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Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

The field of infectious diseases in veterinary medicine is both rewarding and challenging and this book offers small animal veterinarians a lifeline by balancing relevant background guidance and optimizing efficiency. It provides a pathway for clinicians through this complex field by highlighting the most clinically relevant aspects of a wide range of diseases and granting them consideration for placement on dog and cat differential lists. Organized according to a system-based structure all the major clinically affected systems are covered along with a catch-all multisystem chapter for infectious diseases that escape easy classification. The book is clinically oriented based on experience underpinned by published research data. Pathogen-specific information enables rational choice of diagnostics therapy and prognostication for a complete list of small animal infectious diseases that includes bacterial viral parasitic/protozoal and fungal pathogens. This concise reference guide will be an invaluable tool for clinicians as they develop their understanding of and ability to communicate about infectious diseases of the dog and cat. Key features:Provides a clinically oriented quick reference guide Includes all major small animal infectious diseasesContains over 300 superb color illustrations | Infectious Diseases of the Dog and Cat A Color Handbook

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A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume II

A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume II

First published in 1805 this work summarises the vast array of laws at the time on the relief of the poor in Great Britain. Split across two volumes it not only condenses the laws themselves but also disentangles the theory and doctrine of each law and explains how the theory should have been applied in practice. This work will be a valuable primary source for those studying 19th poor relief and welfare. | A Treatise of the Laws for the Relief and Settlement of the Poor Volume II

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Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

Intended for those who train and handle cadaver dogs this book also encompasses information for those who work closely with them such as police death investigators and anthropologists. Its interdisciplinary approach is useful to any member of a forensic team who regularly participates in or evaluates the results of the human remains search effort. Cadaver Dog Handbook sets out the principles and procedures for the training and handling of dogs for the location of human remains. It explains scent theory and its applications introduces basic training and searching strategies/tactics and covers the legal and taphonomic issues associated with dog searches. Intended for those who train and handle cadaver dogs this book also encompasses information for those who work closely with them such as police death investigators and anthropologists. Its interdisciplinary approach is useful to any member of a forensic team who regularly participates in or evaluates the results of the human remains search effort. | Cadaver Dog Handbook Forensic Training and Tactics for the Recovery of Human Remains

GBP 66.99
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Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat

Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat

A Colour Handbook of Skin Diseases of the Dog and Cat was one of the first books to bring key information about skin diseases to clinicians in an easy-to-use problem-oriented format. This fully revised and updated Third Edition responds to the huge growth in knowledge about skin conditions over the last decade including the discovery of new conditions the development of new approaches to management and effective new treatment options. Chapters are organized based on symptoms each containing a decision tree giving basic and practical guidance. The clear user-friendly design provides one condition per page (or spread of pages). 13 chapters covering over 120 skin claw and ear conditions classified by their principle presenting sign. Concise systematically structured text covering definition aetiology and pathogenesis clinical features differential diagnoses diagnostic tests and management. Flow charts in each chapter to help clinicians get to the right diagnosis. Special focus on diseases affecting paediatric patients as well as chapters discussing paw ear and nasal planum diseases. Explanation of new treatments for atopic dermatitis. Over 350 superb colour photographs and diagrams mostly new for this this edition. A focus on clinical practice and the need to explain the disease to the owner. Up-to-date and fully referenced throughout. This practical book continues to provide an entirely comprehensive guide to the diagnosis and management of veterinary skin conditions in a format that is easily accessible for busy clinicians.

