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University of Massachusetts Press Grasses of the Northeast: A Manual of the Grasses
Book SynopsisThis book is designed to serve as a reference work, classroom textbook, and field manual for botanists, naturalists, and students interested in learning to identify and learn about the distinguishing features of grasses of the northeastern United States. Included are more than 380 species of grasses that have been documented as occurring in the region. The volume contains 246 range maps and 269 line drawings that clarify descriptions used in the keys and illustrate characteristics of the various kinds of grasses. Dennis Magee also provides a description of each genus and species along with synonyms and habitats. For anyone interested in an up-to-date treatment of the grasses of greater New England, this volume will be an invaluable resource. It is the only comprehensive technical guide devoted exclusively to the grasses of this region and presents a wealth of information in a precise, clear format.The geographic scope of the work extends from the Canadian border south through Long Island and west to the Hudson River. But given the considerable overlap with the grass flora to the adjacent north, south, and west, the book will also be useful beyond New England and the bordering New York counties.The volume includes an illustrated glossary of essential terms and concepts and a how to use this manual section.
£26.96
BearManor Media Alice: Life Behind the Counter in Mel's Greasy
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Mango Media Cheap Movie Tricks: How To Shoot A Short Film For
Book SynopsisHow to Make a Movie on a Tight BudgetToday’s indie film market is growing by leaps and bounds and filmmaker Rickey Bird and screenwriter and novelist Al Guevara are on a mission to help indie moviemakers everywhere.Bird and Guevara want to show aspiring filmmakers how to overcome common movie and video production problems: Not enough money for crews Over budget and likely making the wrong movie Can’t get the attention of an indie studio Should have started with a short film to gain attention Amateur Movie & Video Production. Thousands of aspiring filmmakers are learning how to use cheaper, widely available filmmaking technology, and the craft of making movies from books pulled from bookstore and library shelves. Their work is totally DIY and they are the most creative people you will ever meet. Rickey Bird’s Hectic Films is a Southern California enterprise building a filmmaking empire on a budget. His short films, feature films, micro docs and tutorials have landed in some of the biggest American film festivals and been seen online worldwide. The result? Millions of views worth of exposure from films online, in festivals and creative marketing literally on the street. His many projects have seen leading B actors like Hulk Hogan and Vernon Wells (Mad Max Road Warrior), make-up artists from the TV show Grimm, and stuntmen from the Call of Duty games.What you’ll learn in this book: How planning and shooting a short film today can lead to a feature-length project tomorrow Everything you need to know about writing a movie project on a burger budget Tips on how to find locations and not get arrested Shooting tips galore for building exciting scenes Sound and film editing tips and all kinds of special effects wizardry, including puppetry Screenings, promotions, and juicy tips on film festival strategy If you liked books such as How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck, The Filmmaker's Handbook, or Rebel Without a Crew, you’ll love Cheap Movie Tricks.Table of Contents1. Introduction To Short Films: Big Tricks, Small Packages Get your ass off the couch! Did you know small ideas turn into big ideas? Short films are the way to get noticed! Callout: Figuring Out Your Short Film End Goal Callout: Short Films Made Into Indie Features 2. The Location Situation: Staying Out Of Jail Aha! You thought it was the script that came first. Not in low budget cinema. The real trick is how not to get arrested. Callout: Some Of Our Favorite Location Cheats 3. Stories That Don’t Suck: Help Me Think, Please Most ideas suck. So we’re starting with some basic yesses and no-nos. What is a story? What are its parts? What is conflict? Callout: A Brief History Of Stories Callout: Why Horror Matters Callout: Why Drama Matters Callout: Why Action Matters Callout: What Makes A Good Character 4 4. No Room For Shitty Scripts: Filmmaker Revision Made Simple How do I write a script that fits my budget and doesn’t sacrifice story? The secret? Creative filmmaking early in the writing process. Callout: Tarantino-Style Heroes Journey Callout: Working With A Team Of Writers 5. Um . . . Money: Planning & Budget Made Easy We will show you how to plan your shoot and raise the funds without robbing convenience stores. Well that’s kinda our plan . . . Callout: Easy Planning Spreadsheet Set-Up Callout: Easy Budget Spreadsheet Set-Up 6. This Movie Needs Style! Set & Costume Themes Believe it or not your movie needs a look and feel. We’re going to help you with style points. Callout: Sexy Style Tips Via Color Filters 7. All Aboard! Talent And Crew On A Journey Together This is the heart and soul of any film production. Even if your crew only consists of you and three other people, we’re going to show you how to make it happen. Callout: How To Get Name-Brand Talent 8. Action! Shot Planning & Filming Figure out your shots and then execute . . . Doesn’t that sound easy? Callout: Make A Shot List 9. What If My Movie Needs A Puppet Baby? Special Effects & Make-Up At Hectic Films we do practical effects as much as possible because we appreciate the art form and because CGI Developers ain’t cheap. Ain’t cheap at all . . . Callout: How To Do Blood Hits Callout: How To Make Guns Look Real Callout: Bullets, Sounds, Lights & Muzzle Flashes 5 Callout: Punching & Kicking Made Easy Callout: Prosthetics Are For Everything Callout: CGI Do’s And Don’ts 10. Shoot Days And Pick-Up Shots: The Mini Guide To Panic Attack Prevention What might foul up a shoot? Oh, just about anything and everything. We’ll break down some of the biggest potential panic attacks so you can refer back here and do some filmmaking yoga. Callout: How To Pull Off Pick-Up Shots By Yourself 11. The Experience Of Sensory Detail: In Other Words, Light & Sound Believe it or not you actually need to care about light and sound if you’re going to have a career as even a novice filmmaker. We’ll help you figure out the basics. Callout: Lighting Comparisons Callout: Lighting Graph Callout: Sound Effects Made Simple 12. Editing & Color: What If Nothing Looks Right, Ever? Editing and color correction requires skill and patience. Don’t worry, we’re here to kick you when you scream for help. Callout: Our Top Five Edits Callout: Our Top Five Uses of Color 13. Sound Edits, Music, and Score These are things that you may have to trust others to do. Done incorrectly and your film might be better off sent to the trash bin. So pay attention. Callout: Free Music Checklist 14. Your Marketing History Matters: Kick-Ass Movie Posters & Other Artwork Tips If you want people to watch your movie then you need a poster so eye-poppingly cool that they have to see your film. Think about it: Would you eat a cupcake that looks like a turd? Callout: Comic Book Style Callout: Hectic Films Poster Collection 6 15. Screenings & Promotions When you make it this far you may feel like you’re done—you’re not. This is the time to start promoting your film. You do want people to watch it, don’t you? Callout: How To Get Theaters For Cheap 16. Film Festivals There are many film festivals out there. What should you look for? We can show you how to avoid the circle-jerk festivals. You know, where the judges only pick their friends? Callout: Keys To A Good Film Festival 17. And Now For The Big-Time, Baby: Getting A Feature Deal It’s time to truly get prepared. What if someone sees your short film and asks, “Do you have a feature-length script for this?” Are you ready? Are you really ready? Callout: Brainstorming A Longer Story Callout: Don’t Be a Douchebag. Ever
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Speedy Publishing LLC Mastering Body Language: Understanding Human
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£10.19
Xlibris UK Another 1000 Famous Horses: Fact & Fictional
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£17.09
Xlibris Us Food for the Homeless: A Bridge to a Better You
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£19.90
Authorhouse Yon Ti Epis: Our Favorite Haitian Dishes
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£22.75
Mojo Enterprises Health and Fitness Mindset for Life (Large
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£9.36
WW Norton & Co The Immunity Solution: Seven Weeks to Living
Book SynopsisIn this must-read book, immunologist Leo Nissola provides a comprehensive overview of your body’s defences, revealing what can cause problems, how to recognise warning signs and how to fight back. Every day, bacteria, viruses and other germs attack you, but you stay healthy most of the time. While you can’t live forever, there’s more to fighting disease than you might think, including diet, lifestyle habits and environment. Nissola explains why improving your natural defences should be at the top of your health priorities, and he details the cutting-edge treatments that researchers are developing to hack the immune system. He explores the latest science on immune-boosting diets, supplements and longevity while debunking myths about antibodies, inflammation and why some people rarely get sick. Featuring an easy, step-by-step program, this information-packed handbook will help you support your body’s defences, ward off ageing and maximise your health every day.
