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 Information Theory and Language by Łukasz Dębowski English | PDF | 2020 | 246 Pages | ISBN : 3039360264 | 123.98 MB "Information Theory and Language" is a collection of 12 articles that appeared recently in Entropy as part of a Special Issue of the same title. These contributions represent state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research at the interface of information theory and language studies.
 Anita Lavorgna, "Information Pollution as Social Harm: Investigating the Digital Drift of Medical Misinformation in a Time of Crisis " English | ISBN: 1800715226 | 2021 | 93 pages | PDF | 4 MB The coronavirus pandemic struck the world in a very distinctive way: experience from past pandemics or from more recent outbreaks could give us only a limited understanding of how the situation was likely to unfold. In this context, and with cyberspace being increasingly used to support health-related decision making and to market health products, potentially harmful behaviours have been carried out by individuals propagating non-science-based health (mis)information and conspiratorial thinking. This includes, among other actions, boycotting the use of masks and physical distancing, proactively opposing the use of the COVID-19 candidate vaccines, and promoting the use of useless or even dangerous substances to prevent or resist the virus. By relying on a virtual ethnography approach carried out on Italian-speaking alternative lifestyle and counter-information online communities, this book shows how the nature of personal interactions online and the construction of both personal and group identities through the development of an 'us vs. them' narrative, are central to the creation and propagation of medical misinformation.  Stuti Bhatnagar, "India's Pakistan Policy: How Think Tanks Are Shaping Foreign Relations" English | ISBN: 0367334755 | 2020 | 168 pages | EPUB | 943 KB This book critically examines the role of think tanks as foreign policy actors. It looks at the origins and development of foreign policy think tanks in India and their changing relevance and position as agents within the policy-making process.
 Ana Maria Albulescu, "Incomplete Secession after Unresolved Conflicts: Political Order and Escalation in the Post-Soviet Space " English | ISBN: 1032048581 | 2021 | 246 pages | EPUB | 736 KB This book analyses cases of incomplete secession after separatist wars and what this means for relations between central governments and de facto states.
 Terri Givens, "Immigration in the 21st Century: The Comparative Politics of Immigration Policy" English | ISBN: 1138932256 | 2020 | 198 pages | EPUB | 826 KB Immigration policy is one of the most contentious issues facing policy makers in the twenty-first century. Immigration in the Twenty-First Century provides students with an in-depth introduction to the politics that have led to the development of different approaches over time to immigration policy in North America, Europe, and Australia. The authors draw on the work of the most respected researchers in the field of immigration politics as well as providing insights from their own research.  Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects By Carolee Schneemann 2001 | 357 Pages | ISBN: 0262194597 | PDF | 182 MB Carolee Schneemann is one of the pioneers of performance, installation, and video art. Although other visual artists, such as Salvador Dali and Yves Klein, had used live self-portraiture and performance as a vehicle for public provocation, Schneemann was among the first to use her body to animate the relationship between the world of lived experience and the imagination, as well as issues of the erotic, the sacred, and the taboo. In the 1960s, her work prefigured the feminist movement's sexual self-assertion for women, and by the mid-1970s, her work anticipated the field of women's studies and its critique of patriarchal institutions. In the 1980s, she was one of the first to experiment with virtual environments. Imaging Her Erotics integrates images from Schneemann's works in painting, collage, drawing, and video sculptures with written material drawn from the artist's journals, dream diaries, essays, and lectures. Encompassing four decades of her work, it demonstrates her profound influence on artists in all media. An opening essay by Kristine Stiles presents Schneemann's major themes and places her work in a historical context. Among other topics, the book covers Schneemann's response to the widespread use by artists of the ideas of theoreticians such as Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, and Jacques Lacan; her relationship to male artists such as Joseph Cornell, Robert Morris, and Claes Oldenburg; and reminiscences about her friends Ana Mendieta, Charlotte Moorman, and Hannah Wilke. The book also contains essays by Jay Murphy and David Levi-Strauss and interviews with the artist by Kate Haug, Linda Montano, and Aviva Rahmani.
 Suchandana Chatterjee, "Images of the Post-Soviet Kazakshtan: A Cosmopolitan Space with Borderland Anxieties " English | ISBN: 9386288028 | 2016 | 196 pages | EPUB | 1066 KB The study revolves round the relationship between space and transitional identity in Kazakhstan in the post-Soviet period. Emergent discourses about cosmopolitanism suggest multiple interactions in a transitional space. The cosmopolitanism of our times implies the dynamic responses of communities in transition. The diversities and heterogeneities instead of the specifics, the encounters, the networks, the challenges, the ways of living, the multitude of fates need to be considered. The picture is far bigger as there are infinite ways of being and belonging.  If Only...: Finding Freedom from Regret by Robert L. Leahy English | ISBN: 1462549675, 1462547826 | 370 pages | EPUB | May 10, 2022 | 2.23 Mb It's hard to envision a life without some regrets. You imagine what might have been if you had taken a different path at some key juncture, whether about a past relationship, a missed job opportunity, or choosing where to live. Regret can be immobilizing, filling us with disappointment and shame-but it also can be a powerful tool for self-knowledge and change. In this uplifting guide, renowned psychologist Robert Leahy demonstrates how to make regret work to your advantage. Using cutting-edge skills based on cognitive-behavioral therapy, Dr. Leahy shows how to get unstuck from regret and make decisions with more clarity and confidence. Downloadable practical tools help you implement the strategies in the book. You are the author of your life, so go out and write the next chapter-and then live it.  Mathew Humphrey, "Ideologies in Action: Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas" English | ISBN: 0367496054 | 2020 | 112 pages | EPUB | 336 KB Ideologies in Action: Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas explores how political ideas move across geographical, social and chronological boundaries.  Jonathan White, "Ideologies and the European Union " English | ISBN: 0367689839 | 2021 | 168 pages | EPUB | 476 KB This volume examines what the concept of ideology can add to our understanding of the European Union, and the way in which the process of European integration has inflected the ideological battles that define contemporary European politics, both nationally and transnationally. |
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