GBP 51.99
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Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific Agency and Resilience

Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific Agency and Resilience

A UN report recently found that the Asia Pacific is the world’s most disaster-prone region. Indeed considering that the region accounts for more than half of the total number of disasters in the world building capacity and resilience to mitigate the devastating impact of disasters is a pressing task for local actors. This book takes a regional multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach to improve understandings of how various actors respond to natural and human-induced disasters in the Asia-Pacific region. It examines the ideas and activities of four different categories of agents: civil society; military and state institutions; local cultural knowledge and the media; and economic initiatives and these themes are approached from various academic disciplines ranging from anthropology and cultural studies to economics human geography and political science. The contributors draw their findings from a variety of countries in the region including China Fiji India Indonesia Japan Myanmar and Samoa and importantly focus on the interconnection between vulnerability and resilience. In turn the book highlights how the nature and magnitude of disasters are influenced by social conditions and aims to contribute to policies that prioritize development opportunities to enhance resilience. Further it explores the complicated and multifaceted role of agency in building resilience and presents a comparative framework for analysis and key findings from the Asia-Pacific region. The focus of this book on recent and ongoing disasters makes it a topical and timely contribution to the growing field of disaster management and as such it will appeal to students and scholars of environmental studies development studies and Asian politics. | Disaster Relief in the Asia Pacific Agency and Resilience

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Detector Dogs and Scent Movement How Weather Terrain and Vegetation Influence Search Strategies

Detector Dogs and Scent Movement How Weather Terrain and Vegetation Influence Search Strategies

Dogs detect scent from a source that is carried to them in a plume by the wind. The most important tool for a detector dog handler to have on searches is a knowledge of scent plume movement or scent dynamics (the science of scent movement). Such knowledge resides primarily in scientific journals that are largely inaccessible to detector dog handlers and written in language that is difficult to understand. Detector Dogs and the Science of Scent Movement: A Handler’s Guide to Environments and Procedures retrieves reviews and interprets the results of pertinent scientific research on scent dynamics and presents these results in terms that are easier for handlers to understand. Information on the physiology of the dog’s nose their sense of smell and the properties of scent provide the essential information on the process of scenting. The composition of training aids for explosives narcotics human remains and other sources is discussed. Recommendations are made on the use of training aids their placement during training and the resulting availability of scent. Potential problems and handler errors in the use of training aids are also examined. The characteristics of scent plumes and how wind influences their movement are a key focus of the book. The primary task for the handler is to get the dog into the scent plume so that the dog can detect the scent and follow it to the source the handler seeks. As such a knowledge of scent and scent plume movement will vastly improve the ability of the handler to accomplish this task. The influence of weather and physical settings such as terrain vegetation ground cover soil and water on scent movement are examined in detail. Strategies for searching detecting and locating sources in all physical settings are presented. Specific effects associated with hills and mountains fields and forests bare soils and soils covered by vegetation different soil types and lakes and rivers are examined in detail. This includes specific recommendations are made about weather and physical settings that result in higher probability of success on searches. Detector Dogs and the Science of Scent Movement will be a vital resource for K9 handles in the private and public sectors—including in Homeland Security law enforcement and military settings—as well as a useful guide for lawyers forensic and investigative professionals who need to better understand K9 operations. | Detector Dogs and Scent Movement How Weather Terrain and Vegetation Influence Search Strategies

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Ecocinema in the City

Ecocinema in the City

In Ecocinema in the City Murray and Heumann argue that urban ecocinema both reveals and critiques visions of urban environmentalism. The book emphasizes the increasingly transformative power of nature in urban settings explored in both documentaries and fictional films such as Children Underground White Dog Hatari! and Lives Worth Living. The first two sections—Evolutionary Myths Under the City and Urban Eco-trauma—take more traditional ecocinema approaches and emphasize the city as a dangerous constructed space. The last two sections—Urban Nature and Interdependence and The Sustainable City—however bring to life the vibrant relationships between human and nonhuman nature. Ecocinema in the City provides a space to explore these relationships revealing how ecocinema shows that both human and nonhuman nature can interact sustainably and thrive.

