Andrew King

'Ouida,' the pseudonym of Louise Ramé (1839-1908), was one of the most productive, widely-circulated and adapted of Victorian popular novelists, with a readership that ranged from Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Ruskin to the nameless newspaper readers and subscribers to lending libraries. Examining the range and variety of Ouida’s literary output, which includes journalism as well as fiction, reveals her to be both a literary seismometer, sensitive to the enormous shifts in taste and publication practices of the second half of the nineteenth century, and a fierce protector of her independent vision. This collection offers a radically new view of Ouida, helping us thereby to rethink our perceptions of popular women writers in general, theatrical adaptation of their fiction, and their engagements with imperialism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The volume's usefulness to scholars is enhanced by new bibliographies of Ouida's fiction and journalism as well as of British stage adaptations of her work.

'Ouida,' the pseudonym of Louise Ramé (1839-1908), was one of the most productive, widely-circulated and adapted of Victorian popular novelists, with a readership that ranged from Vernon Lee, Oscar Wilde and Ruskin to the nameless newspaper readers and subscribers to lending libraries. Examining the range and variety of Ouida’s literary output, which includes journalism as well as fiction, reveals her to be both a literary seismometer, sensitive to the enormous shifts in taste and publication practices of the second half of the nineteenth century, and a fierce protector of her independent vision. This collection offers a radically new view of Ouida, helping us thereby to rethink our perceptions of popular women writers in general, theatrical adaptation of their fiction, and their engagements with imperialism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism. The volume's usefulness to scholars is enhanced by new bibliographies of Ouida's fiction and journalism as well as of British stage adaptations of her work.

Written by an international leader in the field, this is a coherent and accessible account of the concepts that are now vital for understanding cutting-edge work on supermassive black holes. These include accretion disc misalignment, disc breaking and tearing, chaotic accretion, the merging of binary supermassive holes, the demographics of supermassive black holes, and the defining effects of feedback on their host galaxies. The treatment is largely analytic and gives in-depth discussions of the underlying physics, including gas dynamics, ideal and non-ideal magnetohydrodynamics, force-free electrodynamics, accretion disc physics, and the properties of the Kerr metric. It stresses aspects where conventional assumptions may be inappropriate and encourages the reader to think critically about current models. This volume will be useful for graduate or Masters courses in astrophysics, and as a handbook for active researchers in the field. eBook formats include colour figures while print formats are greyscale only.

Continual Change Groupwork 2nd Edition is a groupwork course in a book. This book provides a fresh and enlivening appreciation of the importance and mastery of groupwork. Groups structure our social world, whether they are families, teams, communities, workplaces or on social media. Due to their underlying structures, groups are continually changing and evolving. To help group leaders keep pace, Continual Change Groupwork 2nd Edition provides the knowledge and skills those working in the community services, health and counselling fields require to deepen their facilitation expertise and maximise the potential for change in group members' lives. In a comprehensive overview, Continual Change Groupwork 2nd Edition presents the Continual Change Framework as a useful and valuable tool for group leadership practice. The framework provides a solid foundation for effective facilitation, beginning with groupwork's basic building blocks and progressing to creative group leadership tools that develop a strong leadership presence. It also provides a mental map to assess and diagnose the challenges experienced along the way. This book includes a comprehensive understanding and implementation of systems theory that is especially important when working or dealing with group dynamics. Chapters address continual learning in groups and working with immediacy; co-leadership in groupwork; ethical considerations and supervision; and the emerging development of online groupwork - all with a focus on cultural considerations. This book provides a fresh and enlivening appreciation of the importance and mastery of groupwork.

