XXAI - BEYOND EXPLAINABLE AI :INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP, HELD IN CONJUNCTION WIT…

Statistical machine learning (ML) has triggered a renaissance of artificial intelligence (AI). While the most successful ML models, including Deep Neural Networks (DNN), have developed better predictivity, they have become increasingly complex, at the expense of human interpretability (correlation vs. causality). The field of explainable AI (xAI) has emerged with the goal of creating tools and …

SELF-GOVERNANCE AND SAMI COMMUNITIES :TRANSITIONS IN EARLY MODERN NATURAL RES…

This open access book uses an interdisciplinary approach that not only focuses on social organization but also analyzes how societies and ecological settings were interwoven. How did early modern indigenous Sami inhabitants in interior northwest Fennoscandia build institutions for governance of natural resources? The book answers this question by exploring how they made decisions regarding natu…

COOLIES OF CAPITALISM :ASSAM TEA AND THE MAKING OF COOLIE LABOUR

Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were designated "coolies". Qualifying this framework of transition and introduction, this study makes a case for the "production" of coolie labour in the histo…

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…

CHINESE CIRCULATION :CAPITAL, COMMODITIES, AND NETWORKS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Chinese merchants have traded with Southeast Asia for centuries, sojourning and sometimes settling, during their voyages. These ventures have taken place by land and by sea, over mountains and across deserts, linking China with vast stretches of Southeast Asia in a broad, mercantile embrace. Chinese Circulations provides an unprecedented overview of this trade, its scope, diversity, and complex…

MIGRAINE :A HISTORY

For centuries, people have talked of a powerful bodily disorder called migraine, which currently affects about a billion people around the world. Yet until now, the rich history of this condition has barely been told. In Migraine, award-winning historian Katherine Foxhall reveals the ideas and methods that ordinary people and medical professionals have used to describe, explain, and treat migra…

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…

HEALTHCARE ETHICS FOR HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS

Healthcare ethics cannot be limited in scope to apply only to the patient but needs to apply to the healthcare practitioner as well. The relationship between the patient and the healthcare practitioner has shifted from a power relationship to a complementary relationship. Leadership, mentorship and coaching play important roles in facilitating this shift. Several themes informed this book on he…

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.

AUTONOMY, RATIONALITY, AND CONTEMPORARY BIOETHICS

In this book, I bring recent philosophical work on the nature of rationality to bear on the question of how we should understand autonomy in contemporary bioethics. In doing so, I develop a new framework for thinking about the concept, one that is grounded in an understanding of the different roles that rational beliefs and rational desires have to play in personal autonomy. Furthermore, the ac…

FONETIK DAN FONOLOGI BAHASA HITU DIALEK HITU

Untuk melestarikan bahasa daerah yang terancam punah, perlu dilakukan pendokumentasian melalui penelitian. Salah satu bahasa yang diteliti ialah bahasa Hitu dialek Hitu. Bahasa Hitu merupakan salah satu bahasa yang dituturkan di Kabupaten Maluku Tengah, Provinsi Maluku. Bahasa Hitu terdiri atas 15 dialek, salah satunya dialek Hitu. Buku ini mengulas fonetik dan fonologi bahasa Hitu dialek Hitu …

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…

MANIPULATING PRACTICES :A CRITICAL PHYSIOTHERAPY READER

"Manipulating practices is the first ever collection of critical physiotherapy studies and comes at a time of unprecedented change in the profession. Written as a collaboration between 20 authors, many members of the Critical Physiotherapy Network (CPN), the book uncovers the growing body of critical thinking now emerging in physiotherapy. From topics as diverse as 21st century education, ethic…

TRANSFORMING SOCIAL WORK FIELD EDUCATION

Social work field education in Canada is in crisis. New understanding and approaches are urgently needed. Innovative and sustainable models need to be explored and adopted. As professionals, social workers are expected to use research to inform their practice and to contribute to the production of research. Yet many social workers are reluctant to integrate research into their practice and into…

ARDEA :A PHILOSOPHICAL NOVELLA

What is soul? Can it be forfeited? Can it be traded away? If it can, what would ensue? What consequences would follow from loss of soul — for the individual, for society, for the earth? In the early nineteenth century, Goethe’s hero, Faust, became a defining archetype of modernity, a harbinger of the existential possibilities and moral complexities of the modern condition. But today the dir…

ACADEMIC BRANDS :DISTINCTION IN GLOBAL HIGHER EDUCATION

The first comprehensive analysis of the emergence of academic brands, this book explores how the modern university is being transformed in an increasingly global economy of higher education where luxury is replacing access. More than just a sign of corporatization and privatization, academic brands provide a unique window on the university's concerns and struggles with conveying 'excellence' an…

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…

BAD BELIEFS :WHY THEY HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE

Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as resulting from a range of biases that together ensure that human beings fall short of being genuinely rational animals. This book presents an alternative account. It argues that bad beliefs arise from genuinely rational p…

