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Free Download Navigating the Fintech Frontier Transformative Innovations and Risk Factors in Financial Services
English | 2025 | ASIN: B0D94TDGJH | 242 Pages | EPUB (True) | 2.72 MB
Navigating the Fintech Frontier Transformative Innovations and Risk Factors in Financial Services explores the transformative impact of financial technology on banking and financial services. It examines key opportunities and challenges in fintech adoption, including AI-driven banking, blockchain innovations, big data analytics, and the role of IoT in financial services. The book also addresses the risks associated with fintech adoption, addressing security, regulatory concerns, and customer trust.
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Free Download Nature(s) in Construction: Ethnobiology in the Confluence of Actors, Territories and Disciplines (The Latin American Studies Book Series) by María Lelia Pochettino, Aylen Capparelli, Pablo C. Stampella
English | September 15, 2024 | ISBN: 3031605519 | 592 pages | MOBI | 19 Mb
This book provides the state of the art of ethnobiology in Argentina and related Latin American countries, highlighting timely trends and topics. It synthesizes studies resulting from the III Jornadas Argentinas de Etnobiología y Sociedad (III JAES―3rd Argentinian Meeting of Ethnobiology and Society), convened in La Plata in 2021. As a relatively new academic development, ethnobiology integrates approaches from different points of view, such as biology, anthropology, geography, history, linguistics, and, in a crucial recent advance, local perspectives. Consequently, this volume contains 33 contributions from 86 authors of different countries, orientations, and disciplines―but all related to interrelationships between people/s and the natural environment.
Chapters cover a diverse array of topics, ranging from biocultural relationships and their historical construction through time to conservation of biocultural and agrodiversity, ethnomycology, ethnophycology, and meliponiculture and beyond. The volume's main goal is to propitiate the preservation of biocultural diversity through the application of ethnobiological wisdom in a global context characterized by the accelerated loss of traditional knowledge. The contributions aim to transcend the nature/culture dichotomy, emphasizing the inextricable relationship between communities and their environment and the importance of acting jointly in the construction of the inhabited landscape and local identity.

Free Download Naturalism in American Fiction : The Classic Phase By John J. Conder
2014 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0813151767 | EPUB | 1 MB
In this closely reasoned study, John J. Conder has created a new and more vital understanding of naturalism in American literature. Moving from the Hobbesian dilemma between causation and free will down through Bergson's concept of dual selves, Conder defines a view of determinism so rich in possibilities that it can serve as the inspiration of literary works of astonishing variety and unite them in a single, though developing, naturalistic tradition in American letters. At the heart of this book, beyond its philosophic discussion, is Conder's reading of key works in the naturalistic canon, beginning with Stephen Crane's "The Open Boat" and "The Blue Hotel." The special character of determinism in Crane is, Conder holds, the source of his complexity and striking originality. He finds a stricter determinism in Norris's McTeague. In Dreiser, however, the naturalistic tradition develops toward a fusion of determinism and freedom in a single work, and this fusion in a different guise operates in Dos Passos's view of self in Manhattan Transfer. With Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath the uniting of determinism and freedom finds its fullest realization in the concept of dual selves, one determined, one free. In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! the concept of the dual self appears in its most complex form. The developments in the work of Steinbeck and Faulkner, Conder believes, bring the classic phase of American literary naturalism to a close. Naturalism in American Fiction illuminates a group of major literary works and revives a theoretic consideration of naturalism. It thus makes a fundamental contribution to American studies.

Free Download National Service and Volunteerism : Achieving Impact in Our Communities By Thomas A. Bryer; Na'eem H. Crawford-Muhammad; Maria-Elena Augustin; Emily Bachman; Koen P. R. Bartels; Jodi Benenson; Valerie Beynon; Thomas A. Bryer; Julia Carboni; Guido Cozzi
2014 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 0739196936 | EPUB | 1 MB
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not investing sufficiently from the start. This book brings together a selection of diverse chapters written by a combination of academicians, students, and practitioners from three countries and across multiple states in the United States. Each chapter approaches its topic uniquely but links with all others in identifying the impacts of service and volunteerism for volunteers, for beneficiaries of service, for the institution of volunteering, and/or for whole communities. The book is divided in five sections: (1) developing volunteer initiatives to achieve impact, (2) impact for and by youth volunteers, (3) impact in social or policy areas, specifically economy and financial success, education, and emergency response, (4) international perspectives with focus on Chile, Venezuela, the United Kingdom, and the post-communist states of Lithuania and Romania, and (5) conclusion with summary and suggestions for future research and practice.