The definitive overview of haematology and its recent developments Haematology has advanced considerably in recent decades. As new developments emerge, there is a continuous need for an accessible and up-to-date survey for medical students, discussing the major haematological disorders, their clinical presentations, their treatments, and more. Written by specialists with an interest in medical education, Lecture Notes: Haematology is a succinct, highly illustrated student guide to the essentials of this important field. It integrates the physiological, pathological, and clinical dimensions of haematology in a single comprehensive guide, and provides medical students and early-career clinicians with the core knowledge required to succeed in the subject. The 11th edition of this guide includes updated sections and expanded chapters detailing the newest advances in the field. In this 11th edition of Lecture Notes: Haematology, readers will also find: Discussion of both pathogenesis and management of all major haematological disordersOnline clinical cases with >150 multiple choice questions to allow you to test and apply your knowledgeLecture Notes: Haematology, 11th edition is a valuable resource for medical students and junior doctors looking to increase their expertise in this medical specialty.

Social Value in Practice offers the reader a simple, accessible guide for considering, creating, and delivering social value in projects and within their organisation. The book connects social value to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and presents an insight into the many and different practical ways in which individuals and organisations can make a positive impact towards resolving the ‘people, planet and prosperity’ agenda:'Good work' – good practice in managing people, including working conditions, and equality, diversity, and inclusionEducation, skills, and employment, including apprenticeships and enhancing the industry imageSocial procurement and circular supply chainsStrategic partnerships and social enterprisesCommunity development, regeneration, and placemakingConstruction consultancyArchitecture, design, and constructionAssessing and measuring social value.Reflective practitioners can pick it up, turn to a chapter, and learn something they can use right away. Through numerous practical examples and think pieces, this book can help readers learn how to create social value, how to improve and build upon current practice, and how to co-create social value in partnership with clients and the supply chain. The authors aim to empower and inspire stakeholders to engage with new ideas and create more value for those using the built environment. This book is a must read for all those involved in procuring, tendering, planning, designing, developing, funding, building, working in, and managing the built environment.

Social Value in Practice offers the reader a simple, accessible guide for considering, creating, and delivering social value in projects and within their organisation. The book connects social value to the global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and presents an insight into the many and different practical ways in which individuals and organisations can make a positive impact towards resolving the ‘people, planet and prosperity’ agenda:'Good work' – good practice in managing people, including working conditions, and equality, diversity, and inclusionEducation, skills, and employment, including apprenticeships and enhancing the industry imageSocial procurement and circular supply chainsStrategic partnerships and social enterprisesCommunity development, regeneration, and placemakingConstruction consultancyArchitecture, design, and constructionAssessing and measuring social value.Reflective practitioners can pick it up, turn to a chapter, and learn something they can use right away. Through numerous practical examples and think pieces, this book can help readers learn how to create social value, how to improve and build upon current practice, and how to co-create social value in partnership with clients and the supply chain. The authors aim to empower and inspire stakeholders to engage with new ideas and create more value for those using the built environment. This book is a must read for all those involved in procuring, tendering, planning, designing, developing, funding, building, working in, and managing the built environment.

Learn how to program the Internet of Things with this hands-on guide. By breaking down IoT programming complexities in step-by-step, building-block fashion, author and educator Andy King shows you how to design and build your own full-stack, end-to-end IoT solution--from device to cloud. This practical book walks you through tooling, development environment setup, solution design, and implementation. You'll learn how a typical IoT ecosystem works, as well as how to tackle integration challenges that crop up when implementing your own IoT solution. Whether you're an engineering student learning the basics of the IoT, a tech-savvy executive looking to better understand the nuances of IoT technology stacks, or a programmer building your own smart house solution, this practical book will help you get started. Design an end-to-end solution that implements an IoT use case Set up an IoT-centric development and testing environment Organize your software design by creating abstractions in Python and Java Use MQTT, CoAP, and other protocols to connect IoT devices and services Create a custom JSON-based data format that's consumable across a range of platforms and services Use cloud services to support your IoT ecosystem and provide business value for stakeholders

The ultimate proofs that black holes exist have been obtained very recently thanks to the detection of gravitational waves from their coalescence and due to material orbiting at a distance of some gravitational radii imaged by optical interferometry or X-ray reverberation mapping. This book provides three comprehensive and up-to-date reviews covering the gravitational wave breakthrough, our understanding of accretion and feedback in supermassive black holes and the relevance of black holes for the Universe since the Big Bang. Neil J. Cornish presents gravitational wave emission from black hole mergers and the physics of detection. Andrew King reviews the physics of accretion on to supermassive black holes and their feedback on host galaxies. Tiziana Di Matteo addresses our understanding of black hole formation at cosmic dawn, the emergence of the first quasars, black hole merging and structure formation. The topics covered by the 48th Saas-Fee Course provide a broad overview of the importance of black holes in modern astrophysics.

