Filter by
Market Engineering :Insights from Two Decades of Research on Markets and Info…
This open access book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, stock markets, electricity markets, the sharing economy, information and emotions in markets, smart decision-making in cities and other systems, and methodological approaches to conceptual modeling and taxonomy development. Overall, this book is a source of …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030666613
- Collation
- x, 243 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.83 MAR H
Dumbing Down :The Crisis of Quality and Equity in a Once-Great School System-…
This open access book examines the challenges and issues caused by a move to a marketized education system in Sweden. Observing the introduction of the school voucher system and a postmodern social constructivist view of knowledge, the move away from objective knowledge is identified as the core reason for Sweden’s current education crisis. The impact of declining education standards on the l…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030934293
- Collation
- XVIII, 212 p ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 338.4737 DUM
How to Build a Modern Tontine
This open access book introduces the modern tontine and its applications in retirement and decumulation. Personal financial management in the later stages of life presents unique challenges, and renowned retirement planning expert Dr. Milevsky proposes the modern tontine as a solution. With the goal of guiding professionals and retirees in more efficient decumulation, the book demonstrates how …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031009280
- Collation
- XXI, 156
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 368.32 HOW M
Responsible procurement :leading the way to a sustainable tomorrow
This open access book emphasizes that procuring goods at the expense of the environment and those who live there is no longer acceptable. Fortunately, there is now an unstoppable force, created by a collective of diverse stakeholders, driving the sustainability agenda. A company’s sustainability standards can only truly be as good as those along its entire supply chain. The purpose of this bo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030986407
- Collation
- xxx; 193p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.72 RES S
Oxygen Isotopes of Inorganic Phosphate in Environmental Samples
This open access book distinguished itself from other publications by offering step-by-step instructions on how to extract, purify, provide modifications, and major issues to be encountered during the process. For the δ18OP method to progress, further fundamental research as well as field and laboratory studies need to be conducted for a better understanding of P cycling in the environment. Ch…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030974978
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 333.7 OXY J
COVID-19 And Capitalism
This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this is (obviously) a virus, the extent to which this virus spread, and therefore the number of infections and deaths, was largely determined by socio-economic factors. From this, i…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030929015
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- Jurisprudence & philosophy of law
The Official Indonesian Qurʾān Translation; The History And Politics of Al-…
This book studies the political and institutional project of Al-Qur’an dan Terjemahnya, the official translation of the Qurʾān into Indonesian by the Indonesian government. It investigates how the translation was produced and presented, and how it is read, as well as considering the implications of the state’s involvement in such a work. Lukman analyses the politicisation of the Qurʾān …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800643994
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Medieval Hackers
Medieval Hackers calls attention to the use of certain vocabulary terms in the Middle Ages and today: commonness, openness, and freedom. Today we associate this language with computer hackers, some of whom believe that information, from literature to the code that makes up computer programs, should be much more accessible to the general public than it is. In the medieval past these same terms w…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780692352465
- Collation
- ScholarLed
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
The road to general intelligence
Humans have always dreamed of automating laborious physical and intellectual tasks, but the latter has proved more elusive than naively suspected. Seven decades of systematic study of Artificial Intelligence have witnessed cycles of hubris and despair. The successful realization of General Intelligence (evidenced by the kind of cross-domain flexibility enjoyed by humans) will spawn an industry …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783031080203
- Collation
- xiv; 136p;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 006.3 ROA J
Implementing Deeper Learning and 21st Century Education Reforms :Building an …
This open access book is a comparative analysis of recent large scale education reforms that broadened curriculum goals to better prepare students for the 21st century. The book examines what governments actually do when they broaden curriculum goals, with attention to the details of implementation. To this end, the book examines system level reforms in six countries at various levels of develo…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030570392
- Collation
- viii, 198 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370.116 IMP F
HEALTH CRISES AND MEDIA DISCOURSES IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030951009
- Collation
- xviii; 283p;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 070.1024614592414 HEA C
Ray Tracing Gems II :Next Generation Real-Time Rendering with DXR, Vulkan, an…
This Open Access book is a must-have for anyone interested in real-time rendering. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games. Ray tracing is also a fundamental algorithm used for architecture applications, visualization, sound simulation, deep learning, and m…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781484271858
- Collation
- lvi, 858 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 006.6 RAY A
CREATING THE CAPE COLONY :the political economy of settler colonisation
This open access book offers a detailed study of the foundation and expansion of the Dutch Cape Colony to ask why certain regions in the global south became European settler societies from the 16th century onwards. Examining the different factors that led to the creation of the Cape Colony, Erik Green reveals it was a gradual process, made up of ad hoc decisions, in which the agency of indigeno…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781350258259
- Collation
- viii, 192p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 916.8044 CRE g
Migrant Hospitalities in the Mediterranean:: Encounters with Alterity in Birt…
This open access book applies insights from the anthropology of hospitality to illuminate ethnographic accounts of migrant reception in various parts of the Mediterranean. The contributors ground the idea and practice of hospitality in concrete ethnographic settings and challenge how the casual usage of Derridean or Kantian notions of hospitality can blur the boundaries between social scales an…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030565855
- Collation
- xii, 132 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.8 MIG V
Antarcticness :inspirations and imaginaries
Antarcticness joins disciplines, communication approaches and ideas to explore meanings and depictions of Antarctica. Personal and professional words in poetry and prose, plus images, present and represent Antarctica, as presumed and as imagined, alongside what is experienced around the continent and by those watching from afar. These understandings explain how the Antarctic is viewed and manag…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781800081444
- Collation
- xxxviii, 289 p. ill;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 998 ANT I
Arcticness :power and voice from the North
Climate change and globalisation are opening up the Arctic for exploitation by the world – or so we are told. But what about the views, interests and needs of the peoples who live in the region? This volume explores the opportunities and limitations in engaging with the Arctic under change, and the Arctic peoples experiencing the changes, socially and physically. With essays by both academic…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787350137
- Collation
- xv, 204 p. ill;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 998 ARC I
Biosocial worlds :anthropology of health environments beyond determinism
Biosocial Worlds presents state-of-the-art contributions to anthropological reflections on the porous boundaries between human and non-human life – biosocial worlds. Based on changing understandings of biology and the social, it explores what it means to be human in these worlds. Growing separation of scientific disciplines for more than a century has maintained a separation of the ‘natural…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787358232
- Collation
- viii, 215 pp. ill;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.5 BIO A
Intercultural Approaches to Education :From Theory to Practice
This open access book provides an analysis of contemporary societies and schools shaped by cultural diversity, globalization and migration. This diversity is necessarily reflected in education systems and requires the promotion of intercultural approaches able to improve learning processes and the quality of education. From an international and comparative perspective, this book first presen…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030708252
- Collation
- xxii, 213 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 370.117 INT A
Being young, male and Muslim in Luton
What is it like to be a young Muslim man in post-7/7 Britain, and what impact do wider political factors have on the multifaceted identities of young Muslim men? Drawn from the author’s ethnographic research of British-born Muslim men in the English town of Luton, Being Young, Male and Muslim in Luton explores the everyday lives of the young men and, in particular, how their identity as Musli…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781787351349
- Collation
- viii, 115 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 305.6970942567 BEI T
Histories of experience in the world of lived religion
'At a historic moment, when religion shows all its social and political strength in various post-modern societies around our globe, this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural, political and social place of religion in so…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030921408
- Collation
- viii; 305p;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 204.2 HIS S
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography