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The Social Challenges and Opportunities of Low Carbon Development

The Social Challenges and Opportunities of Low Carbon Development

This book explores the social implications and challenges of low-carbon development. The argument of the book is that a broad understanding of low-carbon development is essential for mitigating climate change and enabling development in a carbon-constrained world but there are risks that low-carbon development might come at a price that is both social and economic. These risks need to be carefully assessed and reduced. The main aim of the book is to explore critically analyse and propose different ways of understanding low-carbon development from a social perspective in both developed and developing countries. The author uses concepts such as low-carbon development social policy sustainable development and environmental justice to understand the social implications of low-carbon development projects. The book first elaborates the need to understand the social issues and challenges of low-carbon development in both developed and developing countries. It then discusses five contemporary challenges of low-carbon development: the social consequences of Chinese hydropower dams in the Mekong region; the cost of the transition to renewable energies such as wind energy in Germany; the challenges of carbon offsetting in Brazil; the nexus of fuel-inefficient housing and fuel poverty in England; solar power for refugees in Africa. The book fills a crucial gap for researchers postgraduates practitioners and policy-makers in the fields of climate change development and social policy. Johan Nordensvärd is a Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Southampton UK. | The Social Challenges and Opportunities of Low Carbon Development

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Sound Design for Low & No Budget Films

Sound Design for Low & No Budget Films

Don’t let your indie film be sabotaged by bad sound! One of the weakest technical aspects of a low or no budget short or feature film is usually the sound and in Sound Design for Low and No Budget Films author Patrick Winters explains what filmmakers need to do to fix that. Learn how to improve the sound quality of your low budget film with specific tools and practices for achieving a better sound track including detailed step-by-step explanations of how to edit your production track create a sound design record and edit ADR Foley and sound effects music and much more. Focusing on the essential details indie filmmakers need to know Winters teaches you how to turn a thin and distracting sound track into one that makes your film shine. This practical guide offers: • In-depth focus on hands-on step-by-step instruction for achieving great sound in post-production including recording and editing sound effects ADR and Foley—even without expensive equipment and software. • Techniques specifically designed for low and no budget projects perfect for both students and aspiring indie filmmakers. • A simple and direct style that any aspiring filmmaker or student can understand without already knowing the industry jargon. | Sound Design for Low & No Budget Films

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The Low-Carbon Good Life

The Low-Carbon Good Life

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis growing inequality biodiversity loss and food-related ill-health. Across the world today and throughout history good lives are characterised by healthy food connections to nature being active togetherness personal growth a spiritual framework and sustainable consumption. A low-carbon good life offers opportunities to live in ways that will bring greater happiness and contentment. Slower ways of living await. A global target of no more than one tonne of carbon per person would allow the poorest to consume more and everyone to find our models of low-carbon good lives. But dropping old habits is hard and large-scale impacts will need fresh forms of public engagement and citizen action. Local to national governments need to act; equally they need pushing by the power and collective action of citizens. Innovative and engaging and written in a style that combines storytelling with scientific evidence this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change sustainability environmental economics and sustainable consumption as well as non-specialist readers concerned about the climate crisis.

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Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation Solutions from Low-Income Countries

Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation Solutions from Low-Income Countries

This fascinating book offers a pathway for the NHS to adopt low-cost but effective innovations from areas of the world traditionally seen as beneficiaries rather than providers of help and support. In an era of increasing demand and dwindling resources and where the COVID-19 pandemic has illustrated the structural limitations of the current system the book provides examples of simple frugal but high-quality alternatives to current practice. From orthopaedics to paediatrics and mental health to plastic surgery the book illustrates how low- and middle-income countries have found solutions to healthcare issues that are not only safe and clinically effective but also have the potential to save the NHS millions of pounds. Grounded in the contemporary debates of decolonization it invites readers to question the culture and systems in global health that view low-income countries as solely passive recipients of aid. The volume will be essential reading for students and scholars across Public Health Global Health and Development Studies as well as healthcare managers and policy makers in the UK and beyond. | Decolonizing Healthcare Innovation Solutions from Low-Income Countries

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Unlocking Potential Identifying and Serving Gifted Students From Low-Income Households

Unlocking Potential Identifying and Serving Gifted Students From Low-Income Households

