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Archaeological 3D GIS

Archaeological 3D GIS

Archaeological 3D GIS provides archaeologists with a guide to explore and understand the unprecedented opportunities for collecting visualising and analysing archaeological datasets in three dimensions. With platforms allowing archaeologists to link query and analyse in a virtual georeferenced space information collected by different specialists the book highlights how it is possible to re-think aspects of theory and practice which relate to GIS. It explores which questions can be addressed in such a new environment and how they are going to impact the way we interpret the past. By using material from several international case studies such as Pompeii Çatalhöyük as well as prehistoric and protohistoric sites in Southern Scandinavia this book discusses the use of the third dimension in support of archaeological practice. This book will be essential for researchers and scholars who focus on archaeology and spatial analysis and is designed and structured to serve as a textbook for GIS and digital archaeology courses. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license.

GBP 34.99
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Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit

Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit

Originally published in 1985 twenty-three chapters are brought together in 4 parts dealing with respectively problems in rural finance interest rate policies politics and finance and new directions for rural financial markets. In an introduction it is argued that cheap and abundant credit is often regarded as essential for rural development but that actions taken on the basis of this assumption have given disappointing results. Low-interest policies and the improper use of financial markets are seen as the principal reasons for this. It is recommended that higher and more flexible interest rates are allowed and that little or no attention is given to target loans. Informal lenders are thought to offer valuable services therefore they should not be discouraged. More emphasis should be put on voluntary savings mobilization and access to formal loans by non-farm rural firms. It is concluded that many traditional agricultural credit programmes are counterproductive and that attractive product and input prices together with higher yields would be more powerful in stimulating agricultural development. | Undermining Rural Development With Cheap Credit

GBP 39.99
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The Foundations of the South African Cheap Labour System

The Foundations of the South African Cheap Labour System

Originally published in 1982 this was the first in-depth study of the labour system of the South African gold mining industry during the crucial years 1886 to 1906. It provided an insight into the early period but was relevant for much longer as many of the policies decided upon in the formative years of the industry persisted. The book traces the growth of deep-level mining and covers the conflicts between miners and mine-owners . It discusses the effects on the gold mining industry of the Anglo-Boer War and the role of the mine-owners in that conflict. It also examines the role of Chinese labour as a strategy in the defence of the labour structure and finally discusses the origins of the racially discriminatory legislation which characterized the Apartheid system. | The Foundations of the South African Cheap Labour System

GBP 105.00
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The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

Linking traditional and local products to a specific area is increasingly felt as a necessity in a globalised market and Geographical Indications (GIs) are emerging as a multifunctional tool capable of performing this and many other functions. This book analyses the evolving nature of EU sui generis GIs by focusing on their key element the origin link and concludes that the history of the product in the broad sense has become a major factor to prove the link between a good and a specific place. For the first time this area of Intellectual Property Law is investigated from three different although interrelated perspectives: the history and comparative assessment of the systems of protection of Indications of Geographical Origin adopted in the European jurisdictions from the beginning of the 20th century; the empirical analysis of the trends emerging from the practice of EUGIs; and the policy debates surrounding them and their importance for the fulfilment of the general goals of the EU Common Agricultural Policy. The result is an innovative and rounded analysis of the very nature of the EU Law of GIs that starting from its past investigates the present and the likely future of this Intellectual Property Right. This book provides an interesting and innovative contribution to the field and will be of interest to GI scholars and Intellectual Property students as well as anyone willing to gain a better understanding of this compelling area of law. | The Transformation of EU Geographical Indications Law The Present Past and Future of the Origin Link

GBP 36.99
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Research on the Balance of Educational Resources Allocation and Spatial Layout

Research on the Balance of Educational Resources Allocation and Spatial Layout

Based on the spatial perspective this book takes the urban area of Xi'an China as the main research region and studies the balance of resource allocation focusing on educational resources and school layout. The author constructs a mathematical model to measure the level and types of resource allocation and regional differences in primary schools and uses GIS spatial analysis to explore the efficiency and fairness of school spatial layout. The book suggests a better way for the balanced development of basic education in Xi'an city. It also provides theoretical foundations analytical methods and empirical support for the study of balanced public resource management in public service urban planning and urban geography. This book is suitable for students and scholars of tourism management regional planning facilities and urban management and those interested in resource allocation in Chinese urban areas in general. | Research on the Balance of Educational Resources Allocation and Spatial Layout

