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Elementary Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings A Guide for Practicing Engineers and Students

Elementary Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings A Guide for Practicing Engineers and Students

This overview of the analysis and design of buildings runs from basic principles and elementary structural analysis to the selection of structural systems and materials and on to foundations and retaining structures. It presents a variety of approaches and methodologies while featuring realistic design examples. As a comprehensive guide and desk reference for practicing structural and civil engineers and for engineering students it draws on the author’s teaching experience at The City College of New York and his work as a design engineer and architect. It is especially useful for those taking the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying SE exam. | Elementary Structural Analysis and Design of Buildings A Guide for Practicing Engineers and Students

GBP 39.99
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Designing Sacred Spaces

Designing Sacred Spaces

Sacred spaces exemplify some of the most exciting and challenging architecture today. Designing Sacred Spaces tells the inside story of seven architecture firms and their approaches to designing churches mosques synagogues and temples monasteries and retreats. Twenty beautifully illustrated case studies located in Asia Europe and North America are showcased alongside discussions with the designers into concept and design development materiality and spatial analysis. Complementing these are essays on the cultural historical and theoretical meaning and importance of sacred spaces. By exploring the way we see religion and how we understand secular and sacred space Designing Sacred Spaces reveals how we see ourselves and how we see others. A tour-de-force of first-person narratives research and illustrations this book is a vital desk reference.

GBP 34.99
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Electrical Distribution Systems

Electrical Distribution Systems

First published in 2009. Comprehensive in scope this book now in its fully updated second edition takes an applications-oriented approach to electrical distribution systems. All critical aspects of power production distribution control conversion and measurement are presented. The authors place emphasis on real-world applications examining electrical distribution and associated system operation from a user's or technician's point of view. The use of an ‘electrical power systems' model facilitates the reader's comprehensive understanding of electrical distribution utilizing power distribution as a key starting point and then applying that relationship to other important associated systems. The final chapter of this new edition is re-focused to emphasize the economics of distribution systems computer power requirements and current environmental considerations. The book provides a valuable desk reference for the working engineer contractor or technician who needs a thorough application-based guide for finding the best solutions to today's electrical distribution challenges.

GBP 42.99
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How Writing Works A field guide to effective writing

How Writing Works A field guide to effective writing

This is an engaging and practical introduction to the elements of grammar sentence structure and style that you need to write well across a range of academic creative and professional contexts deftly combining practical strategies with scholarly principles. The second edition includes updated material based on a longstanding commitment to writing and to best international practice. It includes advice on reading; language; grammar and style; structuring; designing; paragraphing; punctuation; workplace and academic documents; digital writing for social media; and revising editing and proofreading. How Writing Works should be on the desk of everyone who needs to write: students professionals in all fields and creative writers. It is an essential handbook for working writers and writing workers in the contemporary writing-reliant workplace. The accompanying companion website includes video interviews and presentations from leading grammarians including Professor David Crystal and Professor Geoff Pullum in addition to online quizzes and activities to support readers’ learning. | How Writing Works A field guide to effective writing

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Architectural Type and Character A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

Architectural Type and Character A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

Architectural Type and Character provides an alternative perspective to the current role given to history in architecture reunifying architectural history and architectural design to reform architectural discourse and practice. Historians provide important material for appreciating buildings and guiding those who produce them. In current histories a building is the product of a time its form follows its function irresistible influences produce it and style preferably novel is its most important attribute. This book argues for an alternative. Through a two-part structure the book first develops the theoretical foundations for this alternative history of architecture. The second part then provides drawings and interpretations of over one hundred sites from different times and places. Architectural Type and Character: A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture is an excellent desk reference and studio guide for students and architectures alike to understand analyze and create buildings. | Architectural Type and Character A Practical Guide to a History of Architecture

GBP 35.99
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Tall: the design and construction of high-rise architecture

