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Social networks with rich edge semantics
Social Networks with Rich Edge Semantics introduces a new mechanism for representing social networks in which pairwise relationships can be drawn from a range of realistic possibilities, including different types of relationships, different strengths in the directions of a pair, positive and negative relationships, and relationships whose intensities change with time. For each possibility, the …
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- 9781315390628
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- xx, 210p. : ill.
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- 302.3015118 ZHE s
Law, technology and dispute resolution : privatisation of coercion
The use of new information and communication technologies both inside the courts and in private online dispute resolution services is quickly changing everyday conflict management. However, the implications of the increasingly disruptive role of technology in dispute resolution remain largely undiscussed. In this book, assistant professor of law and digitalisation Riikka Koulu examines the mult…
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- 9781315149479
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- 219p. : ill.
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- 347.09 KOU l
The workplace of the future : the fourth industrial revolution, the precariat…
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book, The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution, the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies, Jon-Arild Johannessen sets a chilling vision of how robots and artificial intelligence will completely disrupt and transform working life. The author contests that once the dust ha…
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- 9780429441219
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- vii, 121p. : ill.
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- 331.20112 JOH w
Manual for developing intercultural competencies : story circles
This book presents a structured yet flexible methodology for developing intercultural competence in a variety of contexts, both formal and informal. Piloted around the world by UNESCO, this methodology has proven to be effective in a range of different contexts and focused on a variety of different issues. It, therefore can be considered an important resource for anyone concerned with effective…
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- 9780429244612
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- xi, 101p. : ill.
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- 303.482 DEA m
Self-Publishing and collection development: opportunities and challenges for …
The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half the titles published in the United States are self-published. With this growth in self-published materials, librarians, publishers, and vendors have been forced to rethink chan…
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- 9781557539687
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- vi, 198p.: ill.
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- 025.21 SEL s
Locating zika : social change and governance in an age of mosquito pandemics
The emergence of Zika virus in 2015 challenged conventional ideas of mosquito-borne diseases, tested the resilience of health systems and embedded itself within local sociocultural worlds, with major implications for environmental, sexual, reproductive and paediatric health. This book explores this complex viral epidemic and situates it within its broader social, epidemiological and historical …
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- 9780429456558
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- xiii, 223p. : ill.
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- 614.5885098 LOC l
Spiritual Shakespeares
Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the ‘religious turn’ in recent literary theory and to the spiritualized politics of terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’. Exploring a genuinely n…
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- 9780203625491
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- xix, 241p. : ill.
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- 822.33 SPI s
Design for sustainability : a multi-level framework from products to socio-te…
This book discusses the most significant ways in which design has been applied to sustainability challenges using an evolutionary perspective. It puts forward an innovation framework that is capable of coherently integrating multiple design for sustainability (DfS) approaches developed so far. It is now widely understood that design can and must play a crucial role in the societal transforma…
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- 9780429456510
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- xiii, 172p. : ill.
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- 658.5752 CES d
Science Communication Online
As science communication has moved online, a range of important new genres have emerged: crowdfunding proposals, blogs, microblogs, databases, and more. Rhetorics of Science Online takes up these genres to explore how scientists are adapting their communications, how publics are increasingly involved in science, and how boundaries between experts and non-experts continue to erode.
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- 9780814213988
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- XIII, 175 p.
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- 302.23 MEH s
Eating disorders and obesity: the challenge for our times
Eating Disorders have traditionally been considered apart from public health concerns about increasing obesity. It is evident that these problems are, however, related in important ways. Comorbid obesity and eating disorder is increasing at a faster rate than either obesity or eating disorders alone and one in five people with obesity also presents with an Eating Disorder, commonly but not limi…
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- 9783038979982
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- 264 p.; 22 cm.
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- 306.44 EAT e
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