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 Daniel Klein, "Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It: Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live" English | 2017 | ISBN: 0143129597 | EPUB | pages: 224 | 0.5 mb A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .  Ethics of Data and Analytics: Concepts and Cases English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032217316 | 493 Pages | PDF True | 59 MB The ethics of data and analytics, in many ways, is no different than any endeavor to find the "right" answer. When a business chooses a supplier, funds a new product, or hires an employee, managers are making decisions with moral implications. The decisions in business, like all decisions, have a moral component in that people can benefit or be harmed, rules are followed or broken, people are treated fairly or not, and rights are enabled or diminished. However, data analytics introduces wrinkles or moral hurdles in how to think about ethics. Questions of accountability, privacy, surveillance, bias, and power stretch standard tools to examine whether a decision is good, ethical, or just. Dealing with these questions requires different frameworks to understand what is wrong and what could be better.  Equivariant Stable Homotopy Theory and the Kervaire Invariant Problem English | 2021 | ISBN: 1108831443 | 881 Pages | PDF | 81 MB The long-standing Kervaire invariant problem in homotopy theory arose from geometric and differential topology in the 1960s and was quickly recognised as one of the most important problems in the field. In 2009 the authors of this book announced a solution to the problem, which was published to wide acclaim in a landmark Annals of Mathematics paper. The proof is long and involved, using many sophisticated tools of modern (equivariant) stable homotopy theory that are unfamiliar to non-experts. This book presents the proof together with a full development of all the background material to make it accessible to a graduate student with an elementary algebraic topology knowledge. There are explicit examples of constructions used in solving the problem. Also featuring a motivating history of the problem and numerous conceptual and expository improvements on the proof, this is the definitive account of the resolution of the Kervaire invariant problem.  Aslak Aamot Kjaerulff, "Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities: Art, Performances, Impacts " English | ISBN: 1138712361 | 2017 | 194 pages | PDF | 24 MB Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities brings together scientific reflections on the relations of art and urban mobilities and artistic research on the topic. The editors open the book by setting out the concept grounded in the exhibition curated by Aslak Aamot Kjærulff and refers to earlier work on mobilities and art generated by the Cosmobilities Network. This third volume has two sections, both consisting of short papers and illustrations. The first section is based on artists who were part of the conferences' art exhibition, and the second part is based on theoretical reflections on art and artists.  Enhancing Productivity with Notion: Save time on projects by supercharging your productivity with Notion's powerful features and templates English | 2022 | ISBN: 1803232080 | 425 Pages | EPUB | 12 MB  Emily Tsz Yan Fong, "English in China " English | ISBN: 0367430835 | 2021 | 198 pages | PDF | 4 MB This volume explores Chinese identity through the lens of both the Chinese and English languages.  James Albright, "English Tertiary Education in Vietnam " English | ISBN: 0415791979 | 2018 | 208 pages | PDF | 1093 KB As part of a long series of Vietnam's policy objectives, English education has been identified as key to improving the quality of its rapidly expanding tertiary institutions and is crucial to the larger aim of modernising and internationalising its economy. Bringing together a wide range of Vietnamese and foreign English education scholars, and tertiary educational practitioners, this book documents the significant progress and challenges in the realisation of Vietnam's English language policies as they are enacted in the higher education sector. Changes to Vietnam's higher education system remain unstable, unsystematic, and insubstantial. This book provides insights into how recent Vietnamese government policy is providing for a substantial and comprehensive renewal of Vietnam's tertiary education as part of their 2020 plan. Academics and students of English education, language policy, and nation building within the context of increased globalisation and marketisation in developing nations and Vietnam, in particular, should find this book valuable.
 Roger Barnard, "English Medium Instruction Programmes: Perspectives from South East Asian Universities" English | ISBN: 1138226475 | 2018 | 150 pages | PDF | 1109 KB This book is an exploration of the desirability and feasibility of English Medium Instruction (EMI) in specific university settings in South East Asia. There is an increasing trend in many universities in Asia, as elsewhere in the world, to introduce 'international' academic programmes taught through the medium of English. Despite the rapidity of this development, there is a dearth of empirical research that investigates the opportunities and challenges across a range of specific contexts. This volume intends to occupy this research space, firstly by reviewing historical and contemporary trends and changes to EMI, and by eliciting the perceptions of a number of applied linguists in a range of Asian universities. These introductory chapters are followed by three case studies exploring the beliefs and practices of EMI lecturers in Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, and a survey of Malaysian students' attitudes to key issues relating to medium of instruction. Based on these empirical studies, implications will be drawn with regard to policy, curricula, pedagogical practice, professional development and further research. This book will provide guidance for decision-makers and practitioners for the effective planning and implementation of EMI programmes where English is an additional language for lecturers and students.  Engendering Performance: Indian Women Performers in Search of an Identity By Bishnupriya Dutt, Urmimala Sarkar Munsi 2010 | 332 Pages | ISBN: 8132104560 | PDF | 4 MB The book is a comprehensive critical history of women performers in Indian theatre and dance of the colonial and postcolonial periods. Its underlying premise is that one cannot evaluate performance in the Indian context without looking at dance and theatre together, unlike the course taken by traditional scholarship. Issues of sexuality and colonialism, and culture and society come together in this study to provide a holistic account of women performers in India.  Empires to be remembered: Ancient Worlds through Modern Times English | 2022 | ISBN: 3658340029 | 571 Pages | PDF | 9 MB By applying a comparative approach the volume focuses on a select group of „empires" which are generally not in the focus of empires studies. They are studied in detail and analyzed due to a strict concept that takes into account real history and reception history as well. Reception history becomes more and more an important element in empire studies although this topic is still often more or less underdeveloped. The volume singles out a series of such "forgotten empires". It aims to provide a methodologically clearly structured as well as a uniform and consistent approach. It develops a general set of questions that help to compare and distinguish these entities. This way the volume intends to examine and to illuminate empires that are generally ignored by modern scholarship. |
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