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Afghanistan’s Islam ; From Conversion to the Taliban
This book provides the first overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. Written by leading international experts, chapters cover every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval period to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Uzbek, and Urdu, its depth of coverage is unrivalled in providing a developmental picture of Afghani…
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Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
Modern warfare is a unique cultural phenomenon. While many conflicts in history have produced dramatic shifts in human behaviour, the industrialized nature of modern war possesses a material and psychological intensity that embodies the extremes of our behaviours, from the total economic mobilization of a nation state to the unbearable pain of individual loss. Fundamentally, war is the transfor…
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Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain
Modern warfare is a unique cultural phenomenon. While many conflicts in history have produced dramatic shifts in human behaviour, the industrialized nature of modern war possesses a material and psychological intensity that embodies the extremes of our behaviours, from the total economic mobilization of a nation state to the unbearable pain of individual loss. Fundamentally, war is the transfor…
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Bioethics Across the Globe ; Rebirthing Bioethics
This open access book addresses a variety of issues relating to bioethics, in order to initiate cross-cultural dialogue. Beginning with the history, it introduces various views on bioethics, based on specific experiences from Japan. It describes how Japan has been confronted with Western bioethics and the ethical issues new to this modern age, and how it has found its foothold as it decides whe…
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Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications: Proceedings of the 4th…
This volume is based on the research papers presented in the 4th Computer Science On-line Conference. The volume Artificial Intelligence Perspectives and Applications presents new approaches and methods to real-world problems, and in particular, exploratory research that describes novel approaches in the field of artificial intelligence. Particular emphasis is laid on modern trends in select…
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- 978-3-319-18476-0
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- XIV, 364
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- Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
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The Hispanic-Anglosphere from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century ; An In…
The Hispanic and Anglo worlds are often portrayed as the Cain and Abel of Western culture, antagonistic and alien to each other. This book challenges such view with a new critical conceptual framework – the ‘Hispanic-Anglosphere’ – to open a window into the often surprising interactions of individuals, transnational networks and global communities that, it argues, made of the British Is…
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A Handbook of Wisdom Psychological Perspectives
A topic ignored in mainstream scientific inquiry for decades, wisdom is beginning to return to the place of reverence that it held in ancient schools of intellectual study. A Handbook of Wisdom, first published in 2005, explores wisdom's promise for helping scholars and lay people to understand the apex of human thought and behavior. At a time when poor choices are being made by notably intelli…
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Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
This is an open access book which brings together leading scholars and critical discourses on political, economic, legal, technological, socio-cultural and systemic changes and continuities intersecting media and health crises in Sub-Saharan Africa. The volume extensively discusses COVID-19 but it also covers other epidemics, such as malaria, HIV/AIDS as well as “silent” health crises such …
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Artificial Intelligence Applications in Information and Communication Technol…
This book presents various recent applications of Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication Technologies such as Search and Optimization methods, Machine Learning, Data Representation and Ontologies, and Multi-agent Systems. The main aim of this book is to help Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) practitioners in managing efficiently their platforms using AI tools an…
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- 978-3-319-19833-0
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- X, 213
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- Studies in Computational Intelligence
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Theory into practice : Composition, Performance and the Listening Experience
"Theory into Practice. Composition, Performance and the Listening Experience' is the second publication in the series 'Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute'. The series comprises articles concerning the activities of the Orpheus Institute. The centrale theme of this book is the relationship between the reflections about and the relization of a musical composition. In his paper Words abou…
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