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This text shares latest practices and lessons learned in generating new, innovative sources of revenues for infrastructure projects and methods of financing. These are critical building blocks for any infrastructure program and are becoming increasingly critical for practitioners, and those hoping to become practitioners"--

The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that have not had the critical engagement they deserve. Through academic interrogation and industry insight, this unique collection of essays recognizes these works, shining a light on their creative achievements and legacies. With each chapter focusing on a different...

All relevant implementation aspects of finite element methods are discussed in this book. The focus is on algorithms and data structures as well as on their concrete implementation. Theory is covered only as far as it gives insight into the construction of algorithms. In the exercises, a complete FE-solver for stationary 2D problems is implemented in Matlab/Octave. Contents: Finite Element Fundamentals Grids and Finite Elements Assembly Solver...

This book is the first international reference work to map out how Pierre Bourdieu has been used in educational research. Written by scholars based in Australia, Canada, China, Croatia, Indonesia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the UK, and the USA, the handbook provides a unique and cutting-edge picture of how Bourdieu has been both used and adapted in educational research globally. The book will be useful for those who may only have a cursory knowle...

In Farmed Out, Clare R. Brock uses U.S. agricultural policy as a vehicle to explain how the rapidly polarizing political environment has altered the role of interest groups in Washington. Drawing on over two decades of lobbying behavior data in the agricultural sector, Brock argues that polarization has given interest groups greater influence over policy content, particularly among their ideological and partisan allies. Brock makes an importan...

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This book explores a topic that historians of philosophy have so far neglected almost completely: debates about the morality of slavery in eighteenth-century North America and Europe. Author Julia Jorati pays particular attention to the role that race plays in these debates. Each of the five chapters covers intriguing and philosophically important texts about slavery and race from a specific geographic region: North America, Scotland, England,...

Illustration and Heritage explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in cultural heritage. Heritage is a 'process' that is active and takes place in the present. In the heritage industry, there are opposing discourses and positions, and illustrators are a critical voice within the field. Grounding discussions in concepts fun...

Through investigation of the illustrated prison diary of suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores illustration as a social research tool, and creates within this book itself a model of practice-based enquiry.Visual methods - sketches, collage, mixed media, photographs - and literary forms, like poetry, ficto-critical writing and prose, are used to illuminate the characteristics of the subject matter. Drawing on archival study, anec...

Does human nature constrain social and political change? Or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues that instead of being mutually exclusive, the answer to both questions is yes! This philosophical account of human nature explores the relation between biology and politic, explaining clearly what is at stake in issues from climate change to the social and political consequences of the technologica...

What is environmental virtue? Is developing good habits enough? What does climate justice require? Is ecological restoration just another form of the human domination of nature? Exploring these questions and more, this book provides an up-to-date and balanced introduction to environmental ethics. It first examines ethical theory, then ties theory to practice, showing how values guide environmental policies, but also how policies and institutio...

Through investigation of the illustrated prison diary of suffragette Katie Gliddon, Mireille Fauchon explores illustration as a social research tool, and creates within this book itself a model of practice-based enquiry.Visual methods - sketches, collage, mixed media, photographs - and literary forms, like poetry, ficto-critical writing and prose, are used to illuminate the characteristics of the subject matter. Drawing on archival study, anec...

Does human nature constrain social and political change? Or do social and political changes transform human nature? Why Human Nature Matters argues that instead of being mutually exclusive, the answer to both questions is yes! This philosophical account of human nature explores the relation between biology and politic, explaining clearly what is at stake in issues from climate change to the social and political consequences of the technologica...

What is environmental virtue? Is developing good habits enough? What does climate justice require? Is ecological restoration just another form of the human domination of nature? Exploring these questions and more, this book provides an up-to-date and balanced introduction to environmental ethics. It first examines ethical theory, then ties theory to practice, showing how values guide environmental policies, but also how policies and institutio...

A Kitchen Full of Herbs allows you to create a living trove of fresh flavours to enhance your cooking and boost your health with these incredible culinary plants.

From rose quartz for self-love to citrine for self-confidence, you'll find the perfect crystal for all your magical and self-care needs in Self-Love Crystals.

A Home Full of House Plants is a practical card deck that will help you find the perfect spot for every plant species!

Build kids’ confidence with Courage Out Loud. Packed with 25 punchy poems to read aloud, showing children that their voices have immense power!

Explore every state from Alabama to Wyoming with The 50 States A Bingo Game, which celebrates the people, cities, and historic events that have helped make America what it is today.

Illustration and Heritage explores the re-materialisation of absent, lost, and invisible stories through illustrative practice and examines the potential role of contemporary illustration in cultural heritage. Heritage is a 'process' that is active and takes place in the present. In the heritage industry, there are opposing discourses and positions, and illustrators are a critical voice within the field. Grounding discussions in concepts fun...