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Applying Maths in Construction

Applying Maths in Construction

This book and its accompanying Teacher's Pack are the result of a project supported by the Nuffield Foundation to provide flexible learning materials for the Basic Application of Number core skill for both the NVQs and GNVQ in construction and the construction crafts. The student book uses a unique approach to explain how mathematical principles apply to construction tasks. Each chapter forms an individual construction project and uses the full range of number skills from the fundamentals of addition and subtraction to statistics trigonometry and technical drawing. Successfully completed projects provide the student with the required portfolio of evidence for their course. Notes throughout the text refer the student to the relevant module in the Teacher's Pack which contains assessments tests and detailed explanations of the number skills needed to complete the projects. | Applying Maths in Construction

GBP 175.00
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Lime and Lime Mortars

Lime and Lime Mortars

First published in 1927 by the Building Research Station this volume provides a classification of lime and a complete review of its various uses in building construction and repair. This facsimile edition should be of interest and of practical value since the methods terminology and practices detailed by Cowper are still valid today. A brief historical introduction to the subject is followed by a section on the process of lime burning which emphasizes the differences in behaviour of the various classes of limes. The results of research and tests to determine the most reliable and lasting limewashes and lime-based cold water paints are also detailed. In addition the book provides useful information on the common problems occurring with lime plasters and how these can be solved. The classifications based and suggested applications in the book offer guidelines for the conservation practitioner. | Lime and Lime Mortars

GBP 175.00
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Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition A comprehensive guide to essential nutrients and nutritional bioactives

Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition A comprehensive guide to essential nutrients and nutritional bioactives

Nutrition is a vital part of the complementary approach to health. This uniquely comprehensive and evidence-based text provides a detailed and systematic guide to the principles of clinical nutrition from a naturopathic perspective. The text begins with an overview of basic physiological principles and the body's protective systems such as the antioxidant detoxification and immune systems. The focus then moves to an in-depth examination of food components including essential nutrients such as protein lipids carbohydrates vitamins minerals and trace elements as well as nutritional bioactives such as coenzyme Q10 alpha-lipoic acid phytochemicals digestive enzymes and probiotics. There is detailed information on how each food component is digested and metabolised in the body and guidance on its impact on health including an explanation of the effects of inadequate and excessive intake. The types of supplements available together with dietary sources are also explored. Discussions of important nutritional topics are featured - for example water as therapy obesity anorexia nervosa high-protein diets hypoglycaemia diabetes phytosterols gamma-tocopherol vitamin E and mortality vitamin C and cancer infantile scurvy acid-forming and alkaline-forming diets hair analysis sodium and blood pressure and coenzyme Q10 and cancer. Summary boxes case studies and quizzes will help readers consolidate their knowledge. Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition is an essential reference for everyone studying nutrition from a complementary health perspective. 'I thoroughly recommend this book as a learning aid for students and as an excellent reference guide for experienced practitioners. ' - Jackie Day President Naturopathic Nutrition Association (UK)'A fabulous resource not only for practitioners but also all those with an interest in nutrition. ' - Professor Alan Bensoussan Director National Institute of Complementary Medicine University of Western Sydney'The foundation nutrition text we've all been waiting for. Fay Paxton has drawn from her many years of clinical nutrition experience combining it with relevant research-based evidence to produce an exhaustive body of work that is unique in its specific relevance to naturopathic and complementary medicine students and practitioners. ' - David Stelfox Associate Program Leader Naturopathy Endeavour College of Natural Health | Foundations of Naturopathic Nutrition A comprehensive guide to essential nutrients and nutritional bioactives

GBP 130.00
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Modern Residential Construction Practices

Modern Residential Construction Practices

Modern Residential Construction Practices provides easy-to-read comprehensive and highly illustrated coverage of residential building construction practices that conform to industry standards in the United States and Canada. Each chapter provides complete descriptions real-world practices realistic examples three-dimensional (3D) illustrations and related tests and problems. Chapters cover practices related to every construction phase including: planning funding permitting codes inspections site planning excavation foundations and flatwork floors walls roofs finish work and cabinetry; heating ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC); electrical and plumbing. The book is organized in a format that is consistent with the process used to take residential construction projects from preliminary concept through all phases of residential building construction. An ideal textbook for secondary and college level construction programs the book is packed with useful features such as problems that challenge students to identify materials and practices along with research and document information about construction materials and practices useful summaries key notes a detailed glossary and online materials for both students and educators.

