital texts. *Chapters on fluency professional learning and literacy coaching. | Handbook of Research on Reading Comprehension

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Draw on Your Emotions

Draw on Your Emotions

Draw on Your Emotions is a bestselling resource to help people of all ages express communicate and deal more effectively with their emotions through drawing. Built around five key themes each section contains a simple picture exercise with clear objectives instructions and suggestions for development. The picture activities have been carefully designed to help ease the process of both talking about feelings and exploring life choices by trying out alternatives safely on paper. This will help to create clarity and new perspectives as a step towards positive action. Offering a broad range of exercises which can be adapted for any ability or age from middle childhood onwards this unique book explores a range of emotions surrounding a person¹s important life experiences key memories relationships best times worst times and who they are as a person. This is an essential resource for therapists educators counsellors and anyone who engages other people in conversations that matter about their relationship to self others and life in general. This revised and updated second edition also contains a new section on how to use the superbly emotive The Emotion Cards (9781138070981) to facilitate deeper therapeutic conversations.

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Portfolio Management Delivering on Strategy

Portfolio Management Delivering on Strategy

Portfolio management is becoming the ‘must have’ for organizations to prosper and survive in this decade and beyond. No longer can the organizational focus be one of following best and repeatable practices as resource limitations mean only those programs projects and operational work that add business value can and should be pursued. Executives are focusing on strategic ability and managing complexity which can only be done through a disciplined portfolio process in ensuring the best mix of programs projects and operational work is under way. In turn the portfolio is constantly in flux as difficult decisions are made if a project for example is no longer contributing to business value and providing benefits and should be terminated to reallocate resources to one of higher priority. Commitment to this difficult approach is necessary at all levels and communication is required so everyone knows how their work contributes to the organization’s strategic goals and objectives. Portfolio Management: Delivering on Strategy Second Edition focuses on the benefits of portfolio management to the organization. Its goal is to provide senior executives a view on how portfolio management can deliver organizational strategy. The emphasis is on the specific aspects within the portfolio management discipline and how each aspect should be managed from a business perspective and not necessarily from a portfolio management perspective. Highlights of the book include: Agile portfolio management Delivering organizational value Portfolio management and uncertainty Portfolio governance Marketing a portfolio Portfolio management success Starting with a review of the project portfolio concept and its development this book is a reference for executives and practitioners in the field as well as a students and researchers studying portfolio management. | Portfolio Management Delivering on Strategy

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Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

Lectures on Perception: An Ecological Perspective addresses the generic principles by which each and every kind of life form—from single celled organisms (e. g. difflugia) to multi-celled organisms (e. g. primates)—perceives the circumstances of their living so that they can behave adaptively. It focuses on the fundamental ability that relates each and every organism to its surroundings namely the ability to perceive things in the sense of how to get about among them and what to do or not to do with them. The book’s core thesis breaks from the conventional interpretation of perception as a form of abduction based on innate hypotheses and acquired knowledge and from the historical scientific focus on the perceptual abilities of animals most especially those abilities ascribed to humankind. Specifically it advances the thesis of perception as a matter of laws and principles at nature’s ecological scale and gives equal theoretical consideration to the perceptual achievements of all of the classically defined ‘kingdoms’ of organisms—Archaea Bacteria Protoctista Fungi Plantae and Animalia. | Lectures on Perception An Ecological Perspective

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Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

This title was first published in 2002: The success of any investment strategy in urban infrastructures is dependent on how people as members of households companies or institutions will use these infrastructures in their daily lives and how actors take decisions on their investment strategies. Insights into these behaviours can help public and private actors to cope with diversity complexity and uncertainty in a dynamic urban environment. This book elaborates both theoretically and empirically the functional and governance/management perspective of urban infrastructures. It comprises theoretical contributions related to accessibility land-use modelling and urban governance while case studies from Antwerp Geneva Milan Oslo Turin and Zurich effectively analyze the problems associated with mobility infrastructure finance planning transformation and governance. It will be of considerable value to anyone with an interest in urban performance. | Governing Cities on the Move Functional and Management Perspectives on Transformations of European Urban Infrastructures

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Psychological Perspectives On Women's Health

Psychological Perspectives On Women's Health

Significant scientific advances have been made in understanding psychological aspects of women's health and knowledge gained will be of relevance not only to women's health but to the promotion of health and illness prevention and treatment for all individuals. The current cutting-edge research detailed in this volume is intended to stimulate new thinking and research in women's health from biopsychosocial perspectives. Drawing on research from internationally respected experts topics covered include ageing stress heart disease cancer drugs weight regulation and body image pain menstruation sexuality and infertility and AIDS. | Psychological Perspectives On Women's Health

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The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

