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3A1799726096.jsonld | Literature, print culture, and media technologies, 1880-1900 : many inventions | "From telephones and transoceanic telegraphy to typewriters and phonographs, the era of Bell and Edison brought an array of wondrous new technologies for recording and communication. At the same time, print was becoming a mass medium, as works from newspapers to novels exploited new markets and innovations in publishing to address expanded readerships. Amid the accelerated movements of inventions and language, questions about media change became a transatlantic topic, connecting writers from Whitman to Kipling, Mark Twain to Bram Stoker and Marie Corelli. Media multiplicity seemed either to unite societies or bring division and conflict, to emphasize the material nature of communication or its transcendent side, to highlight distinctions between media or to let them be ignored. Literature, Print Culture, and Media Technologies, 1880-1900 analyzes this ferment as an urgent subject as authors sought to understand the places of printed writing in the late nineteenth century's emerging media cultures"-- | [
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3A544025601.jsonld | The American civilizing process | Prologue: Civilizing processes -- "American civilization" -- "Fellow Americans" and outsiders -- American manners under scrutiny -- American aristocracies -- The market society -- Violence and aggressiveness -- And wilderness is paradise enow : from settlements to independence -- But westward, look, the land is bright : from frontier to empire -- Integration struggles -- The curse of the American dream -- Involvement, detachment and American religiosity -- America and humanity as a whole | [
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3A787112062.jsonld | Africans into Creoles : slavery, ethnicity, and identity in colonial Costa Rica | "Unlike most books on slavery in the Americas, this social history of Africans and their enslaved descendants in colonial Costa Rica recounts the journey of specific people from West Africa to the New World. Tracing the experiences of Africans on two Danish slave ships that arrived in Costa Rica in 1710, the Christianus Quintus and Fredericus Quartus, the author examines slavery in Costa Rica from 1600 to 1750. Lohse looks at the ethnic origins of the Africans and narrates their capture and transport to the coast, their embarkation and passage, and finally their acculturation to slavery and their lives as slaves in Costa Rica. Following the experiences of girls and boys, women and men, he shows how the conditions of slavery in a unique local setting determined the constraints that slaves faced and how they responded to their condition"-- | [
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3A1883824095.jsonld | Signals, systems, and signal processing | "An innovative introduction to the foundations of signals, systems, and transforms, emphasising discretetime concepts, and smoothing the transition towards study of Digital Signal Processing (DSP). With realworld examples throughout, and over 325 end-of-chapter problems. Ideal for sophomore and junior students in electrical engineering"-- | [
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3A729310698.jsonld | Multimedia networking and coding | "This book covers widespread knowledge and research as well as innovative applications in multimedia communication systems, highlighting recent techniques that can evolve into future multimedia communication systems and showing experimental results from systems and applications"-- | [
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3A1793558086.jsonld | Language learning and the mother tongue : multidisciplinary perspectives | "Innovative and interdisciplinary in approach, this book explores the role of the mother tongue in second language learning. It brings together contributions from a diverse team of authors, to showcase a range of Francophone perspectives from the fields of linguistics, psychology, crosscultural psychiatry, psychoanalysis, translation studies, literature, creative writing, the neurosciences, and more. The book introduces a major new concept: the (M)other tongue, and shows its relevance to language learning and pediatrics in a multicultural society. The first chapter explores this concept from different angles, and the subsequent chapters present a range of theoretical and practical perspectives, including counselling case studies, literary examples and creative plurilingual pedagogies, to highlight how this theory can inform practical approaches to language learning. Engaging and accessible, readers will find new ideas and methods to adopt to their own thinking and practices, whether their background is in language and linguistics, psychiatry, psychology, or neuroscience"-- | [
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3A862820510.jsonld | Romance-Germanic bilingual phonology | Introduction / Mehmet Yava, Margaret M. Kehoe, and Walcir Cardoso -- 2. Vowel Reduction in German-Spanish Bilinguals / Margaret M. Kehoe and Conxita Lle, University of Hamburg -- 3. Cross-language Influence in the Production of French-English Bilingual Children: Separation or Interaction? / Christelle Dodane, Paul-Valery University, and Ranka Bijeljac-Babic, Poitiers University/Paris Descartes University -- 4. The Initial Development of Voice Onset Time in Early Successive French-Swedish Bilinguals / Frida Splendido, Univdersity of Lund -- 5. Voice Onset Time in German-Italian Simultaneous Bilinguals: Evidence on Crosslanguage Influence and Markedness / Tanja Kupisch, University of Konstanz, and Conxita Lle -- -- Production of english laterals by early sequential Spanish-English bilinguals / Mehmet Yava -- -- Production and perception of Danish front rounded / y/: A Comparison of Ultimate Attainment in Native Spanish and Native English Speakers / Camilla Linn Garibaldi, Aarhus University, and Ocke-Schwen Bohn, Aarhus University -- 8. Interactions between Native and Non-native Vowels in French-Danish Contact: Production Training Study / Natalia Kartushina, University of Geneva -- 9. Onset Markedness in Portuguese-English Contact / Robert Carlisle, California State University, Bakersfield -- 10. Medial Coda and Final Stops in Brazilian Portuguese-English Contact / Paul John, University of Quebec at Trois Riviere, and Walcir Cardoso -- 11. Acquisition of English Stress in French-English Contact / Guilherme Garcia, Mcgill University, and Natalia Guzzo, Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul -- 12. Factors affecting L2 learning across the lifespan: Spanish learners of English / Wendy Baker-Smemoe, Brigham Young University -- 13. English Sonorant Codas in a Brazilian Portuguese-English Bilingual Context / Rosane Silveira, Federal University of Santa Catarina, and Alison Roberto Gonalves, Federal University of Santa Catarina -- 14. The Sociophonetics of Spanish-English Contact in the U.S. / Barbara Bullock, University of Texas at Austin, and Daniel Olson, Purdue University -- Index | [
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3A1742312179.jsonld | Interpersonal grammar : systemic functional linguistic theory and description | "This book focuses on the grammar of interpersonal systems in eight different languages (Mongolian, Mandarin, Tagalog, Pitjantjatjara, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, British Sign Language and Scottish Gaelic) from the perspective of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) - with a focus on mood, modality, polarity, tagging, vocation and comment systems. The chapters have been designed to illustrate the methodology whereby SFL grammatical descriptions are developed - including the concerns of data collection and criterial argumentation. The book accordingly provides a model for functional grammatical description and can thus be used to inform work on system and structure across languages as a foundation for functional language typology"-- | [
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3A1835093604.jsonld | Policing in the Pacific Islands | Chapter 1. Introduction to policing in the Pacific -- Chapter 2. Context-specific issues and challenges of policing in the Pacific -- Chapter 3. Trends in and social dynamics of crime in the Pacific -- Chapter 4. Plural policing in the Pacific -- Chapter 5. The international policing agenda in the Pacific -- Chapter 6. Women and the institution of policing in the Pacific -- Chapter 7. Conclusion. “This book is extremely well timed. As the Blue Pacific engages with longstanding and emerging security challenges, law enforcement officials will be called upon to play a range of important roles to safeguard the lives and livelihoods of their communities. The authors present a wealth of knowledge resources to inform policy and practice in our region”. Dr Tess Newton Cain, Project Lead, Pacific Hub, Griffith Asia Institute, Australia This open access book brings together insights into Pacific policing, conceptualising policing broadly as order maintenance involving the actions of multiple local, regional and international actors with sometimes competing and conflicting agendas. A complex and multifaceted endeavour, scholarship on this topic is relatively scarce and widely dispersed across diverse sources. It examines how Pacific policing is shaped by changing state-society relations in different national contexts and ongoing processes of globalisation. Particular attention is given to the plural character of Pacific policing, profound challenges of gender equity, changing dynamics of crime, and the prominence of transnational policing in resource and capacity constrained domestic environments. The authors draw on examples from across the Pacific islands to provide a nuanced and contextualised account of policing in this socially diverse and rapidly transforming region. Danielle Watson is Senior Lecturer and Research Training Coordinator in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Loene Howes is Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania, Australia. Sinclair Dinnen is Senior Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University, Australia. Melissa Bull is Interdisciplinary Scholar and Director of Queensland University of Technology Centre for Justice, Australia. Sara N. Amin is Senior Lecturer and the Discipline Coordinator of Sociology at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji. | [
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3A1620823535.jsonld | Closed feedwater heaters for power generation : a working guide | The steam cycle -- Channel design and construction -- Tubing -- Tubesheets -- Tube-to-tubesheet joints -- Tube bundle construction -- Shell construction -- Assembly of tube bundles and shells -- Examining and testing feedwater heaters -- Quality assurance and quality control -- Level control of feedwater heaters -- Preparing procurement specifications -- Evaluating technical proposals -- Drawing reviews -- Inspection, tests, maintenance, and repairs -- Feedwater autopsies -- Acronyms, definitions, and language | [
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3A1652237348.jsonld | Categories in markets : origins and evolution | Consumers, producers, critics, and other market agents rely on socially constructed categories like craft beers, houseware, collectibles, and thriller films for their understanding of products and producers in markets. Although organizational and sociological accounts often take such categories as given, researchers increasingly acknowledge that category emergence, development, and functioning represent key aspects of how markets work. Take, for example, the U.S. brewing industry, which has become segmented into mass versus specialty producers. Many beer lovers who appreciate the characteristics of a beer made by small, specialty breweries are not willing to buy an equivalent beer made by an integrated, major producer. Knowledge of what specialty beer has come to mean and represent to consumers as the product of an authentic, artisanal production process and delivery is crucial for our understanding of how this market and competitive dynamics within it have evolved. This volume focuses on how market categories shape processes of production and consumption and how these activities in turn shape category systems. This volume consists of original contributions to theory and empirical research by a diverse group of esteemed authors. Topics explored include how new categories emerge, become enacted and gain consensus, how categories are used by market agents (including as tools for interpretation, as mobilization frames, and as cognitive infrastructures for learning), and how category systems change over time. These topics are explored from a variety of perspectives: new institutional theory, organizational ecology, social movement theory, and socio-cognitive theories of markets. The breadth of perspectives in this volume attests to the importance of this topic to sociological studies of market processes. | [
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3A1808581229.jsonld | Node.js : the comprehensive guide | If you're developing server-side JavaScript applications, you need Node.js! Start with the basics of the Node.js environment: installation, application structure, and modules. Then follow detailed code examples to learn about web development using frameworks like Express and Nest. Learn about different approaches to asynchronous programming, including RxJS and data streams. Details on peripheral topics such as testing, security, performance, and more, make this your all-in-one daily reference for Node.js!In this book, you'll learn about:a. Getting Started with Node.jsBegin your journey with Node.js. Learn about the core components of the environment such as the V8 engine and libraries. Then install Node.js and explore application development tools and the module system.b. Developing ApplicationsDevelop web applications by following practical code examples. Set up a web server using HTTP and develop apps step by step using the Express and Nest frameworks. Connect databases, generate interfaces using the REST server and GraphQL, implement command-line tools, handle asynchronous programming, and more.c. Managing ApplicationsManage your Node.js applications from development to deployment. Learn how to use package managers, implement tests, and protect against security threats. Get expert tips on scalability and performance to optimize your apps.Highlights include:1) Installation2) Asynchronous programming3) Application development4) Modules5) Express and Nest frameworks6) Template engines7) Database connectivity8) Web sockets9) Session handling10) Deployment and operations11) Security12) Testing, performance, and scalabilityHighlights:InstallationAsynchronous programmingApplication development Modules Express and Nest.js frameworksTemplate engines Database connectivity Web socketsSession handlingDeployment and operationsSecurity Testing, performance, and scalability | [
