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Perfect Simulation

Perfect Simulation

Exact sampling specifically coupling from the past (CFTP) allows users to sample exactly from the stationary distribution of a Markov chain. During its nearly 20 years of existence exact sampling has evolved into perfect simulation which enables high-dimensional simulation from interacting distributions.Perfect Simulation illustrates the application of perfect simulation ideas and algorithms to a wide range of problems. The book is one of the first to bring together research on simulation from statistics physics finance computer science and other areas into a unified framework. You will discover the mechanisms behind creating perfect simulation algorithms for solving an array of problems.The author describes numerous protocol methodologies for designing algorithms for specific problems. He first examines the commonly used acceptance/rejection (AR) protocol for creating perfect simulation algorithms. He then covers other major protocols including CFTP; the Fill Machida Murdoch and Rosenthal (FMMR) method; the randomness recycler; retrospective sampling; and partially recursive AR along with multiple variants of these protocols. The book also shows how perfect simulation methods have been successfully applied to a variety of problems such as Markov random fields permutations stochastic differential equations spatial point processes Bayesian posteriors combinatorial objects and Markov processes.

GBP 45.59
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The Pursuit of Perfect Packing

The Pursuit of Perfect Packing

Coauthored by one of the creators of the most efficient space packing solution the Weaire–Phelan structure The Pursuit of Perfect Packing Second Edition explores a problem of importance in physics mathematics chemistry biology and engineering: the packing of structures. Maintaining its mathematical core this edition continues and revises some of the stories from its predecessor while adding several new examples and applications. The book focuses on both scientific and everyday problems ranging from atoms to honeycombs. It describes packing models such as the Kepler conjecture Voronoï decomposition and Delaunay decomposition as well as actual structure models such as the Kelvin cell and the Weaire–Phelan structure. The authors discuss numerous historical aspects and provide biographical details on influential contributors to the field including emails from Thomas Hales and Ken Brakke. With examples from physics crystallography engineering and biology this accessible and whimsical book touches on many aspects of packing objects. It will help you understand components of packing and aid you in the quest for the perfect packing solution.

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Practical CataloguingAACR RDA and MARC21

Practical CataloguingAACR RDA and MARC21

This essential new textbook provides cataloguers with the skills needed for transition to Resource Description and Access (RDA). The book builds on John Bowman's highly regarded Essential Cataloguing and gives an introduction to Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) which provides the conceptual basis for RDA; discusses the differences between AACR2 and RDA; and shows the current state of play in MARC 21. Key topics are: introduction to catalogues and cataloguing standards the FRBRization of the catalogue bibliographic elements access points and headings RDA: the new standard its development structure and features AACR and RDA: the similarities and differences between the two standards the MARC21 record bringing it all together the birth of RDA and the death of MARC. The final chapter includes ten records displayed in AACR2 level 1 AACR2 level 2 RDA and MARC 21 making it easy to see the differences at a glance. There is also a fully explained worked example based on RDA Appendix M. Readership: Written at a time of transition in international cataloguing this book provides cataloguers and students with a background in general cataloguing principles the current code (AACR2) and format (MARC 21) and the new standard (RDA). The contextual chapters provide library managers with an up-to-date overview of the development of RDA in order to equip them to make the transition. The book will be essential reading for students of library and information studies and practising library and information professionals in all sectors. It will also be of great interest to the archives sector.

GBP 59.99
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The NEC and You Perfect TogetherA Comprehensive Study of the National Electrical Code

The NEC and You Perfect TogetherA Comprehensive Study of the National Electrical Code

This book uses a unique approach of identifying the terms defined in NEC Article 100 and connecting these definitions to the appropriate sections in Chapters 1 through 9 with detailed explanations that will serve to enhance the reader’s understanding of this complex subject. This volume contains extensive information on the following: Branch Circuits Feeders Services Overcurrent Protection Grounding Systems and Equipment Bonding Impedance Grounded Systems Separately Derived Systems Functional Grounding Calculating Ground-Fault Currents Motors Motor Circuits and Controllers Transformers Health Care Facilities Hazardous (Classified) Locations Information Technology Equipment Emergency Systems Tables and Examples Readership: Anyone involved in the design and installation of the electrical systems in residential commercial institutional and industrial facilities.