GBP 130.00
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Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness

Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness

Laboratory Manual for Exercise Physiology Exercise Testing and Physical Fitness is a comprehensive text that will provide students with meaningful lab experiences-whether they have access to sophisticated laboratories and expensive equipment or they are looking for procedures that can be done without costly materials. It will be a useful resource as they prepare for a career as an exercise science professional athletic trainer coach or physical educator. The more than 40 labs cover seven major components of physical fitness. They are practical and easy to follow consisting of a clear logical format that includes background information step-by-step procedures explanatory photographs sample calculations norms and classification tables and worksheets. Lab-ending activities and questions provide additional opportunities to practice the procedures and explore issues of validity reliability and accuracy. Readers will find this manual a valuable tool in learning to apply physiological concepts and to perform exercise tests as well as an essential resource for any career involving physical fitness and performance testing.

GBP 145.00
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Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

In a series of provocative conversations with Skeptic magazine Ssenior editor Frank Miele renowned University of California-Berkeley psychologist Arthur R. Jensen details the evolution of his thoughts on the nature of intelligence tracing an intellectual odyssey that leads from the programs of the Great Society to the Bell Curve Wars and beyond. Miele cross-examines Jensen's views on general intelligence (the g factor) racial differences in IQ cultural bias in IQ tests and whether differences in IQ are due primarily to heredity or to remediable factors such as poverty and discrimination. With characteristic frankness Jensen also presents his view of the proper role of scientific facts in establishing public policy such as Affirmative Action. 'Jensenism' the assertion that heredity plays an undeniably greater role than environmental factors in racial (and other) IQ differences has entered the dictionary and also made Jensen a bitterly controversial figure. Nevertheless Intelligence Race and Genetics carefully underscores the dedicated lifetime of scrupulously scientific research that supports Jensen's conclusions. | Intelligence Race And Genetics Conversations With Arthur R. Jensen

GBP 130.00
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Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

Digital revolution demands new approaches to regulating work. The ‘Uberisation’ of work is not in reality a new phenomenon. It reintroduces the practices of ‘on-demand’ engagement of labour common prior to the development of continuing employment. What is new however is the capacity of digital technology to engage labour in ways that avoid characterisation as employment according to the legal tests developed in the 20th century. This book tackles the challenge of ensuring that the emerging tribes of ‘gig’ workers in labour markets across the globe are afforded decent standards of work. This book discusses how to provide decent conditions and safe working standards for on-demand workers engaged through digital platforms. It interrogates the rise of gig work and the legal strategies that might be engaged to deal with the risk that on-demand work will fall and remain outside of employment protections. It draws on observations of practices across the globe but focusses particularly on regulatory solutions developed in Australia. The book will be a useful reference to policy making and legal reforms to address vulnerabilities of gig workers. | Regulating Gig Work Decent Labour Standards in a World of On-demand Work

GBP 130.00
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Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom

Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom

First published in 1980 Progress and Performance in the Primary Classroom assesses the performance of primary schoolchildren in a range of study skills as well as on the more conventional tests of mathematics language use and reading. The findings indicate that the more successful styles are used by the more experienced teachers who manage to increase the amount of contact with the pupils by a variety of organizational strategies. While pupils who receive the greatest amount of class teaching do best on mathematics there is no evidence to suggest that the characteristics of teaching valued by critics of modern primary practice exert any significant influence on pupil progress. The relationship between pupil progress and behaviour shows some remarkable patterns. For example it was found that children who work on average one day per week less than other children still make the same progress in basic skills as the others. Such findings suggest that there is a need to examine how far teaching in the junior school is sufficiently stimulating and challenging while at the same time acknowledging the difficulties of improving the situation while class sizes remain relatively high. This book will be of interest to students of education and pedagogy as well as to teachers.

