Electrical Steels, Volume 1 : Fundamentals and Basic Concepts
by Anthony Moses, Philip Anderson
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1785619705 | 584 Pages | ePUB | 11 MB

Economic Freedom and the American Dream by J. Shaanan
English | PDF | 2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 0230617751 | 1.5 MB
Shaanan challenges the conventional view that unrestricted economic freedom enhances our economic and political well being. He demonstrates that unrestricted economic freedom provides benefits but also inflicts a heavy toll on democracy, free markets and, paradoxically, economic freedom itself.

Ecological Physiology of Daily Torpor and Hibernation
English | 2021 | ISBN: 303075524X | 326 Pages | PDF | 8 MB
This book provides an in-depth overview on the functional ecology of daily torpor and hibernation in endothermic mammals and birds. The reader is well introduced to the physiology and thermal energetics of endothermy and underlying different types of torpor. Furthermore, evolution of endothermy as well as reproduction and survival strategies of heterothermic animals in a changing environment are discussed.

Ecological Continuum from the Changjiang (Yangtze River) Watersheds to the East China Sea Continental Margin by Jing Zhang
English | PDF | 2015 | 209 Pages | ISBN : 3319163388 | 16.9 MB
The book provides a cross-disciplinary and multi-scale assessment of a world top river, the Changjiang (Yangtze River) and its adjacent marginal environment, the East China Sea. The studies in this volume bridges the watersheds of the river and the marginal sea through a combined approach of hydro-dynamics, geochemistry, sedimentary processes, ecology and fishery. The response of ecosystem to the external driving forces is examined via process-oriented observations, mesocosm experiments and numerical simulations in combination. The lessons learnt from the case studies of Changjiang and East China Sea can be beneficial to those who are doing inter-disciplinary researches in the continuum from watersheds to continental margins.

Disciplined Agency : Neoliberal Precarity, Generational Dispossession and Call Centre Labour in Portugal
by Patricia Alves de Matos
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1526134985 | 178 Pages | PDF | 9.34 MB

Digital Extremisms: Readings in Violence, Radicalisation and Extremism in the Online Space by Mark Littler
English | PDF | 2020 | 279 Pages | ISBN : 3030301370 | 3.6 MB
This book explores the use of the internet by (non-Islamic) extremist groups, drawing together research by scholars across the social sciences and humanities. It offers a broad overview of the best of research in this area, including research contributions that address far-right, (non-Islamic) religious, animal rights, and nationalist violence online, as well as a discussion of the policy and research challenges posed by these unique and disparate groups. It offers an academically rigorous, introductory text that addresses extremism online, making it a valuable resource for students, practitioners and academics seeking to understand the unique characteristics such risks present.

Dendroclimatology: Progress and Prospects by Malcolm K. Hughes
English | PDF | 2011 | 368 Pages | ISBN : 1402040105 | 12.3 MB
A top priority in climate research is obtaining broad-extent and long-term data to support analyses of historical patterns and trends, and for model development and evaluation. Along with directly measured climate data from the present and recent past, it is important to obtain estimates of long past climate variations spanning multiple centuries and millennia. These longer time perspectives are needed for assessing the unusualness of recent climate changes, as well as for providing insight on the range, variation and overall dynamics of the climate system over time spans exceeding available records from instruments, such as rain gauges and thermometers.

Debt in Times of Crisis: Does Economic Crisis Really Impact Debt?
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030741613 | 284 Pages | PDF EPUB | 21 MB
Debt, private and public, and in particular excessive debt, has been debated to be one of the root causes of economic crises. At the same time, economic crises are believed to lead to an increase of debt. This book, through a range of contributors, explores certain constituents of an economy and attempts to identify their contribution to debt (public and private), especially in times of crisis; namely, bonds, tariffs, social security and non-performing loans (NPLs). Furthermore, it captures the (implicit) impact of the demography on debt through tariffs and social security and investigates the effect of quantitative easing/purchase programs and as well as crises on debt. In addition, the (cost of the) reserve that a state may want to provision for, in order to secure its economy from defaulting within a certain time horizon, is also addressed and calculated. This calculation offers an alternative valuation, or pricing, of (excess) debt (default protection).

Data Science for Public Policy
English | 2021 | ISBN: 3030713512 | 365 Pages | PDF EPUB | 127 MB
This textbook presents the essential tools and core concepts of data science to public officials, policy analysts, and economists among others in order to further their application in the public sector. An expansion of the quantitative economics frameworks presented in policy and business schools, this book emphasizes the process of asking relevant questions to inform public policy. Its techniques and approaches emphasize data-driven practices, beginning with the basic programming paradigms that occupy the majority of an analyst's time and advancing to the practical applications of statistical learning and machine learning. The text considers two divergent, competing perspectives to support its applications, incorporating techniques from both causal inference and prediction. Additionally, the book includes open-sourced data as well as live code, written in R and presented in notebook form, which readers can use and modify to practice working with data.