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  • FUZZY LEARNING AND APPLICATIONS
    MARCO RUSSO
    With low computational complexity and relatively short development time, Fuzzy Logic is an indispensable tool for engineering applications. The field is growing at an unprecedented rate, and there is a need for a book that describes essential tools, applications, examples, and perspectives in the field of fuzzy learning. The editors of Fuzzy Learni ...

    $1,999.00

  • A PEN AND PAPER INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
    ANTONIO MARCO
    Statistics is central in the biosciences, social sciences and other disciplines, yet many students often struggle to learn how to perform statistical tests, and to understand how and why statistical tests work. Although there are many approaches to teaching statistics, a common framework exists between them: starting with probability and distributions, then sampling from distri...

    $899.00

  • LIQUID ARCHITECTURE
    PIERANGELO MARCO SCRAVAGLIERI
    Liquid Architecture challenges the idea of architecture as a fixed, inert container and reconceptualises it as a body whose boundaries are rather blurred and ever-changing. This book moves away from form as the primary driver of spatial protocols and explores what the built environment might look like when viewed through the lenses of a ‘wet ontology’ that is attentive to fluid...

    $1,099.00

  • THE TREASURE OF THE COPPER SCROLL
    JOHN MARCO ALLEGRO
    First published in 1960, The Treasure of the Copper Scroll is the companion volume to John Marco Allegro’s People of the Dead Sea Scrolls and tells the story of this unusual, buried treasure. Allegro here reveals much hitherto unknown information – the location of many of the cities of the Old Testament, events of the second Jewish Revolt, and the relation between the Essene co...

    $1,339.00

  • ARCHITECTING DATA AND MACHINE LEARNING PLATFORMS
    MARCO TRANQUILLIN / VALLIAPPA LAKSHMANAN / FIRAT TEKINER
    All cloud architects need to know how to build data platforms that enable businesses to make data-driven decisions and deliver enterprise-wide intelligence in a fast and efficient way. This handbook shows you how to design, build, and modernize cloud native data and machine learning platforms using AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and multicloud tools like Snowflake and Databricks. Au...

    $761.00

  • NARRATIVES ON PRISON GOVERNMENTALITY
    MARCO NOCENTE
    Narratives on Prison Governmentality explores prison governmentality through the analysis of letters of prisoners. The collection of testimonies represents the opportunities and difficulties of resisting in a place of power, which, in recent years, has become more sophisticated and effective. In recent years there has been a progressive individualisation of the prison populatio...

    $1,099.00

  • SOURDOUGH INNOVATIONS
    MARCO GARCIA-VAQUERO AND JOÃO MIGUEL F. ROCHA
    Sourdough fermentation was probably one of the first microbial processes employed by mankind for the production and preservation of food. This practice is still widely used worldwide due to the distinct sensorial and health properties attributed to these products. Traditional sourdough bread is achieved by spontaneous fermentations, leading to natural selections of microorganis...

    $4,000.00

  • BIODESIGN IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
    CLAUDIA PASQUERO / MARCO POLETTO
    Biodesign in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Deep Green investigates the potential of nature-based technology for shaping the evolution of contemporary architecture and design. It takes on the now pervasive topic of design intelligence, extending its definition to encompass both biological and digital realms. As in their first title, Systemic Architecture: Operating Manual ...

    $899.00

  • BLOCKCHAIN FOR BUSINESS
    MARCO COMUZZI / PAUL GREFEN / GIOVANNI MERONI
    This book discusses the up-and-coming blockchain technology in a structured way from the conceptual, technological, and business perspectives, thereby providing the integrated insight that is essential for truly understanding blockchain applications and their impact. While most people may know about blockchain from Bitcoin and news about its price in the financial markets, bloc...

    $979.00

  • JURISPRUDENCE
    SCOTT VEITCH / EMILIOS CHRISTODOULIDIS / MARCO GOLDONI
    Jurisprudence: Themes and Concepts offers an original introduction to, and critical analysis of, the central themes studied in jurisprudence courses. The book is organised in three parts: Part I sets out the key elements of modern law and their relation to political, economic, and social conditions. Part II presents competing accounts of the nature of legal validity, legality, ...

