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Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance

Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance

Does democracy require an agreement on specific foundational values? Bringing insights from Turkey to the study of democratization this book argues that democracy may rather be about acknowledging the disagreement over values before negotiating over other concerns such as rights freedoms capabilities and duties. It explores this idea by examining three landscapes of culture in Turkey which have been the subjects of persistent stories regarding the unequal relationship between the self and the other. These include LGBT visibility and the entertainment sector women and clothing and Alevism and funerals. Through these case studies the book analyses the remaking of (in)tolerance through the integration of LGBT representations into broader political struggles over values the assertion of women’s rights and freedoms from traditional values surrounding dress and the conflict between essentialist intolerance and the syncretic traditions of Alevi identity. Bringing these landscapes together with the surrounding cultural tensions in Turkey and the West Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Middle Eastern studies and politics gender studies and cultural studies. | Tracing Cultural Change in Turkey's Experience of Democratization Unexpected Dialogues on Intolerance

GBP 120.00
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Assertive Religion Religious Intolerance in a Multicultural World

Assertive Religion Religious Intolerance in a Multicultural World

Questions about religions and religious institutions have changed dramatically since they first arose many years ago. In the beginning of the twenty-first century the link of religion with extreme ideologies captures our attention. Such questions have been the focus of a steadily growing number of books. What does Assertive Religion add to the debate?Emanuel de Kadt discusses the relationship of religion to wider social issues such as human rights and multiculturalism. He traces the growth during the religious revival over the past decades of assertive and even coercive forms of religion notably but not exclusively fundamentalist varieties. He deals with these questions as they relate to the three major Abrahamic religions thereby addressing a readership wider than that made up of persons interested exclusively in Judaism Christianity or Islam. The author takes on issues such as the effects of the Jewishness of Israel on the rights of Palestinians; the consequences of the centralized authority structure of the Roman Catholic Church; and the implications of the failure of reform-oriented Muslims to make their voices heard in an organized Islamic reform movement. He is even-handed focusing on both positive and negative features of each religious perspective though he does have a clear viewpoint. Assertive Religion adds to increasingly sharp political discussions on issues arising out of religion. It is a must read for anyone interested in how religion is shaping the world of tomorrow. | Assertive Religion Religious Intolerance in a Multicultural World

GBP 51.99
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The First Russian Radical Alexander Radishchev 1749-1802

The First Russian Radical Alexander Radishchev 1749-1802

When this was originally published in 1959 it was the first full-length biography of Alexander Radishchev published outside Russia and was based on hitherto unpublished material memoir literature and Radishchev’s own writings. Radishchev occupies a notable position in the history of European social thought as the first writer to apply the criteria of the Western Age of Reason to conditions in Tsarist Russia. Sentenced to death on the orders of Catherine the Great and subsequently exiled in Siberia Radishchev stands out as the first great figure of the Russian radical intelligentsia and the first literary victim of Tsarist official intolerance. | The First Russian Radical Alexander Radishchev 1749-1802

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Debate and Dialogue Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430

Debate and Dialogue Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430

This book explores the construction of Christian identity in fourth and fifth centuries through inventing fabricating and sharpening binary oppositions. Such oppositions for example Christians - pagans; truth - falsehood; the one true god - the multitude of demons; the right religion - superstition served to create and reinforce the Christian self-identity. The author examines how the Christian argumentation against pagans was intertwined with self-perception and self-affirmation. Discussing the relations and interaction between pagan and Christian cultures this book aims at widening historical understanding of the cultural conflicts and the otherness in world history thus contributing to the ongoing discussion about the historical and conceptual basis of cultural tolerance and intolerance. This book offers a valuable contribution to contemporary scholarly debate about Late Antique religious history and the relationship between Christianity and other religions. | Debate and Dialogue Christian and Pagan Cultures c. 360-430

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Communism Conformity and Liberties

