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Realistic Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray

Realistic Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray

Revitalize your architectural visualizations by bringing new levels of realism to them with an enhanced command of the mental ray toolset in 3ds Max. Full-color step-by-step tutorials give you a firm understanding of the processes and techniques needed to create impressive interior and exterior visualizations. You'll learn how to prepare materials light a daytime interior scene use mr Physical Sky and how to save time during complex renders. The companion website includes all of the tutorial files and sample files from the book. Plus find more information at http://jamiecardoso-mentalray. blogspot. com/. | Realistic Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray

GBP 175.00
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Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray Photorealistic Visualization

Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray Photorealistic Visualization

Create high-quality photorealistic renders of architectural visualizations using 3ds Max and Vray with the project-based tutorials in this book. Learn how to combine lighting and rendering options to end-up with the most realistic final renders possible at a professional level. The tutorials in this book are filled with beautiful full-color images and they teach you how to light both interiors and exteriors and daytime and nighttime scenes. Learn how to save time without sacrificing the quality of your final renders with tips and tricks on rendering with Vray - the most accurate rendering application for 3ds Max. The downloadable resources include all the project files that you need to recreate each of the projects presented within the book. Please note that this book does not support the current versions of 3ds Max and V-Ray. Topics include: | Architectural Rendering with 3ds Max and V-Ray Photorealistic Visualization

GBP 175.00
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Scottish Building Standards in Brief

Scottish Building Standards in Brief

Scottish Building Standards in Brief takes the highly successful formula of Ray Tricker's Building Regulations in Brief and applies it to the requirements of the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004. With the same no-nonsense and simple to follow guidance but written specifically for the Scottish Building Standards it's the ideal book for builders architects designers and DIY enthusiasts working in Scotland. Ray Tricker and Roz Algar explain the meaning of the regulations their history current status requirements associated documentation and how local authorities view their importance and emphasises the benefits and requirements of each one. There is no easier or clearer guide to help you to comply with the Scottish Building Standards in the simplest and most cost-effective manner possible.

GBP 145.00
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Media Sociology

Media Sociology

The British post-war campaign to ban American horror comics neatly illustrates many of the pitfalls of media research. It is the first case-study used by David Barrat as he reviews this rapidly growing field of sociology. He gives a clear account of how and why sociologists have studied the media looking in particular at the arguments about the effects of television video comics newspapers and radio on their audiences. He explains how media organizations work how 'news' is manufactured and what the political and commercial constraints can be. He discusses the likely impact on new technologies including satellite and cable television on the media industry. The final chapter is about methods of studying the media such as 'uses and gratifications' content analysis semiology and structural approaches. | Media Sociology

GBP 170.00
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Preventing Nuclear War The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Preventing Nuclear War The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Preventing Nuclear War: The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons provides a window into the work of the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW) health professionals advocates and activists as they persuaded diplomats parliamentarians the media and the public to ban nuclear weapons. Why are doctors speaking out about nuclear weapons and nuclear war an issue that seems to be the exclusive province of diplomats politicians and security experts? This volume offers an answer in the unique perspective of health professionals on the nature of nuclear weapons their medical and humanitarian consequences and the responsibility to prevent what cannot be treated. On 7 July 2017 the UN successfully concluded negotiations on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The ban treaty emerged from a humanitarian initiative that shifted the focus away from deterrence-based rationales used by the nuclear-armed states and toward an evidence-based understanding of the existential threat nuclear weapons pose to humanity. Since 1980 IPPNW has been the leading medical organization primarily dedicated to the abolition of nuclear weapons. With its civil society partners in ICAN—the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons—IPPNW brought the scientific evidence about nuclear weapons and nuclear war into the treaty negotiations and into the language of the TPNW itself. The contributors to this volume show the dedication and diverse strategies that have together made up a unified and very significant contribution to ridding the world of nuclear weapons. Reflecting honestly on what has been learnt and have the potential to contribute to wider learning outside the anti-nuclear community Preventing Nuclear War: The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will be of great use to medical and health professionals humanitarian professionals and anyone wanting to work towards a more peaceful and equitable world. The chapters originally published as a special issue of Medicine Conflict and Survival. | Preventing Nuclear War The Medical and Humanitarian Case for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

GBP 130.00
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Militarizing Artificial Intelligence Theory Technology and Regulation

Militarizing Artificial Intelligence Theory Technology and Regulation

This book examines the military characteristics and potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the new global revolution in military affairs. Offering an original perspective on the utilization imagination and politics of AI in the context of military development and weapons regulation the work provides a comprehensive response to the question of how we might reflect on the AI revolution in warfare and what can be said about the ways in which this has been handled. In the first part of the book AI is accommodated both theoretically and empirically in the strategic context of the 'Revolution in Military Affairs' (RMA). The book offers a novel understanding of autonomous weapons as multi-layered composite systems pointing to a complex non-linear interplay between evolutionary and revolutionary dynamics. In the second section the book provides an impartial analysis of the related politics and operations of power whereby increases in military budgets and R&D of the great powers are met and countered by advocacy networks and scientists campaigning for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons. As such it moves beyond popular caricatures of ‘killer robots’ and points out some of the problems which result from over-reliance on such imagery. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies critical security studies arms control and disarmament science and technology studies and general International Relations. | Militarizing Artificial Intelligence Theory Technology and Regulation

