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Soft Computing in Data Science: 4th International Conference, SCDS 2018, Bangkok, Thailand, August 15-16, 2018, Proceedings (Communications in Computer and Information Science)

Springer, 2018

We are pleased to present the proceeding of the 4th International Conference on Soft Computing in Data Science 2018 (SCDS 2018). SCDS 2018 was held in Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok, Thailand, during August 15–16, 2018. The theme of the conference was “Science in Analytics: Harnessing Data and...

Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society)

Cambridge University Press, 2019

While neoclassical analysis works well for studying impersonal exchange in markets, it fails to explain why people conduct themselves the way they do in their personal relationships with family, neighbors, and friends. In Humanomics, Nobel Prize-winning economist Vernon L. Smith and his long-time co-author Bart J. Wilson bring their study of...

Manufacturing Advantage: War, the State, and the Origins of American Industry, 1776–1848 (Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia)

The Johns Hopkins University, 2019

How manufacturing textiles and guns transformed the United States from colonial dependent to military power.

In 1783, the Revolutionary War drew to a close, but America was still threatened by enemies at home and abroad. The emerging nation faced tax rebellions, Indian warfare, and hostilities with France and...

Subconscious Power: Use Your Inner Mind to Create the Life You've Always Wanted

Springer, 2019

Activate the raw power of your subconscious to create the life you've always wanted, using six essential lessons from one of the world’s most renowned hypnotherapists.

Unsatisfying careers. Volatile, unhealthy relationships. Unfulfilled dreams. Too many of us are living lives that fall short of what we...

The EBMT Handbook: Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies

Springer, 2019

This Open Access edition of the European Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) handbook addresses the latest developments and innovations in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy. Consisting of 93 chapters, it has been written by 175 leading experts in the field.

Discussing all...

The Handbook of Diasporas, Media, and Culture (Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research)

John Wiley & Sons, 2019

A multidisciplinary, authoritative outline of the current intellectual landscape of the field.

Over the past three decades, the term ‘diaspora’ has been featured in many research studies and in wider theoretical debates in areas such as communications, the humanities, social sciences, politics, and...

The Birth of Modern Belief: Faith and Judgment from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment

Princeton Press, 2019

An illuminating history of how religious belief lost its uncontested status in the West

This landmark book traces the history of belief in the Christian West from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, revealing for the first time how a distinctively modern category of belief came into being. Ethan Shagan focuses...

Inside European Parliament Politics: Informality, Information and Intergroups (Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

The study of the informal dimension of EU politics is more important than ever in order to understand how the EU system works. This book presents an innovative and original study on informal cross-party, cross-committee groupings in the European Parliament, so-called Intergroups. Building on extensive fieldwork, including semi-structured...

Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion

Oxford University Press, 2019

What is love's real aim? Why is it so ruthlessly selective in its choice of loved ones? Why do we love at all?

In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of...

Smart Intelligent Computing and Applications: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on SCI 2018, Volume 1 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 104)

Springer, 2018

The proceedings covers advanced and multi-disciplinary research on design of smart computing and informatics. The theme of the book broadly focuses on various innovation paradigms in system knowledge, intelligence and sustainability that may be applied to provide realistic solution to varied problems in society, environment and...

Highs and Lows of European Integration: Sixty Years After the Treaty of Rome

Springer, 2018

In light of Europe’s prolonged state of crisis, this book reassesses the challenges and prospects of the European integration process. Scholars from diverse disciplines reflect on various types of integration by analyzing political, economic and sociological variables, while also taking legal...

Stress and Suffering at Work: The Role of Culture and Society

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This edited collection explores different strands of social constructionist theory and methods to provide a critique of the prevailing discourse of work stress, and introduces a radical new approach to conceptualizing suffering at work. Over the last three decades, stress and other forms of suffering at work...

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