Free Download Fred. Halliday, "Nation and Religion in the Middle East"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0863560784 | EPUB | pages: 260 | 0.9 mb
This collection of essays offers a general analysis of the Middle East and more focused country-by-country examples. Nationalism and Islamism are re-examined to demonstrate their ongoing relevance and relationship to the present-day Arab context and identity. This is followed by a closer look at Islamist movements in Turkey, Iran and Tunisia and how these forces may either come to erode the secular state (as in Turkey and Tunisia) or bolster the Islamic one (in the case of Iran). The author also examines the fate of the eight remaining monarchies of the Arab world and the conditions of their emergence, consolidation and continuation.

Free Download Nanotechnology Applications for Industry 4.0
by Ratneshwar Kumar Ratnesh, Ramesh Kumar
English | 2026 | ISBN: 1032816902 | 330 Pages | True ePUB | 11.4 MB
This book explores the applications of nanotechnology in Industry 4.0, including how nanotechnology can be used to enhance various manufacturing processes. It discusses the use of nanotechnology in areas such as materials science, energy storage, electronics, biomedical and biotechnology, advanced computing and signal processing, and communication systems. Overall, it highlights the potential of these technologies to transform the manufacturing and production processes of the future.

Free Download Nanostructured Materials for Supercapacitors by Sabu Thomas
English | EPUB | 2022 | 642 Pages | ISBN : 3030993019 | 185.5 MB
This book covers nanostructure materials for application as supercapacitors. It highlights the properties that make them ideal for energy storage applications. It reports approaches on their electronic, electrical, thermal properties to increase their specific surfaces in order to improve their electrical storage capacities. This book consolidates information on synthesis, characterization and application for supercapacitors with detailed characterization, mechanistic approaches and theoretical consideration. The progress in experimental and theoretical studies on various properties of nanomaterials and its polymer and other composites are described in detail.

Free Download NATO and Warsaw Pact Armoured Fighting Vehicles of the Cold War by Michael Green
English | March 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399019716 | 256 pages | True EPUB | 195.43 MB
This authoritative and superbly illustrated book covers the full range of AFVs in service with NATO and WP armies over the four decades of the Cold War.
While tanks were the most recognized armored vehicles during the Cold War, NATO and Warsaw Pact (WP) armies fielded a wide array of armored fighting vehicles (AFVs). These included armored cars, armored personnel carriers (APCs), anti-aircraft vehicles and self propelled artillery. Over the Cold War years nations both progressively developed series of AFVs and introduced entirely new ranges.

Free Download Antony Loewenstein, "My Israel Question: Reframing the Israel/Palestine Conflict"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1530596432 | EPUB | pages: 476 | 0.8 mb
Antony Loewenstein's bestselling My Israel Question generated a storm of controversy, critical praise and robust public debate when it was first published. Loewenstein's forensic discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues here in a fully updated and expanded new edition, examining the prospects of the Middle East peace process in the new geo-political context.
The election of Barack Obama brought hope to millions around the world and has seen renewed diplomatic efforts in the Middle East. Yet the Israel-Palestine conflict remains mired in brutality and occupation. The election of a far-right Israeli government, the indiscriminate war on Gaza and the illegal expansion of West Bank colonies suggest a bleak future for both Israelis and Palestinians. However, public debate about the issue, in the USA, United Kingdom, Europe and Australia, is suggesting alternative ways of tackling the crisis. Now, Antony Loewenstein maps the way in which the conflict is ferociously discussed and where the hope lies for resolution to the brutal impasse.

Free Download My Half of the Sky : 12 Life Stories of Courage By Indrani Raimedhi
2014 | 197 Pages | ISBN: 9351500373 | EPUB | 1 MB
The 12 women who feature in this book come from diverse backgrounds. The thread that binds their stories is their resolve to change the circumstances of their lives, overcoming tremendous odds, and giving wings to their dreams. They are survivors and pathfinders, doers and dreamers, leaving in their wake surging inspiration and hope. Their testimonies reveal what it is to live in this often forgotten corner of India. They have overcome personal tragedy, broken the falters of tradition, discrimination, and coped bravely with the harrowing experience of violence and uncertainty.