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Overview: Provides a complete biographical and intellectual overview of Theodor W. Adorno.Offers a groundbreaking work by a leading Italian political philosopher to an English language audience for the first ti.This book is a complete presentation of the most important themes of Theodor W. Adorno’s critical theory, and of its relevance for the understanding of the modern society. After an Introduction, which traces Adorno’s biographical and intellectual profile, the book is structured in three parts. The first is devoted to theoretical philosophy, and in particular to the concepts of philosoph

Overview: Self-contained presentation of state-of-the-art advances in social systems science.Combines theoretical, empirical and computational approaches.Investigates the motives and strategies of the target of.This concise monograph introduces and examines social influence from the perspective of the so-called target, rather than from the source, thus providing for the first time a bidirectional account of this pervasive social phenomenon, further bridging  simple micro-level dyadic interaction rules with macro-level properties of the (social) system. This integrative approach allows for adva

Overview: Foreword Starting point for Sebastian-Dominik Jais’ dissertation is the insight that – despite the relevance of national culture on the one hand and the use of information on the other – there is only little research on the relationship between the two variables. Thus, the author aimed at a better understanding of the influence of national culture on the use of information. To that end, Jais has carried out a survey with asset managers of a renowned global company in Germany, South Korea and the United States of America. Since there is only little relevant knowledge available, the au

Overview: Nominated as an outstanding Ph.D. thesis by the University of Sydney, Australia.Presents innovative machine learning techniques for modelling dynamic customer purchasing behaviour.Reviews cutting-edge.This book describes advanced machine learning models – such as temporal collaborative filtering, stochastic models and Bayesian nonparametrics – for analysing customer behaviour. It shows how they are used to track changes in customer behaviour, monitor the evolution of customer groups, and detect various factors, such as seasonal effects and preference drifts, that may influence custom

Overview: Includes striking results and new approaches, advances, and solutions.Presents mathematics of coloring as an evolution of ideas.Introduces new open problems and conjectures, paving the way to the futu.The New Mathematical Coloring Book. (TNMCB) includes striking results of the past 15-year renaissance that produced new approaches, advances, and solutions to problems from the first edition. A large part of the new edition “Ask what your computer can do for you,” presents the recent breakthrough by Aubrey de Grey and works by Marijn Heule, Jaan Parts, Geoffrey Exoo, and Dan Ismailescu.

Overview: Articulates a central tension between perception and cognition in the depth perception literature.Resists the claim that depth perception is a product of Bayesian Cue Integration.Suggests that pictoriThis book explores a central question in the study of depth perception - ‘does the visual system rely upon objective knowledge and subjective meaning to specify visual depth?‘ Linton advances an alternative interpretation to the generally accepted affirmative answer, according to which many of the apparent contributions of knowledge and meaning to depth perception are better understood a

Overview: Presents research, discoveries, and public policy surrounding smoking.Assesses ways new e-cigarette policies might balance the risks and benefits of e-cigarettes.Considers why policies focused on regu.The first volume of this three-volume resource presents a historical analysis of the practice of smoking, the rise and fall of the cigarette market, and the successes and failures of tobacco control. While taxes, regulations, and various behavioral and pharmacological interventions have helped many people to quit smoking, they have not helped everyone. The authors explain why these stra

Overview: Examines the link between popular media and politics.Investigates how concepts of power and utopian elements are reflected in movies and TV series.Covers movies, such as The Godfather, and Fight Club,.This book presents essays and scientific contributions examining the link between popular media and politics. The essays focus on the question of how political and social change, concepts of power, and utopian elements are reflected in selected films and television series. The book applies a political science perspective, covering theories from political philosophy, political sociology

Overview: 978-3-642-82824-9978-3-642-82822-5Series ISSN 0077-0671

Overview: Publication in the field of social sciences.Includes supplementary material: Almut Braun carried out forensic phonetic speaker identification experiments (voice lineups) with 306. .lay listeners. Blind listeners significantly outperformed sighted listeners when the speech recordings were presented in studio quality. For recordings in mobile phone quality or of whispering voices, blind and sighted listeners achieved similar results. The data can be used as reference material for real cases with blind earwitnesses. Furthermore, it is discussed whether blind individuals are particularly

