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Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

The present monograph primarily a collection of annotated translations of these recent studies is neither a new appraisal of Li Chih drawing on these materials nor a critical evaluation of the current Chinese scholarship on his life and thought. In a modest way it is an attempt to make these new sources of information more readily accessible to the sinological community to faciliate research. The divisions of this study are: two sections consisting of translations of new materials on Li Chih with an analytical introduction on the significance of these discoveries and two appendices of bibliographical accounts of primary and secondary sources down to recent times. | Revival: Li Chih 1527-1602 in Contemporary Chinese Historiography (1980) New light on his life and works

GBP 39.99
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The Poetry and Career of Li Po 701-762

The Poetry and Career of Li Po 701-762

When this was originally published in 1950 this was the fullest biography of one of China’s greatest poets that had ever appeared in any language. It tells the story of the poet’s life against the background of contemporary history and in doing so gives a brilliant picture of Chinese life in the eighth century A. D. – during a period of the Tang Dynasty fertile in great poets such as Wang Wei Tu Fu and Mêng Haojan. | The Poetry and Career of Li Po 701-762

GBP 27.99
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Zehou Li and the Aesthetics of Educational Maturity A Transcultural Reading

Zehou Li and the Aesthetics of Educational Maturity A Transcultural Reading

This book articulates a unique conception of aesthetic educational philosophy and its relation to the Chinese world drawing on the works of the prominent contemporary Chinese philosopher Zehou Li. The book outlines an aesthetics approach to educational maturity that recognises both the contributions of Western Enlightenment ideals and Chinese traditions paving the way for an inclusive and post-comparative philosophy. It offers a nuanced discussion of Zehou Li’s thought and how his work can be framed at the border between traditional and modern China between China and the West. The book combines a discussion of aesthetics with educational theory and considers their combined implications for educational practice (in particular in the first-person perspectives of students parents and teachers) in both local and global contexts. Providing a way of doing philosophy of education that carefully considers interactions and overlaps between Western and Chinese civilisation the book will be of great interest to researchers academics and postgraduate students in the fields of educational philosophy educational theory and Chinese and cross-cultural philosophy. | Zehou Li and the Aesthetics of Educational Maturity A Transcultural Reading

GBP 130.00
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Aluminum-Lithium Alloys Process Metallurgy Physical Metallurgy and Welding

Aluminum-Lithium Alloys Process Metallurgy Physical Metallurgy and Welding

Aluminum–Lithium Alloys: Process Metallurgy Physical Metallurgy and Welding provides theoretical foundations of the technological processes for melting casting forming heat treatment and welding of Al–Li alloys. It contains a critical survey of the research in the field and presents data on commercial Al–Li alloys their phase composition microstructure and heat treatment of the ingots sheets forgings and welds of Al–Li alloys. It details oxidation kinetics protective alloying hydrogen in Al–Li alloys and crack susceptibility. It also discusses grain structure and solidification as well as structural and mechanical properties. The book is illustrated with examples of Al–Li alloy applications in aircraft structures. Based on the vast experience of the coauthors the book presents recommendations on solving practical problems involved with melting and casting ingots welding of Al–Li alloys and producing massive stampings for welded products. Provides comprehensive coverage of Al–Li alloys not available in any single source. Presents research that is at the basis of the production technology for of ingots and products made of Al–Li alloys. Combines basic science with applied research including upscaling and industrial implementation. Covers welding of Al–Li alloys in detail. Discusses gas and alkali-earth impurities in Al–Li alloys. Describes technological recommendations on casting and deformation of Al–Li alloys. | Aluminum-Lithium Alloys Process Metallurgy Physical Metallurgy and Welding

GBP 94.99
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Convergence of IoT Blockchain and Computational Intelligence in Smart Cities

