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  • Birds of Greater Southern Africa

    by Keith Barnes, John Fanshawe, Terry Stevenson ...
    Series series Princeton Field Guides
    A comprehensive illustrated field guide to the birds of Greater Southern AfricaThe vast region of Greater Southern Africa—which includes Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe—is home to a truly extraordinary diversity of birds. This spectacular field guide covers all of the region’s bird species—resident, breeding, migrant, and vagrant.Covers ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Advancing Women in Engineering

    Deciphering Key Factors in Training, Retention and Support

    by Bronwyn Chorlton, John Gales ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    The percentage of women applying for engineering licensure remains well below the percentage of women enrolling in engineering undergraduate programs--an issue of retention that continues throughout women engineers' career trajectories. Although there have been many efforts on the recruitment side to attract people of varying genders to study engineering and join the profession, such efforts are ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Egress Modelling of Pedestrians for the Design of Contemporary Stadia

    by John Gales, Kathryn Chin, Timothy Young, Elisabetta Carattin, Mei-Yee Man Oram ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides an understanding of people's accessibility needs, and the barriers that may affect people with different identities and circumstances (e.g. different levels of mobility, age, etc.) to alleviate any act of disabling a person and thus offer equal quality of life in the design of stadia. A lack of knowledge exists for stadia concerning demographics, specific accessibility and ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Fire Evacuation and Exit Design in Heritage Cultural Centres

    by John Gales, René Champagne, Georgette Harun, Hannah Carton, Michael Kinsey ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book highlights human behaviour and architectural considerations for prescriptive code requirements for emergency exits in heritage cultural centers. Closed circuit television camera (CCTV) footage from a Canadian heritage cultural centre was analyzed from three separate unannounced evacuations, where recommendations based on the first two evacuations were implemented for the third. This ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis

    Philosophy, History and Clinical Practice

    Edited by John Gale, Alba Realpe, Enrico Pedriali ...
    Series series The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
    Therapeutic Communities for Psychosis offers a uniquely global insight into the renewed interest in the use of therapeutic communities for the treatment of psychosis, as complementary to pharmacological treatment. Within this edited volume contributors from around the world look at the range of treatment programmes on offer in therapeutic communities for those suffering from psychosis.Divided into ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Insanity and Divinity

    Studies in Psychosis and Spirituality

    Edited by John Gale, Michael Robson, Georgia Rapsomatioti ...
    Series series The International Society for Psychological and Social Approaches to Psychosis Book Series
    How close is spirituality to psychosis?Covering the interrelation of psychosis and spirituality from a number of angles, Insanity and Divinity will generate dialogue and discussion, aid critical reflection and stimulate creative approaches to clinical work for those interested in the connections between religious studies, psychoanalysis, anthropology and hagiography.Bringing together an ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Birds of Africa: Volume VIII

    The Malagasy Region: Madagascar, Seychelles, Comoros, Mascarenes

    by Roger Safford, Mr Frank Hawkins ...
    Universally recognised as by far the most authoritative work ever published on the subject, The Birds of Africa is a superb multi-contributor reference work, with encyclopaedic species texts, stunning paintings of all species and numerous subspecies, informative line drawings, detailed range maps, and extensive bibliographies.Each volume contains an Introduction that brings the reader up to date ... Read more

    Was $165.99 USD Now $80.99 USD

  • Structural Fire Performance of Contemporary Post-tensioned Concrete Construction

    by John Gales, Kathleen Hartin, Luke Bisby ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This SpringerBrief equips readers to develop defensible fire safety designs for a range of concrete structures. It identifies current gaps in the research and provides a more complete understanding of the structural and thermal response of contemporary Post-tensioned (PT) concrete structures to fire. The brief includes chapters on contemporary construction using PT concrete, previous structural ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Clean Young Englishman

    by John Gale ...
    First published in 1965 John Gale's autobiography is one the brilliant evocations of English life. From growing up in rural Kent to joining the Coldstream Guards and drunkenly dancing with the young Princess Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, Gale's early years seemed untroubled by darker shadows.But later, as a foreign correspondent in Algeria, Egypt and the Far East, he witnessed scenes of such horror ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Fire Safety of Historical Buildings

    Traditional Versus Innovative “Behavioural Design” Solutions by Using Wayfinding Systems

    by Gabriele Bernardini ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals’ fire safety in historic buildings. It outlines theoretical and operative issues, based on recent studies and international guidelines.Firstly, critical issues for Building Heritage fire safety are widely discussed, by including the modelling of human factor and man-environment-fire interference in these architectural spaces. A ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Aviation Noise Impact Management

    Technologies, Regulations, and Societal Well-being in Europe

    Edited by Laurent Leylekian, Alexandra Covrig, Alena Maximova ...
    This open access book provides a view into the state-of-the-art research on aviation noise and related annoyance. The book will primarily focus on the achievements of the ANIMA project (Aviation Noise Impact Management through Novel Approaches), but not exclusively.The content has a broader theme in order to encompass. regulation issues, the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization) ... Read more

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  • Human Factors in Transportation

    Social and Technological Evolution Across Maritime, Road, Rail, and Aviation Domains

    Edited by Giuseppe Di Bucchianico, Andrea Vallicelli, Neville A. Stanton, Steven J. Landry ...
    Series series Industrial and Systems Engineering Series
    More and more the most traditional and typical applied ergonomics issues of the activities related to sea shipping, vehicle driving, and flying are required to deal with some emerging topics related to the growing automatism and manning reduction, the ICT’s advances and pervasiveness, and the new demographic and social phenomena, such as aging or multiculturalism.With contributions from expert ... Read more

    $73.99 USD