Communism Conformity and Liberties

If there is a-desert island book in the conduct of social research it is arguably this book. Whether in terms of sociological structures or psychological nuances Communism Conformity and Civil Liberties originally published in 1955 is a recognized landmark. Stouffer helped strengthen the fundamental liberties of all Americans by showing dangerous consequences of efforts to thwart a perceived Communist conspiracy including some of the very real liberties that can be destroyed in the process of a witch-hunt. Stouffer explores attitudes of Americans against a backdrop of a history of intolerance that dates back to the Know-Nothing party before the Civil War and extending through the Ku Klux Klan after World War I. The overall results show a markedly strong relationship between perception of high national risk and personal intolerance of differences and also the perception of threat and tolerance that operates as a predisposing tendency that affects judgments about specific political movements and events. Stouffer enriches the sense and meaning of survey research by emphasizing patterns of percentages rather than actual amounts; survey craftsmanship; the use of paired sampling techniques to reduce problems of chance; the importance of completion rates in survey research work; the importance of interruptions during a questioning period; the choice of field workers in performing the surveys. The actual survey instruments are included as prepared by the National Opinion Research Center and the Gallup Organization. They remain a model for large-scale samples of this kind. The beautiful highly personal introduction by James Davis places Stouffer in an appropriate academic and professional context. Stouffer was a great sociologist with two landmark efforts to his credit: The American Soldier and then Communism Conformity and Civil Liberties. Professor Davis calls this a great classic of empirical sociology. It is indeed that: a model of craftsmanship exemplary argumentation and presentation of data still unsurpassed. The book is not part of ancient history but of living democratic culture. | Communism Conformity and Liberties

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The Psychology of Political Polarization

The Psychology of Political Polarization

The Psychology of Political Polarization was inspired by the notion that to understand the momentum of radical political movements it is important to understand the attitudes of individual citizens who support such movements. Leading political psychologists have contributed to this important book in which they share their latest ideas about political polarization – a complex phenomenon that cannot be traced back to a single cause and that is associated with intolerance overconfidence and irrational beliefs. The book explores the basis of political polarization as being how citizens think and feel about people with a different worldview how they perceive minority groups and how much they trust leaders and experts on pressing societal issues such as climate change health international relations and poverty. The chapters are organized into two sections that examine what psychological processes and what social factors contribute to polarization among regular citizens. The book also describes practical strategies and interventions to depolarize people. The book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to the psychology of political polarization which will appeal to the academic market and political professionals.

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Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder From Science to Practice

Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder From Science to Practice

The second edition of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder is an essential read for all clinicians researchers and anyone who wants to learn about how cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) can be applied to treatment for generalized anxiety disorder. Building on the idea that intolerance of uncertainty keeps people with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) stuck in repeated cycles of excessive worry anxiety and avoidance this revised and updated edition lays out the essentials of GAD assessment and diagnosis step-by-step illustrations of CBT treatment and questionnaires and monitoring forms that can be used in assessment treatment and research. Readers will come away from the book with a clear sense of how to: design powerful individualized behavioral experiments targeting the fear of uncertainty; help clients discover and re-evaluate their beliefs about the usefulness of worry; encourage clients to view worry-provoking problems as challenges to be met rather than threats; use written exposure to help clients confront lingering worries and core fears. | Cognitive Behavioral Treatment for Generalized Anxiety Disorder From Science to Practice

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Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

In Edwin and John: A Personal History of the American South award-winning author James T. Sears interweaves diaries letters and poems to craft an innovative first-person narrative history that details the hard realities of growing up gay in the South during the early decades of the 20th century. Set against the backdrop of World War II and the post-war South Edwin and John provides a unique and intimate approach to queer history by following the 50 year relationship between John Zeigler and Edwin Peacocke that carried them both from their roots in the conservative South through service in World War II and into a placid and loving literary life where they opened a bookshop in what was then the small town of Charleston South Carolina. Edwin and John is a revealing look at queer history detailing how these two men and their remarkable circle of close friends-which included some of the greatest writers and artists of their era including Prentiss Taylor Carson McCullers and John Bennett-endured war intolerance and jealousies while living proud and public lives in far more conservative times. | Edwin and John A Personal History of the American South

