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Geospatial Analysis

A Comprehensive Guide to Principles Techniques and Software Tools

By: Dr Michael J de Smith,Professor Michael F Goodchild,Professor Paul A Longley

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Geospatial Analysis

A Comprehensive Guide to Principles Techniques and Software Tools

By: Dr Michael J de Smith,Professor Michael F Goodchild,Professor Paul A Longley

Geospatial Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide to Principles, Techniques and Software Tools originated as material to accompany the spatial analysis module of MSc programmes at University College London delivered by the principal author, Dr Mike de Smith. The project was discussed with Professors Longley and Goodchild. They kindly agreed to contribute to the contents of the Guide itself. As such, this Guide may be seen as a companion to the pioneering book on Geographic Information Systems and Science (now changed to Science and Systems) by Longley, Goodchild, Maguire and Rhind, particularly the chapters that deal with spatial analysis and modeling. Their participation has also facilitated links with broader “spatial literacy” and spatial analysis programmes. Notable amongst these are the GIS&T Body of Knowledge materials provided by the Association of American Geographers together with the spatial educational programmes provided through UCL and UCSB. The formats in which this Guide has been published have proved to be extremely popular, encouraging us to seek to improve and extend the material and associated resources further. Many academics and industry professionals have provided helpful comments on previous editions, and universities in several parts of the world have now developed courses which make use of the Guide and the accompanying resources. Workshops based on these materials have been run in Ireland, the USA, East Africa, Italy and Japan, and a Chinese version of the Guide (2nd ed.) has been published by the Publishing House of Electronics Industry, Beijing, PRC, www.phei.com.cn in 2009. A Chinese version of this 6th edition is due to be published in 2021 by Science Press.

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The Winchelsea Press

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1912556057

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The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland

Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland

By: Oxford R. F. Foster Professor of Irish History and a Fellow Hertford College

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The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland

Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland

By: Oxford R. F. Foster Professor of Irish History and a Fellow Hertford College

Roy Foster is one of the leaders of the iconoclastic generation of Irish historians. In this opinionated, entertaining book he examines how the Irish have written, understood, used, and misused their history over the past century. Foster argues that, over the centuries, Irish experience itself has been turned into story. He examines how and why the key moments of Ireland's past--the 1798 Rising, the Famine, the Celtic Revival, Easter 1916, the Troubles--have been worked into narratives, drawing on Ireland's powerful oral culture, on elements of myth, folklore, ghost stories and romance. The result of this constant reinterpretation is a shifting "Story of Ireland," complete with plot, drama, suspense, and revelation. Varied, surprising, and funny, the interlinked essays in The Irish Story examine the stories that people tell each other in Ireland and why. Foster provides an unsparing view of the way Irish history is manipulated for political ends and that Irish poverty and oppression is sentimentalized and packaged. He offers incisive readings of writers from Standish O'Grady to Trollope and Bowen; dissects the Irish government's commemoration of the 1798 uprising; and bitingly critiques the memoirs of Gerry Adams and Frank McCourt. Fittingly, as the acclaimed biographer of Yeats, Foster explores the poet's complex understanding of the Irish story--"the mystery play of devils and angels which we call our national history"--and warns of the dangers of turning Ireland into a historical theme park. The Irish Story will be hailed by some, attacked by others, but for all who care about Irish history and literature, it will be essential reading.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198036078

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9780198036074

Groupthink or Deadlock

When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?

By: Paul A. Kowert,Professor Paul A Kowert

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Groupthink or Deadlock

When Do Leaders Learn from Their Advisors?

By: Paul A. Kowert,Professor Paul A Kowert

Argues that too much advice can lead to policy deadlock depending on leadership style.

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SUNY Press

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0791452492

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9780791452493

Revolutionary Emotions

The Roots of Revolutionary Waves

By: Assistant Professor of Political Science Silvana Toska

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Revolutionary Emotions

The Roots of Revolutionary Waves

By: Assistant Professor of Political Science Silvana Toska

For centuries, revolutionaries have spoken of the emotional arousal that motivated them to revolt. Studies of revolutions, however, rarely give these emotional narratives the power that actors themselves recount. This book argues that revolutionary waves, from 1848 to the present, cannot be explained without the emotions that motivated potential revolutionaries to imitate revolts in neighboring states. The shared identity of revolutionaries across borders leads to a shared emotional arousal and adoption of protest frames and methods. By grounding the theory in revolutionaries' emotional narratives and breaking down the dichotomies that plague revolution research-structure/agency, domestic/ international--Revolutionary Emotions provides a powerful new theory of revolutionary diffusion and success.

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Oxford University Press

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0197774865

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Social Problems and Inequality

Social Responsibility through Progressive Sociology

By: Professor John C Alessio

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Social Problems and Inequality

Social Responsibility through Progressive Sociology

By: Professor John C Alessio

Social Problems and Inequality explores integrated and root-cause-based explanations of complex social problems. Written in clear and understandable language, allowing it to be used for classroom purposes, it addresses the most fundamental principles of how humans, acting through social units, create, and eventually can remedy, social problems. With a central focus on the problem of inequality and the manner in which this is manifested in crime, social class and stratification, this book examines the key theoretical perspectives relevant to the study and solution of social problems, whilst drawing upon rich illustrations and case studies from the US and Europe to offer a thorough examination of the nature, common root causes and social remedies of social problems. Providing discussions of both theoretical approaches and concrete applications, Social Problems and Inequality investigates the sources of various prejudices and attitudes that contribute to social problems and the associated issues of globalization, economic greed and imperialism. Accessible in style and comprehensive in its coverage, this book will appeal to students and scholars of social problems across the social sciences.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409494586

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9781409494584

No Place for Amateurs

How Political Consultants are Reshaping American Democracy

By: Dennis W. Johnson,Professor Emeritus of Political Management Dennis W Johnson

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How Political Consultants are Reshaping American Democracy

By: Dennis W. Johnson,Professor Emeritus of Political Management Dennis W Johnson

This work details the skills, strategies, and methods - and the extraordinary resources these require - to provide an expose of the highly sophisticated techniques used to reach and persuade voters.

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Routledge

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1135962731

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Americans in a World at War

Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper

By: Brooke L. Blower

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Americans in a World at War

Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper

By: Brooke L. Blower

On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war. Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents during the Second World War. This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth century's most consequential conflict. Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns, Americans had forged extensive political, economic, and personal ties to other parts of the world. These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements, which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor, would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort. As the Yankee Clipper's passengers' travels take them from Ukraine, France, Spain, Panama, Cuba, and the Philippines to Java, India, Australia, Britain, Egypt, the Soviet Union, and the Belgian Congo, among other hot spots, their movements defy simple boundaries between home front and war front and upend conventional American narratives about World War II"--

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Oxford University Press

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0199322007

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Geospatial Analysis

Geospatial Analysis

The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland

The Irish Story : Telling Tales and Making It Up in Ireland

Groupthink or Deadlock

Groupthink or Deadlock

Revolutionary Emotions

Revolutionary Emotions

Social Problems and Inequality

Social Problems and Inequality

No Place for Amateurs

No Place for Amateurs

Americans in a World at War

Americans in a World at War

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