Winner of NAGC's 2021 Book of the Year Award This edited book written by authors with extensive experience in working with gifted students from low-income households focuses on ways to translate the latest research and theory into evidence-supported practices that impact how schools identify and serve these students. Readers will: Learn about evidence-supported identification systems tools and strategies for finding students from low-income households. Discover curriculum models resources and instructional strategies found effective from projects focused on supporting these students. Understand the important role that intra- and interpersonal skills ethnicity/race families school systems and communities play. Consider the perceptions of gifted students who grew up in low-income households. Learn how educators can use their experiences to strengthen current services. Unlocking Potential is the go-to resource for an up-to-date overview of best practices in identification curriculum instruction community support and program design for gifted learners from low-income households. | Unlocking Potential Identifying and Serving Gifted Students From Low-Income Households

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Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia

Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia

The concept of green growth coupled with one of green economy and low carbon development is a global concern especially in the face of the multiple crises that the world has faced in recent years - climate oil food and financial crises. In East Asia this concept is regarded as the key in transforming cheap-labour dependent export-oriented industries towards a more sustainable development. Green Growth and Low Carbon Development in East Asia examines the beginnings of low carbon green growth in practice in East Asia and how effectively it has directed East Asian nations especially Korea China and Japan to put environment and climate challenges as the core target zone for investment and growth. Special focus is paid to energy and international trade - areas in which these nations compete with pioneered nations of Europe and the United States to develop renewable energy industries and enhance their international competitiveness. On the basis of the lessons learned in East Asia together with a comparison of Russia this book discusses the applicability and limitations of this developmental approach taken by the developing nations and resource-rich emerging economies including the conditions and contexts in which nations are able to transition into sustainable development through the use of low carbon green growth strategies.

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The Causes of High and Low Reading Achievement

The Causes of High and Low Reading Achievement

This book describes all of the important factors that cause some students to have low reading achievement and others to have high reading achievement. It concentrates on the main factors that influence how much a student gains in reading achievement during a year of school or a calendar year. An attempt is made to answer the following questions: what can educators do to increase reading achievement and what is beyond their influence? The author is directly concerned with achievement associated with normal or typical reading. The focus of the book is on things teachers can do during an entire school year that are likely to improve the reading level and reading rate of students which in turn will increase their reading achievement. This effort to specify the most important causes of high and low reading achievement represents an integration of two disciplines of scientific psychology-experimental psychology and psychometrics. A glossary at the end of the book contains definitions of terms and concepts. Helpful appendices explain rauding theory the three laws of rauding theory and the equations that can be used to predict the accuracy of reading comprehension provide conversions among units of rauding rate and list the numbered equations presented in the book. | The Causes of High and Low Reading Achievement

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Visions of Energy Futures Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions

Visions of Energy Futures Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions

This book examines the visions fantasies frames discourses imaginaries and expectations associated with six state-of-the-art energy systems—nuclear power hydrogen fuel cells shale gas clean coal smart meters and electric vehicles—playing a key role in current deliberations about low-carbon energy supply and use. Visions of Energy Futures: Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions unveils what the future of energy systems could look like and how their meanings are produced often alongside moments of contestation. Theoretically it analyzes these technological case studies with emerging concepts from various disciplines: utopianism (history of technology) symbolic convergence (communication studies) technological frames (social construction of technology) discursive coalitions (discourse analysis and linguistics) sociotechnical imaginaries (science and technology studies) and the sociology of expectations (innovation studies future studies). It draws from these cases to create a synthetic set of dichotomies and frameworks for energy futures based on original data collected across two global epistemic communities— nuclear physicists and hydrogen engineers—and experts in Eastern Europe and the Nordic region stakeholders in South Africa and newspapers in the United Kingdom. This book is motivated by the premise that tackling climate change via low-carbon energy systems and practices is one of the most significant challenges of the twenty-first century and that success will require not only new energy technologies but also new ways of understanding language visions and discursive politics. The discursive creation of the energy systems of tomorrow are propagated in polity hoping to be realized as the material fact of the future but processed in conflicting ways with underlying tensions as to how contemporary societies ought to be ordered. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of energy policy energy and environment and technology assessment. | Visions of Energy Futures Imagining and Innovating Low-Carbon Transitions

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Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities

Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities

Housing affordability urban development and climate change responses are great challenges that are intertwined yet the conceptual and policy links between them remain under-developed. Housing Sustainability in Low Carbon Cities addresses this gap by developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban decarbonisation drawing upon more established yet quite distinctive fields of built environment policy and design housing and studies of social and economic change. Through this approach policy and practices of housing affordability equity energy efficiency resilience and renewables are critiqued and alternatives are presented. Drawing upon international case studies this book provides a unique contribution to interdisciplinary urban and housing studies discourses and practices in an era of climate change. This book is recommended reading on higher level undergraduate and taught postgraduate courses in architecture urban studies planning built environment geography and urban studies. It will also be directly valuable to housing and urban policy makers and sustainability practitioners.

