PROPERTY VALUATIONThe new edition of the popular ‘all-in-one’ textbook on the valuation and appraisal of property, offering a more international perspective on valuation practiceProperty Valuation provides a comprehensive examination of property valuation principles, methods, issues and applications of the valuation and appraisal of commercial and industrial property across investment, development and occupier markets. With a clear...

This new edition of the ‘all in one' textbook for the postgraduate study of valuation on real estate courses retains its focus on the valuation and appraisal of commercial and industrial property across investment, development and occupier markets. It is structured from the client perspective and covers single-asset pricing, risk and return issues.The structure of the book has been substantially revised. Part A introduces the key microeconomic principles, focussing on land as a res...

Economists, geographers and surveyors are beginning to recognise the powerful tool which a Geographical Information System (GIS) offers in effective property management. It provides a means of managing land and property information digitally and in a geographical context, and allows for rapid access to information and a means of analyzing that information in a geographical context.GIS in Land and Property Management shows how to use GIS, both in principle and in practice. I...

Evidence-based, yet entirely practical, this important new text builds upon the basics of neuroscience to describe the links between olfaction and animal behaviour, and the effects of odours in animal welfare. Animals use smells in a multitude of ways: to orientate themselves, to create social bonds, to recognise food, to initiate reproduction, and to avoid predators and imminent threats such as fire. Starting from the scientific basis of olfaction and odour perception, the book covers phe...

This volume explores the relationship between culture and the military in Chinese society from early China to the Qing empire, with contributions by eminent scholars aiming to reexamine the relationship between military matters and law, government, historiography, art, philosophy, literature, and politics.The book critically investigates the perception that, due to the influence of Confucianism, Chinese culture has systematically devalued military matters. There was nothing inheren...

Fancy a trip to Pluto? Or how about a fearful drive along a stretch of country road, or a long, hot, dusty walk to Nairobi? Unless you prefer to go to church with a strange woman in green tights, her hair alive with electricity. Here you have 34 stories, each one a journey, whether planned or unexpected, funny or frightening, real or figurative, shared or dreadfully alone. ‘They had a long journey ahead of them’ was the prompt: the writers here, from award-winning authors to exciting new t...

This book is a compendium of key scientific questions, challenges, and opportunities across different areas of exoplanetary science. The field is currently experiencing rapid growth, and the book provides a front-row view of the advancements at the cutting-edge of the field. Each chapter contains a short exposition on the most important open questions, challenges, and opportunities in a specific area from the perspective of one or more top experts in the area. It provides a starting point ...

Technology and In/equality explores the diverse implications of the new information and communication technologies through case studies of their applications in three main areas - media, education and training, and work. Questions of access to and control over crucial resources such as information, knowledge, skills and income ae addressed drawing upon insights from science and technology studies, innovation theory, sociology and cultural studies. All of the chapters question the ...

Thomas Wyatt didn't publish "They Flee from Me." It was written in a notebook, maybe abroad, maybe even in prison. Today it is in every poetry anthology. How did it survive? That is the story Peter Murphy tells—in vivid and compelling detail—of the accidents of fate that kept a great poem alive across 500 turbulent years. Wyatt's poem becomes an occasion to ask and answer numerous questions about literature, culture, and history. Itself about the passage of time, it allows us to consider w...

På et fly fra Mexico City ser Wanda Stroud bekymrende indhold på den bærbare computer hos en passager, der sidder foran hende. Næste dag dukker Wanda ikke op til en kaffedate, hun har aftalt med sin veninde.Ray Wyatt undersøger historien, mens han klynger sig til sit sidste håb om, at hans søn, Danny, ikke er død.---"Rick Mofinas bøger er spændende på kanten af dit sæde. De vender siderne og giver ikke op." - Louise Penny"Rick Mofinas spændingsfyldte, stramm...

THE BRINK — Audiobook · Narrated by Wyatt Reeves. Listen time: 4 hours 56 minutes Cuban Missile Crisis history — Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the thirteen days in October 1962 that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. The complete narrative of ExComm, Black Saturday, and the secret deal that ended the standoff. On the morning of October 14, 1962, U-2 pilot Major Richard Heyser flew a long arc over western Cuba. The photographs he brought back — processed overnight and examined at ...

Bastian Roth grows up in a house divided. While his mother is a sympathetic caregiver, she is overshadowed by misery, completely under the control of her husband. Bastian’s father also wraps his hands around his son’s life in an effort to constrain and keep him from experiencing freedom. He flounders between trying to satisfy his father while developing indifference toward a young girl who lingers in the background of Bastian’s awareness.Bastian’s work attempts to understand love f...