GBP 130.00
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The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux is a collection of ten essays by internationally known scholars of Irish British French and Atlantic History that covers the entire period in which there was a substantial Irish colony in Bordeaux (1689–1815). Among the topics discussed are the growth and decline of the community and the reasons for both the daily lives and assimilation of the Irish in Bordeaux the numerous activities and institutions in which the Irish were involved and the patterns of trade and the major commodities that were traded. This volume argues that the Irish community in Bordeaux was a product of contingent factors including religious bigotry and war but mostly because of commercial and educational opportunities that were not available in Ireland itself. This confessionally mixed Irish community made remarkable contributions to Atlantic European and global production consumption and trade especially in Bordeaux wine. The book will enlarge complicate and challenge our understanding of the eighteenth-century European and Atlantic worlds. Students and scholars who are interested in early modern immigrant and trading communities the impact of religious tolerance and intolerance the development of international trade networks and the production and meaning of commodities will find it invaluable. | The Irish in Eighteenth-Century Bordeaux Contexts Relations and Commodities

GBP 130.00
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Transcending Addiction An Existential Pathway to Recovery

Transcending Addiction An Existential Pathway to Recovery

Addiction is often thought about in terms of cause be that brain chemistry attachment patterns or cognitive schemas. But this does not allow an understanding of what addiction is. It does not illuminate how addiction is lived. A phenomenology of addiction reveals that addiction is characterised by an intolerance of pain a pursuit of pleasure immediacy technocratic solutions alienation ambiguity and is drenched in deception. These are its individual clinical manifestations but this is also the way life in this century is lived. The addict is thus the ultimate 21st century subject consuming without end intolerant of emotion and unable to grasp their own limitations. Rather than embraced these subjects act as a denied symptom haunting late capitalism and exposing the vampire-like nature of our culture. As such these subjects need to be treated not just as individuals who have gone too far but as victims of the political agenda shaping our lives. Thus the heart of the book is a description of addiction deepened by existential-phenomenological theory. This description is then used to understand the historical emergence of addiction its socio-political manifestation and also the crucial issue of how to clinically treat the addict-subject. | Transcending Addiction An Existential Pathway to Recovery

GBP 31.99
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The Romans An Introduction

The Romans An Introduction

The Romans: An Introduction is a concise readable and comprehensive survey of the Roman world which explores 1 200 years of political military and cultural history alongside religion social pressures literature art and architecture. This new edition includes updated and revised materials designed to develop analytical skills in literary and material evidence evoking themes that resonate in both ancient and modern societies: fake news class struggles urbanization concepts of race and gender imperialism constitutional power and religious intolerance. The fourth edition incorporates a number of new features and evolving fields: A new chapter on provinces provincial administration and acculturation in the Roman Empire. An extended chapter on Christianity and Rome’s legacy with new case studies in the reception of Roman culture. An extended chapter on Roman society and daily life including recent scholarship on gender and race in the ancient world. Integrated use of text and material evidence which is designed to develop analytical skills in critical source assessment. The book’s successful Open Access website updated to include new case studies on emerging topics such as performance politics religious syncretism media sensationalism and cultural heritage. Thoroughly updated and redeveloped this new edition of The Romans will continue to serve as the definitive introduction to the life history and culture of the Roman world from its foundation to its significance to later civilizations. | The Romans An Introduction

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LGBTQ+ Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice

LGBTQ+ Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice

This book presents six scholarly examinations of emerging issues in criminology and criminal justice as they impact LGBTQ+ people. It brings together contributions from leading international researchers exploring the needs of people of diverse sexual orientations and gender identities in the criminal justice context. In addition to focusing on how sexual orientation and gender identity impact access to justice for LGBTQ+ persons the book also explores how to improve the work of justice practitioners policing and corrections in ways that address the unique needs of LGBTQ+ clients. Specific chapters include: a study of support for myths about male rape victims and how indicators of intolerance might shape such beliefs; two examinations of police responses to same-sex intimate partner violence including an exploration of the role of mandatory arrest policies; an investigation into the barriers LGBTQ+ people face when attempting to access police liaison officers; an analysis of how media coverage framed the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando Florida; and suggestions for creating safer and more effective interventions for LGBTQ+ women and girls who are correctional clients. LGBTQ+ Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of criminology and criminal justice law victimology policing corrections research methods sociology and media studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in the journal Criminal Justice Studies.