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3A1494778831.jsonld | The yellow peril : Dr. Fu Manchu & the rise of Chinaphobia | A hundred years ago, a character made his first appearance in the world of literature who was to enter the bloodstream of 20th-century popular culture: the evil genius called Dr Fu Manchu, described at the beginning of the first story in which he appeared as the yellow peril incarnate in one man. Why did the idea that the Chinese were a threat to Western civilization develop at precisely the time when that country was in chaos, divided against itself, victim of successive famines and utterly incapable of being a peril to anyone even if it had wanted to be? Here, Sir Christopher Frayling assembles an astonishing diversity of evidence to show how deeply ingrained Chinaphobia became in the West so acutely relevant again in the new era of Chinese superpower. Along the way he talks to Edward Said, to the last Governor of Hong Kong, to Sax Rohmer's widow, to movie stars and a host of others; he journeys through the opium dens of the 19th century with Charles Dickens; takes us to the heart of popular culture in the music hall, pulp literature and the mass-market press; and shows how film amplifies our assumptions, demonstrating throughout how we neglect the history of popular culture at our own peril if we want to understand our deepest desires and fears The setting of the sun -- Sax and the single Chinaman -- Charles Dickens and Princess Puffer -- At the sign of the swinging cymbal -- 'A little amusement ...' -- 'The yellow peril incarnate in one man' -- 'The world shall hear from me again' | [
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3A1819001970.jsonld | A culture of civil war? : bellum civile and political communication in late republican Rome | The civil wars of the first century BCE disrupted Roman society, which in turn was a major cause of the destabilisation of the political system. While this has of course long been recognised, the cultural dimension of the disintegration of the res publica demands equal attention. The present volume aims for an analysis of the more implicit, yet fundamental effects which the increasingly militarised conflict had on Roman society, starting with the assumption that the radical dynamics and intrinsic brutality constituted a completely new experience for contemporaries. To solve this problem, Romans of the late Republican period devised multiple strategies for coping with the phenomenon of civil war. While some turned to narrative patterns deployed by the Greeks who had been accustomed to civil conflict for centuries, the bella civilia also influenced many other aspects of cultural life. The latent fear of permanent civil strife thus became a source of innovation on multiple levels which (re-)shaped Roman collective imaginary. The resulting structures and developments constituted a highly elaborate and comprehensive "culture of civil war" | [
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3A1773889699.jsonld | Design of Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors | Focus and Related Work -- Efficient Low-Power Hardware Design -- Application-Specific Processor Architectures -- The ASIP Design Flow -- The ASIP Design Environment -- Case Studies -- Summary. After a brief introduction to low-power VLSI design, the design space of ASIP instruction set architectures (ISAs) is introduced with a special focus on important features for digital signal processing. Based on the degrees of freedom offered by this design space, a consistent ASIP design flow is proposed: this design flow starts with a given application and uses incremental optimization of the ASIP hardware, of ASIP coprocessors and of the ASIP software by using a top-down approach and by applying application-specific modifications on all levels of design hierarchy. A broad range of real-world signal processing applications serves as vehicle to illustrate each design decision and provides a hands-on approach to ASIP design. Finally, two complete case studies demonstrate the feasibility and the efficiency of the proposed methodology and quantitatively evaluate the benefits of ASIPs in an industrial context. | [
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3A1697302270.jsonld | Reflections on monetarism : Britain's vain search for a successful economic strategy | The last 20 years have seen severe macroeconomic instability in Britain, with three extreme and highly damaging boom-bust cycles. Professor Tim Congdon, one of the City's most well-known commentators, has been an influential critic of successive governments' failures in economic policy throughout this period. Reflections on Monetarism brings together his most important academic papers and journalism, including his remarkably prescient series of articles in The Times from 1985 to 1988 forecasting that the Lawson credit boom would wreck the Thatcher Government's reputation for sound financial management. He presents a powerful argument that the root cause of Britain's economic instability has been the volatile growth of credit and the money supply | [
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3A165053146X.jsonld | Compiler Design : Virtual Machines | While compilers for high-level programming languages are large complex software systems, they have particular characteristics that differentiate them from other software systems. Their functionality is almost completely well-defined - ideally there exist complete precise descriptions of the source and target languages, while additional descriptions of the interfaces to the operating system, programming system and programming environment, and to other compilers and libraries are often available. The implementation of application systems directly in machine language is both difficult and error-prone, leading to programs that become obsolete as quickly as the computers for which they were developed. With the development of higher-level machine-independent programming languages came the need to offer compilers that were able to translate programs into machine language. Given this basic challenge, the different subtasks of compilation have been the subject of intensive research since the 1950s. This book is not intended to be a cookbook for compilers, instead the authors' presentation reflects the special characteristics of compiler design, especially the existence of precise specifications of the subtasks. They invest effort to understand these precisely and to provide adequate concepts for their systematic treatment. This is the first book in a multivolume set, and here the authors describe what a compiler does, i.e., what correspondence it establishes between a source and a target program. To achieve this the authors specify a suitable virtual machine (abstract machine) and exactly describe the compilation of programs of each source language into the language of the associated virtual machine for an imperative, functional, logic and object-oriented programming language. This book is intended for students of computer science. Knowledge of at least one imperative programming language is assumed, while for the chapters on the translation of functional and logic programming languages it would be helpful to know a modern functional language and Prolog. The book is supported throughout with examples, exercises and program fragments. | [
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3A318525070.jsonld | The rules of integration : institutionalist approaches to the study of Europe | Institutional research on the European Union : mapping the field / Mark Aspinwall and Gerald Schneider -- Constructing European institutions / Jeffrey T. Checkel ; Comment / Bernard Steunenberg -- The dynamics of European integration : a constitutional analysis of the Amsterdam Treaty / Thomas Br(c)Þuninger ... [et al.] ; Comment / Mark Aspinwall -- The 'Europeanisation' of central government : the UK and Germany in historical institutionalist perspective / Simon Bulmer and Martin Burch ; Comment / Philipp Genschel -- The Treaty of Amsterdam and the co-decision procedure / Christophe Crombez ; Comment / Adrienne H(c)♭ritier -- A constrained Commission : informal practices of agenda-setting in the Council / Susanne K. Schmidt ; Comment / Simon Hug -- Top Commission officials on capitalism : an institutionalist understanding of preferences / Liesbet Hooghe ; Comment / Gerald Schneider -- Moving beyond outworn debates : a new institutionalist research agenda / Gerald Schneider and Mark Aspinwall | [
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3A1870232682.jsonld | The materiality of the archive : creative practice in context | 'Material evidences surviving in the form of writing' : materiality in archival theory and practice / Alexandrina Buchanan -- 'The true object of study' : the material body of the analogue archive / Sue Breakell -- Archival finding aids and perceptual frames : extending material contact points through Stephen Chaplin's Slade School Archive reader / Liz Bruchet -- Archiving with scissors : materiality and cutting practices in photographic archives / Costanza Caraffa -- Valentine's jacket / Maryanne Dever -- The archive as a site of making / Peter Lester -- Applications of energy : a study of artists and entropy in the material / Lisa Cianci -- Archival endings : erosion and erasure in the film archive / Elodie Roy -- The material archive everyday : technologies of the filing system / Sarah Cain -- The materialism of techno-archival memory / Wolfgang Ernst -- Paper tensions : from flipbooks to scanners -- the role of paper in moving image practices / Amanda Egbe -- Expressing materiality in archival records / Athanasios Velio -- Lost unities : the materiality of the migrated archives / James Lowry and Forget Chatataera-Zambuko -- Fabrications : the quilt as archive / Claire Smith -- Performing gestures towards the archive : queer fragments and otehr ways of mattering / Ben Cranfield -- 'That's special, we'll keeep that' : a conversation about counter archiving and socially engaged practices at Tate Exchange / Sarah Haylett, Lucy Bayley, Cara Courage, Julia LePla, Pip Laurenson, Hélia Marçal and Kit Webb. | [
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3A71992880X.jsonld | Critical theory : the key concepts | "Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 300 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing upon well-established approaches like new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and narratology as well as many new critical theories of the last twenty years such as Actor-Network Theory, Global Studies, Critical Race Theory, and Speculative Realism. This book explains the key concepts at the heart of a wide range of influential theorists from Agamben to to Slavoj Žižek." -- "Critical Theory: The Key Concepts introduces over 200 widely-used terms, categories and ideas drawing from new historicism, postmodernism, psychoanalysis, Marxism, narratology and other approaches. Entries range from concise definitions to longer explanatory essays and include terms such as :EgoDesireConsumptionHypertextKitschMisogynyQueer StudiesSymbolSuperstructureRaceFeaturing cross-referencing throughout, a substantial bibliography and index, this accessible and easy-to-use guide is an invaluable introduction for anyone studying critical theory. "-- | [
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3A1011846381.jsonld | Research methods in linguistics | "How do you approach research for the first time? What method is best for you? Covering topics such as developing research questions, corpus analysis and quantitative, qualitative and combined methods and designs, this book guides you through all the main issues, techniques and approaches to developing your research. Expanded throughout, this second edition features: - New chapters on ethics and transcription - Case studies in linguistic research - Further reading, online resources and a glossary of key terms Providing clear introductions to key concepts and discussions, this book takes you step-by-step through topics like how to conduct your own focus groups and interviews, how to build case studies and how to make sense of your data. Guiding you towards the research methods most appropriate to your work, and explaining them in detail, this is the only book you need in linguistic research methods"-- | [
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3A621414565.jsonld | Urban pest management in Australia | "The first comprehensive layperson's guide to explain the latest termite detection and treatment techniques. In plain English the book tells homeowners what to look out for and how wood-eating pests are best prevented or treated. Importantly, it also explains exactly when you need a technician, what you can expect from them and how to understand and evaluate their quote or proposal."--Provided by publisher | [
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3A272151645.jsonld | Linguistic human rights : overcoming linguistic discrimination | Introduction / Robert Phillipson, Mart Rannut and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas -- I. The Scope of Linguistic Human Rights. Combining immigrant and autochthonous language rights: a territorial approach to multilingualism / Francois Grin. On the limits of ethnolinguistic democracy / Joshua A. Fishman. Linguistic human rights and educational policy in Russia / Alexei A. Leontiev. Linguistic human rights, past and present / Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Robert Phillipson. Typology of language legislation / Joseph-G. Turi. Personal names and human rights / Bjorn H. Jernudd -- II. Country Studies: Towards Empowerment. Language policy in the United States: a history of cultural genocide / Eduardo Hernandez-Chavez. The discourse of disinformation: the debate on bilingual education and language rights in the United States / Jim Cummins. Beyond linguistic policy: the Soviet Union versus Estonia / Mart Rannut. Maori language rights in New Zealand / Timoti S. Karetu | [
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3A1780562314.jsonld | For the culture : Hip-Hop and the fight for social justice | "For the Culture: Hip-Hop and the Fight for Social Justice documents and analyzes the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, the contributors in this volume demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behavior and fight to change social injustices, and then zoom in on artists whose work has accomplished these ends. The volume explores topics including education and pedagogy; the Black Lives Matter movement; the politics of crime, punishment, and mass incarceration; electoral politics; gender and sexuality; and the global struggle for social justice. Ultimately, the book argues that hip hop is much more than a musical genre or cultural form: hip hop is a resistance mechanism." | [
