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Discourse Ontology: Body and the Construction of a World, from Heidegger through Lacan (The Palgrave Lacan Series)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book explores the themes within, and limits of, a dialogue between Martin Heidegger’s philosophy of being and Jacques Lacan’s post-Freudian metapsychology. It argues that a conceptual bridging between the two is possible, and lays the foundations of that bridge, starting with Heidegger and proceeding through the work of...

Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2018 International Workshops, BITCOIN, VOTING, and WTSC, Nieuwpoort, Curaçao, March 2, 2018, Revised ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10958)

Springer, 2019

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 3 workshops held at the 22nd International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security, FC 2018, in Nieuwport, Curaçao, in March 2018.

The 23 full papers presented together with 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected...

Guide to Ambient Intelligence in the IoT Environment: Principles, Technologies and Applications (Computer Communications and Networks)

Springer, 2019

Ambient intelligence (AmI) is an element of pervasive computing that brings smartness to living and business environments to make them more sensitive, adaptive, autonomous and personalized to human needs. It refers to intelligent interfaces that recognise human presence and preferences, and adjust smart environments to suit their...

Paleogenomics: Genome-Scale Analysis of Ancient DNA (Population Genomics)

Springer, 2019

Advances in genome-scale DNA sequencing technologies have revolutionized genetic research on ancient organisms, extinct species, and past environments. When it is recoverable after hundreds or thousands of years of unintended preservation, “ancient DNA” (or aDNA) is often highly degraded, necessitating specialized handling...

Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales (Literatures of the Americas)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its...

Studying Foreign Policy Comparatively: Cases and Analysis (New Millennium Books in International Studies)

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2018

What is foreign policy? What do we know about why states pursue certain foreign policies and not others? What factors go into the shaping of foreign policy? Studying Foreign Policy Comparatively, Fourth Edition (formerly titled The New...

Yet Another Introduction to Dark Matter: The Particle Physics Approach (Lecture Notes in Physics)

Springer, 2019

Dark matter is a frequently discussed topic in contemporary particle physics. Written strictly in the language of particle physics and quantum field theory, these course-based lecture notes focus on a set of standard calculations that students need in order to understand weakly interacting dark matter candidates.

After...

Forensic Human Factors and Ergonomics: Case Studies and Analyses

CRC Press, 2018

This book has 18 case study chapters investigating various injury scenarios through the use of a Human Factors and Ergonomics (HFE) analysis. Each injury scenario derives from one or more similar lawsuits (but names, places and some of the details are fictionalized). The scenarios describe a ‘slice of life’ of people...

BMA's Olympiad Mock Test 20-20 Series - Science for Class - 8

Brain Mapping Academy, 2016

This 'Mock Test 20-20 series' provides students, the rigorous practice they need to prepare for any Olympiad, through carefully designed 'Multiple Choice Questions'.

Every book in this series contains 20 test papers, each of 20 questions.

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Education in Japan: A Comprehensive Analysis of Education Reforms and Practices (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 47)

Springer, 2019

This book illustrates the nature of Japan’s education system and identifies its strengths and weaknesses, as well as the socioeconomic environment surrounding education in contemporary Japanese society. It describes the basic institutional structure of each educational stage, in an overview of today’s school education in Japan, while...

Lobbying in the European Union

Springer, 2019

This book sheds new light on how lobbying works in the European Union. Drawing on the first-hand professional experience of lobbyists, policymakers, and corporate and institutional stakeholders, combined with a sound academic foundation, it offers insights into successful lobbying strategies, such as how alliances are formed by...

The Social Photo: On Photography and Social Media

Verso, 2019

"Mr. Jurgenson makes a first sortie toward a new understanding of the photograph, wherein artistry or documentary intent have given way to communication and circulation. Like Susan Sontag’s On Photography, to which it self-consciously responds, The Social Photo is slim, hard-bitten and picture-free." –...

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