Masonry Wall Construction This volume provides a concise overview of the main facets of masonry wall construction including materials structural design types of walls movement insulation rain exclusion site practice defects and repair. The subject is covered in sufficient depth for a comprehensive introduction with reading lists after each chapter for those interested in further detail. Drawing on a wealth of experience the authors present an essential and comprehensive coverage of masonry wall design and construction for students of civil and structural engineering architecture building surveying and related courses. It will also be a useful guide for practising engineers and other professionals who require a general knowledge of masonry construction. GBP 175.00 1
Psyche's Lamp A Revaluation of Pyschological Principles as Foundation of All Thought Originally published in 1921 Psyche's Lamp reminds the reader that all thought and discussion to whatever aspect of confronting problems social political ethical vital and personal they may be directed posit psychological premises. In the darkness and confusion of a human world under reconstrction where immemorial landmarks lie strewn and buried under the debris of collapsed super-structures we shall vainly endeavour to thread our way to any purpose unless we can pierce the obscurity by the light of Psyche's lamp. | Psyche's Lamp A Revaluation of Pyschological Principles as Foundation of All Thought GBP 31.99 1
After The Wall Eastern Germany Since 1989 Since the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 Germany has faced complex challenges. The rapid introduction of political economic and social union in 1990 joined East and West in an experiment without precedent as the former German Democratic Republic adopted the structures of the Federal Republic of Germany. Related issues include the adop | After The Wall Eastern Germany Since 1989 GBP 130.00 1
Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture This book grapples with fundamental questions about the evolving nature of pictorial representation and the role photography has played in this ongoing process. These issues are explored through a close analysis of key themes that underpin the photography practice of Canadian artist Jeff Wall and through examining important works that have defined his oeuvre. Wall’s strategic revival of ‘the picture’ has had a resounding influence on the development of contemporary art photography by expanding the conceptual and technical frameworks of the medium and introducing a self-reflexive criticality. Naomi Merritt brings a new and original contribution to the scholarship on one of the most significant figures to have shaped the course of contemporary art photography since the 1970s and shines a light on the multilayered connections between photography and art. This book will be of interest to scholars in the history of photography art and visual culture and contemporary art history. | Jeff Wall and the Concept of the Picture GBP 130.00 1
Ophthalmic Imaging Posterior Segment Imaging Anterior Eye Photography and Slit Lamp Biomicrography Ophthalmic Imaging serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager. Ophthalmic imaging combines photography and diagnostic imaging to provide insight into not only the health of the eye but also the health of the human body as a whole. Ophthalmic photographers are specialists in imaging through and in the human eye one of the only parts of the body where the circulation and nervous system is visible non-invasively. With technical perspective as context this book will provide instructional techniques as well as the background needed for problem solving in this exciting field. The book covers all aspects of contemporary ophthalmic imaging and provides image support to ophthalmologists and sub-specialties including retinal specialists corneal specialists neuro-ophthalmologists and ocular oncologists. This text serves as a reference for the practicing ophthalmic imager or to imagers just getting started in the field. | Ophthalmic Imaging Posterior Segment Imaging Anterior Eye Photography and Slit Lamp Biomicrography GBP 150.00 1
An Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street Burton Malkiel’s 1973 A Random Walk Down Wall Street was an explosive contribution to debates about how to reap a good return on investing in stocks and shares. Reissued and updated many times since Malkiel’s text remains an indispensable contribution to the world of investment strategy – one that continues to cause controversy among investment professionals today. At the book’s heart lies a simple question of evaluation: just how successful are investment experts? The financial world was and is full of people who claim to have the knowledge and expertise to outperform the markets and produce larger gains for investors as a result of their knowledge. But how successful Malkiel asked are they really? Via careful evaluations of performance – looking at those who invested via ‘technical analysis’ and ‘fundamental analysis’ – he was able to challenge the adequacy of many of the claims made for analysts’ success. Malkiel found the major active investment strategies to be significantly flawed. Where actively managed funds posted big gains one year they seemingly inevitably posted below average gains in succeeding years. By evaluating the figures over the medium and long term indeed Malkiel discovered that actively-managed funds did far worse on average than those that passively followed the general market index. Though many investment professionals still argue against Malkiel’s influential findings his exploration of the strengths and weaknesses of the argument for believing investors’ claims provides strong evidence that his own passive strategy wins out overall. | An Analysis of Burton G. Malkiel's A Random Walk Down Wall Street GBP 6.50 1
Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall Radical and unique in its approach and presentation Marketing Graffiti turns the traditional marketing introduction on its head by helping students to understand the part they already play as ‘consumers’ in the marketing process. Most marketing textbooks tackle the subject as a business function – i. e. how to do marketing in companies and other organizations. Marketing Graffiti shows how marketing is not just a business function but a part of our culture and one in which we are all active as part-time marketers. By rejecting managerially-driven structures in this way Saren's approach makes marketing immediate and instantly recognizable as a process and a phenomenon in which we are already complicit. It helps readers to become aware of what they already know. Critically examining a wide range of products businesses technologies information services ads packaging and branding Saren utilizes everyday images and phenomena to draw out the conceptual foundations of marketing from a social science and cultural studies perspective as something that we all experience in everyday life. This new edition of the first critical marketing textbook discusses the role new technologies (such as social media) play in marketing culture and how this can potentially place more power in the clicks of the consumer. It includes new updated or expanded sections on market exclusion the role of the consumer in innovation space and place pricing consumer communities collaborative consumption and social media marketing. Leading experts in these fields of research and marketing practice also contribute additional sections on these topics. This essential marketing guide is supported by a range of teaching support materials including the latest journal and online references guides to further reading teaching slides and test bank questions | Marketing Graffiti The Writing on the Wall GBP 38.99 1
Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of how politics shape housing markets and vice-versa. It demonstrates how housing impacts a variety of social and political phenomenon including populist politics generational divides wealth inequality monetary policy and the welfare state. Housing and housing markets have important implications for economic stability public policy domestic politics and wealth inequality in Europe and beyond. Yet despite its importance housing has received relatively little attention in comparative politics scholarship. The contributions within this volume push the scholarship of housing into fresh innovative directions. The chapters focus on housing’s contribution to wealth inequality how housing constrains governments’ policy choices in welfare state reform and how it can strengthen governments’ hands in financial regulation. Other contributions reveal the impact of housing on central bankers’ motivations for implementing monetary expansion highlight the generational divide in gaining access to home-ownership demonstrate how housing-driven wealth inequality steers voters political preferences towards right-wing populism and explain how housing gradually shifted from being a social right to an object of investment in Europe even within its most egalitarian states. These contributions cover a diversity of cases in Western and Eastern Europe and theoretical paradigms that will appeal to scholars and policy makers alike. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of West European Politics. | Bricks in the Wall The Politics of Housing in Europe GBP 38.99 1
Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall This volume makes a case for engaging critical approaches for teaching adults in prison higher education (or “college-in-prison”) programs. This book not only contextualizes pedagogy within the specialized and growing niche of prison instruction but also addresses prison abolition reentry and educational equity. Chapters are written by prison instructors currently incarcerated students and formerly incarcerated students providing a variety of perspectives on the many roadblocks and ambitions of teaching and learning in carceral settings. All unapologetic advocates of increasing access to higher education for people in prison contributors discuss the high stakes of teaching incarcerated individuals and address the dynamics conditions and challenges of doing such work. The type of instruction that contributors advocate is transferable beyond prisons to traditional campus settings. Hence the lessons of this volume will not only support readers in becoming more thoughtful prison educators and program administrators but also in becoming better teachers who can employ critical democratic pedagogy in a range of contexts. | Critical Perspectives on Teaching in Prison Students and Instructors on Pedagogy Behind the Wall GBP 36.99 1
Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up Television shows that we might call ‘prestige television’ represent prison in ways that are sometimes reductive sometimes powerful and sometimes exceedingly complex. This book examines various programmes across the genres of drama comedy and horror that utilize prison or places of incarceration as a central theme or setting to show how they conform to or challenge the standard conversation about the prison industrial complex and the common understanding of prisons as violent spaces where we house the worst among us. Drawing on the work of Angela Davis Doran Larson Dylan Rodriguez Michelle Alexander and Lisa Guenther the author presents focused studies of Orange Is the New Black Rectify American Horror Story and The Walking Dead (along with briefer discussions of The 100 police procedurals and popular sitcoms) to explore the responsibility of television to represent prison in as authentic a fashion as possible the exploitation of the incarcerated in reductive representations of prison and the shifting nature of the national conversation about prison as it is depicted on screen. As such the book will appeal to scholars of cultural and media studies criminology and sociology with interests in incarceration and representations of prison in popular culture. | Prestige Television and Prison in the Age of Mass Incarceration A Wall Rise Up GBP 39.99 1
