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Apocalypse without God: Apocalyptic Thought, Ideal Politics, and the Limits o…
Despite often being dismissed as bizarre, apocalyptic thought has persistent appeal in political life. This book explains apocalyptic thought's political appeal by examining it through the eyes of secular thinkers and makes original contributions to both the history of political thought and contemporary political philosophy.
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- 9781009037037
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- 181.06 JON a
Anti-Racist Shakespeare
Anti-Racist Shakespeare argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. It outlines the necessary theoretical foundations for educators to develop a critical understanding of the longue durée of racial formation so that they can implement anti-racist pedagogical strategies and interventions in their classrooms.
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- 9781009004633
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- 320.569 DAD a
Animals through Chinese History: Earliest Times to 1911
This volume opens a door into the rich history of animals in China. As environmental historians turn their attention to expanded chronologies of natural change, something new can be said about human history through animals and about the globally diverse cultural and historical dynamics that have led to perceptions of animals as wild or cultures as civilized.
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- 9781108551571
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- 590.951 STE a
An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave: User Guide f…
This book provides a self-contained introduction to the simulation of flow and transport in porous media, written by a developer of numerical methods. The reader will learn how to implement reservoir simulation models and computational algorithms in a robust and efficient manner.
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- 9781108591416
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- 622.338 LIE i
Algorithms and Autonomy: The Ethics of Automated Decision Systems
Algorithms influence every facet of modern life: criminal justice, education, housing, entertainment, elections, social media, news feeds, work . . . the list goes on. Delegating important decisions to machines, however, gives rise to deep moral concerns about responsibility, transparency, freedom, fairness, and democracy.
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- 9781108895057
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- 174.90063 RUB a
Ageing and Health: The Politics of Better Policies
Life in an ageing society is a truly novel experience. For most of our species’ history, a large majority of people were young and life much beyond 60 seemingly a rarity (Thane, 2005). Now, populations around the world are ageing. It might be happening in countries at different speeds and to varying extents, but it is an almost universal phenomenon.
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- 9781108973236
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- 362.1084 GRE a
After the Digital Tornado: Networks, Algorithms, Humanity
Networks powered by algorithms are pervasive. Major contemporary technology trends – Internet of Things, Big Data, Digital Platform Power, Blockchain, and the Algorithmic Society – are manifestations of this phenomenon.
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- 9781108610018
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- 394.34 WER a
Advanced Modeling with the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox
Many leading experts contribute to this follow-up to An Introduction to Reservoir Simulation Using MATLAB/GNU Octave: User Guide for the MATLAB Reservoir Simulation Toolbox (MRST). It introduces more advanced functionality that has been recently added to the open-source MRST software.
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- 9781009019781
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- 003.3 LIE a
Advanced Concepts in Particle and Field Theory
Uniting the usually distinct areas of particle physics and quantum field theory, gravity and general relativity, this expansive and comprehensive textbook of fundamental and theoretical physics describes the quest to consolidate the basic building blocks of nature, by journeying through contemporary discoveries in the field, and analyzing elementary particles and their interactions.
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- 9781009291521
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- 539.72 HUB a
Advance Directives Across Asia: A Comparative Socio-legal Analysis
Population ageing, which has been described as one of the four global demographic “megatrends”,1 is quickly becoming a concern for many countries around the world. The growth in the size and proportion of the elderly has many implications, including the fact that there has been, and will continue to be, a significant growth in the number of individuals who are living longer, and because of …
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- 9781009152631
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