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Milton Row (Hardcover)
Robert John Newlands
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"Science Fiction "is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction
to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second
edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its
practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new
conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this
volume offers:
- A concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the
genre has been used and defined
- Explanations of key concepts in SF criticism and theory through
chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphor
- Examines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science
Fact
- Anchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story,
book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Star Wars, from The Left
Hand of Darkness to Neuromancer.
Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New
Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the
essential contemporary guide to a major cultural movement.
"Science Fiction "is a fascinating and comprehensive introduction
to one of the most popular areas of modern culture. This second
edition reflects how the field is rapidly changing in both its
practice and its critical reception. With an entirely new
conclusion and all other chapters fully reworked and updated, this
volume offers:
- A concise history of science fiction and the ways in which the
genre has been used and defined
- Explanations of key concepts in SF criticism and theory through
chapters such as Gender, Race, Technology and Metaphor
- Examines the interactions between Science Fiction and Science
Fact
- Anchors each chapter with a case study drawn from short story,
book or film, from Frank Herbert's Dune to Star Wars, from The Left
Hand of Darkness to Neuromancer.
Introducing the reader to nineteenth-century, Pulp, Golden Age, New
Wave, Feminist and Cyberpunk science fictions, this is the
essential contemporary guide to a major cultural movement.
Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing
Environment brings together the work of a renowned international
group of scientists who specialize in aquatic science and
environmental management. They explore the functioning of Boreal
Shield ecosystems, focusing on the lake trout, the classic
coldwater species of northern glaciated lakes, using it as an
indicator of environmental change and as a model to measure the
effectiveness of management actions. This book demonstrates how
boreal waters have served as a crucible for decades of
environmental research into the impacts of nutrient additions,
trace contaminants, acid rain, climate change, sport fishing,
invasive species, and watershed disturbances. The text builds on
this substantial research legacy and explores our ability to manage
human interactions with ecosystems across the vast Boreal Shield
ecozone of North America, and with other important ecosystems
worldwide. It also provides models and new methods of assessing the
risk to and the durability of ecosystems in relation to local,
regional, and global human activities. Maps and descriptions of
several important long-term monitoring sites and an atlas
describing more than 3,000 lake trout lakes in the region are
special components of the book.
The 1650 treaty agreement between Oman and Britain declared that
the bond between the two nations should be "unshook to the end of
time." It was an ambitious goal, but whatever the political ups and
downs, a remarkable relationship endures to this day, charted here
in this authoritative history by two former British Ambassadors to
Oman. Laing and Alston, both former British Ambassadors to Oman,
have researched their subject closely, assembling an authoritative
history which runs from the earliest contacts in the mid-17th
century through to the end of the Dhofar wars in 1975. Their
research sheds new and clearly documented evidence on how events
unfolded over the past fifty years. This landmark book will be
vital to all historians of the region and to analysts of the
current geopolitical situation in the Persian Gulf.
A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect
the most vulnerable in society. Social workers make difficult
decisions in complex and challenging situations every day. They
work in organizations that have clear statutory duties. Therefore,
it is essential that social work students know what their
responsibilities are. Familiarity with law, legislation, and legal
processes is consequently fundamental to sound social work
practice. This best-selling book helps social work students gain
this foothold in understanding law as it applies to social work
practice. It avoids complicated legal jargon remote from the
everyday realities of practice, offering instead a grounding in
legally-appropriate, rights-based social work. It covers the full
range of social work law, including services for children and
families and child protection, adult care law, youth justice, court
work, professional regulation, and human rights.
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Shook! A Black Horror Anthology
Bradley Golden, Marcus Roberts, John Jennings; Illustrated by Roberto Castro, Alessio Nocerino
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How great groups make great schools Training leaders how to conduct
effective meetings is important, but it's not enough to ensure that
the professional development process is valuable. This field book
shows educators how to develop group culture, enhance facilitators'
skills, and optimize the group's most precious resource-its
members. The authors describe how to form working committees, task
forces, grade-level, and department teams, and faculties that are
more effective and better equipped to resolve complex issues around
student learning. Specific topics include Understanding eight
principles that underlie effective groups Learning the five
standards for effective meetings Setting clear goals and roles
Practicing new ways of talking for improved collaboration Examining
perceptions and mental models Enhancing energy sources Working with
conflict Developing basic facilitation skills This practical
guide's special features include the newly updated seven norms of
collaboration, a sample team assessment survey, instruments for
assessing meeting effectiveness, an extensive bibliography, and
practical examples embedded throughout the text. Practitioners will
find a valuable road map for leading effective, student-focused
school improvement efforts.
Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han
dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided
into three warring kingdoms. This decisive period in Chinese
history became a subject of intense and continuing interest to
historians, poets, and dramatists. Writing some 1,200 years later,
the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on this rich literary heritage
to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become
the Chinese national epic. Luo's novel offers a startling and
unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted,
and how wars are planned and fought; it has influenced the ways the
Chinese think about power, diplomacy, and war even to this day. As
important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for
the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely
influential in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, and remains a
great work of world literature. The University of California Press
is pleased to make the complete and unabridged translation
available again.
Boreal Shield Watersheds: Lake Trout Ecosystems in a Changing Environment brings together the work of a renowned international group of scientists who specialize in aquatic science and environmental management. They explore the functioning of Boreal Shield ecosystems, focusing on the lake trout, the classic coldwater species of northern glaciated lakes, using it as an indicator of environmental change and as a model to measure the effectiveness of management actions.
This book demonstrates how boreal waters have served as a crucible for decades of environmental research into the impacts of nutrient additions, trace contaminants, acid rain, climate change, sport fishing, invasive species, and watershed disturbances.
The text builds on this substantial research legacy and explores our ability to manage human interactions with ecosystems across the vast Boreal Shield ecozone of North America, and with other important ecosystems worldwide. It also provides models and new methods of assessing the risk to and the durability of ecosystems in relation to local, regional, and global human activities. Maps and descriptions of several important long-term monitoring sites and an atlas describing more than 3,000 lake trout lakes in the region are special components of the book.
This book explores recent perspectives on type-2 fuzzy sets.
Written as a tribute to Professor Jerry Mendel for his pioneering
works on type-2 fuzzy sets and systems, it covers a wide range of
topics, including applications to the Go game, machine learning and
pattern recognition, as well as type-2 fuzzy control and
intelligent systems. The book is intended as a reference guide for
the type-2 fuzzy logic community, yet it aims also at other
communities dealing with similar methods and applications.
This book explores recent perspectives on type-2 fuzzy sets.
Written as a tribute to Professor Jerry Mendel for his pioneering
works on type-2 fuzzy sets and systems, it covers a wide range of
topics, including applications to the Go game, machine learning and
pattern recognition, as well as type-2 fuzzy control and
intelligent systems. The book is intended as a reference guide for
the type-2 fuzzy logic community, yet it aims also at other
communities dealing with similar methods and applications.
This thesis develops a nested sampling algorithm into a black box
tool for directly calculating the partition function, and thus the
complete phase diagram of a material, from the interatomic
potential energy function. It represents a significant step forward
in our ability to accurately describe the finite temperature
properties of materials. In principle, the macroscopic phases of
matter are related to the microscopic interactions of atoms by
statistical mechanics and the partition function. In practice,
direct calculation of the partition function has proved infeasible
for realistic models of atomic interactions, even with modern
atomistic simulation methods. The thesis also shows how the output
of nested sampling calculations can be processed to calculate the
complete PVT (pressure-volume-temperature) equation of state for a
material, and applies the nested sampling algorithm to calculate
the pressure-temperature phase diagrams of aluminium and a model
binary alloy.
This book studies Seneca's poetic drama from a novel point of view.
Whereas most criticism of Seneca's dramas has tended to focus on
their relationship to Stoicism, I approach them from the
perspective of Seneca's own theory of literary decadence, which he
sets forth in the 114th of his letters to Lucilius. His theory can
be summed up as follows: the various forms of stylistic corruption
are the result of a straining for effect, which itself reflects a
taste for the extreme. A writer or speaker's stylistic vices thus
mirror the vices of his character; they also reflect the vices of
the time and place in which he lives, since every user of language
is conditioned by his environment. What is especially striking
about Seneca's discussion is that a number of the vices he lists -
hyperbole, disruption of natural word order, excessive metaphor -
are notable features of the poetic style of his own dramas. I argue
for a rehabilitation of the 'decadent' style of Seneca's tragedies:
in Seneca's hands, this style is a precise diagnostic tool for
revealing the self-destructive irrationality that governs not only
the individual, but also his society and the entire universe.