GBP 67.99
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Pediatric Colorectal Surgery Tips & Tricks

Pediatric Colorectal Surgery Tips & Tricks

Based on 30 years of experience as a surgeon working in the field of pediatric colorectal and pelvic reconstructive surgery author Marc Levitt shares the tips and tricks that he has developed to make operations and patient management easier and reproducible. This book teaches these skills to achieve positive results. Patients with anorectal malformations (ARMs) Hirschsprung disease (HD) fecal incontinence from a variety of conditions colonic motility disorders and a myriad of other conditions comprise the field of pediatric colorectal and pelvic reconstruction. Such patients require care throughout their lives from specialists across numerous fields which may include colorectal surgery urology gynecology and GI motility as well as specialized nursing orthopedics neurosurgery anesthesia pathology radiology psychology social work and nutrition. Sometimes the field can seem chaotic and unpredictable. Reconstruction requires creativity and at times it feels that artwork is being created during the actual operation with no pre-plan in mind. Marc Levitt and his colleagues have worked very hard to counter that feeling to be fully prepared and to develop protocols techniques and processes that can be adopted by other clinicians so that optimal results for patients can be achieved. This book reflects both this experience and this approach. | Pediatric Colorectal Surgery Tips & Tricks

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Digital Scholarship in Education Multimodality as a Window into Learning

Digital Scholarship in Education Multimodality as a Window into Learning

This book is an essential guide to multimodal theses and dissertations (MTDs) which involve researchers working with digital data such as video. Brendan Jacobs explains how MTDs provide new methodological options which can improve both the visibility and quality of research and then provides a how-to guide for anyone interested in writing an MTD or engaging with digital scholarship. It helps readers understand how digital scholarship can generate insights into learning and contains links to examples of best practice in digital scholarship. Embracing the new methodological possibilities that a purely digital environment provides this book sets a much-needed precedent for using multimodal approaches in your own research from classroom practice right up to PhD level. | Digital Scholarship in Education Multimodality as a Window into Learning

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Introduction to Knowledge Organisation

Introduction to Knowledge Organisation

This book provides a complete introduction to the rapidly expanding field of Knowledge organization (KO) presenting historical precedents and theoretical foundations in a discursive intelligible form covering the philosophical linguistic and technical aspects. In the contemporary context of global information exchange through linked data Knowledge organization systems (KOS) need to be represented in standard inter-operable formats. Different formats for KOS representation including MARC Dublin Core SKOS and OWL are introduced as well as the application of Knowledge organization to a variety of activities and contexts: education encyclopedic knowledge the Internet libraries archives museums galleries and other institutions collecting and providing access to recorded knowledge. Key coverage includes: - ontology and epistemology in KO - KO structures: lists hierarchies facets... - KO types: tagging taxonomies thesauri classifications... - conceptual analysis of documents - applications in the digital age.

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Linked Data for Cultural Heritage

Linked Data for Cultural Heritage

This book gathers a stellar list of contributors to help readers understand linked data concepts by examining practice and projects based in libraries archives and museums. Linked open data remains very much a work in progress and much of the progress has taken place within the domain of the cultural heritage institutions: libraries archives and museums. There is no question that the structure of linked data and the machine inferencing it supports shows great promise for discoverability. What will be the 'killer app' that breaks linked open data out to the wider world and accelerates its uptake? Perhaps it will be a project described in this volume. Content covered includes: a very simple description of linked data summing up its promises and challenges a survey of the use of linked data in significant projects across the cultural heritage domain including Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) practical discussion of migrating a catalogue from a MARC environment to one of linked data and the possibilities that open up in terms of the broader scholarly community reviewing and reimagining library thesauri metadata schemas and information discovery to look at how controlled vocabularies integrate library practice with linked data an examination of the role of authority control identifiers and vocabularies including use of the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and the SPARQL query language Carol Jean Godby describes OCLC's experiments with Schema.org as the foundation for a model of library resource description expressed as linked data the development of the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) data model and a description of the fundamental differences between MARC and BIBFRAME. Readership: This survey of the cultural heritage linked data landscape will be a key resource for metadata practitioners and researchers within all cultural heritage contexts and all students and academics within the information science and digital humanities fields.  