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3A522792979.jsonld | Architecture on architecture : Platt Byard Dovell White | Between materiality and conservation: an introduction / Kenneth Frampton -- Architecture's argument / Paul Byard -- Reece School -- Saginaw Art Museum -- Appellate Division Courthouse -- East 91st Street -- Bridgehampton Residence -- Equinox Fitness clubs -- The Brearley School -- Green-Wood Mausoleum -- Congregation Shearith Israel -- Cedar Lake ensemble -- Charles A. Dana Discovery Center -- The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation -- Spence Lower School -- Green-Wood Columbarium -- Foundation building, the Cooper Union -- 110 + Broadway -- Poly Prep Lower School -- Pittwater House -- Chanel Headquarters -- Casa italiana, Columbia University -- Madison -- New 42nd Street studios -- PBDW timeline | [
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3A1816939455.jsonld | Commentary on Aristotle, "Nicomachean Ethics" : critical edition with introduction and translation | The Greek commentary tradition devoted to explicating Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics (NE) was extensive. It began in antiquity with Aspasius and reached a point of immense sophistication in the twelfth century with the commentaries of Eustratius of Nicaea and Michael of Ephesus, which primarily served educational purposes. The use of Aristotle's ethics in the classroom continued into the late Byzantine period, but until recently scholastic use of the NE was known mostly through George Pachymeres' epitome of the NE (Book 11 of his Philosophia). This volume radically changes the landscape by providing the editio princeps of the last surviving exegetical commentary on the NE stricto sensu, also penned by Pachymeres. This represents a new witness to the importance of Aristotelian studies in the cultural revival of late Byzantium. The editio princeps is accompanied by an English translation and a thorough introduction, which offers an informed reading of the commentary's genre and layout, relationship to its sources, exegetical strategies, and philosophical originality. This book also includes the edition of diagrams and scholia accompanying Pachymeres' exegesis, whose paratextual function is key to a full understanding of the work | [
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3A1681723077.jsonld | Topics in Clifford Analysis : Special Volume in Honor of Wolfgang Sprößig | Quaternionic and Clifford analysis are an extension of complex analysis into higher dimensions. The unique starting point of Wolfgang Sprößig’s work was the application of quaternionic analysis to elliptic differential equations and boundary value problems. Over the years, Clifford analysis has become a broad-based theory with a variety of applications both inside and outside of mathematics, such as higher-dimensional function theory, algebraic structures, generalized polynomials, applications of elliptic boundary value problems, wavelets, image processing, numerical and discrete analysis. The aim of this volume is to provide an essential overview of modern topics in Clifford analysis, presented by specialists in the field, and to honor the valued contributions to Clifford analysis made by Wolfgang Sprößig throughout his career Part I - Clifford analysis theories -- Cauchy’s formula in Clifford analysis: An Overview -- Quaternionic Hyperbolic Function Theory -- Slice Regular and Harmonicity in Clifford Analysis -- Some notions of Subharmonicity over the Quaternions -- Part II - Applications to Elliptic Partial Differential Equations -- A Fatou Theorem and Poisson’s Integral Representation Formula for Elliptic Systems in the Upper-Half Space -- Hardy Spaces for Three-Dimensional Vekua Equation -- Radial and Angular Derivatives of Distributions -- Applications of Parabolic Dirac Operators to the Instationary Viscous MHD Equations on Conformally Flat Manifolds -- Generalized Riesz Transforms, Quasi-Monogenic Functions and Frames -- Part III - Monogenic Polynomials and Numerical Methods -- Quaternionic Operator Calculus for Boundary Value Problems of Micropolar Elasticity -- Constructive Orthonormalization of Monogenic Polynomials on a Finite Cylinder -- Comments on an Orthogonal Family of Monogenic Functions on Spheroidal Domains -- Newton’s Approach to General Algebra Equations over Clifford Algebras -- Part IV - Differential Geometry -- Connections in Euclidean and Non-Commutative Geometry -- Conformal Parametrisation of Loxodroms by Tripels of Circles -- Automorphic Forms and Dirac Operators on Conformally Flat manifolds -- Higher order Fermionic and Bosonic Operators -- Clifford Möbius Geometry -- Separation of Variables in the Semistable Range -- Variety of Idempotents in Nonassociative Algebras -- Part V - Discrete Clifford Analysis -- Relativistic Wave Equations on the Lattice: An Operational Perspective -- Cauchy-Pompeiu Formula for Discrete Monogenic Functions -- A Useful Transformation for Solving the Discrete Beltrami Equation and Reducing a Difference Equation of Second Order to a System of Equations of First Order | [
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3A1877766844.jsonld | Cosmos and Republic : Arendtian Explorations of the Loss and Recovery of Politics | Klappentext: In 20 essays inspired by Hannah Arendt's analysis of crisis-ridden modernity, Wolfgang R. Heuer addresses aspects of depoliticization and the loss of politics, and thus of freedom. The wide-ranging essays are grouped in five sections: When Politics Vanishes, The Call of Responsibility, Images and Emotions, Federations, and From Plurality to Cosmos. They lead to the insight that the crises of our time require a common change of perspective towards ecological and political sustainability, the unity of "Cosmos and Republic". | [
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3A101233547X.jsonld | Ernö Goldfinger | Ernö Goldfinger (1902-87) is one of the most celebrated modern architects to work in Britain in the twentieth century. Born in Hungary and trained in Paris, he was subject to influences that he synthesised in his work: the craft of producing fine concrete with classical refinement of composition from his teacher Auguste Perret, the drama of scale from the work of Le Corbusier, and from Adolf Loos, a special sensitivity in handling interior space and respecting local character. Goldfinger's career among the great names of modern art and architecture in Paris was diverted when he married the artist Ursula Blackwell and settled in London in 1934, designing furniture, shop interiors and a few houses up to 1939. In his career after 1945, Goldfinger brought a distinctive European sophistication to the architecture of his adopted culture, but while respected by fellow architects and elected to membership of the Royal Academy, he remained an outsider in English Modernism. He now enjoys a fame never enjoyed during his lifetime. Written by two leading experts of mid-century architecture, this is the first detailed survey of the full range of Goldfinger's work. It is stunningly illustrated by new photography as well as images and plans from Goldfinger's own extensive archive | [
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3A1023439794.jsonld | The economics of retailing and distribution | This book provides a uniform and coherent approach to the analysis of distribution systems in general and retail systems in particular. It develops the fundamentals of retail demand and supply, and demonstrates how the provision of distribution services is a principal determinant of economic outcomes in retail exchanges for both retailers and their customers, as well as for other agents such as suppliers and franchisors pt. I. General considerations -- pt. II. Interactions between retailers and consumers -- pt. III. Interactions between retailers and other agents | [
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3A813352797.jsonld | Advanced medical statistics | This book presents new and powerful advanced statistical methods that have been used in modern medicine, drug development, and epidemiology. Some of these methods were initially developed for tackling medical problems.All 29 chapters are self-contained. Each chapter represents the new development and future research topics for a medical or statistical branch. For the benefit of readers with different statistical background, each chapter follows a similar style: the explanation of medical challenges, statistical ideas and strategies, statistical methods and techniques, mathematical remarks and | [
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3A1698136706.jsonld | History, historians and development policy : a necessary dialogue | "If history matters for understanding key development outcomes then surely historians should be active contributors to the debates informing these understandings. This volume integrates, for the first time, contributions from ten leading historians and seven policy advisors around the central development issues of social protection, public health, public education and natural resource management. Where did the policy ideas underpinning these sectors come from? How did certain ideas, and not others, gain traction in shaping particular policy responses? How did the content and effectiveness of these responses vary across different countries, and indeed within them? Answering these questions requires incorporating historical sensibilities into development policy deliberations in ways that take seriously the importance of context, process, and contestation. Achieving this is not merely a matter of seeking to "know more" about specific times, places and issues, but recognizing the distinctive ways in which historians rigorously assemble, analyze and interpret diverse forms of evidence. Doing so gives rise to policy conclusions rather different to those emerging from prevailing analytical approaches. This book will appeal to students and scholars in Development Studies, History, International Relations, Politics, Geography as well as policy makers and those working for or studying NGO's." Publisher's website Leading historians and policy advisors explore the implications of incorporating historical sensibilities into key development policy issues | [
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3A616875754.jsonld | The Cambridge companion to American crime fiction | "When coroners and medical examiners decide that the corpse before them is the victim of homicide, they announce their findings with a ringing locution: "by a person or persons unknown." And while the identity of the killer may truly be a cipher in the real world, within the confines of a detective novel, the perpetrator is known to us. He or she is hiding in plain sight among the array of characters in the book"--Provided by publisher "From the execution sermons of the Colonial era to television programs like The Wire and The Sopranos, crime writing has played an important role in American culture. Its ability to register fear, desire and anxiety has made it a popular genre with a wide audience. These new essays, written for students as well as readers of crime fiction, demonstrate the very best in contemporary scholarship and challenge long-established notions of the development of the detective novel. Each chapter covers a sub-genre, from 'true crime' to hard-boiled novels, illustrating the ways in which 'popular' and 'high' literary genres influence and shape each other. With a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion is a helpful guide for students of American literature and readers of crime fiction"--Provided by publisher | [
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3A1832252876.jsonld | Contributions to Baltic-Slavonic Relations in Literature and Languages : An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays | As much as scholars of Baltic Studies always claim independence for the languages and literature it involves, it is evident that the Baltic and Slavic languages and literature have been and still are in latent contact and exchange. The historical processes had led to interwoven but distinct cultural spheres `on the border.' Our interdisciplinary collection of essays follows several borderlines: Teresa Dalecka (University of Vilnius) discusses the Polish literature in Lithuania since 1990 and the environment that created it. Stephan Kessler (University of Greifswald) sketches a framework of narration and applies it to a story written by Maks Fraj who lives in Lithuania but is from Odessa by origin. Anna Stankeviča, Inna Dvorecka, and Jekaterina Gusakova (each from the University of Daugavpils) give an overview of Latvia's Russophone book market and analyse Vadim Vernik's formula fiction. Sergei Kruk (Stradiņš University in Rīga) discusses the Latvian concept of linguistic integration that roots in the romantic notions of social homogeneity and language as being a shibboleth for successful integration. Nicole Nau (University of Poznań) highlights four techniques for the integration of Slavic verbs and verbal derivational affixes into Latgalian, based on material from the 19th to the 21st century. Anastasija Kostiučenko (University of Greifswald), investigates how the concept of hybridity can be used to describe and better understand the language area and identity issues in Southeast Lithuania | [
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3A1818044471.jsonld | Brill's companion to Cassius Dio | "This Companion is the first of its kind on the Roman historian Cassius Dio. It introduces the reader to the life and work of one of the most fundamental but previously neglected historians in the Roman historical canon. Together the eighteen chapters focus on Cassius Dio's background as Graeco-Roman intellectual from Bithynia who worked his way up the political hierarchy in Rome and analyses his Roman History as the product of a politically engaged historian who carefully ties Rome's constitutional situation together with the city's history"-- | [
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3A1851745297.jsonld | A funny thing happened on the way to Stockholm : the adrenaline-fueled adventures of an accidental scientist | "The rollicking memoir from the cardiologist turned legendary scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize that revels in the joy of science and discovery"-- | [
