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The second edition of Holden on Trust Protectors will provide coverage of more than 25 new cases decided since 2011 directly touching on the powers, duties, rights and proper role of the protector.
This book provides a comprehensive reference for solving scientific problems with the generalized linear geostatistical model (GLGM), with an emphasis on demonstrating the accompanying software through examples. The key features of the GLGM are observed data points being independent of each other conditional on an unobserved spatial surface, values of the underlying spatial surface follow a multivariate normal distribution, and the surface is the sum of explanatory variables (fixed effects) and a random term.
Traditional methods of geotechnical engineering still dominate the approach of risk and reliability. Following the importance of understanding and asssessing geotechnical hazards, vulnerability and risk, new concepts and techniques of reliability analysis have been developed in the last 20 years. While these are widely accepted, application has been very slow. With a structured approach, this book introduces the reader to basic principles and methods of geotechnical risk and reliability and demonstrates their relevance for improved understanding, more effective strategies and better problem-solving skills. Reference is made throughout to the latest developments in the application to geotechnical problems. Attention is given to the ways in which reliability analysis and assessment of hazard and risk along with suitable observational approaches can facilitate the management of risk.
The must-have series for all sports fans and budding Olympians in the run-up to Rio 2016!
This book provides an integrated set of perspectives on the roles of business in the ethical, social, political, economic and physical environments in which it operates globally, bringing together more than twenty years of Professor Sampford's thoughts and analysis. The book synthesises a set of consistent themes of prevailing relevance to business, with a detailed commentary on the place of business in past, current and future global public policy debates, from the best means of pricing carbon to the defining tax and welfare quandaries facing America, Europe and Asia.
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The Settled Screen: Landscape and National Identity in New Zealand Cinema is the first title to explore the relationship between the representation of landscape and the development of both a national cinema and a national identity. Through the early years of New Zealand's cinema, prior to any formalized governmental support, those few feature length narrative films repeated wholesale the modes of representing the landscape and its inhabitants, while the developing documentary and travelogue industries would construct the fantasy of 'Maoriland' with New Zealand becoming internationally known as a green paradise, a Pacific idyll with an exotic, tamed, indigenous population. This precursor of the now contemporary 'Brand New Zealand' - itself a modern, politically-corrected version of these earlier narratives - would be adjusted and amended over time, especially with the formation of the New Zealand Film Commission in the late 1970s, but never entirely discarded. Beginning with a discussion on films in which landscape - and particularly the colonial or settler landscapes - have been represented in other Western cinemas, like The Searchers and Thelma & Louise, Wilson compares in indigenous films like Whale Rider, To Love a Maori and The Piano to exemplify the simultaneous strands of New Zealand cinema: a way of marketing the country based on the success of such spectacular films as Peter Jackson's Tolkien epics, and the simultaneous attempts by Maori, immigrant and minority filmmakers to find a way to represent other stories in this land without recourse to the tropes of a by-now dominant national industry.
'What are your best and worst qualities?'This is the title of the essay Addison Schacht has to write to gain a place at his chosen university. Straightaway, Addison sees an opportunity to tell his story-so-far: to unburden himself, so to speak.And boy is there a lot to unburden. His 'business' - dealing pot to his peers - is booming, and requires a certain extra effort. His relationship with Digger, his best friend (NOT girlfriend), is getting 'complicated', as they say. His classmate Kevin was murdered point blank, and now Addison can't stop thinking about who killed him, and why? And then there's the small question of the rest of his life . . . Over the course of his unorthodox application, Addison confess his triumphs, tragedies, strengths, weaknesses, blessings and curses to his academic jury.The November Criminals is the darkest, most raucous and unconventional love story/murder mystery/ coming-of-age crossover you will read this year.
Transport phenomena is the generic title for processes involving the transfer of momentum, heat, and mass within and across boundaries. At its core, this has many applications to chemical engineering as well as to bioengineering and biotechnology. It also has effects within petroleum and environmental engineering. This work focuses on helping students learn how to transform problems into appropriate equations, choosing the right level of analysis and interpreting the results for unit operation processes of heat, mass, and momentum transfer.
This book features a detailed interdisciplinary description, analysis and critique of law, justice and power determining the contemporary relationship between Indigenous Peoples and the settler state in 5 liberal social democracies, namely Anglo-Commonwealth States of Australia, Canada, New Zealand as well as Norway, Sweden and Finland.
With her signature talent for fiction that is 'rich with an unusual sweetness' (USA Today) and filled with wry humour, the bestselling author of LILY OF THE VALLEY delivers a moving portrait of a woman confronting her past.
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