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Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change: Vol. 2: Coviability Questioned by a Diversity of Situations

Springer, 2019

This second volume is the work of more than 55 authors from 15 different disciplines and includes complex systems science which studies the viability of components, and also the study of empirical situations. As readers will discover, the coviability of social and ecological systems is based on the contradiction between humanity,...

Post-War Eugenics, Reproductive Choices and Population Policies in Greece, 1950s–1980s

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book sheds light on the history of Greek eugenics during the post-war period. At this time, eugenics had already been condemned by international declarations. Alexandra Barmpouti, however, challenges the assumption that eugenics disappeared and confirms the continuity of eugenics after the Second World War. She looks at the Greek...

The Analyst's Reveries: Explorations in Bion's Enigmatic Concept

Routledge, 2019

While the use of the analyst’s own reveries in work with patients has increased in recent times, there has been little critical inquiry into its value, and the problems it may lead to. The Analyst's Reveries finds increasing veneration for the analyst’s use of their reveries, while revealing important...

Business Model Innovation in the Era of the Internet of Things: Studies on the Aspects of Evaluation, Decision Making and Tooling (Progress in IS)

Springer, 2019

This book outlines an integrative framework for business-model innovation in the paradigm of the Internet of Things. It elaborates several tools and methodologies for the quantitative, qualitative, analytical and effectual evaluation, and analyzes their applicability and efficiency for several phases of the business-model innovation process. As...

Industrial Sensors and Controls in Communication Networks: From Wired Technologies to Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (Computer Communications and Networks)

Springer, 2019

This informative text/reference presents a detailed review of the state of the art in industrial sensor and control networks. The book examines a broad range of applications, along with their design objectives and technical challenges. The coverage includes fieldbus technologies, wireless communication technologies, network...

Towards User-Centric Transport in Europe: Challenges, Solutions and Collaborations (Lecture Notes in Mobility)

Springer, 2018

In order to build a sustainable transport system for people and goods that meets the needs of all users, a truly integrated and seamless approach is needed, and the full potential of transformative technologies has to be exploited. This can only be achieved if user-centeredness, cross-modality and technology transfer become the...

Political Theology: A Critical Introduction

John Wiley & Sons, 2018

God is dead, but his presence lives on in politics. This is the problem of political theology: the way that theological ideas find their way into secular political institutions, particularly the sovereign state.

In this intellectual tour-de-force, leading political theorist Saul Newman shows how political theology arose...

Internationalizing Firms: International Strategy, Trends and Challenges

Palgrave Macmillan, 2018

This book explores emerging trends in internationalization, analyzing the processes and steps that firms take when entering new markets. This timely contribution highlights the need for a deeper understanding of today’s internationalization process, critiquing existing literature and instead proposing a new paradigm based on a...

Global Political Economy: A Multi-paradigmatic Approach

Springer, 2019

This book applies a multiparadigmatic philosophical frame of analysis to the global political economy. Crossing two disciplines and lines of literature?social philosophy and global political economy?this book considers seven aspects of global political economy and discusses each aspect from four diverse paradigmatic viewpoints:...

The Age of Living Machines: How Biology Will Build the Next Technology Revolution

W W Norton, 2019

From the former president of MIT, the story of the next technology revolution, and how it will change our lives.

A century ago, discoveries in physics came together with engineering to produce an array of astonishing new technologies: radios, telephones, televisions, aircraft, radar, nuclear power,...

The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall

Basic Books, 2019

The epic story, ultimate big history, and "remarkable intellectual achievement" (Quarterly Review of Biology) describing how human society evolved from intimate chimp communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species

If a chimpanzee ventures into the territory...

Corporate Governance in the Banking Sector in China (CSR, Sustainability, Ethics & Governance)

Springer, 2019

Focusing on the dichotomous and comparative analysis of the legitimacy, paradigm, and operating frames of bank governance and its reproduction in the new financial regime following the global financial crisis, this book examines in depth how corporate governance in bank institutions is legitimized, justified, and delivered in diversified...

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