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3A662599306.jsonld | The Cambridge history of Victorian literature | "This collaborative history aims to become the standard work on Victorian literature for the twenty-first century. Well-known scholars introduce readers to their particular fields, discuss influential critical debates and offer illuminating contextual detail to situate authors and works in their wider cultural and historical contexts. Sections on publishing and readership and a chronological survey of major literary developments between 1837 and 1901, are followed by essays on topics including sexuality, sensation, cityscapes, melodrama, epic and economics. Victorian writing is placed in its complex relation to the Empire, Europe and America, as well as to Britain's component nations. The final chapters consider how Victorian literature, and the period as a whole, influenced twentieth-century writers. Original, lucid and stimulating, each chapter is an important contribution to Victorian literary studies. Together, the contributors create an engaging discussion of the ways in which the Victorians saw themselves and of how their influence has persisted"-- | [
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3A1656221225.jsonld | Hyponormal Quantization of Planar Domains : Exponential Transform in Dimension Two | This book exploits the classification of a class of linear bounded operators with rank-one self-commutators in terms of their spectral parameter, known as the principal function. The resulting dictionary between two dimensional planar shapes with a degree of shade and Hilbert space operators turns out to be illuminating and beneficial for both sides. An exponential transform, essentially a Riesz potential at critical exponent, is at the heart of this novel framework; its best rational approximants unveil a new class of complex orthogonal polynomials whose asymptotic distribution of zeros is thoroughly studied in the text. Connections with areas of potential theory, approximation theory in the complex domain and fluid mechanics are established. The text is addressed, with specific aims, at experts and beginners in a wide range of areas of current interest: potential theory, numerical linear algebra, operator theory, inverse problems, image and signal processing, approximation theory, mathematical physics 1 Introduction -- 2 The exponential transform -- 3 Hilbert space factorization -- 4 Exponential orthogonal polynomials -- 5 Finite central truncations of linear operators -- 6 Mother bodies -- 7 Examples -- 8 Comparison with classical function spaces -- A Hyponormal operators -- Glossary -- Index -- References | [
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3A1773889931.jsonld | SOI Design : Analog, Memory and Digital Techniques | Overview -- SOI Materials -- Components -- SOI Modeling -- Layout for SOI -- Static SOI Digital Design -- Dynamic SOI Digital Design -- SOI SRAMs -- SOI DRAMs -- Analog Design -- Global Design Issues -- Low Power Design -- SOI in Development. Silicon on insulator (SOI) is a very attractive technology for large volume integrated circuit production and is particularly good for low-voltage, low-power and high-speed digital systems. SOI has also proved to be effective in various niche and growing markets. IC processes based on SOI are known to reduce susceptibility to radiation, and have been used for many years in high radiation environments. SOI is also used for power integrated circuits, micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), integrated optics and high temperature applications. SOI offers numerous opportunities and challenges in the design of low-voltage and low-power CMOS circuits for both analog and digital applications. The benefits of this technology for digital applications have been clear for many years. The exploitation of SOI for analog and memory subsystems, meanwhile, has lagged behind digital developments, but is now beginning to attain a level of parity, with circuits that are in some cases improved over their bulk counterparts. SOI is suitable for digital, memory and analog designs, although it is not necessarily straightforward to convert circuits developed for bulk processes into SOI. Memory and most analog circuits either interface to, or are incorporated within, a digital environment. The design of analog circuits on SOI, in a mixed signal environment, and memory design in an embedded memory application are discussed. Various processes are examined and comparison is made between bulk and SOI circuit design concepts. SOI is the process of choice in various RF applications, particularly when digital circuitry is required. SOI Design: Analog Memory and Digital Techniques examines some of the basics, but is primarily concerned with circuit related issues. Static and dynamic logic circuit design has previously been studied in some detail, however, memory design for SOI and analog circuit designs have hitherto been examined only in a piecemeal manner. SOI material is considered here in terms of implementation that are promising or have been used elsewhere in circuit development, with historical perspective where appropriate. SOI Design: Analog, Memory and Digital Techniques will be of interest to circuit design engineers. It is also intended as a general graduate level text to introduce state of the art design principles for SOI circuit design. | [
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3A881294233.jsonld | Universal chronicles in the High Middle Ages | Found in pre-modern cultures of every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-modern cultural forms and one of the most overlooked. Universal chronicles narrate the history of the whole world from the time of its creation up to the then present day, treating the world's affairs as though they were part of a single organic reality, and uniting various strands of history into a unifed, coherent story. They reveal a great deal about how the societies that produced them understood their world and how historical narrative itself can work to produce that understanding. 0The essays here offer new perspectives on the genre, from a number of different disciplines, demonstrating their vitality, flexibility and cultural importance, They reveal them to be deeply political texts, which allowed history-writers and their audiences to locate themselves in space, time and in the created universe. Several chapters address the manuscript context, looking at the innovative techniques of compilation, structure and layout that placed them at the cutting edge of medieval book technology. Others analyse the background of universal chronicles, and identify their circulation amongst different social groups; there are also investigations into their literary discourse, patronage, authorship and diffusion | [
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3A55090106X.jsonld | Religion, language and power | "Religion, Language and Power" shows that the language of 'religion' is far from neutral, and that the packaging and naming of what English speakers call 'religious' groups or identities is imbued with the play of power. Religious Studies has all too often served to amplify voices from other centers of power, whether scripturalist or otherwise normative and dominant.This book's de-centering of English classifications goes beyond the remit of most postcolonial studies in that it explores the classifications used in a range of languages - including Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, Greek and English - to achieve a comparative survey of the roles of language and power in the making of 'religion' . In contextualizing these uses of language, the ten contributors explore how labels are either imposed or emerge interactively through discursive struggles between dominant and marginal groups. In dealing with the interplay of religion, language and power, there is no other book with the breadth of this volume. | [
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3A1646740793.jsonld | Essential Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation | Comprehensive and concise review of the essential facts needed to do a successful clinical rotation in physical medicine and rehabilitation (PMR). Writing to be quickly read and comprehended, the authors spell out the implications of brain injury, the effects of spinal cord injury, the uses of orthotics and prosthetics, and the crucial importance of cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation to maximize functional independence. Additional chapters detail the principles of pediatric, neuromuscular, cancer, and orthopedic rehabilitation, and demonstrate the use of electrodiagnostic techniques that can be used to help localize a lesion of the neuromuscular system and determine its severity, time course, and prognosis. The book also provides a handy review for passing PMR board exams. | [
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3A1698579020.jsonld | Transgressive truths and flattering lies : the poetics and ethics of Anglophone Arab representations | This book explores the formative correlations and inventive transmissions of Anglophone Arab representations ranging from early 20th century Mahjar writings to contemporary transnational Palestinian resistance art. Tracing multiple beginnings and seminal intertexts, the comparative study of dissonant truth-making presents critical readings in which the notion of cross-cultural translation gets displaced and strategic unreliability, representational opacity, or matters of act advance to essential qualities of the discussed works' aesthetic devices and ethical concerns. Questioning conventional interpretive approaches, Markus Schmitz shows what Anglophone Arab studies are and what they can become from a radically decentered relational point of view. Among the writers and artists discussed are such diverse figures as Rabih Alameddine, William Blatty, Kahlil Gibran, Ihab Hassan, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Emily Jacir, Walid Raad, Ameen Rihani, Edward Said, Larissa Sansour, and Raja Shehadeh Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 0. Setting in Motion: The Trans-Location of Anglophone Arab Cultures -- 1. Endings as Desert(ed) Starts -- 2. Beginnings as Cultural Novelties: Intertexts and Discursive Affinities -- 3. Khalid’s Book and How Not to Bow Down Before Rihani -- 4. Nocturnal Traces and Voyaging Critique: From Shahrazad to Said -- 5. Reading Anglophone Arab Enunciations Across Genres: Narrative Display, Performative Evidence, and the Parafiction of Theory -- 6. The Challenge of Anglophone Arab Studies: For a Post-Integrationist Critical Practice -- Works Cited -- Image Credits -- Index | [
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3A1797114212.jsonld | Sustainable supply chain management : learning from the German automotive industry | This book presents the current causes and effects of implementing sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) as well as green supply chain management (GSCM) strategies in the automotive industry. The reader is provided a detailed scientific review on SSCM and GSCM and presented the advantages of sustainable development concepts as well as factors causing the implementation of SSCM such as buyers’ behavior, governmental regulations, and competitiveness. The book then analyses the current situation of SSCM development, particularly in the automotive industry. It shows challenges, barriers, successes, and benefits that automotive companies obtain from implementing GSCM. Through case studies on leading German car manufacturers VW, BMW, and Daimler, the necessary activities of these companies to implement green development in the entire supply chain, including green supplier selection, green materials, green transportation, and reverse logistics, are defined. Moreover, a benchmark with companies from Asian markets such as Toyota from Japan and Geely from China is performed. | [
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3A1656071606.jsonld | Applied international corporate finance | The authors present all core aspects of Corporate Finance: M&A, Private Equity, Acquisition Financing, IPO, and Going Private. Furthermore, the techniques Due Diligence and Valuation are scrutinised. The book includes various case studies, which help to get a practical understanding and apply the techniques in the user´s day-to-day business. Investment bankers, lawyers, accountants, experts working in strategic departments, consultants, shareholders, management professionals, professors, and students seeking in-depth knowledge of Corporate Finance will profit from the book`s practice oriented approach. | [
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3A1800422512.jsonld | Harry Potter and the myth of millennials : identity, reception, and politics | "Harry Potter and the Myth of Millennials takes an interdisciplinary view of Harry Potter, as a series and a phenomenon, to uncover how the lessons learned from Harry's adventures became a moral compass and a guiding light for millennial readers in an era fraught with turbulence and disharmony"-- | [
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3A1682494128.jsonld | The value of fibre : engaging the second brain for animal nutrition | Dietary fibre has been associated with impaired nutrient utilisation and reduced animal performance. A minimum amount of dietary fibre is required to maintain normal physiological functions in the gastrointestinal tract. This book reviews the latest advances in the understanding of dietary fibre for animal nutrition. Fibre clearly has more value than was once thought. This book attempts to define not only the analytical constraints but also the advances in understanding its role in intestinal development and health in both swine and poultry. It identifies how we can exploit fibre to the advantage of the host. Stimulating the gastrointestinal microbiota (often referred to as the second brain) to digest more fibre creates a more favourable environment for intestinal health. This outcome is especially important in antibiotic free diets. The type of fibre employed, the use of exogenous enzymes and the interaction between them, the gastrointestinal microbiota and the host will be covered in detail throughout the chapters. This book discusses the practical application of this research and has been written for all animal scientists, nutritionists, feed producers and anyone interested in exploring new developments in the understanding of dietary fibre | [
