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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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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

GBP 130.00
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Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

By 2100 more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history provides a new cognitive map of the world and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia an emerging macro-region. The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into sustainable equilibrium depends on the nature of the dialogue people in Africa and Asia will organise. The author argues that a state of equilibrium between the two is achievable provided issues related to gender employment agriculture human–nature relationships and multicultural coexistence are simultaneously addressed. Can future Afrasia present itself as a community determined not to allow the return of predatory practice internally and externally? Will the fates of African and Asian peoples converge or diverge? How about the future relationships between Afrasia and the rest of the world? Exploring these questions using multiple disciplines this book will be of interest to professional researchers and graduate students in IR and Afro-Asian relations as well as Asian and African area studies demography geography history development economics anthropology language education and religious studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

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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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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The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenges of the crisis along with the discourses that have developed on this issue via the local and international media and literature. The volume also suggests ways to build sustainable solutions for the Rohingya refugees. It discusses wide-ranging issues including a historical overview of the Rohingyas; the Rakhine State of Myanmar and the issue of religious toleration; the struggle for existence in Malaysia and Thailand; vulnerable Rohingya in Bangladesh; and stratified lives in Bangladeshi camps. It also sheds light on social insecurity among Rohingya adolescent girls; understanding gender-based violence in camps; the portrayal of the crisis in Chinese and Indian newspapers; and Bangladesh’s policy in addressing the Rohingya crisis and repatriation. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology social anthropology refugee studies peace and conflict studies international relations human rights political studies gender studies and South Asian studies. | The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

GBP 130.00
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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

GBP 145.00
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Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

This book begins with the distinction between the so-called lived body or felt body (Leib) and the physical body (Körper) tracing the conceptual history of this distinction through key figures in philosophical and social thoughts and articulating a theory of the lived body that draws on the New Phenomenology developed by Hermann Schmitz. An explanation of our being-in-the-world in terms of a felt-bodily communication with all perceived forms and their affective-bodily resonance in us Being a Lived Body integrates and critically assesses the leading theories of embodiment while presenting a new approach to the body. It will therefore appeal to scholars of philosophy social theory and anthropology with interests in phenomenology and embodiment. | Being a Lived Body From a Neo-phenomenological Point of View

GBP 130.00
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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.

GBP 130.00
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Music: A Social Experience

Music: A Social Experience

By taking a thematic approach to the study of music appreciation Music: A Social Experience Third Edition demonstrates how music reflects and deepens both individual and cultural understandings. Musical examples are presented within universally experienced social frameworks (ethnicity gender spirituality love and more) to help students understand how music reflects and advances human experience. Students engage with multiple genres (Western art music popular music and world music) through lively narratives and innovative activities. A companion website features streaming audio and instructors' resources. The third edition includes: A chapter on Black American music A revised and developed chapter on gender and sexuality A dozen additional Listening Guides with an emphasis on contemporary popular music Over 100 new full-color images Updated teacher and student resources on the book’s companion website Expanded content throughout highlighting the social cultural and technological changes since publication of the previous edition The culmination of thirty years of experimentation in the music appreciation classroom this third edition of Music: A Social Experience continues to empower lifelong musical learning by engaging students and readers on their own terms.

GBP 89.99
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Parasitology A Conceptual Approach

Parasitology A Conceptual Approach

Produced amidst the still rippling effects of a pandemic and as the world experiences the increasing burden of global warming and a rapidly changing biosphere the second edition of Parasitology: A Conceptual Approach offers a timely overview of the eukaryotic parasites affecting human health and the health of domestic and wild animals and plants. The book offers a broadly encompassing integrative view of the phenomenon of parasitism and of the remarkable diversity of the world’s parasites. This second edition has been thoroughly updated on all aspects of parasitism including expanded sections on parasite biodiversity parasite genomes the interface between parasitology and disease ecology and applications of new techniques like CRISPR and gene drives for parasite control. Key selling features: Emphasis on a distinctive integrative and conceptual approach rather than the taxon-by-taxon approach used in most parasitology books A concise handy Rogues Gallery section that summarizes the basic biology for the most important eukaryotic parasites of humans and domestic animals one a reader is repeatedly directed to throughout the chapters Outstanding full-color illustrations and photographs to reinforce key points The use of text boxes to set apart important topics or ideas that deserve special emphasis Provision of end-of-chapter summaries questions to test understanding and key references for those wishing to seek further information Reference to particular URLs to highlight recent developments that often pose new and distinctive problems awaiting solution Parasitology: A Conceptual Approach is designed for an upper-level undergraduate audience but its readability and careful explanation of underlying scientific concepts and terminology makes it appropriate for anyone seeking a broader understanding of the impact of infectious organisms on our well-being and the changes underway in the modern world. | Parasitology A Conceptual Approach

GBP 94.99
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Genocide A Comprehensive Introduction

Genocide A Comprehensive Introduction

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity’s enduring blights. Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field this unique book: Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept including the concept of genocidal intent and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes. Discusses the role of state-building imperialism war and social revolution in fuelling genocide. Supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide each with a supplementary study. Explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences including psychology sociology anthropology political science/international relations and gender studies. Considers The Future of Genocide with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth justice and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention. Highlights of the new edition include: Nigeria/Biafra as a contested case of genocide Extensive new material on the Kurds Islamic State/ISIS and the civil wars/genocide in Iraq and Syria. Conflict and atrocities in the world’s newest state South Sudan. The role activities and constraints of the United Nations Office of Genocide Prevention. Many new testimonies from genocide victims survivors witnesses—and perpetrators. Dozens of new images including a special photographic essay. Written in clear and lively prose with over 240 illustrations and maps Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction remains the indispensable text for new generations of genocide study and scholarship. An accompanying website (www. genocidetext. net) features a broad selection of supplementary materials teaching aids and Internet resources. | Genocide A Comprehensive Introduction