£21.84
WW Norton & Co Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of
Book SynopsisWords confirm and deny, guarantee and deceive, elucidate and obfuscate. The more words you know, the better you can express yourself and the more you can do in life. The founder of the website Grandiloquent Word of the Day accordingly presents a voluptuary of verbiage encompassing rare and obscure terms that confound or delight, antiquated argot from myriad epochs and lexemes for venturesome bibliophiles. Featuring a short, insightful history of the mania for obscure utterances, Grandiloquent Words offers scores of preternatural terminologies for you to ingurgitate and brandish with aplomb for countless occasions. Bask in cataracts of mundane morphemes, bookish locutions, beef-witted blatteroons, corporeal catastrophes, playful patois and jolly jubilations. These always-extra expressions encompass timeless topics and modern phenomena, painting a group portrait of our foibles and delights. Replete with pronunciations, etymologies, examples and whimsical illustrations, the entries both edify and entertain. *This rare collection of definitions celebrates the marvels of our language
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Brandeis University Press Honoring the History of the Brandeis Library – An
Book SynopsisThe Brandeis University Library’s Archives and Special Collections is a rich and varied set of rare books and unique manuscripts that spans several centuries—yet as a collection they have a comparatively short history. The foundations of the Special Collections, like the foundations of Brandeis University itself in 1948, were built by people who believed in the mission of Brandeis to welcome faculty and students from all backgrounds and who wanted to see the new enterprise succeed and flourish. The Brandeis Library now holds thousands of rare books and tens of thousands of linear feet of manuscript collections—the manuscript boxes laid end-to-end would stretch further than the length of the Boston Marathon.This special-edition book features sixty of these rare books and manuscripts from the library’s Special Collections. Full-color images accompany descriptions written by Brandeis faculty, graduate students, librarians, and scholars. The featured items include rare books, artistic works, photographs, manuscript collections, Judaica materials, historically significant archival collections, and more. Honoring the History of the Brandeis Library is an illuminating look at Brandeis’s unique and invaluable rare text collection. Table of ContentsForeword by Beth Bernstein, Preface by Matthew Sheehy, Acknowledgments, Introduction by Sarah Shoemaker, Thomas Aquinas’s Summa theologica; A Few Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts at Brandeis; The First Bookplate; Nuremberg Chronicle (Liber Chronicarum); The Walter F. and Alice, Gorham Collection of Early Music Imprints; Geneva Bible. London: Deputies of Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent Majestie, 1589; Perry Miller Collection on the Colonial Religious Experience in America; Bern Dibner Collection in the History of Science; McKew Parr Collection: Magellan and the Age of Discovery; Dante's Divine Comedy, censored by Spanish Inquisition; Shakespeare collection; Three Books of Renaissance Cryptography and the Secret of Shakespearean Authorship; Judaica materials in Special Collections; L'Encyclopédie; More than Just a John Hancock: The Signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution Collections; Jack J. and Therese G. Katz collection of Chinese snuff bottles; Bernice and Henry Tumen collection; Burmese Palm Leaf Manuscripts; Fore-edge paintings; Walter E. Fernald Developmental Center’s Samuel Gridley Howe Library collections; Trustman Collection of Honoré Daumier Lithographs; Michael Lally Civil War letters, 1861-1865; Diary (1859-1886) of William Ayrton; Paris Commune posters; Buffalo Bill Dime Novels; Louis Dembitz Brandeis collection; The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye and the Kelmscott Press; Consistoire Central Israélite de France collection; Léon Lipschutz collection of Dreyfusiana and French Judaica; Native American watercolors; Pauline Trigère papers; Leo Frank Trial Collection, 1909-1961; Nahum Goldmann collection, 1910-2004; Marcel Proust letters; Diary of a World War I Aid Worker; Colonel Edward H. McCrahon Family Collection of World War I Posters; World War I and World War II Propaganda Posters Collection; Sacco and Vanzetti collections; Spanish Civil War periodical collection, 1923-2009; Spanish Civil War Poster Collection; Lewis S. Feuer Papers; Hugo Oehler collection; Carl Van Vechten photographs, 1932-1964; Victor Young Collection; Le TemoinSpitzer family papers; Theresienstadt concentration camp documents, 1939-1945; Eric M. Lipman collection of Nazi documents; Jewish Resistance Collection; World War II Guernsey scrapbook; Hall-Hoag Collection of Extremist Literature in the United States; The Lenny Bruce Collection; Leo Rosten papers; Arthur Laurents collection; Joseph Heller Catch-22 manuscript and correspondence; Sophie Tucker scrapbooks; Radical Pamphlet Collection; Havurat Shalom records; Marcia Freedman papers.