    $979.00

  • POST-WESTERN HISTORIES OF ARCHITECTURE
    PILAR MARIA GUERRIERI / MARCO BIRAGHI
    This book seeks to provide an alternative post-Western perspective to the history of contemporary architecture. It puts forward detailed critical analyses of various areas of the world, including Europe, Latin America, Africa, China, Australia, India and Japan, where particular movements of architecture have developed as active ‘political acts’. The authors focus on a broad spe...

    $1,099.00

  • MEDIEVAL TEACHERS OF FREEDOM
    MARCO ANTONIO ANDREACCHIO
    Medieval debates over "divine creation" are systematically obscured in our age by the conflict between "Intelligent Design" Creationists and Evolutionists. The present investigation cuts through the web of contemporary conflicts to examine problems seated at the heart of medieval talk about creation. From three representative authors we learn that the doctrine of divine creatio...

    $539.00

  • DRAFTING ITALY
    MARCO ROVINELLO
    This is the first comprehensive history of conscription and the military in Italy from the Restoration to the eve of WWI. The comparative and transnational approach enables this work to compare and contrast the Italian experience with that of many other countries in the world as well as understand transfers and the adaptive and imitative processes that emerge when conscription ...

    $1,099.00

  • COMPLETE DATA ANALYSIS USING R
    MARCO LEHMANN
    This step-by-step guide shows you how to use R to get data analysis right. The book explores the entire process of analysis, covering key steps from preparing your data to putting your analysis together and writing up your findings. It helps you get to grips with doing different statistical techniques in R and: Equips you with practical data visualisation tools to create graphs...

    $890.69

  • PRESIDENTIALISM AND DEMOCRACY IN EAST AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
    BÜNTE MARCO
    Presidentialism and Democracy in East and Southeast Asia examines the impact of presidential systems on democracies by examining three distinct literatures – the perilousness of competing legitimacies of the executive and legislative branches, issues of institutional design (particularly regarding semi-presidentialism), and the rise of executive aggrandizement. Despite often in...

    $1,099.00

  • A GENERATIONAL DIVIDE? AGE-RELATED ASPECTS OF POLITICAL TRANSFORMATION IN POST-CRISIS SOUTHERN EUROPE
    EMMANOUIL TSATSANIS, MARCO LISI AND ANDRÉ FREIRE
    This book examines the political consequences of the economic crisis in Southern Europe from the perspective of a widening intergenerational divide. It focuses on the cases of Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain to fill the gap in the literature by examining various age-related rifts in post-crisis Southern Europe. Public discussion about the economic crisis of the late 2000s to ...

    $1,339.00

  • MODERN METAHEURISTICS IN IMAGE PROCESSING
    DIEGO OLIVA / NOE ORTEGA-SÁNCHEZ / SALVADOR HINOJOSA / MARCO PÉREZ-CISNEROS
    The use of metaheuristic algorithms (MA) has been increasing in recent years, and the image processing field is not the exempted of their application. In the last two years a big amount of MA has been introduced as alternatives for solving complex optimization problems. This book collects the most prominent MA of the 2019 and 2020 and verifies its use in image processing tasks....

    $539.00

  • A HISTORY OF ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC THOUGHT
    MARCO P. VIANNA FRANCO / ANTOINE MISSEMER
    Contributing to a better understanding of contemporary issues of environmental sustainability from a historical perspective, this book provides a cohesive and cogent account of the history of ecological economic thought. The work unearths a diverse set of ideas within a Western and Slavic context, from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the late 1940s, to reveal insights ...

    $1,099.00

  • RETHINKING GEOGRAPHICAL EXPLORATIONS IN EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
    MARCO ARMIERO
    Focusing on extreme environments, from Umberto Nobile’s expedition to the Arctic to the commercialization of Mt Everest, this volume examines global environmental margins, how they are conceived and how perceptions have changed. Mountaintops and Arctic environments are the settings of social encounters, political strategies, individual enterprises, geopolitical tensions, decolo...

    $1,099.00

  • INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELS OF CULTURAL EVOLUTION
    ALBERTO ACERBI / ALEX MESOUDI / MARCO SMOLLA
    Individual-Based Models of Cultural Evolution shows readers how to create individual-based models of cultural evolution using the programming language R. The field of cultural evolution has emerged in the last few decades as a thriving, interdisciplinary effort to understand cultural change and cultural diversity within an evolutionary framework and using evolutionary tools, co...