GBP 130.00
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Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing

Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing

The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing forms a theoretical comprehensive and critically astute overview of the history and future of Pakistani literature in English. Dealing with key issues for global society today from terrorism religious extremism fundamentalism corruption and intolerance to matters of love hate loss belongingness and identity conflicts this Companion brings together over thirty essays by leading and emerging scholars and presents:the transformations and continuities in Pakistani anglophone writing since its inauguration in 1947 to today;contestations and controversies that have not only informed creative writing but also subverted certain stereotypes in favour of a dynamic representation of Pakistani Muslim experiences;a case for a Pakistani canon through a critical perspective on how different writers and their works have at different times both consciously and unconsciously helped to realise and extend a uniquely Pakistani idiom. Providing a comprehensive yet manageable introduction to cross-cultural relations and to historical regional local and global contexts that are essential to reading Pakistani anglophone literature The Routledge Companion to Pakistani Anglophone Writing is key reading for researchers and academics in Pakistani anglophone literature history and culture. It is also relevant to other disciplines such as terror studies post-9/11 literature gender studies postcolonial studies feminist studies human rights diaspora studies space and mobility studies religion and contemporary South Asian literatures and cultures.

GBP 42.99
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Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to Be Gay on Screen examines cinematic depictions of pretending-to-be-gay assessing performances that not only reflect heteronormative and explicitly homophobic attitudes but also offer depictions of gay selfhood with more nuanced multidirectional identifications. The case of straight protagonists pretending to be gay on screen is the ideal context in which to study unanticipated progressivity and dissidence in regard to cultural construction of human sexualities in the face of theatricalized epistemological collapse. Teasing apart the dynamics of depictions of both sexual stability and fluidity in cinematic images of men pretending to be gay offers new insights into such salient issues as sexual vulnerability and dynamics and long-term queer visibility in a politically complicated mass culture which is mostly produced in a heteronormative and even hostile cultural environment. Additionally this book initially examines queer uses of sexuality masquerade in Alternate Gay World Cinema that allegorically features a world pretending to be gay in which straights are harassed and persecuted in order to expose the tragic consequences of sexual intolerance. Films and TV series examined as part of the analysis include The Gay Deceivers Victor/Victoria Happy Texas William Friedkin’s Cruising and many other straight and gay screens. This is a fascinating and important study relevant to students and researchers in Film Studies Media Studies Gender Studies Queer Studies Sexuality Studies Communication Studies and Cultural Studies. | Straight Skin Gay Masks and Pretending to be Gay on Screen

GBP 38.99
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Climate Changed Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery

Climate Changed Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery

Climate Changed is an honest humane account about the rapid downsizing of the world’s natural resources and the consequences this has for millions of people who year after year are displaced from their home countries because of politically-instigated and economically-justified war and conflict. Based on interviews with 110 refugees who arrived into Europe from 2015 to 2018 and observations of refugee camps border crossings inner-city slums social housing projects NGO and related refugee associations this book offers a moving insight into the refugee experience of leaving home crossing borders and settling in Europe. Briggs sets this against the geopolitical and commercial enterprise that dismantled refugees’ countries in the international chase for wilting quantities of the world’s natural resources. At every point of their journey to their new lives and in the resettlement process the refugees are victimised and exploited as there is always money to be made from them. Even if refugees’ labour is in demand there is a European social climate of intolerance and stigma which jeopardises integration and counters their well-being and safety. The climate has changed. This book will appeal to students and scholars in core areas of sociology environmental and sustainability studies human geography and politics. Policymakers practitioners and voluntary workers within the sector of frontline immigration as well as aid workers town planners and welfare support staff will also find this book of interest. | Climate Changed Refugee Border Stories and the Business of Misery

