This book covers the wide range of methods, which have become standard tools in every biology, material science, surface science, and optics laboratory: those that measure tip-sample interactions with forces and those that measure tip-sample interactions with currents. It emphasizes the fundamentals that may be applied to basic through advanced applications, including such topics as van der Waals forces between macroscopic objects, strain-stress analysis, continuum deformation theory, friction theory at the microscopic level, control theory, and an introduction to surface states and surface reconstruction.

Finally, the long-awaited book by the man who coined the term "geomembrane", who collates over forty years of experience both in the field and as a design engineer. It begins with basic definitions, composition and production, describes geomembrane applications with illustrations, reviews the various types and then presents systematic comparisons.

Synthetic membranes are widely used for water purification and wastewater treatment. Development of membranes for water treatment has provided a method to produce potable water with much lower energy than thermal distillation. This book describes the basic principles that govern transport across both natural and synthetic membranes.

This book provides a detailed illustration of recent developments for the theory of the SG pseudo differential, dealing with the main aspects of global calculus of pseudo differential operators on Rn and on manifolds with conical /cylindrical ends. The book makes it easier for researchers in the field to learn more about the study of this topic.

With growing popular and academic interest in the development and importance of three-dimensional modelling and technologies across a range of practices, this book advances analyses of three-dimensional models from perspectives in anthropology, anatomy, architecture and history, examining the ways in which models shape perceptions of bodies, buildings and histories. Focusing on models in practice - that is, on how they have been made, used and interpreted over time in social and cultural contexts - 3D Modelling: Bodies and Buildings in Anthropology, Anatomy and Architecture, explores the importance of models in the constitution and communication of knowledge. With attention to the multiple and changing ways in which models are created and employed, the material dimensions of models and their implications, the kinds of knowledge generated by models in action and the social relations formed through model making and use, this volume engages with current debates concerning material culture, knowledge production and creativity. Presenting detailed empirical case studies from across a range of disciplines, it addresses key questions surrounding the reasons for which models take particular forms, the effects of their material and visual qualities in relation to bodily action and the senses, and the ways in which they carry or disrupt cultural values and ideals. As such, it will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in in the connections between knowledge, practice and perception.

The highly successful four-part strategy for raising your performance at work and home so that you can thrive in a busy, challenging world, from the experts who have worked with Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies across the globe.

Focusing primarily on different phases of the post-independent Zimbabwean polity, the book draws on trends, practices and frames of reference which are applicable to many an African postcolony. These include the role, place and influence of traditional, non-mediated forms of political mobilisation, the place of discourses of colonial memory (and struggles against colonialism) in contemporary political communication, the place of the media in African society today, the nature and role of the African civil society, the rural-urban divide and the attendant variations in political messaging, the place of orality in African political communication, the role and possible influence of social media in political communication, among other factors.

The use of BIM has become absolutely necessary for those working in the modern AEC industry. It has caused a step-change in the production of through-life information, which is driving an evolution of the ways in which individuals work. Different strategies for adapting to BIM from across the globe are examined, in order to equip the reader with the skills needed when facing the emerging BIM-supported collaborative environment. This engaging book is the ideal guide for those currently, or preparing to work with BIM internationally.

The use of BIM has become absolutely necessary for those working in the modern AEC industry. It has caused a step-change in the production of through-life information, which is driving an evolution of the ways in which individuals work. Different strategies for adapting to BIM from across the globe are examined, in order to equip the reader with the skills needed when facing the emerging BIM-supported collaborative environment. This engaging book is the ideal guide for those currently, or preparing to work with BIM internationally.

This text brings together mechanobiology theory, approaches, and applications in a format appropriate for readers with some mathematical and biological exposure.

