Fashion buying and merchandising has changed dramatically over the last 20 years. Aspects such as the advent of new technologies and the changing nature of the industry into one that is faster paced than ever before, as well as the shift towards more ethical and sustainable practices have resulted in a dramatic change of the roles. As a result, contemporary fast fashion retailers do not follow the traditional buying cycle processes step by step, critical paths are wildly different, and there has been a huge increase in ‘in-season buying’ as a response to heightened consumer demand.

This textbook is a comprehensive guide to 21st-century fashion buying and merchandising, considering fast fashion, sustainability, ethical issues, omnichannel retailing, and computer-aided design. It presents an up-to-date buying cycle that reflects key aspects of fashion buying and merchandising, as well as in-depth explanations of fashion product development, trend translation, and sourcing. It applies theoretical and strategic business models to buying and merchandising that have traditionally been used in marketing and management.

This book is ideal for all fashion buying and merchandising students, specifically second- and final-year undergraduate as well as MA/MSc fashion students. It will also be useful to academics and practitioners who wish to gain a greater understanding of the industry today.

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1 The evolution of fashion buying and merchandising; 2 Fashion buying and merchandising roles and responsibilities in the 21st century; 3 The influence of technology on fashion buying and merchandising; 4 The buying cycle and critical path; 5 Range review; 6 Research and planning; 7 Range development; 8 Sourcing and negotiation; 9 Range finalisation; 10 Manufacturing; 11 Allocation and distribution; 12 Retail sales; 13 The impact of sustainability on fashion buying and merchandising; 14 The future of fashion buying and merchandising

This groundbreaking new textbook takes a different perspective on social psychology, focused on the social and cultural worlds we inhabit, and encompassing a wide range of core social psychology topics – from the self to relationships, gender to health, racism to mental distress.

Taking a critical approach, this book explores how qualitative methods and interpretational analyses can be used to examine human behaviour and what it is like living in today’s media-led world. It explicitly challenges all forms of Othering, taking a fresh look at human values, embodiment, agency, communication, thinking and feeling. It goes beyond the individualising scientific approach taken by traditional psychology, instead concentrating on the psychology of what makes us human – qualities like empathy and compassion, courage and dignity, kindness and sympathy – and how we can nurture them. Offering a fascinating alternative to existing resources and enhanced by carefully chosen full-colour illustrations, the book and associated companion website include original pedagogical features such as reflective exercises, further resources and a glossary, offering opportunities for readers to customise their learning experience.

Featuring a course mapping section that sets out how the text can be used in relation to psychology curriculum requirements and common course structures, this interdisciplinary resource provides accessible and engaging reading for students studying psychology and other disciplines, including sociology, cultural studies, politics and media studies, as well as applied areas such as nursing, policing and management. It is also for anyone who is interested in what psychology can tell us about our lives and place in the world.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Different Ways to Use This Book

Mapping the Book

Chapter 1: Human Psychology and what it can do for us

Chapter 2: Who am I? – Selves and Identities

Chapter 3: Bodies that Matter

Chapter 4: Being in relationships

Chapter 5: Being Different

Chapter 6: Human Gender and Sexuality

Chapter 7: Human Thinking

Chapter 8: Human Feelings

Chapter 9: Human Communication

Chapter 10: Human Welfare

Chapter 11: World Changing

References

Glossary

Ability Profiling and School Failure, Second Edition explores the social and contextual forces that shape the appearance of academic ability and disability and how these forces influence the perception of academic underachievement of minority students. At the book’s core is the powerful case study of a competent fifth grader named Jay, an African American boy growing up in a predominantly white, rural community, who was excluded from participating in science and literacy discourses within his classroom community.

In this new edition, researcher and teacher-educator Kathleen Collins situates the story of Jay’s struggle to be seen as competent within current scholarly conversations about the contextualized nature of dis/ability. In particular, she connects her work to recent research into the overrepresentation of minority students in special education, exploring the roles of situated literacies, classroom interactions, and social stereotypes in determining how some students come to be identified as "disabled." Ability Profiling and School Failure, Second Edition comprises a thorough investigation into the socially constructed nature of ability, identity, and achievement, illustrating the role of educational and social exclusion in positioning students within particular identities.

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Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: Sociocultural Perspectives on dis/Ability and Positioning Chapter 2 The boy who had something to say Chapter 3

“He’s what I would call out there.” Chapter 4 “He was immediate. He was like immediate.” Chapter 5 “Where’s the evidence?” Chapter 6 “Jay just amazes me during this, he really does.” Chapter 7 “It will be very, very difficult for him to learn how to function in the class.” Chapter 8 “It’s like a burst, a burst of fire.” Chapter 9 “You got to hear this!” Chapter 10 “So who wrote it?” Chapter 11 “Jay, we gotta find you a group.”

