Indian Ocean Islands Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics Ocean and Environment Islands are intrinsic parts of the Indian Ocean Region’s physical geography and human landscape. Historically many have played substantial roles in the regional cultural and economic networks as well as in the regional political developments. Today at least three issues bring these islands back to the forefront of the regional and global affairs namely geopolitics and strategic matters environmental conditions and challenges as well as ocean affairs. However there has not been yet a lot of research and publications on this phenomenon of islands’ growing significance in the specific context of the Indian Ocean Region. This book provides a rare attempt to cover various issues related to geopolitics international relations history security anthropology and ocean/environment of Indian Ocean islands and their societies. More specifically it provides case studies on Sri Lanka (foreign policy) Cocos and Christmas Islands (geo-strategy) Chagos Archipelago (history) Mauritius (‘Indo-Mauritians’) Mauritius and Seychelles (maritime security) European Union and the Indian Ocean Islands (international relations) and Sundarban islands (environment and society). The chapters were originally published in a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. | Indian Ocean Islands Illustrated Cases on Geopolitics Ocean and Environment GBP 38.99 1
Introduction to Ocean Circulation and Modeling Introduction to Ocean Circulation and Modeling provide basics for physical oceanography covering ocean properties ocean circulations and their modeling. First part of the book explains concepts of oceanic circulation geostrophy Ekman Sverdrup dynamics Stommel and Munk problems two-layer dynamics stratification thermal and salt diffusion vorticity/instability and so forth. Second part highlights basic implementation framework for ocean models discussion of different models and their unique differences from the common framework with basin-scale modeling regional modeling and interdisciplinary modeling at different space and time scales. Features: Covers ocean properties ocean circulations and their modeling. Explains the centrality of a rotating earth and its implications for ocean and atmosphere in a simple manner. Provides basic facts of ocean dynamics. Illustrative diagrams for clear understanding of key concepts. Outlines interdisciplinary and complex models for societal applications. The book aims at Senior Undergraduate Students Graduate Students and Researchers in Ocean Science and Engineering Ocean Technology Physical Oceanography Ocean Circulation Ocean Modeling Dynamical Oceanography and Earth Science. GBP 105.00 1
Indian Ocean Regionalism Pan-regional constructions in the Indian Ocean are of relatively recent origin are contested and remain relatively weak at present. Sub-regional constructions on the other hand have tended to be more focussed especially in terms of security and have generally been more successful. The principal purpose of this volume is to critically evaluate the debates surrounding these issues and to elucidate some of the main strengths and weaknesses of regionalism at both scales. The discussion begins at the pan-regional scale with an evaluation of pan-regional contestation followed up by a chapter on the main pan-regional grouping – Indian Ocean Region-Association for Regional Cooperation (IOR-ARC) – which was renamed Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) in 2013. Thereafter key examples of sub-regional groupings – South Asia ASEAN SADC and GCC – are critically discussed in turn. The principal readership for this volume will be: scholars of geography politics and international relations; students of Indian Ocean studies; regionalism experts; bureaucrats and politicians both within and outside the Indian Ocean Region who wish to gain insights into Indian Ocean matters; scholars who appreciate a view of regional relations ‘from the inside’. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. | Indian Ocean Regionalism GBP 26.99 1
Africa and the Indian Ocean Region This book examines the presence of Africa as a significant force in the western Indian Ocean. Africa will increasingly play a pivotal role in the future of the geopolitics of the Indian Ocean region. The book considers the scope for greater African involvement in Indian Ocean region-building activities and seeks to encourage a western Indian Ocean dialogue. The book publishes some of the best papers presented at an Indian Ocean Research Group (IORG Inc. ) symposium held in Nairobi Kenya in 2013 entitled The Political Economy of Maritime Africa in the Indian Ocean Region. This symposium was part of a larger project on constructing a sense of Indian Oceanness. Chapters include: India’s new policy of engagement with Africa; China’s growing presence in the Indian Ocean Region; security strategies in the Western Indian Ocean; the increasing importance and significance of the Western Indian Ocean littoral; and cultural linkages between Africa and the Indian Ocean region. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. GBP 42.99 1
Making Ocean Policy The Politics Of Government Organization And Management Written in response to the increasing interest in the making of ocean policy this book surveys the history of U. S. ocean policy ocean policy advocacy and the struggle within government to determine how best to develop and implement a sensible ocean policy. | Making Ocean Policy The Politics Of Government Organization And Management GBP 39.99 1
Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds This book breaks new ground by bringing together multidisciplinary approaches to examine contemporary Indian Ocean worlds. It reconfigures the Indian Ocean as a space for conceptual and theoretical relationality based on social science and humanities scholarship thus moving away from an area-based and geographical approach to Indian Ocean studies. Contributors from a variety of disciplines focus on keywords such as relationality space/place quotidian practices and new networks of memory and maps to offer original insights to reimagine the Indian Ocean. While the volume as a whole considers older histories mobilities and relationships between places in Indian Ocean worlds it is centrally concerned with new connectivities and layered mappings forged in the lived experiences of individuals and communities today. The chapters are steeped in ethnographic multi-modal and other humanities methodologies that examine different sources besides historical archives and textual materials including everyday life cities museums performances the built environment media personal narratives food medical practices or scientific explorations. An important contribution to several fields this book will be of interest to academics of Indian Ocean studies Afro-Asian linkages inter-Asian exchanges Afro-Arab crossroads Asian studies African studies Anthropology History Geography and International Relations. | Reimagining Indian Ocean Worlds GBP 38.99 1
Indian Ocean The New Frontier The present volume curates papers presented at an international conference organized at OUCIP to engage with the oceanic turn in different fields of knowledge embracing Social Sciences Humanities and Physical Sciences to project the Indian Ocean as the new frontier of research across various disciplines. The papers are divided into four sections: The Oceanic Reach has papers reflecting on the received knowledge regarding the historical role and reach of the Indian Ocean and providing new insights in the evolving dynamics of the region. The section on Literature and Culture has essays reflecting the different trajectories within Humanities and Cultural Studies through which Indian Ocean has stimulated the imagination of scholars intellectuals diasporic writers and culture historians. The section on Roots and Routes includes accounts of the historical cultural religious trade and diasporic linkages across oceanic communities inhabiting the vast expanse of the Indian Ocean. The final section on Power Games includes papers that deal with the increasing interests of various international powers in the Indian Ocean region particularly in the context of the shift from the Asian land mass to the enormous presence of the Indian Ocean and the economic political and strategic significance that it has for the entire region. Taken together these contributions offer both an opportunity and a challenge for interested scholars to engage with Indian Ocean as a new frontier of knowledge with enormous potential for research and exploration. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka | Indian Ocean The New Frontier GBP 130.00 1
The Ocean Engineering Handbook Compiled with the help of an internationally acclaimed panel of experts the Ocean Engineering Handbook is the most complete reference available for professionals. It offers you comprehensive coverage of important areas of the theory and practice of oceanic/coastal engineering and technology. This well organized text includes five major sections: Marine Hydro Dynamics and Vehicles Control Modeling Considerations Position Control Systems for Offshore Vessels Applications of Computational Intelligence in the Ocean's Environment and Fiber Optics in Oceanographic Applications. Designed to be used as a traditional handbook it thoroughly covers position control theory and implementations and offers a close look at the present state of ocean engineering. With 200 tables and over 100 figures the Ocean Engineering Handbook will give you a head start in many aspects of oceanic engineering. GBP 59.99 1
Hidden Treasure A Map to the Child's Inner Self This classic edition of Violet Oaklander’s groundbreaking book presents her pioneering approach to engaging with children who enter therapy. A new introduction by Peter Mortola reflects on the ways that Hidden Treasure continues to inform therapeutic practice all over the world. Most of the literature available on working with children is written from a traditional `play therapy’ point of view; the Gestalt therapy-based approach detailed here provides a more effective method for psychotherapeutic work with children of all ages. With a focus on the relationship between the therapist and the client Violet Oaklander shows a wide variety of creative expressive and projective techniques in her work and each chapter reflects and exemplifies the use of this work in the service of therapy. This dynamic approach is applicable to a wide variety of ages as well as individual family and group settings. This book will interest child and adolescent psychotherapists psychologists social workers counsellors school personnel and parents as well as graduate students. | Hidden Treasure A Map to the Child's Inner Self GBP 29.99 1
Hidden Treasure A Map to the Child's Inner Self Hidden Treasure is a follow up to Oaklander's first book Windows To Our Children. Most of the books available in working with this population are written from a traditional 'play therapy' point of view. The Gestalt Therapy-based approach provides a more effective method for psychotherapeutic work with children of all ages. The focus is on the relationship between the therapist and client rather than observation and interpretation. It is a vigorous dynamic approach. Violet Oaklander uses a wide variety of creative expressive and projective techniques in her work and each chapter reflects and exemplifies the use of this work in the service of therapy. The approach is applicable to a wide variety of ages as well as individual family and group settings. The book will interest child and adolescent psychotherapists psychologists social workers counselors interns school personnel as well as graduate-level students. Parents may also find it helpful as well as adults who are interested in the child within. | Hidden Treasure A Map to the Child's Inner Self GBP 130.00 1