GBP 130.00
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Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City

Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City

Visualizing Venice presents the ways in which the use of innovative technology can provide new and fascinating stories about places and times within history. Written by those behind the Visualizing Venice project this book explores the variety of disciplines and analytical methods generated by technologies such as 3D images and interoperable models GIS mapping and historical cartography databases video animations and applications for mobile devices and the web. The volume is one of the first collections of essays to integrate the theory and practice of visualization technologies with art architectural and urban history. The chapters demonstrate how new methodologies generated by technology can change and inform the way historians think and work and the potential that such methods have to revolutionize research teaching and public-facing communication. With over 30 images to support and illustrate the project’s work Visualizing Venice is ideal for academics and postgraduates of digital history digital humanities and early modern Italy. | Visualizing Venice Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City

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Gentrification Trends in the United States

Gentrification Trends in the United States

Gentrification Trends in the United States is the first book to quantify the changes that take place when a neighborhood’s income level educational attainment or occupational makeup outpace the city as a whole – the much-debated yet poorly understood phenomenon of gentrification. Applying a novel method to four decades of U. S. Census data this resource for students and scholars provides a quantitative basis for the nuanced demographic trends uncovered through ethnography and other forms of qualitative research. This analysis of a rich data source characterized by a broad regional and chronological scope provides new insight into larger questions about the nature and prevalence of gentrification across the United States. Has gentrification become more common over time? Which cities have experienced the most gentrification? Is gentrification widespread or does it tend to be concentrated in a small number of cities? Has the nature of gentrification changed over time? Ideal reading for courses in real estate urban planning urban economics sociology geography econometrics and GIS this pathbreaking addition to the urban studies literature will enrich the perspective of any scholar of U. S. cities.

GBP 34.95
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Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

Originally published in 1987 this book traces the broad outlines of urban food policy drawing attention to the limited knowledge of regional social history. Urban food supply systems in Africa have developed very fast in the midst of societies in which food production was not in general oriented to feeding distant populations of 'specialist consumers'. Institutional and political links had to be forged between town and country if food supply was to be cheap and predictable. This volume explores the political and material dynamics of urban food supply through 4 case studies: Kano Yaoundé Dar es Salaam and Harare. | Feeding African Cities Studies in Regional Social History

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How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

The goal of How to Make Maps is to equip readers with the foundational knowledge of concepts they need to conceive design and produce maps in a legible clear and coherent manner drawing from both classical and modern theory in cartography. This book is appropriate for graduate and undergraduate students who are beginning a course of study in geospatial sciences or who wish to begin producing their own maps. While the book assumes no a priori knowledge or experience with geospatial software it may also serve GIS analysts and technicians who wish to explore the principles of cartographic design. The first part of the book explores the key decisions behind every map with the aim of providing the reader with a solid foundation in fundamental cartography concepts. Chapters 1 through 3 review foundational mapping concepts and some of the decisions that are a part of every map. This is followed by a discussion of the guiding principles of cartographic design in Chapter 4—how to start thinking about putting a map together in an effective and legible form. Chapter 5 covers map projections the process of converting the curved earth’s surface into a flat representation appropriate for mapping. Chapters 6 and 7 discuss the use of text and color respectively. Chapter 8 reviews trends in modern cartography to summarize some of the ways the discipline is changing due to new forms of cartographic media that include 3D representations animated cartography and mobile cartography. Chapter 9 provides a literature review of the scholarship in cartography. The final component of the book shifts to applied technical concepts important to cartographic production covering data quality concepts and the acquisition of geospatial data sources (Chapter 10) and an overview of software applications particularly relevant to modern cartography production: GIS and graphics software (Chapter 11). Chapter 12 concludes the book with examples of real-world cartography projects discussing the planning data collection and design process that lead to the final map products. This book aspires to introduce readers to the foundational concepts—both theoretical and applied—they need to start the actual work of making maps. The accompanying website offers hands-on exercises to guide readers through the production of a map—from conception through to the final version—as well as PowerPoint slides that accompany the text. | How to Make Maps An Introduction to Theory and Practice of Cartography

GBP 35.99
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Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

