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Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance Design

Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance Design

Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers presents a comprehensive introduction to the latest resources and technologies used in high performance and net zero energy buildings with a practical focus on the design and integration of these systems. This textbook and convenient reference offers a single-source guide to renewable technologies balancing broad knowledge with the details of implementation crucial for successful sustainable design. It equips students and professionals with foundations and critical information needed to confidently plan for and meet the highest standards of energy efficiency in new construction and retrofitted buildings. Part I of the book establishes key principles of renewable systems power production and design for climate introducing energy modeling and measurements of performance. Part II focuses in more depth on renewable energy systems including photovoltaics heat pumps solar thermal and more. Dedicated chapters break down the fundamental concepts behind each renewable technology and present guidelines for configuration and installation including system requirements equipment specification sizing and location of components. Part III discusses topics relevant across renewable systems including energy storage control and monitoring and cost/payback calculation. Part IV comprises case studies of exemplary renewable energy projects. Features: Covers resources and technologies including photovoltaics solar thermal hot water heat pumps biomass wind and microhydro turbines marine renewable energy deep cycle rechargeable batteries and system controllers. Compiles up-to-date essential information on designing with renewable systems in one location organized by technology for easy reference. Presents clear explanations of all concepts and system aspects using US/SI units and full-color diagrams and illustrations throughout. Features case studies of renewable energy systems in completed projects demonstrating a range of climate specific applications. Includes study questions a comprehensive guide to terminology and acronyms spreadsheets for calculations system sizing worksheets and additional online resources. Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers: Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance Design will serve as an essential introduction and enduring reference for students of architecture engineering construction and building science. Equally valuable as a professional resource it will quickly become the go-to guide for energy efficient design for practitioners in these areas. | Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers Fundamentals of Net Zero and High Performance Design

GBP 89.99
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The Climate–Energy–Land Nexus in Indonesia Biofuel REDD+ and biochar

The Climate–Energy–Land Nexus in Indonesia Biofuel REDD+ and biochar

This book extends the framework of the climate-energy-land nexus to elucidate political economic social and institutional factors and causal mechanisms that stringent climate targets bring about rather than mitigate a disproportional heavy burden on the forest sector in Indonesia. Assessing climate energy agricultural forest and transmigration policies and REDD+ and biochar solutions through a multidisciplinary approach ranging from biological agricultural technological economic and institutional lenses the book identifies the political-economic and socio-technical regimes that cause the crosssectoral transfer of responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions to palm-oil-based biofuel imposing an excess burden on the forest sector and accelerating indirect land-use change. It also proposes possible countermeasures for agricultural and forest sectors reconfirming that technical applications and integrated policymaking should trigger the socioeconomic changes that will make transformative change happen in Indonesia. As an analysis of the success or otherwise of stringent climate targets policies and technological and non-technological measures on the reduction of greenhouse gases this book will be of great interest to students and scholars in the fields of environment & sustainability Asian studies energy environment and agriculture forestry and agriculture & environmental sciences. It will also appeal to practitioners and policymakers tackling net-zero emissions and land and forest governance. | The Climate–Energy–Land Nexus in Indonesia Biofuel REDD+ and biochar

GBP 130.00
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Emission Trajectories and Mitigation Schemes for China

Emission Trajectories and Mitigation Schemes for China

This book seeks to model the possible emission trajectories and identify the feasible mitigation schemes for China to meet its climate commitments to peak emissions before 2030 and net zero emissions before 2060. In line with these ambitions China has taken a number of measures to improve carbon efficiency and energy structure in recent years. The book first analyzes changes in the carbon footprint at the city level identify the different pathways to peak emissions by province and industry and develop a bottom-up approach to determining when and how China could reach peak emissions. It then illustrates how the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) reduces abatement costs and examines the cost-saving effects under carbon intensity reduction and peak emissions targets. Based on the findings and the status quo in China the authors propose a multicriteria allocation scheme for carbon emission allowances at the provincial level and quantify the impact of sectoral coverage on the abatement costs of the ETS by developing a cost-based approach to sectoral coverage in China. In addition the co-benefits between CO2 and PM2. 5 reductions as a result of the ETS operation are elaborated. The book will benefit researchers and policy-makers interested in environmental governance climate policy environmental economics and sustainable development. | Emission Trajectories and Mitigation Schemes for China

GBP 130.00
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Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

