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Real World modo: The Authorized Guide In the Trenches with modo

Real World modo: The Authorized Guide In the Trenches with modo

Explore one of the most exciting 3D tools on the market modo with Real-World modo - the Luxology approved concept and principle- driven guide. Learn to apply the revolutionary artist-friendly modo toolset with its powerful 3D rendering engine to your project workflows. In a clear motivating and entertaining style Luxology insider Wes McDermott provides captivating 3D imagery real world observations and valuable tips and tricks all in one place - an invaluable resource for any digital artist. Explore 3D techniques and principles with chapters on modelling UV mapping texturing animation lighting and rendering. Learn to leverage the technical elements of the modo rendering engine including Antialaising Shading Rate and Irradiance Caching from an artist's perspective. Integrate modo with other 3D applications such as Maya and Mudbox and learn to properly setup a linear rendering workflow within modo. For practical hands-on techniques you can visit www. wesmcdermott. com for video walk-throughs that further enhance the coverage in the book. | Real World modo: The Authorized Guide In the Trenches with modo

GBP 175.00
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E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

Through attending to the nonhuman E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism: Queer Matters places Forster’s fiction in conversation with contemporary debates concerned with the intersection of neomaterialism environmental humanities and queer ecology. The book revisits Forster’s liberal humanism from a materialist perspective by focusing on humans’ embodied activities in artificial and natural environments. By examining the everyday embodied experiences of characters the book thus brings to the fore insignificant and sometimes overlooked aspects in Forster’s fiction. It also places importance on the texts’ treatment of queer intimacy as an embodied experience that can transcend sexual desire. The book acknowledges nonhuman agency as central to our understanding of queerness in Forster’s texts and studies the representation of formless matters such as dust as a way through which Forster’s ecological concerns arise by linking the fate of oppressed humans with oppressed nonhuman others. | E. M. Forster’s Material Humanism Queer Matters

GBP 130.00
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e-HR Using Intranets to Improve the Effectiveness of Your People

e-HR Using Intranets to Improve the Effectiveness of Your People

Title first published in 2003. Despite all the hype about e-learning the real breakthrough in technology at least as far as HR goes is in the development of the corporate intranet for people management purposes. Bryan Hopkins and James Markham's book explains the potential for intranets in every aspect of HR: personnel administration performance management employee development communication and knowledge management as well as training and e-learning. It asks and answers the key questions you need to ask yourself and provides case studies illustrating how organizations have successfully exploited their intranet to help their people work more effectively and efficiently. HR managers are under pressure to cut costs increase the effectiveness and range of the services they deliver. In many organizations there is also considerable pressure to maximise the returns on investment in technology. This book provides you with the means to achieve all of these goals. | e-HR Using Intranets to Improve the Effectiveness of Your People

GBP 110.00
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The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

This book explores a key aspect of journalism history from a sociological perspective: the rise of the periodical press. With a focus not on the economic and technological causes of this revolution but on the social and political consequences the book takes a global look at this key development in the British press. Taking as a point of departure the theory of E. S. Dallas who defined the periodical as 'the great event in modern history' the book explores these premises and conclusions regarding authorship publishing and readership considering the nineteenth century as a whole. After an introductory section discussing questions of theory and method the analysis first offers an overview of the quantitative growth of the periodical market whether measured in terms of publications readership or authorship before turning to a more detailed consideration of its qualitative determinants and effects again distinguishing the same three aspects. Offering new insight into this key turning point in journalism history this book will be of interest to all students and scholars of journalism and journalism history media history media and communication studies British history and modern history. | The Periodical Press Revolution E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System

GBP 130.00
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Japan and the Pursuit of a New American Identity Work and Education in a Multicultural Age

Japan and the Pursuit of a New American Identity Work and Education in a Multicultural Age

