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Security in distributed, grid, mobile, and pervasive computing
Despite recent dramatic advances in computer security regarding the proliferation of services and applications, security threats are still major impediments in the deployment of these services. Paying serious attention to these issues, Security in Distributed, Grid, Mobile, and Pervasive Computing focuses on the increasing demand to guarantee privacy, integrity, and availability of resources in…
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- 22
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781407358901
- Collation
- i, 437 p, ill
- Series Title
- BAR INTERNATIONAL SERIES 3082
- Call Number
- 005.8 XIA s
Japan at War and Peace : Shidehara Kijūrō and the Making of Modern Diplomacy
The question of how to maintain the continuity of diplomacy while developing democracy without military intervention is an old and new issue. The challenge can be described as a dilemma between democracy and diplomatic coherence. This dilemma is not unique to the twenty-first century; it has been a constant challenge to the development of democracy. In non-Western countries, democratisation ori…
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- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781760464974
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 952.044092.HAT
Historical and multidisciplinary perspectives on hope
This open access volume makes an important contribution to the ongoing research on hope theory by combining insights from both its long history and its increasing multi-disciplinarity. In the first part, it recognizes the importance of the centuries-old reflection on hope by offering historical perspectives and tracing it back to ancient Greek philosophy. At the same time, it provides novel per…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030464899
- Collation
- XVI, 263p.; ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 128 HEU h
Stories of capitalism : inside the role of financial analysts
The financial crisis and the recession that followed caught many people off guard, including experts in the financial sector whose jobs involve predicting market fluctuations. Financial analysis offices in most international banks are supposed to forecast the rise or fall of stock prices, the success or failure of investment products, and even the growth or decline of entire national economies.…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780226523569
- Collation
- 205 hlm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 332.1 STE s
Grassroots innovation movements
Innovation is increasingly invoked by policy elites and business leaders as vital for tackling global challenges like sustainable development. Often overlooked, however, is the fact that networks of community groups, activists, and researchers have been innovating grassroots solutions for social justice and environmental sustainability for decades. Unencumbered by disciplinary boundaries, polic…
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- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781317451198
- Collation
- xiii, 240 p
- Series Title
- Pathways to Sustainability
- Call Number
- 303.484 SMI g
Snow white and the seven dwarfs : new perspectives on production, reception, …
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937) occupies a central place within the history of global animation. Based on the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film was the first feature-length animated film produced by the Disney Stu…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781501351198
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.4372 PAL s
The Invasion of The South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Nor…
Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Senshi Sōsho (War History Series). The present book completes the trilogy of English translations of the sections in the Senshi Sōsho series on the Japanese operations against the former Dutch East I…
- Edition
- 34
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789400604100
- Collation
- 519p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 940.544952 REM
Migrants with irregular status in Europe : evolving conceptual and policy cha…
This open access book explores the conceptual challenges posed by the presence of migrants with irregular immigration status in Europe and the evolving policy responses at European, national and municipal level. It addresses the conceptual and policy issues raised, post-entry, by this particular section of the migrant population. Drawing on evidence from different parts of Europe, the book tak…
- Edition
- 11
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030343248
- Collation
- XIII, 217 p. ; Ill.
- Series Title
- IMISCOE Research Series
- Call Number
- 342.082 TRI m
Counter-terrorism, ethics and technology : emerging challenges at the frontie…
This open access book brings together a range of contributions that seek to explore the ethical issues arising from the overlap between counter-terrorism, ethics, and technologies. Terrorism and our responses pose some of the most significant ethical challenges to states and people. At the same time, we are becoming increasingly aware of the ethical implications of new and emerging technologies…
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- 6
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030902216
- Collation
- XVI, 221p.; ill.
- Series Title
- Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
- Call Number
- 363.325 COU h
Animating Unpredictable Effects : Nonlinearity in Hollywood's RetD Complex
Uncanny computer-generated animations of splashing waves, billowing smoke clouds, and characters’ flowing hair have become a ubiquitous presence on screens of all types since the 1980s. This Open Access book charts the history of these digital moving images and the software tools that make them. Unpredictable Visual Effects uncovers an institutional and industrial history that saw media indus…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030742270
- Collation
- xi + 206 p
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 791.4334 GOW a
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