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 Free Download Colin C. Williams, "Measuring the Global Shadow Economy: The Prevalence of Informal Work and Labour" English | ISBN: 1784717983 | 2016 | 256 pages | PDF | 2 MB This book brings together two leading researchers in the field to provide a comprehensive overview of the shadow economy from a global perspective. Reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of different ways of measuring the informal sector, the authors evaluate its size and key determinants across the world. Williams and Schneider clearly establish the persistence and prevalence of the shadow economy, analysing the narrowness of existing policy approaches and explaining how these fail to address the key factors for its existence and may even exacerbate the problem.  Free Download Danielle Rose, "Dark Shadow: Darkhaven Saga, Book 6" English | 2021 | ISBN: 1642632597 | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.8 mb There's a new vampire in town, and he's out for blood.  Free Download Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia English | March 21st, 2024 | ISBN: 1529097304 | 320 pages | True EPUB | 0.85 MB LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024
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With increasing curiosity, Derek started to piece together fragments of information, stories and artefacts to reveal a shadowy creature that first walked proud through these lands and then was hunted to extinction as coexistence turned to fear, hatred-and domination. ![Code Dependent Living in the Shadow of AI [Audiobook]](https://i123.fastpic.org/big/2024/0324/50/b9f7de7e01a7337457cd3100beb90350.jpeg) Free Download Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI (Audiobook) English | ASIN: B0CL7HMX4X | 2024 | 9 hours and 21 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 256 MB Author: Madhumita Murgia Narrator: Madhumita Murgia What does it mean to be human in a world that is rapidly changing thanks to the development of artificial intelligence, of automated decision-making that both draws on and influences our behaviour? 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Free Download Serguei Oushakine, Clemena Antonova, "In Marx's Shadow: Knowledge, Power, and Intellectuals in Eastern Europe and Russia" English | 2010 | pages: 302 | ISBN: 0739136240 | EPUB | 1,5 mb Despite its key role in the intellectual shaping of state socialism, Communist ideas are often dismissed as mere propaganda or as a rhetorical exercise aimed at advancing socialist intellectuals on their way to power. By drawing attention to unknown and unexplored areas, trends and ways of thinking under socialism, the volume examines Eastern Europe and Russian histories of intellectual movements inspired - negatively as well as positively - by Communist arguments and dogmas. Through an interdisciplinary dialogue, the collection demonstrates how various bodies of theoretical knowledge (philosophical, social, political, aesthetic, even theological) were used not only to justify dominant political views, but also to frame oppositional and nonofficial discourses and practices. |
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