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3A1645731758.jsonld | Secular bodies, affects and emotions : European configurations | Taking its cue from the study of 'lived religion', Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions shows how the idea of a secular public is equally marked by a display and cultivation of affect and emotions. Whereas it is widely agreed that religion is often saturated by emotion, the secular is usually treated as a neutral background serving as the domain of public, rational deliberation. This book demonstrates that secularity and secularism are also upheld by bodily practices and emotional attachments. Drawing on empirical case studies, this is the first book to ask and explore whether a secular body exists. Building on the work of Talal Asad, the book argues that the secular is not an absence of religion, but a positive entity that comes about through its co-constitutive relationship with religion. And, once we attune ourselves to recognizing its operations as grammar which structures social practice, writing an anthropology of the secular could become a new possibility | [
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3A1883975999.jsonld | The geography of Greece : managing crises and building resilience | Chapter1-Foreword- Greece Beyond the Crises, an Enhanced Resilience -- Part I. Into the Depths of Historical Geography: Chapter 2. The Geoarcheology of Greece. Shaping Landscapes vs. Crises and Resilience of the Past -- Chapter 3. Building a Territory in the Midst of State Crises -- Chapter 4. Mapping Hellenism. The Challenge of a Scale Game -- Chapter 5. The Greek Orthodox Church. A Unique Cultural and Social Environment -- Part II. Conflicts and Compromises: Chapter6. Border Areas and Land Confines. Litigations, Defense, and Development -- Chapter7. Water Resources Management and Policy in Greece: Challenges and Options -- Chapter8. The Black Sea & Eastern Mediterranean (BSEM) Region and BRI: Macro-historical Tendencies and Geopolitical Models of Analysis -- Chapter9. Tossed by the Waves but Never Sinking”: Greece, from the 1826 Default to the Modern Debt Crisis and its Aftermaths -- Part III. Greek Miracles: Resilience through Innovation: Chapter 10. Athens, an American City by the Mediterranean Sea -- Chapter 11. Greek Tourism: A Story of Success -- Chapter 12. The Greek Urban Fabric. A Societal Triumph -- Chapter 13. Advances in Transport and Infrastructure Development -- Part IV. Managing Local Specifics: Towards New Pathways: Chapter 14. Living in Greece Outside Cities: Rural-Urban Relationships -- Chapter 15. Greek Cities and Formal Planning -- Chapter16. Real Estate Property and Cadaster: The Impact of New Mapping Techniques on Land Management and Planning in Greece -- Chapter 17. Administrative and Territorial Structure in Modern Greece -- Part V. Adaptation to Changing Dynamics: Chapter 18. In the Greek Countryside: Towards Modernization, Specialization, or Abandonment? -- Chapter 19. Traveling the Country: Transportation Challenges and Mobility Management -- Chapter 20. The Athos Peninsula. A Living Example of Continuity Over Time -- Chapter21. Coastal Hazards and Related Impacts in Greece -- Part VI. Emergency Situations and Chaotic Events: Chapter22.Pyro-Geography of the Greek Landscape -- Chapter 23. Disaster and Recovery. Greece's Major Territorial Upheavals -- Chapter 24. The Wonderful Weather of Greece -- Chapter 25. Active Tectonics and Seismicity in Greece -- Part VII. Oncoming Challenges: Chapter 26. Aspects of Climate Change in Greece -- Chapter 27. Greece, Demographic Changes and Challenges -- Chapter 28. Biodiversity Conservation vs. Ecological Modernization in Post-Crisis Greece: Environmental Syndemics and the Biodiversity Degradation Syndrome -- Chapter 29. Greece as a Central Actor Amid Geostrategic Antagonisms in the South-Eastern Mediterranean Complex -- Chapter 30. Epilogue- Resilience Through Diachrony?. . During the last few years, Greece has become a subject of increasing attention worldwide. Once praised for its ability to innovate and reform during the EU integration process, applauded for its remarkable job in managing the 2004 Olympics, the country fell into a financial crisis of unprecedented magnitude in 2008. Much has been said on this matter, and amid the morass of information a staggering number of untruths have been disseminated. In fact, the challenges of vulnerability and the paradigms of adaptation go way beyond finance and economy in Greece. Mega-fires, earthquakes, landslides and floods, migrations, sociopolitical upheavals, and armed conflicts generate emergency situations repeatedly. Because of its bridging role between natural and social sciences, geography can provide insights into the entire breadth of hazardous and chaotic events driving adaptation and change. Against all these threats, Greece has developed an enhanced resilience capacity. The purpose of this book is to help unravel the complexities of a fascinating country beyond clichés. This book is intended for students, researchers, scholars, and engineers interested in geography, land planning, urban studies, and environmental management. The crises issue intended as a guideline allows widening the audience to include the media, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and the public at large. | [
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3A790119021.jsonld | Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 1, part A | v. 1A. Business cycle fluctuations in US macroeconomic time series / James H. Stock and Mark W. Watson -- Monetary policy shocks : what have we learned and to what end? / Lawrence J. Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Charles L. Evans -- Monetary policy regimes and economic performance : the historical record / Michael D. Bordo and Anna J. Schwartz -- The new empirics of economic growth / Steven N. Durlauf and Danny T. Quah -- Numerical solution of dynamic economic models / Manuel S. Santos -- Indeterminacy and sunspots in macroeconomics / Jess Benhabib and Roger E.A. Farmer -- Learning dynamics / George W. Evans and Seppo Honkapohja -- Micro data and general equilibrium models / Martin Browning, Lars Peter Hansen and James J. Heckman -- Neoclassical growth theory / Robert M. Solow -- Explaining cross-country income differences / Ellen R. McGrattan and James A. Schmitz, Jr. -- v. 1B. Consumption / Orazio P. Attanasio -- Aggregate investment / Ricardo J. Caballero -- Inventories / Valerie A. Ramey and Kenneth D. West -- Resuscitating real business cycles / Robert G. King and Sergio T. Rebelo -- Staggered price and wage setting in macroeconomics / John B. Taylor -- The cyclical behavior of prices and costs / Julio J. Rotemberg and Michael Woodford -- Labor-market frictions and employment fluctations / Robert E. Hall -- Job reallocation, employment fluctuations and unemployment / Dale T. Mortensen and Christopher A. Pissarides -- v. 1C. Asset prices, consumption and the business cycle / John Y. Campbell -- Human behavior and the efficiency of the financial system / Robert J. Shiller -- The financial accelerator in a quantitative business cycle framework / Ben S. Bernanke, Mark Gertler and Simon Gilchrist -- Political economics and macroeconomic policy / Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini -- Issues in the design of monetary policy rules / Bennett T. McCallum -- Inflation stabilization and BOP crises in developing countries / Guillermo A. Calvo and Carlos A. Végh -- Government debt / Douglas W. Elmendorf and N. Gregory Mankiw -- Optimal fiscal and monetary policy / V.V. Chari and Patrick J. Kehoe | [
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3A1687261814.jsonld | Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia : royal graves and sites at Avaldsnes and beyond | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Section A: The West-Scandinavian Coast -- 1. The History of the Norvegr 2000 BC-1000 AD / Østmo, Einar -- 2. Intraregional Diversity. Approaching Changes in Political Topographies in South-western Norway through Burials with Brooches, AD 200-1000 / Østmo, Mari Arentz -- Section B: Rulership in First-Millennium Scandinavia -- 3. Rulership and Ruler's Sites in 1st-10th-century Scandinavia / Skre, Dagfinn -- 4. Between Tribe and Kingdom - People, Land, and Law in Scandza AD 500-1350 / Iversen, Frode -- 5. The Ship Graves on Kormt - and Beyond / Bill, Jan -- Section C: The High-Medieval Royal Manor -- 6. The High-Medieval Royal Manor Complex / Sand-Eriksen, Anette / Nordlie, Erlend -- 7. The Royal Edifice at Avaldsnes: A Palatium for the King or a Residence for his Canons? / Hommedal, Alf Tore -- 8. Avaldsnes' Position in Norway in the 14th Century / Opsahl, Erik This book discusses the 3rd-11th century developments that led to the formation of the three Scandinavian kingdoms in the Viking Age. Wide-ranging studies of communication routes, regional identities, judicial territories, and royal sites and graves trace a complex trajectory of rulership in these pagan Germanic societies. In the final section, new light is shed on the pinnacle and demise of the Norwegian kingdom in the 13th-14th centuries This book seeks to revitalise the somewhat stagnant scholarly debate on Germanic rulership in the first millennium AD. A series of comprehensive chapters combines literary evidence on Scandinavia's polities, kings, and other rulers with archaeological, documentary, toponymical, and linguistic evidence. The picture that emerges is one of surprisingly stable rulership institutions, sites, and myths, while control of them was contested between individuals, dynasties, and polities. While in the early centuries, Scandinavia was integrated in Germanic Europe, profound societal and cultural changes in 6th-century Scandinavia and the Christianisation of Continental and English kingdoms set northern kingship on a different path. The pagan heroic warrior ethos, essential to kingship, was developed and refined; only to recur overseas embodied in 9th-10th-century Vikings. Three chapters on a hitherto unknown masonry royal manor at Avaldsnes in western Norway, excavated 2017, concludes this volume with discussions of the late-medieval peak of Norwegian kingship and it's eventual downfall in the late 14th century. This book's discussions and results are relevant to all scholars and students of 1st-millenium Germanic kingship, polities, and societies | [
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3A1789122163.jsonld | Ethics of data and analytics : concepts and cases | "This textbook provides faculty the major concepts and cases to include in a class on the ethics of data analytics. The book is distinct as it focuses on ethics of data analytics, AI, and data (rather than infrastructure and reliability) and by explicitly linking data analytics to foundational business ethics theory"-- | [
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3A1673240119.jsonld | Pedigree : How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Entering the Elite -- 2 The Playing Field -- 3 The Pitch -- 4 The Paper -- 5 Setting the Stage for Interviews -- 6 Beginning the Interview: Finding a Fit -- 7 Continuing the Interview: The Candidate's Story -- 8 Concluding the Interview: The Final Acts -- 9 Talking It Out: Deliberating Merit -- 10 Social Reconstruction -- 11 Conclusion -- Afterword to the Paperback Edition -- Appendix A Who Is Elite? -- Appendix B Methodological Details -- Appendix C List of Interviews -- Notes -- References -- Index. | [
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3A572340443.jsonld | The hip hop wars : what we talk about when we talk about hip hop - and why it matters | Hip hop's critics -- Hip hop causes violence -- Hip hop reflects black dysfunctional ghetto culture -- Hip hop hurts black people -- Hip hop is destroying America's values -- Hip hop is demeans women -- Hip hop's defenders -- Just keeping it real -- Hip hop is not responsible for sexism -- "There are bitches and hoes" -- We're not role models -- Nobody talk about the positive in hip hop -- Mutual denials in the hip hop wars -- Progressive voices, energies, and visions -- Six guiding principles for progressive creativity, consumption, and community in hip hop and beyond | [
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3A1647323800.jsonld | Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Oncology | Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI is now established as the methodology of choice for the assessment of tumor microcirculation in vivo. This is assisting clinical practitioners in the management of patients with solid tumors and is finding prominence in the assessment of tumor treatments, including anti-angiogenics, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. In this book, targeted at both clinical practitioners and basic scientists, the principles of the methods, their practical implementation, and their application to specific tumor types are discussed by the leading authorities in the field today. The book will serve as an invaluable single-volume reference covering all the latest developments in contrast-enhanced oncological MRI. | [
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3A1759409219.jsonld | Bioremediation and green technologies : sustainable approaches to mitigate environmental impacts | This book offers insights into the recent research focusing on green solutions to address environmental pollution and its impacts. Bioremediation is a vast area that encompasses numerous innovative and cost-effective experimental and research methods involvingnumerous technologies, such as biotechnological, biochemical, microbial, marine, chemical and engineering approaches. Featuring original research and review articles by leading experts, the book explores potential solutions to the growing issues of waste management and environmental pollution and their impacts, and suggests future research directions. As such, it is a valuable resource for professionals and general readers alike. | [
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3A1848655681.jsonld | Women and medieval literary culture : from the early middle ages to the fifteenth century | "Focusing on England but covering a wide range of European and global traditions and influences, this authoritative volume examines the central role of medieval women in the production and circulation of books and considers their representation in medieval literature, as authors, readers and subjects, assessing how these change over time"-- | [
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3A1683540697.jsonld | David Mitchell : contemporary critical perspectives | "David Mitchell: Contemporary Critical Perspectives brings together leading scholars of contemporary fiction to guide readers through the full range of the author's writings, including discussions of all of his novels to-date plus his shorter fictions, essays and libretti. As well as offering extended coverage of Mitchell’s most popular work, Cloud Atlas, the authors explore Mitchell’s genre-hopping techniques, world-making aesthetics, and engagements with key contemporary issues such as globalization, empire, the environment, disability, trauma and technology. In addition, this book includes an expansive interview with David Mitchell as well as a guide to further reading to help students and readers alike explore the works of this tremendously inventive writer" | [