First published in 1993 Japan and the Pursuit of a New American Identity is a sophisticated analysis of the mission of education in a multicultural age. Arguing that American education has been too long constrained by conservative discourse – which positions schools and students as weapons in an international competition with the Japanese – author Walter Feinberg assesses the cultural and philosophical limits of conservative vision as popularized by exponents Allan Bloom and E. D. Hirsch. Feinberg then develops a vision of education which accommodates the growing cultural diversity of American society and American schools. At the heart of Feinberg’s study is a unique philosophical analysis of Japanese and American attitudes towards work and education. Through a series of sensitively developed interview with American and Japanese workers managers parents and teachers who have experienced life in one another’s culture he examines the implications of our profound cultural differences with the Japanese for the development of a new American multicultural identity. This book will be of interest to students of education pedagogy history and public policy. | Japan and the Pursuit of a New American Identity Work and Education in a Multicultural Age

GBP 90.00
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Gender Church and State in Early Modern Germany Essays by Merry E. Wiesner

Gender Church and State in Early Modern Germany Essays by Merry E. Wiesner

This text brings together eleven important pieces by Merry Wiesner several of them previously unpublished on three major areas in the study of women and gender in early modern Germany: religion law and work. The final chapter specially written for this volume addresses three fundamental questions: Did women have a Reformation?; What effects did the development of capitalism have on women?; and Do the concepts 'Renaissance' and 'Early Modern' apply to women's experience? The book concludes with an extensive bibliographical essay exploring both English and German scholarship. | Gender Church and State in Early Modern Germany Essays by Merry E. Wiesner

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A New Dictionary of Music

A New Dictionary of Music

What is a fugue? What is the difference between a saxophone and a saxhorn? Who besides Puccini wrote an opera called La Boheme? In what year was the National Broadcasting Company Orchestra formed under Arturo Toscanini's direction? These and thousands of similar questions are answered in this comprehensive dictionary that remains unrivaled as a single-volume summary. A New Dictionary of Music is a basic reference work for anyone interested in music whether performer or layman. It covers orchestral solo choral and chamber music opera and (in its musical aspects) the ballet. There are entries for composers (with biographies and details of compositions); works well known by their titles such as operas and symphonic poems; orchestras performers and conductors of importance today; musical instruments (including those of the dance and brass bands); and technical terms. English names and terms are used whenever possible but foreign terms in general use are cross-referenced. Particular importance has been attached to bringing the reader abreast of new musical developments. The composers and musical works chosen were those most likely to be encountered. Where an opera is given an entry a brief explanation of the title follows. Similarly explication is provided for other works bearing literary or otherwise allusive titles. Among performers and conductors only the following are included: those who although dead continue to be prominent through recorded performances (e. g. Gigli); the highest-ranking international artists of today plus a very few apparently on the verge of attaining that rank; and a few who though not necessarily at the very head of their profession are closely associated with composers in bringing out new works or are conductors in charge of important orchestras.

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World Music: A Global Journey

World Music: A Global Journey

World Music: A Global Journey Fifth Edition explores the diversity of musical expression around the world taking students across the globe to experience cultural traditions that challenge the ear the mind and the spirit. It surveys world music within a systematic study of the world’s major cultures supported by a strong pedagogical framework. Providing historical and cultural overviews of the world’s seven continents and fortified by in-depth studies of varied musical traditions World Music: A Global Journey is known for its student-friendly approach and lively visits to “sites” that host musics of the world. The robust companion website with audio is ideal for online coursework. FEATURES Easy-to-follow proven chapter structure organized by geographic region Listening Guides detailed maps and hundreds of colorful photos with more than two dozen new images Coverage of an eclectic blend of world musics including both popular and traditional music New “Inside Look” entries spotlight distinguished ethnomusicologists and musicians such as Patricia Shehan-Campbell Oleg Kruglyakov Chan E. Park Vivek Virani and Mia Gormandy New “Musical Markers” feature that summarizes key musical elements of each audio example New site visiting Georgia a new “Explore More” feature focused on Slovenian Polka a new track for North Indian Raga with sitar and much more New streamed music delivery! Hosted on the book’s dedicated website Audiobook—extra value! Presented by chapter on the book website Used in classrooms around the globe World Music: A Global Journey Fifth Edition is an internationally acclaimed and best-selling fundamental resource for students and instructors to begin their exploration of world music and culture. www. routledge. com/cw/miller

