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Democracy and power: the Delhi lectures
"Noam Chomsky visited India in 1996 and 2001 and spoke on a wide range of subjects, from democracy and corporate propaganda to the nature of the world order and the role of intellectuals in society. He captivated audiences with his lucid challenge of dominant political analyses, the engaging style of his talks, and his commitment to social equality as well as individual freedom. Chomsky’s ear…
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- 9781783740949
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 171 pages)
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- 327.1 CHO d
Physical (A)Causality : determinism, randomness and uncaused events
This book addresses the physical phenomenon of events that seem to occur spontaneously and without any known cause. These are to be contrasted with events that happen in a (pre-)determined, predictable, lawful, and causal way. All our knowledge is based on self-reflexive theorizing, as well as on operational means of empirical perception. Some of the questions that arise are the following: a…
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- 9783319708157
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- xiv, 219p. : ill.
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- 530.01 SVO p
Control theory tutorial : basic concepts illustrated by software examples
This open access brief introduces the basic principles of control theory in a concise self-study guide. It complements the classic texts by emphasizing the simple conceptual unity of the subject. A novice can quickly see how and why the different parts fit together. The concepts build slowly and naturally one after another, until the reader soon has a view of the whole. Each concept is illustra…
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- 9783319917078
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- xi, 111p. : ill.
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- 629.8312 FRA c
Word knowledge and word usage
Word storage and processing define a multi-factorial domain of scientific inquiry whose thorough investigation goes well beyond the boundaries of traditional disciplinary taxonomies, to require synergic integration of a wide range of methods, techniques and empirical and experimental findings. The present book intends to approach a few central issues concerning the organization, structure and f…
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- 9783110440577
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- IX< 717 p.
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- 121 WOR w
Across anthropology: troubling colonial legacies, museums and the curatorial
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies…
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- 9789461663177
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- 434p.: ill.
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- 301 ACR a
World literature, cosmopolitanism, globality : beyond, against, post, otherwise
In view of the current crisis of globalization, this book aims to interrogate one of its key concepts in the past decades: World Literature. In a historical moment where the established focus on transnational identities, linguistic intersections, and other cosmopolitan cultural configurations is being challenged, the contributions of this volume explore possible adjustments, critiques, reconcep…
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- 9783110641134
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- VI, 240 p.
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- 809 WOR w
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering : 22nd International Conferenc…
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence. This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019. The 24 papers presented in this volume were carefully revie…
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- 9783030167226
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- xiii, 446p. : ill.
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- 005.1 FUN f
CyberParks : the interface between people, places and technology : new approa…
This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outco…
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- 9783030134174
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- xv, 321p. : ill.
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- 307.1216 CYB c
Decision making under deep uncertainty : from theory to practice
This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and too…
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- 9783030052522
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- xiv, 405p. : ill.
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- 658.40301 DEC d
Hardy inequalities on homogeneous groups : 100 years of Hardy inequalities
This open access book provides an extensive treatment of Hardy inequalities and closely related topics from the point of view of Folland and Stein's homogeneous (Lie) groups. The place where Hardy inequalities and homogeneous groups meet is a beautiful area of mathematics with links to many other subjects. While describing the general theory of Hardy, Rellich, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg, Sobolev…
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- 9783030028954
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- xvi, 571p. : ill.
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- 512.55 RUZ h
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