This book offers a detailed examination of the impact of competition on bank profitability by comparing three different ownership types of Chinese commercial banks (state-owned, joint-stock and city commercial banks), during the period from 2003 to 2013, while at the same time controlling comprehensive bank-specific, industry-specific and macroeconomic variables. It not only investigates the impact of competition on profitability in the Chinese banking industry, more importantly, it outlines the relevant theories of bank profitability and bank competition and also offers a systematic review of Chinese banking industry reform and structure. This is the first book to comprehensively and accurately examine the competitive conditions within the Chinese banking industry, using different competition indicators including the banking sector concentration ratio, Panzar-Rosse H statistics, the Lerner index as well as the Boone indicator. With regard to competitiveness in the Chinese banking industry, all the research is focused on the general competition within the whole banking industry, while the use of the Boone indicator in this book facilitates analysis of the competitive conditions in different banking markets in China, such as the loan market, deposit market as well as the non-interest income market. This not only fills a gap in the empirical literature but also provides markers for the Chinese government and banking regulatory authorities to follow in order to formulate and implement relevant monetary policies, so as to improve bank performance and ultimately profitabilty.

This textbook serves a market need as a primary text offering the latest developments in the maritime security sector for the growing number of courses in the area.

Rev. ed. of: Evidence-based care for normal labour and birth / Denis Walsh. 2007.

This Handbook provides an extensive survey of the dissemination and reception of Marx's Capital throughout the world. The cast of international experts explore, and critically reconsider, the history of the dissemination of Marx's Capital in all the languages in which the book was entirely translated.

In this ground-breaking work, Karen Emmerich challenges the assumption that original or source texts have a fixed identity. The textual makeup of a 'source text' is no more stable than its meaning. Originals are not given but made and translation is a process by which foreign works of literature are transformed into 'originals' through the creation of the supposedly derivative works we call translations. Karen Emmerich establishes this argument by bringing recent works in the field of textual scholarship to bear on discussions of translation. She explores multiple forms of textual instability and the translation strategies that have and can be employed in dealing with them. The scope of the discussion is broad covering ancient works, oral works, unfinished or fragmentary works, multilingual works, and works that straddle the divide between translation and 'original' creation, drawn from a range of languages, periods, genres, and literary traditions. This timely book also engages such issues as the politics and ethics of translation, how aesthetic categories and market forces contribute to the establishment and promotion of particular 'originals,' and the role translation plays in the formation, re-formation, and deformation of national and international literary canons. This is essential reading for students and scholars working in the areas of literary translation studies, comparative literature and world literature.

New Technologies and Creativity in the Secondary School examines what we mean by teaching young people to be creative, and how technology ¿ central to young people¿s lives ¿ can be used to encourage and enhance creative thinking and learning. Engaging with the underpinning theory and latest research in the field in an accessible, applied way, this book provides a sound introduction to the nature of creativity in education and why technology is a powerful tool for its development.

An architectural monograph dedicated to the complete oeuvre of Pascal Fournier and Sandra Maccagnan.

Late medieval Anatolia was characterised by widespread political instability. Yet despite these difficulties, the cities themselves were relatively stable spaces populated by complex and syncretic communities, and managed by various models of grass roots, urban self-governance. Rachel Goshgarian here offers the first social history of the region in this period to draw on Armenian sources. She reads these alongside other locally-written texts, primarily those in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, and uses recent scholarship on medieval Iberia and the convivencia paradigm - the method by which social cohesion and coexistence could be created between different ethnic and cultural communities - to offer a fuller and vital picture of the region's cities. Focusing on the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, The City in Late Medieval Anatolia addresses a wide range of timely debates - including inter-faith interaction, urbanism, social history and the politics of space.

The human body has been under-researched in the field of Minoan archaeology and understandings about the Cretan Bronze Age have often relied on data not directly related to the human body, such as pottery and architecture. While methodologically important, these data offer an incomplete picture of Minoan societies. Furthermore, current modernist research categories (such as osteoarchaeological, microglyptic and linguistic studies) create artificial divisions which impede a more holistic approach to the human condition in Minoan Crete. What is currently lacking is a contribution which recasts the human body as a central archaeological informant, in its various manifestations such as human remains, frescoes and figurines. This book redresses this imbalance by combining analysis of biological and represented bodies from Minoan Crete. As such, this book is neither an exhaustive account of people in Bronze Age Crete nor a treatise on the themes it explores. It is, rather, an archaeological and anthropological study on how current debates on social, economic and political change in the Minoan Age can be enhanced through exploration of the diversity and corporeal experience of its populations. Ultimately, the book aims to provide a stimulus towards re-evaluating Minoan archaeology through embodiment and will be a springboard for furthering debates on gender, political complexity and social change, as well as stimulating discussion on class, hybridity and bodily regionalism. This work will have wider methodological ramifications, because its debate transcends the boundaries of Minoan archaeology and can be applied to archaeologies of other regions and eras.