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International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of “Urban Diseases” Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin

International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of “Urban Diseases” Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin

With an integration of theories comparative and empirical studies this book aims to find a treatment for Beijing’s “urban diseases” and coordinate a low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. Unprecedented industrialization and unconventional urbanization caused a series of “urban diseases” for developing cities across the globe. By summarizing and exploring the evolution and phased characteristics of “urban diseases” the author implements theories across classical sociology human ecology community school and low-carbon city as the base for policy recommendations. This book also provides in-depth examinations and comparative studies of other metropolises’ experiences in controlling “urban diseases”. Cities such as New York London and Tokyo were modeled to propose the most appropriate low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. With a focus on developing cities in Northern China this book will be a great read to all scholars and students of environmental studies development studies urban studies and contemporary China studies. It will also be a great addition for those who are interested in social conflicts and economic development. | International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of “Urban Diseases” Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin

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New Research on Parenting Programs for Low-Income Fathers

New Research on Parenting Programs for Low-Income Fathers

This book presents state-of-the-art findings of research on fatherhood programs funded by the Fatherhood Research and Practice Network (FRPN) which advance knowledge and practice in the fathering field. New Research on Parenting Programs for Low-Income Fathers includes research on how to engage mothers to support father–child contact and to successfully employ social media and online technology for practice. It offers findings on how to increase paternal engagement and parenting skills and to include fathers in policies and programs for children and families. It discusses the importance of providing staff training and resources to practitioners who work directly with fathers. Chapters also provide summaries of key implications for evidence-based practice and future directions for research that encourage effective fatherhood practice. This book is an excellent resource for therapists social workers fatherhood educators fatherhood practitioners researchers and policy makers on how to inspire positive father engagement with children and healthy coparenting relationships.

GBP 38.99
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Location and Postproduction Sound for Low-Budget Filmmakers

Location and Postproduction Sound for Low-Budget Filmmakers

This book covers everything you need to know to master the fundamentals of location sound recording and postproduction sound in a comprehensive one-stop guide. This user-friendly book provides real world situations to analyze the many kinds of location recording configurations and postproduction scenarios and offers easy-to-adopt budget-conscious solutions to some of the most common issues that arise when working with sound. Chapters cover the theory of sound preproduction with a sound emphasis microphone selection testing equipment how to boom and mix on set synchronization and time code and editing sound while doing a picture cut in a traditional picture software platform. Additionally the book discusses bringing a project into a Digital Audio Workstation and explores basic sound design dialogue editing Automated Dialogue Replacement Foley sound effects music for film re-recording the final mix and outputting sound to finish a project. Accompanying examples allow readers the opportunity to try out the various techniques and drills on location in postproduction or both. Aimed at students early career and independent filmmakers as well as those considering a vocation in location and postproduction sound Location and Postproduction Sound for Low-Budget Filmmakers makes achieving great sound attainable for all and is an invaluable tool for anyone wanting to better understand the art of film sound.

GBP 34.99
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The Passivhaus Designer's Manual A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

The Passivhaus Designer's Manual A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world with almost 50 000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards Passivhaus provides a robust 'fabric first' approach from which to make the next step. The Passivhaus Designers Manual is the most comprehensive technical guide available to those wishing to design and build Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings. As a technical reference for architects engineers and construction professionals The Passivhaus Designers Manual provides:State of the art guidance for anyone designing or working on a Passivhaus project;In depth information on building services including high performance ventilation systems and ultra-low energy heating and cooling systems;Holistic design guidance encompassing: daylight design ecological materials thermal comfort indoor air quality and economics;Practical advice on procurement methods project management and quality assurance;Renewable energy systems suitable for Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings; Practical case studies from the UK USA and Germany amongst others;Detailed worked examples to show you how it's done and what to look out for;Expert advice from 20 world renowned Passivhaus designers architects building physicists and engineers. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 full colour illustrations and presented by two highly experienced specialists this is your one-stop shop for comprehensive practical information on Passivhaus and Zero Energy buildings. | The Passivhaus Designer's Manual A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