GBP 89.99
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E-attachment and Online Communication The Changing Context of the Clinical Diagnosis and Psychological Treatment

E-attachment and Online Communication The Changing Context of the Clinical Diagnosis and Psychological Treatment

This book examines the use of modern technologies in clinical psychological practice. It considers how we define attachment in an age where changes in technology and the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the prevalence of online contact in the process of diagnosis and psychological treatment. Based on an attachment paradigm that is relatively unexplored the book outlines how modern online contact influences mental health and development along with the therapeutic relationship between client and professional. It discusses people’s relationships with new technologies how relationships can be established using these technologies and how these technologies affect professional relationships between psychologists and their clients which they define as e-attachment. In the context of new technologies the book draws on neurobiology and clinical psychology to consider mental health social functioning and emotional regulation. Presenting both theory and examples from case studies this cutting-edge book will be of great interest to researchers academics and post-graduate students in the fields of clinical psychology psychotherapy and mental health. Those also carrying out research into digital and online learning within the field of mental health will also benefit from this text. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license | E-attachment and Online Communication The Changing Context of the Clinical Diagnosis and Psychological Treatment

GBP 130.00
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Classical Islam A History 600 A

Classical Islam A History 600 A

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter the author opens by reminding us that the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history. Classical Islam also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam despite its triumphs on the fields of battle telling its history is the only way open to us to render that essence accessible and show it from all sides. The work offers a grand narrative of a faith that offers an interpretation of the world a way of life and a style of thinking that goes far beyond institutional or political supports. The relevance of this historical perspective is beyond dispute. The period from 610 A. D. when Muhammad received his call until the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 is known as the classical period of Islam. This was the period of the great expansion of Islam both as a political structure and as a religious and intellectual community. It established the base for the development of the high Islamic civilization of North Africa the Near East Persia and India as well as further expansion of the Islamic religious and intellectual community throughout the world. This book presents an authoritative history of the period written by one of the world's leading experts on the subject. Classical Islam examines the relationships both cultural and political between the Islamic world and the Mediterranean countries and India and elaborates on the economic social and intellectual factors and forces that shaped the Muslim world and molded its interactions with infidels. The work is written in a clear and direct narrative form emphasizing simultaneously the major intellectual trends and the political events and tendencies of the formative period in Islamic history that still resonates today. | Classical Islam A History 600 A

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Healthcare as a Universal Human Right Sustainability in Global Health

Healthcare as a Universal Human Right Sustainability in Global Health

This important book outlines how despite varying levels of global socio-economic development governments around the world can guarantee their citizens’ fundamental right to basic healthcare. Grounded in the philosophical position that healthcare is an essential element to human dignity the book moves beyond this theoretical principle to offer policy-makers a basis for health policies based on public accountability and social responsiveness. Also emphasizing the importance of global co-operation particularly in the area of health promotion and communication it addresses too the issue of financial sustainability suggesting robust mechanisms of economic and social regulation. New opportunities created by e-health evidence-based data and artificial intelligence are all highlighted and discussed as is the issue of patient rights. Students and researchers across bioethics public health and medical sociology will find this book fascinating reading as will policy-makers in the field. | Healthcare as a Universal Human Right Sustainability in Global Health

GBP 130.00
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The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh addresses the complex intersection of global politics and local dynamics in Bangladesh particularly in relation to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat). With multidisciplinary insights and perspectives the contributors to this volume provide an objective socio-historical analysis of Islam politics and society in Bangladesh. Separating fact from fiction they attempt to uncover the truth about Jamaat the largest Islam-based political party in the country. Suppressed and marginalized by the BAL regime Jamaat remains active in the social landscape of Bangladesh. What makes Jamaat so resilient against all odds? Can it peacefully coexist with rival political parties in a polarized nation such as Bangladesh? This book seeks to answer these crucial questions. An essential read for those interested in Bangladeshi politics and political Islam. | The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh Islam Politics and Society in a Post-Democratic Nation

