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Mobilising Housing Histories

Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future

By: Peter Guillery,David Kroll

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Mobilising Housing Histories

Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future

By: Peter Guillery,David Kroll

The problem of creating affordable, adequate housing for a growing population is not a new one. This book, for anyone with a professional or personal interest in improving housing provision everywhere, aims to inspire by offering in-depth studies of London's housing past and seeks to provide sustainable solutions for the future by linking to wider contemporary historical and social contexts. This book will influence today’s housing debates through showcasing lessons from the past and highlights examples that inform the present. The buildings assessed in these case studies will be measured in terms of their longevity, sustained popularity, livability, average densities and productivity. The research and case studies from the book provide an invaluable resource for academics of architecture, urban design, sociology, history and geography as well as professionals, policy makers and journalists.

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Routledge

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1000702340

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9781000702347

Stroke

Practical Management

By: Charles P. Warlow,Jan van Gijn,Martin S. Dennis,Joanna M. Wardlaw,John M. Bamford,Graeme J. Hankey,Peter A. G. Sandercock,Gabriel Rinkel,Peter Langhorne,Cathie Sudlow,Peter Rothwell

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Stroke

Practical Management

By: Charles P. Warlow,Jan van Gijn,Martin S. Dennis,Joanna M. Wardlaw,John M. Bamford,Graeme J. Hankey,Peter A. G. Sandercock,Gabriel Rinkel,Peter Langhorne,Cathie Sudlow,Peter Rothwell

Completely updated edition, written by a close-knit author team Presents a unique approach to stroke - integrated clinical management that weaves together causation, presentation, diagnosis, management and rehabilitation Includes increased coverage of the statins due to clearer evidence of their effectiveness in preventing stroke Features important new evidence on the preventive effect of lowering blood pressure Contains a completely revised section on imaging Covers new advances in interventional radiology

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444359258

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9781444359251

The Neural Basis of Free Will

Criterial Causation

By: Peter Tse

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The Neural Basis of Free Will

Criterial Causation

By: Peter Tse

The issues of mental causation, consciousness, and free will have vexed philosophers since Plato. This book examines these unresolved issues from a neuroscientific perspective. In contrast with philosophers who use logic rather than data to argue whether mental causation or consciousness can exist given unproven first assumptions, Tse proposes that we instead listen to what neurons have to say. Because the brain must already embody a solution to the mind--body problem, why not focus on how the brain actually realizes mental causation? Tse draws on exciting recent neuroscientific data concerning how informational causation is realized in physical causation at the level of NMDA receptors, synapses, dendrites, neurons, and neuronal circuits. He argues that a particular kind of strong free will and downward mental causation are realized in rapid synaptic plasticity. Recent neurophysiological breakthroughs reveal that neurons function as criterial assessors of their inputs, which then change the criteria that will make other neurons fire in the future. Such informational causation cannot change the physical basis of information realized in the present, but it can change the physical basis of information that may be realized in the immediate future. This gets around the standard argument against free will centered on the impossibility of self-causation. Tse explores the ways that mental causation and qualia might be realized in this kind of neuronal and associated information-processing architecture, and considers the psychological and philosophical implications of having such an architecture realized in our brains.

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MIT Press

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0262019108

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9780262019101

Vision and the Visual System

By: Peter H. Schiller,Edward J. Tehovnik

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Vision and the Visual System

