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Learn to read, write, and speak everyday Japanese with manga
stories! If you enjoy manga, you'll love learning Japanese with
this book. The language lessons are interspersed with entertaining
manga comic strips, making it easy to learn and remember all the
key vocabulary and grammar. With a focus on the casual speech used
by young people in Japan, you'll find yourself feeling confident
with speaking, reading, and writing Japanese quickly! Designed for
self-study use by adult learners, this book is a fun resource for
beginners--no prior knowledge of Japanese required! Readers will
find: Help with learning to write and pronounce the 92 Hiragana and
Katakana letters plus 160 basic Kanji characters Hundreds of useful
words and phrases--from numbers and greetings to expletives and
insults! Seven manga stories woven throughout the book, reinforcing
your grasp of the language The basic vocabulary and grammar needed
to communicate in Japanese! Hundreds of exercises with free online
audio recordings by Japanese native speakers A bidirectional
dictionary and answer keys for all the exercises **Recommended for
language learners 16 year old & up. Not intended for high
school classroom use due to adult content.**
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting
fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire
children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6
and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in
demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding
vocabulary. What lurks in the dark woods? Follow a boy and his mum
on an adventure to see woodland animals in the dark. Red B/ Band 2B
offers emergent readers simple but varied text with familiar
objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a
satisfying conclusion. The focus sounds in this book are: /ee/
/igh/ /oa/ /oo/ /oo/ /ar/ /ur/ /ow/ /oi/ /ear/ /air/ /ure/ /er/
/or/ Pages 14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the
book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and
recall. Reading notes within the book provide practical support for
reading Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children,
including a list of all the sounds and words that the book will
cover.
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The Practice Tests Plus series provides authentic practice for the
Cambridge English Preliminary exam, including complete tests with
guidance and useful tips which maximise learners' chances of
excelling. Find out more at english.com/ptp
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading
journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have
created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read.
Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading
notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support
and ebooks available. Alex lives in a big city in a high-rise flat,
far, far away from his dad who is away working on a research trip
on a remote island. The story is told in the form of letters,
emails and postcards Alex and his Dad send each other while they
are apart. We gradually piece together their thoughts and feelings
about their lives in different parts of the world in this moving
story by Helen Dineen. Lime Plus/Band 11+ books provide challenging
plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise
inference, prediction and reading stamina. Pages 46 and 47 allow
children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting
comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall. Ideas for
reading in the back of the book provide practical support and
stimulating activities.
Smart Sensors and MEMS: Intelligent Devices and Microsystems for
Industrial Applications, Second Edition highlights new, important
developments in the field, including the latest on magnetic
sensors, temperature sensors and microreaction chambers. The book
outlines the industrial applications for smart sensors, covering
direct interface circuits for sensors, capacitive sensors for
displacement measurement in the sub-nanometer range, integrated
inductive displacement sensors for harsh industrial environments,
advanced silicon radiation detectors in the vacuum ultraviolet
(VUV) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectral range, among other
topics. New sections include discussions on magnetic and
temperature sensors and the industrial applications of smart
micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS). The book is an invaluable
reference for academics, materials scientists and electrical
engineers working in the microelectronics, sensors and
micromechanics industry. In addition, engineers looking for
industrial sensing, monitoring and automation solutions will find
this a comprehensive source of information.
Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental
value through the seamless connection of urban services and
infrastructure by digital technologies. However, there is scant
evidence of how these activities can enhance social well-being and
contribute to just and equitable communities. Smart and Sustainable
Cities? Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities provides one
of the first examinations of how smart cities relate to
environmental and social issues. It addresses the gap between the
ambitious visions of smart cities and the actual practices on the
ground by focusing on the social and environmental dimensions of
real smart city initiatives as well as the possibilities they hold
for creating more equitable and progressive cities. Through
detailed analyses of case studies in the United States, Australia,
the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, India and China, the
contributors describe the various ways that social and
environmental issues are interpreted and integrated into smart city
initiatives and actions. The findings point towards the need for
more intentional engagement and collaboration with all urban
stakeholders in the design, development and maintenance of smart
cities to ensure that everyone benefits from the increasingly
digitalised urban environments of the twenty-first century. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal Local Environment.
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting
fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire
children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1–6
and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in
demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding
vocabulary. Mrs Knox has invented amazing contraptions to do her
gardening. But things start to go wrong… Who will help when they
go on the rampage in the village? Turquoise/Band 7 offers literary
language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a
wide range of unfamiliar terms. The focus sounds in this book are:
/n/ kn, gn /sh/ ti, ci, s /s/ c, ce, sc /c/ qu /zh/ s, si /r/ wr
Pages 22 and 23 allow children to re-visit the content of the book,
supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.
Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading
Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds with children, including a
list of all the sounds and words that the book will cover.
Explores how social media defines consumer behaviour. Discovers how
social media works to keep the user always on. Reviews why social
media can shape a more extreme political and cultural ideology in
users. Studies how social media algorithms can shape a predictable
and homogeneous culture. Develops critical and multidisciplinary
thinking about the impact of social media in shaping a predictable
society.
