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The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy (Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy)

Routledge, 2018

The Routledge Handbook of Love in Philosophy collects 39 original chapters from prominent philosophers on the nature, meaning, value, and predicaments of love, presented in a unique framework that highlights the rich variety of methods and traditions used to engage with these subjects. This volume is structured around...

The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet

Zed Books, 2019

Once little more than a glorified porn filter, China’s ‘Great Firewall’ has evolved into the most sophisticated system of online censorship in the world. Even as the Chinese internet grows and online businesses thrive, speech is controlled, dissent quashed, and any attempts to organize outside the official...

Unstoppable Teams: The Four Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership

HarperCollins, 2019

Three-time Navy SEAL platoon commander and founder of Perfect Fitness reveals how to put together teams that can accomplish any objective—by leveraging an unexpected set of values and priorities.

SEALs and civilians operate in extremely different environments, but what makes both kinds of teams excel comes...

Functional and Constraint Logic Programming: 26th International Workshop, WFLP 2018, Frankfurt/Main, Germany, September 6, 2018, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (11285))

Springer, 2019

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 26th International Workshop on Functional and Constraint Logic Programming, WFLP 2018, held in Frankfurt/Main, Germany, in September 2018.

From the 19 full papers submitted,12 were accepted for presentation at the workshop. During a...

Afghanistan: A History from 1260 to the Present

Reaktion Books, 2019

Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia, and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions, both peaceful and military. As a result, modern...

The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and Economics

Oxford University Press, 2019

Economics and ethics are both valuable tools for analyzing the behavior and actions of human beings and institutions. Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, considered them two sides of the same coin, but since economics was formalized and mathematicised in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the fields have largely followed separate...

Translating Film Subtitles into Chinese: A Multimodal Study

Springer, 2019

This book examines three metafunction meanings in subtitle translation with three research foci, i.e., the main types of cross-modal interrelation, the primary function of semiotic interplay, and the key linguistic components influencing the subtitles. It goes beyond traditional textual analysis in translation studies; approaches subtitle...

The New Stock Market: Law, Economics, and Policy

Columbia University Press, 2019

The U.S. stock market has been transformed over the last twenty-five years. Once a market in which human beings traded at human speeds, it is now an electronic market pervaded by algorithmic trading, conducted at speeds nearing that of light. High-frequency traders participate in a large portion of all transactions, and a significant...

The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few

Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2019

Our economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent. This book offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people.

We live in a world where twenty-six billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet's population. The extractive...

Cooperative Control of Nonlinear Networked Systems: Infinite-time and Finite-time Design Methods (Communications and Control Engineering)

Springer, 2019

Cooperative Control of Nonlinear Networked Systems is concerned with the distributed cooperative control of multiple networked nonlinear systems in the presence of unknown non-parametric uncertainties and non-vanishing disturbances under certain communication conditions. It covers stability analysis tools and...

Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White Majorities

Harry N. Abrams, 2020

Whiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities

This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are...

Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport: Research, Theory and Practice (Routledge Psychological Interventions)

Routledge, 2019

Mental health within elite sport has traditionally been ignored, but recent research has shown that competitive sport can at times seriously undermine mental health and that athletes are exposed to specific stressors that hinder their mental health optimisation.

Mental Health and Well-being Interventions in Sport...

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