By: Peter H. Schiller,Edward J. Tehovnik

Vision and the Visual System offers students, teachers, and researchers a rigorous, yet accessible account of how the brain analyzes the visual scene. Schiller and Tehovnik describe key aspects of visual perception while explaining the relationship between eye movements and the neural structures in the brain, which play a central role in how we process visual information. The book discusses various brain areas involved in processing information, focusing on the evolutionary origins and mechanics behind the several parallel pathways that compose the visual system. Later chapters explain how the nervous system processes the perception of color, motion, depth, and patterns. A variety of illusions are on display in Chapter 14, where the authors provide detailed explanations that deconstruct how the visual system operates to create them. The volume concludes with a discussion of recent attempts to build visual prosthetic devices for blind individuals, of which there are more than 40 million in the world. Vision and the Visual System is based on Professor Schiller's more than 40 years of experience teaching vision courses at MIT, and is tailored especially for college undergraduates and graduate students interested in visual perception and the operations of the visual system. The Dynamic Displays posted here for this book are short video clips that would enhance the reader to understand certain areas of vision. They are particular to the chapter they belong within (9 video clips for Chapter 11, 1 video clip for Chapter 12, and 2 video clips for Chapter 14). http://web.mit.edu/bcs/schillerlab/book.html

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Oxford University Press

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0199936544

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Sleep and Pain

By: Gilles Lavigne,Barry J. Sessle,Manon Choinière,Peter Soja

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Sleep and Pain

By: Gilles Lavigne,Barry J. Sessle,Manon Choinière,Peter Soja

Many in the research and clinical communities are becoming increasingly aware of the interactions between sleep disorders and chronic pain syndromes. There are a number of obstacles on the path to better patient care, and there is considerable room for improvement in the way knowledge is shared between professionals in the sleep and pain communities. This book serves as the first step toward enhancing communication between the sleep and pain communities with the intent of improving patient care.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496332040

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9781496332042

The Buildings of London Zoo

By: Peter Guillery

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The Buildings of London Zoo

By: Peter Guillery

This volume is an account of the architecture contained within London Zoo. Based on a survey carried out in 1992, when the Zoo faced closure, this book includes detailed descriptions of all the buildings, monuments and other structures of the Zoo, accompanied by photographs.

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English Heritage

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1873592159

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Reading- The Grand Illusion

How and Why People Make Sense of Print

By: Kenneth Goodman,Peter H. Fries,Steven L. Strauss

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Reading- The Grand Illusion

How and Why People Make Sense of Print

By: Kenneth Goodman,Peter H. Fries,Steven L. Strauss

What is reading? In this groundbreaking book, esteemed researchers Ken Goodman, Peter Fries, and Steven Strauss, explain not only what reading really is but also why common sense makes it seem to be something quite different from that reality. How can this grand illusion be explained? That is the purpose of this book. As the authors show, unraveling the secrets of the grand illusion of reading teaches about far more than reading itself, but also about how remarkable human language is, how the brain uses language to navigate the world, what it means to be human. Each author brings a different perspective, but all share a common view of the reading process. Together they provide a clear and surprising exposition of the reading process, in which they involve readers of this book in exploring the ways they themselves read and make sense of written language while their eyes fixate on fewer than 70 percent of the words in the text. In addition, the authors engage in a cross-disciplinary discussion about how readers use the brain, eyes, and language in reading. The different perspectives provide depth to the authors’ description of reading. The information presented in this book will be new to many teachers, researchers, teacher educators, and the public alike. The final chapter draws on the understandings from the book to challenge the treatment of reading and writing as school subjects and offers the basis for supporting literacy development as a natural extension of oral language development.

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Routledge

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131733101X

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Revolution

The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo

By: Peter Ackroyd

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Revolution

The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo

By: Peter Ackroyd

First published in Great Britain by Macmillan as a set, complete in 6 volumes, under the common title The history of England. Revolution is volume 4.