GBP 22.99
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Trump Effect

Trump Effect

Professor Karina V. Korostelina presents insights into the Trump effect and explains how the support for Trump among the American general public is based on three complementary pillars. First Trump champions a specific conception of American national identity that empowers his supporters. Second Trump's leadership has to an extent been crafted from his ability to recognize where and with whom he can get the most return on his investment (e. g. his political comments) and address the perceived general malaise in the U. S. Trump also mirrors the emotions of a disenfranchised American public and inspires the use of frustration based anger and insults to achieve desired aims. He addresses the public’s intolerance of uncertainty and ambivalence by providing simpler solutions to complex national problems and by blurring the boundary betweent he leading political parties. Further Trump employs existing political polarization and has established a new kind of morality. Third Trump challenges the existing political balance of power within the U. S. and globally. The overarching goal of this book is to show how the popularity of Trump has revealed substantial problems in the social political and economic fabric of American life. Aimed at the general public and students in the U. S. and internationally the book goes beyond many explanations of the Trump Effect. Using a multidisciplinary theoretical lens it provides a systemic multifaceted analysis based on multiple theories of social identity emotions cognitions morality and power to explain the broader social phenomena of the rise of individuals in society.

GBP 18.99
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The Language of Hate A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language

The Language of Hate A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language

In this book Andrew Brindle analyzes a corpus of texts taken from a white supremacist web forum which refer to the subject of homosexuality drawing conclusions about the discourses of extremism and the dissemination of far-right hate speech online. The website from which Brindle’s corpus is drawn Stormfront has been described as the most powerful active influence in the White Nationalist movement (Kim 2005). Through a linguistic analysis of the data combining corpus linguistic methodologies and a critical discourse analysis approach Brindle examines the language used to construct heterosexual white masculinities as well as posters’ representations of gay men racial minorities and other out-groups and how such groups are associated by the in-group. Brindle applies three types of analysis to the corpus: a corpus-driven approach centered on the study of frequency keywords collocation and concordance analyses; a detailed qualitative study of posts from the forum and the threads in which they are located; and a corpus-based approach which combines the corpus linguistic and qualitative analyses. The analysis of the data demonstrates a convergence of reactionary responses to not only women gay men and lesbians but also to racial minorities. Brindle’s findings suggest that due to the forum format of the data topics are discussed and negotiated rather than dictated unilaterally as would be the case in a hierarchical organization. This research-based study of white supremacist discourse on the Internet facilitates understanding of hate speech and the behavior of extremist groups with the aim of providing tools to combat elements of extremism and intolerance in society. | The Language of Hate A Corpus Lingusitic Analysis of White Supremacist Language

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Politicised Cinema Post-War Film Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

Politicised Cinema Post-War Film Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

Politicised Cinema demonstrates how taking a collection of seemingly apolitical films and using them as an instrument for serving explicit political aims can be used as a force for good. Through an analysis of Orient: A Survey of Films Produced in Countries of Arab and Asian Culture a film catalogue published by UNESCO and the BFI in 1959 to promote intercultural understanding between the East and the West this book argues for the importance of studying the ways the interpretation of films can be guided to serve a specific political agenda even when the films themselves were originally produced with very different aims in mind. The author focuses on how the catalogue positions culture and its cinematic representations as a marker of difference between the Eastern and Western worlds and shows that even major cultural conflicts such as the Cold War and the decolonisation process can be reframed in service of UNESCO’s cultural diplomatic agenda. The book explores the ways in which the catalogue of Eastern films deemed suitable for Western audiences became a weapon to fight against prejudice intolerance and bigotry in a politicised battle over dismantling the proclaimed link between difference and conflict. This book will be of interest to students researchers and academics in visual politics cinematic international relations cultural diplomacy global governance and international cultural politics as well as film studies Asian studies and cultural studies. In addition policymakers and practitioners in the fields of cultural diplomacy and cultural policy will find the empirical case study to be of use in practical work. | Politicised Cinema Post-War Film Cultural Diplomacy and UNESCO

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Intellectual Disability and Being Human A Care Ethics Model