Chapter 12 “I’m the boy who likes bugs.” Chapter 13 “Do you think I’m proper?” Chapter 14 “This ain’t easy!” Chapter 15 “Church is not a game!” Chapter 16 “I think that’s why we became very good friends.” Chapter 17 "If you stick out, you get squashed:" Ability profiling as response to difference Epilogue Appendix Approaches to Inquiry, Analysis and Representation

Discover the tips, tricks and techniques that really work for concept artists, matte painters and animators. Compiled by the team at 3dtotal.com, Digital Painting Techniques, Volume 1 offers digital inspiration with hands-on insight and techniques from professional digital artists. More than just a gallery book - within Digital Painting Techniques each artist has written a breakdown overview, with supporting imagery of how they made their piece of work. Beginner and intermediate digital artists will be inspired by the gallery style collection of the finest examples of digital painting from world renowned digital artists. Start your mentorship into the world of digital painting today with some of the greatest digital artists in the world and delve into professional digital painting techiques, such as speed painting, custom brush creation and matte painting. Develop your digital painting skills beyond the variety of free online digital painting tutorials and apply the most up to date techniques to your digital canvas with Digital Painting Techniques for Animators.

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Speed Painting; Custom Brushes; Matte Painting; Creatures; Humans; Environments; Sci-Fi

Fantasy; Complete Projects; Gallery

Casino Management in Integrated Resorts introduces students to the changing nature of casino businesses within the framework of an integrated resort or hospitality organisation.

In the new integrated casino model, casinos play an important role not only in revenue generation but in supporting the other amenities in the resort, including bars, restaurants, hotels and theme parks. This book brings readers up to speed with the challenges of managing a casino within this rapidly expanding gaming–leisure–tourism industry. It covers a range of essential topics, such as the basic psychology of casino gaming, the role and history of casinos within an integrated resort, staffing, floor design, table and slot game management, control and security, marketing and social impact.

Written in an accessible style, this book is suitable for readers with no prior knowledge of, or experience in, casino operations. It will be an essential introductory yet comprehensive resource for all those undertaking casino management courses.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 History of Gambling, Casinos and Modern Integrated Resorts

3 The Role of Casino in an Integrated Resort

4 Psychology of Gambling and Casino Gaming

5 Casino Floor Design, Servicescape and Service Quality

6 Basic Casino Operation Concepts

7 Marketing Casino Gaming

8 Social Impact of Integrated Resorts

Additional Article I

Additional Article II

How do meteorologists design forecasts for the next day's, the next week's, or the next month's weather? Are some forecasts more likely to be accurate than others, and why? Making Sense of Weather and Climate takes readers through key topics in atmospheric physics and presents a cogent view of how weather relates to climate, particularly climate-change science. It is the perfect book for amateur meteorologists and weather enthusiasts, and for anyone whose livelihood depends on navigating the weather's twists and turns. Making Sense of Weather and Climate begins by explaining the essential mechanics and characteristics of this fascinating science. The noted physics author Mark Denny also defines the crucial differences between weather and climate, and then develops from this basic knowledge a sophisticated yet clear portrait of their relation. Throughout, Denny elaborates on the role of weather forecasting in guiding politics and other aspects of human civilization. He also follows forecasting's effect on the economy. Denny's exploration of the science and history of a phenomenon we have long tried to master makes this book a unique companion for anyone who wants a complete picture of the environment's individual, societal, and planetary impact.

Casino and Gaming Resort Investigations addresses the continued and growing need for gaming security professionals to properly and successfully investigate the increasing and unique types of crime they will face in their careers. As the gaming industry has grown, so has the need for competent and highly skilled investigators who must be prepared to manage a case of employee theft one day to a sophisticated sports book scam the next.

This book provides the reader with the fundamental knowledge needed to understand how each gaming and non-gaming department functions and interacts within the overall gaming resort, allowing the investigator to determine and focus on the important elements of any investigation in any area. Each chapter delivers a background of a department or type of crime normally seen in the gaming environment, and then discusses what should be considered important or even critical for the investigator to know or determine in the course of the investigation. Likely scenarios, case histories, and tips, as well as cautions for investigators to be aware of, are used throughout the book.