Across the Corrupting Sea: Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean reframes current discussions of the Mediterranean world by rereading the past with new methodological approaches. The work asks readers to consider how future studies might write histories of the Mediterranean moving from the larger pan-Mediterranean approaches of The Corrupting Sea towards locally-oriented case studies. Spanning from the Archaic period to the early Middle Ages contributors engage the pioneering studies of the Mediterranean by Fernand Braudel through the use of critical theory GIS network analysis and postcolonial cultural inquiries. Scholars from several time periods and disciplines rethink the Mediterranean as a geographic and cultural space shaped by human connectivity and follow the flow of ideas ships trade goods and pilgrims along the roads and seascapes that connected the Mediterranean across time and space. The volume thus interrogates key concepts like cabotage seascapes deep time social networks and connectivity in the light of contemporary archaeological and theoretical advances in order to create new ways of writing more diverse histories of the ancient world that bring together local contexts literary materials and archaeological analysis. | Across the Corrupting Sea Post-Braudelian Approaches to the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean

GBP 38.99
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Space Movement and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

Space Movement and Visibility in Pompeian Houses

This volume examines the pivotal role of movement visibility and experience within Pompeian houses as a major factor determining house form; the use of space; and the manner meaning and modalities of domestic daily life through the application of GIS-based analysis. Through close consideration of ancient literature detailed explanations of methodology and exploration of results Michael Anderson provides new perspectives on Pompeian domestic space including room types and household activities that rarely feature in the discussion of ancient housing. Readers gain a better understanding of priorities in the design of Pompeian houses the degree to which daily life was interrupted by earthquake damage in the site’s final years and evolving motivations behind wall painting decoration. The volume not only explores how Pompeian houses reflected the needs of everyday life as imagined by their architects but also how these spaces served to influence and control daily activities and ultimately how they were transformed by the spatial and visual requirements of domestic life. Space Movement and Visibility in Pompeian Houses is suitable for students and scholars of Pompeian houses and domestic life Roman architecture and urbanism and spatial analysis and space syntax.

GBP 120.00
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Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

The TRIPS Agreement (for trade-related intellectual property rights) provides for the general protection of geographical indications (GIs) of product origin including for example the special protection of wines and spirits and for the creation of a multilateral register for wines. The African Group of countries has been in the forefront of countries agitating in the World Trade Organization TRIPS Council for the extension of this special protection and of the multilateral register to industries which are of interest to developing countries primarily agriculture. The so-called extension question is the central feature of the Doha Development Agenda at both the WTO and World Intellectual Property Organization. This book provides some empirical evidence and applied legal and economic reasoning to this debate. It provides both a general review of the key issues and a series of case studies from six Anglophone and four Francophone countries in Africa. These focus on major agricultural commodities such as coffee cotton cocoa and tea as well as more specific and local products such as Argan oil and Oku white honey. | Extending the Protection of Geographical Indications Case Studies of Agricultural Products in Africa

GBP 46.99
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Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

Following on from the ground-breaking first edition which received the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award this fully updated text includes new chapters on current issues in the built environment such as GIS and mapping climate change and qualitative approaches. Place attachments are powerful emotional bonds that form between people and their physical surroundings. They inform our sense of identity create meaning in our lives facilitate community and influence action. Place attachments have bearing on such diverse issues as rootedness and belonging placemaking and displacement mobility and migration intergroup conflict civic engagement social housing and urban redevelopment natural resource management and global climate change. In this multidisciplinary book Manzo and Devine-Wright draw together the latest thinking by leading scholars from around the globe including contributions from scholars such as Daniel Williams Mindy Fullilove Randy Hester and David Seamon to capture significant advancements in three main areas: theory methods and applications. Over the course of fifteen chapters using a wide range of conceptual and applied methods the authors critically review and challenge contemporary knowledge identify significant advances and point to areas for future research. This important volume offers the most current understandings about place attachment a critical concept for the environmental social sciences and placemaking professions. | Place Attachment Advances in Theory Methods and Applications

GBP 42.99
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Strategies for Landscape Representation Digital and Analogue Techniques

