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This book is a unique exploration designed for both philosophers and Baduk (Go, Weiqi) players, bridging two worlds that rarely intersect. AlphaGo, the groundbreaking AI, has been both a challenge and a revelation for these communities. As someone who...

In premodern south Asia, epistemology (pramanasastra)--the study of knowledge and the methods of acquiring it--was rarely construed as a purely theoretical enterprise. It was a discipline intended to serve practical purposes. This approach to...

A sobering encounter with lives transformed by gun violence and an urgent call to build more comprehensive systems of care for wounded people. Gun violence is a plague in the United States; even survivors experience suffering that wreaks havoc on their...

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Economic and Social Council on its 2024 session.Book InformationISBN 9789211545203Author United Nations Department for General Assembly and Conference ManagementFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Post-Soviet Eurasia continues to puzzle observers, defying expectations of experts. Most Russia watchers failed to predict the full-scale invasion against Ukraine in 2022, and this failure triggered intensive debates and multiple rounds of...

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Heat Transfer Optimization for Sustainable Energy Systems examines how to use AI/ML-driven methodologies to enhance heat transfer processes in energy systems, such as industrial heat recovery, HVAC systems,...

For decades, feminists have been educating young people about healthy sexual interactions, promoting the benefits of affirmative consent. College students know that “Yes means yes!” Yet rates of sexual assault on college campuses remain stable. What’s...

Digital fashion has emerged as a multidisciplinary field of knowledge that attracts overlapping interests from academics, researchers, and professionals coming from fashion design, business and technology, computer science, software engineering,...

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the proposed programme budget for the year 2026.Book InformationISBN 9789211576672Author United Nations Department for...

Monty the Null Hippopotamus: Exploring Statistical Foundations Through Simulation offers a revolutionary approach to introductory statistics for students who grew up in the computing age. Breaking away from the traditional formula-memorization approach...

?Sovereignty, Catastrophe, Indigeneity examines Indian rule in occupied Jammu and Kashmir through the lens of settler-colonial geopolitics. Engaging with settler-colonial, decolonial and Indigenous studies, the book traces how European sovereignty was...

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 on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. There is no doubt...

Aristotelian Naturalism is an ethics on which moral goodness is a species of natural goodness-the kind of goodness we find on display creatures whose habits and activities enable them to thrive. What it takes for humans to be good is to have habits and...

Mistakes happen — even in the most meticulous legal practices. What matters is how you respond. This ground breaking guide fills a critical gap in the risk and compliance space by focusing on what to do after an error occurs. Practical, reassuring, and...

Get the review and practice you need to master the role of today's nurse! With chapters corresponding to the chapters in Yoost's Fundamentals of Nursing, 4th Edition, this study guide provides a variety of exercises and activities to reinforce your...

The present annual report covers questions considered by the Security Council and matters brought to its attention as well as the work of the Council's subsidiary bodies during the reporting period.Book InformationISBN 9789211591378Author United Nations...

This is the official report to the General Assembly of the Committee on Contributions on its eighty-fifth session (2-20 June 2025).Book InformationISBN 9789211545180Author United Nations Department for General Assembly and Conference ManagementFormat...

This is the annual report submitted to the General Assembly by the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its sixty-fifth session during the period 12 May - 13 June 2025.Book InformationISBN 9789211545173Author United Nations Department for General...

Surplus lives under racial capitalism theorises the link between political economy, anti-Roma racism and modern forms of white supremacy in East Central Europe. The book shows how the introduction of capitalism in the 1990s overlapped with the rise of...

Silent war reveals how silence functions as a crucial but often overlooked force in enabling and sustaining military violence. While war propaganda and discursive justifications have received significant attention, this book argues that military...

This open access book assembles cutting-edge research in media and communication exploring AI infrastructures and sustainability. It builds upon and expands perspectives on media infrastructure, addressing critical issues such as environmental impacts,...

"The book is beautifully written ... It provides the perfect blend of personal stories told with good humour and searing honesty, aimed not only at would be/ new/ seasoned barrister parents, but also their clerks, colleagues, opponents, leaders and...

Dynamic Point Symbols in Earthquake Mapping: Visualization Research in Space and Time examines how animated symbols enhance digital map comprehension, particularly for earthquake data visualization. It provides much-needed empirical evidence for the...

What does it mean to flourish? This open access book serves as a call to action to reimagine and work towards a world where flourishing is a reality for all.An international team of scholars, practitioners, wisdom keepers, and policymakers come together...

This book focuses on the ammonia industry, a cornerstone of nitrogenous fertilizer production, and serves as a practical handbook for industry operators and consultants. Written from an operator's perspective, it covers optimization, economics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962679725Author Parthiv ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Edra Publishing US LLCPublisher Edra Publishing US LLC

The Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA) is the essential guide to legal citation.There are two golden rules for the citation of legal authorities. One is consistency. The other is consideration for the reader. Legal...

Fidel Castro (1926-2016) was, without question, a major figure in international politics during the second half of the twentieth century and early years of the twenty-first. Undisputed leader of the Cuban Revolution, influential statesman within the...

We commonly believe that communication is successful when a hearer grasps what a speaker means. But Abe can assert "Sam is tall" without having any definite intention about how tall one must be to count as "tall," and Bertha can understand his assertion...

This book covers both the fundamentals and recent advancements in Electric Discharge Machining (EDM) technology, including developments in machine tools, process capabilities, subsystems, electrodes and dielectrics, control units, and more. It also...

Uncertainty in AI explores different theories of uncertainty as studied in the context of artificial intelligence. By adopting a common representation framework based on sets of possible worlds, it explores the relationships between different theories of...

This textbook is intended for an undergraduate course on the fundamentals of parallel computing or as a background and reference for graduate courses on high-performance computing, shared-memory multiprocessor programming, or parallel algorithms. The...

This open access book offers an overview on the intermediate results obtained in the context of the Italian National Research Programme "Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society" by the Working Group "Spoke 7", which focuses its...

This two-set volume CCIS 2653 and 2654 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Big Data Processing, AAIMB 2024, held in Chennai, India, during December...

We commonly believe that communication is successful when a hearer grasps what a speaker means. But Abe can assert "Sam is tall" without having any definite intention about how tall one must be to count as "tall," and Bertha can understand his assertion...

Uncertainty in AI explores different theories of uncertainty as studied in the context of artificial intelligence. By adopting a common representation framework based on sets of possible worlds, it explores the relationships between different theories of...

Comprehensive reference exploring microscopy techniques to support the study of living systems with a unique multiscale focus Live Biological Imaging Across Scales presents an overview of the technologies and experimental strategies available for live...

Explores the role of emerging technologies in advancing SDG 5 - Gender Equality, a key pillar of the UN Agenda 2030. The book examines how artificial intelligence, big data, IoT, blockchain, and other smart technologies can bridge gender gaps and empower...

Written under the shadow of growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and Europe, this book is an effort to understand resistance movements of the twenty-first century. It foregrounds the Yellow Vests to present an accurate and timely picture of a protest...

Technofeminist Resistance unveils how feminist resistance is evolving in the digital age, transforming from street protests to viral online movements. It focuses on how feminist ‘artivists’ are reshaping technology to challenge gender inequalities, and...