Nowadays, genetics focuses on DNA. Just like the first edition, the theme of this new edition, Introduction to Genetics: A Molecular Approach, is therefore the progression from molecules (DNA and genes) to processes (gene expression and DNA replication) to systems (cells, organisms and populations). This progression reflects both the basic logic of life and the way in which modern biological research is structured. The molecular approach is particularly suitable for students for whom genetics is part of a broader program in biology, biochemistry, the biomedical sciences or biotechnology. This book presents the basic facts and concepts with enough depth of knowledge to stimulate students to move on to more advanced aspects of the subject.

This second edition has been thoroughly updated to cover new discoveries and developments in genetics from the last ten years. There are new chapters that introduce important techniques such as DNA sequencing and gene editing, and the applications of genetics in our modern world are covered in chapters describing topics as diverse as gene therapy and the use of ancient DNA to study prehistoric ecosystems.

Key Features:

This book provides a molecular approach to the study of genetics.

It is a highly accessible and well-structured book with chapters organized into four parts to aid navigation.

It presents high-quality illustrations to elucidate the various concepts and mechanisms.

Each chapter ends with a Key Concepts section, which serves to summarize the most essential points.

Self-study questions enable the reader to assess their comprehension of chapter content, and discussion topics facilitate a deeper understanding of the material by encouraging conversation and critical evaluation.

Key terms are emboldened throughout the text and are listed at the end of each chapter, and definitions can be found in the Glossary.

For instructors who adopt the book, an affiliated question bank is free to download.

Table of Contents

1. What is Genetics and Why is it So Important?

PART 1. GENES AS UNITS OF BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION

2. DNA

3. Genes

4. Transcription of DNA to RNA

5. Types of RNA Molecule: Messenger RNA

6. Types of RNA Molecule: Ribosomal and Transfer RNA

7. The Genetic Code

8. Protein Synthesis

9. Control of Gene Expression

10. DNA Replication

11. Mutation and DNA Repair

PART 2. GENES AS UNITS OF INHERITANCE

12. Inheritance of Genes during Virus Infection Cycles

13. Inheritance of Genes in Bacteria

14. Inheritance of Genes during Eukaryotic Cell Division

15. Inheritance of Genes during Eukaryotic Sexual Reproduction

16. Inheritance of Genes in Populations

PART 3. HOW GENES ARE STUDIED

17 Mapping the Positions of Genes in Chromosomes

18 Sequencing Genes and Genomes

PART 4. GENETICS IN OUR MODERN WORLD

19. Genes in Differentiation and Development

20. The Human Genome

21. Genes and Medicine

22. DNA in Forensic Genetics and Technology

23. Genes in Industry and Agriculture

24. The Ethical Issues Raised by Modern Genetics

Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach, Eleventh Edition provides an overview of the academic field of study known as human motor development, the examination of lifelong changes in human movement. The book uses a holistic approach and emphasizes the importance of intellectual, social, and physical development and their impact on human motor development at all ages. The unique approach of this book includes the relationships between motor development and critical interactions with cognitive, social, and physical changes across the lifespan.

Organized into five parts, the book examines key topics in motor development, including the relationship between cognitive and social development and motor development, factors affecting development, changes across the lifespan, and assessment in motor development, with special attention being applied to adulthood and older adulthood, given the increasing numbers of people in those age groups worldwide. Each chapter includes chapter objectives, a summary, a list of key concepts, questions for reflection, a list of related online resources, and an extensive reference list.

Highly illustrated and written for student accessibility by providing access to a fully updated companion website, which includes laboratory exercises, an instructors’ manual, a test bank, and lecture slides, Human Motor Development: A Lifespan Approach is essential reading for students of motor control and development, kinesiology, and human performance and for students interested in physical therapy, physical education, and exercise science.

Table of Contents

Part I: An Overview of Development

1. Introduction to Motor Development

2. Cognitive and Motor Development

3. Social and Motor Development

Part II: Factors That Affect Development

4. Prenatal Development Factors

5. Effects of Early Stimulation and Deprivation

Part III: Physical Changes across the Lifespan

6. Growth and Maturation

7. Physiological Changes: Health‑Related Physical Fitness

8. Movement and the Changing Senses

Part IV: Movement across the Lifespan

9. Infant Reflexes and Stereotypies

10. Voluntary Movements of Infancy

11. Fine Motor Development

12. Fundamental Locomotion Skills of Childhood

13. Fundamental Object‑Control Skills of Childhood

14. Youth Sports

15. Movement in Adulthood

Part V: Assessing Motor Development

16. Assessment

This text is among the first to reveal the intricacies of an airline’s Operations Control Centre; especially the thought processes, information flows, and strategies taken to mitigate disruptions.

Airline Operations Control provides a deep level of description, explanation and detail into the activities of a range of highly professional and expert staff managing the ‘sharp’ end of the airline. It aims to fill a void as little is understood about this area, and very little is written for practitioners in the airline business. The book offers a comprehensive look at the make-up of the Operations Centre, its component sections, and the processes that occur both in preparing for and executing the current day’s schedules. Several chapters provide real-life scenarios and demonstrate how Operations Centres manage evolving situations – what they need to take into account, and how they need to have Plan B and Plan C ready when things don’t go right.

This book is designed to deliver knowledge gains to both new and experienced aviation industry practitioners with regards to vital operational aspects. Additionally, it also offers students of air transport management a readily accessible and real-world-perspective guide to a crucial function present within every airline.

Table of Contents

Part I: Operations Function 1: Operations Control 2: Composition of the IOC 3: Operational Planning and Preparation 4: Operational Processes Part II: Operational Control in Practice 5: Scenario based Information Flows 6: Weather Scenario: Snow at JFK Airport 7: Weather Scenario: Thunderstorms at SYD Airport 8: Multi-Engineering Scenario: Unserviceabilities in the Network 9: Operations Control in the Future

The seventh edition of Sociology, Work and Organisation is outstandingly effective in explaining how we can use the sociological imagination to understand the nature of institutions of work, organisations, occupations, management and employment and how they are changing in the twenty-first century.