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3A1020220805.jsonld | On gravity : a brief tour of a weighty subject | "Of the four fundamental forces of nature, gravity might be the least understood and yet the one with which we are most intimate. From the months each of us spent suspended in the womb anticipating birth to the moments when we wait for sleep to transport us to other realities, we are always aware of gravity. In On Gravity, physicist A. Zee combines profound depth with incisive accessibility to take us on an original and compelling tour of Einstein's general theory of relativity. Inspired by Einstein's audacious suggestion that spacetime could ripple, Zee begins with the stunning discovery of gravity waves. He goes on to explain how gravity can be understood in comparison to other classical field theories, presents the idea of curved spacetime and the action principle, and explores cutting-edge topics, including black holes and Hawking radiation. Zee travels as far as the theory reaches, leaving us with tantalizing hints of the utterly unknown, from the intransigence of quantum gravity to the mysteries of dark matter and energy. Concise and precise, and infused with Zee's signature warmth and freshness of style, On Gravity opens a unique pathway to comprehending relativity and gaining deep insight into gravity, spacetime, and the workings of the universe"-- | [
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3A188623485X.jsonld | The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns | "The Oxford Handbook of Robert Burns treats the extensive writing of and culture surrounding Scotland's national 'bard'. Robert Burns (1759-96) was a producer of lyrical verse, satirical poetry, in English and Scots, a song-writer and song-collector, a writer of bawdry, journals, commonplace books and correspondence. Sculpting his own image, his untutored rusticity was a sincere persona as much as it was not entirely accurate. Burns was an antiquarian, national patriot, pioneer of what today we would call 'folk culture', and a man of the Enlightenment and Romanticism. The Handbook considers Burns's reception in his own time and beyond, extending to his iconic status as a world-writer. Burns was important to the English Romantic poets, in the context of debates about Abolition in the US, in the Victorian era he was widely utilised as a model for different kinds of popular poetry and he has been utilised as a contestant in debates surrounding Scottish and, indeed, British politics, in peacetime and in wartime down to the present day. The writer's afterlife includes not only a large number of biographies but a whole culture of commemoration in art, architecture, fiction, material culture, museum-exhibition and even forged manuscripts and memorabilia as well as appearances, apparently, via Spiritualist seances. The politics of his work channel the fierce debates of late eighteenth-century Scottish ecclesiastical controversy as well as the ages of American, Agrarian and French revolutions. All of this ground is traversed in this Handbook, the largest critical compendium ever assembled about Robert Burns." | [
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3A103091981X.jsonld | Empire and political cultures in the Roman world | Introduction -- Towards a Roman dialect of empire -- Territory -- Wealth and society -- Force and violence -- Time -- Epilogue: becoming Roman? This book evaluates a hundred years of scholarship on how empire transformed the Roman world, and advances a new theory of how the empire worked and was experienced. It engages extensively with Rome's Republican empire as well as the 'Empire of the Caesars', examines a broad range of ancient evidence (material, documentary, and literary) that illuminates multiple perspectives, and emphasizes the much longer history of imperial rule within which the Roman Empire emerged. Steering a course between overemphasis on resistance and overemphasis on consensus, it highlights the political, social, religious and cultural consequences of an imperial system within which functions of state were substantially delegated to, or more often simply assumed by, local agencies and institutions | [
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3A1658861671.jsonld | JavaScript Creativity : Exploring the Modern Capabilities of JavaScript and HTML5 | JavaScript Creativity teaches you how to use every feature of this versatile and powerful language in exciting and creative ways. JavaScript can be used for so much more than simple interactivity. Master your use of canvas, animation, audio and video, 3D visualizations, motion detection and real-time collaboration. In every chapter of this book you will learn how to use and evolve JavaScript's creative capabilities in your own projects, as well as having project examples to follow throughout. Specifically, you will learn how to: Expertly use canvas and animation Push audio and video to their full capabilities Code and manipulate advanced 3D visualizations Create your own music directly from the browser Implement real-time collaboration with Node.js Explore real-time audio and video with WebRTC Play with motion detection and gesture control Combine all features into one social music creation experiment, similar to Google's 'Jam with Chrome' JavaScript Creativity is for the developer who has a working knowledge of JavaScript and wants to take their code to the next level. Every feature explored can be manipulated and implemented in your everyday projects to really impress your clients or just increase your code skill. This book is an exciting, action-packed introduction to all the advanced and truly creative aspects of this language - start creative coding today! "JavaScript Creativity teaches you how to use every feature of this versatile and powerful language in exciting and creative ways. JavaScript can be used for so much more than simple interactivity. Master your use of canvas, animation, audio and video, 3D visualizations, motion detection and real-time collaboration. In every chapter of this book you will learn how to use and evolve JavaScript's creative capabilities in your own projects, as well as having project examples to follow throughout. Specifically, you will learn how to: Expertly use canvas and animation; Push audio and video to their full capabilities; Code and manipulate advanced 3D visualizations; Create your own music directly from the browser; Implement real-time collaboration with Node.js; Explore real-time audio and video with WebRTC; Play with motion detection and gesture control; Combine all features into one social music creation experiment, similar to Google's 'Jam with Chrome'. JavaScript Creativity is for the developer who has a working knowledge of JavaScript and wants to take their code to the next level. Every feature explored can be manipulated and implemented in your everyday projects to really impress your clients or just increase your code skill."-- | [
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3A1608047628.jsonld | The emergence of Islam in late antiquity : Allāh and his people | "Based on a critical review of the relevant scholarship, and with the use of epigraphic and other material evidence as well as more traditional sources, this book presents a comprehensive and innovative reconstruction of the rise of Islam as a religion and imperial polity. It reassesses the development of the imperial monotheism of the New Rome, and the history of the Arabs as an integral part of Late Antiquity, including their ethnogenesis, and the emergence in this context of what was to become Muslim monotheism, which is compared with the emergence of other monotheisms from polytheistic systems. Topics discussed include the emergence and development of the Muhammadan polity and its new cultic deity, its associated ritual, the constitution of the Muslim canon, and the development of early Islam as an imperial religion. Intended principally for scholars of late antiquity, Islamic studies and the history of religions, the book opens up many novel directions for future research" | [
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3A1777991854.jsonld | Dye biodegradation, mechanisms and techniques : recent advances | An enormous amount of synthetic dyes is used annually in the textile, leather, plastics, paper, and dye industries due to their coloring properties. Although dyes give color to materials, they are prone to increase the level of pollution in the environment. The colored wastewater produced in industrial sectors is released into water bodies, posing threats to the ecosystem. To reduce the adverse effects of dyes in the environment, it is necessary to implement feasible and cost-effective strategies. '"Dye Biodegradation Mechanisms and Techniques - Recent Advances'' provides fundamental principles and pathways of bio-based mechanisms in dye removal. This edition firstly discusses dye classification and pollution, then concentrates on the application of fungi, mesophilic bacteria, microflora, and enzymes in dye degradation. This book also highlights the performance of sequential batch reactor systems, moving bed biofilm reactors, and hybrid bioreactors for dye biodegradation. | [
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3A625995880.jsonld | Policy Coherence Towards East Asia : Development Challenges for OECD Countries | This book looks at the impact of OECD-country policies on East Asia in a variety of areas: trade, investment, agriculture, finance and aid, as well as macroeconomic policies and regional co-operation. Further, and most importantly, the book examines the interaction of these OECD-country policies and their coherence with each other. This book is part of an attempt by the OECD to establish guidelines for defining and adopting coherent policies conducive to development outside the OECD area, thus contributing to the world-wide search for answers to questions of poverty reduction and gro | [
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3A1886286310.jsonld | How the Spanish Empire was built : a 400 year history | Introduction: Making Empire Work -- 1. Enter The Engineers: Amateurs and Professionals in the Making of Infrastructure -- 2. The Oceanic Scaffolding: Maritime Communications -- 3. Making Ways: Landward Communications -- 4. Troubled Waters: Along and Across Internal Waterways -- 5. The Rings Of Stone: Fortifying the Frontiers -- 6. On The Waterfront: Ports and Shipyards -- 7. The Public Sphere: Social and Economic Infrastructure -- 8. Health Infrastructure: Hospitals and Sanitation -- 9. The Missionary Frontier: Missions as Infrastructure -- 10. The Last Century: Engineers in the Aftermath of Empire -- References -- Acknowledgements -- Photo Acknowledgements -- Index. | [
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3A086719815.jsonld | The Cambridge companion to Jewish American literature | Introduction Jewish American literatures in the making Hana Wirth-Nesher Michael P. Kramer -- Beginnings and ends: the origins of Jewish American literary history Michael P. Kramer -- Imagining Judaism in America Susannah Heschel -- Of crucibles and grandfathers: the East European immigrants Priscilla Wald -- Coney Island, USA: America in the Yiddish literary imagination David G. Roskies -- Hebrew literature in America Alan Mintz -- Traces of the past: multilingual Jewish American writing Hana Wirth-Nesher -- Accents of the future: Jewish American popular culture Donald Weber -- Jewish American poetry Maeera Y. Shreiber -- Jewish American writers on the left Alan Wald -- Jewish American Renaissance Ruth R. Wisse -- Holocaust and the Jewish American imagination Emily Miller Budick -- Jewish American women writers and the race question Susan Gubar -- On contemporary literary theory and Jewish American poetics Shira Wolosky -- Identity matters: contemporary Jewish American writing Tresa Grauer This book addresses a wide array of themes and approaches to the distinct yet multifaceted body of Jewish American literature. Essays cover writing from the 1700s to major contemporary writers such as Saul Bellow and Philip Roth. Topics covered include immigration and acculturation, Yiddish and Hebrew literature, and the Holocaust | [
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3A1757663444.jsonld | Handbuch poststrukturalistische Perspektiven auf soziale Bewegungen : Ansätze, Methoden und Forschungspraxis | For the first time, the manual deals systematically and comparatively with the question of how social movements can be analyzed from a poststructuralist perspective. The contributions present different approaches and show, using an example from research practice, how this approach can be used for the analysis of social movements. Through the application of alternative methods, the close connection of theory and practice and a socio-theoretical perspective, new insights into the subject of research »social movements« are possible in this way | [
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3A1672335337.jsonld | Transcranial brain stimulation for treatment of psychiatric disorders : explores the use of an innovative technology | Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was introduced in the mid 1980s in clinical neurophysiology to study the central motor pathways. Research has been exponentially increased since, and many different methods for brain stimulation have been considered during the last decade. This publication focuses on transcranially applied, non- or low-invasive interventions not requiring an implantable device, i.e. electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), repetitive TMS (rTMS) and transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS). It provides an excellent overview on this spectrum of fascinating techniques.Many leading experts in this field have contributed to this book. A single chapter summarizes the state of the art in ECT. A series of chapters provides an overview on preclinical research in animals and neuroimaging findings with rTMS and reviews the evidence of efficacy and safety in various psychiatric disorders (affective disorders, schizophrenia and anxiety disorders) also including an article on the application of rTMS in nonpsychiatric diseases, i.e. Parkinson’s disease, stroke, pain and tinnitus. Finally, separate reviews discuss very recent innovative approaches in the field of rTMS, i.e. magnetic seizure therapy, theta burst stimulation and deep rTMS. This publication will doubtlessly prove to be essential reading not only to researchers in this field, but also to psychiatrists, neurologists and other clinicians who consider applying these new methods in clinical settings | [
