ALGORITHMIC REASON :THE NEW GOVERNMENT OF SELF AND OTHER

Are algorithms ruling the world today? Is artificial intelligence making life-and-death decisions? Are social media companies able to manipulate elections? As we are confronted with public and academic anxieties about unprecedented changes, this book offers a different analytical prism to investigate these transformations as more mundane and fraught. Aradau and Blanke develop conceptual and met…

CREATIVE TOURISM IN SMALLER COMMUNITIES :PLACE, CULTURE, AND LOCAL REPRESENTA…

Tourists are travelling the world in greater numbers than ever before, seeking immersive cultural experiences. This massive rise of tourism has raised issues of social and cultural sustainability in the world’s global cities. At the same time, smaller cities and rural communities struggling with increasing urbanization and the loss of traditional industries could benefit from increased touris…

ACHIEVING THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT GOALS :PART 2: SCIENCE-BASED TARGET SET…

This open access book is designed as a continuation of the editor’s 2019 book Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of industry sectors globally, and its purpose is to present emission reduction targets in 5-year steps (2025 to 2050) for the main twelve finance sectors per the Global Industry Classification System. This scientific analysis aims…

BRING ON THE BOOKS FOR EVERYBODY :HOW LITERARY CULTURE BECAME POPULAR CULTURE

Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore book…

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRACTICES OF HUMANITIES RESEARCH

This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research …

MISERY TO MIRTH :RECOVERY FROM ILLNESS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from illness in England, c.1580–1720. Drawing on an array of archival and printed materials, Misery to Mirth shows tha…

NAVIGATING NEUTRALITY :EARLY AMERICAN GOVERNANCE IN THE TURBULENT ATLANTIC

History of the Americas;Naval forces and warfare;General and world history;Central / national / federal government

ONE PLANET, ONE HEALTH

One Planet, One Health provides a multidisciplinary reflection on the state of our planet, human and animal health, as well as the critical effects of climate change on the environment and livelihoods of people. Climate change is already affecting many poor communities and traditional aid programs have achieved relatively small gains. Going beyond the narrow disciplinary lens and an exclusive f…

CRITICAL PRACTICE :PHILOSOPHY AND CREATIVITY

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. What is the relationship between theory and practice in the creative arts today? In Critical Practice, Martin McQuillan offers a critical interrogation of the idea of practice-led research. He goes beyond the recent vocabulary of research management to consider t…

BUSINESS, OPEN INNOVATION AND ART

After its predecessors turned humans and organizations into machines, the Fourth Industrial Revolution is turning machines into humans. As digital machines acquire more and more cognitive intelligence, the development of humans becomes ever more vital, for society and business alike. Time has come to recognize the value of art and humanities. As the world experiences massive turbulence and comp…

EXPLORING THE INTERIOR ESSAYS ON LITERARY AND CULTURAL HISTORY

In this fascinating collection of essays Harvard Emeritus Professor Karl S. Guthke examines the ways in which, for European scholars and writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, world-wide geographical exploration led to an exploration of the self. Guthke explains how in the age of Enlightenment and beyond intellectual developments were fuelled by excitement about what Ulrich Im …

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THE SPIRITUALITY OF BLACK HEBREW PENTECOSTALS

The spirituality of Black Hebrew Pentecostalism is a rich tradition that has been hidden from the view of scholars. With the new interest in spirituality forming the background to this title, the author attempts to enlighten readers about this tradition.

BELONGING BEYOND BORDERS :COSMOPOLITAN AFFILIATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY SPANISH A…

Belonging Beyond Borders maps the evolution of cosmopolitanism in Spanish American narrative literature through a generational lens. Drawing on a new theoretical framework that blends intellectual studies and literary history with integrated approaches to Spanish American narrative, this book traces the evolution from aesthetic cosmopolitanism through anti-colonial nationalism to modern politic…

BLACK DRAGON :AFRO ASIAN PERFORMANCE AND THE MARTIAL ARTS IMAGINATION

In Black Dragon, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these groups. Drawing on case studies that include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s appearance in Bruce Lee’s film Game of Death, Ron Van Clief and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the Wu-Tang…

MOTIVATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH FOOD CHOICES AND EATING PRACTICES

This book is generally focused on food choice and which factors are associated with the decisions that define people’s eating behaviour. These factor are highly variable and include influences from the surrounding environment as well as the individual characteristics of each person. The book includes a number of chapters that address these issues from different points of view. Some explore th…

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND INDOOR ENVIRONMENT QUALITY

This Special Issue addresses a topic of great relevance. In developed countries, there is a higher prevalence of people choosing to spend time indoors. Data show that the time a person spends at home ranges from 60% to 90% of the day, and 30% of that time is spent sleeping, though this varies depending on the individual. Taking into account these data, indoor residential environments have a dir…

NEW SOCIAL MOBILITY:SECOND GENERATION PIONEERS IN EUROPE

This open access book comparatively analyses intergenerational social mobility in immigrant families in Europe. It is based on qualitative in-depth research into several hundred biographies and professional trajectories of young people with an immigrant working-class background, who made it into high-prestige professions. The biographies were collected and analysed by a consortium of researcher…

THE ASIAN 21ST CENTURY

This open access book consists of essays written by Kishore Mahbubani to explore the challenges and dilemmas faced by the West and Asia in an increasingly interdependent world village and intensifying geopolitical competition. The contents cover four parts: Part One The End of the Era of Western Domination. The major strategic error that the West is now making is to refuse to accept this re…

CAUSALITY IN POLICY STUDIES:A PLURALIST TOOLBOX

This volume provides a methodological toolbox for conducting policy research. Recognizing that policy research spans various academic disciplines, each of which takes a different view on causality, the volume introduces a methodologically pluralistic approach to policy studies. Each chapter clarifies the research question that each technique can answer, the research design and data treatment th…

THE MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS OF HOUSING PREFERENCE AND CHOICE

What are the current trends in housing? Is my planned project commercially viable? What should be my marketing and advertisement strategies? These are just some of the questions real estate agents, landlords and developers ask researchers to answer. But to find the answers, researchers are faced with a wide variety of methods that measure housing preferences and choices. To select and value a v…

SOCIAL MEDIA AND SOCIAL ORDER

This book addresses the relationship between social media and social order at multiple scales and sites, from city neighborhoods to national politics, to how the data harvested by transnational corporations influence lives worldwide. It provides insights into how diverse social worlds are being reshaped by social media, analysis of what this means, and reflection on how critical publics might c…

FLOWERS IN THE WALL :TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN TIMOR-LESTE, INDONESIA, AND …

What is the experience of truth and reconciliation? What is the purpose of a truth commission? What lessons can be learned from established truth and reconciliation processes? Flowers in the Wall explores the experience of truth and reconciliation Southeast Asia and the Southwest Pacific, with and without a formal truth commission. Although much has been written about the operational phases of …

OVERWHELMED BY OVERFLOWS? :HOW PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS CREATE AND MANAGE EXCESS

This transdisciplinary volume investigates the ways in which people and organisations deal with the overflow of information, goods or choices. It explores two main themes: the emergence of overflows and the management of overflows, in the sense of either controlling or coping with them. Individual chapters show the management of overflows taking place in various social settings, periods and pol…

FIGHTING FOR A LIVING :COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF MILITARY LABOUR 1500-2000

Fighting for a Living investigates the circumstances that have produced starkly different systems of recruiting and employing soldiers in different parts of the globe over the last 500 years. It does so on the basis of a wide range of case studies taken from Europe, Africa, America, the Middle East and Asia. The novelty of "Fighting for a Living" is that it is not military history in the tradit…

BASIC INCOME :A TRANSFORMATIVE POLICY FOR INDIA

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Would it be possible to provide people with a basic income as a right? The idea has a long history. This book draws on two pilot schemes conducted in the Indian State of Madhya Pradesh, in which thousands of men, women and children were provided with an unconditi…

GO ONLINE! :RECONFIGURING WRITING COURSES FOR THE NEW, VIRTUAL WORLD

COVID-19’s impacts revealed that teaching writing online was no longer merely an issue of convenience or economic necessity—it was critical to public health and equity concerns as well. Now higher education faces one of its greatest historical challenges, expanding online offerings to fully engage and support students around the world. Gathering together educators who teach writing at colle…