Intellectual and accessible, it is unrivalled in the breadth of its coverage and its authoritative overview of both traditional and emergent themes in the sociological study of work and organisation. The direction and implications of trends in technological change are fully considered and the book recognises the extent to which these trends are intimately related to changing patterns of inequality in modern societies and to the changing experiences of individuals and families.

Key features of the text are:

• clear structure;
• ‘key issue’ guides and summaries with each chapter;
• identification of key concepts throughout the book;
• unrivalled glossary and concept guide;
• rich illustrative snapshots or ‘mini cases’ throughout the book.

This text engages with cutting-edge debates and makes conceptual innovations without any sacrifice to clarity or accessibility of style. It will appeal to a wide audience, including undergraduates, postgraduates and academics working or studying in the area of work and the organisation of work, as well as practitioners working in the area of human resources and management generally.

This introductory textbook provides a thorough guide to the management of food and beverage outlets, from their day-to-day running through to the wider concerns of the hospitality industry. It explores the broad range of subject areas that encompass the food and beverage market and its main sectors – fast food and casual dining, hotels and quality restaurants and event, industrial and welfare catering. It also looks at some of the important trends affecting the food and beverage industry, covering consumers, the environment and ethical concerns as well as developments in technology.

New to this edition:

New chapter: Classifying food and drink service operations.

New international case studies throughout covering the latest industry developments within a wide range of businesses.

Enhanced coverage of financial aspects, including forecasting and menu pricing with respective examples of costings.

New coverage of contemporary trends, including events management, use of technology, use of social media in marketing, customer management and environmental concerns, such as sourcing, sustainability and waste management.

Updated companion website, including new case studies, PowerPoint slides, multiple choice questions, revision notes, true or false questions, short answer questions and new video and web links per chapter.

It is illustrated in full colour and contains in-chapter activities as well as end-of-chapter summaries and revision questions to test the readers' knowledge as they progress. Written by a team of authors with many years of industry practice and teaching experience, this book is the ideal guide to the subject for hospitality students and industry practitioners alike.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introducing food and beverage management

Chapter 2: Classifying food and drink service operations

Chapter 3: Restaurants and events – the direct market

Chapter 4: Contract foodservice, travel and public sector catering - the indirect market

Chapter 5: Developing the concept

Chapter 6: The Menu

Chapter 7: Purchasing and storage

Chapter 8 Production and Service

Chapter 9: Controlling the Operation

Chapter 10: Staffing Issues

Chapter 11 Food and beverage marketing

Chapter 12: Managing quality in food and drink service operations

Chapter 13 Trends and Developments

Practice Skills in Social Work and Welfare has established itself as the essential text to prepare students for the wide-ranging challenges they will face in today's human service sector.

This new fourth edition continues the text's core strength of connecting theory with practical examples to build the reader's confidence and expertise in key areas of practice.

Part 1 outlines the critical social work and strengths-based practices that underpin the book's approach and provides the context for learning practice skills in a group setting, during community development projects and with individuals and families. Part 2 focuses on developing effective relationships with service users, illustrating through realistic scenarios how social work and human service practitioners can apply their practice skills in a range of settings. In Part 3, the essential elements of client assessment are explored, including risk assessment and cross-cultural perspectives. Issues surrounding intervention are examined in Part 4 from working with families and groups to challenging constructively and safely, while research, evaluation and facilitating closure are covered in the final part.

This fourth edition is fully revised and updated and features new material on working with technology, Pasifika communities, LGBTQI+ service users and culturally responsive practice.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The theory and context for learning practice skills

Chapter One - The integrated framework

Jane Maidment and Ronnie Egan

Chapter Two - Critical social work practice

Ronnie Egan and Angelika Papadopoulos

Chapter Three - Learning and teaching practice skills in social work and welfare

Haidee Hicks and Susie Costello

Chapter Four - Decolonisation for social work practice: preparing to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) peoples

Lorraine Muller

Chapter Five - Technology and social work practice

Sharlene Nipperess and Nic Cornthwaite

Part 2: Engagement

Chapter Six - Developing the helping relationship

Ronnie Egan and Wendy Rollins

Chapter Seven - Engagement with families involved in the statutory system

Robyn Miller

Chapter Eight - Community-engaged social work practice

Uschi Bay and Raewyn Tudor

Chapter Nine - Communication in health care

Nicole Hill

Part 3: Assessment

Chapter Ten - Assessment: Frameworks and components

Jane Maidment

Chapter Eleven - Risk assessments and critical social work

Jo Clarke and Christine Morley

Chapter Twelve - Intersectional approaches to culturally responsive assessment practices

Christina David, Sonali Owen and Sharlene Nipperess

Chapter Thirteen - Working with families

Yvonne Crichton-Hill

Chapter Fourteen - Assessment with Māori

Sharyn Roberts

Part 4: Intervention

Chapter Fifteen - Taking action: change and intervention

Ronnie Egan and Christine Craik

Chapter Sixteen - 'Direct, with respect': challenging constructively

Shelley Turner

Chapter Seventeen - Social change through group work

Ken McMaster

Chapter Eighteen - Social work with older LGBTQ+ adults

David Betts

Part 5: Evaluation and closure

Chapter Nineteen - Research and evaluation in social work practice

Raewyn Tudor

Chapter Twenty - Facilitating closure

Hannah Mooney and Michael Dale

Integrated management systems (IMS) are an innovative way of handling the plethora of management functions and procedures that are applied throughout major construction projects. Contracting companies use management systems to shape and define the corporate arrangement of their business activities, translating these into operational procedures for application to the construction projects they undertake. The management of quality, environment, and safety are at the forefront of systems evolution where the integration of these traditionally independent and dedicated standards-based and process-orientated systems can provide the potential to deliver greater organisational efficiency and effectiveness.

This is the first textbook to cover each of the international standards for quality, safety and environment (ISO9000, ISO14001 and ISO18001) and to discuss integrating them.