GBP 180.00
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Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

'Gyorgy Scrinis exposes the folly of the reductionist approach and proposes an alternative food quality paradigm based on respecting traditional dietary patterns and reducing technological processing. It may offend nutritionists and will upset the food industry but it could also herald a delicious revolution in our ability to eat well. ' - Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM NutritionistFrom the fear of 'bad nutrients' such as fat and cholesterol to the celebration of supposedly health-enhancing vitamins and omega-3 fats our understanding of food and health has been dominated by a reductive scientific focus on nutrients. It is on this basis that butter and eggs have been vilified yet highly processed foods such as margarine have been promoted as being healthier than whole foods. Gyorgy Scrinis argues that this ideology of nutritionism has narrowed and distorted our appreciation of food quality while promoting nutrition confusion and nutritional anxieties. The food industry exploits these anxieties by nutritionally modifying their food products and marketing them with nutritional and health claims. Through a fascinating investigation into such issues as the butter versus margarine debate the battle between low-fat low-carb low-calorie and low-GI weight-loss diets the limitations of dietary guidelines and the search for the optimal dietary pattern - from Mediterranean and vegetarian to paleo diets - Scrinis builds a revealing history of the scientific social and economic factors driving our modern fascination with nutrition and explores alternative ways of understanding food quality. | Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

GBP 130.00
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Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions Low Expectations?

Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions Low Expectations?

Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions provides the first comprehensive analysis of stabilization which constitutes the new reference point for international intervention in unruly parts of the Global South. The notion of ‘stabilization’ and the practice of ‘stability operations’ experienced a revival over the last decade. The United Nations the European Union NATO as well as most member states of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development have embraced these terms in their foreign policy bureaucracies. The general disillusionment with the achievements of large-scale peacebuilding operations in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq as well as the failures of the so-called Arab Springs contributed to the success of this new discourse. Yet while widely mentioned and endorsed stabilization is rarely defined. This volume identifies common elements to stabilization doctrines and examines how they are applied in practice. It dissects how stabilization emerged and unfolds how different actors adopt it and for what purposes and how it is linked to the broader security and development discourses. Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions will be of great interest to scholars of Peacebuilding International Intervention and International Relations more generally. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics. | Stabilization as the New Normal in International Interventions Low Expectations?

GBP 130.00
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Europe's Rich Fabric The Consumption Commercialisation and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy the Low Countries and Neighbouring Terr

Europe's Rich Fabric The Consumption Commercialisation and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy the Low Countries and Neighbouring Terr

Throughout human history luxury textiles have been used as a marker of importance power and distinction. Yet as the essays in this collection make clear the term 'luxury' is one that can be fraught with difficulties for historians. Focusing upon the consumption commercialisation and production of luxury textiles in Italy and the Low Countries during the late medieval and early modern period this volume offers a fascinating exploration of the varied and subtle ways that luxury could be interpreted and understood in the past. Beginning with the consumption of luxury textiles it takes the reader on a journey back from the market place to the commercialisation of rich fabrics by an international network of traders before arriving at the workshop to explore the Italian and Burgundian world of production of damasks silks and tapestries. The first part of the volume deals with the consumption of luxury textiles through an investigation of courtly purchases as well as urban and clerical markets before the chapters in part two move on to explore the commercialisation of luxury textiles by merchants who facilitated their trade from the cities of Lucca Florence and Venice. The third part then focusses upon manufacture encouraging consideration of the concept of luxury during this period through the Italian silk industry and the production of high-quality woollens in the Low Countries. Graeme Small draws the various themes of the volume together in a conclusion that suggests profitable future avenues of research into this important subject. | Europe's Rich Fabric The Consumption Commercialisation and Production of Luxury Textiles in Italy the Low Countries and Neighbouring Terr

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Resource Recovery from Waste Business Models for Energy Nutrient and Water Reuse in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Resource Recovery from Waste Business Models for Energy Nutrient and Water Reuse in Low- and Middle-income Countries