GBP 130.00
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Introduction to Psychological Science Integrating Behavioral Neuroscience and Evolutionary Perspectives

Introduction to Psychological Science Integrating Behavioral Neuroscience and Evolutionary Perspectives

Introduction to Psychological Science provides students with an accessible comprehensive and engaging overview of the field of scientific psychology. It expertly incorporates a variety of perspectives ranging from neuroscience to cultural perspectives at an introductory level. Ray brings together cutting-edge research from traditional psychological literature to modern evolving perspectives and creates a unified approach by focusing on three core themes: Behavior and Experience: an analysis of behavior and experiences observed across a variety of everyday life situations. Neuroscience: an examination of psychological experiences through neuroscience lens ranging from genetic/epigenetic to cortical networks as related to psychology. Evolutionary/Human Origins: an exploration of broader scientific questions by examining psychological processes from the perspective of human and cultural history. Through these themes the book delves into topics like social processes psychopathology stress and health motivation and emotion developmental sequences and cognitive functions such as memory learning problem solving and language. Throughout it helps students to understand the nature of psychological science by addressing common myths and misconceptions in psychology showing how psychological science can be applied to everyday life and how new research can be created. Additionally this student-friendly book is packed with pedagogical features including concept checks to test reader knowledge extensions features which show how to apply knowledge and a comprehensive glossary. Reflecting the latest APA Guidelines concerning the essential elements of an introductory psychology course this text is core reading for all undergraduate introductory psychology students. | Introduction to Psychological Science Integrating Behavioral Neuroscience and Evolutionary Perspectives

GBP 130.00
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Faith in Science

Faith in Science

There is growing academic interest in addressing the relationship of religion and science. There are also very generous funding sources that encourage scientists to demonstrate the reality of purpose in the world. Still there are organizations offering support to community groups dedicated to discussing religion and science. Contributors explore this development in Faith in Science. The intellectual initiatives analyzed here seem far removed from the deep religious and cultural divisions that dominate the contemporary geopolitical landscape. This emerging industry however originates in a cultural debate that set the evolutionary view of Nature against revelation's conception of Nature as the fulfillment of God's creation. The two worldviews are hopelessly mismatched although scientific creationism purports to have uncovered scriptural evidence that invites another look. Along the way the imposition of theological themes onto the geological record became a tendency for many naturalists. Peter Medawar's scathing review of Teilhard de Chardin's The Phenomenon of Man in 1961 remains as a warning for those who mix Darwinian orthodoxy and theological parlance. The challenge Medawar would have us believe is not to abandon the exacting methods and logic of science in favor of a poetic dream of how consciousness is a manifestation of energy. But does this mean that science and religion are only methodologically demarcated? Must we insist on the traditional boundaries instituted by scientific conventions and religious beliefs? From various historical religious and scientific vantage points contributors to this volume who include Guy Consolmagno Donald Kraybill David Ray Griffin Gerald L. Schroeder Robert Pollack Robert Pennock Carol Wayne Wright Bill Durbin Kathleen Duffy and Anthony Matteo take up these challenges.

GBP 130.00
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Democracy In Poland Second Edition

Democracy In Poland Second Edition

Ever-changing election rules a highly fluid party system a constitution considered illegitimate by more than one major political actor polarized political elites and a system of corruption that has grown up together with the young democracy itself -these characterize contemporary Polish politics. At the same time Poland is frequently identified as the most successful example of a transition from communism to capitalism having led this series of world-changing transitions. It has distanced itself from a turbulent history as pawn in Eastern Europe's international politics to become a leading candidate for membership in the exclusive European Union club. As Polish democratic politics evolves it is taking unexpected forms and producing equally unexpected results. Through a comprehensive analysis of politics in this young European democracy Marjorie Castle and Ray Taras explain the complexity and uncertainty of political processes and outcomes in Poland. Poland'spast -the flawed Second Republic established after World War I as well as the imperfect independence in the Soviet shadow following World War II's devastation - dramatizes the unique historic opportunity it was given in 1989 to determine its own political future and perhaps eventually become a major European power. Choices made in 1989 and thereafter would not only construct a new democracy but shape and limit its possibilities. The primary focus here is on contemporary politics: what the fundamental political cleavages are whether parties adequately represent popular interests who the political elites are and what games they play whatinfluence the Catholic Church still holds in an aspiring Western-style secular republic and what policy challenges face Poland in the future. Inimitable political leaders changing political arenas and complexpolicy-making processes come to life through a fascinating narrative characterized by an insider's insight. | Democracy In Poland Second Edition

GBP 130.00
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