This book provides a detailed yet accessible text to support the study of quality, environment, and safety management systems on professionally accredited undergraduate courses throughout the built environment and for advanced postgraduate courses in construction, project, and engineering management. It is also an indispensible reference for construction professionals working for principal contractors, subcontractors and construction industry supply chain organisations.

Table of Contents

1. Management Systems 2. Quality Management Systems 3. Environmental Management Systems 4. Safety Management Systems 5. Integrated Management Systems Appendix I: Management Systems Standards: Applicable Versions Appendix II: Statutory Instruments Regulations Appendix III: Contacts for Further Information Appendix IV: Integrated Management Systems for Construction: Web-Site

Now in its ninth edition, Bird’s Engineering Mathematics has helped thousands of students to succeed in their exams. Mathematical theories are explained in a straightforward manner, supported by practical engineering examples and applications to ensure that readers can relate theory to practice. Some 1,300 engineering situations/problems have been ‘flagged-up’ to help demonstrate that engineering cannot be fully understood without a good knowledge of mathematics.

The extensive and thorough topic coverage makes this a great text for a range of level 2 and 3 engineering courses – such as for aeronautical, construction, electrical, electronic, mechanical, manufacturing engineering and vehicle technology – including for BTEC First, National and Diploma syllabuses, City & Guilds Technician Certificate and Diploma syllabuses, and even for GCSE and A-level revision.

Its companion website at www.routledge.com/cw/bird provides resources for both students and lecturers, including full solutions for all 2,000 further questions, lists of essential formulae, multiple-choice tests, and illustrations, as well as full solutions to revision tests for course instructors.

Table of Contents

Section 1: Number and algebra

1. Revision of fractions, decimals and percentages

2. Indices, engineering notation and metric conversions

3. Binary, octal and hexadecimal numbers

4. Calculations and evaluation of formulae

5. Algebra

6. Further algebra

7. Partial fractions

8. Solving simple equations

9. Transposition of formulae

10. Solving simultaneous equations

11. Solving quadratic equations

12. Inequalities

13. Logarithms

14. Exponential functions

15. Number sequences

16. The binomial series

Section 2: Trigonometry

17. Introduction to trigonometry

18. Trigonometric waveforms

19. Cartesian and polar co-ordinates

20. Triangles and some practical applications

21. Trigonometric identities and equations

22. Compound angles

Section 3: Areas and volumes

23. Areas of common shapes

24. The circle and its properties

25. Volumes and surface areas of common solids

26. Irregular areas and volumes and mean values of waveforms

Section 4: Graphs

27. Straight line graphs

28. Reduction of non-linear laws to linear form

29. Graphs with logarithmic scales

30. Graphical solution of equations

31. Functions and their curves

Section 5: Complex numbers

32. Complex numbers

33. De Moivre’s theorem

Section 6: Vectors

34. Vectors

35. Methods of adding alternating waveforms

Section 7: Differential calculus

36. Introduction to differentiation

37. Methods of differentiation

38. Some applications of differentiation

39. Solving equations by Newton's method

40. Maclaurin’s series

41. Differentiation of parametric equations

42. Differentiation of implicit functions

43. Logarithmic differentiation

Section 8: Integral calculus

44. Standard integration

45. Integration using algebraic substitutions

46. Integration using trigonometric substitutions

47. Integration using partial fractions

48. The t = tan θ/2 substitution

49. Integration by parts

50. Numerical integration

51. Areas under and between curves

52. Mean and root mean square values

53. Volumes of solids of revolution

54. Centroids of simple shapes

55. Second moments of area

Section 9: Differential equations

56. Introduction to differential equations

Section 10: Further number and algebra

57. Boolean algebra and logic circuits

58. The theory of matrices and determinants

59. The solution of simultaneous equations by matrices and determinants

Section 11: Statistics

60. Presentation of statistical data

61. Mean, median, mode and standard deviation

62. Probability

63. The binomial and Poisson distribution

64. The normal distribution

65. Linear correlation

66. Linear regression

67. Sampling and estimation theories

List of essential formulae

Answers to Practice Exercises

Entrepreneurship and innovation play a vital role in fostering sustainable development. Advances in technology and communications have both transformed the process of business and strengthened the role of entrepreneurship in developed and developing countries. This new edition of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainable Growth provides the fundamental concepts and applications for faculty and students in this field, and also serves as a professional reference for practicing entrepreneurs and policymakers.

Each chapter provides a clear guide to the conceptual and practical elements that characterize entrepreneurship and the process of new venture formation, including functional strategies in key areas such as marketing, information technology, human resources management, and accounting and finance. Updated throughout to take account of recent developments in topics such as environmental impacts, diversity and inclusion, and COVID-19, the book is a comprehensive and holistic approach to the theory, policy, and practice of entrepreneurship and innovation. Keeping practicality as the book’s core aim, all chapters include a long case study to set the scene and then draw upon shorter cases from both developing and developed countries to reinforce key learning objectives and the real-world application of the book’s core concepts.

With new questions and exercises presented throughout in order to encourage discussion and problem-solving, quick summaries of the important concepts and definitions, and extensive support for lecturers and students, Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Sustainable Growth, Second Edition, is ideal for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Entrepreneurial discovery, creationary, and business model development; SECTION I The environment and entrepreneurship 1 Entrepreneurship and development in the era of globalization; 2 Culture, entrepreneurship, and development; 3 Technology, communications, and entrepreneurship; SECTION II Individual characteristics and training 4 Personality, experience, and training; 5 Creativity, innovation, and development; SECTION III The organization 6 Institutions, governance, and strategy; 7 Ethics and corporate social responsibility; SECTION IV Process 8 Sustainability as a strategy for business operation; 9 Marketing, technology, and entrepreneurship; 10 Financing opportunities and challenges; 11 Essentials of bookkeeping; 12 Cases

