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This book investigates Euro-African cultural relations, considering their connected histories through material and immaterial forms of representation, commemoration, and memorialization. Recent waves of protest around the world have called for...

When you know the cause of an event, you can affect its outcome. This accessible introduction to causal inference shows you how to determine causality and estimate effects using statistics and machine learning.In Causal Inference for Data Science you...

The effects of US secondary sanctions are broad and are often designed to cripple the target country’s economy and currency. Some states have sought to circumvent these sanctions by setting up a special purpose vehicle to facilitate trade and financial...

This book explores the ways in which memory sites contribute to the dynamics of identity-based conflicts, fuelling fears, sharpening divisions, and justifying violence.Through an analysis of the dynamics of identity-based conflicts, the book shows how...

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integrated into the political and security landscape, it is essential to consider the ethical implications of this development. "Ethics in the Age of AI: Navigating Politics and Security" brings...

Transparent Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems facilitate understanding the decision-making process and provide opportunities in various aspects of explaining of AI models. This book provides up-to-date information on the latest advancements in the...

This book is a socio-historical analysis of rationalism as a worldview — that guides many of our actions in concrete everyday life — and as a philosophy — that guides our epistemological understanding of the reality around us. It explores the...

Society has become more educated on the impacts on human health and environment and there has been a noticeable decrease in the acceptance of this risk by workers and the public. However, to ensure a higher level of worker protection, a revised approach...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The different sciences...

Short Blurb This handbook covers the different aspects of the aquatic environment, microbiology, and microbial applications. It highlights the role of microorganisms as pollution indicators and as bio-control agents. The book covers the impact of...

The Doctrine of the State is a major work of political philosophy and philosophy of history by one of the most important authors of German Idealism, Johann Gottlieb Fichte. It represents Fichte's final sustained attempt to provide a synoptic overview of...

How can we have meaningful public conversations in the algorithmic age? This book explores how digital technologies shape our opinions and interactions, often in ways that limit our exposure to diverse perspectives and fuel polarization. Drawing on the...

Das sechsbändige Handbuch ist ein hochwertiges Werk über die Geodäsie unserer Zeit. Neben einer guten Lesbarkeit vermittelt es dennoch den wissenschaftlichen Ansatz und richtet sich an Kollegen in Praxis und Wissenschaft, aus Nachbardisziplinen und...

This innovative textbook is the ideal introduction to cultural psychology. It focuses on a holistic approach to cultural psychology, which emphasises that culture is created and shared by people and society.Organised around short core concept chapters,...

In the age of rapid technological advancements, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and large language models (LLMs) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education has emerged as a transformative...

Las Madres is an incredible story of generational resilience and transformation with family and community at its heart. Dennis Raphael Garcia deftly writes the tale of three generations of women in his family, recounting the difficult challenges each of...

Over the course of a decades-long armed conflict, the Colombian state took a variety of approaches toward its insurgent opponent, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Successive governments swung between pursuing negotiations and responding...

This book examines policies on unpaid care throughout the UK since the 1990 NHS and Community Care Act. It questions why, after decades of policies and strategies, unpaid care remains in a marginal position in the social care system and in society more...

Dieses Buch ist ein Handbuch für alle Gestalter: innen, die mit User Experience (UX) Design mehr zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung von Produkten, Prozessen und Service beitragen möchten. Arbeitskreis "Design for Sustainability" der German UPA wurde im Jahr...

This open access book compiles the groundbreaking research conducted by the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 871, centered around the "Regeneration of Complex Capital Goods." This comprehensive work unveils an array of innovative methods developed...

'A document of real optimism.' Guardian On Tuesday 13 September 2022, all Mahsa Amini has planned is a day shopping in Tehran. Her birthday is next week. But she is arrested as she comes out of the subway – the Guidance Patrol deem her hijab inadequate...

So You Want to Do Narrative Therapy? is an engaging and accessible introduction to contemporary narrative therapy practice. Each of the ten chapters is written as a series of letters personally addressed to a real student who is learning how to do...

• Provides an up-to-date analysis and exposition of the significant changes in the private rental housing sector that have taken place over the past decade and a half in many advanced economies.Book InformationISBN 9781447362098Author Peter A. KempFormat...

Over the course of a decades-long armed conflict, the Colombian state took a variety of approaches toward its insurgent opponent, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Successive governments swung between pursuing negotiations and responding...

In The Anger Rule, Antoine J. Banks and Ismail K. White examine how Black politicians are uniquely penalized for expressing anger, especially anger related to race. Drawing on social psychology and philosophy, Banks and White demonstrate how this anger...

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profound conflicts rooted in the past. Addressing issues of...

In 2007, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples became law, extending inherent human rights for the first time to the approximately half a billion Indigenous people around the planet. But nation-states have been slow to...

This book reveals how pro-environmental actions can boost individuals’ and communities’ psychological, social and emotional wellbeing, as well as resulting in positive environmental changes.Pro-environmental actions are often viewed as being motivated by...

Additives improve the surface properties, reducing friction and wear at the interface, and improving service life of interacting engineering systems and components and this book focusses on a comprehensive study of additives in terms of their role in...

Dieses Fachbuch beschäftigt sich mit der Darstellung und Auslegung moderner Leichtbaukonstruktionen nach dem Vorbild Natur bei technischen Anwendungen. Beispiele aus dem Transport- und Bauingenieurwesen veranschaulichen die Konstruktionsgrundlagen. Dabei...

This book provides a complete introduction to Artificial Intelligence, covering foundational computational technologies, mathematical principles, philosophical considerations, and engineering disciplines essential for understanding AI. Artificial...

Emerging Methods of Oil Extraction from Food Processing Waste is a comprehensive and cutting-edge exploration of sustainable oil extraction practices, catering to professionals and researchers in food science. The book, spanning 13 insightful chapters...

Asserting a critical sociological perspective, Human Rights Praxis and the Struggle for Survival reveals the contested historical processes through which fundamental human needs are constructed as “rights” under international law, and how those rights...

This book is novel and unlike any other book out there. It will expand the knowledge base on activist Feminist Geography research in one place and include cutting-edge original research.Book InformationISBN 9781529225105Author Kate BoyerFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781138818514Author Jesper KallestrupFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis Ltd

Now in its second edition, this important book examines test validity in the behavioral, social, and educational sciences by exploring three fundamental problems: measurement, causation and meaning. Psychometric and philosophical perspectives and...

The early struggle for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and 1970s has typically been told from the perspective of the coasts—in places like New York, San Francisco, and Miami. But the Midwest town of Lawrence, Kansas, home of the University of Kansas (KU) and a...

Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) is a form of music therapy developed for people suffering from cognitive, sensory, or motor dysfunctions - arising from neurological diseases of the nervous system. People who can benefit from this therapy include sufferers...

The reference text discusses fundamental principles, planning, sourcing, demand forecasting, and supply forecasting in the field of supply chain management. It further highlights the important aspects of supply chain management such as resource planning,...

This book explores the structural harm of borders and non-citizenship, specifically temporary non-citizenship, in the perpetuation of domestic and family violence (DFV). It focuses on the stories and situations of over 300 women in Australia. The...