Most Popular Books by Simon James

As we navigate the intersection of queer history, public health, and ageing, LGBTQ+ Healthy Ageing serves as a vital resource for scholars, practitioners, and anyone committed to promoting healthy ageing for all.

Celebrating 25 years of this enchanting ecological fantasy from a multi-award-winning picture book creator.Worried that the whale living in her pond is unhappy, Emily writes to Greenpeace, who, though offering the best of advice, insist that it is impossible for a whale to live in a pond. Undeterred, Emily continues to seek the best course of action for her beloved whale, finally setting him free.

A young girl and her teacher correspond about the whale she has discovered in her pond.

A guide to London locations used in movies. It covers the whole of the metropolis area by area. It includes ''then'' and ''now'' photographs - stills from the films and the same locations photographed later; others show the locations mentioned in the text. The films featured include "Notting Hill", "Love Actually", "Patriot Games", and others.

Choquet capacities, which provide the weighting mechanism for the Choquet and other fuzzy integrals, model synergistic and antagonistic interactions between variables by assigning value to all subsets rather than individual inputs. While the flexibility of capacities (also referred to as fuzzy measures and cooperative games) comes at the expense of an exponentially increasing number of parameters, the ability to explain their behavior using various value and interaction indices makes them appealing for applications requiring transparency and interpretability. As well as a number of useful indices that in some way capture the extent to which positive and negative interactions occur, significant progress has been made in addressing the scalability issues that arise in applications. This book provides a detailed overview of the background concepts relating to capacities and their role in fuzzy integration and aggregation, then presents specialised chapters on most recent results in learning, random sampling and optimization that involve Choquet capacities. Topics and features: !-- [if !supportLists]--· !--[endif]--Fundamentals of Choquet capacities (fuzzy measures) and their use in modeling importance and interaction between variables !-- [if !supportLists]--· !--[endif]--Definitions, properties and mappings between alternative representations that allow capacities and fuzzy integrals to be interpreted and applied in different settings !-- [if !supportLists]--· !--[endif]--Various simplification assumptions, from k-additive, p-symmetric and l-measures to more recent concepts such as k-interactive and hierarchical frameworks !-- [if !supportLists]--· !--[endif]--Capacity learning formulations that allow the diverse types to be elicited from datasets or according to user-specified requirements !-- [if !supportLists]--· !--[endif]--Recent findings related to random sampling and optimisation with Choquet integral objectives This book includes illustrative examples and guidance for implementation, including an appendix detailing functions found in the pyfmtools software library. It aims to be useful for practitioners and researchers in decision and data-driven fields, or those who wish to apply these emerging tools to new problems. The authors are all affiliated with the School of Information Technology at Deakin University, Australia. Gleb Beliakov is a professor, Simon James is an Associate Professor, and Jian-Zhang Wu is a Research Fellow.

When Otis wakes up after a sleepover at popular kid Rocco Rococo''s house, it''s a scene of total chaos and disaster. Weirdly, no one can remember what happened the night before, so Rocco and Otis reluctantly team up to retrace their steps in the hopes of working out happened.

This reader presents over seventy case studies of policy making in Whitehall and Westminster, combining newspaper coverage, official documents, academic analysis and the recollections of participants. Simon James demonstrates the various ways in which policy originates, the way it is shaped within Whitehall, the different modes of parliamentary control, and the problems of implementation and policy review. He illustrates civil servants'' part in developing policy, ministers'' relations with their departments and their colleagues, and the role of the prime minister and cabinet. Case studies help to examine cabinet committees, the influence of pressure groups and select committees as well as the consequences of independent inquiries, the impact of the European Community and the restraining power of parliament and the courts. The case studies range from national controversies such as the pits closure crisis and the "Satanic Verses" affair, through to the hidden side of policy making including deals struck with pressure groups in Whitehall conference and wrangling in Brussels over the tax on whisky. Designed as a textbook for A-level students and undergraduates, "Policy Making in the British Government" provides a broad range of source material and analysis that will be of value to students of British politics, policy making and political institutions.

These essays explore the varied attitudes towards empire once sustained by different groups in Ireland, England, Wales and Scotland, and by their diasporic descendants. They also examine the images of the British Empire that were projected by newspapers and periodicals in Ireland and Britain.

Two orphans and a con-man on the lam must cross the Rocky Mountains in the winter of 1876.

This volume focuses on the legal risks arising in English law in the course of derivatives transactions. It discusses the following issues: the legal risks arising in the negotiation and conduct of derivatives transactions; the regulation of the derivatives market; the capacity to enter into derivatives transactions and the standard term upon which this is done; the consequences of default by a counterparty; and the standard terms on which derivatives are entered into, particularly the ISDA Master Agreement.

Freddie has a reputation as a ''nice guy'' - inoffensive, sweet, kind - and therefore completely un-dateable, let alone shag-able. As he starts sixth form, Freddie decides that this nice guy isn''t going to finish last any more. No more missing out on parties because he''s got to do his homework. No more saying no when he really wants to say yes.

A lavishly illustrated survey, featuring summaries of myths and legends, diagrams of tombs and forts, and a tourist guide, explores the rise of the Celts, their way of life, their wars and weapons, their religion, and their craftsmanship.

Sometimes friendship means diving into trouble! Jack only wants to impress his diving coach dad - but as the worst diver in the worst diving team in England, there''s little chance of it. Until a brush with magic and the arrival of a new friend, Billy, who can turn the team''s fortunes around.