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How do you write a novel? Practising novelists and teachers of
creative writing reveal their working methods and offer practical
advice. Subjects covered range from magic realism to
characterisation, surrealism to historical fiction, via
perspective, plot twists and avoiding being boring, among many
others. This book is for creative writing students writers and
readers of novels teachers of creative writing With contributions
from Leone Ross, Tom Bromley, Jenn Ashworth, AJ Dalton, Nikesh
Shukla, Stella Duffy, Mark Morris, Alison Moore, Nicholas Royle,
Alice Thompson, Kerry Hudson, Toby Litt, Livi Michael, Joe Stretch,
James Miller, Sarah Butler, Will Wiles, Graeme Shimmin Featuring
Eighteen specially commissioned essays Creative writing exercises
Top tips Lists of recommended novels
Evaluating Climate Change Impacts discusses assessing and
quantifying climate change and its impacts from a multi-faceted
perspective of ecosystem, social, and infrastructure resilience,
given through a lens of statistics and data science. It provides a
multi-disciplinary view on the implications of climate variability
and shows how the new data science paradigm can help us to mitigate
climate-induced risk and to enhance climate adaptation strategies.
This book consists of chapters solicited from leading topical
experts and presents their perspectives on climate change effects
in two general areas: natural ecosystems and socio-economic
impacts. The chapters unveil topics of atmospheric circulation,
climate modeling, and long-term prediction; approach the problems
of increasing frequency of extreme events, sea level rise, and
forest fires, as well as economic losses, analysis of climate
impacts for insurance, agriculture, fisheries, and electric and
transport infrastructures. The reader will be exposed to the
current research using a variety of methods from physical modeling,
statistics, and machine learning, including the global circulation
models (GCM) and ocean models, statistical generalized additive
models (GAM) and generalized linear models (GLM), state space and
graphical models, causality networks, Bayesian ensembles, a variety
of index methods and statistical tests, and machine learning
methods. The reader will learn about data from various sources,
including GCM and ocean model outputs, satellite observations, and
data collected by different agencies and research units. Many of
the chapters provide references to open source software R and
Python code that are available for implementing the methods.
Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest
China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and
intimately personal perspective on Chinese queer culture and
activism. In Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in
Northwest China, Miller tells the stories of two courageous and
dedicated groups of queer activists in the city of Xi’an: a
grassroots gay men’s HIV/AIDS organization called Tong’ai and a
lesbian women’s group named UNITE. Taking inspiration from “the
circle,” a term used to imagine local, national, and global queer
communities, Miller shows how everyday people in northwest China
are taking part in queer culture and activism while also striving
to lead traditionally moral lives in a rapidly changing society.
The queer stories in this book broaden our understandings of gender
and sexuality in contemporary China and show how taking global
queer diversity seriously requires us to de-center Western cultural
values, historical experiences, and theoretical perspectives.
Evaluating Climate Change Impacts discusses assessing and
quantifying climate change and its impacts from a multi-faceted
perspective of ecosystem, social, and infrastructure resilience,
given through a lens of statistics and data science. It provides a
multi-disciplinary view on the implications of climate variability
and shows how the new data science paradigm can help us to mitigate
climate-induced risk and to enhance climate adaptation strategies.
This book consists of chapters solicited from leading topical
experts and presents their perspectives on climate change effects
in two general areas: natural ecosystems and socio-economic
impacts. The chapters unveil topics of atmospheric circulation,
climate modeling, and long-term prediction; approach the problems
of increasing frequency of extreme events, sea level rise, and
forest fires, as well as economic losses, analysis of climate
impacts for insurance, agriculture, fisheries, and electric and
transport infrastructures. The reader will be exposed to the
current research using a variety of methods from physical modeling,
statistics, and machine learning, including the global circulation
models (GCM) and ocean models, statistical generalized additive
models (GAM) and generalized linear models (GLM), state space and
graphical models, causality networks, Bayesian ensembles, a variety
of index methods and statistical tests, and machine learning
methods. The reader will learn about data from various sources,
including GCM and ocean model outputs, satellite observations, and
data collected by different agencies and research units. Many of
the chapters provide references to open source software R and
Python code that are available for implementing the methods.
The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs emerged in the late 1600s as
one of the largest landowners in Caithness. As such they played a
major part in the history of the county, a role revealed in the
family papers with their wide variety of documents, including
personal letters and legal missives. Readers will learn about the
Dunbars selling Caithness grain in the Lowlands, coping with the
effects of the last Jacobite rising, handling disputes with their
neighbours, arranging elections, dealing with debt - and that is
just in the 18th century. During the Napoleonic wars the Dunbars
recruited a fencible regiment called the Caithness Legion that saw
action in Ireland. At the same time the British Fisheries Society
acquired land from the family and began to develop Pulteneytown as
a major herring fishing port. An agricultural revolution swept over
the estates, leading to the enclosing of fields, disputes over
common land, evictions and refurbishment of farms. In the mid-19th
century, when the family home at Ackergill Tower was refashioned by
the architect David Bryce, the Dunbars adopted the lifestyle of the
Victorian country gentry as well as finding careers in the Empire.
