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• Provides a holistic approach to analog game design. •
Includes unique chapters on accessibility, taking a game to market,
and writing about serious games. • Each chapter includes
chapter-end tasks for readers to complete.
• Provides a holistic approach to analog game design. •
Includes unique chapters on accessibility, taking a game to market,
and writing about serious games. • Each chapter includes
chapter-end tasks for readers to complete.
A robust and efficient tax administration in a modern tax system
requires effective tax policies and legislation. Policy frameworks
should cover all aspects of tax administration and include the
essential processes of capturing, processing, analyzing, and
responding to information provided by taxpayers and others
concerning taxpayers' affairs. By far the greatest challenges
facing tax administrations in all countries are those posed by the
continuing developments in the digital economy. Whereas societies
are grappling to come to terms with the transitions from the third
industrial or digital revolutions, revenue authorities grapple with
the consequences for the sustainability of their tax bases and the
efficient administration and collection of taxes. This book
presents a critical review of the status of tax systems in Asia and
the Pacific in the era of the digital economy. The book suggests
how countries can maximize their domestic resource mobilization
when confronted by the challenges that digitalization inevitably
produces, as well as how they can best harness or take advantage of
aspects of digitalization to serve their own needs. The full
implications of the COVID-19 crisis are still too uncertain to
predict, but it is clear that the crisis will accelerate the trend
towards digitalization and also increase pressures on public
finances. This, in turn, may shape the preference for, and the
nature of, both multilateral and unilateral responses to the tax
challenges posed by digitalization and the need to address them.
This book will be a timely reference for those researching on
taxation in digital economy and for policy makers. The Open Access
version of this book, available at www .taylorfrancis .com, has
been made available under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
The essays in this volume, each written by an acknowledged expert
in the field, trace the fortunes of British coal technology as it
spread across the European continent, from Sweden and Russia to the
Alps and Spain, and supply an authoritative picture of industrial
transformation in one of the key industries of the 19th century. In
this period iron making in continental Europe was transformed by
the take-up of technologies such as coke smelting and iron puddling
that had already revolutionised the British iron industry. The
transfer of British technologies was fundamental to European
industrialisation, but that transfer was not straightforward. The
techniques that had proved so successful in Britain had to be
adapted to local circumstances elsewhere, for charcoal-fired
techniques proved surprisingly durable. More often than not, as
these studies show, coal-fired methods were incorporated into
traditional production systems, making for the proliferation of
technological hybrids. Overall, it is diversity that stands out.
Some European regions (southern Belgium) came near to the British
model; others (Spain) persisted with charcoal technology into the
late 19th century. Some countries (Sweden) adopted British
organisational principles but not the reliance on coal; others
(Russia) maintained different iron making sectors - one coal-based,
the other loyal to charcoal - in parallel.
The 1790s was a fateful period for Britain. The French Revolution
of 1789 opened an era of seismic political upheaval, one in which
many features of the modern world made their first significant
appearance. Democracy, mass nationalism, wholesale military
mobilisation, and anti-colonial revolt all made their most telling
debuts in the revolutionary era. This was not a struggle from which
the British could stand aloof. Nor did they. Britons were right at
the forefront of the debate over the Revolution. Edmund Burke's
"Reflections on the Revolution in France" defended the established
order while Tom Paine's "Rights of Man" attacked hereditary
privilege and preached democracy. This was no rarefied intellectual
debate, it resounded through clubs, taverns, theatres, chapels and
assembly rooms. As it did so, Britons were forced to question many
constitutional assumptions. Was the possession of an empire
compatible with domestic liberty? Did the House of Commons reflect
popular opinion or the prejudices of aristocratic patrons? Could
they enjoy genuine constitutional liberty if their constitution
denied political rights to Roman Catholics and Protestant
Dissenters? Chris Evans's study, based on the latest
historiography, brilliantly demonstrates how these latent
intellectual and political anxieties were sharpened by the French
Revolution. Loyalist mobilisation, radical agitation, draconian
repression, and military confrontation are combined to re-shape
British society and the British state.
This book sets in context the role of outcome measurement research
- taking you step-by-step through the research process and beyond
to consider the wider professional and ethical issues involved.