Plant Cell Walls Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights Plant cell walls have been relevant for human survival throughout evolution from cell walls recognised as an essential ingredient in human and livestock nutrition to their use in energy generation construction tool making paper and clothing. This plant-generated material is at the centre of a myriad of human activities and it represents the world's most abundant natural resource for fuel fibre food and fodder. Plant Cell Walls: Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights provides an overview of the key discoveries of hundreds of years of plant cell wall research. With chapter contributions from prominent scientists in the cell wall field this book provides a comprehensive treatment of plant cell wall research accompanied by a historical overview to illustrate how concepts have evolved and how progress has been enabled by emerging technological advances. Plant Cell Walls: Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights elaborates on the translation of research to application in biotechnology and agriculture and highlights its relevance for climate change mitigation and adaptation. It will be a key resource for plant cell biologists biochemists and geneticists. | Plant Cell Walls Research Milestones and Conceptual Insights GBP 190.00 1
The Mercurial Chemist A Life of Sir Humphry Davy First published in 1963. Humphry Davy knighted by the Prince Regent in 1812 for his contributions to science and later created baronet for his invention of the miners’ safety lamp was among the foremost European chemists in the early nineteenth century. Anne Treneer tells in full the story of Humphry Davy’s life. From letters journals and memoirs of the time Davy and his contemporaries come to life. This title will be of great interest to scientists and historians. | The Mercurial Chemist A Life of Sir Humphry Davy GBP 34.99 1
The Psychomatrix A Deeper Understanding of Our Relationship with Pain What is pain? What does it mean to have a relationship with it and how does this affect your identity and existence? The author's definition of pain is derived from that proposed by scientists such as Melzack Wall and Freud. Pain is a dynamic multi-layered diverse collection of experiences which impacts and influences us throughout life. Pa | The Psychomatrix A Deeper Understanding of Our Relationship with Pain GBP 130.00 1
After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration In the 1980s U. S. officials adopted tax and monetary policies that channeled huge new resources into Wall Street which fueled a stock market boom. To increase profits and payouts to investors as stock prices soared corporate managers consolidated businesses outsourced manufacturing to low-wage countries and adopted new technologies to increase productivity. Government officials then facilitated mergers and negotiated free trade agreements to speed the process of globalization. Wall Street became an engine of capital accumulation and a force for global change. These developments resulted in massive job losses and stagnant wages for most Americans. Meanwhile tax cuts and the stock market boom created vast new wealth for the rich and the top 10 percent seized 50 percent of all income in the United States. The result was growing economic inequality. During the decades that followed globalization triggered regional economic crises toppled governments transformed societies galvanized economic development in China and created new forms of wealth and inequality around the world. Then in 2008 a financial crisis rooted in Wall Street triggered the Great Recession wrecked the legitimacy of globalization as a development strategy and unleashed populist or restrictionist social movements and political parties that challenged globalization and attacked its economic and political foundations. This book examines the origins of globalization in the 1980s the developments that triggered the Great Recession and the political and economic forces that contributed to the disintegration of globalization as a force for change in the modern world. After Globalization explains what happened—and what comes next. | After Globalization Crisis and Disintegration GBP 29.99 1
Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London This book explores concerns for spatial justice as streets squares and neighbourhoods are continuously made and remade through planning processes political ambitions and everyday activities. By investigating three sites in London that have been the focus of masterplanning Ed Wall exposes conflicts between planning offices and private developers who direct large urban change and community groups market traders and residents whose public lives are inseparable from their neighbourhoods being reconfigured. The book uniquely brings sociological approaches to what are often considered architectural concerns revealing challenges as London's public spaces are designed regulated and lived. Through in-depth research Ed Wall identifies how uncertainty caused by large-scale urban strategies the realisation of visual priorities and uneven relations between private interests public organisations and daily lives determine the public realm of global cities. This work is intended for readers interested in how the urban spaces of their cities are continually produced in competing ways—from architecture and urban studies scholars to planners and politicians. | Contesting Public Spaces Social Lives of Urban Redevelopment in London GBP 35.99 1