With family trees, photographs, maps and documents, the book
presents an absorbing, intriguing and, at times, amusing account of
the social and economic life of the Dunbars over more than three
hundred years, using unique messages from the past, never before
made public. A fascinating insight into life in northern Scotland
during centuries of change.
Democracy today is widely regarded as an ideal form of government. Yet in practice it sometimes seems a sham, a political puppet show in which hidden elites pull all the strings.
As trust in elected representatives around the world plunges, it is no wonder that democratic revolts have erupted – from Cairo to Kiev and beyond – in an effort to ‘take back control’.
In this urgent and lively history, James Miller reminds us that democracy has always generated tensions and contradictions. Through philosophical debates and violent uprisings, it has been contested, corrupted, and refined. In different times and different places – from ancient Athens to revolutionary France to post-war America – its meaning has shifted in surprising ways.
For over two thousand years, the world has experimented with democracy. But can it really work – especially in complex modern societies?
This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and
environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent
debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the
world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement
with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and
globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who
live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and
social margins. The book develops a comprehensive understanding of
contemporary China that goes beyond the tradition/ modernity
dichotomy, and illuminates the diversity of narratives and
worldviews that inform contemporary Chinese understandings of and
engagements with nature and environment.
Donald Cress's highly regarded translation, based on the critical
Pleiade edition of 1964, is here issued with a lively introduction
by James Miller, who brings into sharp focus the cultural and
intellectual milieu in which Rousseau operated. This new edition
includes a select bibliography, a note on the text, a translator's
note, and Rousseau's own Notes on the Discourse.
This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and
environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent
debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the
world's most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement
with religious traditions, competing visions of modernity and
globalization, and by engagement with minority nationalities who
live in areas of outstanding natural beauty on China's physical and
social margins. The book develops a comprehensive understanding of
contemporary China that goes beyond the tradition/ modernity
dichotomy, and illuminates the diversity of narratives and
worldviews that inform contemporary Chinese understandings of and
engagements with nature and environment.
Scapa Flow was one of the world’s great naval bases and the scene
of many of the major events of twentieth-century naval history.
During both World Wars, the Royal Navy made Scapa the home for its
capital ships, and thousands of servicemen and women were posted to
Orkney. From here the Grand Fleet sailed for Jutland in 1916, from
here the escorts for the Russian convoys set off, and it was in
this beautiful, bleak anchorage that the German High Seas fleet
committed the greatest act of suicide ever seen at sea – ‘The
Grand Scuttle’ – before being later raised and scrapped in the
most astonishing feat of maritime salvage in history. It was also
in Scapa that the last photographs of Kitchener were taken as he
boarded HMS Hampshire, shortly before she was sunk by mine off
Marwick Head. Scapa is also the grave of many who fought for their
country in both World Wars. In its silent waters lie the wrecks of
the battleship Vanguard, blown apart by an explosion in 1917, and
the Royal Oak, sunk by U-47 in a spectacular raid at the beginning
of World War II . Here the first Luftwaffe raids on Britain
occured, here too Italian prisoners-of-war built both the
spectacular Churchill causeways and the exquisite chapel on the
island of Lamb Holm. In this book, illustrated with over 130
archive photographs, James Miller traces the story of this
remarkable place, weaving together history, eyewitness accounts and
personal experience to capture the life and spirit of Scapa Flow
when it was home to thousands of service personnel and the most
powerful fleet in the world.
Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry 7th edition
provides a clear, accessible introduction to main statistical
methods used in modern analytical laboratories. It continues to be
the ideal companion for students in Chemistry and related fields
keen to build their understanding of how to conduct high quality
analyses in areas such as the safety of food, water and medicines,
environmental monitoring, and chemical manufacturing. With a focus
on the underlying statistical ideas, this book incorporates useful
real world examples, step by step explanation and helpful exercises
throughout. Features of the new edition: * Significant revision of
the Quality of analytical measurements chapter to incorporate more
detailed coverage of the estimation of measurement uncertainty and
the validation of analytical methods. * Updated coverage of a range
of topics including robust statistics, Bayesian methods, and
testing for normality of distribution, plus expanded material on
regression and calibration methods. * Additional experimental
design methods, including the increasingly popular optimal designs.
* Worked examples have been updated throughout to ensure
compatibility with the latest versions of Excel and Minitab. *
Exercises are available at the end of each chapter to allow student
to check understanding and prepare for exams. Answers are provided
at the back of the book for handy reference. This book is aimed at
undergraduate and graduate courses in Analytical Chemistry and
related topics. It will also be a valuable resource for researchers
and chemists working in analytical chemistry.