This book will provide you with everything you need to know and
more, helping you develop the skills and knowledge you need to
become a successful research-informed practitioner. Written for
trainees and counselling and psychotherapy practitioners, this
book: - Provides you with a brief overview and history of research
and measurement in mental health contexts. - Sets out a framework
for understanding the core features of outcome measures and their
scope. - Takes you step-to-step through the process of implementing
a SMART outcome evaluation. - Addresses the benefits and
limitations of outcome measures research for the individual client,
practitioner and service provider. Packed full of case studies,
activities and tools for real-life practice, this book throws a
life belt to all counselling and psychotherapy trainees and
practitioners looking to make the best start in their
research-informed career. Chris Evans is Honorary Professor,
University of Nottingham. Jo-Anne Carlyle is Senior Visiting
Research Fellow, Open University.
The role of artillery on the Eastern Front should not be
underestimated. While dashing aerial battles waged overhead and
panzers and T-34s rumbled across the vast steppes, it was the
artillery that rained down the most destruction. Steel Thunder
takes the reader deep into the action, illuminating the massive
array of weapons that were constructed by both sides in an effort
to literally smash their enemy into the earth. From light artillery
pieces that could be man-handled by a small crew to guns so
monstrous they had to be transported in pieces, and from rockets
that wailed like screaming death to fully tracked armoured
artillery vehicles designed to pulverise concrete, steel, and
flesh, the sheer quantity and variety of weapons designed to hurl
high explosives fills these pages. About the Author Chris Evans
holds a master's degree in military history and is history editor
for Stackpole Books. He lives in New York City.
This is a celebration of running, and what lots of us think about
when we run. Part escape, part self-discovery, part therapy, part
fitness. Part simple childlike joy of running when you could be
walking. Vassos Alexander shares the highs and lows of falling in
love with running, from his first paltry efforts to reach the end
of his street to completing ultra marathons and triathlons in the
same weekend. Each of the 26.2 chapters also features a fascinating
insight into how others first started, from Paula Radcliffe to
Steve Cram, the Brownlees to Jenson Button, Nicky Campbell to Nell
McAndrew. Funny, inspiring, honest - the perfect read for anyone
with well-worn trainers by the door (or thinking of buying a
pair...).
The essential day-to-day guide for training for and nailing your
first marathon. 'Chris is a mad keen runner. I hope this book
inspires others to get out and do it.' Sir Mo Farah 'WHEN IT COMES
TO RUNNING A MARATHON, IT'S NOT ACTUALLY ABOUT MAKING IT TO THE
FINISH LINE, IT'S ABOUT HAVING THE GUTS TO MAKE IT TO THE START
LINE.' In this beautifully designed and not-at-all scary marathon
training guide, Chris Evans breaks down how we can all get
ourselves off our sofas, up on our feet and onto that start line.
And all in just 119 days! Fizzing with energy, great tips and
hard-won experience, this is the perfect guide for anyone keen to
take up their own marathon challenge, and to change their lives
forever.
The first book to detail the global impact of copper production in
Swansea, Wales, and how a major technological shift transformed the
British Isles into the world's most dynamic center of copper
smelting. Eighteenth-century Swansea, Wales, was to copper what
nineteenth-century Manchester was to cotton or twentieth-century
Detroit to the automobile. Beginning around 1700, Swansea became
the place where a revolutionary new method of smelting copper,
later christened the Welsh Process, flourished. Using mineral coal
as a source of energy, Swansea's smelters were able to produce
copper in volumes that were quite unthinkable in the old,
established smelting centers of central Europe and Scandinavia.
After some tentative first steps, the Swansea district became a
smelting center of European, then global, importance. Between the
1770s and the 1840s, the Swansea district routinely produced
one-third of the world's smelted copper, sometimes more. In Swansea
Copper, Chris Evans and Louise Miskell trace the history of copper
making in Britain from the late seventeenth century, when the Welsh
Process transformed Britain's copper industry, to the 1890s, when
Swansea's reign as the dominant player in the world copper trade
entered an absolute decline. Moving backward and forward in time,
Evans and Miskell begin by examining the place of copper in baroque
Europe, surveying the productive landscape into which Swansea
Copper erupted and detailing the means by which it did so. They
explain how Swansea copper achieved global dominance in the years
between the Seven Years' War and Waterloo, explore new commercial
regulations that allowed the importation to Britain of copper ore
from around the world, and connect the rise of the copper trade to
the rise of the transatlantic slave trade. They also examine the
competing rise of the post-Civil War US copper industry. Whereas
many contributions to global history focus on high-end consumer
goods-Chinese ceramics, Indian cottons, and the like-Swansea Copper
examines a producer good, a metal that played a key role in
supporting new technologies of the industrial age, like steam power
and electricity. Deftly showing how deeply mineral history is
ingrained in the history of the modern world, Evans and Miskell
present new research not just on Swansea itself but on the places
its copper industry affected: mining towns in Cuba, Chile, southern
Africa, and South Australia. This insightful book will be of
interest to anyone concerned with the historical roots of
globalization and the Industrial Revolution as a global phenomenon.
