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Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do

Springer, 2019

"A fascinating new book... [Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt is] a genius."—Trevor Noah, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah

"Poignant....important and illuminating."—The New York Times Book Review

"Groundbreaking."—Bryan Stevenson, New York Times...

Atlantic Passages: Race, Mobility, and Liberian Colonization

University Press of Florida, 2021

Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of color, the West African colony of Liberia is usually seen as an endpoint in the journeys of those who traveled there. In Atlantic Passages, Robert Murray reveals that many Liberian settlers did not remain in...

Online Consumer Psychology: Understanding and Influencing Consumer Behavior in the Virtual World

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005

This volume contains edited versions of papers that were presented at the 2001 Advertising and Consumer Psychology Conference in Seattle, Washington. This annual conference was sponsored by the Society for Consumer Psychology (Division 23 of the American Psychological Association) with sponsorship assistance from Accenture Institute for Strategic...

Information Science in Theory and Practice

K. G. Saur, 2004

It is nowadays a commonplace that we are living in an ‘information society’. The practical importance of information to problem solving, decision making, and just plain coping with life is clear to all. The communication of information in society is an immensely variegated and complex phenomenon, and the more understanding of it we can...

Mountain Resorts (Ecology and Law in Modern Society)

Ashgate, 2009

Mountains are the home of significant ecological resources - wildlife habitat, higher elevation plant systems, steep slopes and delicate soils, and water systems. These resources are subject to very visible and growing pressures, most of which are caused by the unique features of mountains. Using as case studies four mountain resorts in four ranges...

Bilingual Education and Minority Language Maintenance in China: The Role of Schools in Saving the Yi Language (Multilingual Education (31))

Springer, 2019

This book looks closely at Yi bilingual education practice in the southwest of China from an educationalist’s perspective and, in doing so, provides an insight toward our understanding of minority language maintenance and bilingual education implementation in China. The book provides an overview on the Yi people since 1949, their history,...

Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series)

Routledge, 2020

This book examines literary representations of mainlander identity articulated by Taiwan’s second-generation mainlander writers, who share the common feature of emotional ambivalence between Taiwan and China.

Closely analyzing literary narratives of Chinese civil war migrants and their descendants in Taiwan, a...

Biometric User Authentication for IT Security: From Fundamentals to Handwriting (Advances in Information Security)

Springer, 2005

Biometric user authentication techniques have evoked an enormous interest by science, industry and society in the recent past. Scientists and developers have constantly pursued the technology for automated determination or confirmation of the identity of subjects based on measurements of physiological or behavioral traits of humans. Many biometric...

Digital Audio Essentials

O'Reilly, 2005

Join the digital audio revolution! Tens of millions of users are embracing digital music, and with Digital Audio Essentials, you can, too. Nearly every personal computer built in the last few years contains a CD-burning drive; MP3 and other portable player sales dominate the consumer electronics industry; and new networkable stereo...

Networks: Optimisation and Evolution (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics)

Cambridge University Press, 2007

Point-to-point vs. hub-and-spoke. Questions of network design are real and involve many billions of dollars. Yet little is known about optimizing design - nearly all work concerns optimizing flow assuming a given design. This foundational book tackles optimization of network structure itself, deriving comprehensible and realistic design principles....

Performance Management: A New Approach for Driving Business Results

John Wiley & Sons, 2009

Performance Management presents an end-to-end practical model of effective performance management that shows how to develop and implement performance management systems that drive results. It goes beyond prescribing typical best practices – instead focusing on what it really takes to implement performance management effectively....

Human Interaction with Machines: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop

Springer, 2006

The International Workshop on “Human Interaction with Machines” is the sixth in a successful series of workshops that were established by Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Technische Universität Berlin. The goal of those workshops is to bring together researchers from both universities in order to present research results to an...

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