Smart cities promise to generate economic, social and environmental
value through the seamless connection of urban services and
infrastructure by digital technologies. However, there is scant
evidence of how these activities can enhance social well-being and
contribute to just and equitable communities. Smart and Sustainable
Cities? Pipedreams, Practicalities and Possibilities provides one
of the first examinations of how smart cities relate to
environmental and social issues. It addresses the gap between the
ambitious visions of smart cities and the actual practices on the
ground by focusing on the social and environmental dimensions of
real smart city initiatives as well as the possibilities they hold
for creating more equitable and progressive cities. Through
detailed analyses of case studies in the United States, Australia,
the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, India and China, the
contributors describe the various ways that social and
environmental issues are interpreted and integrated into smart city
initiatives and actions. The findings point towards the need for
more intentional engagement and collaboration with all urban
stakeholders in the design, development and maintenance of smart
cities to ensure that everyone benefits from the increasingly
digitalised urban environments of the twenty-first century. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of the journal Local Environment.
Although photovoltaics are regarded by many as the most likely
candidate for long term sustainable energy production, their
implementation has been restricted by the high costs involved.
Nevertheless, the theoretical limit on photovoltaic energy
conversion efficiency-above 85%-suggests that there is room for
substantial improvement of current commercially available solar
cells, both silicon and thin-film based. Current research efforts
are focused on implementing novel concepts to produce a new
generation of low-cost, high-performance photovoltaics that make
improved use of the solar spectrum. Featuring contributions from
pioneers of next generation photovoltaic research, Next Generation
Photovoltaics: High Efficiency through Full Spectrum Utilization
presents a comprehensive account of the current state-of-the-art in
all aspects of the field. The book first discusses topics, such as
multi-junction solar cells (the method closest to
commercialization), quantum dot solar cells, hot carrier solar
cells, multiple quantum well solar cells, and thermophotovoltaics.
The final two chapters of the book consider the materials,
fabrication methods, and concentrator optics used for advanced
photovoltaic cells. This book will be an essential reference for
graduate students and researchers working with solar cell
technology.
Rethinking Urban Transitions provides critical insight for societal
and policy debates about the potential and limits of low carbon
urbanism. It draws on over a decade of international research,
undertaken by scholars across multiple disciplines concerned with
analysing and shaping urban sustainability transitions. It seeks to
open up the possibility of a new generation of urban low carbon
transition research, which foregrounds the importance of political,
geographical and developmental context in shaping the possibilities
for a low carbon urban future. The book's contributions propose an
interpretation of urban low carbon transitions as primarily social,
political and developmental processes. Rather than being primarily
technical efforts aimed at measuring and mitigating greenhouse
gases, the low carbon transition requires a shift in the mode and
politics of urban development. The book argues that moving towards
this model requires rethinking what it means to design, practise
and mobilize low carbon in the city, while also acknowledging the
presence of multiple and contested developmental pathways. Key to
this shift is thinking about transitions, not solely as technical,
infrastructural or systemic shifts, but also as a way of thinking
about collective futures, societal development and governing modes
- a recognition of the political and contested nature of low carbon
urbanism. The various contributions provide novel conceptual
frameworks as well as empirically rich cases through which we can
begin to interrogate the relevance of socio-economic, political and
developmental dimensions in the making or unmaking of low carbon in
the city. The book draws on a diverse range of examples (including
'world cities' and 'ordinary cities') from North America, South
America, Europe, Australia, Africa, India and China, to provide
evidence that expectations, aspirations and plans to undertake
purposive socio-technical transitions are both emerging and
encountering resistance in different urban contexts. Rethinking
Urban Transitions is an essential text for courses concerned with
cities, climate change and environmental issues in sociology,
politics, urban studies, planning, environmental studies, geography
and the built environment.
Big Cat Phonics for Little Wandle Letters and Sounds Revised has
been developed in collaboration with Wandle Learning Trust and
Little Sutton Primary School. It comprises classroom resources to
support the SSP programme and a range of phonic readers that
together provide a consistent and highly effective approach to
teaching phonics. What lurks in the dark woods? Follow a boy and
his mum on an adventure to see woodland animals in the dark. Pages
14 and 15 allow children to re-visit the content of the book,
supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.
Reading notes within the book provide practical support for reading
with children, including a list of all the sounds and words that
the book will cover.
Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the
integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods,
networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a
unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by
cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies,
national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a
supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and
controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in
managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing
greater social interaction and community networks, providing new
services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being
represented as the response to almost every facet of the
contemporary urban question. This book explores this common
conception of the problematic of smart urbanism and critically
address what new capabilities are being created by whom and with
what exclusions; how these are being developed - and contested;
where is this happening both within and between cities; and, with
what sorts of social and material consequences. The aim of the book
is to identify and convene a currently fragmented and disconnected
group of researchers, commentators, developers and users from both
within and outside the mainstream SU discourse, including several
of those that adopt a more critical perspective, to assess 'what'
problems of the city smartness can address The volume provides the
first internationally comparative assessment of SU in cities of the
global north and south, critically evaluates whether current
visions of SU are able to achieve their potential; and then
identifies alternative trajectories for SU that hold radical
promise for reshaping cities.