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Jane Austen's Emma

Jane Austen's Emma

First published in 1968 Jane Austen’s Emma is a critical study of Miss Austen’s last completed novel. While often pausing to analyse and comment on major contemporary critics Dr. Burrows provides a detailed insight into this outstanding novel. He has clarified certain of the book’s qualities placing detail back into its proper context and perspective. Comic relief is contrasted with the serious and the sensitivity and capacity for change of her chief personages and the subtle use of such of Austen’s words as ‘sensible’ and ‘amiable’ are deftly treated. A select bibliography is included. This book will be of interest to students of literature women’s studies gender studies as well as to casual readers of Jane Austen’s novels. | Jane Austen's Emma

GBP 85.00
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Prevention of Pressure Sores Engineering and Clinical Aspects

Prevention of Pressure Sores Engineering and Clinical Aspects

Prevention of Pressure Sores: Engineering and Clinical Aspects collects together material from throughout the literature. The book first discusses the causes of pressure sores and then describes warning signs and behavior to prevent the incidence of pressure sores. It also examines the numerous different devices used to alleviate and prevent pressure sores including various types of seat cushions hospital beds complex pressure relief methods wheelchair pressure reliefs and other preventative methods. After comparing the accuracy of various methods of measuring pressure distributions using different types of sensors the book discusses the treatment of pressure sores. It contains a large number of references allowing readers to refer back to the important original work in the different fields of this subject. | Prevention of Pressure Sores Engineering and Clinical Aspects

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Modern Management of Endometriosis

Modern Management of Endometriosis

Endometriosis - a condition in which the lining of the uterus grows in other abdominal locations - is one of the most common causes of severe period pain pelvic pain and abnormal bleeding in women. Untreated it may result in long-term complications such as pelvic adhesions ovarian cysts and infertility. At times bowel bladder and ureters may also be damaged. Although medical options are available for some women laparoscopy is always needed to confirm the diagnosis and often surgical intervention - by removing the endometriotic implants ovarian cysts and repairing tubal damage - usually produces immediate results in terms of pain relief and improved fertility. This major new book written by an internationally recognized team of experts covers the full range of surgical interventions for diagnosing and treating endometriosis. | Modern Management of Endometriosis

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Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery

Minimally invasive procedures are increasingly utilized and are replacing open surgery to reduce scarring and pain enhance patient recovery and minimize cost. Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery provides step-by-step guidance expert instruction and detailed illustration of current minimally invasive orthopedic spine procedures. With a variety of chapters covering critical developments in the field—including the utilization of biologic materials image-guided surgery and bone fusion—this guide delves into discussions of indications methods for preoperative planning complication avoidance strategies and patient outcomes. Covering emerging technologies and biological advances that will result in smaller incisions less trauma and enhanced patient rehabilitation this book:Helps surgeons identify key anatomical structures for minimally invasive accessConsiders preoperative planning complications and outcomes for all operative methodsUpdates surgeons on significant advances in bone graft substitutes for spine fusionDetails decompression and mini-open surgical techniques—all intended to achieve less traumatic surgical treatments and improve patient outcomesIncludes a section on needle-based procedures for chronic pain relief

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Early Warning-Based Multihazard and Disaster Management Systems

Early Warning-Based Multihazard and Disaster Management Systems

This book describes in detail disaster management principles with applications through software and early warning systems. The aim is to introduce the concept of advanced technology for disaster management. Hence it starts with a basic introduction and the types of disasters this technology will address. It then examines these functions by taking into account various factors vulnerable to disaster losses. Finally the results are discussed with the aid of software: OPNET and SAHANA Disaster Management Tool. The application of sensor systems to manage a disaster is also extensively discussed. FeaturesIntroduces the concept of disaster management from the perspective of application of advanced technologies for disaster management Provides an overview of applied electronics for disaster applicationsExamines the role of efficient and robust Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems for reduction of response time and for augmenting meaningful usage of resources during the disaster management phases of relief response recovery and rehabilitation | Early Warning-Based Multihazard and Disaster Management Systems

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Herbal Treatment of Major Depression Scientific Basis and Practical Use