This book was written for and directed at gaming security and surveillance professionals, including gaming regulators, and tribal gaming authorities, who are almost daily confronted by the ingenious and the most common scams, theft, and frauds that are perpetrated in the gaming world.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Art of Investigations

Chapter 2 - Field Investigations

Chapter 3 – Marketing Considerations and Investigations

Chapter 4 – Objective and Impartial Investigations

Chapter 5 – Understanding the Scope of the Investigation

Chapter 6 – Starting the Investigation

Chapter 7 – Written Reports

Chapter 8 – Interviews

Chapter 9 – Ethics in Investigations

Chapter 10 – Prosecution

Chapter 11 – Jurisdictions, Regulations and Gaming Environments

Chapter 12 – Investigations and Liability

Non-Gaming Investigations

Chapter 13 – Hotel Investigations

Chapter 14 - Food and Beverage Investigations

Chapter 15 – Claim Investigations

Chapter 16 – Vehicle Accidents and Auto Theft

Chapter 17 – Post Investigation Best Practices

Gaming Investigations

Chapter 18 - Investigative Concepts

Chapter 19 - Covert Surveillance Investigations

Chapter 20 - Employee Theft and Fraud

Chapter 21 - Outside Agents and Collusion

Chapter 22 - Gaming Investigations

Chapter 23 - Cage

Chapter 24 - Slots

Chapter 25 - Table Games

Chapter 26 - Player’s Club

Chapter 27 - Marketing Scams

Chapter 28 - Keno and Bingo

Chapter 29 - Race and Sports Book

Chapter 30 - Night Clubs and Party Pools

Glossary

Index

　

Appendix

IOU Patrol

Tri-Shot Coverage

Audits and Close Watches

Common Tells of Cheating and Theft

Video Review and Investigation (IACSP White Paper)

Nowadays, many aspects of electrical and electronic engineering are essentially applications of DSP. This is due to the focus on processing information in the form of digital signals, using certain DSP hardware designed to execute software. Fundamental topics in digital signal processing are introduced with theory, analytical tables, and applications with simulation tools. The book provides a collection of solved problems on digital signal processing and statistical signal processing. The solutions are based directly on the math-formulas given in extensive tables throughout the book, so the reader can solve practical problems on signal processing quickly and efficiently.

FEATURES

Explains how applications of DSP can be implemented in certain programming environments designed for real time systems, ex. biomedical signal analysis and medical image processing.

Pairs theory with basic concepts and supporting analytical tables.

Includes an extensive collection of solved problems throughout the text.

Fosters the ability to solve practical problems on signal processing without focusing on extended theory.

Covers the modeling process and addresses broader fundamental issues.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Digital Signal Processing. Introduction. Discrete-time Signals and Systems. z-Transform. Implementation of Discrete Systems. Frequency Domain Analysis. Designing Digital Filters. Part 2: Statistical Signal Processing. Statistical Models. Fundamental Principles of Parametric Estimation. Linear Evaluation. Fundamentals of Signal Detection.

Research Methods in Applied Linguistics is designed to be the essential one-volume resource for students. The book includes: * qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods * research techniques and approaches * ethical considerations * sample studies * a glossary of key terms * resources for students As well as covering a range of methodological issues, it looks at numerous areas in depth, including language learning strategies, motivation, teacher beliefs, language and identity, pragmatics, vocabulary, and grammar. Comprehensive and accessible, this is the essential guide to research methods for undergraduate and postgraduate students in applied linguistics and language studies.

Typography is the most effective tool that graphic designers use to express ideas and convey a message. The ability to choose the right typeface for the right job, to design readable and legible pages, and to marry type and image to create visually compelling results are skills that every designer must master. This book introduces the student to the basic principles of typography with clear examples from international practitioners, interviews with designers and typographers, plus exercises to reinforce the concepts covered. With its attractive layout, approachable text and skillful use of typography on every spread, the author sets the standard to inspire the beginning student of design.

The third edition of Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies provides a vital framework for analysing the complexity of cultural tourism and its increasing globalization in existing as well as emergent destinations of the world. It focuses in particular on the need for even more creative tourism strategies to differentiate destinations from each other using a blend of localized cultural products and innovative global attractions.

The book explores many of the most pertinent issues in heritage, arts, festivals, indigenous, ethnic and experiential cultural tourism in urban and rural environments alike. Since the second edition of this book there have been many important developments in this field and this third edition has been completely revised and updated to include:

New content on: demand and motivation for cultural tourism, sustainable cultural tourism, and ethnic cultural tourism

New and updated case studies from an even wider global perspective

A revised, up-to-date framework for global cultural tourism studies in the light of recent research, publications, and industry developments.

New pedagogical features within the text to aid understanding and critical thinking including: questions at the end of case studies and a further reading section.

At the interface between the global and the local, a sustainable and people-centred approach to cultural tourism planning and development is advocated to ensure that benefits are maximized for local areas, a sense of place and identity are retained, and the tourist experience is enhanced to the full. The text is unique in that it provides a summary and a synthesis of all of the major issues in global cultural tourism, which are presented in an accessible way using a diverse range of international case studies. It is essential and valuable reading for all tourism students.