Overview: 2nd edition of successful book.Outlines recent advances and contemporary research on the theory of star formation.Includes new chapters on massive star formation, proto-planetary disks and observationStarburst regions in nearby and distant galaxies have a profound impact on our understanding of the early universe. This new, substantially updated and extended edition of Norbert Schulz’s unique book "From Dust to Stars" describes complex physical processes involved in the creation and early evolution of stars. It illustrates how these processes reveal themselves from radio wavelengths

Overview: This is the first comprehensive account of the Appraisal Framework. The underlying linguistic theory is explained and justified, and the application of this flexible tool, which has been applied to a wide variety of text and discourse analysis issues, is demonstrated throughout by sample text analyses from a range of registers, genres and fields.978-1-4039-0410-2978-0-230-51191-0

Overview: A major new work by the leading figure in the study of British local governance.Provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance.Draws on author‘s knowledge as a policy adviDrawing on the author‘s unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities. The author analyzes in detail what New Labour has been trying to do to local governance and management a

Overview: Illustrates the fundamental changes of the information society, and how they necessitate the involvement of civil society and other non-state actors in global governance practices.Combines substantialThis book examines the role of transnational advocacy networks in enabling effective participation for individual citizens in the deliberative processes of global governance. Contextualized around the international conference setting of the United Nations-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in 2003 and 2005, the book sees epistemic communities and information and com

Overview: 978-3-540-27829-0978-3-540-31580-3Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series E-ISSN 1611-3349

Overview: Takes animal welfare into a wholly new and challenging dimension.Provides essays across various taxa.Illustrates how and why welfare should be achieved and formally anchored.Shares cutting-edge findinThis book is devoted to the welfare of invertebrates, which make up 99% of animal species on earth. Addressing animal welfare, we do not often think of invertebrates; in fact we seldom consider them to be deserving of welfare evaluation. And yet we should. Welfare is a broad concern for any animal that we house, control or utilize – and we utilize invertebrates a lot. The Authors start w

Overview: PAPERsJOF THE WORLD TRADE CONFERENCE 1985 HELD IN AMSTERDAM ON THE OCCASION OF THE OPENING OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AMSTERDAM ON 4,5, AND 6 SEPTEMBER 1985 Between the covers of this book the reader will find the papers presented at the World Trade Conference 1985, held on 4,5 and 6 September 1985. This conference was organized by the World Trade Center Amsterdam, the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam on the occasion of the opening of the World Trade Center Amsterdam. The aim was to bring together businessmen, academics and policy makers in order to study p

Overview: First book on English system of civil litigation in the USA.Original, concise, and important study of a system rooted in US litigation.Accessible to professors, judges, policy-makers, practitioners ofThis book presents a concise account of the English system of civil litigation, covering court proceedings in England and Wales. It is an original and important study of a system which is the historical root of the US litigation system. The volume offers a comprehensive and properly balanced account of the entire range of dispute resolution techniques..As the first book on this subject t

Overview: How do you create world-class educational institutions that are academically rigorous and vocationally relevant? Are business schools the blueprint for institutions of the future, oran educational experiment gone wrong? This is thefirst title in a new series from IE Business School, IE Business Publishing .978-1-349-32745-4978-0-230-30733-9Series ISSN 2946-3319 Series E-ISSN 2946-3327

Overview: Under the inspiring guidance of my mentor, Curt Sachs, this work was conceived, planned, and executed. It gained in dimension under the acute and patient perusal of Gustave Reese to whose brilliant propensity for clarity of thought and of style I owe a huge debt. Furthermore, the helpful suggestions made by Martin Bernstein and by J an LaRue are gratefully acknowledged. If Jaap Kunst had not kindly gone to the trouble of ordering, supervising the con­ struction of, and mailing to me from Amsterdam his personally designed monochord, an important section of this work could not have tak