£24.00
Yellow Pear Press Simple Pleasures of the Garden: A Seasonal
Book SynopsisSimple Pleasures Throughout the Year “Simple Pleasures has become my go-to book for remembering to slow down and enjoy the little things in life.” —Becca Anderson, bestselling author of Badass Affirmations, The Book of Awesome Women, and moreAn abundant sourcebook of ideas, encouraging quotes, recipes, and soothing activitiesSimple Pleasures of the Garden shows you how to appreciate the simple things within your daily activities. The secret to living well year round can be found in the abundance of your home garden, so get to planting those seeds of simple joys and herbal healing! Nurture your mind, body, and soul. Sometimes finding the positive can be hard, but it doesn’t have to be. From the recipe for a homemade herbal bath for a spa day to quick and easy recommendations for an instant room makeover, the suggestions and home recipes collected in this book offer a new appreciation for the everyday activities that nurture and comfort you.Simplify your emotional self care. Taking care of yourself doesn’t have to be expensive, unrealistic, or inaccessible. It can be as easy as tending to a green garden, making healing herbal tonics, sipping calming teas, or spending time with other natural energy boosters. Pleasures are made, not bought, so unlock new secrets to happiness with these touching stories, practical tips, and satisfying crafts. Inside this positive attitude book you’ll find: Ways to decorate your home with nature crafts, growing herbs, and an air of magic Advice on how to foster a routine for a rejuvenating self care year Tips on how to become the gardener of your moods and emotions If you liked seasonal self care books like A Year of Self-Care, Grow Your Own Medicine, or A Woman’s Garden, you’ll love Simple Pleasures of the Garden.Trade Review“Simple Pleasures has become my go-to book for remembering to slow down and enjoy the little things in life.”—Becca Anderson, Best-selling author of Badass Affirmations and The Book of Awesome Women, and moreTable of ContentsContents Earthly Delights Spring In the Garden With Family and Friends Into the Kitchen Beautifying Your Home Nourishing Body and Soul Summer In the Garden With Family and Friends Into the Kitchen Beautifying Your Home Nourishing Body and Soul Fall In the Garden With Family and Friends Into the Kitchen Beautifying Your Home Nourishing Body and Soul Winter In the Garden With Family and Friends Into the Kitchen Beautifying Your Home Nourishing Body and Soul Acknowledgments Index Resource Guide
£15.29
Blurb Allah - Muslim Wedding Guest Book: Islam Family
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£23.15
Lulu.com Forgotten Lore: an Untold Tales Book
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£26.99
Penguin Random House South Africa Geological Wonders of Namibia
Book SynopsisThis stunning depiction of geology in Namibia combines searingly beautiful photography with clear explanations of how the varied landscapes formed. Arranged chronologically (starting 13.8 billion years ago), the chapters each deal with a particular event or process that has resulted in the formation under discussion. These include the early beginnings of the Earth, meteorites, canyons and limestone caves, vast desert landscapes, moonscapes and bizarrely-shaped rocks, and Namibia’s astonishing underwater lakes and reservoirs. Picture-driven, with accessible text, this book features all the highlights of Namibian landscapes and landforms. A treat for travellers real and virtual – those on the road as well as those in armchairs.
£13.49
DC Comics Who's Who Omnibus Vol. 1
Book SynopsisWho s Who began in 1984 and ran through the 1990s, cataloguing every character, good or evil, in the DC Universe, from Abby Cable to Zymyr and beyond! Illustrated by a wide range of top artists from the Golden Age of comics through the 1980s indie comics scene including George Perez, Todd McFarlane, Jim Aparo, Peter Laird, Jack Kirby, and Dick Giordano to name only a few Who s Who was a feast for the eyes and the ultimate guide to the denizens of the DC Universe. Now collected for the first time, Who s Who Omnibus Volume 1 includes the first five years of the expansive series and includes entries from Who s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #1-26, Who s Who Update 87 #1-5, Who s Who Update 88 #1-4, and all of the annuals from 1989!