Herbal Treatment of Major Depression Scientific Basis and Practical Use

This unique volume presents new understandings of the neurochemical nature of major depression and how herbs and their constituent flavonoids and terpenes appear to address some of the mechanisms now thought to be involved. It explores how recent studies of the rapid antidepressant effects of ketamine inform neuroscientists about deep intracellular mechanisms of antidepressant action that have little to do with simple enhancement of monoaminergic activity. These mechanisms include actions on PI3K Akt mTOR GSK3 BDNF and other intracellular pathways. New theories of the pathophysiology underlying major depression such as oxidative damage inflammation stress and insulin resistance are then explored. Key Features:Focuses on oxidative damage inflammation and metabolic syndrome. Explains that a significant percentage of people treated for major depression obtain little if any relief from standard antidepressant medications. These facts lead to discussion of herbs that can be used to treat major depression as well as consideration of the scientific basis for how these herbs act. The antidepressant properties of 66 herbs are discussed along with dosing and safety information. | Herbal Treatment of Major Depression Scientific Basis and Practical Use

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Malaysia’s New Ethnoscapes and Ways of Belonging

Malaysia’s New Ethnoscapes and Ways of Belonging

This book provides a picture of a globalized Malaysia where its conventionally-conceived multi-ethnic composition of Malays Chinese Indians and Others rub shoulders with or interact more intimately on a daily basis with transnational ethnoscapes of migrant workers asylum seekers international students and foreign spouses. It asks how as Malaysians become wedded to their citizenship they extend the same awareness of rights and claims to non-citizens such as African international students the Indonesian maids who look after their children and the Chins and stateless Rohingyas who populate the landscape as refugees and undocumented workers. What are the possibilities of forming cosmopolitan solidarities with non-Malaysians? And what are the newcomers’ strategies for place-making and belonging? And to bring the discussions of citizenship in Malaysia into relief it is also asked how Malaysians abroad seek to enact and make meaningful their Malaysian citizenship. A diversity of experiences shapes the narratives in the chapters: of racialization rejection boundary-making and exclusivity resilience and adaptation. This book was published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies. | Malaysia’s New Ethnoscapes and Ways of Belonging

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Environmental Illness Myth & Reality

Environmental Illness Myth & Reality

Environmental illness: certain health professionals and clinical ecologists claim it impacts and inhibits 15 percent of the population. Its afflicted are led to believe environmental illness (EI) originates with food chemicals and other stimuli in their surroundings -as advocates call for drastic measures to remedy the situation. What if relief proves elusive-and the patient is sent on a course of ongoing costly and ineffective treatment?Several hundred individuals who believed they were suffering from EI have been evaluated or treated by Herman Staudenmayer since the 1970s. Staudenmayer believed the symptoms harming his patients actually had psychophysiological origins-based more in fear of a hostile world than any suspected toxins contained in the environment. Staudenmayer's years of research clinical work-and successful care-are now summarized in Environmental Illness: Myth & Reality. Dismissing much of the information that has attempted to defend EI and its culture of victimization Staudenmayer details the alternative diagnoses and treatments that have helped patients recognize their true conditions-and finally overcome them often after years of prolonged suffering. | Environmental Illness Myth & Reality

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Metanarrative and the Environment A Story of Morality Agency and Governance

Metanarrative and the Environment A Story of Morality Agency and Governance

To meet the challenge of global environmental degradation activists have tackled clear and concrete problems such as carbon emissions and climate change the ruination of ecosystems and habitat the precipitous loss of biodiversity and many other unhappy consequences of irresponsible human behaviour. However all such efforts to manually correct the course of history have been dwarfed by the magnitude and heavy forward momentum of modern industrial society. In Metanarrative and the Environment Stephen James Purdey argues that material approaches to the environmental crisis cannot succeed without the power of a legitimating discourse – a new metanarrative – which fundamentally changes the ideational landscape of human development. Dr. Purdey begins in Part I by establishing the pragmatics of our environmental predicament – its roots and responses to it. He focuses on the concept definition and key features of metanarrative introducing the hegemonic story that now rules the contemporary global mindscape. Part II takes on the moral problematic more directly encouraging the evolution of a new metanarrative by bringing our potential for agency in the face of danger into sharper relief. Metanarrative and the Environment is multidisciplinary with a particular emphasis on the creative humanities. It will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students alike as well as environmental activists and academics looking for a new way forward. | Metanarrative and the Environment A Story of Morality Agency and Governance