Smart Urbanism (SU) - the rebuilding of cities through the
integration of digital technologies with buildings, neighbourhoods,
networked infrastructures and people - is being represented as a
unique emerging 'solution' to the majority of problems faced by
cities today. SU discourses, enacted by technology companies,
national governments and supranational agencies alike, claim a
supremacy of urban digital technologies for managing and
controlling infrastructures, achieving greater effectiveness in
managing service demand and reducing carbon emissions, developing
greater social interaction and community networks, providing new
services around health and social care etc. Smart urbanism is being
represented as the response to almost every facet of the
contemporary urban question. This book explores this common
conception of the problematic of smart urbanism and critically
address what new capabilities are being created by whom and with
what exclusions; how these are being developed - and contested;
where is this happening both within and between cities; and, with
what sorts of social and material consequences. The aim of the book
is to identify and convene a currently fragmented and disconnected
group of researchers, commentators, developers and users from both
within and outside the mainstream SU discourse, including several
of those that adopt a more critical perspective, to assess 'what'
problems of the city smartness can address The volume provides the
first internationally comparative assessment of SU in cities of the
global north and south, critically evaluates whether current
visions of SU are able to achieve their potential; and then
identifies alternative trajectories for SU that hold radical
promise for reshaping cities.
Biomaterials are advanced materials that garner interdisciplinary
research. Wastewater pollution causes many adverse effects on human
health and the environment. In order to rectify this, biomaterials
and other nanomaterials have been utilized as photocatalysts
against environmental waste. In this book, biomaterials are
highlighted as a promising material for waste management, as
biomaterials are cost-effective, eco-friendly and closer to nature.
Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading
journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have
created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read.
Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading
notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support
and ebooks available. Oscar doesn't feel as though many people in
his school understand him. When a new boy called Mo arrives,
together they find a way to show everyone who Oscar really is.
Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for
children to investigate and evaluate. Ideas for reading in the back
of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Although photovoltaics are regarded by many as the most likely
candidate for long term sustainable energy production, their
implementation has been restricted by the high costs involved.
Nevertheless, the theoretical limit on photovoltaic energy
conversion efficiency-above 85%-suggests that there is room for
substantial improvement of current commercially available solar
cells, both silicon and thin-film based. Current research efforts
are focused on implementing novel concepts to produce a new
generation of low-cost, high-performance photovoltaics that make
improved use of the solar spectrum.
Featuring contributions from pioneers of next generation
photovoltaic research, Next Generation Photovoltaics: High
Efficiency through Full Spectrum Utilization presents a
comprehensive account of the current state-of-the-art in all
aspects of the field. The book first discusses topics, such as
multi-junction solar cells (the method closest to
commercialization), quantum dot solar cells, hot carrier solar
cells, multiple quantum well solar cells, and thermophotovoltaics.
The final two chapters of the book consider the materials,
fabrication methods, and concentrator optics used for advanced
photovoltaic cells. This book will be an essential reference for
graduate students and researchers working with solar cell
technology.
Providing a global overview of experiments around the
transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social
struggles associated with this change, this book explores the
centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban
configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource
access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a
range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an
agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical,
geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to
re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating
protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike.
Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work
around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the
transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and
resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental
and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both
insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more
sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to
the fore of academic and policy attention.
Providing a global overview of experiments around the
transformation of cities' electricity networks and the social
struggles associated with this change, this book explores the
centrality of electricity infrastructures in the urban
configuration of social control, segregation, integration, resource
access and poverty alleviation. Through multiple accounts from a
range of global cities, this edited collection establishes an
agenda that recognises the uneven, and often historical,
geographies of urban electricity networks, prompting attempts to
re-wire the infrastructure configurations of cities and predicating
protest and resistance from residents and social movements alike.
Through a robust theoretical engagement with established work
around the politics of urban infrastructures, the book frames the
transformation of electricity systems in the context of power and
resistance across urban life, drawing links between environmental
and social forms of sustainability. Such an agenda can provide both
insight and inspiration in seeking to build fairer and more
sustainable urban futures that bring electricity infrastructures to
the fore of academic and policy attention.
This volume discusses the role of MOFs in removal of pharmaceutical
pollutants. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are advanced porous
materials and are promising adsorbents with facile modifications,
high specific surface area, controllable porosity, and tailored
surface properties. Pharmaceutical pollution is an issue of concern
due to its effects on environment. Recently, researchers have
designed MOFs for use in remediation.
This volume discusses the role of ZIF-8 composites in water
decontamination as an adsorbent and photocatalyst. Metal-organic
frameworks (MOFs) are advanced porous materials and are promising
adsorbents with facile modifications, high specific surface area,
controllable porosity, and tailored surface properties. Water
pollution is a major concern and has endangered human health.
Recently, researchers have designed MOFs for use in remediation.
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