Strategies for Landscape Representation Digital and Analogue Techniques

Strategies for Landscape Representation discusses a variety of digital and analogue production techniques for the representation of landscape at multiple scales. Careful consideration is required to represent time and to ensure accuracy of representation and evaluation in the landscape. Written as a guide for making appropriate selection of a wide variety of visualisation tools for students and built environment professionals with an interest in landscape the book charts emerging technologies and historical contexts whilst also being relevant to landscape legislation such as Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Landscape Assessment. This book is an innovation-driven text that encourages readers to make connections between software technology and analogue modes. The management choice and combination of such modes can arguably narrow the unknown of landscape character address the issues of representing time and change in landscape and engage and represent communities perceptions and experience of landscape. Showcasing international examples from landscape architecture planning urban design and architecture artists visualisers geographers scientists and model makers the vitality of making and intrinsic value of representational work in these processes and sites is evidenced. An accompanying companion website provides access to original source files and tutorials totalling over a hundred hours in mapping and GIS diagrams and notation photomontage 3D modelling and 3D printing. | Strategies for Landscape Representation Digital and Analogue Techniques

GBP 175.00
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Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

It is widely accepted that the Viking Age (c. 800–1050) stimulated the development of long-distance regional and local trade and exchange networks. The clearest archaeological evidence for these contacts is mainly in the form of silver artefacts predominantly found in hoards in Northern and Central Europe – the Baltic zone. However beyond occasional national- or regional-level research there have been no attempts at a historically guided comparative archaeological survey of the Baltic zone as a whole. By investigating silver hoards and the context of their deposition Viking Silver Hoards and Containers seeks to understand the variety of functions performed by hoards; the differences in function within regions; the hoards’ relationship with trade; and the nature and function of emporia. It also examines the extent to which the findings mesh with literary evidence and the nature of the different societies benefiting from the influx of silver in the Viking Age. Crucially the book features a catalogue which provides a thorough overview and update of Baltic-zone hoards. Viking Silver Hoards and Containers is intended for use by students of and specialists in early medieval Viking and Slavic history and archaeology. However it will also be a useful teaching resource for other general courses in archaeology anthropology and material culture numismatics economic history religious studies GIS and statistics. | Viking Silver Hoards and Containers The Archaeological and Historical Context of Viking-Age Silver Coin Deposits in the Baltic c. 800–1050

GBP 39.99
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Practical Research Methods for Nonprofit and Public Administrators

Practical Research Methods for Nonprofit and Public Administrators

Practical Research Methods for Nonprofit and Public Administrators Second Edition covers basic principles of research design data collection data analysis reporting and ethical principles of research. The discussion describes the skills as they would be used in practice in a not-for-profit or public administration environment. The book gives pragmatic instructions for designing research to ensure that results will be accurate and administrators can have confidence in them. It covers techniques to assure that researchers are measuring what they intend to measure and in a way that will be useful and manageable. Sampling methods to find out about larger populations are discussed as are survey interview and focus group data collection procedures. The book describes how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are used to obtain information on the locations of service needs and providers and to draw maps showing these. Participatory research methods including community needs assessments and asset mapping are discussed. The book includes chapters on statistical analysis visual displays of data reporting of results and evaluation of programs. The use of computer programs for analyzing data is detailed and illustrated by examples. The appropriate software for analysis and mapping is discussed. A chapter updates the ethics and government requirements for research. Each chapter includes examples and exercises to enhance learning. The book is intended for administrators in not-for-profit and public administration organizations providing practical skills that can be used in many situations. It is also intended for use as a text in academic programs in administration and management.

GBP 94.99
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Print and the Celtic Languages Publishing and Reading in Irish Welsh Gaelic and Breton 1700–1900

Print and the Celtic Languages Publishing and Reading in Irish Welsh Gaelic and Breton 1700–1900

This book is a study of the print cultures of the four principal Celtic languages — Irish Welsh Gaelic and Breton — in the crucial period between 1700 and 1900. Over the past four centuries the Celtic languages of northwest Europe have followed contrasting paths of maintenance and decline. This was despite their common lack of official recognition and use and their common distance from the centres of political power. This volume analyses publishing circulation and reading in the four languages particularly at a popular level showing the different levels of overall activity as well as the distinctions in the types of printed texts between regions. The approach is a broad one considering all printed books down to very small cheap formats. It explores the interactions between the different regions and the continuation of print culture within diasporic communities. This volume will appeal to book historians to scholars of the four languages and their literature and to students of Celtic studies. | Print and the Celtic Languages Publishing and Reading in Irish Welsh Gaelic and Breton 1700–1900