This practical ‘How To’ guide talks the reader step-by-step through designing, conducting and disseminating primary care research, a growing discipline internationally. The vast majority of health care issues are experienced by people in community settings, who are not adequately represented by hospital-based research. There is therefore a great need to upskill family physicians and other primary care workers and academics to conduct community-based research to inform best practice. Aimed at emerging researchers, including those in developing countries, this book also addresses cutting edge and newly developing research methods, which will be of equal interest to more experienced researchers.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Editors

Contributors

SECTION I: INTRODUCTION

1. What makes research primary care research?

Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Bob Mash

2. Ontology and epistemology, methodology and method, and research paradigms

Eric K. Shaw

3. How to choose your topic and define your research question

William R. Phillips

SECTION II: INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH

4. Interdisciplinary research approaches in primary care

Trish Greenhalgh

5. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods

Elizabeth Halcomb

6. Authentic engagement, co-creation and action research

Vivian R. Ramsden, Jackie Crowe, Norma Rabbitskin, Danielle Rolfe and Ann C. Macaulay

7. Development and use of primary care research networks

Emma Wallace and Tom Fahey

8. Using big data in primary care research

Daniel J. Exeter and Katherine E. Walesby

9. Conducting primary care research using social media

Charilaos Lygidakis, Ana Luísa Neves, Liliana Laranjo and Luís Pinho-Costa

10. Quality improvement research in primary care

Andrew W. Knight and Paresh Dawda

11. Programme evaluation in primary care

Lauren Siegmann, Robyn Preston and Bunmi Malau-Aduli

SECTION III: PRELIMINARY STEPS TO DOING PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH

12. How to prepare your research proposal

Bob Mash

13. How to ensure your research follows ethical principles

Christopher Barton, Sally Hall, Penelope Abbott, Chun Wah Michael Tam, Amanda Lyons and Siaw-Teng Liaw

14. How to search and critically appraise the literature

Celeste Naude and Taryn Young

SECTION IV: METHODS AND TECHNIQUES FOR DOING PRIMARY CARE RESEARCH

15. Taking stock of existing research: Approach to conducting a systematic review

Taryn Young and Celeste Naude

16. Statistics in primary care research

Richard Stevens

17. How to conduct a survey in primary care

Lauren Ball and Katelyn Barnes

18. Validation studies: Validating new tools and adapting old ones to new contexts

Sherina Mohd Sidik

19. Clinical and other diagnostic tests: Understanding their predictive value

Sarah Price, Robert Price and Willie Hamilton

20. How to conduct observational studies

Tibor Schuster

21. Randomised trials in primary care

Gillian Bartlett-Esquilant, Miriam Dickinson and Tibor Schuster

22. Grounded theory

David R. Thomas

23. Doing interpretive phenomenological primary care research

Valerie A. Wright-St Clair

24. Why ethnography is an important part of primary care research and how it is done

Carissa van den Berk-Clark

25. Case study

Robin Ray, Judy Taylor and Robyn Preston

26. Interactional analysis of primary care consultations

Maria Stubbe, Anthony Dowell, Kevin Dew and Lindsay Macdonald

SECTION V: HOW TO DISSEMINATE YOUR RESEARCH

27. How to write and how to publish

Felicity Goodyear-Smith and Katharine A. Wallis

28. How to create an effective poster

Katharine A. Wallis

29. Using social media to disseminate primary care research

Charilaos Lygidakis and Raquel Gómez Bravo

30. Reaching decision-makers and achieving social impact with your research

Bob Mash, Nasreen Jessani and Liesl Nicol

SECTION VI: BUILDING RESEARCH CAPACITY

31. How to supervise and mentor a less-experienced or novice researcher

Elizabeth Sturgiss and Lena Sanci

32. Creating the right environment for mentoring to flourish

Amanda Howe

33. A systems approach to building research capacity: Individuals, networks and culture

Grant Russell

34. Including primary care research in clinical practice

Chris van Weel

Index /

Langford's Advanced Photography is the only advanced photography guide a serious student or aspiring professional will ever need. In this eighth edition, Efthimia Bilissi continues in the footsteps of Michael Langford by combining an unrivalled level of technical detail with a straightforward writing style while simultaneously bringing the text firmly in to the digital era.

This book covers the entire photographic process from a technical standpoint - not only detailing the 'how' but also explaining the 'why' that is so often missing from photography texts. From the workings of cameras, lenses, digital imaging sensors and software to new hot topics such as HDR imaging, digital asset management, and even running your own photography business, everything a serious photographer could need to extend their art into professional realms is covered.

The book also benefits from a full glossary, charts and inspirational full color images throughout, with summaries and projects at the end of each chapter to reinforce the theory.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 Colour in photography; Chapter 2 Camera equipment; Chapter 3 Choosing lenses; Chapter 4 Lighting control; Chapter 5 Tone control; Chapter 6 Image sensors; Chapter 7 Digital imaging systems; Chapter 8 Digital image management and manipulation; Chapter 9 Films — types and technical data; Chapter 10 Film processing management and colour printing; Chapter 11 Extending photography; Chapter 12 Subjects; Chapter 13 Reproduction and archiving; Chapter 14 Professional photography; Chapter 15 Business practice; Appendices; Glossary; Index;

The second edition ofConsumer Behaviour and Analytics provides a consumer behaviour textbook for the new marketing reality. In a world of Big Data, machine learning and artificial intelligence, this key text reviews the issues, research and concepts essential for navigating this new terrain. It demonstrates how we can use data-driven insight and merge this with insight from extant research to inform knowledge-driven decision-making.

Adopting a practical and managerial lens, while also exploring the rich lineage of academic consumer research, this textbook approaches its subject from a refreshing and original standpoint. It contains numerous accessible examples, scenarios and exhibits, and condenses the disparate array of relevant work into a workable, coherent, synthesized and readable whole. Providing an effective tour of the concepts and ideas most relevant in the age of analytics-driven marketing (from data visualization to semiotics), the book concludes with an adaptive structure to inform managerial decision-making.

