Terry Shoemaker, "The Prophetic Dimension of Sport "
English | ISBN: 3030022927 | 2019 | 68 pages | EPUB, PDF | 508 KB + 830 KB
Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of Religion and Sport, this book examines the prophetic dimension of sport, to arrive at a better understanding of the nature of sports in the United States. By detailing and analyzing particular sports, a portrait of sport as an important space for social and political critique emerges.
The Promise of Artificial Intelligence: Reckoning and Judgment (The MIT Press) by Brian Cantwell Smith
English | October 8th, 2019 | ISBN: 0262043041 | 184 pages | EPUB | 1.29 MB
An argument that-despite dramatic advances in the field-artificial intelligence is nowhere near developing systems that are genuinely intelligent.
The Politics of Literature in a Divided 21st Century (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature) by Katharina Donn
September 17, 2020 | ISBN: 0367222515, 0367457466 | English | 170 pages | PDF/EPUB | 1/2 MB
How does literature matter politically in the 21st century? This book offers an ecocritical framework for exploring the significance of literature today. Featuring a diverse body of texts and authors, it develops a future-oriented politics embedded in those transgressive realities which our political system finds impossible to tame. This book re-imagines political agency, voices, bodies and borders as transformative processes rather than rigid realities, articulating a 'dia-topian' literary politics. Taking a contextual approach, it addresses such urgent global issues as biopolitics, migration and borders, populism, climate change, and terrorism. These readings revitalize fictional worlds for political enquiry, demonstrating how imaginative literature seeds change in a world of closed-off horizons. Prior to the pragmatics of power-play, literary language breathes new energy into the frames of our thought and the shapes of our affects. This book shows how relation, metamorphosis and enmeshment can become salient in a politics beyond the conflict line.
Mario P. Chiti, Vittorio Santoro, "The Palgrave Handbook of European Banking Union Law"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030134741 | PDF | pages: 434 | 4.3 mb
This handbook analyses the European Banking Union legal framework focusing on legislative acts (regulations and directives), case law and the resolution procedures. In addition, it will pay attention to the division of responsibilities between the ECB and the national authorities, with special attention to the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM). To give a more complete picture, the book will also cover the implementation of European Deposit Insurance Scheme (so called third pillar) still under construction, and appeal to academics, researchers and students of banking and financial law.
Caleb Smith, "The Oracle and the Curse: A Poetics of Justice from the Revolution to the Civil War"
English | 2013 | pages: 280 | ISBN: 0674073088 | PDF | 1,2 mb
Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper's Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired invocations, The Oracle and the Curse examines how utterances such as Brown's shaped American literature between the Revolution and the Civil War.
Stefan Goertz, Alexander E. Streitparth, "The New Terrorism: Actors, Strategies and Tactics"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 3030145913 | PDF | pages: 142 | 2.2 mb
In light of asymmetrical security threats in western democracies as well as in conflict regions, this timely book examines the actors, strategies and tactics of Islamist terrorism and transnational organized crime around the globe. The authors develop an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the ideologies, forms of cooperation, and technological means used in new forms of terrorism.
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia: New edition by Norris J. Lacy
1995 | ISBN: 0815323034, 1138147133 | English | 654 pages | PDF | 179 MB
"Like its predecessor, it deals with Arthuriana of all periods, from the earliest legends and texts to the present. Similarly, alongside literature, we have included history and chronicle, archaeology, art, film, and other media ... We have expnded the Encyclopedia from 700 entries to more than 1,200, with contributions from some 130 scholars rather than 94"-Preface.
Aina Puce, Bennett I. Bertenthal, "The Many Faces of Social Attention: Behavioral and Neural Measures"
English | 2015 | pages: 250 | ISBN: 3319371495 | PDF | 6,4 mb
social neuroscience, social psychology, developmental, psychology, social cognition, vision research and clinical psychology.
Luuk Slooter, "The Making of the Banlieue: An Ethnography of Space, Identity and Violence"
English | ISBN: 3030182096 | 2019 | 296 pages | EPUB, PDF | 4 MB + 4 MB
This book studies and disaggregates the "crisis of the suburbs" in Paris through the stories of inhabitants in 4000sud: a French suburban neighborhood. These stories have become pressing in the aftermath of the recent wave of terrorist attacks in France. The French banlieues are some of the most prominent and infamous examples of urban neighborhoods affected by vandalism, rioting, criminality and chronic poverty. Based on extensive ethnographic research, the book explores the making of the French suburban crisis as constituted both externally (by state actors) and internally, by young people at the street corner. It reveals how the French state's understanding of banlieue violence, and subsequent policy measures, contribute to the creation and hardening of boundaries between "us" and "them".
The Jon Gordon Power of Positivity, E-Book Collection by Jon Gordon
English | May 6th, 2020 | ISBN: 1119747996 | 900 pages | EPUB | 15.45 MB
We all need more positivity in our lives-now more than ever! Five of bestselling author Jon Gordon's most powerful and timely books.