GBP 90.00
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Comparative Perspectives on School Segregation

Comparative Perspectives on School Segregation

This book examines various aspects of school segregation and their complex interrelations with policy structure and context in diverse settings. It advances the understanding of the causes processes and consequences of school segregation around the globe. Topics examined include student sorting between schools in marketized systems; the effects of school socioeconomic segregation on international tests of student achievement and the structures that shape cross-national variations; the impact of school choice on school segregation in Canada; school segregation and institutional trust in Chile; racial/ethnic and socioeconomic segregation in Brazil; and parental financial contributions as a cause and consequence of school segregation in Australia. The contributions highlight how selective schooling private schooling school funding school choice and school competition interact to shape school segregation as well as the consequences of school segregation on a range of student outcomes. Through its embrace of diversity of methodological approaches context and focus this book stimulates new lines of research in an important and growing field. Comparative Perspectives on School Segregation will be a key resource for academics researchers and advanced students of comparative education educational leadership and policy educational research ethnic studies research methods economics of education sociology of education history of education and educational psychology. The chapters included in this book were originally published as a special issue of Comparative Education.

GBP 130.00
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Personal Training Theory and Practice

Personal Training Theory and Practice

Personal Training: Theory and Practice Second Edition draws together in one unique volume the personal practical and business skills central to becoming a successful personal trainer. This accessible book introduces you to the fundamentals of applied exercise prescription and programme design as well as advanced concepts including nutritional intervention postural analysis and the psychology of behaviour change. Key Features- updated to reflect advances in training methodology and techniques in line with requirements for professional qualification- key points boxes chapter summaries and a glossary of scientific and technical concepts to aid understanding- full colour illustrations and photos to support visual learning- case studies and sample exercise plans to help you put theory into practice- supported by online resources such as self-assessment tests downloadable forms and session sheets at www. routledge. com/cw/crossley Personal Training: Theory and Practice is the ideal companion and handy reference for those embarking on a career in personal training as well as experienced trainers. Reviews of the first edition: 'the ideal companion to turn you from an amateur into a professional sports trainer. the only title tailored to meet the needs of UK-based personal training. ' Work Out'a gem of a book. clearly written and presented which makes it easy for both fitness professionals and lay people to understand. Definitely worth buying. ' Health and Fitness | Personal Training Theory and Practice

GBP 175.00
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The Nature of Literary Response Five Readers Reading

The Nature of Literary Response Five Readers Reading

In a rare fusion of literary sensibility with psychological research Norman N. Holland brings to light important data showing how personality in the fullest sense of character development and identity affects the way in which we read and interpret literature. This book will show that readers respond to literature in terms of their own lifestyle character personality or identity. By such terms psychoanalytic writers mean an individual's characteristic way of dealing with the demands of outer and inner reality. Each new experience develops the style while the pre-existing style shapes each new experience. The sub-title of this book Five Readers Reading reflects the fact that the author a distinguished literary critic worked with five student readers using a battery of psychological tests and extensive interviews to study the ways they reacted to classic short stories by Faulkner Hemingway and others. Combining his own interpretation of the stories with his understanding of the readers and their reactions Holland derives four principles that inform literary response. He then goes on to show how these principles apply not just to literary response but to the way personality shapes any experience. The book carries Holland's previous studies of creation and responsive recreation forward to a major theoretical statement. He rejects the artificial idea that one must think of a text (or other event) as separate from its perceivers illustrating the dynamics by which perceiver and perceived mutually create an experience. For critics and students of the psychology of human behavior this is challenging and seminal reading. | The Nature of Literary Response Five Readers Reading

GBP 130.00
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D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