ELITE LOKAL DAN PERAMPASAN MODERNITAS:KASUS DI SUMBA TIMUR

Buku ini tidak hanya semata membahas tentang adat Sumba, akan tetapi tentang pengaruh kekuasaan “tradisional” maupun “modern” pada sebuah daerah yang relatif jauh dari pusat pemerintahan “modern”. Sebagian besar fokus bahasan dalam buku ini menganalisis peran birokrasi pemerintahan dan kebijakan nasional yang difokuskan pada peran masyarakat lokal khususnya elite lokal. Semoga buk…

LEADING CHANGE IN GENDER AND DIVERSITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION FROM MARGINS TO MA…

This edited book provides international insights and recommendations around topics of gender and diversity in higher education linking to larger societal goals of improving equality. Within each of the four sections – Student recruitment and retention, Student experience, Faculty and staff experiences and culture, and Higher education cultures of teaching and research – topics unpack and…

Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

This open access book investigates imaginaries of artificial limbs, eyes, hair, and teeth in British and American literary and cultural sources from the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Prosthetic Body Parts in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture shows how depictions of prostheses complicated the contemporary bodily status quo, which increasingly demanded an appearance of physical …

Knlowledge and Civil Society

This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. …

Knlowledge and Civil Society

This open access book focuses on the role of civil society in the creation, dissemination, and interpretation of knowledge in geographical contexts. It offers original, interdisciplinary and counterintuitive perspectives on civil society. The book includes reflections on civil and uncivil society, the role of civil society as a change agent, and on civil society perspectives of undone science. …

Product Development within Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Legal Risk :Ex…

This open-access-book synthesizes a supportive developer checklist considering sustainable Team and agile Project Management in the challenge of Artificial Intelligence and limits of image recognition. The study bases on technical, ethical, and legal requirements with examples concerning autonomous vehicles. As the first of its kind, it analyzes all reported car accidents state wide (1.28 milli…

The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929-1953 :archetypes, inve…

From 1929 until 1953, Iosif Stalin’s image became a central symbol in Soviet propaganda. Touched up images of an omniscient Stalin appeared everywhere: emblazoned across buildings and lining the streets; carried in parades and woven into carpets; and saturating the media of socialist realist painting, statuary, monumental architecture, friezes, banners, and posters. From the beginning of the …

STATISTIK

“Buku Statistik ini sangat mudah dipahami oleh para mahasiswa dari bidang dan jenjang yang berbeda-beda serta para praktisi profesional. Buku yang sangat layak dijadikan rujukan sampai sekarang”. BUKU ini adalah revisi dari buku lama yang disusun pada 1960, masih belum banyak hal pokok yang dapat direvisi, walaupun keinginan untuk itu sudah besar sekali. Sebabnya semata-mata kesempatan …

TEN-THOUSAND STEPS IN HER SHOES : THE ROLE OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN WOMEN’S E…

This report sheds light on public transport’s role in women’s access to economic opportunities in urban MENA. It examines the links among mobility, gender, and access to economic opportunities. It provides evidence of gender differences in mobility patterns and travel behavior, as well as the barriers and challenges women face when using public transport. It also assesses whether public tra…

THE ROLE OF RAIL IN DECARBONIZING TRANSPORT IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Railways support green development. Governments in developing countries seek to provide transport infrastructure and services to enable inclusive economic development. Transport decarbonization is critical for mitigating climate change through near-term actions and long-term transitions. Railways have an important role in reducing transport emissions, while also supporting economic development …

THE POTENTIAL OF ZERO-CARBON BUNKER FUELS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Across the maritime industry, there is general agreement that shipping must undergo a rapid energy transition. This implies a shift from fossil bunker fuels, such as the predominant heavy fuel oil (HFO), to a new generation of alternative bunker fuels. These alternative fuels are known to produce very low, and ultimately zero, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during their production, distribution…

GIF GUIDANCE : CLEAN TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS FOR BUSES - PREFEASIBILITY ANALYSIS

This guide begins by establishing the minimum conditions that should be in place to consider a technology feasible. This will be done in chapter two, starting with the general local political context and analysis of the project’s planning, and moving on to more specific technical conditions for each technology regarding energy vector availability and standards and regulations to consider. Onc…