This book first published in 1954 collects together the papers presented to the Sixth International Congress on Accounting. They focus on the problems of the post-war changes in the value of money and how to deal with this in accounting statements; taxation and the role of accountants in Government; raising and retaining capital for development; and the role of the professional accountant in the commercial field. | The Sixth International Congress on Accounting 1952

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Workflow Scheduling on Computing Systems

Workflow Scheduling on Computing Systems

This book will serve as a guide in understanding workflow scheduling techniques on computing systems such as Cluster Supercomputers Grid computing Cloud computing Edge computing Fog computing and the practical realization of such methods. It offers a whole new perspective and holistic approach in understanding computing systems’ workflow scheduling. Expressing and exposing approaches for various process-centric cloud-based applications give a full coverage of most systems’ energy consumption reliability resource utilization cost and application stochastic computation. By combining theory with application and connecting mathematical concepts and models with their resource management targets this book will be equally accessible to readers with both Computer Science and Engineering backgrounds. It will be of great interest to students and professionals alike in the field of computing system design management and application. This book will also be beneficial to the general audience and technology enthusiasts who want to expand their knowledge on computer structure. | Workflow Scheduling on Computing Systems

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Feynman Lectures on Computation Anniversary Edition

Feynman Lectures on Computation Anniversary Edition

The last lecture course that Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman gave to students at Caltech from 1983 to 1986 was not on physics but on computer science. The first edition of the Feynman Lectures on Computation published in 1996 provided an overview of standard and not-so-standard topics in computer science given in Feynman’s inimitable style. Although now over 20 years old most of the material is still relevant and interesting and Feynman’s unique philosophy of learning and discovery shines through. For this new edition Tony Hey has updated the lectures with an invited chapter from Professor John Preskill on “Quantum Computing 40 Years Later”. This contribution captures the progress made toward building a quantum computer since Feynman’s original suggestions in 1981. The last 25 years have also seen the “Moore’s law” roadmap for the IT industry coming to an end. To reflect this transition John Shalf Senior Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has contributed a chapter on “The Future of Computing beyond Moore’s Law”. The final update for this edition is an attempt to capture Feynman’s interest in artificial intelligence and artificial neural networks. Eric Mjolsness now a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California Irvine was a Teaching Assistant for Feynman’s original lecture course and his research interests are now the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning for multi-scale science. He has contributed a chapter called “Feynman on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning” that captures the early discussions with Feynman and also looks toward future developments. This exciting and important work provides key reading for students and scholars in the fields of computer science and computational physics. | Feynman Lectures on Computation Anniversary Edition

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Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

Monetary policy is still one of the most contested areas of modern economics and since the original publication of Policy Makers on Policy much has changed. This new edition collects contributions from leading policy makers and practitioners to reflect on the aims and objectives of monetary policy and on what it can achieve combining the old chapters from Gordon Brown Tony Blair Kenneth Clarke Geoffrey Howe Nigel Lawson and others with new perspectives from Mervyn King Jean-Claude Trichet Ernst Welteke Otmar Issing and Alastair Darling. A new far-reaching introduction from the editors Forrest Capie and Geoffrey Wood puts these important contributions to the discussion of economic policy in the new context. They look at what lessons can be learnt from the earlier discussions what anticipations of present difficulties can be found in them and what in other words the comparatively recent past teaches us about how to deal with the turbulent present. The second edition of Policy Makers on Policy brings together otherwise inaccessible commentaries and reflections on policy by those involved in making it along with a commentary on and context for their remarks. Thus the book will be of great interest and use to students of economics and politics and indeed anyone with an interest in current economic developments and their roots in the past. | Policy Makers on Policy The Mais Lectures

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Multinary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductors

Multinary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductors

A companion volume to Ternary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductor Compounds (CRC Press 2013) and Quaternary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductor Compounds (CRC Press 2014) Multinary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductors provides up-to-date experimental and theoretical information on phase relations based on II-VI semiconductor systems with five or more components. Featuring detailed figures and extensive references this book:Delivers a critical evaluation of many industrially important systems presented in the form of two-dimensional sections for the condensed phasesSummarizes the data from the last 15–20 years of literature on the study of organometallic compounds which include zinc cadmium or mercury and sulfur selenium or telluriumClassifies all materials according to the periodic table groups of their constituent atoms that is possible combinations of Zn Cd and Hg with chalcogens S Se and Te and additional components in the order of their group numberSpecifies the diagram type possible phase transformations and physical–chemical interaction of the components methods of equilibrium investigation thermodynamic characteristics and methods for sample preparation in each multinary database descriptionMultinary Alloys Based on II-VI Semiconductors contains valuable material useful for obtaining nanoscale II-VI semiconductors and for preparing thin films of these semiconductor materials as well as for exploring the biological and medicinal applications of organometallic compounds and for identifying new compounds with necessary properties.

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