This book sets in context the role of outcome measurement research
- taking you step-by-step through the research process and beyond
to consider the wider professional and ethical issues involved.
This book will provide you with everything you need to know and
more, helping you develop the skills and knowledge you need to
become a successful research-informed practitioner. Written for
trainees and counselling and psychotherapy practitioners, this
book: - Provides you with a brief overview and history of research
and measurement in mental health contexts. - Sets out a framework
for understanding the core features of outcome measures and their
scope. - Takes you step-to-step through the process of implementing
a SMART outcome evaluation. - Addresses the benefits and
limitations of outcome measures research for the individual client,
practitioner and service provider. Packed full of case studies,
activities and tools for real-life practice, this book throws a
life belt to all counselling and psychotherapy trainees and
practitioners looking to make the best start in their
research-informed career. Chris Evans is Honorary Professor,
University of Nottingham. Jo-Anne Carlyle is Senior Visiting
Research Fellow, Open University.
Atlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of
Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply
affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh
commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to
purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, such
as woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of
plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of
plantation agriculture flowed back into Wales, to be invested in
new industries or to be lavished on country mansions. This book
looks at Slave Wales between 1650 and 1850, bringing the most
up-to-date scholarship on Atlantic slavery to bear on the Welsh
experience.
The 1790s was a fateful period for Britain. The French Revolution
of 1789 opened an era of seismic political upheaval, one in which
many features of the modern world made their first significant
appearance. Democracy, mass nationalism, wholesale military
mobilisation, and anti-colonial revolt all made their most telling
debuts in the revolutionary era. This was not a struggle from which
the British could stand aloof. Nor did they. Britons were right at
the forefront of the debate over the Revolution. Edmund Burke's
"Reflections on the Revolution in France" defended the established
order while Tom Paine's "Rights of Man" attacked hereditary
privilege and preached democracy. This was no rarefied intellectual
debate, it resounded through clubs, taverns, theatres, chapels and
assembly rooms. As it did so, Britons were forced to question many
constitutional assumptions. Was the possession of an empire
compatible with domestic liberty? Did the House of Commons reflect
popular opinion or the prejudices of aristocratic patrons? Could
they enjoy genuine constitutional liberty if their constitution
denied political rights to Roman Catholics and Protestant
Dissenters? Chris Evans's study, based on the latest
historiography, brilliantly demonstrates how these latent
intellectual and political anxieties were sharpened by the French
Revolution. Loyalist mobilisation, radical agitation, draconian
repression, and military confrontation are combined to re-shape
British society and the British state.
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Homeless (Paperback)
Kane Tsang; Edited by Chris Evans
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R489
Discovery Miles 4 890
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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The Little Cogs (Paperback)
Kane Tsang; Illustrated by Ivan Lei; Edited by Chris Evans
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R289
Discovery Miles 2 890
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Every successful salesperson is good at adapting to changing times,
technologies and systems. Showing you how to do that is the
business of this book." - Chris Evans The old way of selling is
shattered and GONE FOREVER. It's never coming back as it was... and
many sales professionals will become extinct if the don't learn the
dynamics of the ever-changing sales game In the Secret to Sales
Success, one of America's favorite business sales experts, Chris
Evans, explains exactly what you need to know to compete in the new
economy. As technology and salesmanship merge, only a select few
will gain and keep membership in the elite sales fraternity
enjoying top incomes, the greater security, the most independence
and power, and the highest status. The benefits of stellar success
will be reserved for only those that know the Secret to Sales
Success
This detailed guide to promoting your wedding business provides you
with step by step instructions on how to double your wedding
business in the next 12 months. Chris is America's Foremost Wedding
Business Expert who routinely teaches thousands of wedding
professionals in his Bridal Boot Camp Seminars. Now you can learn
how to improve your wedding business right from your home This
updated edition is current for the 2011 economy
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