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3A1655340522.jsonld | Routledge handbook of ecological economics : nature and society | pt. 1. Foundations -- pt. 2. Heterodox thought on the environment -- pt. 3. Biophysical reality and its implications -- pt. 4. Society, power and politics -- pt. 5. Markets, production and consumption -- pt. 6. Value and ethics -- pt. 7. Science and society : uncertainty and precaution -- pt. 8. Methods -- pt. 9. Policy challenges -- pt. 10. Future post-growth society. | [
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3A1655924893.jsonld | OECD Public Governance Reviews: France : An international perspective on the General Review of Public Policies | The reform programme called "General Review of Public Policies" (Révision Générale des Politiques Publiques, RGPP), implemented at central government level in France in 2007, is a novel approach for OECD countries by its mode of governance, directly and continuously involving the highest state officials in France. In this publication, the results of the reform programme of the RGPP are analysed in relation to the original objectives, but also in the new current, economic and budgetary context of France. Lessons are drawn in terms of budget savings, implementation of a culture of innovation and improvement of services to citizens. They will be important for all OECD countries in their efforts to improve governance and the performance of public administrations. They are also essential for local authorities, who also have to innovate in their practices in order to provide better services at a lower cost. | [
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3A1795986956.jsonld | The 15-minute city : global change through local living | "15-minute city, noun: 'a city that is designed so that everyone who lives there can reach everything they need within 15 minutes on foot or by bike' ...and a term yet to make it into the Cambridge English Dictionary. Cities define the lives of all those who call them home: where they go, how they get there, even how they spend their time. But what if we built our cities differently? What if we travelled differently? What if we could get a cashback on time and make it our own - and not our bosses'? In this carefully researched and readily accessible book, Natalie Whittle interrogates the notion of the 15-minute city: its pros, its cons and its potential to revolutionise modern living. With the global warming reaching a crisis point and Covid-19 responses bringing a previously unimaginable decline in commuting employees, Whittle's timely book serves as a call to reflect on the 'hows' and 'whys' of our daily travel. Building her study around consideration of space and time, Whittle traverses both to collect models from Ancient Athens to modern Paris and demonstrate how one idea could change our daily lives - and the world - for good"--Publisher's description | [
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3A591273039.jsonld | Quantum processes | "Space and time are probably the most important elements in physics. Within the memory of man, all essential things are represented within the frame of space-time pictures. This is obviously the most basic information. What can we say about space and time? It is normally assumed that the space is a container filled with matter and that the time is just that which we measure with our clocks. However, there are some reasons to take another standpoint and to consider this container-conception as unrealistic, as prejudice so to say. Already the philosopher Immanuel Kant pointed on this serious problem. In this monograph, the author discusses the so-called projection theory. In contrast to the container-conception (reality is embedded in space and time), within projection theory the physical reality is projected onto space and time and quantum processes are of particular relevance. Like Whitehead and Bergson, the author argues for the primacy of process. One of the most interesting results is that projection theory automatically leads to a new aspect for the notion 'time'. Here we have not only the time of conventional physics, which is exclusively treated as an external parameter, but we obtain within projection theory a system-specific time. Just this system-specific time might be of fundamental importance in the future description of physical systems. For example, the self-assembly of nano-systems could lead to predictions that are even not thinkable within usual physics. Also in connection with cosmology the projection principle must inevitably lead to fundamentally new statements"--Back cover | [
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3A896609804.jsonld | Moral History from Herodotus to Diodorus Siculus | Hellenistic historiography. Polybius -- Diodorus Siculus -- Fragmentary Hellenistic historiography -- Classical historiography. Herodotus -- Thucydides -- Xenophon, Hellenica -- Fragmentary classical historiography Why did human beings first begin to write history? Lisa Hau argues that a driving force among Greek historians was the desire to use the past to teach lessons about the present and for the future. She uncovers the moral messages of the ancient Greek writers of history and the techniques they used to bring them across. Hau also shows how moral didacticism was an integral part of the writing of history from its inception in the 5th century BC, how it developed over the next 500 years in parallel with the development of historiography as a genre and how the moral messages on display remained surprisingly stable across this period. For the ancient Greek historiographers, moral didacticism was a way of making sense of the past and making it relevant to the present; but this does not mean that they falsified events: truth and morality were compatible and synergistic ends | [
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3A27607646X.jsonld | Soviet disunion : a history of the nationalities problem in the USSR | A report on the territories which are part of the Soviet Union, but not strictly Russian - Armenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia - explaining their attempts to move towards independance and nationalism. | [
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3A824772113.jsonld | The quest for good governance : how societies develop control of corruption | "Why do some societies manage to control corruption so that it manifests itself only occasionally, while other societies remain systemically corrupt? This book is about how societies reach that point when integrity becomes the norm and corruption the exception in regard to how public affairs are run and public resources are allocated. It primarily asks what lessons we have learned from historical and contemporary experiences in developing corruption control, which can aid policymakers and civil societies in steering and expediting this process. Few states now remain without either an anti-corruption agency or an Ombudsman, yet no statistical evidence can be found that they actually induce progress. Using both historical and contemporary studies and easy-to-understand statistics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi looks at how to diagnose, measure and change governance so that those entrusted with power and authority manage to defend public resources"-- | [
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3A607807741.jsonld | Comics and the city : urban space in print, picture and sequence | History, comics, and the city -- Retrofuturistic and nostalgic cities -- Superhero cities -- Locations of crime -- The city-comic as a mode of reflection | [
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3A739125400.jsonld | MIMO wireless networks : channels, techniques and standards for multi-antenna, multi-user and multi-cell systems | Unique in explaining the principles of MIMO networks at both link and system levels: now updated to include the latest developments in multi-user and multi-cell ???? channels and techniques, key developments for the developments of 4G networks! This book is unique in bridging the gap between MIMO radio propagation and signal processing techniques and presenting robust MIMO network designs for real-world wireless channels. Through a unified framework, it emphasizes how propagation mechanisms impact the MIMO system performance under realistic power constraints. Combining a solid mathematical This book is unique in presenting channels, techniques and standards for the next generation of MIMO wireless networks. Through a unified framework, it emphasizes how propagation mechanisms impact the system performance under realistic power constraints | [
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3A1023432633.jsonld | Transatlantic food and agricultural trade policy : 50 years of conflict and convergence | Tim Josling and Stefan Tangermann's Transatlantic Food and Agricultural Trade Policy traces the past fifty years of transatlantic trade relations in the area of food and agricultural policy, from early skirmishes over farm policies to on-going conflicts over biotech foods and hormone use in animal rearing. The authors take an analytical approach to the causes of transatlantic conflict and the extent to which these trade tensions in agricultural markets have reflected wide differences in policy approaches and levels of support. They explore the role played by international rules, in the GATT, and subsequently the WTO, in disciplining farm price support policies to allow for more open markets. The book also points to possible ways to end five decades of transatlantic trade tensions in the area of food and farm products. Scholars, practitioners and policymakers will find this timely book an invaluable and comprehensive guide to the causes of, and solutions to, the persistent EU-US trade conflicts in agricultural and food policy | [
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3A1032494077.jsonld | The Oxford handbook of Charles Brockden Brown | "The Oxford Handbook of Charles Brockden Brown is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Brown's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Brown's fictional and non-fictional writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of literary theory, social justice, sexuality, and property relations, as well as slavery, Native Americans, and women's rights. His understanding of American and global history, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to emerging modernity" -- | [
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3A1653785780.jsonld | Unlocking the Secrets of White Dwarf Stars | White dwarfs, each containing about as much mass as our Sun but packed into a volume about the size of Earth, are the endpoints of evolution for most stars. Thousands of these faint objects have now been discovered, though only a century ago only three were known. They are among the most common stars in the Milky Way Galaxy, and they have become important tools in understanding the universe. Yet a century ago only three white dwarfs were known. The existence of these stars completely baffled the scientists of the day, and solving the mysteries of these strange objects required revolutionary advances in science and technology, including the development of quantum physics, the construction and utilization of large telescopes, the invention of the digital computer, and the ability to make astronomical observations from space. This book tells the story of the growth in our understanding of white dwarf stars, set within the context of the relevant scientific and technological advances. Part popular science, part historical narrative, this book is authored by one of the astrophysicists who participated directly in uncovering some of the secrets of white dwarf stars | [
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3A1793686394.jsonld | The Routledge handbook of religious literacy, pluralism and global engagement | This pioneering handbook proposes an approach to pluralism that is relational, principled, and non-relativistic, going beyond banal calls for mere "tolerance." The growing religious diversity within societies around the world presents both challenges and opportunities. A degree of competition between deeply held religious/worldview perspectives is natural and inevitable, yet at the same time the world urgently needs engagement and partnership across lines of difference. None of the world’s most pressing problems can be solved by any single actor, and as such it is not a question of if but when you partner with an individual or institution that does not think, act, or believe as you do. The authors argue that religious literacy—defined as a dynamic combination of competencies and skills, continuously refined through real-world cross-cultural engagement—is vital to building societies and states of neighborly solidarity and civic fairness. Through examination, reflection, and case studies across multiple faith traditions and professional fields, this handbook equips scholars and students, as well as policymakers and practitioners, to assess, analyze, and act collaboratively in a world of deep diversity. | [
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3A1023441853.jsonld | Finance in an age of austerity : the power of customer-owned banks | This is a book in search of an alternative to the discredited investor-owned banks that have brought the rich countries into crisis and the world economy into a long period of austerity. It finds customer-owned banks – credit unions, co-operative banks, building societies – have hardly been affected by the crisis and continue to operate according to their organisational DNA: low-risk, close to the customer, underpinned by real savings, and still lending to SMEs to protect jobs and local economies. They are big business – in some countries with over 40% of the market – but networked in smaller, democratic societies whose origins go back to 1850s Germany. | [
