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How American Buddhists use Zen riddles to imagine who they are The koan is one of the most recognizable East-Asian spiritual exercises—a thought experiment in the form of a riddle or puzzle that Zen Buddhists employ to become enlightened. Well-known...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951214Author François JullienFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

Federated Learning: Unlocking the Power of Collaborative Intelligence is a definitive guide to the transformative potential of federated learning. This book delves into federated learning principles, techniques, and applications, and offers practical...

This book makes the case for an urgent move away from industrial agriculture towards regenerative farming and the promotion of plant-based diets.How we produce, distribute and consume food are critical issues for the health and well-being of humans,...

Redistribution is a major objective of welfare states. In certain cases, redistribution not only reduces the financial differences between some individuals or groups but also changes their positions in a financial ranking. Prior studies have indicated...

From Revolution to Revolution (1973) examines England, Scotland and Wales from the revolution of 1688 when William became King, to the American Revolution of 1776. In this period lies the roots of modern Britain, as it went from being underdeveloped...

Following a relational, Indigenous-led approach grounded in 25 years of collaborative work, this book looks to weather and climate, tracing the embodied, emplaced and affective ways weather co-constitutes people, place and time/s raising critical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087095Author Amy HortonFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

This book is a comprehensive work that comprises latest development and technologies, challenges, and best practices in the industry. It covers the fundamentals of cloud computing, including deployment models, service models, and the benefits of cloud...

AI is changing the world at frightening speed. A bestselling author decides to find out more… ‘Something profound and utterly brilliant is going on… hilarious.’ THE TIMES Is ChatGPT the end of creative industries as we know them? An ethical quagmire from...

Max Weber (1864–1920) has long been considered a founding figure of sociology. This book offers a fresh reading of Weber’s work and highlights his thinking about the economy and economic interactions in society. Complicated by the reception history...

This book explores the history and development of the British daily newspaper strip. It considers such strips within their political, commercial and societal contexts and fills in a crucial section of publishing history that has been largely overlooked...

First Published in 1953, Geography from the Air is the first book in English to explain and illustrate fully the use of air photographs in the study of geography. It sets out in simple form the limited amount of technical information which is necessary...

There are approximately 25,000 “city-killer” asteroids in near-Earth orbit—and most are yet to be found. Small enough to evade detection, they are capable of large-scale destruction and represent our greatest cosmic threat. But in September 2022, against...

Developmental Science: An Advanced Textbook is the most complete and up-to-date advanced introduction to the field available today. Since its initial publication, the key purpose of this Advanced Textbook has been to furnish inclusive developmental...

A collection of interviews with some of the world’s leading progressive thinkers on the movement for Palestinian liberation and its connections to struggles for justice across the globe. As more and more people align themselves with the Palestinian...

Developing Cybersecurity Programs and Policies is a complete guide to establishing a cyber security program and governance in your organization. In this book, you will learn how to create cyber security policies, standards, procedures, guidelines, and...

Deep beneath our feet, vast and sprawling, lies one of the most sophisticated empires the world has ever known. At first glance, it might not look like much - it is made up of fibre optic cables and obscure payment systems. But according to prominent...

Research suggests that approximately 129 million children and 366 million adults worldwide have ADHD. Discover the answers to common questions about living with this neurodevelopmental condition. Part of the Q&A Health Guides series, this book offers a...

Environmental Health Behavior: Concepts, Determinants, Impacts, and Research Methods integrates two intertwined fields, environmental health sciences and human behavior, to identify and systematize current knowledge about human behaviors and habits...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615375011Author Vicki HarrisonFormat PaperbackImprint American Psychiatric Association PublishingPublisher American Psychiatric Association Publishing

This book is a tutorial on MongoDB customized for developers working in Microsoft .NET 6, .NET 7, and beyond. It explains the differences between relational database systems and the document model supported by MongoDB, and shows how to build .NET...

Providing real-world case examples of vascular surgery emergencies and clinical scenarios, this well-illustrated text supports trainees and residents in their daily clinical practice. The focus on decision making and clinical management planning helps...

This book introduces the core knowledge and skills for comprehensive risk assessment and management in healthcare settings. It emphasises that patient safety requires a holistic and inclusive approach to maximise patient wellbeing in a diverse population...

Fundamental Statistical Concepts and Techniques in the Biological and Environmental Sciences: With jamovi is an introductory textbook for learning statistics. It starts with the very basics and prioritises helping the reader to develop a conceptual...

This book provides a conceptual introduction to regression and machine learning and its applications in education research. The book discusses its diverse applications, including its role in predicting future events based on the current data or...

This book analyses the impact of the increasing securitization of migration within the international legal and political order.Migration has increasingly become a security issue. Examining this tendency towards the securitization of migration around the...

This new book is designed around twenty clinical cases, each representative of scenarios encountered by doctors who work in primary care and which will prompt learning in related issues surrounding each clinical scenario. Each case description concludes...

Drawing on examples from clinical practice, this book presents evidence-based psychological principles in an applied context to support effective practice in the helping professions.This book takes a narrative approach, presenting a collection of case...

Race in the Anthropocene provides a radical new perspective on the importance of race and coloniality in the Anthropocene. It forwards the Black Horizon as a critical lens which places at its heart the importance of ontological concerns fundamental to...

There are many different ways in which victims’ rights can be implemented. The implementation pattern may vary depending on the type of rights a jurisdiction offers and the purposes it seeks to achieve via these rights. However, there are a few basic...

Ever since the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Mumbai-based Hindi cinema has been returning compulsively to the idea of Pakistan, sometimes as the desirable other, sometimes as the horrifying antagonist. Hindi Cinema and Pakistan traces the...

Brehm’s theory of psychological reactance in 1966 marked the beginning of a psychological investigation into the consequences of losing freedom. The concept “freedom” had been touched upon intermittently by disciplines such as political science and...

In InterAsian Intimacies across Race, Religion, and Colonialism, Chie Ikeya asks how interAsian marriage, conversion, and collaboration in Burma under British colonial rule became the subject of political agitation, legislative activism, and collective...

Cat lovers will know all too well that one of the characteristics they admire most is their cat's ability to remain mysterious, but new and seasoned owners alike will also know that because of this we often misread their signals and some of their...

Every picture tells a story, and stories have the power to educate. Looking at two key Jungian archetypes - the father and the shadow - from a challenging perspective, this book investigates the negative, shadowy side of fatherhood and its detrimental...

Providing real-world case examples of vascular surgery emergencies and clinical scenarios, this well-illustrated text supports trainees and residents in their daily clinical practice. The focus on decision making and clinical management planning helps...

A gripping first-hand account from inside the halls of Congress as Donald Trump and his enablers betrayed the American people and the Constitution-leading to the violent attack on the Capitol on 6th January 2021-by the House Republican leader who dared...

What happens when people are reduced to products? By pulling back the clinical curtain on the multi-billion dollar per year global egg industry, that is the central question Eggonomics seeks to address. Tracing the emotional and physical journeys egg...

Religion as Securitization in Central and Eastern Europe examines the significance of securitization theory as a reference point in understanding current religious, socio-cultural, and political processes in Central and Eastern Europe.It explores...