£102.00
Facet Publishing Copyright and E-learning: A guide for
Book SynopsisJane Secker and Chris Morrison have completely revised and updated this highly successful text to take into account recent developments in the field and changes to the law in the UK and elsewhere in the world. Through its practically based overview of current and emerging copyright issues facing those working in e-learning, this book will help equip professionals with the tools, skills and understanding they need to work confidently and effectively in the virtual learning environment with the knowledge that they are doing so legally.New and developing services, software and other technologies are being adapted for online learning environments to engage students and academic staff. These technologies present increasing challenges to IPR and legal issues and this book will help librarians and educators to meet them. Key topics addressed include:digitizing published content for delivery in the VLE using digital media in e-learning copyright issues and 'born' digital resources The copyright issues associated with using social media copyright training for staff Who owns the rights in works that are the product of collaboration? What do you do if you can't find the rights holders? Readership: This book is essential reading for anyone working in education including learning support staff and teachers using e-learning, learning technologists, librarians, educational developers, instructional designers, IT staff and trainers. It is also relevant for anyone working in the education sector from school level to higher education, and those developing learning resources in commercial organizations and the public sector including libraries, museums and archives, and government departments.Trade Review...this collected volume contains an excellent overview of copyright in relation to electronic content and will appeal primarily to librarians with responsibility for this type of content and for those responsible for managing e-learning. -- Andrew Eynon * Journal of Information Literacy *Jane & Chris have done a great job in pulling together a lot of information covering a range of practical issues, and managed to pitch it at both those with some knowledge, and those without, and position it within a valuable dialogue of competing views on how content should be respected and be useful. * The IP Kat *I found myself nodding in agreement so often while reading this book that people watching me must have thought I was reading a gripping novel. The advice is always sensible, authoritative and clearly articulated. The lists of resources to consider using, scattered throughout the book, are always helpful and authoritative. The overall style is positive. The remarks about risk management are excellent. -- Charles Oppenheim * European Intellectual Property Review *Facet Publishing produces many of the authoritative texts on copyright and this book slots neatly amongst its counterparts, providing a useful overview of the most pertinent copyright issues in education. -- Emily Stannard * LSE Review of Books *Table of Contents1. E-learning and copyright: background Recognizing the copyright dilemma The development of e-learning A brief introduction to UK copyright law Ireland Australia New Zealand Canada The USA Copyright and scholarly communication Creative Commons The Open Movement 2. Digitizing text-based content for delivery in a VLE Using published materials in e-learning Scanning published content in the UK Scanning in the UK: results of a survey Using published content outside the UK The USA Using unpublished content 3. Using digital media: video, images, sound and software Why use sound, images and video in teaching? Copyright and non-text-based works: an introduction Using images in education Digital images collections Digitization of analogue recordings Identifying rights holders and getting permission Copying broadcasts: the ERA Licence Box of Broadcasts Catch-up TV services and television on demand BBC iPlayer Creating audio and video content in-house: copyright issues Sound recordings Lecture capture and intellectual property rightsissues Screen recording iTunes U Managing digital media content Software Finding digital media content for use in e-learning Example sources for still images Example sources for moving images Example sources for audio 4. Copyright issues and born digital resources How is born digital content different? Digital rights management Using content from websites Content from publishers E-books Databases and other subscription resources Lecturers’ own digital content: teaching materials Student-created content Conclusions and general advice 5. Copyright in the connected digital environment What are social media and the Cloud? New technologies for learning Wikis Media-sharing sites Peer to peer file sharing Social networking services Social bookmarking and curation tools Massive open online courses Emerging trends 6. Copyright education and training The copyright educator, trainer or teacher Developing a copyright literacy programme Your audience Face-to-face training sessions Topics to include Practical considerations Using the web Booklets, guides and leaflets Dealing with queries Sources of further advice and support 7. Conclusion
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Facet Publishing Hopeful Visions, Practical Actions: Cultural
Book SynopsisCultural humility offers a renewing and transformative framework for navigating interpersonal interactions in libraries, whether between patrons and staff or staff members with one another. It foregrounds a practice of critical self-reflection and commitment to recognizing and redressing structural inequities and problematic power imbalances. This collection, the first booklength treatment of this approach in libraries, gathers contributors from across the field to demonstrate how cultural humility can change the way we work and make lasting impacts on diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries. This book's chapters explore such topics as how Indigenous adages can be tools for reflection and guidance in developing cultural humility the experiences of two Black librarians who are using cultural humility to change the professio; new perspectives on core concepts of customer service rethinking policies and practices in libraries both large and small using cultural humility in approaching collection development and creating resource guides what cultural humility can look like for a tribal librarian working in a tribal college library reflecting on cultural humility itself and where it is going Table of ContentsHopeful Visions, Practical Actions: Cultural Humility in Library Work
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze
Book SynopsisThere can be confusion around the appropriate terminology for trans and queer identities, even within the trans community itself. As language is constantly evolving, it can be especially difficult to know what to say. As a thorough A-Z glossary of trans and queer words from 'ace' to 'xe', this dictionary guide will help to dispel the anxiety around using the "wrong" words, while explaining the weight of using certain labels and providing individuals with a vocabulary for personal identification.Having correct and accurate terminology to describe oneself can be empowering, especially with words and phrases that describe gender identity, sexuality, sexual orientation, as well as slang relevant to LGBTQ+ rights and anti-discrimination, queer activism, gender-affirming healthcare and psychology. Written in a traditional A-Z glossary style, this guide will serve as a quick reference for looking up individual words, as well as an in-depth look at trans history and culture.Trade ReviewIn his introduction the author talks of not 'neutralising' queer terms but to 'arm queer youth and newly identified queers with the language which to describe themselves, so that they may articulate their needs, throw this book in the bin, set it on fire and create new words and definitions from the ashes.' My hope is that they don't throw this wonderfully enriching book onto the fire but pass it on to another. Language really, really matters, it always has, but in these times being able to self define and feel confident and present in the words that describe is quite literally often life. -- Juno Roche, writerHolleb deftly transforms vast areas of community knowledge into something compact and accessible enough to leave out on the family's kitchen table in the wake of coming-out conversations. At once an authoritative and yet highly readable book, it covered all bases and uncovered questions I didn't yet know I needed to ask. This book will be immensely useful to the queer community. -- Juno Mac, author of REVOLTING PROSTITUTES; The Fight For Sex Workers' RightsHolleb has produced a lucid, accessible, and engaging snapshot of the ever-evolving terminology used to navigate gender, sexuality, and the shifting relationships between them. This is a book attentive to the power of language, and one which uses words with thoughtfulness and care. It represents a substantial achievement, and looks set to become an invaluable reference text for our time. -- Helen Hester, Associate Professor of Media and Communication, University of West LondonTable of Contents1. Introduction and How to Use this Book. 2. Glossary, A-Z. 3. Index.
