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Seamanship Techniques Shipboard and Marine Operations

Seamanship Techniques Shipboard and Marine Operations

Ideal for Merchant Navy Officers from Cadet rank to Master Mariner the fifth edition of this highly respected book is in full colour and has been updated to include more information on topics as diverse as electronic navigation and AIS technology whilst still including essential information on subjects such as safety at sea rescue operations watchkeeping duties and pollution control. It covers international standards and works well on courses throughout the world. Seamanship Techniques is written for serving mariners and nautical students from cadet to master level studying for professional marine qualifications under the International Maritime Organization as per STCW requirements. Used by training establishments around the world this best seller is the only reference to both shipboard practice and ship operations that seafarers will need. | Seamanship Techniques Shipboard and Marine Operations

GBP 130.00
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Supreme Decisions Volume 2 Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact Volume Two: Since 1896

Supreme Decisions Volume 2 Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact Volume Two: Since 1896

Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact covers twenty-four Supreme Court cases (twelve per volume) that have shaped American constitutional law. Interpretive chapters shed light on the nuances of each case the individuals involved and the social political and cultural context at that particular moment in history. Discussing cases from nearly every decade in a two-hundred-year span Melvin I. Urofsky expounds on the political climate of the United States from the country's infancy through the new millennium. Featuring Marbury v. Madison Dred Scott v. Sandford Miranda v. Arizona Brown v. Board of Education and many more this text covers foundational rulings and more recent decisions. Written with students in mind Melvin I. Urofsky's voice offers compelling and fascinating accounts of American legal milestones. | Supreme Decisions Volume 2 Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact Volume Two: Since 1896

GBP 130.00
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Supreme Decisions Combined Volume Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact

Supreme Decisions Combined Volume Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact

Supreme Decisions: Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact Volumes 1 and 2 covers twenty-four Supreme Court cases (twelve per volume) that have shaped American constitutional law. Interpretive chapters shed light on the nuances of each case the individuals involved and the social political and cultural context at that particular moment in history. Discussing cases from nearly every decade in a two-hundred-year span Melvin I. Urofsky expounds on the political climate of the United States from the country's infancy through the new millennium. Featuring Marbury v. Madison Dred Scott v. Sandford Miranda v. Arizona Brown v. Board of Education and many more this text covers foundational rulings and more recent decisions. Written with students in mind Melvin I. Urofsky's voice offers compelling and fascinating accounts of American legal milestones. | Supreme Decisions Combined Volume Great Constitutional Cases and Their Impact

GBP 130.00
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Women in Agriculture Breaking the Grass Ceiling

Women in Agriculture Breaking the Grass Ceiling

The lives of women in rural India cannot be visualized without agriculture and allied activities. As per census 2011 figures four out of five women workers in rural India work as agriculture workers as owner cultivators or as wage workers. This research monograph is about women farmers—women who are engaged primarily in the cultivation of vegetables and fruits and predominantly belong to small and marginal land holdings households. It is the outcome of a baseline survey done in the year 2010-11 in three districts of Uttar Pradesh as part of an action intervention project. Based on the survey findings it discusses the structural and other factors that promote and perpetuate gender inequality and prevent women from realizing their full potential as farmers; presents the struggles positive experiences and practices; explores possible interventions at different levels for different stakeholders; and suggests a framework keeping the women's agency/empowerment at center stage while simultaneously enhancing their wellbeing. | Women in Agriculture Breaking the Grass Ceiling

GBP 130.00
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Professional Writing Guide Writing well and knowing why