Andrew King is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK and co-editor of Sociological Objects: Reconfigurations of Social Theory.

This book is the first full-length study of one of the most widely read publications of nineteenth-century Britain, the London Journal, over a period when mass-market reading in a modern sense was born. Treating the magazine as a case study, the book maps the Victorian mass-market periodical in general and provides both new bibliographical and theoretical knowledge of this area. Andrew King argues the necessity for an interdisciplinary vision that recognises that periodicals are commodities that occupy specific but constantly unstable places in a dynamic cultural field. He elaborates the sociological work of Pierre Bourdieu to suggest a model of cultural 'zones' where complex issues of power are negotiated through both conscious and unconscious strategies of legitimation and assumption by consumers and producers. He also critically engages with cultural theory as well as traditional scholarship in history, art history, and literature, combining a political economic approach to the commodity with an aesthetic appreciation of the commodity as fetish. Previous commentators have coded the mass market as somehow always 'feminine', and King offers a genealogy of how such a gender identity came about. Fundamentally, however, the author relies on new and extensive primary research to ground the changing ways in which the reading public became consumers of literary commodities on a scale never before seen. Finally, King recontextualizes within the Victorian mass market three key novels of the time - Walter Scott's Ivanhoe (serialised in the London Journal 1859-60), Mary Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret (1863), and a previously unknown version of Émile Zola's The Ladies' Paradise (1883) - and in so doing he lends them radically new and unexpected meanings.

The 2017 winner of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book PrizeProviding a comprehensive, interdisciplinary examination of scholarship on nineteenth-century British periodicals, this volume surveys the current state of research and offers researchers an in-depth examination of contemporary methodologies. The impact of digital media and archives on the field informs all discussions of the print archive. Contributors illustrate their arguments with examples and contextualize their topics within broader areas of study, while also reflecting on how the study of periodicals may evolve in the future. The Handbook will serve as a valuable resource for scholars and students of nineteenth-century culture who are interested in issues of cultural formation, transformation, and transmission in a developing industrial and globalizing age, as well as those whose research focuses on the bibliographical and the micro case study. In addition to rendering a comprehensive review and critique of current research on nineteenth-century British periodicals, the Handbook suggests new avenues for research in the twenty-first century."This volume's 30 chapters deal with practically every aspect of periodical research and with the specific topics and audiences the 19th-century periodical press addressed. It also covers matters such as digitization that did not exist or were in early development a generation ago. In addition to the essays, readers will find 50 illustrations, 54 pages of bibliography, and a chronology of the periodical press. This book gives seemingly endless insights into the ways periodicals and newspapers influenced and reflected 19th-century culture. It not only makes readers aware of problems involved in interpreting the history of the press but also offers suggestions for ways of untangling them and points the direction for future research. It will be a valuable resource for readers with interests in almost any aspect of 19th-century Britain. Summing Up: Highly recommended"- J. D. Vann, University of North Texas in CHOICE

The ultimate proofs that black holes exist have been obtained very recently thanks to the detection of gravitational waves from their coalescence and due to material orbiting at a distance of some gravitational radii imaged by optical interferometry or X-ray reverberation mapping. This book provides three comprehensive and up-to-date reviews covering the gravitational wave breakthrough, our understanding of accretion and feedback in supermassive black holes and the relevance of black holes for the Universe since the Big Bang. Neil J. Cornish presents gravitational wave emission from black hole mergers and the physics of detection. Andrew King reviews the physics of accretion on to supermassive black holes and their feedback on host galaxies. Tiziana Di Matteo addresses our understanding of black hole formation at cosmic dawn, the emergence of the first quasars, black hole merging and structure formation. The topics covered by the 48th Saas-Fee Course provide a broad overview of the importance of black holes in modern astrophysics.

