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A SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF INCIPIENT TOTALITARIANISM IN THE UNITED STATES

BRENDAN MAGUIRE

Using George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the twenty-first century – paying particular attention to how the government responded to the life and death issues of terrorism, COVID-19, and climate change – this book presents eye-opening and compelling documentary evidence that suggests Orwellian policies have alr...

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LIVING THE CAMINO BACK HOME

BRENDAN MCMANUS

The authors have worked for some years as Camino Companions, a ministry for welcoming pilgrims in Santiago de Compostella. In the course of their work they noticed that as well as providing a space for pilgrims to tell their unique Camino stories while in Santiago, pilgrims wanted help to reflect on the importance and relevance for their lives back home (the real Camino!). This...

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DESIGNING DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS

BRENDAN BURNS

Every distributed system strives for reliability, performance, and quality, but building such a system is hard. Establishing a set of design patterns enables software developers and system architects to use a common language to describe their systems and learn from the patterns and practices developed by others. The popularity of containers and Kubernetes paves the way for core...

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R PATROL LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP

BRENDAN O'CARROLL

A history of New Zealand's R Patrol in the Long Range Desert Group. This is the story of the New Zealand R Patrol, Long Range Desert Group, who within their ranks had some very distinguished icons such as Jake Easonsmith, Don Steele, Dick Croucher Tony Browne, Bluey Grimsey, and Buster Gibb. Their stories are told, including that of many others, mostly in the words of the parti...

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STOMP, SOAR, DINO ROAR

MAX AMATO / BRENDAN MCAULIFFE

A romping, rhyming, onomatopoeic tale of Terri the Triceratops and the world of dinosaurs! Terri the Triceratops's world is full of strange sounds, from crawling critters and shaking trees to scorching volcanoes and stormy seas. As she embarks on a journey through the Late Cretaceous Period, what will she discover? Who will she meet? What will she hear? And will she find her ow...

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THE RISE OF BUILD TO RENT IN THE UK

BRENDAN KILPATRICK

Build to Rent (BTR) is a form of residential tenure which first emerged in the United States, where it is known as Multifamily Housing. While it has been a mature asset in the United States for over a decade, it is relatively new to the UK and Ireland. The Rise of Build to Rent in the UK examines how this type of housing can play a key role in streamlining design and constructi...

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COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN FOR LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

BRENDAN HARMON

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials. It introduces algorithmic approaches for modeling and designing landscapes. The aim of this book is to use algorithms to understand and design landscape as a generative system, i.e. to harness the processes that shape landscape to generate new forms. An algorithmic approach t...

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THE GREAT DREAMER

BRENDAN COMERFORD

A short but fascinating biography of this most courageous and adventurous of saints. One of Ignatius of Loyola’s original companions, St Francis was central to the formation of the Society of Jesus. Quoting extensively from his letters, the author describes in detail the works he did throughout Europe in the 1530s. There are many stories and anecdotes which bring Xavier to life...

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EMERGING FROM THE MESS

BRENDAN MCMANUS / JIM DEEDS

A guide for readers from suffering to joy, urging humility and gratitude while navigating life's challenges and renewal. At the darkest hour the dawn arrives again anew, just like always, but we forget so easily. This post-pandemic world of uncertainty, drought, war and death is not the end. It’s not all of reality as it proposes to be but just a temporary place of growth and p...

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DIGITAL SCHOLARSHIP IN EDUCATION

BRENDAN JACOBS

This book is an essential guide to multimodal theses and dissertations (MTDs) which involve researchers working with digital data such as video. Brendan Jacobs explains how MTDs provide new methodological options which can improve both the visibility and quality of research, and then provides a how-to guide for anyone interested in writing an MTD or engaging with digital schola...