Cold-Formed Steel Structures to the AISI Specification This volume reveals the behaviour and design of cold-formed steel structures connections and systems. It describes the AISI Specification for the Design of Cold-Formed Steel Structural Members published in July 2000 which governs the design of all cold-formed steel frames including roof wall and racking systems and cold-formed steel residential construction in the USA. The text offers worked examples which can be programmed using MATHCAD or EXCEL. | Cold-Formed Steel Structures to the AISI Specification GBP 59.99 1
Design of Structural Elements Concrete Steelwork Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes The fourth edition of Design of Structural Elements: Concrete Steelwork Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes is a concise single-volume introduction to the design of structural elements in concrete steel timber masonry and composites. It provides design principles and guidance in line with Eurocodes current as of 2021. Topics include the philosophy of design sustainable development basic structural concepts and material properties. After an overview of structural design the book contains self-contained chapters with numerous diagrams and worked examples on design in reinforced concrete structural steelwork and steel/concrete composites masonry and timber based on EN 1990-1997. Selected extracts from these publications assist familiarity. Elements considered cover reinforced concrete and composite floors isolated foundation cantilever retaining wall load-bearing and panel walls stud wall and connections. The text is ideal for student civil and structural engineers on degree and diploma courses and also practising civil and structural engineers and other built environment professions. The online Support Materials for adopting course instructors includes an extensive set of solutions to the problems in the book and PowerPoint slides for use in lectures: www. routledge. com/9781032076317. | Design of Structural Elements Concrete Steelwork Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes GBP 46.99 1
Room Acoustics Well established as a classic reference and specialised textbook since its first publication in 1973 Heinrich Kuttruff’s Room Acoustics combines detailed coverage with a state of art presentation of the theory and practice of sound behaviour in closed spaces. This sixth edition presents several additional new sections for instance on the reflection of a spherical wave from a wall on finite element methods for sound field calculation and on virtual reality as well as giving an overhaul of the standard material. Particular emphasis is given to the properties and calculation of reverberation the most obvious acoustical feature of a room. And further key topics include the various mechanisms of sound absorption and their practical application as well as scattering by wall irregularities including pseudo-stochastic structures. Extensive space is given to of psychoacoustic insights and the quality criteria derived from them along with new procedures for the sensory assessment of concert hall acoustics. As in earlier editions one full and updated chapter is devoted to the design and performance of electroacoustic systems which nowadays is not just a method for sound amplification but offers many possibilities for correcting acoustic deficiencies and modifying a hall’s natural acoustics. GBP 52.99 1
The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990 This new book investigates communist rule in East Germany from its establishment as a sphere of Soviet influence after World War II to its rapid collapse after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Using newly available archive material the early chapters trace the emergence of the GDR out of the Soviet zone of occupation. Later chapters cover the dramatic episodes of the 1953 uprising against Soviet dominance and the building of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The subsequent stabilisation of the GDR and the establishment of an uneasy compromise between the ruling elites and the population in the later 1960s and 1970s are explained with reference to a range of internal social economic and political factors. The disintegration of the regime in 1989 is explained in the light of : The chronic weakness of Gorbachev's Soviet Union. The bravery of the protestors. The enduring appeal of West Germany's social market economy. Political pluralism. This clear and comprehensive survey marshals secondary and original primary sources in order to give a unique insight into the GDR's struggles and achievements. | The Rise and Fall of the German Democratic Republic 1945-1990 GBP 130.00 1
Routledge Library Editions: Financial Markets The volumes in this set originally published between 1970 and 1996 draw together research by leading academics in the area of economic and financial markets and provide a rigorous examination of related key issues. The volumes examine the stock exchange capital cities as financial centres international capital the financial system bond duration security market indices and artificial intelligence applications on Wall Street whilst also exploring the general principles and practices of financial markets in various countries. This set will be of particular interest to students of economics and finance respectively. | Routledge Library Editions: Financial Markets GBP 1850.00 1