Consumer Behaviour and Analytics provides a unique distillation from a vast array of social and behavioural research merged with the knowledge potential of digital insight. It offers an effective and efficient summary for undergraduate, postgraduate or executive courses in consumer behaviour and marketing analytics, and also functions as a supplementary text for other marketing modules. Online resources include PowerPoint slides.

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 An introduction to consumer analytics

Chapter 2 Purchase insight and the anatomy of transactions

Chapter 3 Web and social activity

Chapter 4 Extant research, decision-making and exogenous cognition

Chapter 5 Elemental features of consumer choice: needs, economics, deliberation and impulse.

Chapter 6 Perceptual and communicative features of consumer choice

Chapter 7 Individual and social features of consumption

Chapter 8 Knowledge-driven marketing and the Modular Adaptive Dynamic Schematic

Index

Justice and Human Rights in the African Imagination is an interdisciplinary reading of justice in literary texts and memoirs, films, and social anthropological texts in postcolonial Africa. 　

Inspired by Nelson Mandela and South Africa’s robust achievements in human rights, this book argues that the notion of restorative justice is integral to the proper functioning of participatory democracy and belongs to the moral architecture of any decent society. Focusing on the efforts by African writers, scholars, artists, and activists to build flourishing communities, the author discusses various quests for justice such as environmental justice, social justice, intimate justice, and restorative justice. It discusses in particular ecological violence, human rights abuses such as witchcraft accusations, the plight of people affected by disability, homophobia, misogyny, and sex trafficking, and forgiveness. 　

This book will be of interest to scholars of African literature and films, literature and human rights, and literature and the environment.

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003148272, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Narratives and the Common Good

Chapter 2: Ecological Violence and the Quest for Justice

Chapter 3: Mythic Consciousness, Witchcraft, and Human Rights Abuses

Chapter 4: Barriers to Being: Albinism, Disability, and Recognition

Chapter 5: Intimate Justice: Homophobia and Human Dignity

Chapter 6: Dignity of Woman: From Misogyny to Sex-trafficking

Conclusion: Politics of Love and the Common Good

This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field.

Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail - including globalisation, the body, geography, fashion, and politics. Incorporating new scholarship and international examples, this new edition includes: New and improved 'Defining Concepts', 'Key Influences', 'Example ', and 'Spotlight' features that probe deeper into the most significant ideas, theorists and examples, ensuring you obtain an in-depth understanding of the subject.

A brand new companion website featuring a flashcard glossary, web links, discussion and essay questions to stimulate independent study. A new-look text design with over 60 pictures and tables draws all these elements together in an attractive, accessible design that makes navigating the book, and the subject, simple and logical.

Introducing Cultural Studies will be core reading for Cultural Studies undergraduates and postgraduates, as well as an illuminating guide for those on Communication and Media Studies, English, Sociology, and Social Studies courses looking for a clear overview of the field.

An Introduction to Music Technology, Second Edition provides a clear overview of the essential elements of music technology for today’s musician. This book focuses on the topics that underlie the hardware and software in use today: Sound, Audio, MIDI, Computer Notation, and Computer- Assisted Instruction. Appendices cover necessary computer hardware and software concepts. Written for both music technology majors and non-majors, this textbook introduces fundamental principles and practices so students can learn to work with a wide range of software programs, adapt to new music technologies, and apply music technology in their performance, composition, teaching, and analysis.

Features:

Thorough explanations of key topics in music technology

Content applicable to all software and hardware, not linked to just one piece of software or gear

In-depth discussion of digital audio topics, such as sampling rates, resolutions, and file formats

Explanations of standard audio plug-ins including dynamics processors, EQs, and delay based effects

Coverage of synthesis and sampling in software instruments

Pedagogical features, including:

Further Reading sections that allow the student to delve deeper into topics of interest

Suggested Activities that can be carried out with a variety of different programs

Key Terms at the end of each chapter

What Do I Need? Chapters covering the types of hardware and software needed in order to put together Audio and MIDI systems

A companion website with links to audio examples that demonstrate various concepts, step-by-step tutorials, relevant hardware, software, and additional audio and video resources.

The new edition has been fully updated to cover new technologies that have emerged since the first edition, including iOS and mobile platforms, online notation software, alternate controllers, and Open Sound Control (OSC).

Table of Contents

Part 1: Sound 1. What is Sound? 2. Sound Properties and the Waveform View 3. The Overtone Series and the Spectrum View Further Reading Part 2: Audio 4. Digital Audio Software: The Digital Audio Workstation 5. Audio Hardware 6. Digital Audio Data 7. Audio—What Do I Need? Further Reading Part 3: MIDI and Software Instruments: Overview 8. Software Instruments and Sequencing 9. MIDI Hardware 10. MIDI Messages 11. A Basic Synthesis Model 12. Synthesis Techniques 13. Sampling Techniques 14. Beyond the DAW/sequencer 15. MIDI and Software Instruments—What Do I Need? Part 4: Computer Notation and Computer-Assisted Instruction 16. Computer Notation 17. Computer-Assisted Instruction Appendix 1: Computer Hardware Appendix 2: Computer Software Selected Bibliography Index

How do you start a design project? How can you generate ideas and concepts in response to a design brief? How do other designers do it? This book will answer all these questions and more. Now in its second edition, the highly popular Design Thinking for Visual Communication identifies methods and thought processes used by designers in order to start the process that eventually leads to a finished piece of work. Step-by-step guidance for each part of the process is highlighted by real-life case studies, enabling the student to see teaching in practice. This focus on ideas and methods eschews an abstract, academic approach in favour of a useable approach to design as a problem-solving activity. The new edition now includes contributions from a broader international range of design practices and adds depth to existing case studies by looking in greater detail at some of the processes used.

Business Process Management has helped thousands of leaders and BPM practitioners successfully implement BPM projects, enabling them to add impactful and measurable value to their organizations. The book covers all major frameworks, including LEAN and Six Sigma, and offers a unique emphasis on BPM’s interrelationship with organizational management, culture, and leadership. Its common-sense approach teaches how BPM must be well-integrated across an entire business if it is to be successful, augmented and aligned with other management disciplines.