Explores the policies and practices employed in the management of people working in the tourism, hospitality and events industries. This title considers the nature of these industries and the varied approaches that organizations take with the handling of matters such as recruitment, health and welfare and remuneration.

Comparing the paths taken by different ethnic groups in Croatia and Macedonia this book offers a comprehensive analysis of how different rebel groups made the change from soldiers to politicians. Using empirical data from national and sub-national elections over the entire post-conflict period and gathered during extensive interviews members of different ethnic groups, armed groups, political parties, civilians and journalists the text explores the reconstruction of minority politics after ethnic conflicts and analyses the integration of former combatants into the political sphere.

Scholars have long recognised that "nature" is mediated, constructed and represented by culture, as also is technology, nature's "unnatural" counterpart. This book explores how changes, potential and actual, in conceptualizations of nature and technology are mediated and represented in Japan. It considers Japanese reactions to natural disasters, examines the tensions between traditional ways of life, rooted in nature, and the technologies of modernity, and discusses various art forms and literature which focus on nature and technology. Overall, the book assesses how far Japanese people see Japan itself as being in harmony with, or at odds with, nature.

In the spring of 2016 the exhibition "1001 Steidl Books" was held at DECK in Singapore, an independent platform for art and photography. On the occasion of the exhibition artists from across Asia were invited to submit book dummies for the Steidl Book Award Asia. A single award was planned, but from the many books Gerhard Steidl finally chose eight: "The submissions were all so strong, so surprising and varied, that it would have been unfair to just choose one." Together with the co-founder and director of DECK Gwen Lee, and the creative director of WERK Theseus Chan, the eight photographers came to Steidl in Göttingen in January 2017 to make their books."Eight Books for Asia" is a limited-edition set containing all the winning books along with additional printed literature on the project, presented in a screen-printed cardboard box.

Beginning in 1985 the Manchester-based Documentary Photography Archive (DPA) commissioned photographers to record aspects of British society in the north of England. Tom Wood's The DPA Work explores the life and demise of two major institutions near Liverpool, Rainhill Psychiatric Hospital and Cammell Laird shipyard.Opened in 1851 as a lunatic asylum for long-term patients, by 1936 Rainhill was the largest hospital complex in Europe. Wood began photographing there in the 1980s when UK government policy had shifted from institutions towards "Care in the Community." By then Rainhill had diminished in size and wards were often combined, mixing a range of patients. The DPA and the mental-health charity Mind, which described conditions at Rainhill as "wholly unacceptable," asked Wood to record the hospital's closure and the movement of its patients into the community.Cammell Laird shipyard's illustrious history dates back to the 1820s, and includes the building of many famous warships and aircraft carriers such as HMS Ark Royal. When Wood photographed the yard it was facing closure, with a demoralized workforce fighting to save their jobs while HMS Unicorn, the last Upholder-class submarine, was being completed and launched.The two main volumes of The DPA Work include archive material related to the history of Rainhill and Cammell Laird, while a third book features a series of late nineteenth-century photographs of patients at Rainhill. Together these volumes document a time of upheaval in Liverpool in the midst of industrial decline, the breakdown of communities and changes in healthcare whose consequences are still felt today.Co-published with the University of Chester

Tackling the analytical, design, assessment, and hazard mitigation issues associated with short-duration dynamic loads, this book examines how impulsive loads affect various types of structures. It provides the necessary material to help ensure the safety of persons, assets, and projects. Coverage includes information on explosives, nuclear explosions, loads on structures, the behaviors of structural elements, dynamic response and analysis, internal shock, impulse diagrams, progressive collapse, and protective design. The book offers guidance from design manuals and features illustrations, charts, tables, solved problems, and case histories to supplement discussion.