Humans generate millions of tons of waste every day. This waste is rich in water nutrients energy and organic compounds. Yet waste is not being managed in a way that permits us to derive value from its reuse whilst millions of farmers struggle with depleted soils and lack of water. This book shows how Resource Recovery and Reuse (RRR) could create livelihoods enhance food security support green economies reduce waste and contribute to cost recovery in the sanitation chain. While many RRR projects fully depend on subsidies and hardly survive their pilot phase hopeful signs of viable approaches to RRR are emerging around the globe including low- and middle-income countries. These enterprises or projects are tapping into entrepreneurial initiatives and public ̶ private partnerships leveraging private capital to help realize commercial or social value shifting the focus from treatment for waste disposal to treatment of waste as a valuable resource for safe reuse. The book provides a compendium of business options for energy nutrients and water recovery via 24 innovative business models based on an in-depth analysis of over 60 empirical cases of which 47 from around the world are described and evaluated in a systematic way. The focus is on organic municipal agro-industrial and food waste including fecal sludge supporting a diverse range of business models with potential for large-scale out-and up-scaling. | Resource Recovery from Waste Business Models for Energy Nutrient and Water Reuse in Low- and Middle-income Countries

GBP 62.99
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Will Sustainability Fly? Aviation Fuel Options in a Low-Carbon World

Will Sustainability Fly? Aviation Fuel Options in a Low-Carbon World

While international negotiations to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have been less than satisfactory there is a presumption that a significant level of multi-lateral commitment will be realized at some point. International air and marine travel have been left to one side in past talks because the pursuit of agreement proceeds on the basis of commitment by sovereign nations and the effects of these specific commercial activities are by their nature difficult to corral and assign to specific national jurisdictions. However air travel is increasing and unless something is done emissions from this segment of our world economy will form a progressively larger percentage of the total especially as emissions fall in other activities. This book focuses on fuel. The aim is to provide background in technical and policy terms from the broadest reliable sources of information available for the necessary discourse on society's reaction to the evolving aviation emissions profile. It considers what policy has been why and how commercial air travel is committed to its current liquid fuel how that fuel can be made without using fossil-source materials and the barriers to change. It also advances some elements of policy remedies that make sense in providing an environmentally and economically sound way forward in a context that comprehends a more complete vision of sustainability than 'renewable fuels' traditionally have. The goal of Will Sustainability Fly? is to broaden and contextualize the knowledge resource available to academics policy makers air industry leaders and stakeholders and interested members of the public. | Will Sustainability Fly? Aviation Fuel Options in a Low-Carbon World

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Plotting Squatting Public Purpose and Politics Land Market Development Low Income Housing and Public Intervention in India

Plotting Squatting Public Purpose and Politics Land Market Development Low Income Housing and Public Intervention in India

This title was first published in 2003. Since independence in 1947 India has undergone a phase of rapid urbanization. New planning laws have been passed new organizations established public policy documents and discussion papers prepared and a host of land and housing schemes have been implemented. Still however the vast majority of urban expansion is an unplanned process that takes the form of squatting and illegal or semi-legal land subdivision. By looking in detail at two rapidly growing cities in Andhra Pradesh (Vijayawada and Viaskhapatnam) this book explores cultural physical-spatial political and economic determinants of the allocation of urban land and of urban growth in India in historical context. It focuses on the interplay between the government and the organizations in charge of their implementation and the private sector on the other. Special attention is given to the conditions of the urban poor with the changes in their socio-economic conditions. | Plotting Squatting Public Purpose and Politics Land Market Development Low Income Housing and Public Intervention in India

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Sex at Risk Lifetime Number of Partners Frequency of Intercourse and the Low AIDS Risk of Vaginal Intercourse

Sex at Risk Lifetime Number of Partners Frequency of Intercourse and the Low AIDS Risk of Vaginal Intercourse