Tall: the design and construction of high-rise architecture

This is a guide to both the basics and the details of tall building design delving into the rudimentary aspects of design that an architect of a tall office building must consider as well as looking at the rationale for why and how a building must be built the way it is. Liberally illustrated with clear simple black and white illustrations showing how the building structure and details can be built this book greatly assists the reader in their understanding of the building process for a modern office tower. It breaks down the building into three main components: the structure the core and the facade writing about them and illustrating them in a simple-to-understand manner. By focusing on the nuts and bolts of real-life design and construction it provides a practical guide and desk-reference to any architect or architecture student embarking on a tall building project. | Tall: the design and construction of high-rise architecture

GBP 34.99
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Constitutional Law Democracy and Development Decentralisation and Governance in Uganda

Constitutional Law Democracy and Development Decentralisation and Governance in Uganda

Uganda like many African countries in the 1990s adopted decentralisation as a state reform measure after many years of civil strife and political conflicts by transferring powers and functions to district councils. The decision to transfer powers and functions to district councils was in the main linked to the quest for democracy and development within the broader context of the nation state. This book’s broader aim is to examine whether the legal and policy framework of decentralisation produces a system of governance that better serves the greater objectives of local democracy local development and accommodation of ethnicity. Specifically the book pursues one main aim: to examine whether indeed the existing legal framework ensures the smooth devolution process that is needed for decentralised governance to succeed. In so doing the book seeks overall to offer lessons that are critically important not only for Uganda but any other developing nation that has adopted decentralisation as a state-restructuring strategy. The book uses a desk-top research method by reviewing Uganda’s decentralisation legal and policy frameworks. | Constitutional Law Democracy and Development Decentralisation and Governance in Uganda

GBP 38.99
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Auditioning for Musical Theatre

Auditioning for Musical Theatre

Auditioning for Musical Theatre demystifies the process of giving the best possible professional audition for a role in a musical. It is the result of Denny Berry’s own experience sitting behind the audition desk for 30 years of professional Broadway auditions as well as teaching newcomers and coaching established actors. The book coaches performers on how to be their best selves—and avoid the pitfalls of nerves and poor preparation. To do so it offers: An in-depth practical approach to a professional audition that gives readers detailed suggestions about how to identify their vocal strengths choose the material most suited to it and present the entirety of their product with confidence. Rules to guide the actor through the audition process along with sample homework assignments. A comprehensive list of musical material genres and commonly-referred-to categories of songs designed to help auditioners select the right material for any given audition. The book is intended for the talented newcomer as well as the experienced actor who wants to deliver a more effective audition. Ultimately Auditioning for Musical Theatre takes the reader through the parts of auditioning that they can control and helps them tailor every situation to show their individual best.

GBP 31.99
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Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists ... In Their Own Words

Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists ... In Their Own Words

This tenth anniversary edition of Knud Illeris’s classic 2008 text is an updated and definitive collection of today’s most influential learning theorists now containing additional chapters from John Hattie and Gregory Donoghue Sharan Merriam Gert Biesta and Carolyn Jackson. This book brings together world-renowned experts who each present their understanding of what learning is and how human learning takes place addressing the social psychological and emotional contexts of learning. In this clear and coherent overview Professor Knud Illeris has collated chapters that explain both the complex frameworks in which learning takes place and the specific facets of learning. Each international expert provides either a seminal text or an entirely new précis of the conceptual framework they have developed over a lifetime of study such as adult learning theory learning strategies and the cultural and social nature of learning processes. Elucidating the key concepts of learning Contemporary Theories of Learning provides both the perfect desk reference and an ideal introduction for students; it is an invaluable resource for all researchers and academics involved in the study of learning and provides a detailed synthesis of current learning theories… all in the words of the theorists themselves. | Contemporary Theories of Learning Learning Theorists … In Their Own Words

GBP 35.99
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The Making of Things Modeling Processes and Effects in Architecture

The Making of Things Modeling Processes and Effects in Architecture

The Making of Things is about effect and intention in the schematic architectural model a deep dive into the nature of architectonic form as the underlying syntax for all architectural work. By focusing on primitive geometries alongside fundamental principles of architectural thinking and making this book enhances the reader’s capacity to intellectually and physically craft models that effectively communicate intention. With over 650 diagrams this book acts as an expansive visual glossary that reveals the underlying structure of architectonics and acts as an encyclopedia of formal possibilities. Supporting essays in the book explore the nature of perception abstraction and metaphor to provide a theoretical basis of formal effects in architecture. This structure enables readers to make clear and direct connections between the things you construct and the reasons you construct them. This book is a bridge from the what to the why of form-making. It is a pedagogical notebook a design primer that prompts discourse about the nature of objects. This is a must-have desk reference for beginning architecture and interior design students to stimulate their creative approaches and gain foundational knowledge of the underlying effects of formal typologies and how they manifest themselves in built forms around the world. | The Making of Things Modeling Processes and Effects in Architecture