Intellectual Disability and Being Human A Care Ethics Model

Intellectual disability is often overlooked within mainstream disability studies and theories developed about disability and physical impairment may not always be appropriate when thinking about intellectual (or learning) disability. This pioneering book in considering intellectually disabled people's lives sets out a care ethics model of disability that outlines the emotional caring sphere where love and care are psycho-socially questioned the practical caring sphere where day-to-day care is carried out and the socio-political caring sphere where social intolerance and aversion to difficult differences are addressed. It does so by discussing issue-based everyday life such as family relationships media representations and education in an evocative and creative manner. This book draws from an understanding of how intellectual disability is represented in all forms of media a feminist ethics of care and capabilities as well as other theories to provide a critique and alternative to the social model of disability as well as illuminate care-less spaces that inhabit all the caring spheres. The first two chapters of the book provide an overview of intellectual disability the debates surrounding disability and outline the model. Having begun to develop an innovative theoretical framework for understanding intellectual disability and being human the book then moves onto empirical and narrative driven issue-based chapters. The following chapters build on the emergent framework and discuss the application of particular theories in three different substantive areas: education mothering and sexual politics. The concluding remarks draw together the common themes across the applied chapters and link them to the overarching theoretical framework. An important read for all those studying and researching intellectual or learning disability this book will be an essential resource in sociology philosophy criminology (law) social work education and nursing in particular. | Intellectual Disability and Being Human A Care Ethics Model

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Statistical Process Control

Statistical Process Control

The business commercial and public-sector world has changed dramatically since John Oakland wrote the first edition of Statistical Process Control – a practical guide in the mid-eighties. Then people were rediscovering statistical methods of ‘quality control’ and the book responded to an often desperate need to find out about the techniques and use them on data. Pressure over time from organizations supplying directly to the consumer typically in the automotive and high technology sectors forced those in charge of the supplying production and service operations to think more about preventing problems than how to find and fix them. Subsequent editions retained the ‘took kit’ approach of the first but included some of the ‘philosophy’ behind the techniques and their use. The theme which runs throughout the 7th edition is still processes - that require understanding have variation must be properly controlled have a capability and need improvement - the five sections of this new edition. SPC never has been and never will be simply a ‘took kit’ and in this book the authors provide not only the instructional guide for the tools but communicate the management practices which have become so vital to success in organizations throughout the world. The book is supported by the authors' extensive and latest consulting work within thousands of organisations worldwide. Fully updated to include real-life case studies new research based on client work from an array of industries and integration with the latest computer methods and Minitab software the book also retains its valued textbook quality through clear learning objectives and end of chapter discussion questions. It can still serve as a textbook for both student and practicing engineers scientists technologists managers and for anyone wishing to understand or implement modern statistical process control techniques.

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Advocacy for Early Childhood Educators Speaking Up for Your Students Your Colleagues and Yourself

Advocacy for Early Childhood Educators Speaking Up for Your Students Your Colleagues and Yourself

Become a better advocate—for your students for your coworkers and for yourself—with the valuable strategies in this accessible guidebook. Written with a candid and humorous style this tool kit reinforces why effective early childhood education matters and the positive impact an effective advocate can have on a child’s classroom experience. Chapters explore how to explain and support best practices build relationships with students and families speak up for English language learners and students with exceptionalities reduce coworker conflict and negativity and reach out for the help you need. Equipping readers with practical takeaways and everyday examples of what advocacy in early childhood education actually looks like Advocacy for Early Childhood Educators is perfect for teachers coaches and anyone seeking effective strategies to become a relentless advocate for their students for each other and for themselves. | Advocacy for Early Childhood Educators Speaking Up for Your Students Your Colleagues and Yourself

GBP 28.99
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Bandwidth Recovery For Schools Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty Trauma Racism and Social Marginalization

Bandwidth Recovery For Schools Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty Trauma Racism and Social Marginalization

