Books published by Taylor & Francis Inc

This book will be an implementation guide for creating a Lean Culture from the ground up while gaining buy-in from key stakeholders and being able to sustain the results. Everyone talks about implementing a Lean Culture, but only provide Lean tools for the implementation.

Quarks, Leptons and The Big Bang, Third Edition, is a clear, readable and self-contained introduction to particle physics and related areas of cosmology. It bridges the gap between non-technical popular accounts and textbooks for advanced students. The book concentrates on presenting the subject from the modern perspective of quarks, leptons and the forces between them. This book will appeal to students, teachers and general science readers interested in fundamental ideas of modern physics. This edition brings the book completely up to date by including advances in particle physics and cosmology, such as the discovery of the Higgs boson, the LIGO gravitational wave discovery and the WMAP and PLANCK results.

A resource for forensic mental health professionals involved with conducting custody evaluations in family court proceedings. This book also looks at the relationship of sexual behaviour to sexual abuse, domestic violence, physical abuse, family sexuality, behaviour problems, reporter characteristics, and age and gender of the child.

This book guides readers through the most iconic geologically significant scenery in the UK, points out features of interest, explains what they are seeing, and describes how these features came to be. Written in an easy-to-understand language, the author brings his own experience to readers who want to explore and understand geologic sites.

The Angkorian World explores the history of Southeast Asiäs largest ancient state from the first to mid-second millennium CE.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of the planning, design, construction and maintenance of roads in developing countries. It focuses largely on rural roads which provide important links from villages and farms to markets and offer the public access to health, education and other essential services.

All students enter our math classrooms with ideas worthy of discussion. Some of the most effective breakthroughs come from short, intentional conversations between students and teacher, yet planning for these moments can seem daunting.

"In this mixed narrative/reference format book, the author presents a narrative discussion of her Teacher Decision Making Framework in Part I before taking a closer look at how this model applies to readers across three guided reading text level bands - making - in Parts II, III, and IV, respectively. After applying the framework to specific learners, goals, and texts in each band, she offers a set of Decision Guides teachers can use as reference points to plan lessons and prepare for in the moment decisions around three specific instructional areas: Word Solving, Fluency and Expression, and Comprehension"--

This edition represents a complete overhaul of the original work, giving a complete, self-contained introduction to nanomaterials. The organization has been completely revamped, with inclusion of fundamental physical chemistry and physics pertaining to relevant electrical, mechanical, and optical material properties.

Cluster Randomised Trials, Second Edition explores the advantages of cluster randomisation, with special attention given to evaluating the effects of interventions against infectious diseases. Avoiding unnecessary mathematical detail, it covers basic concepts underlying the use of cluster randomisation.

This book outlines the strategies used in the investigation, characterization, management, and restoration /remediation for various contaminated sites. It draws on real-world examples to illustrate remediation techniques and discusses their applicability. This new edition adds twelve new chapters, and is expanded throughout.

Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence

A great number of children and adolescents face a world of violence and isolation

Presents an introduction to the foundations and applications of Bayesian analysis. This book focuses on hierarchical Bayesian modeling as implemented through Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods and related data analytic techniques.

This book provides a detailed, rigorous treatment of the Stieltjes integral. It offers an accessible treatment of the subject to students who have had a one semester course in analysis. This book is suitable for a second semester course in analysis, and also for independent study or as the foundation for a senior thesis or Masters project.

Energy statistics are functions of distances between statistical observations in metric spaces. The authors hope this book will spark the interest of most statisticians who so far have not explored E-statistics and would like to apply these new methods using R.