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ANALYZING MEDIA MESSAGES

DANIEL RIFFE / STEPHEN LACY / BRENDAN R. WATSON / JENNETTE LOVEJOY

The fifth edition of this comprehensive and engaging text guides readers through the essential tools and skills necessary to conduct quantitative content analysis research. Readers will find a clear definition of quantitative content analysis and step-by-step instructions on designing a content analysis study, along with examples of content analysis studies and journal articles...

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AN ARTISTIC APPROACH TO VIRTUAL REALITY

CYANE TORNATZKY / BRENDAN KELLEY

A special quality about the medium of virtual reality is its immersive nature, allowing users to disengage from the physical world around them in order to fully interact with a digital environment. An Artistic Approach to Virtual Reality traces the lineage of artist/technologists who have worked with virtual reality in its infancy to the interactive virtual work of contemporary...

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ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF MENTAL HEALTH LAW

BRENDAN D. KELLY AND MARY DONNELLY

Mental health law is a rapidly evolving area of practice and research, with growing global dimensions. This work reflects the increasing importance of this field, critically discussing key issues of controversy and debate, and providing up-to-date analysis of cutting-edge developments in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Australia. This is a timely moment for this book to...

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BROTHERS IN ARMS

BRENDAN MCMANUS

A story of an unlikely friendship on a spiritual search for God. The summer of 2022 saw an unprecedented heatwave in Spain and the author, a Jesuit priest was accompanying a Dublin taxi driver on a walking retreat on the Ignatian Camino to Manresa, near Barcelona. This book tells the story of that testing pilgrimage: trying to find a way through severe heat; the challenges of w...

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KUBERNETES BEST PRACTICES

BRENDAN BURNS / EDDIE VILLALBA / DAVE STREBEL / LACHLAN EVENSON

In this practical guide, four Kubernetes professionals with deep experience in distributed systems, enterprise application development, and open source will guide you through the process of building applications with this container orchestration system. They distill decades of experience from companies that are successfully running Kubernetes in production and provide concrete ...

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MODEL-BASED CLUSTERING, CLASSIFICATION, AND DENSITY ESTIMATION USING MCLUST IN R

LUCA SCRUCCA / CHRIS FRALEY / T. BRENDAN MURPHY / ADRIAN E. RAFTERY

Model-based clustering and classification methods provide a systematic statistical approach to clustering, classification, and density estimation via mixture modeling. The model-based framework allows the problems of choosing or developing an appropriate clustering or classification method to be understood within the context of statistical modeling. The mclust package for the s...

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REFLECTIVE PRACTICE IN THE SPORT AND EXERCISE SCIENCES

BRENDAN CROPLEY

Within the Sport and Exercise Sciences (SES) and allied disciplines, reflective practice has become firmly established as a fundamental aspect of education, professional training and development, and applied service delivery. This has resulted in an emerging, context-specific evidence base that has attempted to make sense of the application and utility of reflective practice as...

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THE LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP IN NORTH AFRICA

BRENDAN O'CARROLL

Formed in July 1940 for reconnaissance and intelligence gathering behind enemy lines, the Long Range Desert Group was the first British special force unit. In no time the LRDG earned itself an enviable reputation for deep penetration patrols into German and Italian held territory. Its successes on prolonged missions into harsh terrain and under extreme climatic conditions were ...

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MUSIC PRODUCTION CULTURES

BRENDAN ANTHONY

Music Production Cultures draws on interviews with international educators, surveys completed by students of music production from around the globe, doctoral research findings and contextualised career experiences from the author as a celebrated music producer to explore how effective learning environments can be created for popular music production in higher education. Acknowl...

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ADAM SMITH AND THE INVISIBLE HAND OF GOD

BRENDAN LONG

This book contributes to the ‘new view’ reading of Adam Smith, providing a historically and contextually rich interpretation of Smith’s thought. Smith built a moral philosophy on the foundations of a natural theology of human sociality. Examination of his life, relationship with David Hume and use of divine names shows that he retained a progressive form of Christian theism. Th...