THE CONTAINER PORT PERFORMANCE INDEX 2022 : A COMPARABLE ASSESSMENT OF PERFOR…

The purpose of the CPPI is to help identify opportunities to improve a terminal or a port that will ultimately benefit all public and private stakeholders. The CPPI is intended to serve as a benchmark for important stakeholders in the global economy, including national governments, port authorities and operators, development agencies, supranational organizations, various maritime interests, and…

ELECTRIFICATION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT : A CASE STUDY OF THE SHENZHEN BUS GROUP

The City of Shenzhen has China’s, and the world’s, first and largest fully electric bus and taxi fleets. Shenzhen. Electrification of public transport provides an opportunity to achieve multiple objectives of low-carbon urban development, reduction of local air pollution, creation of jobs, and higher acceptance of public transport by residents. However, owing to higher capital costs versus …

ADAPTING MOBILITY-AS-A-SERVICE FOR DEVELOPING CITIES : A CONTEXT-SENSITIVE AP…

People living in cities have more mobility options than ever before. Making the most out of expanding travel choices for cities and their residents will require integration among different mobility services. Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) can provide an organizing framework for integrating multiple mobility options and shaping how they can work together to provide a more seamless travel experienc…

THE PATH LESS TRAVELLED : SCALING UP ACTIVE MOBILITY TO CAPTURE ECONOMIC AND …

In the years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, many cities and countries have taken action to position and promote active mobility—cycling and walking—as transport modes. Demand for active mobility during the pandemic skyrocketed, and cities and governments responded by making more space on streets, providing free access to bikeshare systems, and allocating budgets to bicycle purcha…

ONE PLANET, ONE HEALTH

One Planet, One Health provides a multidisciplinary reflection on the state of our planet, human and animal health, as well as the critical effects of climate change on the environment and livelihoods of people. Climate change is already affecting many poor communities and traditional aid programs have achieved relatively small gains. Going beyond the narrow disciplinary lens and an exclusive f…

NAVIGATING NEUTRALITY : EARLY AMERICAN GOVERNANCE IN THE TURBULENT ATLANTIC

History of the Americas;Naval forces and warfare;General and world history;Central / national / federal government

MISERY TO MIRTH : RECOVERY FROM ILLNESS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND

The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. This book seeks to rebalance and brighten our overall picture of early modern health by focusing on the neglected subject of recovery from illness in England, c.1580–1720. Drawing on an array of archival and printed materials, Misery to Mirth shows tha…

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AND THE PRACTICES OF HUMANITIES RESEARCH

This timely volume illuminates the different forces underlying the shifting practices in humanities research today, with especial focus on how humanists take ownership of, and are empowered by, technology in unexpected ways. Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research is essential reading for scholars, students, and general readers interested in the changing culture of research …

BRING ON THE BOOKS FOR EVERYBODY : HOW LITERARY CULTURE BECAME POPULAR CULTURE

Bring on the Books for Everybody is an engaging assessment of the robust popular literary culture that has developed in the United States during the past two decades. Jim Collins describes how a once solitary and print-based experience has become an exuberantly social activity, enjoyed as much on the screen as on the page. Fueled by Oprah’s Book Club, Miramax film adaptations, superstore book…

ACHIEVING THE PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT GOALS : PART 2 : SCIENCE-BASED TARGET S…

This open access book is designed as a continuation of the editor’s 2019 book Achieving the Paris Climate Agreement Goals. This volume provides an in-depth analysis of industry sectors globally, and its purpose is to present emission reduction targets in 5-year steps (2025 to 2050) for the main twelve finance sectors per the Global Industry Classification System. This scientific analysis aims…

FOOTBALL IN FICTION : A HISTORY

Football in Fiction represents the most comprehensive historical mapping and analysis of novels related to association football (soccer). It offers a theoretically informed field guide, a scholarly cartography of football fiction’s uncertain – and until now – only partially explored terrain. Combining an extensive search for texts with up-to-date academic research, journals, surveys, c…