This thoroughly revised and updated fifth edition includes:

• Discussion of the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on business operations, business transformation, remote working, and new processes.
• New and revised content on sustainable processes in BPM.
• Expanded material on process automation and new technologies, including AI.
• New and revised international case studies and practical examples.
• A streamlined layout, as well as new questions and thought-provoking comments to promote discussion and thinking.

Business Process Management is an accessible core text for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Business Process Management, Operations, Production, and Strategic Management, as well as an indispensable guide to any senior business executive or chief financial officer.

The work is complemented by online resources to support instructors and learning, including PowerPoint slides for each chapter.

Planning is an important management function and its effective execution is crucial to ensure the success of any project. This second edition of Thomas Uher’s and Adam Zantis' textbook maintains its focus on operational rather than strategic aspects of programming and scheduling of projects, providing the reader with the practical planning skills needed to be successful.

Unlike most other textbooks that largely focus on the critical path method, Programming and Scheduling Techniques includes a comprehensive review of a range of practices used around the world. Topics covered in this thoroughly revised edition include:

deterministic scheduling techniques including the bar chart, the critical path method, the critical chain method, the multiple activity chart and the line of balance

a comparison of the critical path and critical chain scheduling techniques

options for computer-based scheduling

stochastic scheduling techniques including the critical path method based on Monte Carlo simulation and the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

risk in scheduling

work study.

By covering a broad range of scheduling techniques this book is suitable for those planning projects in any industry, particularly in interdisciplinary or international contexts.

Written for students studying undergraduate and postgraduate architecture, building, construction/project management, quantity surveying, property development and civil engineering programs.

Table of Contents

1.The Concept of Planning 2. Bar Charts 3. The Critical Path Method 4. Resource Management 5. Overlapping Network Models 6. Project Control 7. Critical Path Scheduling by Computer 8. Critical Chain Scheduling 9. Multiple Activity Charts 10. Line of Balance Technique 11. Work Study 12. Risk and Scheduling 13. The Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa.

This book addresses topics including challenges to spatial urban development, how spatial planning is delivered, how different urbanisation variables influence the development of different forms of urban systems and settlements in Africa, how city authorities could use old and new methods of land administration to produce sustainable urban spaces in Africa, and the role of local activism is causing important changes in the built environment. Chapters are written by a diverse range of African scholars and practitioners in urban planning and policy design, environmental science and policy, sociology, agriculture, natural resources management, environmental law, and politics.

Urban Africa has huge resource potential – both human and natural resources – that can stimulate sustainable development when effectively harnessed. Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides support for the SDGs in urban Africa and will be of interest to students and researchers, professionals and policymakers, and readers of urban studies, spatial planning, geography, governance, and other social sciences.

Table of Contents

Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations

1. Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa: Concepts, Practices and Prospects (Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Michael Addaney)

2. Deconstructing Africa’s Urban Space: Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning Challenge (Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, and Marita Basson)

3. Tradition Meets Modernity: Creation of Sustainable Urban Spaces in Africa (Bernard Afiik Akanpabadai Akanbang, Millicent Awialie Akaateba, and Prosper Issahaku Korah)

4. Local Activism and Climate Action in Africa: Protecting the Environment as a Social Justice Imperative (Luckymore Matenga)

5. Memories of Futures–Past and Visions of Future–Futures: An Architecture-to-Backcasting Metaphor Approach Towards Sustainable City Transitioning in Africa (Vipua Rukambe And Daniel Irurah)

Part II: Land Use and Ecological Integrity

6. Towards Sustainable and Resilient Urban Development: Rethinking Stormwater Management in Sub-Saharan African Cities (Desmond Ofosu Anim, Eric Gaisie, and Abena Boatemaa Asare-Ansah)

7. Monitoring changing land use-land cover change to reflect the impact of urbanisation on environmental assets in Durban, South Africa (Bahle Mazeka, Kwanele Phinzi, and Catherine Sutherland)

8. Informal Greenspaces in Peripheral Luanda, Angola: Benefits and Challenges (Euridice Lurdes Jorge Pedrosa, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, and Michihiro Kita)

9. Collaborative Spatial Expressions of Sustainability: River Rehabilitation Projects in Durban, South Africa (Patrick Martel, Catherine Sutherland, Sylvia Hannan, and Fanele Magwaza)

10. Regulation of Physical Development in Ghana: Systems and Practices (Michael Addaney, Seth Opoku Mensah, and Florence Abugtane Avogo)

11. Spatial Expression of Climate Change in Rapidly Urbanising City of Tamale, Ghana (Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, and Joseph Nyaaba Akongbangre)

12. Planning for Sustainable Metro Express in Mauritius (Roopanand Mahadew, Michael Addaney, and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah)

Part III: Urban Informality, Regeneration and Tenure Security

13. Situating Everyday Urban Struggles within the Context of the SDGs in an Informal Settlement in Accra, Ghana (Seth Asare Okyere, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Stephen Kofi Diko, Matthew Abunyewah, and Michihiro Kita)

14. Connecting solid waste management to sustainable urban development in Africa (Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, Issaka Kanton Osumanu, and Francis Diawuo Darko)

15. Urban Informality and Flexible Land Tenure Arrangements in Namibia: Lessons and Insights (Kennedy Kariseb, and Ivone Tjilale)

16. The Shifting Sanitation Landscapes Through the Lens of Governmentality in Durban, South Africa (Anthony Odili, and Catherine Sutherland)

17. Transforming Urban Informal Settlements in Kenya through Adaptive Spatial Planning and Tenure Regularisation (Collins Odote, and Philip Olale)

Crime Prevention: Approaches, Practices, and Evaluations, Eleventh Edition, meets the needs of students and instructors for engaging, evidence-based, impartial coverage of interventions that can reduce or prevent deviance. This edition examines the entire gamut of prevention, from physical design, to developmental prevention, to identifying high-risk individuals, to situational initiatives, to partnerships, and beyond. Strategies include primary prevention measures designed to prevent conditions that foster deviance, secondary prevention measures directed toward persons or conditions with a high potential for deviance, and tertiary prevention measures to deal with persons who have already committed crimes.