GBP 64.99
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Re-examining the UK Newspaper Industry

Re-examining the UK Newspaper Industry

This book dispels myths surrounding the newspaper industry’s financial viability in an online world arguing that widespread predictions of pending newspaper extinction are based mostly on misunderstandings of the industry’s operations. Drawing from his training as a business journalist Marc Edge undertakes a thorough analysis of annual financial statements provided by newspaper companies themselves to explain the industry’s arcane economics. This book contextualizes available data within the historical context in which various news publishers operate and outlines the economic history of UK newspapers. It also investigates how UK newspapers survived the 2008–09 recession considering both national and provincial markets separately. A rigorous look at an often-neglected aspect of the newspaper industry this volume will be an essential read for scholars of media studies journalism studies and communication studies especially those interested in studying journalism and news production as occupational identities. | Re-examining the UK Newspaper Industry

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The Use and Abuse of HistoryOr How the Past is Taught to Children

The Use and Abuse of HistoryOr How the Past is Taught to Children

Use and Abuse of History has become a key text of current historiography; this is a book that poses fundamental and disturbing questions about the use and abuse of history. Engaging and challenging this book confronts the reader with the many 'histories' that exist and have existed around the world from the Zulu kingdoms to Communist China. This title has now been extensively revised by Marc Ferro a well respected historian and presents the different narratives that constitute the histories of countries as diverse as India Iran Trinidad and the United States makes for fascinating reading in their own right. What makes this book so valuable though is what these narratives tell us about the societies which create them – how much is history distorted in order to condition the minds of those who are taught it? Use and Abuse of History appeals to anyone with a general interested in history.

GBP 75.20
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Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and MetadataPractical applications of XSD XSLT and Xquery

Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and MetadataPractical applications of XSD XSLT and Xquery

Even experienced cataloguers and copy cataloguers who know their way around the tags and strings of a MARC record need guidance when creating metadata for sharing bibliographic records or digital collections on the web. Likewise coders or new librarians coming from iSchool or software backgrounds need examples of how to use XLML or XSLT scripting with library records. That’s where this new handbook from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) comes in. Librarians working in their code editors will want this resource with its 58 sample coding examples at their side. It covers essential background information with a quick review of XML basics transforming XML metadata in HTML schema languages and workflows for XML validation an introduction to XPath and XSLT cataloguing workflows using XSLT the basics of XQuery including use cases and XQuery expressions and functions working with strings and sequences including regular expressions.

GBP 43.96
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Impact Techniques for Therapists

Impact Techniques for Therapists

Impact Techniques for Therapists teaches the basic principles of Impact Therapy first developed by Ed Jacobs in 1992. Drawing heavily on the work of Milton Erickson this form of therapy uses a creative and interactive approach to counseling that involves all senses in the therapeutic process. These innovative multisensory techniques will incorporate therapist-client exchanges on not only verbal but also visual and kinesthetic levels thereby increasing the efficacy of the intervention. Accompanied by a conversational tone and vivid artwork Beaulieu presents concrete examples of props and movements that can be introduced into therapy and thoroughly illustrates their different uses. Originally written and published in French as a handbook for therapists Dr. Beaulieu’s formative work is now available in a new English edition with a more encompassing introduction as well as updated case examples. The model set forth in this book can be integrated easily and seamlessly into the practice of a wide variety of mental health professionals seeking to discover new and innovative developments in brief therapy.

GBP 84.00
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Critical Approaches to ComicsTheories and Methods

Critical Approaches to ComicsTheories and Methods

Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books graphic novels and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics including fandom genre intertextuality adaptation gender narrative formalism visual culture and much more. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies. Contributors: Henry Jenkins   David Berona  Joseph Witek Randy Duncan Marc Singer Pascal Lefevre  Andrei Molotiu Jeff McLaughlin Amy Kiste Nyberg Christopher Murray Mark Rogers Ian Gordon Stanford Carpenter Matthew J. Smith Brad J. Ricca Peter Coogan Leonard Rifas   Jennifer K. Stuller Ana Merino Mel Gibson Jeffrey A. Brown Brian Swafford

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Developmental ScienceAn Advanced Textbook

Developmental ScienceAn Advanced Textbook

Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook is the most complete and cutting-edge introduction to the field available today. Since its initial publication the key purpose of the text has been to furnish inclusive developmental perspectives on all substantive areas in psychology—neuroscience perception cognition language emotion and social interaction. This edition is no exception as it continues to underscore the dynamic and exciting status of contemporary developmental science. In this Seventh Edition Marc H. Bornstein and Michael E. Lamb once again invite international experts to prepare original comprehensive and topical treatments of the major areas of developmental science which are masterfully woven into a single coherent volume. Some chapters in this edition are new and those carried forward from the sixth edition have been extensively revised. This volume represents faithfully the current status of scholarly efforts in all aspects of developmental science. Ideal for advanced undergraduate and introductory graduate courses the text is accompanied by a website with supplementary material for students and instructors including chapter outlines topics to think about before reading glossaries and suggested readings.