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STRATEGIC CORPORATE CRISIS MANAGEMENT

BRENDAN MONAHAN

Presenting an alternative to traditional models of centralized crisis management, this book makes the case for decentralizing crisis response and building resilience where it matters most, and provides an accessible, pragmatic approach for doing so. Focusing squarely on crisis management, the book challenges the notion that corporate crisis teams can be expected to swoop in and...

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KUBERNETES: UP AND RUNNING

BRENDAN BURNS / JOE BEDA / KELSEY HIGHTOWER / LACHLAN EVENSON

In just five years, Kubernetes has radically changed the way developers and ops personnel build, deploy, and maintain applications in the cloud. With this book's updated third edition, you'll learn how this popular container orchestrator can help your company achieve new levels of velocity, agility, reliability, and efficiency--whether you're new to distributed systems or have ...

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LEAST OF THE APOSTLES

BRENDAN W. CASE / WILLIAM GLASS

Least of the Apostles is a study of Paul's relation, both in his ministry and through his epistles, to the rest of apostolic Christianity. Studies relating Paul to Judaism, the Roman empire, or Greco-Roman philosophy abound; we adopt the comparatively neglected approach of relating Paul specifically to his fellow apostles. The first three chapters explore the influence on Paul ...

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THE SPECTRUM OF SPORT COACHING STYLES

SHANE PILL / BRENDAN SUESEE / JOSS RANKIN / MITCH HEWITT

For the first time, this book applies The Spectrum to sports coaching to become a Spectrum of Coaching Styles. The non-versus approach to pedagogy taken by The Spectrum places athletes or players at the centre of their learning and clearly defines who (player or coach) is making pedagogical decisions in each style. This clarity allows players and coaches to have their teaching ...

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INVESTMENT AFTERCARE EXPLAINED

CAROLINA ARRIAGADA PETERS / DAVID COBLE / TOBY X. LI / BRENDAN LEWIS

This book is the first to systematically map the last step of the foreign investor’s journey, usually referred to as post-investment, aftercare or business retention and expansion. It provides a wide range of approaches and strategies for host economies to better retain foreign investors, encourage follow-on expansions and achieve greater local economic embeddedness through a m...

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KUBERNETES SECURITY AND OBSERVABILITY

BRENDAN CREANE / AMIT GUPTA

Securing, observing, and troubleshooting containerized workloads on Kubernetes can be daunting. It requires a range of considerations, from infrastructure choices and cluster configuration to deployment controls and runtime and network security. With this practical book, you'll learn how to adopt a holistic security and observability strategy for building and securing cloud nat...

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ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF CRITICAL INDIGENOUS STUDIES

BRENDAN HOKOWHITU / LINDA TUHIWAI SMITH / AILEEN MORETONROBINSON

The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars ...

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CONTEMPORARY CONSUMPTION, CONSUMERS AND MARKETING

BRENDAN CANAVAN

Contemporary Consumption, Consumers and Marketing: Cases from Generations Y and Z explores current consumer, consumption and marketing cases and issues, posing questions that complement, extend and challenge established marketing theory while keeping in mind megatrends such as climate crisis, economic inequality and digital connectivity. It also considers how such major changes...

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ETHICAL CITIES

BRENDAN F.D. BARRETT / RALPH HORNE / JOHN FIEN

Combining elements of sustainable and resilient cities agendas, together with those from social justice studies, and incorporating concerns about good governance, transparency and accountability, the book presents a coherent conceptual framework for the ethical city, in which to embed existing and new activities within cities so as to guide local action. The authors’ observatio...

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RUSSIAN MODERNIZATION

MARKKU KIVINEN / BRENDAN G. HUMPHREYS

Building on an original interpretation of social theory and an interdisciplinary approach, this book creates a new paradigm in the Russian studies. Taking a fresh view of Russia’s multiple experiences of modernization, it seeks to explain the Putin era in a completely new way. This book explores the paradoxical and contradictory aspects of Russia, analyzing the energy-dependent...

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