In this book, Lab offers a thorough and well-rounded discussion of the many sides of the crime prevention debate in clear and accessible language, including the latest research concerning space syntax, physical environment and crime, neighborhood crime prevention programs, community policing, crime in schools, and electronic monitoring and home confinement.

This book is essential for undergraduates studying criminal justice, criminology, and sociology, in the U.S. and globally. Online resources include an instructor’s manual, test bank, and lecture slides for faculty, and a wide array of resources for students.

A Practical Introduction to Enterprise Network and Security Management, Second Edition, provides a balanced understanding of introductory and advanced subjects in both computer networking and cybersecurity. Although much of the focus is on technical concepts, managerial issues related to enterprise network and security planning and design are explained from a practitioner’s perspective.

Because of the critical importance of cybersecurity in today’s enterprise networks, security-related issues are explained throughout the book, and four chapters are dedicated to fundamental knowledge. Challenging concepts are explained so readers can follow through with careful reading.

This book is written for those who are self-studying or studying information systems or computer science in a classroom setting. If used for a course, it has enough material for a semester or a quarter.

FEATURES

Provides both theoretical and practical hands-on knowledge and learning experiences for computer networking and cybersecurity

Offers a solid knowledge base for those preparing for certificate tests, such as CompTIA and CISSP

Takes advantage of actual cases, examples, industry products, and services so students can relate concepts and theories to practice

Explains subjects in a systematic and practical manner to facilitate understanding

Includes practical exercise questions that can be individual or group assignments within or without a classroom

Contains several information-rich screenshots, figures, and tables carefully constructed to solidify concepts and enhance visual learning

The text is designed for students studying information systems or computer science for the first time. As a textbook, this book includes hands-on assignments based on the Packet Tracer program, an excellent network design and simulation tool from Cisco. Instructor materials also are provided, including PowerPoint slides, solutions for exercise questions, and additional chapter questions from which to build tests.

Table of Contents

1. Networking: Fundamental Concepts

2. Cybersecurity: Fundamentals

3. Essential Layers of Computer Networking

4. IP Address Planning and Management

5. Intermediary Devices

6. Wi-Fi and Cellular Network

7. Ethernet LAN

8. Cybersecurity: Threats

9. Cybersecurity: Network and Host Protection

10. Cybersecurity: Data Protection

11. Fundamentals of Packet Routing

12. Wide Area Network

13. Physical Layer Data Transmissions

International trade, and its financing, is now a key component of many undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications. For anyone involved in international sales, finance, shipping and administration, or for those studying for academic or professional qualifications in international trade, The Handbook of International Trade and Finance offers an extensive and topical explanation of the key finance areas. This essential reference resource provides the information necessary to help you to reduce risks and improve cash flow, identify the most competitive finance alternatives, structure the best payment terms, and minimize finance and transaction costs. This fully revised and updated 4th edition of The Handbook of International Trade and Finance also describes the negotiating process from the perspectives of both the buyer and the seller, providing valuable insight into the complete financing process, and covering key topics such as: trade risks and risk assessment; structured trade finance; methods and terms of payment; currency risk management and bonds, guarantees and standby letters of credit. The Handbook of International Trade and Finance provides a complete and thorough assessment of all the issues involved in constructing, financing and completing a cross-border transaction, as an indispensable guide for anyone dealing with international trade. The new edition also includes a section on risk management, which plays an increasingly important role in international trade from currency fluctuations to political risk and natural disasters. N.B. This covers the principles of international trade and finance that are common across the globe and is relevant to anyone wanting to understand the subject, wherever they are located. Specific national issues (such as the UK's Brexit decision) do not affect the content. Online supporting resources include PowerPoint lecture slides.

Creative web design requires knowledge from across the design and technical realms, and it can seem like a daunting task working out where to get started. In this book the authors take you through all you need to know about designing for the web and digital, from initial concepts and client needs, through layout and typography to basic coding, e-commerce and working with different platforms. The companion website provides step-by-step tutorial videos, HTML/CSS styling tips and links to useful resources to really help you get to grips with all the aspects of web design. Working alongside the text are interviews with international designers and critical commentaries looking at best practice and theoretical considerations. Written for graphic designers, this book delivers more than just an instruction manual - it provides a complete overview of designing for the web.

Featuring easy-to-follow instructions on all the main basic and intermediate skills required to sew garments from a pattern, Fashion Sewing: Introductory Techniques is an excellent resource for fashion design students who want to improve their sewing skills. The book includes advice on setting up the home sewing studio, an introduction to fabrics, a fitting guide and a wide range of basic and intermediate techniques on stitches, seams, hems and fastenings.Featuring comprehensive instructions, accompanied by large, clear illustrations, this book enables readers to visualize each action and apply key sewing techniques to their own projects.

Fundamental Mechanics of Fluids, Fourth Edition addresses the need for an introductory text that focuses on the basics of fluid mechanics—before concentrating on specialized areas such as ideal-fluid flow and boundary-layer theory. Filling that void for both students and professionals working in different branches of engineering, this versatile instructional resource comprises five flexible, self-contained sections:

Governing Equations deals with the derivation of the basic conservation laws, flow kinematics, and some basic theorems of fluid mechanics.

Ideal-Fluid Flow covers two- and three-dimensional potential flows and surface waves.

Viscous Flows of Incompressible Fluids discusses exact solutions, low-Reynolds-number approximations, boundary-layer theory, and buoyancy-driven flows.

Compressible Flow of Inviscid Fluids addresses shockwaves as well as one- and multidimensional flows.

Methods of Mathematical Analysis summarizes some commonly used analysis techniques. Additional appendices offer a synopsis of vectors, tensors, Fourier series, thermodynamics, and the governing equations in the common coordinate systems.