GBP 71.99
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Authentication Codes and Combinatorial Designs

Authentication Codes and Combinatorial Designs

Researchers and practitioners of cryptography and information security are constantly challenged to respond to new attacks and threats to information systems. Authentication Codes and Combinatorial Designs presents new findings and original work on perfect authentication codes characterized in terms of combinatorial designs namely strong partially balanced designs (SPBD).Beginning with examples illustrating the concepts of authentication schemes and combinatorial designs the book considers the probability of successful deceptions followed by schemes involving three and four participants respectively. From this point the author constructs the perfect authentication schemes and explores encoding rules for such schemes in some special cases.Using rational normal curves in projective spaces over finite fields the author constructs a new family of SPBD. He then presents some established combinatorial designs that can be used to construct perfect schemes such as t-designs orthogonal arrays of index unity and designs constructed by finite geometry. The book concludes by studying definitions of perfect secrecy properties of perfectly secure schemes and constructions of perfect secrecy schemes with and without authentication.Supplying an appendix of construction schemes for authentication and secrecy schemes Authentication Codes and Combinatorial Designs points to new applications of combinatorial designs in cryptography.

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Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914 Strangers in Paradise

Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914 Strangers in Paradise

Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914 examines Paris as a center of international culture that attracted artists from Western and Eastern Europe Asia and the Americas during a period of burgeoning global immigration. Sixteen essays by a group of emerging and established international scholars - including several whose work has not been previously published in English - address the experiences of foreign exiles immigrants students and expatriates. They explore the formal and informal structures that permitted foreign artists to forge connections within and across national communities and in some cases fashion new transnational identities in the City of Light. Considering Paris from an innovative global perspective the book situates both important modern artists - such as Edvard Munch Sonia Delaunay-Terk Marc Chagall and Gino Severini - and lesser-known American Czech Italian Polish Welsh Russian Japanese Catalan and Hungarian painters sculptors writers dancers and illustrators within the larger trends of international mobility and cultural exchange. Broadly appealing to historians of modern art and history the essays in this volume characterize Paris as a thriving transnational arts community in which the interactions between diverse cultures peoples and traditions contributed to the development of a hybrid and multivalent modern art. | Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914 Strangers in Paradise

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The City Reader

The City Reader

The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city. Sixty-three selections are included: forty-five from the sixth edition and eighteen new selections including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader. The anthology features a Prologue essay on How to Study Cities eight part introductions as well as individual introductions to each of the selected articles. The new edition has been extensively updated and expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary and topical areas included such as sustainable urban development globalization the impact of technology on cities resilient cities and urban theory. The seventh edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world the global city system and the future of cities in the digital transformation age. While retaining classic writings from authors such as Lewis Mumford Jane Jacobs and Louis Wirth this edition also includes the best contemporary writings of among others Peter Hall Manuel Castells and Saskia Sassen. New material has been added on compact cities urban history placemaking climate change the world city network smart cities the new social exclusion ordinary cities gentrification gender perspectives regime theory comparative urbanization and the impact of technology on cities. Bibliographic material has been completely updated and strengthened so that the seventh edition can serve as a reference volume orienting faculty and students to the most important writings of all the key topics in urban studies and planning. The City Reader provides the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies old and new. It is essential reading for anyone interested in studying cities and city life.