The Ocean Sunfishes Evolution Biology and Conservation The Ocean Sunfishes: Evolution Biology and Conservation is the first book to gather into one comprehensive volume our fundamental knowledge of the world-record holding charismatic ocean behemoths in the family Molidae. From evolution and phylogeny to biotoxins biomechanics parasites husbandry and popular culture it outlines recent and future research from leading sunfish experts worldwide This synthesis includes diet foraging behavior migration and fisheries bycatch and overhauls long-standing and outdated perceptions. This book provides the essential go-to resource for both lay and academic audiences alike and anyone interested in exploring one of the ocean’s most elusive and captivating group of fishes. | The Ocean Sunfishes Evolution Biology and Conservation GBP 62.99 1
Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat This book provides a synoptic view of the Indian Ocean and maritime security in its contested waters. Using a historical approach it reveals vital links to events in the present day. The volume: Highlights the competition between major Asian powers to control the ‘String of Pearls’ — a reference to the Chinese attempts at controlling the Indian Ocean periphery. Shows that cooperation amongst the major powers of the region could abate the threat of the potential of conflict becoming global and inviting external intervention. Discusses India’s Look-East policy and the deepening relation between India and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Argues for the need of Indian Ocean states and particularly the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) members of the Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) to look afresh at their political and security issues and common interests. Suggests measures for evolving a robust mechanism of maintaining the Indian Ocean as a sustainable zone of commerce energy security and peace rather than threat. A major contribution on a critical area in Asian geopolitics this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of international relations politics defence studies and maritime security studies along with strategic affairs experts and think tanks. | Indian Ocean and Maritime Security Competition Cooperation and Threat GBP 34.99 1
Shipboard Propulsion Power Electronics and Ocean Energy Shipboard Propulsion Power Electronics and Ocean Energy fills the need for a comprehensive book that covers modern shipboard propulsion and the power electronics and ocean energy technologies that drive it. With a breadth and depth not found in other books it examines the power electronics systems for ship propulsion and for extracting ocean energy which are mirror images of each other. Comprised of sixteen chapters the book is divided into four parts: Power Electronics and Motor Drives explains basic power electronics converters and variable-frequency drives cooling methods and quality of power Electric Propulsion Technologies focuses on the electric propulsion of ships using recently developed permanent magnet and superconducting motors as well as hybrid propulsion using fuel cell photovoltaic and wind power Renewable Ocean Energy Technologies explores renewable ocean energy from waves marine currents and offshore wind farms System Integration Aspects discusses two aspects—energy storage and system reliability—that are essential for any large-scale power system This timely book evolved from the author’s 30 years of work experience at General Electric Lockheed Martin and Westinghouse Electric and 15 years of teaching at the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy. As a textbook it is ideal for an elective course at marine and naval academies with engineering programs. It is also a valuable reference for commercial and military shipbuilders port operators renewable ocean energy developers classification societies machinery and equipment manufacturers researchers and others interested in modern shipboard power and propulsion systems. The information provided herein does not necessarily represent the view of the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy or the U. S. Department of Transportation. This book is a companion to Shipboard Electrical Power Systems (CRC Press 2011) by the same author. GBP 74.99 1
Coastal and Deep Ocean Pollution During the recent decades social political and academic endeavours have been made to improve environmental quality and reduce pollution. In particular the ocean sea and coastal areas show varying degrees of impact from the multiple human activities carried out in the terrestrial as well as in the aquatic environment. Ecology is a science which studies the relationship between organisms and the surrounding environment and in the modern era the marine world is getting increasing attention. For centuries it has been the final reservoir of human garbage; later it became an oil farm with a concomitant increase of coastal population growth and unplanned growth of the fishing industry and the increasing use of sea routes for cargo transport and recreational uses (cruises). All this led to rising contamination with negative effects on biota and even human health. It is then imperative to know the current situation of the world's oceans: that is the main purpose of this book to document at a glance the latest research in the field of ocean pollution. | Coastal and Deep Ocean Pollution GBP 59.99 1
