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Stewarding Sustainability Transformations: An Emerging Theory and Practice of SDG Implementation

Springer, 2018

In the context of the world’s pressing sustainability challenges this new Report to the Club of Rome presents a novel approach to navigating collaborative change in partnerships between governments, research institutions, corporations and civil society activists. With reference to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and the Planetary...

Try Common Sense: Replacing the Failed Ideologies of Right and Left

W W Norton, 2019

Award-winning author Philip K. Howard lays out the blueprint for a new American society.

In this brief and powerful book, Philip K. Howard attacks the failed ideologies of both parties and proposes a radical simplification of government to re-empower Americans in their daily choices. Nothing will make...

Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (FOIS 2006), Volume 150

IOS Press, 2006

Since ancient times, ontology, the analysis and categorisation of what exists, has been fundamental to philosophical enquiry. But, until recently, ontology has been seen as an abstract, purely theoretical discipline, far removed from the practical applications of science. However, with the increasing use of sophisticated computerised information...

The Art of Sound Reproduction

Focal Press, 1998

Designed to make life a little easier by providing all the theoretical background necessary to understand sound reproduction, backed up with practical examples. Specialist terms - both musical and physical - are defined as they occur and plain English is used throughout. Analog and digital audio are considered as alternatives, and the advantages of...

Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: Recent Trends

Springer, 2010

Nowadays, computationalmethodologies of signal processing and imaging analysis for 2D, 3D and even 4D data are commonly used for various applications in society. For example, Computational Vision systems are progressively used for surveillance tasks, traffic analysis, recognition process, inspection purposes, human-machine interfaces, 3D...

The Worst Is Yet to Come: A Post-Capitalist Survival Guide

Repeater, 2019

Capitalism is about to commit suicide and is threatening to take us down with it. But will it give way to a grand social utopia or the beginning of a new dark age... albeit WiFi enabled?

The Worst is Yet to Come explores the disturbing possibility that the current crisis of neoliberal capitalism isn’t...

Algorithms and Data Structures: The Basic Toolbox

Springer, 2008

Algorithms are at the heart of every nontrivial computer application, and algorithmics is a modern and active area of computer science. Every computer scientist and every professional programmer should know about the basic algorithmic toolbox: structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, frequently used algorithms, and basic...

Warfare and Weaponry in Dynastic Egypt

Pen and Sword, 2017

Defence. Attack. Symbolism. The development of warfare in any society provides an evocative glance into the lives (and deaths) of our predecessors. This is never more the case than with that most enticing of ancient civilizations, Ancient Egypt. Follow Rebecca Dean through the fascinating world of mysterious figures such as...

Environment and Economy (Routledge Introductions to Environment: Environment and Society Texts)

Routledge, 2020

Nothing is more important to our world than finding a more comfortable relationship between the economy and the environment. While issues such as species loss, nitrate pollution, water scarcity and climate change are now attracting the political attention they deserve, their origin in the way our economy is organized is less...

Girlhood

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

National Bestseller

Named a Most Anticipated Book by:
The New York Times * Buzzfeed * Time.com * OprahMag.com * The Millions * The Rumpus * LitHub * Paperback Paris * The Lily (Washington Post) * Ms. * LAMBDA Literary

A gripping set of stories...

Time-Saver Standards for Urban Design

McGraw-Hill, 2003

The global scale and impact of urban settlements and cities will determine the course of the emergent 21st century. Cities are no longer isolated and responding only to local and regional influences. Very large cities—megacities—are exploding in size and growth, for the most part in newly developing regions of the globe. The impact of...

Biodiversity under Threat (Issues in Environmental Science and Technology)

Royal Society of Chemistry, 2007

'This is a timely, thoughtful and authoritative account of the current state of play on the ecological battlefront'. Rouvray D., 2008. Biodiversity for chemists. Chemistry World, 5 (1), p.p.64-65.

There is much public concern about threats to global biodiversity. Industrial pollution, changes in agricultural practices...

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