How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic,
ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes
of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In
China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients
individuals toward a holistic understanding of religion and nature.
Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature,
Daoism fosters a "green" subjectivity and agency that transforms
what it means to live a flourishing life on earth. Through a
groundbreaking reconstruction of Daoist philosophy and religion,
Miller argues for four key, green insights: a vision of nature as a
subjective power that informs human life; an anthropological idea
of the porous body based on a sense of qi flowing through
landscapes and human beings; a tradition of knowing founded on the
experience of transformative power in specific landscapes and
topographies; and an aesthetic and moral sensibility based on an
affective sensitivity to how the world pervades the body and the
body pervades the world. Environmentalists struggle to raise
consciousness for their cause, Miller argues, because their
activism relies on a quasi-Christian concept of "saving the earth."
Instead, environmentalists should integrate nature and culture more
seamlessly, cultivating through a contemporary intellectual
vocabulary a compelling vision of how the earth materially and
spiritually supports human flourishing.
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was
reduced to a slew of prescriptions and ten-step plans, philosophers
offered answers to fundamental questions about who we are and what
makes life worth living. In "Examined Lives, " James Miller returns
to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve
famous philosophers. Socrates spent his life examining himself and
the assumptions of others. His most famous student, Plato, risked
his reputation to tutor a tyrant. Augustine discovered God within
himself. Montaigne and Descartes struggled to explore their deepest
convictions in eras of murderous religious warfare. Emerson
successfully preached a gospel of self-reliance for the new
American nation. And Nietzsche tried "to compose into one and bring
together what is fragment and riddle and dreadful chance" in man,
before lapsing into catatonic madness.
With a flair for paradox and rich anecdote, Miller confirms the
continuing relevance of philosophy today--and explores the most
urgent questions about what it means to live a good life.
Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day
of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides
to attain happiness, the philosophers of ancient Greece explored
the riddle of what makes a life worth living, producing a wide
variety of ideas and examples to follow. This rich tradition was
recast by Diogenes Laertius into an anthology, a miscellany of
maxims and anecdotes, that generations of Western readers have
consulted for edification as well as entertainment ever since the
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, first compiled in the third
century AD, came to prominence in Renaissance Italy. To this day,
it remains a crucial source for much of what we know about the
origins and practice of philosophy in ancient Greece, covering a
longer period of time and a larger number of figures-from
Pythagoras and Socrates to Aristotle and Epicurus-than any other
ancient source.
This textbook introduces the theories and practical procedures used
in planetary spacecraft navigation. Written by a former member of
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) navigation team, it delves
into the mathematics behind modern digital navigation programs, as
well as the numerous technological resources used by JPL as a key
player in the field. In addition, the text offers an analysis of
navigation theory application in recent missions, with the goal of
showing students the relationship between navigation theory and the
real-world orchestration of mission operations.
How can Daoism, China's indigenous religion, give us the aesthetic,
ethical, political, and spiritual tools to address the root causes
of our ecological crisis and construct a sustainable future? In
China's Green Religion, James Miller shows how Daoism orients
individuals toward a holistic understanding of religion and nature.
Explicitly connecting human flourishing to the thriving of nature,
Daoism fosters a "green" subjectivity and agency that transforms
what it means to live a flourishing life on earth. Through a
groundbreaking reconstruction of Daoist philosophy and religion,
Miller argues for four key, green insights: a vision of nature as a
subjective power that informs human life; an anthropological idea
of the porous body based on a sense of qi flowing through
landscapes and human beings; a tradition of knowing founded on the
experience of transformative power in specific landscapes and
topographies; and an aesthetic and moral sensibility based on an
affective sensitivity to how the world pervades the body and the
body pervades the world. Environmentalists struggle to raise
consciousness for their cause, Miller argues, because their
activism relies on a quasi-Christian concept of "saving the earth."
Instead, environmentalists should integrate nature and culture more
seamlessly, cultivating through a contemporary intellectual
vocabulary a compelling vision of how the earth materially and
spiritually supports human flourishing.
This brief approaches General Relativity from a planetary
navigation perspective, delving into the unconventional
mathematical methods required to produce computer software for
space missions. It provides a derivation of the Einstein field
equations and describes experiments performed on the Near Earth
Asteroid Rendezvous mission, spanning General Relativity Theory
from the fundamental assumptions to experimental verification. The
software used for planetary missions is derived from mathematics
that use matrix notation. An alternative is to use Einstein
summation notation, which enables the mathematics to be presented
in a compact form but makes the geometry difficult to understand.
In this book, the relationship of matrix notation to summation
notation is shown. The purpose is to enable the reader to derive
the mathematics used in the software in either matrix notation or
summation notation. This brief is a useful tool for advanced
students and young professionals embarking on careers in planetary
navigation.
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