GBP 34.99
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The Psychology of Job Interviews

The Psychology of Job Interviews

Most people at some point in their lives experience the stress of being interviewed for a job. Many also face the task of interviewing other people. But what does the science tell us about this unique social situation? What biases are involved and how can we become aware of them? And how can job interviews be structured so that they are fair and effective? This second edition of The Psychology of Job Interviews provides an accessible and concise overview of what we know. Based on empirical research rather than secondhand advice it discusses the strategies and tactics that both applicants and interviewers can use to make their interviews more successful; from how to make a good first impression to how to decide which candidate is the best fit for the role. Updated throughout this timely new edition comes with an additional chapter focused on technology in interviewing. Also featuring the addition of a new Toolbox at the end of chapters with practical summaries tools advice and concrete examples the book guides job applicants on how best to prepare for and perform in an interview and provides managers with best-practice advice in selecting the right candidate. Debunking several popular myths along the way this is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding what is really happening in a job interview whichever side of the desk you are sitting.

GBP 24.99
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A Beautiful Way to Coach Positive Psychology Coaching in Nature

A Beautiful Way to Coach Positive Psychology Coaching in Nature

Leaders need to renew and recharge regularly to lead more effectively. Forget the squeezed hour of coaching on Zoom or in a busy office – this book invites coaches and leaders alike to re-energise their style of executive coaching by stepping beyond traditional techniques and out of the office for an executive day retreat. Based on the award-winning framework of the Positive Vision Day programme this accessible book introduces a new approach to coaching combining time-out in a natural and beautiful setting with positive psychology. The book is designed to inspire coaches and leaders to take a day away from the desk step into nature and renew their energy and purpose. As a coach you are needed more than ever to help leaders align their strengths and values to their personal vision. This book does just that and provides: Detailed exercises linking psychological underpinnings to the goals of each exercise including how to avoid classic coaching pitfalls. Journaling prompts for self-reflection and self-coaching. Easy-to-understand models templates scripts and action steps for every stage of the process. The approach used in the book will be of particular interest to not only leadership and executive coaches and internal executive coaches but also career entrepreneurship business wellbeing and life coaches as well as leaders themselves who are mid-career or at a career or psychological crossroads. | A Beautiful Way to Coach Positive Psychology Coaching in Nature

GBP 26.99
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Self-Care for Allied Health Professionals From Surviving to Thriving

Self-Care for Allied Health Professionals From Surviving to Thriving

Self-Care for Allied Health Professionals brings together a collection of self-care strategies into one easy-to-read volume supporting Allied Health Professionals to do the best for their patients by caring for themselves. The book offers information and practical strategies to look after your physical and emotional wellbeing at home and in the workplace exploring topics such as sleep and food resilience and meditation stress conflict and adversity. Written to be a flexible tool that can be read cover to cover or dipped in and out of as needed it offers rapid response self-care strategies alongside more lasting changes supporting practitioners to make small steps to build healthy habits for the future. Key features of this book include: –– A combination of quick response strategies like a five-minute breathing exercise you can use before a difficult meeting and opportunities for deeper work examining your purpose and aligning your role with your values. –– Combines ancient practices of meditation and mindfulness with the latest research on nutrition exercise sleep and wellbeing. –– Consideration of the challenges professionals face in the context of pandemics and a changing health and social care landscape helping you to thrive in a challenging world. Self-care has never been more important. This is a book that every Allied Health Professional and trainee should have on their desk to improve productivity enhance job satisfaction and build resilience for whatever the future brings. | Self-Care for Allied Health Professionals From Surviving to Thriving

GBP 21.99
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The Humanitarian Parent Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector

The Humanitarian Parent Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector

Aid sector staff work in some of the world’s most challenging environments from conflict zones to sites of natural disaster and refugee camps. For a long time the aid worker was typified by the lone white male flying from place to place and seeing his family during the holidays. But now as the world changes and the sector diversifies how can family life be reconciled with the challenges and travel commitments of this particularly difficult career? This book delves deep into these challenges exposing the problems that persist and pointing a path for organisations to adopt a more human-centred staff-centred parent-centred feminist approach to humanitarian and development work. Drawing on the author’s own experiences as an aid worker as well as extensive original interviews and desk research the book looks at the challenges faced by those who aspire to a family life from finding a partner who is willing and able to live in the same location to dating in difficult contexts to being away from home and extended family finding child care and settling children in new countries and cultures. Local workers face their own challenges often suffering from a lack of support in comparison to their international colleagues. For many the cost is too great and the sector suffers from a brain drain as experienced staff leave. It doesn’t need to be this way. The book points a way for organisations to adopt policies that support mothers and fathers. As well as being a useful guide for aid professionals who are themselves navigating these issues the book will be perfect for organisations looking to reform and for students wishing to understand the realities of a career in aid. | The Humanitarian Parent Balancing Work and Family in the Aid Sector

GBP 31.99
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Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

Nathan Tierney’s powerful storytelling is rarely seen in today’s health care business environment. We must redesign the health care delivery system-a team sport in service of patients hold it accountable with measurement to improve outcomes and quantify the resource costs over the full cycle of care. Value-based health care is a framework through which these goals are achieved and Tierney provides a detailed playbook to get your organization there. Outlined in incredible detail and clarity he presents core concepts and dives into the key metrics needed to build maintain and scale a successful value-based health care organization. Nathan shares a realistic vision of what any CEO should expect when developing their own Value Management Office. Nothing is more important to me than improving the lives of those I love. My personal mission is to create systemic change with an impact on the global stage. This playbook needs to be on the desk of every executive clinician and patient today. -Mahek Shah MD Senior Researcher and Senior Project Leader Harvard Business SchoolOur current healthcare system’s broken. The Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) predicts health care costs could increase from 6% to 14% of GDP by 2060. The cause of this increase is due to (1) a global aging population (2) growing affluence (3) rise in chronic diseases and (4) better-informed patients; all of which raises the demand for healthcare. In 2006 Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg authored the book ‘Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results. ’ In it they present their analysis of the root causes plaguing the health care industry and make the case for why providers suppliers consumers and employers should move towards a patient-centric approach that optimizes value for patients. According to Porter value for patients should be the overarching principle for our broken system. Since 2006 Professor Porter accompanied by his esteemed Harvard colleague Profesor Robert Kaplan have worked tirelessly to promote this new approach and pilot it with leading healthcare delivery organizations like Cleveland Clinic Mayo Clinic MD Anderson and U. S. Department of Veteran Affairs. Given the current state of global healthcare there is urgency to achieve widespread adoption of this new approach. The intent of this book is to equip all healthcare delivery organizations with a guide for putting the value-based concept into practice. This book defines the practice of value-based health care as Value Management. The book explores Profesor Porter’s Value Equation (Value = Outcomes/ Cost) which is central to Value Management and provides a step-by-step process for how to calculate the components of this equation. On the outcomes side the book presents the Value Realization Framework which translates organizational mission and strategy into a comprehensive set of performance measures and contextualizes the measures for healthcare delivery. The Value Realization Framework is based on Professor Kaplan's ground-breaking Balanced Scorecard approach but specific to healthcare organizations. On the costs side the book details the Harvard endorsed time-driven activity based costing (TDABC) methodology which has proven to be a modern catalyst for defining HDO costs. Finally this book covers the need and a plan to establish a Value Management Office to lead the delivery transformation and govern operations. This book is designed in a format where any organization can read it and acquire the fundamentals and methodologies of Value Management. It is intended for healthcare delivery organizations in need of learning the specifics of achieving the implementation of value-based healthcare. | Value Management in Healthcare How to Establish a Value Management Office to Support Value-Based Outcomes in Healthcare

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