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Critical Software Studies: Artefacts, Systems and Spectacle in the Age of AI
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1032973021 | 247 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3.3 MB
This book is based around two key premises: all software is an artefact of human construct and all software shapes the behaviours of those who use it directly or experience its influence indirectly. With the rise of popular consumer-facing generative AI tools, never has understanding these two premises been more important or more obscured. This book explores the relationship between people and software as a relationship between a tool and its users.

Critical Learning Through Creative Research Practices
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032054117 | 311 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
This book features international and interdisciplinary research into socially engaged, relational and critical creative practices. It comprises a range of authors who bring diverse cultural perceptions to bear on critical creativity and social learning through arts-based research practices and creative pedagogies. This network of authors from organisations and universities across Europe, Palestine and Japan have shared their research through RECAP (Research into Education, Creativity and Arts through Practice), a progressive arts-based research centre coordinated at the University of Chester, UK. The book is in two parts; the first, Culture and Community, comprises chapters that cover creative pedagogies in teacher education, languages, urban development, risk, creative writing, storytelling and educational ecosystems; the second, Methods and Models, consists of chapters on creative methodologies, graphic novels, poetry, children's voices, social trauma and performance, play rituals, management innovation and drama and theatre in education.

Critical Infrastructure: Risk and Crisis Management in the New Reality
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3032209471 | 286 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
Over the past decade, the security environment has undergone rapid transformation driven by climate change, geopolitical tensions, digitalization, energy transition, and AI integration. These shifts have created a new "risk reality" where traditional crisis management is insufficient, making interdisciplinary approaches and critical infrastructure resilience essential.

Cringe Humor on Screen and in Digital Media: Pragmatic Perspectives
English | 2026 | ISBN: 3031930010 | 367 Pages | PDF (True) | 14 MB
This volume is the first book-length study of 21st-century English-language cringe humor on screen and in digital media. The book includes quantitative and qualitative analyses of verbal and multimodal cringe humor by international linguists interested in its conditions of emergence and success. It examines the sociocultural variables involved in its reception and sheds new light on audience reactions-from alignment to disaffiliation and resistance to empathy. This book reveals that, while not unanimously championed, cringe humor thrives in the 21st century, drawing on its inherent ambivalence and leveraging the affordances of new media to navigate the post-politically correct ethical complexities of laughing at embarrassing behavior. With its cross-disciplinary, pragmatically grounded approach, this book will interest scholars and students in Linguistics, Media and Cultural Studies, and Psychology.

Creative Leadership: Was Führungskräfte von Künstlern wie Picasso lernen können
Deutsch | 2026 | ISBN: 3658515848 | 68 Pages | PDF (True) | 3 MB
Dieses Buch stellt die moderne Managementmethode des Creative Leadership vor. Sie überträgt künstlerisches Denken auf moderne Führung und dient als Anregung, um durch mehr Kreativität innovieren zu können. Denn immer weniger Unternehmen in Deutschland innovieren. Kreativität ist aber die Voraussetzung für Innovation und unabdingbar, um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben und wachsen zu können. Die Transformation benötigt neue Umgangsweisen mit Teams. Die Creative Leadership-Methode zeigt, wie Führungskräfte mit kreativem Potenzial mutiger entscheiden, Teams inspirieren und Innovationen vorantreiben. Praxisnahe Beispiele, klare Prinzipien und inspirierende Impulse machen deutlich: Wer wie ein Künstler denkt, gestaltet die Zukunft kreativer und innovativer.

Creative AI Agents with Copilot Studio: Building Intelligent, Engaging, and Autonomous Assistants
English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GT8C2ZZZ | 506 Pages | True PDF EPUB | 15 MB
Every creative person has experienced that moment when ideas just won't come. The blank page becomes an adversary, deadlines feel like walls closing in, and inspiration appears out of reach. But what if you could work with an artificial intelligence assistant to overcome these obstacles? Not just any chatbot, but a truly creative collaborator who understands your voice, creates new ideas, and even assists with the creation of interesting stories and marketing content. That's exactly what Microsoft Copilot Studio makes possible, and this book shows you how to make it work.

Creative AI Agents with Copilot Studio: Building Intelligent, Engaging, and Autonomous Assistants
English | 2026 | ASIN: B0GT8C2ZZZ | 343 Pages | EPUB | 8 MB
Every creative person has experienced that moment when ideas just won't come. The blank page becomes an adversary, deadlines feel like walls closing in, and inspiration appears out of reach. But what if you could work with an artificial intelligence assistant to overcome these obstacles? Not just any chatbot, but a truly creative collaborator who understands your voice, creates new ideas, and even assists with the creation of interesting stories and marketing content. That's exactly what Microsoft Copilot Studio makes possible, and this book shows you how to make it work.

Creating Custom GPT with OpenAI GPT Builder:
Create, deploy and ethically scale production-ready conversational AI agents at an enterprise level
English | 2026 | ISBN: 9781836643371 | 386 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 26 MB

Crafting Economic Security in the Indo-Pacific Region: Concepts, Practices and New Dynamics
English | 2026 | ISBN: 9819817242 | 322 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
This book addresses the up-to-date development and changing features of Economic Security. It corroborates with the concepts, policies and dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region. This book argues that economic security is an important component of national security, albeit it shall go beyond the narrowly defined national security which mainly focuses on military security and national defense. The central argument of this book identifies at least two forms of transcendence of contemporary economic security. The first transcendence is the transcendence beyond the narrow definitions and limited components, while the second one prioritizes the transcendence beyond the level of analysis; the domestic level in particular. Securing economic security is not only a concern of the government (at the national level), but also a major consideration for regional connectivity and its spill-over impact (at the international level), as well as the maintenance of livelihoods of local society, communities and people (at the grassroot level). This book demonstrates the joint efforts of transnational scholarship addressing the up-to-date development and dynamics of economic security in the Indo-Pacific region, through the lens of interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributors of this book include scholars, such as leading senior professors of international politics, international political economy, economics, anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies, research fellows and practitioners, such as a lawyer and a CEO of a start-up enterprise on green energy and carbon solution, foreign policy think tankers, technology think tankers, cyber security expert, and a diplomat (former foreign policy officer from India).

Cost-Effective Cybersecurity: A Multi-Tiered Defense Framework with Open-Source Solutions
English | 2026 | ISBN: 9819552842 | 275 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 77 MB
This book presents a comprehensive, research-driven framework for implementing cost-effective cybersecurity solutions through the integration of open-source security tools within a structured, multi-tiered defense model. Addressing the growing challenge of cybersecurity affordability, particularly for SMEs, educational institutions, and resource-constrained organizations, it offers a systematic approach to mitigating threats while ensuring scalability and resilience. The book provides empirical evaluations of security tools, real-world deployment insights, and practical implementation strategies, bridging the gap between theoretical cybersecurity principles and actionable solutions. By incorporating technical, economic, and strategic perspectives, it equips cybersecurity professionals, IT administrators, researchers, and policymakers with the knowledge to enhance security postures without incurring prohibitive costs. This publication stands out by offering a structured defense model, performance benchmarking of open-source solutions, and a forward-looking analysis of emerging threats, making it an essential resource for advancing cybersecurity resilience in financially constrained environments.