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View book details for Media and Politics in Kurdistan
How Politics and Media are Locked in an Embrace
Media and Politics in Kurdistan studies the relationship between the media and politics in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI). KRI is approached as a case study, as an example of the struggle between authoritarian and democratization efforts at the …
View book details for The Future of the State
Philosophy and Politics
The state has been a dominant political form, and the preferred model of political unity , for at least the last two centuries. However, many today speak of its crisis, which stems from two main factors: the states changing role …
View book details for Four Wars, Five Presidents
A Reporter's Journey from Jerusalem to Saigon to the White House
Terence Smiths memoir recounts his extraordinary journalistic career with The New York Times, CBS News and PBS, covering everything from the inner workings of the White House to fours wars and stories drawn from the daily lives of people in …
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Ware verhale van albei kante van die strydlyn
Bekroonde skrywer Carla van der Spuy gesels met geharde en gerehabiliteerde gangsters, n lady gangster,n ma wie se kind koelbloedig vermoor is en pastore wat probeer help. So hoor ons van die nommers, die Franse, die vierde kamp, Sabela en …
View book details for A Taste for Life
How the Spur legend was born
Join Allen Ambor on a rock n roll ride through the restaurant business and pioneering days of franchising in South Africa. Ambors exuberance for life and exacting management style shine through on every page of this memoir of a man …
View book details for Nonlinear System Identification
From Classical Approaches to Neural Networks, Fuzzy Models, and Gaussian Processes
This book provides engineers and scientists in academia and industry with a thorough understanding of the underlying principles of nonlinear system identification. It equips them to apply the models and methods discussed to real problems with confidence, while also making …
View book details for Commercial and Investment Banking and the International Credit and Capital Markets
A Guide to the Global Finance Industry and its Governance
An introductory guide to finance and the financial markets, designed to help professionals and students understand the complex finance industry. It is a modern text that covers all major developments in markets in the period since the year 2000, the …
View book details for Opportunities and Challenges for New and Peripheral Political Science Communities
A Consolidated Discipline?
This open access book offers an updated examination of the institutionalisation of political science in sixteen latecomer or peripheral countries in Europe. Its main theme is how political science as a science of democracy is influenced and how it responds …
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View book details for The Elements of Big Data Value
Foundations of the Research and Innovation Ecosystem
This open access book presents the foundations of the Big Data research and innovation ecosystem and the associated enablers that facilitate delivering value from data for business and society. It provides insights into the key elements for research and innovation, …
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View book details for Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks
Second EAI International Conference, AICON 2020, Virtual Event, December 19-20, 2020, Proceedings
This book constitutes the post-conference proceedings of the Second EAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Communications and Networks, AICON 2020, held in December 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 52 full papers were carefully reviewed …
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12th EAI International Conference, SIMUtools 2020, Guiyang, China, August 28-29, 2020, Proceedings, Part II
This two-volume set constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques, SIMUTools 2020, held in Guiyang, China, in August 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually. The 125 revised full …
This book provides an overview of the fundamentals of plasmonic field enhancement phenomena and the recent advancements in the field of hydrogen energy technologies that utilize plasmonics for their performance enhancement. Hydrogen energy is currently a representative clean energy without …
View book details for Post-industrial Robotics
Exploring Informed Architecture
This book highlights the concept of informed architecture as an alternative to performance-based approaches. Starting with an analysis of the state of art, the book defines an operative methodology in which performative parameters lead to the generation of the shape …
View book details for Ethical Silence
Kierkegaard on Communication, Education, and Humility
Ethical Silence: Kierkegaard on Communication, Education, andHumility examines a new area of Kierkegaard scholarship: the ethical value of silence. Through exegesis of Kierkegaards later writings, works in what is known as his second authorship, Sergia Hay argues that silence is …
View book details for William Franklin Sands in Late Choson Korea
At the Deathbed of Empire, 18961904
After graduation from Georgetown University in 1896, William Franklin Sands joined the US diplomatic corps as second secretary in Tokyo. His year there sparked his interest in East Asia, so when a position in Korea opened, he took it, with …
View book details for Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America
Little Platoons
Defining Hybrid Homeschools in America: Little Platoons explores the idea of hybrid homeschools, where students attend a formal school setting for part of the week and are homeschooled the rest of the week. Eric Wearne observes that school choice in …
Framed within a discussion on the use of biblical texts for reasoning about social, cultural, and political realities, Roman Self-Representation and the Lukan Kingdom of God explores the construction of the kingdom of God in Luke and Acts through the …
View book details for Confessions of a Chinese Heroine
The Labor Camp Memoirs of Sr. Ying Mulan
The memoirs of Sister Ying Mulan describe her experiences as a Chinese Christian living in a turbulent era marked by the Communist takeover, the Cultural Revolution, and many momentous political reforms. Born into a family of politically active Catholics, Ying …
Activism through Music during the Apartheid Era and Beyond documents the grassroots activism of Sharon Katz & the Peace Train against the backdrop of enormous diversity and the volatile social and political climate in South Africa during the early 1990s. …
View book details for Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education
The Just University
The essays in Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher Education: The Just University discuss diverse ways that Paul Ricoeurs work provides hopeful insight and necessary provocation that should inform the task and mission of the modern university in the …
View book details for Promoting Transborder Dialogue During Times of Uncertainty
A Time for Third Spaces
Promoting Border Dialogue During Times of Uncertainty: A Time for Third Spaces is the product of years of investigations and publications focusing on the importance of dialogic processes in the fields of education, cultural work, economics, and politics. Recent, pivotal …
View book details for Civics Education in Contentious Times
Working with Teachers to Create Locally-Specific Curricula in a Post-Truth World
Civics Education in Contentious Times: Working with Teachers to Create Locally-Specific Curricula in a Post-Truth World is a longitudinal research study that focuses on the collaboration between a researcher and elementary teachers to design and implement locally-specific civics curriculum in …
A separate juvenile justice system was established in the United States in 1899 with a goal of diverting juvenile offenders from the harsh punishments of the adult criminal court, and encouraging rehabilitation based on the individual needs of the offender. …
View book details for Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture
Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization
Given that engineering significantly affects modern society, ensuring its reliability is essential. How then should society implement engineering ethics to ensure its reliability? Can we expect engineering ethics to be nurtured naturally in the practice of engineering communities? If not, …
View book details for Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema
Debates on Migration, Identity, and Finance
Transcultural Images in Hollywood Cinema discusses how cinema, particularly Hollywood, impacts the cultural identities we construct for ourselves in order to make sense of who we are in the world. The politics of representation in cinema influence the boundaries of …
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