Professional Writing Guide Writing well and knowing why

The Professional Writing Guide is for people who wish to improve the quality of their documents and the efficiency of their writing. Busy executives and other writers in organisations who may spend between 30 and 80 per cent of their working time writing will find it invaluable because it clearly outlines the principles that underlie effective documents. This book will enable executives to write confidently competently and persuasively. High quality output is crucial to a company's image and to a professional's own career advancement. Errors in a document can prove expensive. The Professional Writing Guide is an indispensable and accessible reference tool as well as a comprehensive style manual for writers who wish to avoid those expensive mistakes and make a positive impression. Written by two long-term professional writing educators with extensive experience of consulting to Australian business and industry this lively and highly practical book features workable reliable and powerful strategies that can be used to systematically eliminate the writing problems of organisational writers. | Professional Writing Guide Writing well and knowing why

GBP 130.00
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Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom

Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom

First published in 1980 Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom assesses the performance of primary schoolchildren in a range of study skills as well as on the more conventional tests of mathematics language use and reading. The findings indicate that the more successful styles are used by the more experienced teachers who manage to increase the amount of contact with the pupils by a variety of organizational strategies. While pupils who receive the greatest amount of class teaching do best on mathematics there is no evidence to suggest that the characteristics of teaching valued by critics of modern primary practice exert any significant influence on pupil progress. The relationship between pupil progress and behaviour shows some remarkable patterns. For example it was found that children who work on average one day per week less than other children still make the same progress in basic skills as the others. Such findings suggest that there is a need to examine how far teaching in the junior school is sufficiently stimulating and challenging while at the same time acknowledging the difficulties of improving the situation while class sizes remain relatively high. This book will be of interest to students of education and pedagogy as well as to teachers.

GBP 90.00
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Understanding Chinese and Western Cultures

Understanding Chinese and Western Cultures

The title is a collection of essays centering on the topic of intercultural communication between Chinese and Western cultures by Tang Yijie one of the most renowned philosophy scholars in China. Comprised of five parts the author discusses how Chinese culture should modernize itself through borrowing from Western culture premised on a self-awareness of Chinese culture per se. The book begins by critiquing theories of the so-called clash of civilizations and new empires and argues for the coexistence of cultures and a global consciousness instead. Chapters in the second part revisit contemporary Chinese culture in transition and call for the cultural integration of China and the West with China defined in both its ancient and modern guises. By providing reflections on the cultural trends of the 1980s and 1990s the third part illustrates the inevitable growth of diversified cultural development while analyzing cases of cultural dialogue in history philosophy and religion. The fourth part demonstrates the significance of culture diversity and interaction while the fifth provides thoughts and reflections on some real-life cultural issues. This title will appeal to all levels of readers interested in Chinese culture cross-cultural studies and topics of cultural pluralism. | Understanding Chinese and Western Cultures

GBP 170.00
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Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

By 2100 more than 80 per cent of the world’s population is expected to live in Afrasia (Africa and Asia). This book draws lessons from history provides a new cognitive map of the world and discusses multiple challenges global citizens will face in the age of Afrasia an emerging macro-region. The centre of gravity of the world is shifting. Whether the world can manage a soft landing into sustainable equilibrium depends on the nature of the dialogue people in Africa and Asia will organise. The author argues that a state of equilibrium between the two is achievable provided issues related to gender employment agriculture human–nature relationships and multicultural coexistence are simultaneously addressed. Can future Afrasia present itself as a community determined not to allow the return of predatory practice internally and externally? Will the fates of African and Asian peoples converge or diverge? How about the future relationships between Afrasia and the rest of the world? Exploring these questions using multiple disciplines this book will be of interest to professional researchers and graduate students in IR and Afro-Asian relations as well as Asian and African area studies demography geography history development economics anthropology language education and religious studies. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Connecting Africa and Asia Afrasia as a Benign Community

GBP 130.00
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Protein Calories And Development Nutritional Variables In The Economics Of Developing Countries

Protein Calories And Development Nutritional Variables In The Economics Of Developing Countries