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Human Scent Evidence

Human Scent Evidence

During the last decade a significant number of scientific studies have supported the use of human scent as a biometric tool and indicator of the presence or absence of an individual at a crime scene. These findings even extend to conducting scent identification line-ups with suspects. Human Scent Evidence focuses on some of these recent advances in the use of human scent as forensic evidence and as an identifier. Topics include:Various theories of human odor productionThe variability stability and persistence of human scent Historical aspects of the use of human scent in police work in the United States and internationallyCurrent trends in scent collection techniques including devices materials and storage protocolsChemical aspects of the evaluation of human scent including instrumental methods for odor detection and analysisThe legal significance of human scent evidence resultsCanine scent work from multiple search categories as described in the Scientific Working Group on Dog and Orthogonal detector Guidelines (SWGDOG)Human scent evidence may be of critical use in many cases where other types of evidence such as DNA fingerprints or fibers are not readily available. As such it can be a valuable tool in forensic investigations. With examples from North and South America and Europe this book draws upon an extensive literature review of past and current research and is enhanced with findings from the authors’ own research. It concludes with a glimpse of the future direction of human scent evidence in the forensic field and its application as a biometric and diagnostic tool.

GBP 62.99
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Game Engine Architecture Third Edition

Game Engine Architecture Third Edition

In this new and improved third edition of the highly popular Game Engine Architecture Jason Gregory draws on his nearly two decades of experience at Midway Electronic Arts and Naughty Dog to present both the theory and practice of game engine software development. In this book the broad range of technologies and techniques used by AAA game studios are each explained in detail and their roles within a real industrial-strength game engine are illustrated. New to the Third Edition This third edition offers the same comprehensive coverage of game engine architecture provided by previous editions along with updated coverage of: computer and CPU hardware and memory caches compiler optimizations C++ language standardization the IEEE-754 floating-point representation 2D user interfaces plus an entirely new chapter on hardware parallelism and concurrent programming. This book is intended to serve as an introductory text but it also offers the experienced game programmer a useful perspective on aspects of game development technology with which they may not have deep experience. As always copious references and citations are provided in this edition making it an excellent jumping off point for those who wish to dig deeper into any particular aspect of the game development process. Key Features Covers both the theory and practice of game engine software development Examples are grounded in specific technologies but discussion extends beyond any particular engine or API. Includes all mathematical background needed. Comprehensive text for beginners and also has content for senior engineers. | Game Engine Architecture Third Edition

GBP 82.99
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Crisis Communication Planning and Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders

Crisis Communication Planning and Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders

Crisis Communication Planning and Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders examines the unique position of nonprofit organizations in an intersection of providing public services and also being a part of Emergency and crisis management practices. This text discusses the evolution of crisis communication planning the unique position of nonprofit organizations and the crises they face along with provision of conceptual and theoretical frameworks to generate effective crisis communication plans for nonprofit organizations to utilize within diverse crises. Through the use of innovative real-life case studies investigating the impact of crisis communication plans this book provides the foundational knowledge of crisis communication planning theoretically supported strategies crisis typology and planning resources. Each chapter focuses on critical strategic planning concepts and includes a summary of key points discussion questions and additional resources for each concept. With this text nonprofit organizations will be able to strategically plan for organization-specific and emergency management related crises develop effective crisis communication plans garner internal and external support and generate assessment strategies to maintain the relevancy of these plans within their future endeavors. Crisis Communication Planning and Strategies for Nonprofit Leaders offers a new and insightful approach to crisis communication planning to assist nonprofit organizations that are called upon to fulfill a variety of community needs such as sheltering food distribution relief funding family reunification services volunteer mobilization and much more. It is an essential resource for nonprofit organizations.

