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Concise Chemical Thermodynamics / 3rd edition
2010 || Paperback || A.P.H. Peters || Taylor & Francis
The first two editions of Concise Chemical Thermodynamics proved to be a very popular introduction to a subject many undergraduate students perceive to be difficult due to the underlying mathematics. With its concise explanations and clear examples, the text has for the past 40 years clarified for countless students one of the most complicated branches of science. Following in the tradition of its predecessors, this Third Edition continues to offer a practical, example-based exploration of a ...
Conducting Research In Conservation
Social Science Methods and Practice
2010 || Paperback || Helen Newing || Taylor & Francis
Focuses on social science research methods. This title contains a section on planning a research project that includes chapters on the need for social science research in conservation, defining a research topic, methodology, and sampling. It also focuses on practical issues in carrying out fieldwork with local communities.
Conducting Research in Conservation is the first textbook on social science research methods written specifically for use in the expanding and increasingly multidisciplinar...
Managing Voluntary Sport Organizations
2010 || Paperback || Leigh Robinson e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Contemporary sport could not function without the involvement of voluntary organizations, from local grass-roots clubs to international agencies such as the International Olympic Committee. Management of this sector continues to undergo profound change, largely in response to the challenges of professionalization and increasing expectations in terms of transparency, accountability and ethical behaviour. This book fills a significant gap in the literature on sport management by setting out the...
Germany, 1914-1933
Politics, Society and Culture
2010 || Paperback || Matthew Stibbe || Taylor & Francis
Germany, 1914-1933: Politics, Society and Culture takes a fresh and critical look at a crucial period in German history. Rather than starting with the traditional date of 1918, the book begins with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, and argues that this was a pivotal turning point in shaping the future successes and failures of the Weimar Republic. Combining traditional political narrative with new insights provided by social and cultural history, the book reconsiders such key quest...
Hydrology in Practice / 4th edition
2010 || Paperback || Elizabeth M. Shaw e.a. || Taylor & Francis
Hydrology in Practice is an excellent and very successful introductory text for engineering hydrology students who go on to be practitioners in consultancies, the Environment Agency, and elsewhere. This fourth edition of Hydrology in Practice, while retaining all that is excellent about its predecessor, by Elizabeth M. Shaw, replaces the material on the Flood Studies Report with an equivalent section on the methods of the Flood Estimation Handbook and its revisions.
Other completely revised s...
Philosophy of Mind / 3rd edition
2010 || Paperback || Jaegwon Kim || Taylor & Francis
This book explores a range of issues in the philosophy of mind, with the mind-body problem as the main focus. It serves as a stimulus to the reader to engage with the problems of the mind and try to come to terms with them, and examines Descartes's mind-body dualism.
Ethnography and Language Policy
2010 || Paperback || Teresa L. McCarty || Taylor & Francis
Illuminating, through ethnographic inquiry, how individual agents "make" language policy in everyday social practice, this volume advances the growing field of language planning and policy using a critical sociocultural approach. From this perspective, language policy is conceptualized not only as official acts and documents, but as language-regulating modes of human interaction, negotiation, and production mediated by relations of power. Using this conceptual framework, the volume addresses ...
Attachment Theory and the Teacher-student Relationship
A Practical Guide for Teachers, Teacher Educators and School Leaders
2010 || Paperback || Philip Riley || Taylor & Francis
How teachers form and maintain classroom and staffroom relationships is crucial to the success of their work. A teacher who is able to accurately interpret the underlying relationship processes can learn to proactively, rather than reactively, influence the dynamics of any class. These are skills that can be taught.
This invaluable text explains how adult attachment theory offers new ways to examine professional teaching relationships, classroom management and collegial harmony: equally impor...
The OEE Primer
Understanding Overall Equipment Effectiveness, Reliability, and Maintainability
2010 || Paperback || D.H. Stamatis || Taylor & Francis
Breaking down the OEE methodology from a historical perspective, this book explores the overall effectiveness of machines and unveils novel design improvement methods, including hazard analysis, rate of change of failure analysis, failure rate finite element analysis, and theory of inventive problem solving. Explains what OEE is and how it can be used to address capacity issues and achieve overall effectiveness of machines Examines the issues of OEE and breaks down the methodology from a hist...
Urban Flood Management
2010 || Paperback || Chris Zevenbergen || Taylor & Francis
Along with windstorms, floods are the most common and widespread of all natural disasters. Although they can often be predicted, they cause loss of life, damage and destruction, as many urban communities are located near coasts and rivers. In terms of victims, floods are responsible for more than half the deaths caused by natural catastrophes.
As flood events appear to be rapidly increasing world-wide, an advanced and universal approach to urban flooding and how to manage will help reduce flo...