Environmental Citizenship in the Indian Ocean Region The scale and severity of our environmental challenges are quickly becoming apparent. The Indian Ocean region features many places particularly vulnerable to the effects of environmental degradation and climate change which will have profound social economic and cultural impacts. The increasing preoccupation with the state of the environment is also having significant political effects including on the concept and content of citizenship. The language of citizenship has permeated environmental discourse and conversely environmental issues are often articulated in the language of citizenship. This book explores environmental citizenship and civil society responses to environmental challenges in the Indian Ocean region. The articles provide practical insights to improve resilience and adaptation as well as conceptual insights into the nature of environmental citizenship discourse and practice across this vast region from Mauritius to Malaysia. The volume showcases the complex field of environmental citizenship through a wide range of approaches and alongside closely related concepts such as environmental governance environmental education environmental justice and corporate social responsibility. In essence the book provides a rich diverse and multidimensional picture of environmental citizenship in the Indian Ocean region. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in the Journal of the Indian Ocean Region. GBP 38.99 1
Wild Plants The Treasure of Natural Healers This book offers a broad summary of the wild plants and their usage as well as the growing interest in ethnopharmacology research. The book comprises of important issues such as diversity of wild plants with emphasis on medicinal and food plants threats to wild plants and traditional ethnobotanical knowledge their uses in skin diseases snake-bites in cosmeceuticals etc. Moreover the ethnopharmacological relevance of wild plants in Latin America has been discussed. The chapters include a wide range of case studies giving updated evidence on the importance of their wild plant resources from different countries including Peru Nepal Bangladesh India Pakistan Brazil. In addition some specific species are used to explain their potential properties as well as the dangers of their use without guidance of trained natural healers. The book discusses traditional usage and properties of wild plants and is entirely different from other related publications and useful for the researchers working in the areas of conservation biology botany ethnobiology ethnopharmacology policymakers etc. | Wild Plants The Treasure of Natural Healers GBP 66.99 1
Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future. The volume: • Engages with the paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between continents through trade migration and economic processes thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific Atlantic and Indian Oceans; • Discusses oceanic travel accounts by Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was marked by European travel to Asia and Africa without a counterflow of “native travel”; •Examines the connections between South Africa South Asia and South East Asia through histories of Indian indenture and the slave trade and engages with the idea of the ocean and enforced movement; •Compares and connects recent scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of history especially oceanic history historiography critical theory literature geography and Global South studies. | Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime GBP 35.99 1
The Treasure of the Copper Scroll The Opening and Decipherment of the Most Mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls A Unique Inventory of Buried First published in 1960 The Treasure of the Copper Scroll is the companion volume to John Marco Allegro’s People of the Dead Sea Scrolls and tells the story of this unusual buried treasure. Allegro here reveals much hitherto unknown information – the location of many of the cities of the Old Testament events of the second Jewish Revolt and the relation between the Essene community at Qumran and the New Testament interest in healing. With facsimiles of the scroll translations of its texts and a thorough discussion of its significance with maps indicating many of the probable present-day hiding places the book is a truly fascinating report on this unusual document and a first long step toward the unravelling of its secrets. | The Treasure of the Copper Scroll The Opening and Decipherment of the Most Mysterious of the Dead Sea Scrolls A Unique Inventory of Buried GBP 85.00 1
The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity Political Cultural and Economic Impacts The period from the death of Alexander the Great to the rise of the Islam (c. late fourth century BCE to seventh century CE) saw a significant growth in economic diplomatic and cultural exchange between various civilisations in Africa Europe and Asia. This was in large part thanks to the Indian Ocean trade. Peoples living in the Roman Empire Parthia India and South East Asia increasingly had access to exotic foreign products while the lands from which they derived and the peoples inhabiting these lands also captured the imagination finding expression in a number of literary and poetic works. The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity provides a range of chapters that explore the economic political and cultural impact of this trade on these diverse societies written by international experts working in the fields of Classics Archaeology South Asian studies Near Eastern studies and Art History. The three major themes of the book are the development of this trade how consumption and exchange impacted on societal developments and how the Indian Ocean trade influenced the literary creations of Graeco-Roman and Indian authors. This volume will be of interest not only to academics and students of antiquity but also to scholars working on later periods of Indian Ocean history who will find this work a valuable resource. | The Indian Ocean Trade in Antiquity Political Cultural and Economic Impacts GBP 38.99 1
The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology anthropology museum and heritage studies Indian Ocean studies maritime studies South and Southeast Asian studies religious studies and cultural studies. | The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World GBP 42.99 1
Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film Secret Messages and Buried Treasure One of the primary objectives of comparative literature is the study of the relationship of texts also known as intertextuality which is a means of contextualizing and analyzing the way literature grows and flourishes through inspiration and imitation direct or indirect. When the inspiration and imitation is direct and obvious the study of this rapport falls into the more restricted category of hypertextuality. What Steven Walker has labeled a cryptic subtext however is an extreme case of hypertextuality. It involves a series of allusions to another text that have been deliberately inserted by the author into the primary text as potential points of reference. This book takes a deep dive into a broad array of literature and film to explore these allusions and the hidden messages therein. | Cryptic Subtexts in Literature and Film Secret Messages and Buried Treasure GBP 39.99 1
Human Rights and Ocean Governance The Potential of Marine Spatial Planning in Europe This book argues for the utility of human rights in the practice of ocean governance. Maritime spatial planning (MSP) has become the dominant marine management paradigm with MSP frameworks already at various stages of elaboration and implementation in more than half of all coastal states. However as experience with MSP accrues a central systemic shortcoming has become apparent insofar as the normative frameworks that underpin MSP tend to be grounded in a rationalistic and economistic worldview. The result is a post-political neoliberal approach to the implementation of MSP which favours technocratic ‘fixes’ to complex societal problems over efforts to address underlying issues of power and inequality. Building upon the new field of critical MSP studies this book offers a much-neglected legal contribution. More specifically it analyses the extent to which law and particularly human rights law can be utilised to meaningfully challenge the unjust patterns of human-ocean interaction that MSP preserves or creates and so provide a vehicle for the formulation and realisation of transformative blue futures. The book looks to human rights as norms that are uniquely capable of bringing into relief the values cause-and-effect relationships and uncertainties that prevailing capitalist-industrial framings of the ocean tend to downplay or worse disregard. And so from a more pragmatic viewpoint the book argues that the policy and advocacy tools associated with human rights can be used within MSP processes to foster patterns of human-ocean interaction which are more conducive to social and environmental justice. This book will be of interest to legal and planning scholars geographers and others concerned with ocean governance and the ‘blue turn’ in the social sciences and humanities more generally. | Human Rights and Ocean Governance The Potential of Marine Spatial Planning in Europe GBP 130.00 1
Physiology of Marine Mammals Adaptations to the Ocean Suppose you were designing a marine mammal. What would they need to live in the ocean? How would you keep them warm? What design features would allow them to dive for very long periods to extreme depths? Do they need water to drink? How would they minimize the cost of swimming and how would they find their prey in the deep and dark? These questions and more are examined in detail throughout Marine Mammal Physiology which explores how marine mammals live in the sea from a physiological point of view. This undergraduate textbook considers the essential aspects of what makes a marine mammal different from terrestrial mammals beyond just their environment. It focuses on the physiological and biochemical traits that have allowed this group of mammals to effectively exploit the marine environment that is so hostile to humans. The content of this book is organised around common student questions taking the undergraduate's point of view as the starting point. Each chapter provides a set of PowerPoint slides for instructors to use in teaching and students to use as study guides. New Study Questions and Critical Thinking Points conclude each chapter which are each motivated by a Driving Question such as How do mammals stay warm in a cold ocean? or How do mammals survive the crushing pressures of the deep sea? Full-colour images and comprehensive accessible content make this the definitive textbook for marine mammal physiology. | Physiology of Marine Mammals Adaptations to the Ocean GBP 49.99 1
Food From The Sea The Economics And Politics Of Ocean Fisheries This book explores the factors at work in determining the past present and future use of the sea as an important source of protein. It serves as an adjunct text for courses in the economics of natural resources and as a text for courses in fishery economics. | Food From The Sea The Economics And Politics Of Ocean Fisheries GBP 39.99 1
An Analysis of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space In Blue Ocean Strategy W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne tackle the central problem facing all businesses: how to perform better than your competitors? Their solution involves taking a creative approach to the normal view of competition. In the normal framework competition is a zero-sum game: if there are two companies competing for the same market as one does better the other has to do worse. The authors’ creative leap is to suggest one can beat the competition by not competing. Companies should avoid confronting competitors in crowded marketplaces what they call “red oceans ” and instead seek out new markets or “blue oceans. ” Once the blue oceans have been identified companies can get down to the task of creating unique products which exploit that market. Chan and Mauborgne argue for example that a wine company might decide to start appealing to a group previously uninterested in wine. This would be a “blue ocean” market giving the winemaker a huge advantage which they could exploit by creating a wine that appealed to the tastes of a beer-drinking demographic. A classic of business writing Blue Ocean Strategy is creative thinking and problem solving at its best. | An Analysis of W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne's Blue Ocean Strategy How to Create Uncontested Market Space GBP 6.50 1