GBP 130.00
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The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis

The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis

The Routledge Reviewer’s Guide to Mixed Methods Analysis is a groundbreaking edited book – the first devoted solely to mixed methods research analyses or mixed analyses. Each of the 30 seminal chapters authored by internationally renowned scholars provides a simple and practical introduction to a method of mixed analysis. Each chapter demonstrates how to conduct the analysis in easy-to-understand language. Many of the chapters present new topics that have never been written before and all chapters offer cutting-edge approaches to analysis. The book contains the following four sections: Part I Quantitative Approaches to Qualitative Data (e. g. factor analysis of text multidimensional scaling of qualitative data); Part II Qualitative Approaches to Quantitative Data (e. g. qualitizing data mixed methodological discourse analysis); Part III Inherently Mixed Analysis Approaches (e. g. qualitative comparative analysis mixed methods social network analysis social media analytics as mixed analysis GIS as mixed analysis); and Part IV Use of Software for Mixed Data Analysis (e. g. QDA Miner WordStat MAXQDA NVivo SPSS). The audience for this book includes (a) researchers evaluators and practitioners who conduct a variety of research projects and who are interested in using innovative analyses that will allow them to extract more from their data; (b) academics including faculty who would use this book in their scholarship as well as in their graduate-level courses and graduate students who need access to a comprehensive set of mixed analysis tools for their dissertations/theses and other research assignments and projects; and (c) computer-assisted data analysis software developers who are seeking additional mixed analyses to include within their software programs. Chapter 24 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license.

GBP 59.99
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Using Technology in Human Services Education Going the Distance

Using Technology in Human Services Education Going the Distance

Make the most of what today’s technology has to offer in human services education! Distance education presents special challenges to social work education. Using Technology in Human Services Education: Going the Distance provides case studies and practical research on making the best use of this powerful new tool for teaching. Designed for both practitioners and educators this fascinating book examines the use of technology in education and practice in the field of social work and other human services. Because setting up distance-learning programs can be expensive Using Technology in Human Services Education suggests ways to reduce the impact on the budget including setting up a consortium to merge resources with other schools. It also shows how to integrate traditional instructional approaches with the new technologies how to make use of email and electronic discussion groups and how to use the Internet to hone practice-related skills. In addition it covers the current status of the technology itself. Using Technology in Human Services Education: Going the Distance explores ways to maximize the potential of distance education such as: a framework for designing distance education courses that fully utilize the unique environments these courses offer a discussion of the impact of technological tools in teaching specific course content ways that SACs (Site Advisory Committees) can increase students’ socialization into their new professions ways that students need to be supported in order to feel a connection to a distance-learning program the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) to help meet and identify the information needs of a field placement agencyUsing Technology in Human Services Education offers creative approaches and practical advice for making the best use of the technology. Whatever your level of computer skill from novice to hacker this book will give you ideas | Using Technology in Human Services Education Going the Distance

GBP 120.00
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Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

How does space illuminate educational inequity?Where and how can spatial analysis be used to disrupt educational inequity?Which tools are most appropriate for the spatial analysis of educational equity?This book addresses these questions and explores the use of critical spatial analysis to uncover the dimensions of entrenched and systemic racial inequities in educational settings and identify ways to redress them. The contributors to this book – some of whom are pioneering scholars of critical race spatial analysis theory and methodology – demonstrate the application of the theory and tools applied to specific locales and in doing so illustrate how this spatial and temporal lens enriches traditional approaches to research. The opening macro-theoretical chapter lays the foundation for the book rooting spatial analyses in critical commitments to studying injustice. Among the innovative methodological chapters included in this book is the re-conceptualization of mapping and space beyond the simple exploration of external spaces to considering internal geographies highlighting how the privileged may differ in socio-spatial thinking from oppressed communities and what may be learned from both perspectives; data representations that allow the construction of varied narratives based on differences in positionality and historicity of perspectives; the application of redlining to the analysis of classroom interactions; the use of historical archives to uncover the process of marginalization; and the application of techniques such as the fotonovela and GIS to identify how spaces are defined and can be reimagined. The book demonstrates the analytical and communicative power of mapping and its potential for identifying and dismantling racial injustice in education. The editors conclude by drawing connections across sections and elucidating the tensions and possibilities for future research. ContributorsBenjamin BlaisdellGraham S. GarlickLeigh Anna HidalgoMark C. HogrebeJoshua RadinskyDaniel G. SolórzanoWilliam F. TateVerónica N. VélezFederico R. Waitoller | Critical Race Spatial Analysis Mapping to Understand and Address Educational Inequity

