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100 Per Cent RenewableEnergy Autonomy in Action

100 Per Cent RenewableEnergy Autonomy in Action

The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power. Our massive dependence on fossil fuels has upset the very climatic system that made human evolution possible. The global economy and its financial system are in jeopardy running hot on overtly cheap yet increasingly costly and fast depleting oil. A 100% renewable world is seen by many as an impossible dream in anything but the very long term. But not only do a growing number of initiatives and plans dare to make the change but many have already achieved it. This rich collection presents a series of pioneering efforts and their champions and the paths to their successes. Ranging from initiatives by individuals to visions for companies communities and entire countries it defeats tired economic and technical counter-arguments showing how the schemes featured not only can and do work but do so economically and with available technology. The book is introduced by incisive writing by Peter Droege explaining the challenges and framing a roadmap towards a 100% renewable reality.

GBP 36.99
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The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-DīnA critical edition and translation of the anonymous Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum

The Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-DīnA critical edition and translation of the anonymous Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum

The Libellus de expugnatione Terrae Sanctae per Saladinum (or Little Book about the Conquest of the Holy Land by Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn) is the most substantial contemporary Latin account of the conquest of the Kingdom of Jerusalem in 1187. Seemingly written by a churchman who was in Jerusalem itself when the city was besieged and captured the Libellus fuses historical narrative and biblical exegesis in an attempt to recount and interpret the loss of the Holy Land an event that provoked an outpouring of grief throughout western Christendom and sparked the Third Crusade. This book provides an English translation of the Libellus accompanied by a new comprehensive critical edition of the Latin text and a detailed study in the introduction.

GBP 29.59
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Spazi Riflessivi in Passeggeri Notturni

Spazi Riflessivi in Passeggeri Notturni

Spazi Riflessivi in Passeggeri Notturni è un testo innovativo e versatile per l’insegnamento dell’italiano tramite riflessioni ed elaborazioni su questioni sociali emerse dalla lettura di Passeggeri notturni racconti brevi di Gianrico Carofiglio. Il testo indicato per un livello intermedio-avanzato propone una vasta gamma di esercizi grammaticali contestualizzati e attività interdisciplinari che confrontano letterature e arti diverse e affrontano discussioni socio-culturali.

GBP 27.99
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Dei gesta per FrancosEtudes sur les croisades dédiées à Jean Richard - Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard

Dei gesta per FrancosEtudes sur les croisades dédiées à Jean Richard - Crusade Studies in Honour of Jean Richard

Professor Jean Richard is the doyen of crusade historians. Although also well-known as one of the most distinguished historians of Burgundy he has through publications which have been appearing for over half a century established himself as the greatest living scholar working on crusading and the Latin East. His book on twelfth-century Tripoli published in 1945 is still the standard work on the county. In the 1950s he and Joshua Prawer provided a revolutionary approach towards the constitution and institutions of the kingdom of Jerusalem. He went on to pave the way for an entirely new understanding of the kingdom of Cyprus. In the 1960s he was one of a few historians who were sign-posting a more empathetic view of the ideology of crusading and the motivation of crusaders and he developed his ideas further in recent monographs on Saint Louis and on the crusades in general. His work on Catholic missions to Asia and the role of the papacy in those enterprises is generally regarded as setting standards which few can approach. To celebrate his eightieth birthday thirty-nine colleagues have contributed articles in fields which themselves illustrate Professor Richard’s breadth of interest: the crusades the military orders and the Latin settlements on the Levantine mainland and the island of Cyprus.

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The Foreign Exchange Market of LondonDevelopment Since 1900

The Foreign Exchange Market of LondonDevelopment Since 1900

Foreign Exchange is big business in the City of London. At the last official count turnover on the London foreign exchange market averaged a staggering $504 billion a day. No other financial centre in the world even comes close to matching this total. Thirty one per cent of global foreign exchange activity takes place in the United Kingdom compared with only sixteen per cent in the United States and nine per cent in Japan. However this has not always been so. A hundred years ago the London foreign exchange market played second fiddle to more important centres in New York Paris and Berlin. This book charts the inexorable rise of foreign exchange in London over the past century and is the first full-length study of this amazing transformation.

GBP 37.59
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Managing Diversity and Equality in ConstructionInitiatives and Practice

Managing Diversity and Equality in ConstructionInitiatives and Practice

With women in the UK construction industry constituting just thirteen per cent of the workforce and black and Asian workers numbering less that two per cent despite representing more than six per cent of the working population diversity is a problem that the construction industry needs to tackle directly. In this title diversity management is presented as an opportunity for the construction industry. Work is presented from several different countries and regions in North America Australia and Europe to provide a comprehensive picture of this complex and often sensitive issue. Going beyond the traditional topics of gender and racial discrimination contributions encompass a wide range of diversity issues facing the construction industry including sexual orientation disability and the work-life balance. Essential reading for construction managers and a valuable resource for post-graduate researchers this key title provides not only a thorough exposition of contemporary research but also supplies the practical diagnostic tools and techniques to successfully manage diversity in construction and the information to adhere to the law.

GBP 45.59
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Caring For KidsA Critical Study Of Urban School Leavers

Caring For KidsA Critical Study Of Urban School Leavers

The official school drop-out figure in the US in recent years has been 25 per cent of the cohort. Estimates from large cities are often double these rates and in some areas 60 per cent or worse. This text focuses on this problem in US schools but from an unusual perspective. It is a study gained from in-depth interviews of 100 "stop-outs" - that is those who dropped out but then decided to return to school. Four basic questions are posed by this text: who drops out?; why did they drop out?; what caused them to return?; and what intervention policies can be formulated to prevent students dropping out in the first place? The answers provided by this text for the last question are intended to make it of particular interest to school administrators.

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Bollywood CinemaTemples of Desire

Bollywood CinemaTemples of Desire

India is home to Bollywood - the largest film industry in the world. Movie theaters are said to be the "temples of modern India " with Bombay producing nearly 800 films per year that are viewed by roughly 11 million people per day. In Bollywood Cinema Vijay Mishra argues that Indian film production and reception is shaped by the desire for national community and a pan-Indian popular culture. Seeking to understand Bollywood according to its own narrative and aesthetic principles and in relation to a global film industry he views Indian cinema through the dual methodologies of postcolonial studies and film theory. Mishra discusses classics such as Mother India (1957) and Devdas (1935) and recent films including Ram Lakhan (1989) and Khalnayak (1993) linking their form and content to broader issues of national identity epic tradition popular culture history and the implications of diaspora.

GBP 27.99
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Excellence through Mind-Brain DevelopmentThe Secrets of World-Class Performers

Excellence through Mind-Brain DevelopmentThe Secrets of World-Class Performers

Everyone seeks to attain excellence and happiness in their lives yet world-class performance is rare. Research shows that education accounts for only 1 per cent of performance levels work experience only 3 per cent and age in adults 0 per cent. Dr Harald S. Harung and Dr Frederick Travis looked deeply and unearthed the secret of world-class performance: Excellence in any profession or activity depends on the single variable of high mind-brain development. By mind-brain development the authors refer to a much more comprehensive transformation than what is commonly understood - they are talking about a sequence of fundamental shifts to new realities in the way our brain functions and in the way we look upon ourselves others and the world. For success who we are is far more important than the knowledge skills and relationships we have and what we do - because with higher mind-brain development our knowledge and skills become more useful our relationships more enriching and our actions more effective. As part of presenting the secrets of world-class performance the book details the inspiring peak experiences that underlie top performance and how top performers have a more orderly restfully alert and economic brain than average performers. This research-based book will show you the many benefits of higher mind-brain development and how to effortlessly attain it.

GBP 29.59
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The Womanist Idea

The Womanist Idea

Following on the heels of The Womanist Reader The Womanist Idea offers a comprehensive systematic analysis of womanism including a detailed discussion of the womanist worldview (cosmology ontology epistemology logic axiology and methodology) and its implications for activism. From a womanist perspective social and ecological change is necessarily undergirded by spirituality – as distinct from religion per se – which invokes a metaphysically informed approach to activism.

GBP 42.99
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Outer Space - Battlefield of the Future?

Outer Space - Battlefield of the Future?

This book first published in 1978 examines the military use of space – around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were military ones. The satellites were for military communications weather prediction navigation photographic and electronic reconnaissance targeting early warning and satellites capable of destroying enemy satellites. This book analyses the capabilities of military satellites as part of the debate around the encroachment of military technology and purposes into space.

GBP 71.99
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An Important Matter of PrincipleThe Decline of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

An Important Matter of PrincipleThe Decline of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

First published in 1999 this book examines the dramatic decline of the Conservative Party in Scotland. In 1955 the party secured over 50 per cent of the Scottish vote. At the last election it won a mere 17 per cent of the vote losing its representation at Westminster in the process. But until the publication of this work and despite its importance relatively little was known about why the Conservative Party had declined so precipitously in Scotland. Many of the explanations for the party’s decline had largely remained untested. These included that the party had lost its Protestant base suffered for its opposition to devolution and become too right wing for a normally progressive Scottish electorate. Using a unique collection of survey data this work casts doubt on all three claims. Thus this book makes a major academic contribution and examines what for the Scottish Unionists was An Important Matter of Principle.

GBP 23.19
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Strategies for Growing and Enhancing University-Level Japanese Programs

Strategies for Growing and Enhancing University-Level Japanese Programs

Strategies for Growing and Enhancing University-Level Japanese Programs offers foreign language program managers and directors as well as teachers of less commonly taught languages the insights and proven practical actions they can take to enhance and grow their language programs. Using the Japanese program at UNC Charlotte as the primary case study author Fumie Kato provides step-by-step instructions on how she grew the Japanese program there from 133 students per semester in 2002 to 515 students per semester in 2017; from a program with just one full-time professor and one part-time faculty member to a faculty of seven full-time and three part-time members. While Japanese is the example used in the book the principles can be applied by anyone managing foreign language/less commonly taught language programs who wishes to expand their program and raise their students’ success rates. The book is therefore of interest to instructors coordinators and directors of foreign language education programs throughout the world.

