University Initiatives in Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation by Walter Leal Filho, Rafael Leal-Arcas
English | PDF | 2019 | 401 Pages | ISBN : 3319895893 | 8.2 MB
This book focuses on the role of higher education institutions in addressing climate change mitigation and adaptation challenges, contributing to the development of this fast-growing field. Further, it includes the results of empirical research and offers ideas regarding on-going and future research initiatives. The contributions also
J. M. Porter, "Unity, Plurality and Politics: Essays in Honour of F. M. Barnard "
English | ISBN: 0367254085 | 2019 | 202 pages | EPUB | 314 KB
First published in 1986. Nations have a unity often described as 'cultural'; and within them there are divergences some of which are termed 'political'. But culture and politics do not, therefore, comprise two wholly distinct zones or orders of experience, the one marked by unity, the other by plurality. Unity and plurality interpenetrate.
Barry Gills, "Unity on the Global Left: Critical Reflections on Samir Amin's Call for a New International "
English | ISBN: 0367552221 | 2021 | 166 pages | EPUB | 960 KB
This book brings together a collection of essays by progressive global activists in response to Samir Amin's call for a new global organization of progressive workers and peoples. Amin's proposal is applauded, criticized and reformulated by these scholar-activists who are all proponents of ways forward toward a more egalitarian world society.
Dawn Walsh, "Unionisms in Times of Change: Brexit, Britain and the Balkans "
English | ISBN: 103204375X | 2021 | 204 pages | EPUB | 966 KB
Unions and unionisms are important because they offer an alternative form of politics to that of nation-states and nationalisms. They allow a wider variety of relations between a plurality of peoples, opening prospects of resolving territorial politics. But unionisms, as state- or polity-centred perspectives, are also typically power-centred, often using the resources of the polity to resist assertion by their members, thereby turning democratic challenges into secessionist ones.
Lucy Whichelo, "Unelectable: Making Space for a Future with Female Leaders"
English | ISBN: 1636768636 | 2021 | 160 pages | EPUB | 290 KB
Unelectable takes a look at the ways in which we are seeing a greater willingness of society to have a more open, honest and vulnerable conversation about the struggles women face in US politics.
Understanding the Artificial: On the Future Shape of Artificial Intelligence by Massimo Negrotti
English | PDF | 1991 | 168 Pages | ISBN : 3540196129 | 21.7 MB
In recent years a vast literature has been produced on the feasibility of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The topic most frequently discussed is the concept of intelligence, with efforts to demonstrate that it is or is not transferable to the computer. Only rarely has attention been focused on the concept of the artificial per se in order to clarify what kind, depth and scope of performance (including intelligence) it could support. Apart from the classic book by H.A. Simon, The Sciences of the Artificial, published in 1969, no serious attempt has been made to define a conceptual frame for understanding the intimate nature of intelligent machines independently of its claimed or denied human-like features. The general aim of this book is to discuss, from different points of view, what we are losing and what we are gaining from the artificial, particularly from AI, when we abandon the original anthropomorphic pretension.
Jean-Baptiste Velut, "Understanding Mega Free Trade Agreements: The Political and Economic Governance of New Cross-Regionalism "
English | ISBN: 1138709123 | 2017 | 234 pages | EPUB | 669 KB
The rise of cross-regional trade agreements is a defining trend of the current international trade system as shown by the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in 2015, the negotiations for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the USA and the EU as well as the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) between countries in Asia and Oceania. These differ from previous agreements in their economic significance and large geographic scale, and the wide scope of trade-related issues.
Nele Marianne Ewers-Peters, "Understanding EU-NATO Cooperation: How Member-States Matter "
English | ISBN: 0367771594 | 2021 | 206 pages | EPUB | 803 KB
This book examines the development of cooperation between the EU and NATO, two key non-state actors in the European security architecture.
Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America"
English | ISBN: 1479862355 | 2020 | 272 pages | EPUB | 512 KB
An answer to the assault on voting rights―crucial reading in light of the 2020 presidential election
C. Vinodan, "US-China Relations in the 21st Century"
English | ISBN: 0367365995 | 2021 | 148 pages | EPUB | 657 KB
The beginning of the new millennium marked the meteoric rise of China in a decades-old world order dominated by the United States of America. This book explores the intricacies of China's political, economic and diplomatic relationship with the US and its consequences on international politics.