Convergence of IoT Blockchain and Computational Intelligence in Smart Cities

This edited book presents an insight for modelling procuring and building the smart city plan using the Internet of Things (IoT) and a security framework using blockchain technology. The applications of Li-Fi and 5G in smart cities are included along with their implementation challenges and advantages. This book focuses on the use of IoT and blockchain in the day-to-day transparent and recorded activities of citizens of smart cities like smart citizen management. The future for upgrading the system as per technological advancements is also discussed. This book: integrates IoT blockchain Li-Fi and 5G in smart city implementation covers smart supply chain management using IoT outlines the state-of-the-art and sustainable implementation of smart cities and practical challenges includes sustainable development of smart cities presents detailed explanation of case studies of smart cities of developed countries and developing countries and their comparisons This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in Artificial Intelligence Urban Planning and Information Technology Systems and Management. | Convergence of IoT Blockchain and Computational Intelligence in Smart Cities

GBP 100.00
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Internet Finance in China Introduction and Practical Approaches

Internet Finance in China Introduction and Practical Approaches

This book is about internet finance a concept coined by the authors in 2012. Internet finance deals specifically with the impacts of internet based technologies such as mobile payments social networks search engines cloud computation and big data on the financial sector. Major types of internet finance include third-party payments and mobile payments internet currency P2P lending crowdfunding and the use of big data in financial activities. Internet finance is highly popular and heavily discussed in China. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang made the healthy development of internet finance a policy priority in 2014 state-of-union address. This book as a detailed report on internet finance in China will help readers understand the status quo and development of China’s financial system. | Internet Finance in China Introduction and Practical Approaches

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The Chinese Internet Political Economy and Digital Discourse

The Chinese Internet Political Economy and Digital Discourse

This book explores China’s digital discourse and how the Internet influences social and ideological changes to the country’s political economy within China’s historical context and through a variety of social and political actors. Analysing discourses as diverse as policy papers addresses from the Xi-Li Administration and speeches from CEOs of the dominant Internet companies in China as well as those of Chinese Internet Users this book illuminates the dynamics complexity and structural contradictions in China’s current network technology-enabled developmental path through the lens of ideology and discourse. The book proposes a multi-dimensional model to understand Marxist ideologies under capitalism emphasizing the relevance of alienation commodity fetishism and reification in contemporary discussions of ideology and discourse. This insightful study offers fresh insights into Chinese digital discourse and will be of interest to upper-level students and scholars of communication studies digital media sociology political science and Internet and technology studies. | The Chinese Internet Political Economy and Digital Discourse

GBP 130.00
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Room-temperature Sodium-Sulfur Batteries Anode Cathode and Electrolyte Design

Room-temperature Sodium-Sulfur Batteries Anode Cathode and Electrolyte Design

This book provides an effective review and critical analysis of the recently demonstrated room-temperature sodium-sulfur batteries. Divided into three sections it highlights the status of the technologies and strategies developed for the sodium metal anode insight into the development of sulfur cathode and electrolyte engineering. It reviews past present and future perspectives for each cell component including characterization tools unveiling the fundamental understanding of the room-temperature sodium-sulfur batteries. FEATURES: Highlights scientific challenges in developing room-temperature sodium-sulfur batteries Covers pertinent anode cathode and electrolyte engineering Provides scientific and technical interpretation for each of the cell components Discusses how Na-S batteries relate to the more extensively researched Li-S batteries Explores importance of the SEI and CEI in developing stable sodium-sulfur batteries This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in energy science materials science and electrochemistry. | Room-temperature Sodium-Sulfur Batteries Anode Cathode and Electrolyte Design

GBP 90.00
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Cultural Economics

Cultural Economics

Culture is a priceless inheritance and source of wellbeing that is of immense value to humankind. Cultural economics set out to examine the nature and social benefits of cultural products and phenomena as they exist in the market. This volume is the masterpiece of Li Yining one of the best-known Chinese economists active in devoting his attention to the role of culture in the economy since the 1950s. Considering the importance of culture in the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics the author combines cultural history economic history and the history of economic thought to produce unique perspectives. This book not only introduces the central concepts of cultural economics and the culture industry but proposes several groundbreaking views that greatly influenced the culture policies of China including cultural adjustment cultural confidence and cultural checks and balances. Researchers and students of economics cultural studies and Chinese politics as well as policy makers will benefit from this volume.