    $1,339.00

  • JAPANESE ANIMATION IN ASIA
    MARCO PELLITTERI
    Anime is a quintessentially Japanese form of animation consisting of both hand drawn and computer-generated imagery, and is often characterised by colourful graphics, vibrant characters, and fantastical themes. As an increasingly globalising expression of popular art and entertainment, and distributed through cinema, television, and over the internet, anime series and films hav...

    $1,099.00

  • SURVIVING THEATRE
    MARCO PUSTIANAZ
    Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre’s living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis. Drawing from a manifold affective archive of performances and installations (by Marina Abramović, Ron Athey, Forced Entertainmen...

    $1,059.00

  • SPATIALIZING SOCIAL MEDIA
    MARCO BASTOS
    Spatializing Social Media charts the theoretical and methodological challenges in analyzing and visualizing social media data mapped to geographic areas. It introduces the reader to concepts, theories, and methods that sit at the crossroads between spatial and social network analysis to unpack the conceptual differences between online and face-to-face social networks and the no...

    $1,099.00

  • BAYESIAN NETWORKS
    MARCO SCUTARI / JEAN-BAPTISTE DENIS
    Bayesian Networks: With Examples in R, Second Edition introduces Bayesian networks using a hands-on approach. Simple yet meaningful examples illustrate each step of the modelling process and discuss side by side the underlying theory and its application using R code. The examples start from the simplest notions and gradually increase in complexity. In particular, this new editi...

    $2,300.00

  • TIME SERIES
    RAQUEL PRADO / MARCO A. R. FERREIRA / MIKE WEST
    Focusing on Bayesian approaches and computations using analytic and simulation-based methods for inference, Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference, Second Edition integrates mainstream approaches for time series modeling with significant recent developments in methodology and applications of time series analysis. It encompasses a graduate-level account of Bayesian ti...

    $1,239.00

  • PARADOXES OF POWER AND LEADERSHIP
    MIGUEL PINA E CUNHA / STEWART R. CLEGG / ARMÉNIO REGO / MARCO BERTI
    Why do great companies and other organizations fail, sometimes abruptly? Why do admired leaders fall from their organizational pedestals? Why do young and promising managers derail? Why do organizations create and reinforce rules that manifestly damage both them and those that they employ, serve and sustain? Leadership is a much-discussed but ill-defined idea in business and ma...

    $999.00

  • GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE EUROPEAN MEDIA
    COSIMO MARCO SCARCELLI
    This edited collection brings together original empirical and theoretical insights into the complex set of relations which exist between age, gender, sexualities and the media in Europe. This book investigates how engagements with media reflect people’s constructions and understandings of gender in society, as well as articulations of age in relation to gender and sexuality; th...

    $979.00

  • CONSERVATIVES AND RIGHT RADICALS IN INTERWAR EUROPE
    MARCO BRESCIANI
    This book features a broad range of thematic and national case studies which explore the interrelations and confrontations between conservatives and the radical Right in the European and global contexts of the interwar years. It investigates the political, social, cultural, and economic issues that conservatives and radicals tried to address and solve in the aftermaths of the G...

    $1,039.00

  • YOUNG PEOPLE AND LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYMENT
    MARCO GIUGNI / JASMINE LORENZINI / MANLIO CINALLI / CHRISTIAN LAHUSEN / SIMONE BAGLIONI
    Young People and Long-Term Unemployment examines the consequences of long-term unemployment for the personal, social, and political lives of young adults aged 18–34 across four European cities: Cologne (Germany), Geneva (Switzerland), Lyon (France), and Turin (Italy). Adopting a multidimensional theoretical framework aiming to bring together insights based on the contextual (ma...

    $1,099.00

  • LUHMANN AND SOCIO-LEGAL RESEARCH
    LUCAS FUCCI AMATO / MARCO ANTONIO LOSCHIAVO LEME DE BARROS / CELSO FERNANDES CAMPILONGO
    This book discusses the designs and applications of the social systems theory (built by Niklas Luhmann, 1927–1998) in relation to empirical socio-legal studies. This is a sociological and legal theory known for its highly complex and abstract conceptual apparatus. But how to change its scale in order to study more localised phenomena, and to deal with empirical data, such as ca...

    $1,099.00