A core function of social work is to assist, empower, and protect
the most vulnerable in society. Social workers make difficult
decisions in complex and challenging situations every day. They
work in organizations that have clear statutory duties. Therefore,
it is essential that social work students know what their
responsibilities are. Familiarity with law, legislation, and legal
processes is consequently fundamental to sound social work
practice. This best-selling book helps social work students gain
this foothold in understanding law as it applies to social work
practice. It avoids complicated legal jargon remote from the
everyday realities of practice, offering instead a grounding in
legally-appropriate, rights-based social work. It covers the full
range of social work law, including services for children and
families and child protection, adult care law, youth justice, court
work, professional regulation, and human rights.
In the context of their war experience in the First World War, the
changes and developments of the Executive branch of the Royal Navy
between the world wars are examined and how these made them fit for
the test of the Second World War are critically assessed.
The world's population is growing at an unsustainable rate. From a
baseline ?gure of one billion in 1800, global population is
predicted to exceed nine billion by 2050 and 87. 8% of this growth
will be localized in less developed countries. Such uneven
population growth will yield a harvest of poverty, malnutrition,
disease and en- ronmental degradation that will affect us all.
Amongst the complex mixture of political, social, cultural and
technological changes needed to address this issue, the development
of improved methods of fertility regulation will be critical. The
inadequacy of current contraceptive technologies is indicated by
recent data s- gesting that the contraceptive needs of over 120
million couples go unmet every year. As a direct consequence of
this de?cit 38% of pregnancies are unplanned and more than 50% end
in an abortion, generating a total of 46 million abortions per
annum particularly among teenagers. If safe, effective
contraceptives were ava- able to every couple experiencing an unmet
family planning need, 1. 5 million lives would be saved each year
(UNFPA 2003). Progress in contraceptive technology should not only
generate more effective methods of regulating fertility, but should
also provide a range of methods to meet the changing needs of the
world's population. Contraceptive practice was revo- tionized in
1960 in the US and 1961 in Europe by the introduction of the oral
contraceptive pill by Gregory Pincus, MC Chang and colleagues,
based on fun- mental hormone research conducted in Germany.
"Studies on Men s Health and Fertility "provides a comprehensive
series of up-to-the-minute reviews addressing the role of oxidative
stress in the aetiology of reproductive pathologies in the male.
This volume represents by far the most detailed, authoritative
review of the field that has been produced to date. The text
encompasses the basic science of reactive oxygen species (ROS)
production by mammalian spermatozoa, the way in which these highly
reactive molecules are processed by the germ line and the
physiological significance of this redox activity in the generation
of a functional gamete. The factors responsible for perturbing the
delicate balance between physiological redox signaling on the one
hand and oxidative stress on the other are also extensively
reviewed and some of the first clues concerning the underlying
mechanisms (age, heat, infection, cryostorage, aberrant lipid
metabolism), clearly identified. From a clinical perspective there
are chapters setting out the methods we should be using to diagnose
oxidative stress in the male germ line, a clinical perspective on
the aetiology of this condition and detailed considerations of the
most suitable means of ameliorating such stress from a therapeutic
point of view.
"Studies on Men s Health and Fertility "is intended to provide
clinicians and scientists with a snap shot of the current status of
this exciting, rapidly moving field. The book will be of value to
clinicians interested in strategies for the management of oxidative
stress in their infertility patients and scientists wishing to
understand the molecular mechanisms underpinning the generation of
ROS by these cells and its pathophysiological significance. It was
not so long ago that the ability of spermatozoa to generate ROS was
a hotly disputed topic. With the publication of this book such
doubts can finally be laid to rest. There is now no doubt that
these cells actively generate ROS, that oxidative stress is a major
contributor to defects in male reproductive health and that the
successful clinical management of this condition depends on
developing a deeper understanding of the underlying molecular
mechanisms. In this quest, "Studies on Men s Health and Fertility
"will be seen as a clear and important milestone. "
With the aid of the most extensive and comprehensive survey data
extracted from voters during the 2011 Scottish General, this book
analyses the reasons behind why the SNP not only retained their
mandate from the people to govern Scotland but further succeeded in
winning a resounding majority in the Scottish Parliament. In
tackling this overarching question other complex issues are also
explored such as whether a pre-occupation with events at
Westminster confined the Scottish Elections to the realm of
'second-order' elections? What impact the financial crisis had on
elected a parliament that in reality has little economic power? The
volume also has a broader appeal to devolved parliamentary
elections more broadly by exploring what matters to voters when
they cast their ballots for their national parliament in a complex,
multi-level Political system. Examining performance evaluations,
party loyalties and constitutional preferences, the authors show
that Scottish elections are increasingly Scottish affairs, where
voters are concerned with government competence - in domestic
matters and in managing relations with Westminster.