Kama Sutra is an ancient text that many still follow today. It is meant to bring lovers together in a more intimate way so that they can experience a more fulfilled lovemaking experience. Kama Sutra is more than just positions as many people believe--instead, Kama Sutra is a combination of embraces, touches, kisses, and foreplay. Each piece of the Kama Sutra is going to help you learn something new about your partner--whether it be that they enjoy you touching their legs but not their feet or something similar. Not every piece of the Kama Sutra is going to work in each relationship, as each one is different. What works for someone is not going to work for another person. It is not recommended that you use Kama Sutra on someone that is a stranger--but if you want to, some of the embraces can be used to close the distance between you and the stranger so that it is not quite so awkward when it comes to creating a sexually active relationship. In its entirety, the Kama Sutra can help you understand and decipher your desires and beliefs while also introducing you to a culture that is historically known for their sexual beliefs and practices.This book has covered many of the different aspects of foreplay as they are listed out in the Kama Sutra. You have been advised on the different types of embracing, hitting, biting, marking, and embracing. All of these things can help bring you and your partner closer. As you build on the connection you have with your partner; you are going to find that you begin to experience more happiness in other aspects of your life as well. I hope that reading this book has helped you learn more about yourself and has inspired you to share the wealth of knowledge you have received with your partner and use that information to your advantage. Again, thank you for choosing Kama Sutra: The Complete Kama Sutra Guide to Making Love and Improving Your Sex Life. I hope you have enjoyed and taken away some priceless information

Do you go through each and every day with the lack of a pleasing sex life? Have you perhaps just heard the buzz about tantric sex and wish to please your curiosity on the subject? Or worse, do you have a dwindling love between yourself and your partner that you are desperately seeking a method of repairing? If so, this is the book that you have been waiting for Whatever the reason is for opening yourself to this book on tantric sex, the spiritual experience of tantra is always ready to open itself to you. Moreover, this e-book provides an abundant amount of information pertaining to ways you can instill tantric sex into your life so that you and your partner reap all of the benefits that it offers. Not to mention, this text presents and expands upon the origins of tantric sex so that you have a strong background of knowledge before implementing tantric sex into your life.You will also access an in-depth understanding of the seven chakras and how these can be used to boost your sex life and unique connection with your partner. In this way, you and your partner can have the best sex of your lives and fall more in love while you learn to open your selves to appreciate aspects of each other that neither of you was privy to before.While some tantric sex texts mention only the main points, this text delves into detail about specific ways to please your partner, with sections dedicated squarely to pleasing "him" and "her." Indeed, this will allow you to sharpen your knowledge and skills for tantric sex so that your next foray in the bedroom with your partner has maximized pleasure and enjoyment for both of you. By knowing what both men and women want from sex and intimacy, you will be more equipped to become the best lover that you can possibly be.Inside you will find... An in-depth look at the history of tantra, as well as how it made its way west.  Descriptions of each of the chakras, their colors, locations, and functions.  Various methods of use for tantra.  A preparation guide for tantric expression.  Information on the benefits for him and for her.  And much more

Have you been meaning to improve your sex life but haven't had the inspiration yet?This book is designed to help you turn your sex life around. It is filled with over 100 sex positions that illustrate the various ways you can have sex with your partner.The sex positions have been illustrated both with images and words for easier understanding. We have drawn from a wide array of sources and come up with the best positions that are guaranteed to make your partner go "wow " You won't have to stick to the boring one or two positions you have been engaging in for a lifetime, but rather you will now have a wealth of positions to impress your partners with. If you're ready to turn your sex life around, be sure to check this book out.

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