GBP 59.99
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The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Human Rights provides a comprehensive transnational and interdisciplinary map to this emerging field offering a broad overview of human rights and literature while providing innovative readings on key topics. The first of its kind this volume covers essential issues and themes necessarily crossing disciplines between the social sciences and humanities. Sections cover: subjects with pieces on subjectivity humanity identity gender universality the particular the body forms visiting the different ways human rights stories are crafted and formed via the literary the visual the performative and the oral contexts tracing the development of the literature over time and in relation to specific regions and historical events impacts considering the power and limits of human rights literature rhetoric and visual culture Drawn from many different global contexts the essays offer an ideal introduction for those approaching the study of literature and human rights for the first time looking for new insights and interdisciplinary perspectives or interested in new directions for future scholarship. Contributors: Chris Abani Jonathan E. Abel Elizabeth S. Anker Arturo Arias Ariella Azoulay Ralph Bauer Anna Bernard Brenda Carr Vellino Eleni Coundouriotis James Dawes Erik Doxtader Marc D. Falkoff Keith P. Feldman Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg Audrey J. Golden Mark Goodale Barbara Harlow Wendy S. Hesford Peter Hitchcock David Holloway Christine Hong Madelaine Hron Meg Jensen Luz Angélica Kirschner Susan Maslan Julie Avril Minich Alexandra Schultheis Moore Greg Mullins Laura T. Murphy Hanna Musiol Makau Mutua Zoe Norridge David Palumbo-Liu Crystal Parikh Katrina M. Powell Claudia Sadowski-Smith Mark Sanders Karen-Magrethe Simonsen Joseph R. Slaughter Sharon Sliwinski Sidonie Smith Domna C. Stanton Sarah G. Waisvisz Belinda Walzer Ban Wang Julia Watson Gillian Whitlock and Sarah Winter.

GBP 44.99
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Public Administration An Introduction

Public Administration An Introduction

Marc Holzer and Richard W. Schwester have written a textbook that is distinct from the dozens of introductory public administration books now in the academic marketplace. Their vision is a unique blend of substance and style—a text that is both informative and enlivening capturing the evolving nature of the field. The book explores the traditional essential elements of public administration such as organizational theory human resource management leadership program evaluation and policy analysis budgeting and the politics of public administration. Artwork depicts bureaucratic issues reinforcing each chapter’s themes and creating an informative and aesthetically engaging textbook while charts graphs diagrams and illustrations add dimensions to the text’s overviews of public administration. New to this edition are three sections that provide a natural flow and progression of the material. Section I provides the theoretical construct of public administration section II provides actionable material for public administrators while section III deals with the future of public organizations through the lens of performance improvement and the techniques available to achieve such improvement. Each chapter is complemented by key terms and supplementary readings and video cases and simulations offer a gateway to engaging students encouraging them to immerse themselves in virtual problem-solving experiences—testing theory and skills through real-time practical applications. Students will deal with issues related to unemployment budgeting the environment crime and education. The book is accompanied by a comprehensive online Instructors' Manual complete with PowerPoint slides for each chapter case studies relevant YouTube videos to illustrate chapter content additional artwork webinars and relevant films and tv shows to better engage students in important themes of public service. This text then is very much a dynamic learning system designed to enliven the teaching of public administration improve the learning experience and help motivate students of public service to become problem-solving public servants. | Public Administration An Introduction

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Careers and Talent ManagementA Critical Perspective

Careers and Talent ManagementA Critical Perspective

Careers and Talent Management challenges and deconstructs the notion of the "perfect career" in order to provide new perspectives on talent management and career creation. It argues that the skills that organizations typically look for as indicative of superstar performance are not necessarily those that lead to competitive advantage. Attracting and retaining talent is both challenging and complex for organizations since it is not known especially at the top level which employee skills will be most valuable in helping the organization be competitive globally. In this thoughtful book Reis bucks the trend on emerging super talents critically analyzing topics related to the field of general management careers and talent management – such as leadership entrepreneurship gender and diversity – to demonstrate the range of employee skills that can benefit an organization globally. Chapter focuses include global entrepreneurship remote business practices and social responsibility. These new perspectives on talent management will help students of human resource management think critically about the implications of pursuing or encouraging a "perfect" career trajectory.

GBP 52.99
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A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)

A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)

G. A. Gaskell’s Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths first published in 1923 examines several different aspects of religion including examples from Ancient Egyptian religion and mythology to modern-day Christianity providing explanations of gods events and symbols in alphabetical order. This is a perfect reference book for students of theology or the history of religion. | A Dictionary of the Sacred Language of All Scriptures and Myths (Routledge Revivals)

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Education and the Social Order

Education and the Social Order

Bertrand Russell was renowned for his provocative views on education. Considered an educational innovator Russell attempted to create the perfect learning institution. Despite the failure of this practical vision it did not stop him from continuing to strive towards inventing and arguing for a system of education free from repression. In Education and the Social Order Russell dissects the motives behind educational theory and practice and in doing so lays out original and controversial arguments for the reformation of the education of the individual.

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