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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Science Fiction is the first large-scale reference work of its kind critically assessing the relations of gender and genre in science fiction (SF) especially—but not exclusively—as explored in speculative art by women and LGBTQ+ artists across the world. This global volume builds upon the traditions of interdisciplinary inquiry by connecting established topics in gender studies and science fiction studies with emergent ideas from researchers in different media. Taken together they challenge conventional generic boundaries; provide new ways of approaching familiar texts; recover lost artists and introduce new ones; connect the revival of old hate-based politics with the increasing visibility of imagined futures for all; and show how SF stories about new kinds of gender relations inspire new models of artistic technoscientific and political practice. Their chapters are grouped into five conversations—about the history of gender and genre theoretical frameworks subjectivities medias and transmedialities and transtemporalities—that are central to discussions of gender and SF in the current moment. A range of both emerging and established names in media literature and cultural studies engage with a huge diversity of topics including eco-criticism animal studies cyborg and posthumanist theory masculinity critical race studies Indigenous futurisms Black girlhood and gaming. This is an essential resource for students and scholars studying gender sexuality and/or science fiction.

GBP 190.00

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The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice Stretching the World for New Opportunities and Progress

The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice shows how practitioners help create change by ‘stretching the world’ of their clients. The book brings new ideas from enactive cognition which show how skilled attention on the client and their words is important both practically and conceptually. It provides both a summary of the development of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) over time and how the latest developments form a newly coherent form of practice based on developing descriptions. The author has structured the book using simple and easy to understand metaphors to paint a rich creative and visual picture of therapy for the reader which makes it an accessible read. This book will be of interest to a wide range of SF practitioners internationally as well as to those involved in coaching counselling family therapy education social work healthcare and organisational change. | The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice Stretching the World for New Opportunities and Progress

GBP 27.99

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Making and Unmaking of the San Francisco Bay

San Francisco Bay is a shallow estuary surrounded by a large population center. The forces that built it began with plate tectonics and involved the collision of the Pacific and North American plates and the subduction of the Juan de Fuka plate. Changes in the climate resulting from the last ice age yielded lower and then higher sea levels. Human activity influenced the Bay. Gold mining during the California gold rush sent masses of slit into the Bay. Humans have also built several major cities and filled significant parts of the Bay. This book describes the natural history and evolution of the SF Bay Area over the last 50 million years through the present and into the future. Key selling features: Summarizes a complex geological geographical and ecological history Reviews how the San Francisco Bay has changed and will likely change in the future Examines the different roles and various drivers of Bay ecosystem function Includes the role of humans - both first peoples and modern populations - on the Bay Explores San Francisco Bay as an example of general bay ecolgical and environmental issues | Making and Unmaking of the San Francisco Bay

GBP 42.99

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Modern Data Science with R

From a review of the first edition: Modern Data Science with R… is rich with examples and is guided by a strong narrative voice. What’s more it presents an organizing framework that makes a convincing argument that data science is a course distinct from applied statistics (The American Statistician). Modern Data Science with R is a comprehensive data science textbook for undergraduates that incorporates statistical and computational thinking to solve real-world data problems. Rather than focus exclusively on case studies or programming syntax this book illustrates how statistical programming in the state-of-the-art R/RStudio computing environment can be leveraged to extract meaningful information from a variety of data in the service of addressing compelling questions. The second edition is updated to reflect the growing influence of the tidyverse set of packages. All code in the book has been revised and styled to be more readable and easier to understand. New functionality from packages like sf purrr tidymodels and tidytext is now integrated into the text. All chapters have been revised and several have been split re-organized or re-imagined to meet the shifting landscape of best practice.

GBP 82.99

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Displaying Time Series Spatial and Space-Time Data with R

Focusing on the exploration of data with visual methods Displaying Time Series Spatial and Space-Time Data with R Second Edition presents methods and R code for producing high-quality static graphics interactive visualizations and animations of time series spatial and space-time data. Practical examples using real-world datasets help you understand how to apply the methods and code. The book illustrates how to display a dataset starting with an easy and direct approach and progressively adds improvements that involve more complexity. Each of the three parts of the book is devoted to different types of data. In each part the chapters are grouped according to the various visualization methods or data characteristics. The first edition of this book was mainly focused on static graphics. Four years later recent developments in the htmlwidgets family of packages are covered in this second edition with many new interactive graphics. In addition the ggplot2 approach is now used in most of the spatial graphics thanks to the new sf package. Finally code has been cleaned and improved and data has been updated. Features• Offers detailed information on producing high-quality graphics interactive visualizations and animations• Uses real data from meteorological climate economic social science energy engineering environmental and epidemiological research in many practical examples• Shows how to improve graphics based on visualization theory• Provides the graphics data and R code on the author’s website enabling you to practice with the methods and modify the code to suit your own needs.

GBP 69.99

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Mineral Admixtures in Cement and Concrete

Written to meet the requirements of engineers working in construction and concrete manufacturing Mineral Admixtures in Cement and Concrete focuses on how to make more workable and durable concrete using mineral admixtures. In particular it covers pulverized fuel ash (PFA) blast furnace slag (BFS) silica fume (SF) rice husk ash (RHA) and metakaolin (MK) as well as some new admixtures currently under investigation. For each mineral admixture the book looks at manufacturing and processing physical characteristics chemical and mineralogical composition quality control and reported experiences. It also examines the provisions of national standards on the admixture’s addition to cement and concrete. References to microstructures and chemistry are kept to a minimum and only discussed to the extent necessary to help readers apply the admixtures in practice. The book also addresses hydration presenting the relevant chemistry and detailing the impact of adding mineral admixtures to concrete. A chapter on strength and durability explains the mechanisms models and standards related to concrete deterioration and how to mitigate carbonation alkali-aggregate reactions chloride attack and corrosion of reinforcement external and internal sulphate attack decalcification and freeze-thaw action. This book is a useful reference for practicing engineers and students alike. It brings together in one volume information on the materials hydration and the strength and durability of cement and concrete with mineral admixtures. Offering a deeper understanding of mineral admixtures it encourages engineers to more effectively use these and other wastes in cement and concrete to support more sustainable growth of the cement and construction industry.

GBP 77.99

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Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy and Peak Performance

Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR combines two hugely influential and effective therapies EMDR therapy and sensorimotor psychotherapy to provide a new approach. In doing so the book supports the widely held view of psychotherapists that in trauma the primary store of neurological information is somatic rather than cognitive. Many therapists trained in EMDR find that additional resources are needed for patients who present with symptoms of complex trauma and dissociation. This is because EMDR is primarily a top-down approach based on CBT with the addition of bilateral stimulation (BLS) in visual tactile and auditory modalities. By contrast Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR takes a body-based and bottom-up approach that seeks to resolve trauma by reprocessing information at multiple levels – in the gut-brain the heart-brain and the head-brain as well as in the endocrine immune and nervous systems. Fully revised since The Art of BART (2015) the book looks at the latest advances in neuroscience including research into the effectiveness of psychotherapy and the mysteries of consciousness and the development of mind. It also looks at the role of newly discovered organs the mesentery and the interstitium and provides clear anatomical evidence for the communication of biophotons in energy channels known as the primo vascular system. SF-EMDR is the only therapy that fully integrates Western theories of affective neuroscience with Eastern observations on activation of chakras pranas and energies and in doing so it offers strong potential for enhanced outcomes and optimized performance for patients. | Sensorimotor-Focused EMDR A New Paradigm for Psychotherapy and Peak Performance

GBP 35.99

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