Subhasish Sarangi, "Evolving Geopolitics of Indo-Pacific Region: Challenges and Prospects"
English | ISBN: 9388161793 | 2019 | 164 pages | EPUB | 876 KB
The "Indo-Pacific" has emerged as a strategic pivot in the evolving balance of power. The region encompasses about 60 per cent of the world population, three of the ten largest economies, five of the ten most populated countries and three of the ten largest countries. It is home to an enormously populous and diverse mix of ethnicities, cultures, political systems, religions, and economic models. Global trade and energy linkages bind the oceans such that events across the region are strongly interrelated and mutually dependent.

Evolving Business Ethics: Integrity, Experimental Method and Responsible Innovation in the Digital Age
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3476058441 | 261 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 4 MB
Business ethics as a discipline has been evolving rapidly, and indeed needs to evolve constantly. This evolution is mandated more urgently than ever before as we plunge headlong, and with increasing velocity, into the era of automation, artificial intelligence and digitization. In a scenario where legal and policy guidelines are scarce or ambiguous, the role of business ethics in guiding academic and industrial research and innovation cannot be understated. Ethical codes and guidelines are needed for educators, scientists, industries, law and policy makers, as well as for the general public engaged with emerging technologies not only to ensure a smooth transition into the autonomous and digital age, but also to ensure that in the process, we do not unknowingly disengage from basic human rights, values and responsibilities. Traditional, time tested and universally accepted principles of (business) ethics, including principles of integrity, responsibility and sustainability must, therefore, not be abandoned, but rather permitted to evolve to address the unique issues that emerging technologies present to humankind. This evolution necessarily entails an evolution also in research methods (including methods that permit multi-disciplinary and multi-stakeholder engagement), entrepreneurship ethics and a multi-cultural understanding of human rights and responsibilities, as relevant to emerging technologies such as autonomous driving. The envisaged volume "Evolving Business Ethics: Integrity, Sustainability and Responsible Innovation in the Digital Age" accordingly brings together contributions in the field of business ethics from a diversity of perspectives and disciplines.

David Gullette, "Everyday Energy Politics in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Citizens' Needs, Entitlements and Struggles for Access "
English | ISBN: 1138122572 | 2015 | 138 pages | EPUB | 888 KB
The perception of Central Asia and its place in the world has come to be shaped by its large oil and gas reserves. Literature on energy in the region has thus largely focused on related geopolitical issues and national policies. However, little is known about citizens' needs within this broader context of commodities that connect the energy networks of China, Russia and the West. This multidisciplinary special issue brings together anthropologists, economists, geographers and political scientists to examine the role of all forms of energy (here: oil, gas, hydropower and solar power) and their products (especially electricity) in people's daily lives throughout Central Asia and the Caucasus. The papers in this issue ask how energy is understood as an everyday resource, as a necessity and a source of opportunity, a challenge or even as an indicator of exclusionary practices. We enquire into the role and views of energy sector workers, rural consumers and urban communities, and their experiences of energy companies' and national policies. We further examine the legacy of Soviet and more recent domestic energy policies, the environmental impact of energy use as well as the political impact of citizens' energy grievances.

Thom Tyerman, "Everyday Border Struggles "
English | ISBN: 0367559285 | 2021 | 206 pages | EPUB | 750 KB
This book examines everyday borders in the UK and Calais as sites of ethical political struggle between segregation and solidarity.

Andrew S. Moore, "Evangelicals and Presidential Politics: From Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump"
English | ISBN: 0807174343 | 2021 | 208 pages | EPUB | 463 KB
Using as their starting point a 1976 Newsweek cover story on the emerging politicization of evangelical Christians, contributors to Evangelicals and Presidential Politics engage the scholarly literature on evangelicalism from a variety of angles to offer new answers to persisting questions about the movement. The standard historical narrative describes the period between the 1925 Scopes Trial and the early 1970s as a silent one for evangelicals, and when they did re-engage in the political arena, it was over abortion. Randall J. Stephens and Randall Balmer challenge that narrative. Stephens moves the starting point earlier in the twentieth century, and Balmer concludes that race, not abortion, initially motivated activists. In his examination of the relationship between African Americans and evangelicalism, Dan Wells uses the

Noële Crossley, "Evaluating the Responsibility to Protect: Mass Atrocity Prevention as a Consolidating Norm in International Society "
English | ISBN: 113812253X | 2016 | 236 pages | EPUB | 767 KB
This book evaluates the extent to which the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) has consolidated as a norm in international society.

Sarah-Myriam Martin- Brule, "Evaluating Peacekeeping Missions: A Typology of Success and Failure in International Interventions "
English | ISBN: 1138638730 | 2016 | 154 pages | EPUB | 801 KB
This book offers a new perspective on peace missions in intra-state wars, based on comparative field research.

European and Asian Sustainable Towns: New Towns and Satellite Cities in their Metropolises By Pascaline Gaborit (editor)
2014 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 287574187X | PDF | 9 MB
In the face of growing needs and problems around urbanization, the sustainable development of cities does not lie only in technology, research and innovation. Sustainable local development also results from a combination of different elements related to the development of social cohesion, the local economy, the environment and culture; also, crucially, it depends on the autonomy of local authorities and the adoption of the most appropriate system of governance. In addition, the urgent need to create better and more liveable cities is now inextricably linked with the integration of environmental principles, in order to prevent the waste of resources and mitigate climate change by restricting CO2 emissions. Within this framework, new strategies have been implemented for the development of 'New Towns' or satellite cities. This publication gathers together contributions from different experts involved in the EAST (Euro Asia Sustainable Towns) project. The contributors originate from India, China, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, the United States and France, and come from a variety of different backgrounds, including academic researchers, urban planners, architects, political scientists and practitioners.

Martin Kitchen, "Europe Between the Wars Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 058289414X | 2006 | 472 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Martin Kitchen's compelling account of Europe between the wars sets the twenty-year crisis within the context of the profound sense of cultural malaise shared by many philosophers and artists, the economic crises that plagued a Europe ruined by war and the social upheavals caused by widespread unemployment and grinding poverty amid a noticeable improvement of living standards.

Euro-Par 2022: Parallel Processing: 28th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Glasgow, UK, August 22-26, 2022, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13440) by José Cano, Phil Trinder
2022 | ISBN: 3031125967 | English | 453 pages | PDF | 27 MB
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2022, held in Vienna, Austria, in August 2022.