The book identifies the phenomena associated with the various properties of compressible, viscous fluids in unsteady, three-dimensional flow situations. It provides techniques for solving specific types of fluid-flow problems, and it covers the derivation of the basic equations governing the laminar flow of Newtonian fluids, first assessing general situations and then shifting focus to more specific scenarios.

The author illustrates the process of finding solutions to the governing equations. In the process, he reveals both the mathematical methodology and physical phenomena involved in each category of flow situation, which include ideal, viscous, and compressible fluids. This categorization enables a clear explanation of the different solution methods and the basis for the various physical consequences of fluid properties and flow characteristics. Armed with this new understanding, readers can then apply the appropriate equation results to deal with the particular circumstances of their own work.

Table of Contents

Part I: Governing Equations

Basic Conservation Laws

Statistical and Continuum Methods

Eulerian and Lagrangian Coordinates

Material Derivative

Control Volumes

Reynolds’ Transport Theorem

Conservation of Mass

Conservation of Momentum

Conservation of Energy

Discussion of Conservation Equations

Rotation and Rate of Shear

Constitutive Equations

Viscosity Coefficients

Navier–Stokes Equations

Energy Equation

Governing Equations for Newtonian Fluids

Boundary Conditions

Flow Kinematics

Flow Lines

Circulation and Vorticity

Stream Tubes and Vortex Tubes

Kinematics of Vortex Lines

Special Forms of the Governing Equations

Kelvin’s Theorem

Bernoulli Equation

Crocco’s Equation

Vorticity Equation

　

Part II: Ideal-Fluid Flow

Two-Dimensional Potential Flows

Stream Function

Complex Potential and Complex Velocity

Uniform Flows

Source, Sink, and Vortex Flows

Flow in Sector

Flow around Sharp Edge

Flow due to Doublet

Circular Cylinder without Circulation

Circular Cylinder with Circulation

Blasius Integral Laws

Force and Moment on Circular Cylinder

Conformal Transformations

Joukowski Transformation

Flow around Ellipses

Kutta Condition and Flat-Plate Airfoil

Symmetrical Joukowski Airfoil

Circular-Arc Airfoil

Joukowski Airfoil

Schwarz–Christoffel Transformation

Source in Channel

Flow through Aperture

Flow Past Vertical Flat Plate

Three-Dimensional Potential Flows

Velocity Potential

Stokes’ Stream Function

Solution of Potential Equation

Uniform Flow

Source and Sink

Flow due to Doublet

Flow near Blunt Nose

Flow around Sphere

Line-Distributed Source

Sphere in Flow Field of Source

Rankine Solids

D’Alembert’s Paradox

Forces Induced by Singularities

Kinetic Energy of Moving Fluid

Apparent Mass

Surface Waves

General Surface-Wave Problem

Small-Amplitude Plane Waves

Propagation of Surface Waves

Effect of Surface Tension

Shallow-Liquid Waves of Arbitrary Form

Complex Potential for Traveling Waves

Particle Paths for Traveling Waves

Standing Waves

Particle Paths for Standing Waves

Waves in Rectangular Vessels

Waves in Cylindrical Vessels

Propagation of Waves at Interface

　

Part III: Viscous Flows of Incompressible Fluids

Exact Solutions

Couette Flow

Poiseuille Flow

Flow between Rotating Cylinders

Stokes’ First Problem

Stokes’ Second Problem

Pulsating Flow between Parallel Surfaces

Stagnation-Point Flow

Flow in Convergent and Divergent Channels

Flow over Porous Wall

Low Reynolds Number Solutions

Stokes Approximation

Uniform Flow

Doublet

Rotlet

Stokeslet

Rotating Sphere in Fluid

Uniform Flow Past Sphere

Uniform Flow Past Circular Cylinder

Oseen Approximation

Boundary Layers

Boundary-Layer Thicknesses

Boundary-Layer Equations

Blasius Solution

Falkner–Skan Solutions

Flow over a Wedge

Stagnation-Point Flow

Flow in Convergent Channel

Approximate Solution for Flat Surface

General Momentum Integral

Kármán–Pohlhausen Approximation

Boundary-Layer Separation

Stability of Boundary Layers

Buoyancy-Driven Flows

Boussinesq Approximation

Thermal Convection

Boundary-Layer Approximations

Vertical Isothermal Surface

Line Source of Heat

Point Source of Heat

Stability of Horizontal Layers

　

Part IV: Compressible Flow of Inviscid Fluids

Shock Waves

Propagation of Infinitesimal Disturbances

Propagation of Finite Disturbances

Rankine-Hugoniot Equations

Conditions for Normal Shock Waves

Normal-Shock-Wave Equations

Oblique Shock Waves

One-Dimensional Flows

Weak Waves

Weak Shock Tubes

Wall Reflection of Waves

Reflection and Refraction at Interface

Piston Problem

Finite-Strength Shock Tubes

Nonadiabatic Flows

Isentropic-Flow Relations

Flow through Nozzles

Multidimensional Flows

Irrotational Motion

Janzen–Rayleigh Expansion

Small-Perturbation Theory

Pressure Coefficient

Flow over Wave-Shaped Wall

Prandtl–Glauert Rule for Subsonic Flow

Ackeret’s Theory for Supersonic Flows

Prandtl–Meyer Flow

　

Part V: Methods of Mathematical Analysis

Some Useful Methods of Analysis

Fourier Series

Complex Variables

Separation of Variable Solutions

Similarity Solutions

Group Invariance Methods

Appendix A: Vector Analysis

Vector Identities

Integral Theorems

Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinates

Appendix B: Tensors

Notation and Definition

Tensor Algebra

Tensor Operations

Isotropic Tensors

Integral Theorems

Appendix C: Governing Equations

Cartesian Coordinates

Cylindrical Coordinates

Spherical Coordinates

Appendix D: Fourier Series

Appendix E: Thermodynamics

Zeroth Law

First Law

Equations of State

Enthalpy

Specific Heats

Adiabatic, Reversible Processes

Entropy

Second Law

Canonical Equations of State

Reciprocity Relations