Shortlisted for the ASLE-UKI Prize for Best Academic Monograph This is the first ecocritical book on the works of D. H. Lawrence and also the first to consider the links between nature and gender in the poetry and the novels. In his search for a balanced relationship between male and female characters what role does nature play in the challenges Lawrence offers his readers? How far are the anxieties of his characters in negotiating relationships that might threaten their sense of self derived from the same source as their anxieties about engaging with the Other in nature? Indeed might Lawrence’s metaphors drawn from nature actually be the causes of human actions in The Rainbow for example? The originality of Lawrence’s poetic and narrative strategies for challenging social attitudes towards both nature and gender can be revealed by new approaches offered by ecocritical theory and ecofeminist readings of his books. This book explores ecocritical notions to frame its ecofeminist readings from the difference between the ‘Other’ and ‘otherness’ in The White Peacock and Lady Chatterley’s Lover ‘anotherness’ in the poetry of Birds Beasts and Flowers psychogeography in Sea and Sardinia emergent ecofeminism in Sons and Lovers land and gender in The Boy in the Bush gender dialogics in Kangaroo human animality in Women in Love trees as tests in Aaron’s Rod to ‘radical animism’ in The Plumed Serpent. Finally three late tales provide a reassessment of ecofeminist insights into Lawrence’s work for readers in the present context of the Anthropocene. | D. H. Lawrence Ecofeminism and Nature

GBP 130.00
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Big Data and Competition Law Market Power Assessment in the Data-Driven Economy

Big Data and Competition Law Market Power Assessment in the Data-Driven Economy

Recent studies on competition law and digital markets reveal that accumulating personal information through data collection and acquisition methods benefits consumers considerably. Free of charge fast and personalised services and products are offered to consumers online. Collected data is now an indispensable part of online businesses to the point that a new economy a data-driven sector has emerged. Many markets such as the social network search engine online advertising and e-commerce are regarded as data-driven markets in which the utilisation of Big Data is a requisite for the success of operations. However the accumulation and use of data brings competition law concerns as they contribute to market power in the online world resulting in a few technology giants gaining unprecedented market power due to the Big Data accumulation indirect network effects and the creation of online ecosystems. As technology giants have billions of consumers worldwide data-driven markets are truly global. In these data-driven markets technology giants abuse their dominant positions but existing competition law tools seem ineffective in addressing market power and assessing abusive behaviour related to Big Data. This book argues that a novel approach to the data-driven sector must be developed through the application of competition law rules to address this. It argues that current and potential conflicts can be mitigated by extending the competition law assessment beyond the current competition law tools to offer a modernised and unified approach to the Big Data–related competition issues. Promoting new legal tests for addressing the market power of technology giants and assessing abusive behaviour in data-driven markets this book advocates for cooperation between competition and data protection authorities. It will be of interest to students academics and practitioners with an interest in competition law and data protection. | Big Data and Competition Law Market Power Assessment in the Data-Driven Economy

GBP 130.00
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Psychology and Work Today

Psychology and Work Today

Psychology and Work Today 11th Edition is an exciting update of a well-loved textbook that introduces industrial and organizational psychology explaining how industrial-organizational psychologists make work and working better. This accessible and informative text explains how industrial-organizational psychologists help organizations hire the best people by designing tests and interviews that uncover the skills and abilities of applicants make work better by removing or reducing safety issues and sources of stress so that personnel are motivated and able to perform to their abilities and work with managers and leaders to be more effective at leading others. This book also describes how industrial-organizational psychologists work with organizations to embrace diversity in the workforce and celebrate the strengths that employees from many backgrounds bring to organizations. In addition this text includes how psychologists help organizations to design the physical work environment to best suit employees while other psychologists help organizations to market their products and services to consumers. This text covers both the essential and traditional industrial-organizational psychology topic areas such as job analysis employee selection and work motivation as well as topic areas that are important in workplaces today such as stress and well-being human factors and preparing for jobs of the future. The chapter on consumer psychology remains unique to this textbook. This new edition includes coverage of employable skills desired by hiring managers and executives; the ways the highly publicized replicability crisis has affected the science and practice of industrial-organizational psychology; online and mobile employment testing; diversity and inclusion throughout the workplace including microaggressions; preparing people and organizations for jobs of the future; incivility and harassment at work including abusive supervision; safety climate and employee health; and advertising on social media and video games. Including many illustrative examples of industrial-organizational psychology in real-world workplaces the 11th Edition is thoroughly updated to include the latest theory research and practice on each key topic. Each chapter features defined key terms a chapter outline a chapter summary review questions annotated additional reading and engaging Newsbreak sections. The book will be of interest to undergraduate students in introduction industrial-organizational psychology or psychology of work behaviour courses.

GBP 170.00
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