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Decentralised digital security offers a compelling exploration of how digital security is practiced, organised and contested within blockchain communities. Drawing on immersive digital ethnography, the book examines how decentralised technologies -...

This open access book contains all contributions to the congress, in which both detailed scientific investigations and technological innovations in the process chains of machining and forming are discussed as well as comprehensive, far-sighted overall...

Written in the style of a Galilean dialogue, this book offers a compelling exploration of the physical and epistemological foundations of quantum mechanics. Through a lively and accessible exchange, it delves into the major interpretations of quantum...

Explores the ways in which human and forest futures are interdependent, and the need to recognize its multiple meanings equally with its wealth of natural resources. Forests are a changing environment, impacted as much by people and politics as by...

Learn how to design, build, and deliver robust, scalable enterprise systems with Go. While many resources stop at syntax and beginner examples, this book is written for professional developers who need to create production-grade services. The mission of...

'Farage is Britain's new prime minister. Nirvana or nightmare? Whatever our reaction, we all need to take this scenario very seriously, as Peter Chappell's invigorating book does' Anthony Seldon'a dazzling imagined account of Nigel Farage's first year in...

Tsai Ing-Wen and Taiwan: An Assessment of the First Administration, 2016-2020 critically examines the public policy and presidency of Taiwan’s first female president, Tsai Ing-wen, who first came into office in 2016 and completed a second term in 2024...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781761358050Author Thomas WrightFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House Australia

Title 46 presents regulations applied by the Coast Guard to merchant marine officers and seamen, uninspected vessels, tank vessels, load lines, marine engineering, documenting and measuring vessels, passenger vessels, cargo and miscellaneous vessels,...

The book provides an overview of what it means to create personality-like, thinking, reasoning, deciding technologies. It reviews the development of cognitive modeling as theory based on the principles of psychology and neuroscience and as used in AI,...

Who can and should conduct ethnographic research? How can we transform an idea into a research question, and how can that question, in turn, be developed into a research design that produces comprehensible data?Designing and Conducting Ethnographic...

Revolutionizing Reproduction explores the rapidly advancing field of in vitro gametogenesis (IVG)-the generation of sperm and eggs from somatic or stem cells in the laboratory-and its profound implications for science, ethics, and society. While IVG...

This book is your definitive guide to mastering DeepSeek, a leading open-source Large Language Model (LLM), and leveraging its power through practical Python programming. It is structured to build your expertise from foundational Python data structures...

First published in 1983, Writers and Politics: A Partisan Review Reader, edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Phillips, captures the intersection of literature and politics as explored in Partisan Review since the late 1930s. This anthology reflects the...

This comprehensive volume examines the complex intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), legal frameworks, ethics, and human rights in contemporary society. Structured into five thematic units with 15 expert contributions, the book explores AI's...

Reforming Communism, Refusing Capitalism: The Rise and Fall of the Concept of "Socialist Market" focuses on the concept of “socialist market,: a cornerstone of political economy in Soviet-type societies undergoing economic reforms from the 1950s onward...

The Art and Science of Virtual Content Creation: Beyond the Screen is a wide-ranging guide that examines the dynamic fusion of creativity and technology in crafting immersive digital experiences. It explores how artistic vision and digital tools function...

Internal inquiries conducted by employers into suspected misconduct by employees-commonly known as workplace investigations-are significant and common processes in Australia. These investigations carry significant implications for all involved,...

This book challenges the entrenched marginaliaation of Muslim contributions to political theory, exposing the epistemological biases that have privileged Western traditions while silencing rich intellectual legacies from the Islamic world. Centering on...

Platonism and Kabbalah share a prominent characteristic: the formulation of epistemological and ontological concepts in erotic terms. Plato envisions eros as creating and sustaining the permeability of the boundaries between the earthly and the divine...

How is it possible to know of one's own mental states for the most part effortlessly and authoritatively? How can we know substantive facts of logic and mathematics, applicable to the natural world, just by thinking? These basic questions concern kinds...

An insightful examination of Latin America's contemporary democratic landscape and how it is marked by patterns of polarization and volatility. Although Latin American democracies have shown considerable resilience, today they face new forms of political...

Mahaffey’s "Laboratory Experiments for General Organic and Biochemistry" is designed to help you build skills in the laboratory, offering detailed guidance for every experiment, while connecting chemistry to your future career. LabSkills modules,...

Advanced Blazor Architecture with .NET 10 and Azure OpenAI: Enterprise-Grade Design Patterns, AI Integration, and Cloud-Ready Solutions will guide developers, architects, and technology leaders through building scalable, intelligent, and cloud-ready...

On 31 October 2000, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security-the first formal and legal document from the Security Council explicitly requiring parties in a conflict to prevent violations of women's...

Africa’s surviving rhinos are under serious threat. Poaching for their horns, massive extermination by ‘sports’ hunters in the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, and progressive habitat loss have all driven black and white rhino close to...

The history of the planet Earth has had periods of being in a distinct state with intervening critical transitions that see it 'flip' between states, for example between a world without atmospheric oxygen to one with a trace of it. These key transitions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889842477Author Selwyn O. Rogers, Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781849356121Author Rudolf RockerFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint AK PressPublisher AK Press

As businesses race to unlock the full potential of large language models (LLMs), a critical challenge has emerged: How do you connect these tools to real-time, external data to solve real-world problems? Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is the answer...

THE MIND GAMES OF ESPIONAGE-AS TAUGHT BY THE CIAThe Official CIA Interrogation & Manipulation Manual offers a rare, unfiltered look into the psychological strategies and counterintelligence mindset that shaped Cold War espionage. Drawn from authentic,...

The most recent scientific reporting suggests that the outlook for continued global warming is dire. Collective action and civic engagement by ordinary people around the world will prove decisive in slowing down global warming and supporting planetary...

Asian Canada is Burning invites us to trouble the mobilization of "anti-Asian hate" in the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic. Bringing together activists, organizers, academic, and artists, this book explores the historical and contemporary conditions...

Antisemitism and Sexism: Ideological Constellations Before and After 7 October analyses the manifold ways in which antisemitism and sexism appear not as isolated ideologies but as intersecting ones, exploring their historical, social, political,...

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was brutally killed at the hands of the police. Amplified by Donald Trump’s handling of the incident, Floyd’s death caused what some would term as a “racial reckoning”—a reckoning that pervaded different parts of American...

Trust Hacked by Nia Luckey redefines leadership for the digital age, framing trust not as a soft skill but as critical infrastructure. Drawing on her military and cybersecurity background, Nia presents the Trust Protocol, a strategic, actionable...

Anxious Homes is a study of the power that shapes the forms of the homes Chinese citizens strive for and the possible paths they may take to realize their home ownership dreams. Mengqi Wang discusses how the Chinese real estate industry functions in the...

Western democracies are suffering from populism, verging on fascism, because of the erosion of truth. This book argues that truth can grow out of citizenship education in how science really works, allied with an explicit culture of truth among...

This book discusses in detail grain refinement through various severe plastic deformation processes such as equal channel angular pressing, high-pressure torsion and twist extrusion. It also deals with the grain refinement mechanism, the influence of...

This book explores the scientific and technological relevance of rare earth elements in energy and sustainability. It covers their roles in clean energy systems, including electric vehicles, wind turbines, and energy storage. Emphasis is placed on...