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Repositioning Platforms in Digital Market Law (European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World, 15)


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English | October 9, 2024 | ISBN: 3031696778 | 296 pages | MOBI | 1.02 Mb
Online platforms and their ecosystems are the cornerstone of the digital economy. They have brought forth positive network effects. But they are also known for their information asymmetries, their potential for market failures and their problematic relationship with data protection law. This volume provides a detailed analysis of the current process of repositioning online platforms in the digital economy as regulators express concerns about the evolution from mere intermediaries to gatekeepers. The exclusive reliance on competition law instruments has proven to be incapable of coping with cases of platforms abusing their market power. Therefore, the book explores the European Union's new approach to digital markets consisting in the adoption or drafting of new legislative instruments, such as the Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, Proposal of AI Act, Proposal of Data Act, Proposal of Data Governance Act. The EU's emphasis on new regulatory ex ante instruments (as in the Digital Markets Act) calls for an assessment of their overlap or their interface with existing supranational and national competition rules.

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Renaturing Small Ways to Wild the World


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English | March 13, 2025 | ISBN: 1837260397 | 256 pages | PDF | 4.13 Mb
Twenty years ago, James Canton moved from London to the English countryside. Behind his farm labourer''s cottage was a small field with a ''for sale'' sign. At first it was a site for family picnics and cricket matches with friends, but James knew that the two-acre patch of earth held more potential - as a place for nature to return and flourish.

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Remote Sensing for Environmental Monitoring


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English | July 17, 2025 | ISBN: 9819655455 | 322 pages | Epub PDF (True) | 159 Mb
This book introduces remote sensing for environmental monitoring, emphasizing its importance and varied applications in environmental assessment. It delineates core image interpretation and analysis principles, details satellite platforms and sensors, and explores aerial and ground-based remote sensing technologies through case studies. It includes data acquisition, preprocessing, and specialized imaging methods such as multispectral, hyperspectral, and thermal infrared imaging. Discussions extend to microwave and lidar applications and integration with GIS for environmental mapping. Chapters cover applications in water quality monitoring, land cover analysis, vegetation dynamics, atmospheric and climate studies, coastal and marine environments, urban areas, and wildlife habitat assessment. Lastly, the book explores emerging technologies and future trends in remote sensing for environmental monitoring, offering insights into potential applications, challenges, and directions.

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Religious Life Between Jerusalem, the Desert, and the World Selected Essays by Kaspar Elm


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English | 2015 | ISBN: 900430777X | PDF | pages: 348 | 2.6 mb
Few medievalists of the last generation have contributed more to our understanding of late medieval religious life than Kaspar Elm. Over the last half century his reflections, now a monumental corpus of books, essays and other publications, have explored how the life of the cloister, canonry and convent intersected with the world of the laity, church and society beyond, and how that story reflected the broader sweep of European history. Until now relatively few Anglophone scholars and students have had direct access to Elm's work. The present translation of several of his most important essays offers itself as a modest remedy to that circumstance.

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Religion in Roman Phrygia From Polytheism to Christianity (John Palevsky Imprint in Classical Literature)


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English | September 19, 2023 | ISBN: 0520395484 | 267 pages | MOBI | 10 Mb
Phrygia in the second and third centuries CE offers more vivid evidence for what has been termed "lived ancient religion" than any other region in the ancient world. The evidence from Phrygia is neither literary nor issued by cities or their powerful inhabitants but rather comes from farmers and herders who left behind numerous stone memorials of themselves and dedications to their gods, praying for the welfare of their families, crops, and cattle. In Religion in Roman Phrygia: From Polytheism to Christianity, Robert Parker opens a rare window into the world of those Sir Ronald Syme called "the voiceless earth-coloured rustics" who have been "conveniently forgotten." The period in which Phrygian paganism flourished so visibly was also the period in which Christianity was introduced by the apostle Paul and took root. Parker presents a rich body of evidence and uses it to explore one of history's great stories and enigmas: how and why the new religion overtook its predecessor, with the Christian God meeting needs previously satisfied by Zeus and the other gods.

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Reimagine Your Career (6-Minute Smarts)


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English | April 8, 2025 | ISBN: 1788607503 | 142 pages | PDF | 1.22 Mb
Ready for a change? Want to integrate your personal and professional life in a more satisfying way? Whether you're considering going it alone or you just want more fulfilment at work, Ollie Henderson can help. He's reimagined his own career, and he's interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, leaders and experts to find out their secrets, too.