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1 .A framework for cultural tourism studies 2.Demand and motivation for cultural tourism 3.The geography of cultural tourism 4. The politics of cultural tourism 5. Heritage, tourism and museums 6. Indigenous cultural tourism 7. Ethnic cultural tourism 8. The arts, festivals and cultural tourism 9. Creative tourism 10. Experiential tourism 11. Sustainable management of cultural tourism

The Online Journalism Handbook offers a comprehensive guide to the ever-evolving world of digital journalism, showcasing the multiple possibilities in researching, writing, and storytelling provided by new technologies.

In this new edition, Paul Bradshaw presents an engaging mix of technological expertise with real-world practical guidance to illustrate how those training and working as journalists can improve the development, presentation, and global reach of their stories through webbased technologies.

Thoroughly revised and updated, this third edition features:

A new chapter dedicated to writing for email and chat, with updated case studies

New sections covering online abuse, news avoidance, and trust

Updated coverage of accessibility, inclusivity, and diversity in sourcing, writing for social media, and audio and video

New formats, including social audio, audiograms, Twitter threads, the “Stories” format, charticles, and “scrollytelling”

Expanded international examples throughout

The Online Journalism Handbook is an essential guide for all journalism students and professional journalists and will also be of interest to digital media practitioners.

The companion website for this book further enhances student knowledge through regularly updated case studies, real-time development reports, and in-depth discussion pieces from cutting-edge sources.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Histories, futures, and the changing business and technologies of journalism

Finding leads and sources online

Writing for the web

Writing for social media

Email newsletters, chat and curation

Live and mobile journalism — and verification

Online audio

Video for the web and social media

Data Journalism

Interactivity, code and analytics

Community, social media management and UGC

Index/

Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language that he traced back to a European Enlightenment that had made the formulation of moral principles increasingly difficult. In the search for a way out of this impasse, MacIntyre returns to an earlier strand of ethical thinking, that of Aristotle, who emphasised the importance of 'virtue' to the ethical life. More than thirty years after its original publication, After Virtue remains a work that is impossible to ignore for anyone interested in our understanding of ethics and morality today.

Most information systems textbooks overwhelm business students with overly technical information they may not need in their careers. This textbook takes a new approach to the required information systems course for business majors. For each topic covered, the text highlights key "Take-Aways" that alert students to material they will need to remember during their careers. Sections titled "Where You Fit In" and "Why This Chapter Matters" explain how the topics being covered will impact students on the job. Review questions, discussion questions, and summaries are also included. This second edition is updated to include new technology, along with a new running case study.

Key features:

Single-mindedly for business students who are not technical specialists

Doesn’t try to prepare IS professionals; other courses will do that

Stresses the enabling technologies and application areas that matter the most today

Based on the author’s real-world experience

Up to date regarding technology and tomorrow’s business needs

This is the book the author—and, more importantly, his students—wishes he had when he started teaching. Dr. Mallach holds degrees in engineering from Princeton and MIT, and in business from Boston University. He worked in the computer industry for two decades, as Director of Strategic Planning for a major computer firm and as co-founder/CEO of a computer marketing consulting firm. He taught information systems in the University of Massachusetts (Lowell and Dartmouth) business schools for 18 years, then at Rhode Island College following his retirement. He consults in industry and serves as Webmaster for his community, in between hiking and travel with his wife.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Why Information Systems Matter in Business

Role of Information Systems in Business

information Systems Hardware

Information Systems Software

Data, Databases, and Database Management

Information Networks

Integrating the Organization

Connecting with Customers and Suppliers

Making Better Decisions

Planning and Selecting Information Systems

Developing Information Systems

Managing Information Systems

Index

Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and the management of scarce recourses. It draws on moral and political philosophy, political and social science, empirical research, and real-world policy and activism. The Routledge Handbook of Global Ethics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject, presenting an authoritative overview of the most significant issues and ideas in global ethics. The 31 chapters by a team of international contributors are structured into six key parts:

normative theory

conflict and violence

poverty and development

economic justice

bioethics and health justice

environment and climate ethics.