GBP 31.99
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Outer Space - Battlefield of the Future?

Outer Space - Battlefield of the Future?

This book first published in 1978 examines the military use of space – around 60 per cent of US and Soviet satellites were military ones. The satellites were for military communications weather prediction navigation photographic and electronic reconnaissance targeting early warning and satellites capable of destroying enemy satellites. This book analyses the capabilities of military satellites as part of the debate around the encroachment of military technology and purposes into space. | Outer Space - Battlefield of the Future?

GBP 29.99
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Alcohol Gender and Culture

Alcohol Gender and Culture

Europeans consitiute 12 and a half per cent of the world's population but consume 50 per cent of the recorded world production alcohol and this consumption plays a significant role in the cultural religious and social identites of these countrise. The contributors show how different groups define the proper use of alcohol how State policies may effect drinking behaviour and highlight how beverages and comestibles must be seen in relation to each other. From this is it shown how importamt socio-cultural distinctions are made between and within communities gender relations ethnic groups and socio-economic groups and within religious ideologies; what one drinks how one drinks with whom and where all influence not how alcoholic substances are regarded but how social relations are experienced. Alcohol Gender and Culture clearly demonstrates how the social construction of drinking may provide an analytical tool with which to approach different socio-cultural groups and illustrates how any cultural group can be compared to another by its attutudes to alcohol. It will be invaluable reading for students and lecturers af anthropology cultural history and gender studies.

GBP 38.99
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Corporate Fraud

Corporate Fraud

Fact: Barings was an excellent company with professional managers. Their careers were devastated by fraud. How many other managers are now in the same position without knowing it? Fact: The average company loses between 2 per cent and 5 per cent of its turnover as a result of dishonesty. When Mike Comer’s book first appeared it quickly established itself worldwide as the standard work in its field. This third edition is a radical revision reflecting the world of EDI electronic commerce derivatives computerization empowerment downsizing and other recent developments. Ironically many of these have exposed companies to an alarming range of new risks. With the help of real-life case histories the author identifies the main types of fraud the circumstances in which they occur and the telltale signs that give them away. He examines internal control systems and the attitudes and practices that allow fraud to flourish. He explains in detail how fraud can be prevented and detected and shows why it is that many fashionable management techniques can also potentially pave the way to corporate disaster.

GBP 37.59
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Climate Change and Forest GovernanceLessons from Indonesia

Climate Change and Forest GovernanceLessons from Indonesia

Deforestation in tropical rainforest countries is one of the largest contributors to human-induced climate change. Deforestation especially in the tropics contributes around 20 per cent of annual global greenhouse gas emissions and in the case of Indonesia amounts to 85 per cent of its annual emissions from human activities. This book provides a comprehensive assessment of the emerging legal and policy frameworks for managing forests as a key means to address climate change. The authors uniquely combine an assessment of the international rules for forestry governance with a detailed assessment of the legal and institutional context of Indonesia; one of the most globally important test case jurisdictions for the effective roll-out of ‘Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation’ (REDD). Using Indonesia as a key case study the book explores challenges that heavily forested States face in resource management to address climate mitigation imperatives such as providing safeguards for local communities and indigenous peoples. This book will be of great relevance to students scholars and policymakers with an interest in international environmental law climate change and environment and sustainability studies in general.

GBP 31.99
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Economic Transformation in Poland and UkraineNational and Regional Perspectives

Economic Transformation in Poland and UkraineNational and Regional Perspectives

When Poland and Ukraine introduced their political social and economic system reforms at the beginning of the 1990s both economies were at a similar level of economic development (GDP $9 500 per capita). However in 2018 Ukrainian GDP per capita had remained at the same levels since 1991 while in Poland it had increased significantly to more than $27 000 per capita. This book assesses the reasons for the growing gap between the level of economic development in Ukraine and Poland. It examines the course of events and evaluates the effectiveness of the system transformations both in the context of the economy as a whole and in individual regions (Polish ‘voivodeships’ (provinces) and Ukrainian ‘oblasts’). It also analyzes the consequences of the 2008–2009 Ukrainian-Russian gas conflict and 2013–2014 Euromaidan events for the Ukrainian economy. Additionally the authors offer an insight into the migration movements which have recently been observed in Poland and Ukraine. This is the first comprehensive comparative analysis concerning the spatial diversification of economic development in these two countries and the authors highlight the ways in which these reforms have proved effective in Poland and hardly effective in Ukraine. This analysis helps to identify the basic interrelations between the core macroeconomic variables at the regional level and the impact of political events from both a national and regional perspective. The book will appeal to academics researchers and policy makers interested in the economic and political changes in these two countries in a comparative setting and on national and regional levels as well as those working on issues of EU integration.

GBP 120.00
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