Production of world food supplies is related to more complicated socioeconomic variables than have previously been analyzed. Besides traditional inputs of land labor and fertilizer the technological capabilities and a variety of nutritional and other human capital components are significant independent variables in explaining agricultural production in the developing world. The integration of economic analyses with the concepts of nutritional science offers an expanded and effective means for analyzing the complex problems of agricultural production in nutritionally deficient countries. Bernard Schmitt traces the circular relationship between nutrition and human capital labor productivity food production and per capita consumption of calories and protein. He defines the basic nutritional terms that are most useful to economists in analyzing agricultural and foodrelated questions and provides examples that stress the importance of concentrating on nutritional quality as well as gross quantity. Transformations are used to convert quantities into basic nutritional components allowing more meaningful quantitative analyses in an econometric framework. Dr. Schmitt presents a flexible methodology for forecasting commodity production using it to make projections for the developing countries for each major commodity group and to test various policy alternatives such as extensive trade expanded food assistance programs substantial resource or input expansion further expansion of Green Revolution technology and development of alternatives to agriculture. Although he is certain that gains can be accomplished through population control and agricultural advances supplemented by alternative nutritional sources he concludes that conditions in nutritionally deficient countries are unlikely to improve on average through the mid-1980s. | Protein Calories And Development Nutritional Variables In The Economics Of Developing Countries

GBP 125.00
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The Political Economy of Immigration in The Netherlands Population Land and Welfare

The Political Economy of Immigration in The Netherlands Population Land and Welfare

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income. This book offers a broad survey of the conventional approach but in addition also considers better measures of welfare or well-being and provides a detailed description and evaluation of policies - rules regulations and implementation. The book offers a long historical perspective on the development of population density in the Netherlands. It begins with the history of the Netherlands: geological and cultural formation of the land - and water - and population development. The Netherlands is unique in that much of the land is man-made in particular the western part which is economically speaking the most developed area. It is also special for its very high population growth rate that took off during the 19th century. The key argument of the book is that population size is irrelevant for income per capita that land is a binding constraint in the Netherlands and that negative external effects of increasing population size lead to welfare losses from further population growth whether by natural growth or by immigration. At present the battle for scarce land is intense and bitter with a strong clash between developers who want to build houses farmers who do not want to give up farming and conservationists who increasingly find support in the courts for insufficiently caring for the natural environment. The book combines a general analysis of population density both theoretical and empirical with an in-depth presentation of actual policies in a country with intense pressure on available land. | The Political Economy of Immigration in The Netherlands Population Land and Welfare

GBP 130.00
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Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

The two inter-linked volumes in this series are dedicated to the development of analysis and theorisation of learning and teaching in higher education. The two volumes focus on the multi-scalar ecological inter-connectedness of learners with teachers with artefacts with cultural patterns and resources with places with social activities and practices with social institutions with time and temporality and with technologies. Learning reflects inter-individual dynamics that are shaped by biology and culture. Against prevailing orthodoxies that view learning in higher education in terms of information transmission and content delivery the contributors articulate leading developments in distributed cognition distributed language ecological psychology enactivist and embodied-embedded cognitive science interactivity and multimodal event analysis. They also extend several earlier traditions such as American pragmatism embodied curriculum theory and Vygotsky's latter day anti-dualist Spinozan turn. Through detailed empirical analysis of in vivo episodes of learning using multimodal event analysis cognitive event analysis and cutting-edge theory the authors show how and why learning is not adequately explainable as internal mental processes per se. Instead sophisticated empirical analysis and innovative theory are put to work to reveal the emergence of learning in the interactivity of learners and teachers with the affordances of a distributed brain-body-environment learning system. Volume 1 is an edited collection of seven chapters written by internationally renowned researchers together with an Introduction and an Afterword written by King and Thibault. Volume 1 (and its successor Volume 2) will serve as valuable reading for educationalists and researchers in the cognitive communication learning and language sciences who are looking for new multidimensional tools for thinking about and new empirical tools for analysing learning and teaching as multi-scalar interactive processes in radical embodied ecologies of learning and teaching. | Learning as Interactivity Movement Growth and Becoming Volume 1 Ecologies of Learning in Higher Education