GBP 44.99
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Disaster Recovery

Disaster Recovery

Now in its third edition Disaster Recovery continues to serve as the most comprehensive book of its kind and will span the core areas that recovery managers and voluntary organizations must tackle after a disaster. It remains the go-to textbook for how to address and work through housing donations volunteer management environmental recovery historic and cultural resources psychological needs infrastructure and lifelines economic recovery public sector recovery and much more. Special features include instructor’s manual PowerPoints a free consultation with the authors upon adoption of the text; updated discussion questions; references and recommended readings; and updated resources for each chapter. New to the 3rd Edition A new co-author Jenny Mincin a recognized expert in international disaster recovery with direct field experience in emergency management disaster recovery and humanitarian relief to this text. New case examples from recent disasters and humanitarian crises will provide updated content and offer familiar events to readers (e. g. Hurricane María the COVID-19 pandemic active attackers). Increased visibility to the highest risk populations facing disaster recovery including refugees immigrants and asylees. New chapter on case management which will be of particular interest to faculty in human services degree programs. Climate change as a hazard that requires adjustment before a disaster and during recovery. A broadened consideration of recovery needs including refugees and asylees fleeing both conflict and consensus disasters. This is an invaluable textbook in the field of recovery preparedness and execution.

GBP 59.99
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Complex Worlds Digital Culture Rhetoric and Professional Communication

Complex Worlds Digital Culture Rhetoric and Professional Communication

'Complex Worlds: Digital Culture Rhetoric and Professional Communication' is a collection of thought-provoking scholarly essays by teachers and industry practitioners in professional communication and technology-oriented fields. Scrupulously edited for a range of readers the collection aims to help familiarize advanced students teachers and researchers in professional communication computers and writing literacy and sister disciplines with key issues in digital theory and practice. An emphasis on the situations of and audiences for digital communication identifies 'Complex Worlds' as a rhetorical approach. In an era when globalizing markets and digital technologies are transforming culture around the world readers should find the collection both engaging and timely. The collections' twelve essays constitute a diverse and thematically coherent set of inquiries. Included are explorations of topics such as cyber activism digital 'dispositio' citizen and open-source journalism broadband affordances XML digital resumes avant garde performance art best pedagogical practices and intercultural communication between East and West North and South. The text is especially well suited for advanced courses in professional and applied writing contemporary rhetorics and digital culture. The complexity highlighted in the collection's title is brought into relief by authors who address how the digital is daily unmaking our assumptions about the boundaries between work and school the global and the local the private and the public. 'Complex Worlds' offers readers an opportunity to build on their rhetorical awareness by expanding their understanding of the means aims and strategies of effective communication-today and in the future. | Complex Worlds Digital Culture Rhetoric and Professional Communication

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Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

Extensively revised and updated Planning in the USA fifth edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the policies theory and practice of planning. Outlining land use urban planning and environmental protection policies this fully illustrated book explains the nature of the planning process and the way in which policy issues are identified defined and approached. The new edition incorporates new planning legislation and regulations at the state and federal layers of government and examples of local ordinances in a variety of planning areas. New material includes discussions of • education and equity in planning; • the City Beautiful Movement; • Daniel Burnham’s plan for Chicago; • segregation; • Knick v. Township of Scott; • reforming single-family zoning and regulatory challenges in zoning and land use; • Daniel Parolek’s ‘Missing Middle Housing’; • climate change mitigation adaptation and resiliency; • the drinking water crisis in Flint Michigan; • sharing programs for cars bicycles and scooters; • hybrid electric and autonomous vehicles; • Vision Zero; • COVID-19 relief for housing; • Innovation Districts Promise Zones and Opportunity Zones; • the sharing gig and creative economies; • scenic views and vistas monuments statues and remembering the past; and • healthy cities Health Impact Assessment and active living. This detailed account of urbanization in the United States reveals the problematic nature and limitations of the planning process the fallibility of experts and the difficulties facing policy-makers in their search for solutions. Planning in the USA fifth edition is an essential book for students of urban planning urban politics environmental geography and environment politics. It will be a valuable resource for planners and all who are concerned with the nature of contemporary urban and environmental problems. | Planning in the USA Policies Issues and Processes

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The Comprehensive Resource Model Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma

The Comprehensive Resource Model Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma

Traditional methods employed in psychotherapy have limited effectiveness when it comes to healing the psychological effects of trauma in particular complex trauma. While a client may seem to make significant breakthroughs in understanding their feelings and experiences on a rational level by talking with a therapist this will make no difference to their post-traumatic symptoms if the midbrain is unable to modulate its activity in response. The Comprehensive Resource Model argues for a novel therapeutic approach which uniquely bridges neuroscience and spirituality through a combination of somatic therapy traditional psychotherapy and indigenous healing concepts to provide effective relief to survivors of trauma. The Comprehensive Resource Model was developed in response to the need for a streamlined integrative therapeutic model; one which engages a scaffolding of neurobiological resources in many brain structures simultaneously in order for clients to be fully embodied and conscious in the present moment while processing their traumatic material. All three phases of trauma therapy: resourcing processing and integration are done simultaneously. Demonstrating a nested model and employing brain and body-based physiological safety as the foundation of healing chapters describe three primary categories of targeted processing: implicit and explicit survival terror ‘Little T Truths’ and ‘Big T Truths’ all of which contribute to thorough healing of complex trauma and an expansion into higher states of consciousness and embodiment of the essential core self. This book describes the development and benefits of this pioneering new approach to trauma therapy. As such it will be of key interest to academics researchers and postgraduate students in the fields of psychiatry psychotherapy psychology and trauma studies. It will also appeal to practising therapists psychiatrists psychologists psychiatric nurses and to others involved in the treatment or management of patients with complex trauma disorders. | The Comprehensive Resource Model Effective therapeutic techniques for the healing of complex trauma

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Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

Description: This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Maya Substance Painter and Unreal Engine. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This includes polygonal modeling UV layout and custom texture painting. Then the book covers rigging and animation solutions to create assets to be placed in the game including animated first-person assets and motion-captured NPC animations. Finally readers can put it all together and build interactivity that allows the player to create a finished game using the assets built and animated earlier in the book. • Written by industry professionals with real-world experience in building assets and games. • Build a complete game from start to finish. • Learn what the pros use: construct all assets using the tools used at industries across the world. • All software used are free to students. • When complete students will have a playable version of an FPS game. Jing Tian Li is a graduate of China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and New York’s School of Visual Arts where he earned an MFA in Computer Art. He currently is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Kassandra Arevalo is an instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. She previously worked as an animator at Immersed Games. Matt Tovar is an industry veteran animator. He has worked at Naughty Dog Infinity Ward and Sony Interactive on such games as The Last of Us Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and most recently Marvel’s Avengers with Crystal Dynamics. He is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. | Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

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Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

Contrary to earlier views of preindustrial Europe as an essentially sedentary society research over the past decades has amply demonstrated that migration was a pervasive characteristic of early modern Europe. In this volume the theme of urban migration is explored through a series of historical contexts journeying from sixteenth-century Antwerp Ulm Lille and Valenciennes through seventeenth-century Berlin Milan and Rome to eighteenth-century Strasbourg Trieste Paris and London. Each chapter demonstrates how the presence of diverse and often temporary groups of migrants was a core feature of everyday urban life which left important marks on the demographic economic social political and cultural characteristics of individual cities. The collection focuses on the interventions by urban authorities and institutions in a wide-ranging set of domains as they sought to stimulate channel and control the newcomers' movements and activities within the cities and across the cities' borders. While striving for a broad geographical and chronological coverage in a comparative perspective the volume aims to enhance our insight into the different factors that shaped urban migration policies in different European settings west of the Elbe. By laying bare the complex interactions of actors interests conflicts and negotiations involved in the regulation of migration the case studies shed light on the interrelations between burghership guilds relief arrangements and police in the incorporation of newcomers and in shaping the shifting boundaries between wanted and unwanted migrants. By relating to a common analytical framework presented in the introductory chapter they engage in a comparative discussion that allows for the formulation of general insights and the identification of long term transformations that transcend the time and place specificities of the case studies in question. The introduction and final chapters connect insights derived from the individual case-study chapters to present wide ranging conclusions that resonate with both historical and present-day debates on migration. | Gated Communities? Regulating Migration in Early Modern Cities

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