Covering the theoretical and practical aspects of global ethics as well as policy, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Global Ethics provides a benchmark for the study of global ethics to date, as well as outlining future developments. It will prove an invaluable reference for policy-makers, and is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, international relations, political science, environmental and development studies and human rights law.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Darrel Moellendorf and Heather Widdows 2. The trends and tendencies of global integration Barrie Axford Part 1: Normative theory 3. Ethical theory and global challenges Ruth Chadwick and Alan O’Connor 4. Theories, types and bounds of justice Richard J. Arneson 5. Gender, care and global values Virginia Held 6. Cosmopolitanism and its critics Gillian Brock 7. Human rights Rainer Forst 8. Universalism, relativism and difference Peter Jones and Graham Long Part 2: Conflict and violence 9. War and terrorism Brian Orend 10. Torture Henry Shue 11. Humanitarian intervention Alex J. Bellamy 12. Nuclear weapons and containment Douglas P. Lackey Part 3: Poverty and development 13. Poverty Hennie Lötter 14. Development Julian Culp 15. Aid and charity Nigel Dower 16. Immigration Sarah Fine and Andrea Sangiovanni Part 4: Economic justice 17. International trade Christian Barry and Scott Wisor 18. International financial institutions Meena Krishnamurthy 19. Corporate social responsibility and multinational corporations Nien-hê Hsieh and Florian Wettstein 20. Consumption and non-consumption Nicole Hassoun 21. Prostitution and trafficking for sexual labour Julia O’Connell Davidson 22. Distributive institutions Chris Armstrong Part 5: Bioethics and health justice 23. Research ethics Udo Schüklenk and Ricardo Smalling 24. Trade in human body parts Teck Chuan Voo and Alastair V. Campbell 25. Reproductive rights and reproductive technologies Hille Haker 26. Patents and intellectual property rights Roger Brownsword Part 6: Environmental and climate ethics 27. Climate change Simon Caney 28. Pollution Benjamin S. Hale 29. Sustainability John O’Neill 30. Biodiversity Andrew Brennan and Norva Y. S. Lo 31. Population Tim Mulgan. Index

Planar Multibody Dynamics: Formulation, Programming with MATLAB®, and Applications, Second Edition, provides sets of methodologies for analyzing the dynamics of mechanical systems, such as mechanisms and machineries, with coverage of both classical and modern principles. Using clear and concise language, the text introduces fundamental theories, computational methods, and program development for analyzing simple to complex systems. MATLAB is used throughout, with examples beginning with basic commands before introducing students to more advanced programming techniques. The simple programs developed in each chapter come together to form complete programs for different types of analysis.

Features

Two new chapters on free-body diagram and vector-loop concepts demonstrate that the modern computational techniques of formulating the equations of motion is merely an organized and systematic interpretation of the classical methods

A new chapter on modeling impact between rigid bodies is based on two concepts known as continuous and piecewise methods

A thorough discussion on modeling friction and the associated computational issues

The short MATLAB® programs that are listed in the book can be downloaded from a companion website

Several other MATLAB® programs and their user manuals can be downloaded from the companion website including: a general purpose program for kinematic, inverse dynamic, and forward dynamic analysis; a semi-general-purpose program that allows student to experiment with his or her own formulation of equations of motion; a special-purpose program for kinematic and inverse dynamic analysis of four-bar mechanisms

The preceding three sets of programs contain animation capabilities for easy visualization of the simulated motion

A greater range of examples, problems, and projects

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

2 Preliminaries

3 Fundamentals of Planar Kinematics

4 Fundamentals of Planar Dynamics

5 Vector Kinematics

6 Free-Body Diagram

7 Body-Coordinate Formulation

8 Body-Coordinate Simulation Program

9 Joint-Coordinate Formulation

10 Point-Coordinate Formulation

11 Contact and Impact

12 Kinematics and Inverse Dynamics

13 Forward Dynamics

14 Complementary Analyses

15 Application Examples

Appendix A: L-U Factorization

Appendix B: Dynamic Analysis Program: Body Coordinates (DAP_BC)

Appendix C: Dynamic Analysis Program: Joint Coordinates (DAP_JC)

This new textbook provides an up-to-date overview of international banking as the second decade of the twenty-first century unfolds. Integrating geo-economic, operational, institutional and regulatory changes in the financial sector, the volume’s methodology incorporates specific case studies and research, combining theory with practical examples to illustrate the impact and consequences of past and present financial crises.

The volume considers the core aspects of international banking, including its structural and technical features, historical context, institutional evolution in core markets, and wholesale, retail, investment and private banking. It uses specific examples from past and present literature, post-2008 case studies and histories, and research materials, offering a fully updated overview of how international banks respond to global crises, the origin, efficacy and evolution of financial markets, and the regulatory framework within which they function.

One chapter is devoted to the evolution and potential of new markets, including the financial sectors of the BRICS and other emerging economies. Each chapter examines background, causes, impact and resolution, focusing on specific cases and their broader implications for the sector.　