GBP 130.00
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Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

This ground-breaking nineteenth-century volume is of considerable scholarly interest as an example of a femino-centric popular novel. Celia in Search of a Husband is a high-spirited and entertaining example of an anti-Jacobin novel written at the height of the backlash against female intellectuals during the Napoleonic wars. Despite this hostile climate the author sought to acknowledge the importance of female education and independence whilst at the same time endorsing the traditional Christian teaching that a wife should be subordinate to her husband. Although second wave feminists prioritized the progressive writers with whom they more readily identified more recent scholarship has rightly paid close attention to conservative or moralist writers such as Miss Byron and recognized how influential they were. Accompanied by extensive editorial commentary this edition of Celia in Search of a Husband contributes to this scholarship on the literary history of women’s writing and will be a welcome to those with a particularly interest in women’s writing satiric novels and spoofs and Jane Austen. | Celia in Search of a Husband: By a Modern Antique

GBP 120.00
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Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices innovations and contestations. While community food initiatives aim to tackle issues like food security food waste or food poverty it is a cause for concern for many when they are framed as the next big solution to the problems of the current industrialised food system. They have been critiqued for being too neoliberal elitist and localist; for not challenging structural inequalities (e. g. racism privilege exclusion colonialism capitalism); and for reproducing these inequalities within their own contexts. This edited volume examines the everyday realities of community food initiatives focusing on both their hopes and their troubles their limitations and failures but also their best intentions missions and models alongside their capacity to create hope in difficult times. The stories presented in this book are grounded in contemporary theoretical debates on neoliberalism diverse economies food justice community and inclusion and social innovation and help to sharpen these as conceptual tools for interrogating community food initiatives as sites of both hope and trouble. The novelty of this volume is its focus on the everyday doings of these initiatives in particular places and contexts with different constraints and opportunities. This grounded relational and place-based approach allows us to move beyond more traditional framings in which community food initiatives are either applauded for their potential or criticized for their limitations. It enables researchers and practitioners to explore how community food initiatives can realize their potential for creating alternative food futures and generates innovative pathways for theorising the mutual interplay of food production and consumption. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of critical food studies food security public health and nutrition as well as human geographers sociologists and anthropologists with an interest in food. | Community Food Initiatives A Critical Reparative Approach

GBP 130.00
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E.J. Lowe and Ontology

E.J. Lowe and Ontology

This volume collects fifteen original essays on E. J. Lowe’s work on metaphysics and ontology. The essays connect Lowe’s insights with contemporary issues in metaphysics. E. J. Lowe (1950–2014) was one of the most influential analytical philosophers of the twentieth and early twenty-first century. Drawing inspiration from Aristotle's thought E. J. Lowe treated metaphysics as an autonomous discipline concerned with the fundamental structure of reality. The chapters in this volume reflect on his path-breaking work. They deal with a wide range of metaphysical issues including four-category ontology the causal and non-causal aspects of agency categorial fundamentality and non-fundamentality the existence of relations property dualism powers and abilities personal identity predication and topological ontology. Taken together the chapters reflect the liveliness of contemporary debates in metaphysics and the enduring impact of Lowe’s thought on them. E. J. Lowe and Ontology will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in metaphysics and philosophy of mind. | E. J. Lowe and Ontology

GBP 130.00
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Human Resources Management in Multinational Companies A Central European Perspective

Human Resources Management in Multinational Companies A Central European Perspective

Human resource management (HRM) has a significant impact on companies' performance as evidenced by research conducted in multinational companies (MNCs) based in Central Europe. This book provides a unique perspective of activities conducted in the HRM field in local subsidiaries of such enterprises. It also presents results verifying many hypotheses for each of the six models for single HRM subfunctions and their four relationships with the results of company performance. Particular chapters are devoted to activities including staffing the organization shaping employee work engagement and job satisfaction conducting employee performance appraisal employee development managerial staff development and employer branding. The author used the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling to verify the research hypotheses. Readers will acquire knowledge about HRM practices in organizations in which the overwhelming ownership capital belongs to MNCs headquartered in Central Europe. The research findings presented confirm the positive impact that HRM activities have on the results of this type of enterprise in such areas as finance quality innovation and HRM itself. The research also sheds light on the new interesting regularities identified in this regard e. g. the perception of human factor as a competitive factor. This book will be of interest to academics researchers and advanced or postgraduate students who are interested in the latest research on HRM in MNCs in the region of Central Europe. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Human Resources Management in Multinational Companies A Central European Perspective

