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Biomedicine, Healing and Modernity in Rural Bangladesh

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book provides an ethnographic account of the ways in which biomedicine, as a part of the modernization of healthcare, has been localized and established as the culturally dominant medical system in rural Bangladesh. Dr Faruk Shah offers an anthropological critique of biomedicine in rural Bangladesh that explains how the existing social...

Historians on Leadership and Strategy: Case Studies From Antiquity to Modernity

Springer, 2019

This book examines the well-covered subject of leadership from a unique perspective: history's vast catalogue of leadership successes and failures. Through a collection of highly compelling case studies spanning two millennia, it looks beyond the classic leadership parable of men in military or political crises and shows...

My War Criminal: Personal Encounters with an Architect of Genocide

Ecco, 2020

An investigation into the nature of violence, terror, and trauma through conversations with a notorious war criminal by Jessica Stern, one of the world's foremost experts on terrorism.

Between October 2014 and November 2016, global terrorism expert Jessica Stern held a series of conversations in a...

The Social Meaning of Extra Money: Capitalism and the Commodification of Domestic and Leisure Activities (Dynamics of Virtual Work)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

Why do ordinary people who used to engage in domestic and leisure activities for free now try to make a profit from them? How and why do people commodify their free time? This book explores the marketization of blogging, cooking, craftwork, gardening, knitting, selling second-hand items, sexcamming, and more generally the economic...

Cognitive Linguistics for Linguists (SpringerBriefs in Linguistics)

Springer, 2020

This volume offers an introduction to cognitive linguistics, written by authors who were engaged in the field from its beginnings. It starts by reviewing these early studies and provides an overview of the sources and conceptual underpinnings of the theory. This is followed by a description of how cognitive linguistics has been (and continues to...

The Dual of L(X,L), Finitely Additive Measures and Weak Convergence: A Primer (SpringerBriefs in Mathematics)

Springer, 2020

In measure theory, a familiar representation theorem due to F. Riesz identifies the dual space L_p(X,L,λ)* with L_q(X,L,λ), where 1/p+1/q=1, as long as 1 ≤ p<∞. However, L_∞(X,L,λ)* cannot be similarly described, and is instead represented as a...

Art and Form: From Roger Fry to Global Modernism (Refiguring Modernism)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his starting point, Sam Rose rethinks how ideas about form influenced modernist culture and the movement’s significance to art history today.

In the context of modernism,...

Complete Guide to Digital Project Management: From Pre-Sales to Post-Production

Apress, 2018

Get a 360-degree view of digital project management. Learn proven best practices from case studies and real-world scenarios. A variety of project management tools, templates, models, and frameworks are covered.

This book provides an in-depth view of digital project management from initiation to execution to monitoring and...

Simulation-Based Algorithms for Markov Decision Processes (Communications and Control Engineering)

Springer, 2013

Markov decision process (MDP) models are widely used for modeling sequential decision-making problems that arise in engineering, economics, computer science, and the social sciences. Many real-world problems modeled by MDPs have huge state and/or action spaces, giving an opening to the curse of dimensionality and so making practical...

Analysis of Correlated Data with SAS and R

CRC Press, 2007

Previously known as Statistical Methods for Health Sciences, this bestselling resource is one of the first books to discuss the methodologies used for the analysis of clustered and correlated data. While the fundamental objectives of its predecessors remain the same, Analysis of Correlated Data with SAS and R, Third Edition incorporates...

Evolutionary Computation 1: Basic Algorithms and Operators

Taylor & Francis, 2000

The original Handbook of Evolutionary Computation (Back et a1 1997) was designed to fulfil1 the need for a broad-based reference book reflecting the important role that evolutionary computation plays in a variety of disciplinesranging from the natural sciences and engineering to evolutionary biology and computer...

Software Design for Resilient Computer Systems

Springer, 2019

This book addresses the question of how system software should be designed to account for faults, and which fault tolerance features it should provide for highest reliability. With this second edition of Software Design for Resilient Computer Systems the book is thoroughly updated to contain the newest advice...

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