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Thomas Dunne Books

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1250003644

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9781250003645

Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke

Diagnosis, Investigation and Management

By: Sarah T. Pendlebury,Matthew F. Giles,Peter M. Rothwell

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Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke

Diagnosis, Investigation and Management

By: Sarah T. Pendlebury,Matthew F. Giles,Peter M. Rothwell

Accessible handbook covering the investigation, diagnosis and management of transient ischemic attacks and minor strokes.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521735122

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9780521735124

The Hoo Peninsula Landscape

By: Sarah Newsome,Edward Carpenter,Peter Kendall

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The Hoo Peninsula Landscape

By: Sarah Newsome,Edward Carpenter,Peter Kendall

The Hoo Peninsula is located on the north Kent coast 30 miles east of Central London. This book raises awareness of the positive contribution that the historic environment makes to the Hoo Peninsula by describing how changing patterns of land use and maritime activity over time have given this landscape and seascape its distinctive character. It uses new information, which involved historic landscape, seascape and farmstead characterisation, aerial photographic mapping and analysis, area assessment of the buildings, detailed survey of key sites and other desk-based research. It takes a thematic view of the major influences on the history and development of the Hoo Peninsula and demonstrates the role that the Peninsula plays in the national story. The book is an important step towards changing the perception that the Hoo Peninsula is an out-of-the-way area, scarred by past development, where the landscape has no heritage value and major infrastructure can be developed with minimum objection.

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1848023391

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Conservation

Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture

By: Monique Borgerhoff Mulder,Peter Coppolillo

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Conservation

Linking Ecology, Economics, and Culture

By: Monique Borgerhoff Mulder,Peter Coppolillo

Nearly 90 percent of the earth's land surface is directly affected by human infrastructure and activities, yet less than 5 percent is legally "protected" for biodiversity conservation--and even most large protected areas have people living inside their boundaries. In all but a small fraction of the earth's land area, then, conservation and people must coexist. Conservation is a resource for all those who aim to reconcile biodiversity with human livelihoods. It traces the historical roots of modern conservation thought and practice, and explores current perspectives from evolutionary and community ecology, conservation biology, anthropology, political ecology, economics, and policy. The authors examine a suite of conservation strategies and perspectives from around the world, highlighting the most innovative and promising avenues for future efforts. Exploring, highlighting, and bridging gaps between the social and natural sciences as applied in the practice of conservation, this book provides a broad, practically oriented view. It is essential reading for anyone involved in the conservation process--from academic conservation biology to the management of protected areas, rural livelihood development to poverty alleviation, and from community-based natural resource management to national and global policymaking.

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Princeton University Press

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0691186693

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9780691186696

Delphi Masterworks of Frédéric Chopin (Illustrated)

By: Peter Russell

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Delphi Masterworks of Frédéric Chopin (Illustrated)

By: Peter Russell

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Delphi Classics

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1786561247

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The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 4

Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era

By: Peter Hore

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The Trafalgar Chronicle: New Series 4

Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era

By: Peter Hore

This naval history anthology explores the world of Lord Nelson, his era and contemporaries, with expert articles and sumptuous illustrations. An annual publication of the 1805 Club, The Trafalgar Chronicle is dedicated to new research about naval history in the Georgian Era. Its central theme is the Trafalgar campaign and the epic battle of October 21st, 1805, involving British, French and Spanish ships, and some 30,000 men of a score of nations. This edition focuses on the friends and contemporaries of Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson of the Royal Navy. It also explores technical and scientific changes that took place at the turn of the eighteenth century. Contributions include an article by former US Navy Secretary John Lehman on Stephen Decatur and another by Professor John Hattendorf on Admiral Sir John Gambier. It also includes the observations of Professor Benjamin Silliman, an American scientist who visited Britain in 1805. Other characters who appear are ‘Jack Punch’ Perkins, the first black officer in the Royal Navy; William Pringle Green, who was so critical of the results at Trafalgar; and the two Loyalist Richard Bulkeleys, father and son, who served with Nelson at the beginning and at the end of his career. Two articles on technology in the Georgian navy address the surprising developments of the carronade and ballooning in the age of Nelson.