This book investigates the origins current state and fundamental value of social safety nets in developing countries as well as their effectiveness in these settings. Social safety net programs (SSNPs) are critical because they keep those who are already vulnerable from falling deeper into poverty. Analysing how social safety nets benefit the most disadvantaged and marginalized members of society by allowing those in need to become financially stable more resilient and open up more opportunities for themselves this book shows that social safety nets (SSNs) are a collection of social services designed to protect people from the effects of economic and emotional hardship. Showing that the purpose of the safety net is not to provide permanent financial security but rather to provide temporary financial security during periodic shocks and how this applies in South Asia and also in parts of Africa this book will be of interest to all scholars and students of social policy sociology social work and Global South politics more generally. | Social Safety Nets and Poverty Reduction in Developing Countries

GBP 130.00
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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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Education Law

Education Law

Education Law Sixth Edition provides a comprehensive survey of the legal problems and issues confronting school leaders teachers and policymakers today. Court cases accompanied by explanation and analysis can help aspiring educators understand the subtlety and richness of the law. Accordingly each of the 12 thematic chapters begins with an overview concludes with a summary and balances an explanation of the important principles of education law with actual court decisions to illuminate those issues most relevant for educational policy and practice. This updated and expanded Sixth Edition includes: Revision of case law education policy and citations to reflect the most recent decisions and developments in the field. Cases and commentary on key topics such as constitutional rights of students in public schools school discipline safety and zero tolerance policies school choice and parental rights claims the regulation of charter schools and home-based education cyberbullying and the regulation of online speech racial and sexual harassment policies and collective bargaining unions and working conditions. eResources accessible at www. routledge. com/9780367195250 include a Glossary for students Chapter Outlines and Abstracts for instructors as well as Tables of Cases.

GBP 94.99
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Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

One dusty summer day in 1935 a young writer named Gennady Andreev-Khomiakov was released from the Siberian labor camp where he had spent the last eight years of his life. His total assets amounted to 25 rubles a loaf of bread five dried herrings and the papers identifying him as a convicted ?enemy of the people. ? From this hard-pressed beginning Andreev-Khomiakov would eventually work his way into a series of jobs that would allow him to travel and see more of ordinary life and work in the Soviet Union of the 1930s than most of his fellow Soviet citizens would ever have dreamed possible. Capitalizing on this rare opportunity Bitter Waters is Andreev-Khomiakov's eyewitness account of those tumultuous years a time when titanic forces were shaping the course of Russian history. Later to become a successful writer and editor in the Russiangr ommunity in the 1950s and 1960s Andreev-Khomiakov brilliantly uses this memoir to explore many aspects of Stalinist society. Forced collectivization Five Year Plans purges and the questionable achievements of ?shock worker brigades? are only part of this story. Andreev-Khomiakov exposes the Soviet economy as little more than a web of corruption a system that largely functioned through bribery barter and brute force?and that fell into temporary chaos when the German army suddenly invaded in 1941. Bitter Waters may be most valuable for what it reveals about Russian society during the tumultuous 1930s. From remote provincial centers and rural areas to the best and worst of Moscow and Leningrad Andreev-Khomiakov's series of deftly drawn sketches of people places and events provide a unique window on the hard daily lives of the people who built Stalin's Soviet Union. | Bitter Waters Life And Work In Stalin's Russia

GBP 130.00
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The Law of Public Communication

The Law of Public Communication

The twelfth edition of this classic textbook provides an overview of communication and media law including the most current legal developments. It explains laws affecting the daily work of writers broadcasters public relations practitioners photographers bloggers and other public communicators. By providing statutes and cases in an accessible manner even to students studying law for the first time the authors ensure that students acquire a firm grasp of the legal issues affecting the media. The book examines legal topics such as libel privacy intellectual property obscenity and access to information considering the development and current standing of relevant laws and important cases. It examines how these laws affect public political and commercial communication. The twelfth edition discusses hot topics such as proposals to modify Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act net neutrality legislation participant monitoring the actual malice standard for litigation against journalists and the Julian Assange Espionage Act prosecution. It also explores social media issues such as whether social media use by public officials constitutes a public forum liability for defamation and the operation of Facebook’s Oversight Board. The Law of Public Communication is an ideal core textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses in communication law and mass media law. Online resources include a test bank and PowerPoint slides.