Politicians interest groups and the mass media often answer questions about how AIDS is sexually transmitted as if heterosexual vaginal intercourse is a high-risk activity. When it comes to understanding how AIDS is transmitted and formulating effective policy to deal with the spread of AIDS America remains confused. What. Brody calls ideological knowledge about AIDS is fat more likely to filter through society than scientific knowledge. Sex at Risk Is a comprehensive review of the scientific literature dealing with. the transmission of AIDS. Like Michael Fumento's The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS it exposes the mythology surrounding vaginal intercourse and AIDS transmission Brody also looks deeply at reasons that fear of AIDS transmission from vaginal intercourse has spread so widely and profoundly He addresses serious methodological problems in AIDS/HIV behavioral research as well as tendentious political correctness that has done a disservice to science. Sex at Risk also comprehensively reviews the international research literature on correlates of lifetime number of sexual partners and frequency of sexual intercourse. Among topics covered are: relationships between lifetime number of sexual partners and mental health explanations for important differences between intercourse and masturbation the possible association of frequency with healthy functioning and correlations between frequency and national development. Brody concludes by discussing what AIDS reveals about how politically correct thought impedes scientific progress when taboo themes regardless of their validity cannot be pursued Sex at Risk is factually grounded yet controversial; . Brody raises critical questions about much of what we have learned about AIDS from popular and professional publications soft scientists and public health campaigns. It will be of interest to medical doctors clinicians and those interested in the sociology and psychology of knowledge | Sex at Risk Lifetime Number of Partners Frequency of Intercourse and the Low AIDS Risk of Vaginal Intercourse

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A King Translated The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries 1593–1603

A King Translated The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries 1593–1603

King James is well known as the most prolific writer of all the Stuart monarchs publishing works on numerous topics and issues. These works were widely read not only in Scotland and England but also on the Continent where they appeared in several translations. In this book Dr Stilma looks both at the domestic and international context to James's writings using as a case study a set of Dutch translations which includes his religious meditations his epic poem The Battle of Lepanto his treatise on witchcraft Daemonologie and his manual on kingship Basilikon Doron. The book provides an examination of James's writings within their original Scottish context particularly their political implications and their role in his management of his religio-political reputation both at home and abroad. The second half of each chapter is concerned with contemporary interpretations of these works by James's readers. The Dutch translations are presented as a case study of an ultra-protestant and anti-Spanish reading from which James emerges as a potential leader of protestant Europe; a reputation he initially courted then distanced himself from after his accession to the English throne in 1603. In so doing this book greatly adds to our appreciation of James as an author providing an exploration of his works as politically expedient statements which were sometimes ambiguous enough to allow diverging - and occasionally unwelcome - interpretations. It is one of the few studies of James to offer a sustained critical reading of these texts together with an exploration of the national and international context in which they were published and read. As such this book contributes to the understanding not only of James's works as political tools but also of the preoccupations of publishers and translators and the interpretative spaces in the works they were making available to an international audience. | A King Translated The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries 1593–1603

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Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities

Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities

This book investigates and evaluates the opportunities and limitations of network governance in building local capacity for energy infrastructure governance. Presenting a comparative analysis of three city cases from across Europe- Birmingham Frankfurt and Budapest- this book demonstrates how local factors shape the prospect of network governance to support low-carbon energy transitions. It maps out existing governance networks highlighting the actors involved and their interactions with one another and also discusses the role and embeddedness of networks in the urban governance of low-carbon energy. Drawing on case study evidence Nochta develops a comparative analysis which discusses the intricate connections between network characteristics context and impact. It highlights that organisational fragmentation; the complexity of the low-carbon energy problem and historical developments all influence network characteristics in terms of degree of integration and vertical (hierarchical) power relationships among network actors. Overall the book concludes that understanding such links between context and networks is crucial when designing and implementing new governance models aimed at facilitating and governing low-carbon urban development. Low-Carbon Energy Transitions in European Cities will be of great interest to scholars of energy policy urban governance and sustainability transitions. | Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities

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Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy

Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy

This book explores the economy and society of Provincial India in the post-Green Revolution period. It argues that the low 'quality' of capital development in India's villages and small towns is the joint outcome of the informal economic organisation that is strongly biased in favour of capital and of the complex stratification of the workforce along class and caste lines. Focusing on the processes of growth induced by the introduction of the high-yield varieties in agriculture the book demonstrates that a low-road pattern of capitalist development has been emerging in provincial India: firms compete over price and not over efficiency with a constant pressure to reduce costs in particular labour costs. The book shows that low-skilled employment prevails and low wages and poor working conditions are widespread. Based on original empirical research the book makes a valuable contribution to the debate on varieties of capitalism in particular of the Global South. It is of interest to academics working in the fields of Development Studies Political Economy and South Asian Studies. | Capitalist Development in India's Informal Economy

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