Using official statistics, this book explores how the SNP managed
to confound expectations and win a parliamentary majority in the
2011 Scottish General Election. Perhaps surprisingly, it was not
constitutional politics or the return of the Conservatives to power
in Westminster but domestic issues that decided the vote in the
SNP's favour.
The world's population is growing at an unsustainable rate. From a
baseline ?gure of one billion in 1800, global population is
predicted to exceed nine billion by 2050 and 87. 8% of this growth
will be localized in less developed countries. Such uneven
population growth will yield a harvest of poverty, malnutrition,
disease and en- ronmental degradation that will affect us all.
Amongst the complex mixture of political, social, cultural and
technological changes needed to address this issue, the development
of improved methods of fertility regulation will be critical. The
inadequacy of current contraceptive technologies is indicated by
recent data s- gesting that the contraceptive needs of over 120
million couples go unmet every year. As a direct consequence of
this de?cit 38% of pregnancies are unplanned and more than 50% end
in an abortion, generating a total of 46 million abortions per
annum particularly among teenagers. If safe, effective
contraceptives were ava- able to every couple experiencing an unmet
family planning need, 1. 5 million lives would be saved each year
(UNFPA 2003). Progress in contraceptive technology should not only
generate more effective methods of regulating fertility, but should
also provide a range of methods to meet the changing needs of the
world's population. Contraceptive practice was revo- tionized in
1960 in the US and 1961 in Europe by the introduction of the oral
contraceptive pill by Gregory Pincus, MC Chang and colleagues,
based on fun- mental hormone research conducted in Germany.
How do voters in Britain decide which party to vote for in
elections? Have age and education replaced class as the social
basis for voting? Are elections now 'presidentialised', with voters
simply choosing between party leaders? What role do the media, new
and old, play in all of this? The authors examine these and other
questions in the fourth edition of this popular text. The core of
the text is devoted to examining and explaining theories of party
choice, including the debate about whether voters are driven more
by issues and ideology or simply by which party and leader looks
least likely to make a mess of things in office. The authors also
devote separate chapters to turnout trends and patterns, the media,
electoral systems, the geography of party support, and - new to
this edition - referendums. Fully revised and with detailed
analysis of the 2019 election and the electoral fallout of Brexit,
the text incorporates the latest research on elections and voting
behaviour, and includes analysis of recent trends and developments
- such as the effect of digital media on electoral politics and
where recent misfires leave the opinion polls.
Soft Computing has come of age. In particular, Artificial Neural
Networks, Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Computing now play an
important role in many domains where traditional techniques have
been found wanting. As this volume confirms, hybrid solutions that
combine more than one of the Soft Computing approaches are
particularly successful in many problem areas. This volume contains
papers presented at the International Conference on Recent Advances
in Soft Computing 2000 at De Montfort University in Leicester. The
contributions cover both theoretical developments and practical
applications in the various areas of Soft Computing.
Light Alloys Directory and Databook is a world-wide directory of
the properties and suppliers of light alloys used in, or proposed
for, numerous engineering applications. Alloys covered will include
aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium alloys, beryllium. For
the metals considered each section will consist of: a short
introduction; a table comparing basic data and a series of
comparison sheets. The book will adopt standardised data in order
to help the reader in finding and comparing different materials and
identifying the required information. All comparison sheets are
cross-referenced, so that the user will be able to locate data on a
specific product or compare properties easily. The book is designed
to complement the existing publications on high performance
materials.
Advanced Technical Ceramics Directory and Databook is a world-wide
directory of the properties and suppliers of advanced technical
ceramic material used in, or proposed for, numerous engineering
applications. The information is subdivided into sections based on
the class of ceramic, e.g. Nitrides-silicon nitride, sialon, boron
carbide, aluminium nitride etc. Each section consists of a short
introduction, a table comparing basic data and a series of data
sheets. The book adopts standardised data in order to help the
reader in finding and comparing different data and identifying the
required information. It is designed to complement the existing
Chapman & Hall publications on high performance materials.
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