This textbook is a guide to the new, and at times unchartered, landscape to be navigated by large domestic, cross-regional and global banks, and will be invaluable reading for students of finance, business and economics, as well as for those in the financial sector.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. History of International Banking: International Banks (Almost) Never Die 2. International Wholesale Banking 3. International Personal Banking 4. Bank Failures and Systemic Crises 5. Sovereign Debt Crises and Ramifications for International Banking 6. International Bank Regulation and Supervision 7. Banking in Emerging Economies 8. Financial Fraud and Implications for Banks 9. International Banking Trends and Challenges

Introduction to Sports Biomechanics: Analysing Human Movement Patterns is a genuinely accessible and comprehensive guide to all of the biomechanics topics covered in an undergraduate sports and exercise science degree.

Now in a fully revised and updated third edition, the book explores both the qualitative and quantitative analysis of human movement, covering the following key topics:

Movement patterns – the essence and purpose of sports biomechanics

Qualitative analysis of sports movements

Sports movement patterns and the geometry of motion

Quantitative motion analysis in sports biomechanics

What causes sports movements? Forces and moments of force

The anatomy of human movement

Every chapter contains cross references to key terms and definitions, learning objectives and summaries, study tasks to confirm and extend understanding, and suggestions for further reading.　

In addition to the printed textbook, readers of this new edition will also have access to an Interactive eTextbook version, a new kind of e-book that can be used on both mobile and desktop devices offering students an unparalleled level of interactivity. Featuring video, data files, pop-up definitions, hyperlinks, self-test quizzes and interactive labelling and sorting tasks, this new electronic edition brings the subject of sports biomechanics to life like no other textbook. This remains an essential course text for students of sport and exercise, human movement sciences, ergonomics, biomechanics, physical education, and sports performance and coaching.

Table of Contents

1. Movement patterns – the essence of sports biomechanics 2. Qualitative analysis of sports movements 3. Sports movement patterns and the geometry of motion 4. Quantitative motion analysis in sports biomechanics 5. What causes sports movements? Forces and moments of force 6. The anatomy of human movement

The planning of urban and rural areas requires thinking about where people will live, work, play, study, shop and how they will get about the place, and to devise strategies for long time periods. Town Planning: The Basics provides a general introduction to the components of urban areas, including housing, transportation and infrastructure, and health and environment, showing how appropriate policies can be developed. Explaining planning activity at different scales of operation, this book distinguishes between the "big stuff", the grand strategy for providing homes, jobs and infrastructure; the "medium stuff", the design and location of development; and the "small stuff" affecting mainly small sites and individual households.

Planning as an activity is part of a complex web stretching way beyond the planning office, and this book provides an overview of the many components needed to create a successful town. It is invaluable to anyone with an interest in planning, from students learning about the subject for the first time to graduates thinking about embarking on a career in planning, to local councillors on planning committees and community boards.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Big Stuff - Planning Gets Started: Planning Is Conceived as a Way of Confronting Some Big Issues

Chapter 2 The First Big Issues: Houses and Infrastructure

Chapter 3 More Big Issues - Employment and the Regions: Planning for Changing Employment

Chapter 4 More Big Issues - Health, Environment and the Countryside

Chapter 5 More Big Issues - Getting Around: Dealing with Transport in Urban Areas

Chapter 6 The Medium Stuff - Where to Put Things?: The Design and Laying Out of Urban Areas

Chapter 7 The Small Stuff: The Day-to-Day Work of the Planning Office

Chapter 8 Policies and Decisions: How a Planning System Works

Conclusion

Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest, broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international development. They now affect every development sector – supporting the work of hundreds of millions of farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; creating millions of ICT-based jobs; assisting healthcare workers and teachers; facilitating political change; impacting climate change; but also linked with digital inequalities and harms – with the pace of change continuously accelerating.

Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) provides the first dedicated textbook to examine and explain these emerging phenomena. It will help students, practitioners, researchers and other readers understand the place of ICTs within development; the ICT-enabled changes already underway; and the key issues and interventions that engage ICT4D practice and strategy.

The book has a three-part structure. The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social development, good governance and environmental sustainability. Each chapter assesses the goal-related impact associated with ICTs and key lessons from real-world cases. The final chapter looks ahead to emerging technologies and emerging models of ICT-enabled development.

The book uses extensive in-text diagrams, tables and boxed examples with chapter-end discussion and assignment questions and further reading. Supported by online activities, video links, session outlines and slides, this textbook provides the basis for undergraduate, postgraduate and online learning modules on ICT4D.

Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables List of Boxes Acknowledgements Acronyms Introduction: Information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) 1. Understanding ICT4D 2. Foundations of ICT4D 3. Implementing ICT4D 4. ICTs and economic growth 5. ICTs, poverty and livelihoods 6. ICTs and social development 7. e-Governance and development 8. ICTs and environmental sustainability 9. The future of ICT4D Bibliography Index

"Sharing knowledge is power." If ever there were a field to which this applies, it is the knowledge management industry. And in today's highly-competitive, fast-paced business world, corporations, businesses and organizations in both the public and private sectors are constantly searching for new cutting-edge methods and techniques for creating, storing, capturing, managing, organizing, distributing, combining, and retrieving knowledge. But the task of accomplishing such functions is not as simple as it sounds. Jay Liebowitz's Building Organizational Intelligence: A Knowledge Management Primer gives executives, managers, systems analysts, and other knowledge-management professionals the competitive edge they need in achieving that task. In a concise and easy-to-read format, the book describes the concepts, techniques, methodologies, and tools associated with those functions, and includes mini-case studies and vignettes of how industry is developing and applying these functions towards building organizational intelligence.

What's more, the book is packaged with a limited functionality version of "WisdomBuilder," the first in a family of knowledge-management tools that provide a fully integrated solution to the information management and analysis dilemma. Able to run under Windows 95, 98 and NT, "WisdomBuilder" solves the information overload problem by reducing the time and cost of extracting information and other research knowledge from disorganized repositories of heterogeneous data.

Table of Contents

What is Organizational Intelligence? Creating Knowledge. Capturing and Storing Knowledge. Transforming Individual Learning Into Organizational Learning. Combining, Transferring, and Distributing Knowledge. Building A Continuous Learning Culture. Culture: The Key Ingredient. Developing A Knowledge Management Capability

Assessing Knowledge Management Through A Knowledge Audit. Augmenting Organizational Intelligence. Role and Skills for Knowledge Management-Questionnaire. Appendix A: The Intelligent Agent-Based Knowledge Management System for Supporting Multimedia Systems Design on The Web. Appendices

Tourism is widely considered to be an important factor in socio-economic development, particularly in less developed countries. However, despite almost universal recognition of tourism’s development potential, the extent to which economic and social progress is linked to the growth of a country’s tourism sector remains the subject of intense debate. Tourism and Development in the Developing World offers a thorough overview of the tourism-development relationship. Focusing specifically on the less developed world and drawing on contemporary case studies, this updated second edition questions widely-held assumptions on the role of tourism in development and seeks to highlight the challenges faced by destinations seeking to achieve development through tourism.

The introductory chapter establishes the foundation for the book, exploring the meaning and objectives of development, reviewing theoretical perspectives on the developmental process, and assessing the reasons why less developed countries are attracted to tourism as a development option. The concept of sustainable development, as the most widely adopted contemporary model of development, is then introduced and its links with tourism critically assessed. Subsequent chapters explore the key issues associated with tourism and development, including the rise of globalization; the tourism planning and development process; the relationship between tourism and communities within which it is developed; the management implications of trends in the demand for and uptake of tourism; and an analysis of the consequences of tourism development for destination environments, economies and societies. A new chapter considers the challenges of climate change, sustainability of resource supply (oil, water and food), global economic instability, political instability and changing demographics. Finally, the issues raised throughout the book are drawn together in a concluding chapter that assesses the tourism and development ‘dilemma’.

Combining an overview of essential concepts, theories and knowledge with an analysis of contemporary issues and debates in tourism and development, this new edition will be an invaluable resource for those investigating tourism issues in developing countries. The book will be of interest to students of tourism, development, geography and area studies, international relations and politics, and sociology.

　

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1. Introduction: Tourism in Developing Countries 2. Tourism and Sustainable Development 3. Globalisation and Tourism 4. The Tourism Planning and Development Process 5. Community Response to Tourism 6. The Consumption of Tourism 7. Assessing the Impacts of Tourism 8Challenges to Tourism and Development. 9.Conclusion: The Tourism Development Dilemma

A Reader’s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory is a classic introduction to the complex yet crucial area of literary theory. This book is known for its clear, accessible style and its thorough, logical approach, guiding the reader through the essentials of literary theory. It includes two new chapters: ‘New Materialisms’ which incorporates ecocriticism, animal studies, posthumanism and thing theory; ‘21st Century and Future Developments’ which includes technology, digital humanities, ethics and affect.