Are students coming to your class lacking focus having difficulty connecting with you and their peers falling behind or acting out when you instinctively feel they could do better? Do you sometimes feel like you don’t have the capacity as a teacher or school leader to give students the support they need to learn and thrive? This book makes the case that societal realities-such as poverty racism and social marginalization-result in depleted cognitive resources for students and for those who are trying to help them succeed. Each of us has a finite amount of mental bandwidth the cognitive resources that are available for learning development work taking care of ourselves and our families and everything else we have to do. These “attentional resources” are not about how smart we are but about how much of our brain power is available to us for the task at hand. When bandwidth is taken up by the stress of persistent economic insecurity or the negative experiences of racism classism homophobia religious intolerance sexism ableism etc. there is less available for learning and growth. This is as true for young children and youth as for their parents and teachers. The first half of the book makes the case that poverty and these “differentisms” deplete the bandwidth of students parents and teachers. The second sets out concepts and strategies that help people recover the bandwidth they need to learn and thrive. Cia Verschelden describes strategies that can help students recover bandwidth including acknowledging the “funds of knowledge” of students and their families promoting growth mindsets using reflective practices to build a sense of belonging for all students fostering peer collaboration and implementing restorative practices in lieu of punitive measures to deal with problematic behavior as well as a rich selection of Ideas in Practice contributed by experienced teachers and school leaders. Cia recognizes that many teachers are working in schools with inadequate support systems and facilities and with scarce materials and may be spending their often inadequate pay on school supplies for their classrooms and food for their hungry students. She offers practical ideas for creating moreteacher-supportive systems and addresses how principals and administrators can harness teachers’ ideas and energies to create inclusive and successful learning environments for all students. The book includes a case study of Rochester New York – where the economy has been decimated with the closure of major employers – and how its financially strapped school system worked with colleagues at the University of Rochester to use the distributed leadership of its teachers with the active support of principals and superintendents to revitalize its schools to better serve its diverse and low-income student population. This book is for teachers parents school leaders and members of communities who are interested in the well-being of children and youth and the education of all our children. All of us have a stake in a public school system from which students emerge as fully-formed learners and thinkers and who believe in their ability to affect what happens to them and their communities. | Bandwidth Recovery For Schools Helping Pre-K-12 Students Regain Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty Trauma Racism and Social Marginalization

GBP 27.99
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Lensbaby Bending your perspective

Lensbaby Bending your perspective

If you've ever wished you could learn about all of the creative possibilities the Lensbaby offers this is the book for you! Seeing subjects with a new perspective is at the heart of the Lensbaby experience and with the essential information found in this book you'll be able to take your creative exploration to the next level. Written by Lensbaby Guru Corey Hilz Lensbaby: Bending Your Perspective starts off with an overview of each lens in the Lensbaby suite. Then comes the fun stuff! Packed with tips on composition and techniques for capturing your best images you'll be immersed in the wonderful world of Lensbaby in no time. On nearly every page you'll find a full color image created by a Lensbaby expert to inspire your own shooting. You'll also find complete coverage of all of the Lensbaby accessories from the Optic Swap System to a macro kit creative aperture discs and a super wide angle lens. With this gorgeous and practical book by your side you'll never see the world in the same way again. | Lensbaby Bending your perspective

GBP 175.00
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Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen Making and Applying Prosthetics

Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen Making and Applying Prosthetics

With this new edition of Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen author Todd Debreceni presents the latest techniques and special effects in what has become an industry bible. In addition to genre-specific considerations Debreceni covers the latest gear you will need and details how to maintain your kit how to take care of the actor's skin how to airbrush for HD and much more. With in-depth step-by-step tutorials learn how to sculpt and mold your own makeup prosthetics focusing on human anatomy to create the most realistic effects. This new and expanded edition features updated information on lifecasting prosthetics made using 3D printing advanced airbrushing techniques and new artist profiles and includes updated images and illustrations throughout. A companion website contains artist profiles that showcase some of the world’s top makeup effects artists including Ve Neill Matthew W. Mungle and many others. Also included are detailed tutorials led by experts in the field such as Matthew Mungle Adrian Rigby Stuart Bray and of course the author himself. | Special Makeup Effects for Stage and Screen Making and Applying Prosthetics

GBP 56.99
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