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This is the first book which authoritatively reviews the UK expenditure on education from 1920 – 1955, both by local authorities and private schools. The book takes the main elements of education in turn and discusses them in detail. There are original studies of local authority finance, of teachers... More

Concert Sound and Lighting Systems provides comprehensive coverage of equipment and setup procedures for touring concert systems. The new edition will cover the new equipment now available and discuss other venues where the skills and technology are being used. This new edition incorporates the co... More

Concert Tour Production Management deals with the business of production and sets out guidelines to follow in order to literally get the show on the road. Concert Tour Production Management provides the basic information to manage the production for a touring concert from start to finish in the mos... More

This book addresses the main challenges faced today in implementing the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) concept. The book starts with a chapter that addresses problems related to the energy demand and renewable energy sources available in the built environment, along with the restrictions and o... More

The general topic of the symposium follows mechanisms development through all stages of conception, modeling, analysis, synthesis and control to advanced product design.   This volume brings together the latest results in the field and celebrates a series of conferences that has been running for 40 ... More

SYROM conferences have been organized since 1973 by the Romanian branch of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanisms and Machine Science IFToMM, Year by year the event grew in quality. Now in its 10th edition, international visibility and recognition among the researchers active i... More

Jesus loves people. Wouldn't it make sense that thosewho claim to love Jesus would love the same people Jesus loves? Nouns need verbs, a requirement that'smore than just a grammatical truth; it's a spiritual truth. The noun Christianand the noun church require action verbs to fulfill their purpose.T... More

Your life is filled with pressure and pain and heartache and disappointment. So was His. If you've ever tried to pick up the shattered pieces of your life and put them back together again without help, you know it's an impossible task. When you lose your job, when divorce divides your family, when a... More

This book analyses the role of evidence in taking wellbeing from an issue that has government attention to one that leads to significant policy change. In doing so, it draws on contributions from political science, policy theory and literature specifically on the evidence and policy relationship. Th... More

Jesus loved verbs. He loved action words such as live, come, rest, learn, hear, give, go and even die. So wouldn't it make sense that the people who claim to follow Jesus would love the same words that Jesus loved?Unfortunately, somewhere along the way someone tried to make the word "Christian" an a... More

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More

This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by R... More

The term Antipodes was originally used to refer to 'places on the surface of the earth directly opposite each other', and later came to mean Australiasia. Thousands of travellers from the northern hemisphere - from Francois Pelsaert, commander of the ill-fated Batavia, to Eric Newby and Jan Morris -... More

L'autodisciplina è la capacità di controllare e gestire i tuoi sentimenti, azioni e comportamenti al fine di incanalarli in un uso produttivo. La ragione per cui l'autodisciplina è elusiva è perché viene trattata in astratto. Dove falliscono gli altri libri di dieta, questo non solo ti darà la si... More

Originally published in 1973 this book applies economic analysis to scientific research and to industrial reserch and development and analyses the interactions between these activities and economic activities in general. The book begins by looking at the relationships between science and technology ... More

This book addresses the main challenges in implementing the concepts that aim to replace the regular fossil-fuels based energy pattern with the novel energy pattern relying on renewable energy. As the built environment is one major energy consumer, well known and exploited by each community member,... More

This book presents novel findings concerning the systems, materials and processes used in solar energy conversion in communities. It begins with the core resource – solar radiation – and discusses the restrictions on the wide-scale implementation of conversion systems imposed by the built environmen... More

How to assess your business concept's potential to win customers The Dragons' Den Guide to Assessing Your Business Concept is designed to help entrepreneurs assess whether they actually have a market for their business concept. Before anyone invests valuable time and resources to a slow-growth or no... More

This volume is the first collection in the field of wellbeing studies that places politics centre stage. Through a combination of intellectual inquiry, empirically-grounded research, and investigation across different settings, this book aims to provide fresh insights and develop new lenses through ... More

High gas prices aren’t the end of the world- but they may be the beginning of the end. This, at least, is the feeling of many who shudder at the staggering power oil-rich countries have over the world’s political affairs.In Petrotyranny, John Bacher uncovers the frightening facts of the world’s oil ... More

First published in 1988. With the Education Reform Act 1988 firmly in place and impacting upon the education of children and young people with Special Educational Needs, this book examines the issues that arose from its implementation. It aims to promote debate as well as providing a record of the a... More

Whether you lived through the sixties and seventies or just wish you had, this revised and expanded edition of the HIPPIE DICTIONARY entertains as much as it educates. Cultural and political listings such as "Age of Aquarius," "C?©sar Ch?°vez," and "Black Power Movement," plus popular phrases like "... More

Everyone knows you can't build things in America anymore. Everyone, that is, except John D. Bassett III. While one corporation after another exported their manufacturing to high-volume factories in low-wage locations overseas, Bassett's traditional wood bedroom furniture manufacturing company has no... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Security for Information Technology and Communications, SECITC 2016, held in Bucharest, Romania, in June 2016. The 16 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 sub... More