GBP 130.00
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Understanding Teacher Learning in Professional Learning Communities in China Experiences from a Shanghai Junior Secondary School

Understanding Teacher Learning in Professional Learning Communities in China Experiences from a Shanghai Junior Secondary School

Based on six-month fieldwork in a junior secondary school in Shanghai this book qualitatively investigates the implementation of Teaching Research Groups (TRGs) a form of school-based Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) in China and teachers’ different professional learning experiences within the structure of TRGs. The author situates teacher professional learning in TRGs within broader historical social and cultural contexts and further suggests that the practice of TRGs reflects the Chinese approach of balancing the seemly complex dualities (e. g. commitment and control collaboration and authority and individual and collective approaches) in educational settings. This book supplements the present knowledge base on PLCs in the context of China and thus enriches the global discussion on constructing effective PLCs for teacher professional learning. Scholars and students studying teacher professional learning and development PLCs school improvement and Chinese schooling would find this book helpful. | Understanding Teacher Learning in Professional Learning Communities in China Experiences from a Shanghai Junior Secondary School

GBP 130.00
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A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

This book develops an original theory of decision-making based on the concept of plausibility. The author advocates plausible reasoning as a general philosophical method and demonstrates how it can be applied to problems in argumentation theory scientific theory choice risk management ethics law economics and epistemology. Human decisions are conditioned by formidable uncertainty. The standard resource for dealing rationally with uncertainty is the mathematical concept of probability. The probability calculus is well-known but since the numerical demands for applying it cannot usually be met it is not widely applicable. By contrast the concept of plausibility is widely applicable but it is little known. This book relies on a generalized concept of plausibility whose strength is its adaptability. The adaptability is due to a novel form of decision theory that takes plausibilities as inputs. This form of decision theory remains applicable to decisions informed by sharp probabilities and utilities but it can also be applied to decisions that must be made without them. It can aid in the rationally critical enterprise of discriminating good arguments from bad and this can foster philosophical progress. A Plea for Plausibility will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in argumentation theory philosophy of science ethics epistemology economics law and risk management. | A Plea for Plausibility Toward a Comparative Decision Theory

GBP 120.00
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Risk A Sociological Theory

Risk A Sociological Theory

A great deal of attention has been devoted to risk research. Sociologists in general have limited themselves to varying recognitions of a society at risk and have traced out the paths to disaster. The detailed research has yet to be undertaken. In Risk now available in paperback Niklas Luhmann develops a theoretical program for such research. His premise is that the concept of risk projects essential aspects of our description of the future onto the present. Risk is conceived as the possibility of triggering unexpected unlikely and detrimental consequences by means of a decision attributable to a decision maker. | Risk A Sociological Theory

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A Preface to Marlowe

A Preface to Marlowe

This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. It includes thorough investigations of his major plays Tamburlaine Edward II The Jew of Malta and Doctor Faustus as well as a full discussion of The Massacre at Paris Dido Queen of Carthage and all his extant poetry. Analysis of Faustus takes full account of both A and B text versions. Thoroughly researched and yet presented in an accessible engaging style A Preface to Marlowe reads Marlowe's life and times as well as his work in the light of current critical theory. Consequently it is a vital guide for all students of early modern drama. As well as providing sharp analysis of stage history Dr Simkin reflects on the wider significance of a stage-oriented approach. The result is a reading of Marlowe that re-opens debates about his status as a radical figure and as a subversive playwright and invites the reader to experience the plays as immediate exciting 'live' documents.

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