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Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

This new Routledge Pocket Book provides a user-friendly guide to the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2018). This Pocket Book contains topic-based chapters that link areas of working practice with the specifics of the Regulations themselves. The requirements of the Regulations are presented in an informal easy-to-read style that strips away confusion. Packed with useful hints and tips that highlight the most important or mandatory requirements the book is a concise reference on all aspects of the 18th edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. This handy guide provides an on-the-job reference source for Electricians Designers Service Engineers Inspectors Builders and Students. | Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

GBP 24.99
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Precast Concrete Structures

Precast Concrete Structures

This second edition of Precast Concrete Structures introduces the conceptual design ideas for the prefabrication of concrete structures and presents a number of worked examples that translate designs from BS 8110 to Eurocode EC2 before going into the detail of the design manufacture and construction of precast concrete multi-storey buildings. Detailed structural analysis of precast concrete and its use is provided and some details are presented of recent precast skeletal frames of up to forty storeys. The theory is supported by numerous worked examples to Eurocodes and European Product Standards for precast reinforced and prestressed concrete elements composite construction joints and connections and frame stability together with extensive specifications for precast concrete structures. The book is extensively illustrated with over 500 photographs and line drawings.

GBP 29.99
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Modern Chinese Grammar

Modern Chinese Grammar

This four-volume set is an English translation for the first time of a Chinese linguistics classic on modern Chinese grammar by WANG Li one of the most distinguished Chinese linguists. Based on the corpus of two classic Chinese novels the book describes the various linguistic patterns of modern Chinese grammar encompassing syntax lexis and the Western influence on modern Chinese. As a groundbreaking work of modern Chinese linguistics the book highlights the special linguistic qualities of Chinese language contrasting with those of Indo-European languages. These are embodied by the structure of book with a strong focus put on the syntax and a short yet reasonable length for lexis. It also examines the influence of Western languages on Mandarin Chinese giving insights into the cultural and diachronic aspects of Chinese language. The author offered one of the first attempts in applying the ideas of Otto Jespersen and Leonard Bloomfield to the description of modern Chinese grammar and further developed their theory. The set is a must read for both Chinese language learners as well as researchers and students studying Chinese linguistics and modern Chinese grammar.

GBP 520.00
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The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction

The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction

Novelists have long been attracted to theatre. Some have pursued success on the stage but many have sought to combine these worlds entering theatre through their fiction setting stages on their novels’ pages and casting actors directors and playwrights as their protagonists. The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction has convened an international community of scholars to explore the remarkable array of novelists from many eras and parts of the world who have created fiction from the stuff of theatre asking what happens to theatre on the pages of novels and what happens to novels when they collaborate with theatre. From J. W. Goethe to Louisa May Alcott Mikhail Bulgakov Virginia Woolf and Margaret Atwood some of history’s most influential novelists have written theatre-fiction and this Companion discusses many of these figures from new angles. But it also spotlights writers who have received less critical attention such as Dorothy Leighton Agustín de Rojas Villandrando Ronald Firbank Syed Mustafa Siraj Li Yu and Vicente Blasco Ibañez bringing their work into conversation with a vital field. A valuable resource for students scholars and admirers of both theatre and novels The Routledge Companion to Theatre-Fiction offers a wealth of new perspectives on topics of increasing critical concern including intermediality theatricality antitheatricality mimesis diegesis and performativity.