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Pen and Sword

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1526759519

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9781526759511

Principles of Neural Design

By: Peter Sterling,Simon Laughlin

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Principles of Neural Design

By: Peter Sterling,Simon Laughlin

Two distinguished neuroscientists distil general principles from more than a century of scientific study, “reverse engineering” the brain to understand its design. Neuroscience research has exploded, with more than fifty thousand neuroscientists applying increasingly advanced methods. A mountain of new facts and mechanisms has emerged. And yet a principled framework to organize this knowledge has been missing. In this book, Peter Sterling and Simon Laughlin, two leading neuroscientists, strive to fill this gap, outlining a set of organizing principles to explain the whys of neural design that allow the brain to compute so efficiently. Setting out to “reverse engineer” the brain—disassembling it to understand it—Sterling and Laughlin first consider why an animal should need a brain, tracing computational abilities from bacterium to protozoan to worm. They examine bigger brains and the advantages of “anticipatory regulation”; identify constraints on neural design and the need to “nanofy”; and demonstrate the routes to efficiency in an integrated molecular system, phototransduction. They show that the principles of neural design at finer scales and lower levels apply at larger scales and higher levels; describe neural wiring efficiency; and discuss learning as a principle of biological design that includes “save only what is needed.” Sterling and Laughlin avoid speculation about how the brain might work and endeavor to make sense of what is already known. Their distinctive contribution is to gather a coherent set of basic rules and exemplify them across spatial and functional scales.

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MIT Press

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0262534681

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9780262534680

European Cities and Towns

400-2000

By: Peter Clark

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European Cities and Towns

400-2000

By: Peter Clark

Examines and explains the waves of urbanization across Europe from the fall of the Roman empire to the dawn of the 21st century, covering the whole of Europe, north and south, east and west, and looking at urban trends, the urban economy, social developments, cultural life, and governance.

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Oxford University Press on Demand

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0199562733

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9780199562732

Georgian Gothic

Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840

By: Peter Lindfield

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Georgian Gothic

Medievalist Architecture, Furniture and Interiors, 1730-1840

By: Peter Lindfield

Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783271272

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Evidence-Based Practice and Intellectual Disabilities

By: Peter Sturmey,Robert Didden

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Evidence-Based Practice and Intellectual Disabilities

By: Peter Sturmey,Robert Didden

Evidence-Based Practice and Intellectual Disabilities responds to the recent increased focus on, and need for, the use of evidence-based practice (EBP) in treating intellectual disabilities. The first book wholly dedicated to addressing EBP specifically in relation to intellectual disabilities Provides clinical guidelines based on the strength of evidence of treatments for a given problematic behavioral topography or disorder Highly relevant to a wide-ranging audience, including professionals working in community services, clinicians and parents and carers

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118321227

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9781118321225

Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke

Diagnosis, Investigation and Treatment

By: Gary K. K. Lau,Sarah T. Pendlebury,Peter M. Rothwell

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Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke

Diagnosis, Investigation and Treatment

By: Gary K. K. Lau,Sarah T. Pendlebury,Peter M. Rothwell

The second edition of Transient Ischemic Attack and Stroke covers the clinical background and management of the full clinical spectrum of cerebrovascular disease, from TIA to vascular dementia, in a compact, but evidence-based format making a comprehensive primer in stroke medicine. Accurate diagnosis and appropriate investigation and management have a major impact on patient outcomes in cerebrovascular disease, such as the effect of urgent antithrombotic treatment on early recurrent stroke after TIA and minor stroke, the effect of interventions such as thrombectomy and hemicraniectomy in major acute stroke, and the effect of stroke units and organised stroke care. Written by a leading team of clinicians and researchers in the field, this book will be essential to neurologists, geriatricians, stroke physicians, allied health workers and all others with an interest in stroke.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108695647

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9781108695640

The Buildings of the London Zoo

By: Peter Guillery

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The Buildings of the London Zoo

By: Peter Guillery

The London Zoo is one of the most famous zoos in the world, renowned for its stunning and eclectic architecture. This book shows all the changes the London Zoo has undergone throughout the years, as attitudes concerning animals kept in captivity have also changed.

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