Illicit Trade and the Global Economy

Economists explore the relationship between expanding international trade and the parallel growth in illicit trade, including illegal drugs, smuggling, and organized crime.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Social economics :urrent and emerging avenues

The growing field of social economics explores how individual behavior is affected by group-level influences, extending the approach of mainstream economics to include broader social motivations and incentives. This book offers a rich and rigorous selection of current work in the field, focusing on some of the most active research areas. Topics covered include culture, gender, ethics, and phila…

Out of the shadows, into the streets! : transmedia organizing and the immigra…

Foreword by Manuel Castells."For decades, social movements have vied for attention from the mainstream mass media--newspapers, radio, and television. Today, many argue that social media power social movements, from the Egyptian revolution to Occupy Wall Street. Yet, as Sasha Costanza-Chock reports, community organizers know that social media enhance, rather than replace, face-to-face organizing…

Sustainability or Collapse?: An Integrated History and Future of People on Earth

Report of the 96th Dahlem Workshop on Integrated History and Future of People on Earth (IHOPE) Berlin, June 12-17, 2005."Scholars from a range of disciplines develop an integrated human and environmental history over millennial, centennial, and decadal time scales and make projections for the future.Human history, as written traditionally, leaves out the important ecological and climate context…

Body Am I: The New Science of Self-Consciousness

"Costandi explains the neuroscience behind how we view our selves and our bodies, drawing from neurological studies on our sense of agency and free will, the neural correlates of mental representations, mirror neurons, and how the brain perceives timing and sensory consequences. He explores case studies of amputees with phantom limb syndrome, people with Body Integrity Identity Disorder (who ha…

Tactical biopolitics :art, activism, and technoscience

'Tactical Biopolitics' suggests that the political challenges at the intersection of life, science and art are best addressed through a combination of artistic intervention, critical theorising and reflective practices. The multidisciplinary contributions focus on the political significance of recent advances in biological science.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Progress in Artificial Intelligence; 17th Portuguese Conference on Artificial…

Sungguh luar biasa melihat kembalinya Konferensi Portugis tentang Kecerdasan Buatan ke Coimbra setelah 18 tahun, terutama dengan latar belakang pengakuan UNESCO baru-baru ini terhadap Universitas Coimbra dan sebagian kota sebagai situs warisan dunia. Pengakuan ini menyoroti sejarah kota yang kaya dalam menyebarkan pengetahuan di berbagai bidang, menjadikannya lokasi yang ideal untuk acara yang …

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Urban Ethics as Research Agenda

This book provides an outline for a multidisciplinary research agenda into urban ethics and offers insights into the various ways urban ethics can be configured. It explores practices and discourses through which individuals, collectives and institutions determine which developments and projects may be favourable for dwellers and visitors traversing cities. Urban Ethics as Research Agenda wi…

The Power of Identity and Ideology in Language Learning

This critical ethnographic school-based case study offers insights on the interaction between ideology and the identity development of individual English language learners in Singapore. Illustrated by case studies of the language learning experiences of five Asian immigrant students in an English-medium school in Singapore, the author examines how the immigrant students negotiated a standard En…