GBP 205.00
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Discrete Dynamical Systems and Difference Equations with Mathematica

Discrete Dynamical Systems and Difference Equations with Mathematica

Following the work of Yorke and Li in 1975 the theory of discrete dynamical systems and difference equations developed rapidly. The applications of difference equations also grew rapidly especially with the introduction of graphical-interface software that can plot trajectories calculate Lyapunov exponents plot bifurcation diagrams and find basins of attraction. Modern computer algebra systems have opened the door to the use of symbolic calculation for studying difference equations. This book offers an introduction to discrete dynamical systems and difference equations and presents the Dynamica software. Developed by the authors and based on Mathematica Dynamica provides an easy-to-use collection of algebraic numerical and graphical tools and techniques that allow users to quickly gain the ability to:Find and classify the stability character of equilibrium and periodic pointsPerform semicycle analysis of solutionsCalculate and visualize invariants Calculate and visualize Lyapunov functions and numbersPlot bifurcation diagramsVisualize stable and unstable manifoldsCalculate Box DimensionWhile it presents the essential theoretical concepts and results the book's emphasis is on using the software. The authors present two sets of Dynamica sessions: one that serves as a tutorial of the different techniques the other features case studies of well-known difference equations. Dynamica and notebooks corresponding to particular chapters are available for download from the Internet. | Discrete Dynamical Systems and Difference Equations with Mathematica

GBP 59.99
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Timber Bridges

Timber Bridges

Bridges built in timber are enjoying a significant revival both for pedestrian and light traffic and increasingly for heavier loadings and longer spans. Timber's high strength-to-weight ratio combined with the ease and speed of construction inherent in the off-site prefabrication methods used make a timber bridge a suitable option in many different scenarios. This handbook gives technical guidance on forms materials structural design and construction techniques suitable for both small and large timber bridges. Eurocode 5 Part Two (BS EN 1995-2) for the first time provides an international standard for the construction of timber bridges removing a potential obstacle for engineers where timber construction for bridges has not – in recent centuries at least – been usual. Clearly illustrated throughout this guide explains how to make use of this oldest construction material in a modern context to create sustainable aesthetically pleasing practical and durable bridges. Worldwide examples include Tourand Creek Bridge Canada; Toijala Finland; Punt la Resgia Switzerland; Pont de Crest France; Almorere Pylon Bridge the Netherlands.

GBP 59.99
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Architecting Secure Software Systems

Architecting Secure Software Systems

Traditionally software engineers have defined security as a non-functional requirement. As such all too often it is only considered as an afterthought making software applications and services vulnerable to attacks. With the phenomenal growth in cybercrime it has become imperative that security be an integral part of software engineering so that all software assets are protected and safe. Architecting Secure Software Systems defines how security should be incorporated into basic software engineering at the requirement analysis phase continuing this sharp focus into security design secured programming security testing and secured deployment. Outlines Protection Protocols for Numerous ApplicationsThrough the use of examples this volume defines a myriad of security vulnerabilities and their resultant threats. It details how to do a security requirement analysis and outlines the security development lifecycle. The authors examine security architectures and threat countermeasures for UNIX . NET Java mobile and Web environments. Finally they explore the security of telecommunications and other distributed services through Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The book employs a versatile multi-platform approach that allows users to seamlessly integrate the material into their own programming paradigm regardless of their individual programming backgrounds. The text also provides real-world code snippets for experimentation. Define a Security Methodology from the Initial Phase of Development Almost all assets in our lives have a virtual presence and the convergence of computer information and telecommunications makes these assets accessible to everyone in the world. This volume enables developers engineers and architects to approach security in a holistic fashion at the beginning of the software development li

GBP 56.99
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Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety

Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety

Fire safety regulations in many countries require Fire Risk Assessment to be carried out for buildings such as workplaces and houses in multiple occupation. This duty is imposed on a Responsible Person and also on any other persons having control of buildings in compliance with the requirements specified in the regulations. Although regulations only require a qualitative assessment of fire risk a quantitative assessment is an essential first step for performing cost-benefit analysis of alternative fire strategies to comply with the regulations and selecting the most cost-effective strategy. To facilitate this assessment various qualitative semi-quantitative and quantitative techniques of fire risk assessment already developed are critically reviewed in this book and some improvements are suggested. This book is intended to be an expanded version of Part 7: Probabilistic risk assessment 2003 a Published Document (PD) to British Standard BS 7974: 2001 on the Application of Fire Safety Engineering Principles to the Design of Buildings. Ganapathy Ramachandran and David Charters were co-authors of PD 7974 Part 7. Quantitative Risk Assessment in Fire Safety is essential reading for consultants academics fire safety engineers fire officers building control officers and students in fire safety engineering. It also provides useful tools for fire protection economists and risk management professionals including those involved in fire insurance underwriting.

GBP 44.99
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Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

Description: This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Maya Substance Painter and Unreal Engine. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This includes polygonal modeling UV layout and custom texture painting. Then the book covers rigging and animation solutions to create assets to be placed in the game including animated first-person assets and motion-captured NPC animations. Finally readers can put it all together and build interactivity that allows the player to create a finished game using the assets built and animated earlier in the book. • Written by industry professionals with real-world experience in building assets and games. • Build a complete game from start to finish. • Learn what the pros use: construct all assets using the tools used at industries across the world. • All software used are free to students. • When complete students will have a playable version of an FPS game. Jing Tian Li is a graduate of China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and New York’s School of Visual Arts where he earned an MFA in Computer Art. He currently is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Kassandra Arevalo is an instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. She previously worked as an animator at Immersed Games. Matt Tovar is an industry veteran animator. He has worked at Naughty Dog Infinity Ward and Sony Interactive on such games as The Last of Us Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and most recently Marvel’s Avengers with Crystal Dynamics. He is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. | Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

GBP 56.99
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Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures

Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures

Designing structures to withstand the effects of fire is challenging and requires a series of complex design decisions. This third edition of Fire Safety Engineering Design of Structures provides practising fire safety engineers with the tools to design structures to withstand fires. This text details standard industry design decisions and offers expert design advice with relevant historical data. It includes extensive data on materials’ behaviour and modeling - concrete steel composite steel-concrete timber masonry and aluminium. While weighted to the fire sections of the Eurocodes this book also includes historical data to allow older structures to be assessed. It extensively covers fire damage investigation and includes as far back as possible the background to code methods to enable the engineer to better understand why certain procedures are adopted. What’s new in the Third Edition? An overview in the first chapter explains the types of design decisions required for optimum fire performance of a structure and demonstrates the effect of temperature rise on structural performance of structural elements. It extends the sections on less common engineering materials. The section on computer modelling now includes material on coupled heat and mass transfer enabling a better understanding of the phenomenon of spalling in concrete. It includes a series of worked examples and provides an extensive reference section. Readers require a working knowledge of structural mechanics and methods of structural design at ambient conditions and are helped by some understanding of thermodynamics of heat transfer. This book serves as a resource for engineers working in the field of fire safety consultants who regularly carry out full fire safety design for structure and researchers seeking background information. Dr John Purkiss is a chartered civil and structural engineer/consultant and former lecturer in structural engineering at Aston University UK. Dr Long-Yuan Li is Professor of Structural Engineering at Plymouth University UK and a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

GBP 74.99
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Design of Shallow and Deep Foundations