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Visualising Place Memory and the Imagined

Visualising Place Memory and the Imagined

This book probes into how communities and social groups construct their understanding of the world through real and imagined experiences of place. The book seeks to connect the dots of the factual and the imaginary that formaffective networks of identities which help shape local memory and sense of self and community as well as a sense of the past. It exploits the concept of make-believe spaces – in the environment storytelling and mnemonic narratives – as a social framework that aligns and informs the everyday memory worlds of communities. Drawing upon fieldwork in cultural heritage community archaeology social history and conflict history and anthropology this text offers a methodological framework within which social groups may position and enact the multiple senses of place and senses of the past inhabited and performed in different cultural contexts. This book serves to illustrate a useful visualisation methodology which can be used in participatory fieldwork and thus will be of interest to heritage specialists ethnographers and cultural geographers and oral history practitioners who will particularly find the methodology cheap easy to replicate and enjoyable for community-based projects. | Visualising Place Memory and the Imagined

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The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design

The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design

The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design explores the history of interior decorating and design from the late nineteenth century to the present highlighting the careers and contributions of significant American female interior designers who were instrumental in the creation of the field of residential and commercial interior design in the United States. This book explores how interior design emerged as a distinct paying occupation in the nineteenth century thanks to a growing middle class and an increase in available cheap household goods following the Industrial Revolution. Focusing primarily on the period from 1905 to 1960 it addresses the complex relationships among professionals in the design fields the social dynamics of designer-client relationships and how class culture and family influenced their lives and careers. The book emphasizes significant female interior decorators and writers on design including Candace Wheeler Elsie de Wolfe Edith Wharton Nancy McClelland Ruby Ross Wood Dorothy Draper Eleanor McMillen Brown and Sister Parish all of whom are underrepresented in the historical record relating their stories within the context of the history of design and architecture. This book is an ideal and concise resource for students and faculty of interior design and women’s history.

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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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Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

Canon Speedlites and Nikon Speedlights are small off-camera flashguns that can provide big results - if you know how to use them properly. Acclaimed Boston photographers Lou Jones Bob Keenan and Steve Ostrowski guide you through the technical and creative aspects of how to get the most out of these powerful tools in this indispensable guide packed full of inspirational images and comprehensive diagrams of the lighting set ups used to capture them. They are significantly more advanced lighter and considerably cheaper than a standard flashgun and have many advantages. They are small (and cheap) enough that a number can be carried in your kit and they can be used in combination triggered wirelessly. They use through-the-lens (TTL) metering which allows you to use the in-camera LCD and histograms to calculate the required power/direction rather than havng to use a light meter or trial and error. They use proprietary dedicated technology (from Canon and Nikon) that means there are no compatability issues. Getting the most out of them however remains a mystery - most photographers still just use their speedlights in the same way as a standard flash gun. This is where this book comes in. | Speedlights & Speedlites Creative Flash Photography at Lightspeed Second Edition

GBP 175.00
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Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

In the years Bbetween the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the beginning of the war mobilization boom in 1930 collieries in Europe and America embraced new technologies and had long since been excluded women from working underground. In Japan however mining women witnessed no significant changes in working practices over this period. The availability of the cheap and abundant labor of these women allowed the captains of the coal industry in Japan to avoid expensive investments in new machinery and sophisticated mining methods; instead they continued to intensely exploit workers and markets intensively making substantial profits without the burdens of extensive mechanization. This unique book explores the lives of the thousands of women who labored underground in Japan’s coal mines in the years 1868 to 1930. It examines their working lives their family lives their aspirations achievements and disappointments. Drawing heavily on interview material with the miners themselves W. Donald Burton combines translations of their stories with features of Japanese society at the time and coal mining technology. In doing so he presents a complex account of the women’s lives as well as providing a keen insight intoon gender relations and the industrial and labor history of Japan. Coal Mining Women in Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japanese history gender studies and industrial history. | Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

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