GBP 130.00
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Teaching Secondary School Mathematics Research and practice for the 21st century

Teaching Secondary School Mathematics Research and practice for the 21st century

Since its first publication Teaching Secondary School Mathematics has established itself as one of the most respected and popular texts for both pre-service and in-service teachers. This new edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the major changes brought about by the introduction of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics as well as discussing significant research findings the evolution of digital teaching and learning technologies and the implications of changes in education policies and practices. The mathematical proficiencies that now underpin the Australian curriculum - understanding fluency problem solving and reasoning - are covered in depth in Part 1 and a new section is devoted to the concept of numeracy. The chapter on digital tools and resources has been significantly expanded to reflect the growing use of these technologies in the classroom while the importance of assessment is recognised with new material on assessment for learning and as learning along with a consideration of policy development in this area. Important research findings on common student misconceptions and new and effective approaches for teaching key mathematical skills are covered in detail. As per the first edition readers will find a practical guide to pedagogical approaches and the planning and enactment of lessons together with enhanced chapters on teaching effectively for diversity managing issues of inequality and developing effective relationships with parents and the community. This book is the essential pedagogical tool for every emerging teacher of secondary school mathematics. 'The text offers an excellent resource for all of those involved in the preparation of secondary mathematics teachers with links to research literature exemplars of classroom practices and instructional activities that encourage readers to actively examine and critique practices within their own educational settings. ' Professor Glenda Anthony Institute of Education Massey University'A rich and engaging textbook that covers all of the important aspects of learning to become an effective secondary mathematics teacher. The second edition of this text . is further enhanced with updated references to the Australian Curriculum NAPLAN STEM current Indigenous social justice and gender inequity issues and the place of Australian mathematics curricula on the world stage. ' Dr Christine Ormond Senior Lecturer Edith Cowan University | Teaching Secondary School Mathematics Research and practice for the 21st century

GBP 120.00
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Understanding the Polish Capital Market From Emerging to Developed

Understanding the Polish Capital Market From Emerging to Developed

The first stock exchange in Warsaw – capital city of the Kingdom of Poland– was established in 1817. Over the past 205 years the fortunes of the capital market have been closely linked to the bumpy road of Polish history. The establishment of the GPW Warsaw Stock Exchange in 1991 was a landmark for transformation from a centrally planned communist economy to a market-driven capitalist one. Since the doors of the exchange reopened Polish GDP per capita (current USD) increased eight times translating into an average yearly growth rate of over 7%. The capital market has played a pivotal role in the economic success of Poland over the last three decades. It is not easy to precisely quantify the impact as it was rather a spill-over effect. Economic growth has fostered the development of a capital market and more efficient conversion of savings to investments via the capital market. The excellence of capital market institutions can be gauged with reference to various parameters. A synthetic measure is so-called market status. According to FTSE Russell (global index provider) Polish capital attained developed market status in 2018 being the first and only post-communist state to do so. It is fair to say that transformation has been completed and developed market status indicates clearly that the institutions and regulations are world class. The current challenge is competing with other developed markets for the best issuers and offering the most demanding investors an excellent trading experience. This book offers scientific insight into the Polish capital market story. Authored by a group of renowned scholars with contributions aspiring to the highest academic standards for theoretical considerations and empirical research. The book covers various topics including links between monetary policy and capital markets micro and macro market structures and investors and issuers' behaviour and strategies. All chapters are rooted in contemporary finance theory supported by various econometric models based on the most recently available data. The book aims to provide academics and practitioners insight into the Polish capital market appealing especially to those interested in gaining a deeper understanding of emerging markets' successful transformation into developed ones. It can also be used as supplementary reading for doctoral and master’s students in finance particularly relating to capital markets and economics – predominantly development economics and economic policy. | Understanding the Polish Capital Market From Emerging to Developed

GBP 120.00
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