DISSECTING THE CRIMINAL CORPSE :STAGING POST-EXECUTION PUNISHMENT IN EARLY MO…

Those convicted of homicide were hanged on the public gallows before being dissected under the Murder Act in Georgian England. Yet, from 1752, whether criminals actually died on the hanging tree or in the dissection room remained a medical mystery in early modern society. Dissecting the Criminal Corpse takes issue with the historical cliché of corpses dangling from the hangman’s rope in crim…

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…

GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS? :SOCIO-HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES AT THE GAMING/GAMBLIN…

This open access book focuses on how and why digital games and gambling are increasingly intertwined and asks “does this matter?” Looking at how “loot boxes” became the poster child for the convergence of gambling and gaming, Wardle traces how we got here. She argues that the intersection between gambling and gaming cultures has a long lineage, one that can be traced back throughout the…

MEDICINE AND MEMORY IN TIBET :AMCHI PHYSICIANS IN THE AGE OF REFORM

Only fifty years ago, Tibetan medicine, now seen in China as a vibrant aspect of Tibetan culture, was considered a feudal vestige to be eliminated through government-led social transformation. Medicine and Memory in Tibet examines medical revivalism on the geographic and sociopolitical margins both of China and of Tibet’s medical establishment in Lhasa, exploring the work of medical practitio…

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…

WHAT IS ONLINE RESEARCH? :USING THE INTERNET FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. The massive expansion of the internet into every aspect of our lives creates a challenge for social researchers: can they simply transfer their traditional methods and techniques online or do they need to reinvent research methods for the new environment? As onli…

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…

DEVELOPMENT WITH DIGNITY :SELF-DETERMINATION, LOCALIZATION, AND THE END TO PO…

At a time when the global development industry is under more pressure than ever before, this book argues that an end to poverty can only be achieved by prioritizing human dignity. Unable to adequately account for the roles of culture, context, and local institutions, today’s outsider-led development interventions continue to leave a trail of unintended consequences, ranging from wasteful to e…

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 …

A KEY TO DUTCH HISTORY :THE CULTURAL CANON OF THE NETHERLANDS

Many people know the stories behind the tulip mania in the 17th century and the legacy of the Dutch East India Company, but what basic knowledge of Dutch history and culture should be passed on to future generations? A Key to Dutch History and its resulting overview of historical highlights, assembled by a number of specialists in consultation with the Dutch general public, provides a thought-p…

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…

ADDRESSING THE CLIMATE CRISIS:LOCAL ACTION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

This open access book brings together a collection of cutting-edge insights into how action can and is already being taken against climate change at multiple levels of our societies, amidst growing calls for transformative and inclusive climate action. In an era of increasing recognition regarding climate and ecological breakdown, this book offers hope, inspiration and analyses for multi-level …

A FLOURISHING PRACTICE?

Peter Toon is the leading writer on primary care virtue ethics and this thought-provoking book builds on the thinking of philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre. A Flourishing Practice? looks at the moral problems that currently seem prevalent in health care. Common moral dilemmas highlighted by the media include threats to continuity of care, inappropriate care at the end of life, problems associated w…

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…

ADVANCED CONCEPTS IN PARTICLE AND FIELD THEORY

Uniting the usually distinct areas of particle physics and quantum field theory, gravity and general relativity, this expansive and comprehensive textbook of fundamental and theoretical physics describes the quest to consolidate the elementary particles that are the basic building blocks of nature. Designed for advanced undergraduates and graduate students and abounding in worked examples and d…

AGEING AND TECHNOLOGY:PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

The booming increase of the senior population has become a social phenomenon and a challenge to our societies, and technological advances have undoubtedly contributed to improve the lives of elderly citizens in numerous aspects. In current debates on technology, however, the »human factor« is often largely ignored. The ageing individual is rather seen as a malfunctioning machine whose deficie…

SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HEALTH INEQUALITIES:A NEW PERSPECTIVE FOR RESEARCH

This open access book applies insights from the network perspective in health research to explain the reproduction of health inequalities. It discusses the extant literature in this field that strongly correlates differences in social status with health behaviours and outcomes, and add to this literature by providing a coherent theoretical explanation for the causes of these health inequalities…

AGENCY THEORY:METHODOLOGY, ANALYSIS: A STRUCTURED APPROACH TO WRITING CONTRACTS

Designing a contract is often more of an economic than a legal problem. A good contract protects parties against opportunistic behavior while providing motivation to cooperate. This is where economics and, especially contract theory, may prove helpful by enhancing our understanding of incentive issues. The purpose of this book is to provide specific tools which will help to write better contrac…

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ONLINE LEARNING

Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of teaching and learning; and …

EMISI GAS RUMAH KACA DARI PETERNAKAN DI INDONESIA DENGAN TIER 2 IPCC

Subsektor peternakan merupakan salah satu kontributor gas rumah kaca (GRK) nasional. Kontribusi GRK dari subsektor ini masih di bawah 2% dari total emisi GRK secara nasional. Kontribusi ini diasumsikan akan terus meningkat sejalan dengan upaya penambahan populasi ternak sebagai efek dari diterapkannya salah satu program pemerintah untuk pemenuhan protein hewani asal ternak. Penghitungan emisi G…