GBP 175.00
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Indian Philosophy A Reader

Indian Philosophy A Reader

The selection of essays in this volume aims to present Indian philosophy as an autonomous intellectual tradition with its own internal dynamics rhythms techniques problematics and approaches and to show how the richness of this tradition has a vital role in a newly emerging global and international discipline of philosophy one in which a diversity of traditions exchange ideas and grow through their interaction with one another. This new volume is an abridgement of the four-volume set Indian Philosophy published by Routledge in 2016. The selection of chapters was made in collaboration with the editors at Routledge. The purpose of this volume is to reintroduce the heritage of ‘Indian Philosophy’ to a contemporary readership by acquainting the reader with some of the core themes of Indian philosophy such as the concept of philosophy philosophy as a search for the self Buddhist philosophy of mind metaphysics epistemology language and logic. | Indian Philosophy A Reader

GBP 110.00
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Grammar: A Pocket Guide

Grammar: A Pocket Guide

If you've ever wanted a quick and easy guide to verbs and adverbs commas and apostrophes clauses and prepositions then this is a must-have book for you. Easing readers gently into the study of the structure of English Grammar: A Pocket Guide covers common questions such as:Is it 10 items or less or 10 items or fewer?Should I say If I were you or if I was you?Can you start a sentence with And or Because?When do you use whom?What is the difference between lie and lay?Is it I feel bad or I feel badly? Using examples from everyday speech and writing this handy book cracks the code of off-putting grammatical jargon so that readers can enjoy learning how to think and talk about grammar. With practice exercises a glossary and suggestions for further reading Grammar: A Pocket Guide is the perfect foundation for anyone wanting to improve his or her writing and communication.

GBP 175.00
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Virgil's Aeneid A Critical Description

Virgil's Aeneid A Critical Description

First published in 1968 Virgil’s Aeneid is to help all who approach the long and difficult poem seriously (in Latin or in English) to read it with discerning appreciation. This is not a handbook nor is it a commentary: it is a critical description from a number of aspects of a poetic structure. A detailed analysis of the twelve books is preceded by a preliminary exploration of the poem’s central purpose a careful reconstruction of the historical and artistic circumstances and a description of the main outlines of the poem’s structure; two further chapters provide a discussion of a number of theoretical problem and an analysis of the verbal fabric. This book will be of interest to students of classical literature and history. | Virgil's Aeneid A Critical Description

GBP 115.00
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Frederick Douglass A Biography

Frederick Douglass A Biography

This biography written by Booker T. Washington one of most important post-Civil War African-American thinkers is an account of the life and career of Frederick Douglass. The biographical account is set within a nation struggling to solve one of the most excruciating social problems that any modern people facedslavery. This volume encompasses the experiences of Frederick Douglass as a slave and then as a public man through the anti-slavery movement the Civil War and the period of reconstruction. Douglass's fame as a speaker was secure. His position as the champion of an oppressed race was in his own generation as picturesque as it was unique. From the blight of slavery Douglass emerged passed through and triumphed over the lingering prejudice that he encountered as a freeman. Like the author of his biography Douglass seized his place in history. His life is an epic one that finds few to equal it in the realms of either romance or reality. Douglass was a role model to the author and his early narrative was a guide to black and white people alike. Among the subjects covered are the Genesis of the Anti-Slavery Agitation the Fugitive Slave Law the Underground Railway the American Colonization Society the Conflict in Kansas for Free Soil the John Brown Raid the Civil War the Enlistment of Colored Troops and Reconstruction. | Frederick Douglass A Biography

GBP 130.00
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A Study of Thinking

A Study of Thinking

A Study of Thinking is a pioneering account of how human beings achieve a measure of rationality in spite of the constraints imposed by bias limited attention and memory and the risks of error imposed by pressures of time and ignorance. First published in 1956 and hailed at its appearance as a groundbreaking study it is still read three decades later as a major contribution to our understanding of the mind. In their insightful new introduction the authors relate the book to the cognitive revolution and its handmaiden artificial intelligence. The central theme of the work is that the scientific study of human thinking must concentrate upon meaning and its achievement rather than upon the behaviorists' stimuli and responses and the presumed connections between them. The book's point of departure is how human beings group the world of particulars into ordered classes and categories-concepts-in order to impose a coherent and manageable order upon that world. But rather than relying principally on philosophical speculation to make its point A Study of Thinking reports dozens of experiments to elucidate the strategies that people use in penetrating to the deep structure of the information they encounter. This seminal study was a major event in the cognitive revolution of the 1950s. Reviewing it at the time J. Robert Oppenheimer said it has in many ways the flavor of conviction which makes it point to the future.

GBP 145.00
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Incest A Family Pattern

Incest A Family Pattern

In the early 1980s incest was ceasing to be a taboo subject. In Britain there was much conjecture but little knowledge about it although some estimates suggested that as many as one child in ten would experience some form of sexual abuse within the family. Originally published in 1982 Jean Renvoize had travelled around the USA where considerable attention had been paid to incest in the previous few years meeting professionals ranging through paediatricians policemen university researchers social workers lawyers and – more important – victims and abusers themselves. This knowledge added to the sparser British research opened up a hitherto closed subject bringing a wide range of controversial information to an audience composed of the general public as well as professionals involved in this field at the time. The author’s clear and easy style which characterised her earlier books on related subjects – Children in Danger and Web of Violence – makes this a work of general as well as specialist interest. | Incest A Family Pattern

GBP 90.00
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