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3A1736797573.jsonld | Water, climate change, and sustainability | Localizing and mainstreaming global initiatives on water, climate change, and sustainability / Vishnu Prasad Pandey, Binaya Raj Shivakoti, Sangam Shrestha and David Wiberg -- A river basin approach for the coordinated implementation of water-related targets in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) / Binaya Raj Shivakoti -- Water-energy nexus in bio-based systems / Seyed Hashem Mousavi-Avval, Asmita Khanal, Juliana Vasco-Correa, Luis Huezo and Ajay Shah -- Safe-sanitation adaptive-integrated management system (SAIMS) : a conceptual process tool for incorporating resilience / Peter Emmanuel Cookey and Mayowa Abiodun Peter-Cookey -- Approaches and tools to assess water-climate change-sustainability nexus : a systematic review / Olusola O. Ololade, Enoch Bessah and Marinda Avenant -- Rejuvenation of springs in the Himalayan Region / Himanshu Kulkarni, Jayesh Desai and Mohammad Imran Siddique -- Enhancing water productivity through on-farm water management / Mohammad Faiz Alam, Vidya Mandave, Alok Sikka and Navneet Sharma -- Climate actions and challenges for sustainable ecosystem services : approaches and application in California case studies / Qinqin Liu -- Monitoring and accountability frameworks for SDGs : the role of civil society organizations / Catarina Fonseca and Laura van de Lande -- Research to policy and practice : challenges and opportunities / Ashim Das Gupta -- Resilient water infrastructure for poverty reduction : cases from Asia and Middle East / Victor R. Shinde and Lovlesh Sharma -- High efficiency irrigation technology as a single solution for multi-challenge : a case of Pakistan / Hafiz Qaisar Yasin, Malik Muhammad Akram and Muhammad Naveed Tahir -- Irrigation scheduling and management for improved water productivity / Birendra K.C., Henry Wai Chau, Magdy Mohssen, Keith Cameron, Ian McIndoe, Helen Rutter, Channa Rajanayaka, Patricia Anthony, Bart Schultz and Krishna Prasad -- Urban water security for sustainable cities in the context of climate change / Soni M. Pradhanang and Khurshid Jahan -- Approach towards building climate-resilient irrigation systems for food security in Nepal / Ram Chandra Khanal and Prachanda Pradhan -- A stakeholder-centric tool for implementing water management strategies and enhancing water cooperation (SDG 6.5) in the Lower Mekong Region / Manish Shrestha, Karthikeyan Matheswaran, Orn-Uma Polapanich, Thanapon Piman and Chayanis Krittasudthacheewa. "Sustainable use and management of water resources, considering energy and food dimensions, in the context of climate change is a challenging endeavour worldwide. Achieving many of the environmental sustainable development goals (SDGs) depends on the efficient use of the water resources. It's therefore imperative to rely on the best modern scientific and practical achievements in the field of hydrogeosciences and associated approaches and methods. Water, Climate Change, and Sustainability provides key concepts in hydrogeosciences, introduces relevant field and modelling techniques to demonstrate their applications in water-sector with specific case studies, and discerns future directions of research and practical application related to the expected patterns of climate changes in different regions of the world. Volume highlights include: - Key concepts of practical applications of theory and methods of hydrogeosciences for sustainable development of water resources - Diverse approaches and methods for analyzing water resources and associated risks, pollution levels, vulnerability, and security - Practical applications of water resources in procuring food security, good health, clean energy and climate action Water, Climate Change, and Sustainability is a valuable resource for professionals, researchers, and graduate students from a wide variety of fields including hydrogeology, climate change, geophysics, geochemistry, geography, geohealth, and environmental science"-- | [
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3A1811742890.jsonld | The romance of regionalism in the work of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald : the south side of paradise | "At the height of their fame, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald dramatized their relationship as a charming romance of regionalism, a Northern man's pursuit of a Southern belle. This books reveals that tensions between sectionalism and nationalism run much deeper in their work than previously appreciated"-- | [
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3A1772777609.jsonld | The dictator's seduction : politics and the popular imagination in the era of Trujillo | The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator's Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a "vernacular politics" based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo's exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo's regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tiguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator's Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power. | [
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3A1697691935.jsonld | Getting Skills Right: South Africa | This report identifies effective strategies to tackle skills imbalances in South Africa. It provides an assessment of practices and policies in the following areas: the collection and use of information on skill needs to foster a better alignment of skills acquisitions with labour market needs; education and training policies targeting skills development and investment for individuals and employers; job creation policies to develop skills through on-the-job learning; and policies facilitating the entry of migrants with skills that are in demand. The assessment is based on country visits, desk research and data analysis conducted by the OECD secretariat. | [
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3A180624800X.jsonld | Royal courts in dynastic states and empires : a global perspective | "In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the household as well as government institutions. This volume for the first time brings together the fruits of research on royal courts from antiquity to the modern world, from Asia to Europe. The authors are acknowledged specialists in their own fields, but they address themes relevant for all courts: the inner and outer dimensions of court architecture as well as staff organizations; the connections between court, capital, and realm; the relationship of the ruler with relatives and other elites. This volume pioneers comparative history combining a rich empirical orientation with a critical assessment of theoretical perspectives. Contributors: Tülay Artan, Gojko Barjamovic, Peter Fibiger Bang, Jeroen Duindam, Sabine Dabringhaus, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Ebba Koch, Metin Kunt, Paul Magdalino, Rosamond McKitterick, Ruth Macrides, Rolf Strootman, Isenbike Togan, Maria Antonietta Visceglia, and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill." | [
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3A1805468146.jsonld | Methods, implementation, and application of cyber security intelligence and analytics | Methods, implementation, and application of cyber security intelligence / Kunwar Pal, National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, D Gopal, National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, Gibraltar, Nisha Chaurasia, National Institute of Technology Jalandhar, India -- Data-driven Android malware analysis intelligence / Ketaki Pattani, Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India, Sunil Gautam, Institute of Advanced Research, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India -- How Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) ensures cyber resilience using artificial intelligence and machine learning / Neelima Kant, Sharda University, India, Amrita Prasad, Sharda University, India. "This book looks at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cyber security which has emerged as one of the most promising use cases for the advancement of Cyber security in the technological age" | [
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3A1015138829.jsonld | The multilateral trading system and human rights : a governance space theory on linkages | A "Governance Space" Theory for Analysing Linkages -- The Normative Hierarchy Debate and its Distractions -- The Disputed Role of the Dispute Settlement Body -- WTO and the Shrinking of Governance Space -- WTO and the Permissive Environment to Abuse Governance Space -- WTO and the Limiting Environment to Use Governance Space -- The Way Forward : The Right to Development Approach "This book contributes an original theory to understanding human rights and international trade. It offers the 'governance space' framework for analysing the linkages and normative relationships between the multilateral trading system (MTS) and human rights regimes. Drawing upon key case studies, the author identifies connecting strands as also gaps in linkage issues. He further examines the 'right to development' approach to resolve tensions between these two regimes and demonstrates how the approach may be the most appropriate road map to finding sustainable solutions in balancing human rights and equitable free trade in a complex globalised world. Presenting new legal analyses informed by current debates drawn from international organisations--the World Trade Organization, United Nations, International Labour Organization--governments, civil society and academia as well as global commitments such as the Sustainable Development Goals, the book proposes a systematic and holistic policy intervention"--Provided by publisher | [
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3A776708007.jsonld | Advanced introduction to international political economy | Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- The American school -- America's "Left-Out" -- The British school -- Britain's "Far-Out" -- Continental Europe -- Latin America -- China -- The geography of IPE -- What have we learned? -- Index The author pinpoints the essential principles of international political economy and illuminates the full array of perspectives to be found across the globe in this rich field of study | [
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3A1743799071.jsonld | One hundred years of social protection : the changing social question in Brazil, India, China, and South Africa | "Lutz Leisering continues his path-breaking analysis of social policy development outside the OECD world. This is the book students of global social policy and policy-makers have been waiting for." — Ian Gough FAcSS FRSA, Visiting Professor in CASE and Associate of GRI, London School of Economics; Emeritus Professor, University of Bath, UK "This is a sophisticated analysis which will stimulate future theoretical and empirical work on social protection around the world. It deserves to be widely consulted."— James Midgley, Professor of the Graduate School, University of California Berkeley, USA While the rise of social protection in the global North has been widely researched, we know little about the history of social protection in the global South. This volume investigates the experiences of four middle-income countries - Brazil, India, China and South Africa - from 1920 to 2020, analysing if, when, and how these countries articulated a concern about social issues and social cohesion. As the first in-depth study of the ideational foundations of social protection policies and programmes in these four countries, the contributions demonstrate that the social question was articulated in an increasingly inclusive way. The contributions identify the ideas, beliefs, and visions that underpinned the movement towards inclusion and social peace as well as counteracting doctrines. Drawing on perspectives from the sociology of knowledge, grounded theory, historiography, discourse analysis, and process tracing, the volume will be of interest to scholars across political science, sociology, political economy, history, area studies, and global studies, as well as development experts and policymakers. | [
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3A1651728577.jsonld | OECD Guidelines on Insurer Governance | The OECD Guidelines on Insurer Governance offer a comprehensive set of principles on the governance of insurers that are intended to provide guidance and serve as a reference point for insurers, governmental authorities, and other relevant stakeholders in OECD and non-OECD countries. As financial institutions whose business is the acceptance and management of insurable risk, insurers should have sound governance and risk management practices so that they will be in a position to provide promised benefits to policyholders and beneficiaries and thus fulfil their insurance function in the economy. The Guidelines on Insurer Governance emphasise the following key elements of insurer governance: an expected prudent approach to business and financial strategies; a well developed risk culture and risk management and internal control systems, supported by effective and independent control functions and integrated firm-wide reporting; sound compensation arrangements; a high level of financial expertise among board members and within senior management; and policies and procedures that ensure proper treatment of customers and policyholders. The Guidelines complement the OECD Principles of Corporate Governance, one of the twelve key Financial Stability Board standards for sound financial systems. | [
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3A1772055344.jsonld | The Moravian Brethren in a time of transition : a socio-economic analysis of a religious community in eighteenth-century Saxony | "Based on thousands of archival documents, Christina Petterson offers an in-depth analysis of the community building process and individual and collective subjectification practices of the Moravian Brethren in eighteenth-century Herrnhut, Eastern Germany between 1740 and 1760. The Moravian Brethren are a Protestant group, but Petterson demonstrates the relevance of their social experiments and practices for early modernity by drawing out the socio-economic layers of the archival material. In doing so, she provides a non-religious reading of categories that become central to liberal ideology as the Moravians negotiate the transition from feudal society to early capitalism. As such The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition combines archival analysis with socio-economic change"-- | [
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3A1685483569.jsonld | Lea's chemistry of cement and concrete | Lea's Chemistry of Cement and Concrete, Fifth Edition, examines the suitability and durability of different types of cements and concretes, their manufacturing techniques and the role that aggregates and additives play in achieving concrete's full potential of delivering a high-quality, long-lasting, competitive and sustainable product | [
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3A1023180596.jsonld | Elegant objects / by Yegor Bugayenko ; Volume 1 | "It is about object-oriented programming, from an idealistic and, maybe, a bit futuristic point of view. There are 23 independent recommendations for a practical OOP designer on how to make code cleaner, classes more solid and architecture more visible." - author | [
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