Design of Shallow and Deep Foundations

Design of Shallow and Deep Foundations introduces the concept of limit state calculations before focusing on shallow and deep foundations. The limit state combinations of actions are examined and practical calculation models of the bearing capacity and of the settlement are presented particularly from the results of Ménard pressuremeter tests and cone penetration tests. Attention is also given to the use of numerical methods which has been developed over the past twenty years. It provides an overview of various elements of ground-structure interaction that are pertinent for a refined design of both shallow and deep foundations such as allowable displacements of structures and ground-structure couplings. This guide will be useful to practising engineers and experts in design offices contracting companies and administrations as well as students and researchers in civil engineering. Though its focus is generally on the French practice it is more widely applicable to design based on or generally in line with Eurocode 7 with references to BS ENs. Roger Frank is an Honorary Professor at Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC). From 1998 to 2004 he chaired the committee on Eurocode 7 on Geotechnical design. Fahd Cuira is the Scientific Director of Terrasol (Setec group) France. Since 2018 he has been in charge of the course on the design of geotechnical structures at ENPC. Sébastien Burlon is a Project Director at Terrasol (Setec group) France. He is involved in the evolution of Eurocode 7 and teaches several geotechnical courses especially at ENPC.

GBP 44.99
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The Production of Heritage The Politicisation of Architectural Conservation

The Production of Heritage The Politicisation of Architectural Conservation

In this important book the authors unpack the theoretical and practical issues around the development of heritage sites critically dissecting key conservation benchmarks such as the ICOMOS guidelines BS 7913 and the RIBA Conservation Plan of Work to reveal the mechanics of heritage guidance its advantages and conceptual limitations. Underpinned by an active understanding of the conservation philosophy of William Morris the book presents five case studies from the UK and North and South America that speak about different facets of heritage value such as urban identity commodification authenticity materiality and heritage as an intellectual and ethical framework. Heritage is never neutral; its definition is privileged yet its influence is political. Art landscape and archaeology all offer examples of how the operational ideas of adjacent disciplines can influence an integrated idea of heritage conservation and how this is communicated in order to determine significance and share in its custodianship. This book provides insights into how to identify and challenge these limitations expanding inclusion by describing tactics for changing how people can relate to and build on the past. Clearly written for all levels of readership within the conservation professions and community custodians of heritage buildings and places the book provides strategies and tactics for understanding the heritage significance of materials their fabrication detail and use. The narratives that historic fabric contains can help shape the meaningful involvement of local people providing a roadmap for those navigating the double-bind of using the past to underpin the future. | The Production of Heritage The Politicisation of Architectural Conservation

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Modelling Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Data A Bayesian Approach

Modelling Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Data A Bayesian Approach

Modelling Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Data: A Bayesian Approach is aimed at statisticians and quantitative social economic and public health students and researchers who work with small-area spatial and spatial-temporal data. It assumes a grounding in statistical theory up to the standard linear regression model. The book compares both hierarchical and spatial econometric modelling providing both a reference and a teaching text with exercises in each chapter. The book provides a fully Bayesian self-contained treatment of the underlying statistical theory with chapters dedicated to substantive applications. The book includes WinBUGS code and R code and all datasets are available online. Part I covers fundamental issues arising when modelling spatial and spatial-temporal data. Part II focuses on modelling cross-sectional spatial data and begins by describing exploratory methods that help guide the modelling process. There are then two theoretical chapters on Bayesian models and a chapter of applications. Two chapters follow on spatial econometric modelling one describing different models the other substantive applications. Part III discusses modelling spatial-temporal data first introducing models for time series data. Exploratory methods for detecting different types of space-time interaction are presented followed by two chapters on the theory of space-time separable (without space-time interaction) and inseparable (with space-time interaction) models. An applications chapter includes: the evaluation of a policy intervention; analysing the temporal dynamics of crime hotspots; chronic disease surveillance; and testing for evidence of spatial spillovers in the spread of an infectious disease. A final chapter suggests some future directions and challenges. Robert Haining is Emeritus Professor in Human Geography University of Cambridge England. He is the author of Spatial Data Analysis in the Social and Environmental Sciences (1990) and Spatial Data Analysis: Theory and Practice (2003). He is a Fellow of the RGS-IBG and of the Academy of Social Sciences. Guangquan Li is Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the Department of Mathematics Physics and Electrical Engineering Northumbria University Newcastle England. His research includes the development and application of Bayesian methods in the social and health sciences. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. | Modelling Spatial and Spatial-Temporal Data A Bayesian Approach

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