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Kogan Page Ltd The A-Z of Careers and Jobs
Book SynopsisFrom accountant to zoologist, this new edition of The A-Z of Careers and Jobs is your one-stop shop for insightful guidance on more than 300 different career areas in the UK. This book is designed to help identify what personal strengths fit to what kinds of work, what skills you should highlight on a CV and what you need to know about each job. This book is a quick and informative way to find out about what jobs and careers are out there, from traditional roles to new opportunities in the digital world. For those looking for their first job after school or university, or for anyone considering a change of career, this book provides reliable and up-to-date advice on a wide range of professions to help you choose the right path for you. The A-Z of Careers and Jobs covers the practical issues you need to understand, such as the extent of job opportunities in each industry, what personal skills are needed, what experience is required, entry qualifications, training, as well as typical earnings and starting salaries. In an ever more competitive and changing job market, information will help maximize your chances of success. This handy and informative reference guide is also a valuable resource for careers advisers working in schools, colleges and universities who need to keep track of new developments - such as new roles and routes of entry, professional associations and exams - to offer the very best guidance to today's job hunters.
£20.89
Xlibris Us Jesse James in West Virginia or Inside the
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Fonthill Media Ltd Volume 1 AbAdam to Ayr
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European Rail Timetable Limited European Rail Timetable Spring 2022
£19.94
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation
Book SynopsisThis meticulously revised second edition provides a comparative overview of climate change mitigation issues and international regulatory approaches, bringing together expert contributors to analyse key sectors such as energy, transport, cities, industry, land use, agriculture and waste.Governments around the world have been investigating techniques to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for decades. This detailed Research Handbook considers the spectrum of legal and market-based instruments, as well as strategies and policies adopted around the world, to propose more effective, comprehensive and responsive ways of managing climate change mitigation. As well as taking stock of the current and proposed legal instruments, the book investigates the wider policy and economic aspects of coping with climate change. It provides a comparative overview of key issues across Europe, the United States, Asia-Pacific and the BRICS countries, and discusses domestic, regional and international law and governance. Important issues such as carbon trading, financing and litigation are also addressed.This timely Research Handbook will be an authoritative resource for scholars of climate change law and policy, whilst also providing a rigorous overview for upper-level students. Policymakers will gain insights from the comparative perspectives, and practitioners will appreciate the broad range of practical issues addressed.Trade Review‘This book is unique in its kind as it brings together an amazing amount of experts in the field and at the same time it provides up-to-date and relevant information on climate change mitigation law. A must for every scholar and policymaker interested in climate change law and policy.’ -- Michael G. Faure, LL.M, Maastricht University and Erasmus School of Law Rotterdam, the NetherlandsTable of ContentsContents PART I CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION LAW – ARCHITECTURE AND GOVERNANCE 1 Climate change mitigation and the role of law 2 Leonie Reins and Jonathan Verschuuren 2 The evolving architecture of global climate law 17 Harro van Asselt, Michael Mehling and Kati Kulovesi 3 Climate change mitigation and the precautionary principle 43 Nicolas de Sadeleer PART II CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION LAW AND POLICY IN THE REGIONS 4 The European Union and its rule-creating force on the European continent for moving to climate neutrality by 2050 at the latest 58 Marjan Peeters and Delphine Misonne 5 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the United States and Canada 102 Katrina Fischer Kuh and Michael Charles Leach 6 Climate change mitigation law and policy in Central and South America 137 Juliana Zuluaga Madrid 7 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the Asia-Pacific 155 Alexander Zahar 8 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the Middle East 178 Mehdi Piri 9 Climate change mitigation law and policy in the BRICS 195 Rafael Leal-Arcas, Mariam Al Zarkani, Lina Jbara, Ruqaya Mohamed Mubwana, Marianna Margaritidou and Angela van der Berg 10 Climate change mitigation law and policy in Africa 239 Olivia Rumble and Andrew Gilder PART III OVERARCHING LEGAL TOOLS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION 11 Climate finance after Paris 262 David Driesen and Cinnamon Carlarne 12 Incentivizing