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Contents

Preface to the Sixth Edition

Introduction

1. New Criticism, moral formalism and F. R. Leavis

Origins: Eliot, Richards, Empson

The American New Critic

Moral formalism: F. R. Leavis

2. Russian formalism and the Bakhtin School

Shklovsky, Mukařovský, Jakobson

The Bakhtin School

3. Reader-oriented theories

Phenomenology: Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer

Hans Robert Jauss and Wolfgang Iser

Fish, Riffaterre, Bleich

4. Structuralism

The linguistic background

Structuralist narratology

Metaphor and metonymy

Structuralist poetics

5. Marxism

Soviet Socialist Realism

Lukács and Brecht

The Frankfurt School and After: Adorno and Benjamin

‘Structuralist’ Marxism: Goldmann, Althusser, Macherey

‘New Left’ Marxism: Williams, Eagleton, Jameson

6. Psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud

Jacques Lacan

Trauma Studies

Slavoj Žižek

7. Feminism

First-wave feminist criticism: Woolf and de Beauvoir

Second-wave feminist criticism

Kate Millett: sexual politics

Marxist feminism

Elaine Showalter: gynocriticism

French feminism: Kristeva, Cixous, Irigaray

8 Poststructuralism

Roland Barthes

Deleuze and Guattari

Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida

American deconstruction

Michel Foucault

New Historicism and Cultural Materialism

9. Postmodernism

Jean Baudrillard

Jean-François Lyotard

Postmodernism and Marxism

Postmodern feminisms

10. Postcolonialism, race and ethnicity

Edward Said

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Homi K. Bhabha

Race and ethnicity

11. Gay, lesbian and queer theories

Gay theory and criticism

Lesbian feminist theory and criticism

Queer theory and criticism

12. Post-theory

13. Ecocriticism, animal studies, thing theory

Ecocriticism

Animal Studies

Thing theory

14. World literature and digital humanities

World literature

Digital Humanities

Appendix

1: Glossaries and dictionaries of theoretical and critical terms

2: Literary, critical and cultural theory journals

Index of names, titles and topics

The Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox continues where the Game Narrative Toolbox ended. While the later covered the basics of writing for games, the Advanced Game Narrative Toolbox will cover techniques for the intermediate and professional writer. The book will cover topics such as how to adapt a novel to a game, how to revive IPs and how to construct transmedia worlds. Each chapter will be written by a professional with exceptional experience in the field of the chapter.

Key Features

Learn from industry experts how to tackle today’s challenges in storytelling for games.

A learn by example and exercise approach, which was praised in the Game Narrative Toolbox.

An in depth view on advanced storytelling techniques and topics as they are currently discussed and used in the gaming industry.

Expand your knowledge in game writing as you learn and try yourself to design quests, write romances and build worlds as you would as a writer in a game studio.

Improve your own stories by learning and trying the techniques used by the professionals of game writing.

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Introduction. Planning Your Work. Diversity & Research. Romances. Cinematics. Building a Universe. Writing for Non-Digital Games (Board Games). Adapting a Digital World to a Novel. From Novel to Computer Game. Reinventing an IP. Managing the Branches. Quest Design. Writing and implementation. The Writer in the Studio (VO). Editing and Quality Control. Freelancing and Surviving. Journalism. Past the Release.

The twelfth edition of this essential valuation textbook reflects the changes in the regulatory and statutory framework for property valuations that have occurred since 2013, as well as presenting the tried and tested principles and practices of real estate valuation.

The twelfth edition is up to date as of June 2018 with the latest regulations, statutes and case law, including the RICS Valuation – Global Standards 2017. Its comprehensive coverage of the legal, economic and technical aspects of valuation make this book a core text for most university and college real estate programmes, and it provides students and practitioners with current and relevant guidance on the preparation of valuations for statutory purposes.

Throughout the text, the author team of experienced valuers presents examples of the application of these principles to the everyday problems met in practice. This new edition continues to be of excellent value to both students and practitioners alike as it provides the reader with a clear understanding of the methods and techniques of valuation.

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Preface to the twelfth edition

Acknowledgements

Table of cases

Table of statutes

Table of statutary instruments

1. Principles of valuation

2. Valuation approaches and methods

3. Property law

4. Planning law

5. The market approach

6. Market rent

7. Outgoings

8. Property yields

9. Investment mathematics as it applies to property valuation

10. Income approach or investment method

11. Discounted cash flow

12. The cost approach and residual method

13. Developments in valuation approaches

14. Development properties

15. Residential properties

16. Commercial properties (1): types of property

17. Commercial properties (2): Landlord and Tenant Acts and rent reviews

18. UK valuation applications

19. Valuations for rating

20. Taxation

21. Principles of the law of compulsory purchase and compensation

22. Compulsory purchase compensation (1): compensation for land taken

23. Compulsory purchase compensation (2): compensation for severance and injurious affection

24. Compulsory purchase compensation (3): compensation disturbance

25. Blight notices

26. Purchase notices

27. Compensation under the Town and Country Planning Acts: revocation, modification and discontinuance orders, etc.

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