Dynamics of Soils and Their Engineering Applications The book offers systematic dynamic analysis of soils and their engineering applications including machine foundations and aims to develop a clear understanding of the subject. It comprises sixteen chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the various problems in soil dynamics. In Chapter 2 concepts of theory of vibrations are discussed along with their applications in designing Vibration Absorbers and Pickups. Wave propagation in elastic medium including wave refraction in layered medium is covered in Chapter 3. Chapter 4 deals with the procedure of determining dynamic properties of soils using various laboratory and field tests. Dynamic earth pressures in retaining walls and dynamic bearing capacity of footings are dealt with in Chapters 5 and 6 respectively. Chapters 7and 8 respectively deal with dynamic behavior of pile foundations and slopes. Causes of liquefaction of soils and prediction of liquefaction potential have been discussed in Chapter 9. In Chapter 10 the procedure of estimating the unbalanced forces in various types of machines are covered. Chapters 11 12 and 13 deal with the analysis and design of foundations of reciprocating machine hammer and turbo-generators respectively. In Chapter 14 problems of vibration isolation and screening are dealt with. Chapter 15 discusses the analysis and design of reinforced earth wall located in seismic areas. A new concept of a conventional rigid retaining wall having reinforced backfill is presented in Chapter 16 giving complete analysis and design procedure considering seismic forces. | Dynamics of Soils and Their Engineering Applications GBP 46.99 1
US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994 This book investigates the end of the Cold War in Africa and its impact on post-Cold War US foreign policy in the continent. The fall of the Berlin Wall is widely considered the end of the Cold War; however it documents just one of the many ends since the Cold War was a global conflict. This book looks at one of the most neglected extra-European battlegrounds the African continent and explores how American foreign policy developed in this region between the late 1980s and the early 1990s. Drawing on a wide range of recently disclosed documents the book shows that the Cold War in Africa ended in 1988 preceding the fall of the Berlin Wall. It also reveals how since then some of the most controversial and inconsistent episodes of post-Cold War US foreign policy in Africa have been deeply rooted in the unique process whereby American rivalry with the USSR found its end in the continent. The book challenges the traditional narrative by presenting an original perspective on the study of the end of the Cold War and provides new insights into the shaping of US foreign policy during the so-called ‘unipolar moment’. This book will be of much interest to students of Cold War history US foreign policy African politics and international relations. | US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War in Africa A Bridge between Global Conflict and the New World Order 1988-1994 GBP 38.99 1
Diffusion Processes Jump Processes and Stochastic Differential Equations Diffusion Processes Jump Processes and Stochastic Differential Equations provides a compact exposition of the results explaining interrelations between diffusion stochastic processes stochastic differential equations and the fractional infinitesimal operators. The draft of this book has been extensively classroom tested by the author at Case Western Reserve University in a course that enrolled seniors and graduate students majoring in mathematics statistics engineering physics chemistry economics and mathematical finance. The last topic proved to be particularly popular among students looking for careers on Wall Street and in research organizations devoted to financial problems. Features Quickly and concisely builds from basic probability theory to advanced topics Suitable as a primary text for an advanced course in diffusion processes and stochastic differential equations Useful as supplementary reading across a range of topics. GBP 82.99 1
The Design of Lighting This fully updated edition of the successful book The Design of Lighting provides the lighting knowledge needed by the architect in practice the interior designer and students of both disciplines. The new edition offers a clear structure carefully selected material and linking of lighting with other subjects in order to provide the reader with a comprehensive and specifically architectural approach to lighting. Features of this new edition include:Technical knowledge of lighting in the context of architectural design. An emphasis on imagination in architectural light and presentation of the tools necessary in practice for creative design. Additional chapters on the behaviour of light and on the context of design. A strong emphasis on sustainable design and energy saving with data and examples. Analyses of actual lighting schemes and references to current standards and design guides. An up-to-date review of lamp and lighting technology with recommendations on the choice of equipment. A revision of the calculation section with examples and step-by-step instructions based on recent student feedback about the book. GBP 175.00 1
Architect's Legal Pocket Book A little book that's big on information the Architect's Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference on legal issues for architects and architectural students. This handy pocket guide covers key legal principles which will help you to quickly understand the law and where to go for further information. Now in a fully updated new edition this bestselling book covers a wide range of subjects focused on the UK including building legislation negligence liability planning policy and development listed buildings party wall legislation and rights of light. This edition also contains greater coverage of contracts including the RIBA contracts dispute resolution and legal issues in professional practice. Illustrated with clear diagrams and featuring key cases this is an invaluable source of practical information and a comprehensive guide of the current law for architects. It is a book no architect should be without. GBP 160.00 1