carbon transition – a comparison of carbon trading in the EU and China 282 Stefan E. Weishaar, Kateryna Holzer and Bingyu Liu 13 Climate litigation in the context of mitigation: an evolving jurisprudence 306 Patrick Parenteau PART IV SECTORS 14 Regulatory and policy instruments to promote decarbonization in the energy sector 337 Sirja-Leena Penttinen 15 Transportation’s trinity and climate change mitigation 362 Tanveer Ahmad, Paul Fitzgerald and Jeffrey J. Smith 16 Cities and climate change mitigation law from a polycentric and comparative perspective 398 Cathrin Zengerling, Debora Sotto and Oliver Fuo 17 Agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) 432 Jonathan Verschuuren 18 Carbon majors, social choice, and anticommons: addressing climate change mitigation policy formation in the industrial sector 456 Roy Andrew Partain 19 Waste management 481 Geert Van Calster and Luna Aristei 20 Greenhouse gas removal 501 Tracy Hester and Kirsten Williams Index
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Sweet & Maxwell Ltd English for Contract & Company Law
Book SynopsisThis innovative book provides non-native English speakers with the English language skills necessary to carry out their legal studies and professional activities effectively. It focuses specifically on the legal language required in two major areas of law central to international business law, drawing on examples from English, American and European legal materials. Fully class-tested, it employs an interactive methodology widely accepted in English language teaching.Table of ContentsIntroduction; English for Contracts; The Birth of a Contract; The Life of a Contract; The Death of a Contract; English for Company Law; The Birth of a Company; The Life of a Company; The Death of a Company; Description of Cases; Glossary of Legal Terms
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Special Interest Model Books Model Engineer's Handbook
All professional engineers have a little book in which they jot down those notes of fact, figures and formulae which they feel that they are likely to need on future occasions. It is always more convenient to look up one's own records than to wade through a lot of associated, but irrelevant material, especially as this may mean a trip to the reference library. Over a period of years, the contents of such notebooks grow to cover a wealth of vital information, and the time saved can be considerable. During his professional life, Tubal Cain filled three such books and, as a lifelong engineer, he is in a unique position to select (and add to) the material most useful to the amateur engineer. Model Engineer's Handbook comprises a compilation of those tables, facts, procedures and data which the author himself found valuable in his model engineering activities and it provides a real mine of information to which you will return again and again. Not the least of its attributes is the use, where appropriate, of data and calculations in both Imperial and SI units, so that all generations of model engineers can feel at home. In this third edition, all the existing data has been updated or re-arranged for greater clarity and much new matter has been added to provide an even more comprehensive book, indispensable to the expert and beginner alike.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
Book SynopsisThis book provides easy to read, concise, and clinically useful explanations of over 1800 terms and concepts from the field of psychoanalysis. A history of each term is included in its definition and so is the name of its originator. The attempt is made to demonstrate how the meanings of the term under consideration might have changed, with new connotations accruing with the passage of time and with growth of knowledge. Where indicated and possible, the glossary includes diverse perspectives on a given idea and highlights how different analysts have used the same term for different purposes and with different theoretical aims in mind.Trade ReviewRanging from 'abreaction' and 'abstinence' , 'basic rule' and 'beta elements', and 'clarification' and 'conflict' through ' metapsychology' and 'malignant narcissism' to ' xenophobia' and 'zoophilia' , the terms and ideas covered in the book make for a panoramic view of the psychoanalytic universe. The collection is wide-ranging, eclectic, and fundamentally generous: it includes old, new, controversial, odd-sounding, familiar, unfamiliar, all sorts of terms and phrases from the one hundredyears history of psychoanalysis. While generally crisp and pithy, a definition here and there also includes an enderaing anecdote, a wry remark regarding the hidden ironies in the concept at hand, and a deliciously surprising linkage with another idea in the book.The book differs from the psychoanalytic glossaries published so far in five important ways: First and foremost, with the exception of Charles Rycroft's 1976 book , all these glossaries are edited volumes. Second, none of the previous glossaries are as inclusive of analytic ideas from diverse 'schools' and from an internationally representative group of analytic theorists and innovators. Third, there is a steadfastly clinical undertone to this book, something that the other books in this genre lack. Fourth, the list of terms included is much more comprehensive and up-to-date. Finally, the deft admixture of scholarly attitude with an occasional playfulness, even impishness, marks this book as a truly unique contribution."Wearing his erudition with the lightness of a Renaissance humanist and spanning the psychoanalytic universe from 'Abreaction' to 'Zone of proximal development'in beutifully crafted essays, Salman Akhtar proves himself to the lineal descendant of Erasmus and Montaigne. We shall not look uon his like again".-JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOANALYTIC ASSOCIATION"AKHTAR HAS ASSEMBLED A WONDERFUL ARRAY OF TERMS, MANY OF THEM QUITE EXOTIC, SUPPORTED BY AN EXTRAORDINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY.wE ARE VERY GRATEFUL TO HIM FOR THE MASSIVE AMOUNT OF WORK HE HAS DONE, AND---LET'S JUST ADMIT IT--WE HAVE BORROWED FROM HIS BOOK DOZENS AND DOZENS OF TIME"-Elsee Samburg & Elizabeth AuchinclossEditors of the Forthcoming Psychoanalytic Glossary of the American Psychoanalytic Association.'...destined to become a classic reference book for psychoanalysis and an indispensable part of the library of psychoanalysts, academics and anyone seriously interested in psychoanalysis. This encyclopaedic and accessible work takes a significant step forward in the crucial task of building a common vocabulary for the relatively young discipline of psychoanalysis. Akhtar defines each of the over 1800 concepts, sub-concepts and colloquial words, describes its history from the origin of each term to its current usage, identifies the outstanding issues, cites the relevant literature associated with each entry, synthesizes the views of differing psychoanalytic orientations, and comments on its clinical usefulness. He also includes concepts from "applied" psychoanalysis such as the Holocaust studies, immigration literature, psychoanalytically informed political writing, and culture-specific psychoanalytic ideas from non-Western societies. In addition, Akhtar reviews twenty-six psychoanalytic glossaries, dictionaries, encyclopaedias, and the concordance of the Standard Edition. This is a monumental achievement, a resource to enhance communication worldwide, which sets the standard by which all future dictionaries of psychoanalysis will be judged.'- Donald Campbell (UK)'Salman Akhtar's magisterial compendium of terms and concepts is an extremely useful addition to the world-wide library of psychoanalysis. It offers an extensive view of the field and opens windows to wide-ranging conceptual landscapes. As a result, it will be of great appeal to the academic and the clinician alike.'- Leopold Nosek (Brazil)'...a highly impressive, clear, and objective review of psychoanalytic concepts, controversies, and new developments. The richness of entries, covering authors from the broadest spectrum of psychoanalytic theories, facilitates the reader's orientation through the complex world of well-accepted terminology, as well as through the historically relevant and even idiosyncratic formulations that are scattered throughout the psychoanalytic literature. Akhtar's stance is fair in comparing the use of the same terms by different authors and in summarizing the controversies in a particular realm. His book is easy and enjoyable to read and an occasional subtle, but always respectful, ironic comment conveys the author's view regarding a particular point in an honest yet unintrusive way. The inclusion of an appendix on the previously published glossaries and of an extensive and up-to-date bibliography gives this dictionary a truly scholarly dimension.'- Otto Kernberg (USA)'This well-researched and extremely informative dictionary is not only a dictionary; it is a historical account of our field, a treasure trove of useful references, and a handbook of technical guidelines. Consulting it yields instant knowledge; reading it gives pleasure. It should be in the possession of every psychoanalyst and psychotherapist.'- Henk-Jan Dalewijk (Holland)'In the specific case of dictionaries, the scarce relevance of typology is well known. Specialists point out that the inevitably imprecise limitations in the definition of types render all typologies unsatisfactory. This is not so in the case of the Comprehensive Dictionary of Psychoanalysis by Salman Akhtar. Here, the word 'comprehensive' indicates what distinguishes this work from other, apparently similar, efforts. Besides noting the originality, clarity, and authority of the entries, the reader will find that the themes confronted by the author cover an unusual range of conceptual extension and topical relevance. From a methodological viewpoint, Akhtar creates a new model that deserves the specialist's full attention. He is an author who is well known for the variety of his interests and this, surely, has been the source of inspiration for this important contribution.'- Jorge Canestri (Italy)'The work is of high quality, and will be interesting and useful to those studying or researching in the field of psychoanalysis.'- T.L. Stout, ChoiceTable of ContentsINTRODUCTION, DEFINITIONS OF PSYCHOANALYTIC TERMS AND CONCEPTS, AN ANNOTATED LIST OF PSYCHOANALYTIC GLOSSARIES, REFERENCES
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