GBP 89.99
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Strategic Finance for Criminal Justice Organizations

Strategic Finance for Criminal Justice Organizations

Traditionally the study of financial decision making in law enforcement and criminal justice entities has been approached from the perspective of tax revenues and budgeting that focus only on the past and present. Capital investments of cash flow provide future benefits to all organizations and among courses in business administration these notions of long-term financial management are critical to a sound understanding of organizational finance. Strategic Finance for Criminal Justice Organizations examines capital budgeting techniques from a quantitative perspective that targets the strategic future of revenues within the criminal justice and law enforcement sectors. Explaining capital budgeting concepts through the use of practical examples this volume discusses: Economics and the use of money as a tool to facilitate the exchange of goods and services Human decision making impediments to rendering objective decisions and methods for improving decision objectivity The consequences of making capital budgeting decisions the concept of risk and the time value of money The rendering of decisions using the payback time method and the mathematical formula necessary to use it The concept of discounting and decision rules for net present value How to make an internal rate of return financial decision The mathematical formula for the profitability ratio/index method and using it to make financial decisions In all organizations it is essential that financial decisions are made through informed insight considering all relevant factors. This volume contributes to improvements of the skills that are required to robustly render beneficial long-term strategic decisions within the law enforcement and criminal justice environment.

GBP 175.00
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Genocide A Comprehensive Introduction

Genocide A Comprehensive Introduction

Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction is the most wide-ranging textbook on genocide yet published. The book is designed as a text for upper-undergraduate and graduate students as well as a primer for non-specialists and general readers interested in learning about one of humanity’s enduring blights. Fully updated to reflect the latest thinking in this rapidly developing field this unique book: Provides an introduction to genocide as both a historical phenomenon and an analytical-legal concept including the concept of genocidal intent and the dynamism and contingency of genocidal processes. Discusses the role of state-building imperialism war and social revolution in fuelling genocide. Supplies a wide range of full-length case studies of genocides worldwide each with a supplementary study. Explores perspectives on genocide from the social sciences including psychology sociology anthropology political science/international relations and gender studies. Considers The Future of Genocide with attention to historical memory and genocide denial; initiatives for truth justice and redress; and strategies of intervention and prevention. Highlights of the new edition include: Nigeria/Biafra as a contested case of genocide Extensive new material on the Kurds Islamic State/ISIS and the civil wars/genocide in Iraq and Syria. Conflict and atrocities in the world’s newest state South Sudan. The role activities and constraints of the United Nations Office of Genocide Prevention. Many new testimonies from genocide victims survivors witnesses—and perpetrators. Dozens of new images including a special photographic essay. Written in clear and lively prose with over 240 illustrations and maps Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction remains the indispensable text for new generations of genocide study and scholarship. An accompanying website (www. genocidetext. net) features a broad selection of supplementary materials teaching aids and Internet resources. | Genocide A Comprehensive Introduction

GBP 175.00
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Maya for Games Modeling and Texturing Techniques with Maya and Mudbox

Maya for Games Modeling and Texturing Techniques with Maya and Mudbox

Well-known Maya professional Michael Ingrassia takes readers through his unique style of modeling: Image Based Modeling where efficient realistic models can be created very quickly. Ingrassia's techniques allow modelers to create exact replicas of their concept characters or objects. The techniques presented are very efficient and allow game modelers to quickly build out stand alone props to populate environments and game levels. Presented are tried and true techniques that the author has used successfully in game production for the past 10 years. Most if not all 3D books focus on basic box modeling techniques which are the basis for proper 3D modeling but not the complete solution. In the author's experience students who have learned through the Image Based Modeling brand have quickly excelled into effective modelers. One of the hardest things for any modeler to do is match their model EXACTLY to the concept art or photos they are provided. The insider tips in this book walk artists through this process. Artists begin with basic modeling and advance to a creating a complete scene and set design/game level. Rather than including sporadic models with zero association from to one another each model in the book becomes an integral part of an overall theme realistic in game development today. The accompanying downloadable resources include 8 exclusive video tutorials on advanced Maya techniques as bonus tracks for artists providing invaluable modeling rigging and texturing samples. Also an in-depth video on assembling a Killer Demo Reel showing simple but effective video editing techniques used by the author so that artists can learn how to get their work seen. The book not only teaches effective methodology but provides the user with impressive content for producing effective demo reels and portfolios. Pros and cons of demo reel website and artist representation are given along with insights into the expectations of game studios today. The video tutorials show users the finished product and then run through the process of step by step creation of that particular technique. | Maya for Games Modeling and Texturing Techniques with Maya and Mudbox

GBP 175.00
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