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  • ANOMIE
    MARCO ORRU
    First published in 1987, Anomie examines essential moments of Western thought, tracing the complex concept of anomie. The Greek origin of the term (a-nomia, absence of joy) relates it to the notions of disorder, inequity and anarchy. 20th century sociology has long called into question an over simple dichotomy between law and the absence of law. The book shows that this questio...

    $1,339.00

  • 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

  • THE ECONOMICS OF LIBRARIES
    MARCO FERDINANDO MARTORANA / ILDE RIZZO
    Libraries are included in the widely accepted definition of Cultural and Creative Industries, together with heritage, performing arts, museums, visual arts, and archives, and they play an important role in the creative value chain. The Economics of Libraries highlights the economic importance of the library sector. Providing an accessible and concise expert overview of the most...

    $539.00

  • ORGANIZATIONAL COMPASSION
    ACE VOLKMANN SIMPSON / MIGUEL PINA E CUNHA / STEWART CLEGG / ARMÉNIO REGO / MARCO BERTI
    Organizational compassion provides a multitude of benefits at individual, team and organizational levels. These encompass heightened positive affect, trust, engagement, loyalty, performance, resilience, and recovery. This important book provides an accessible yet scholarly overview of key academic findings and theories on organizational compassion. It equips readers with tools ...

    $1,099.00

  • ON SOULSRING WORLDS
    MARCO CARACCIOLO
    The first book-length study devoted to FromSoftware games, On Soulsring Worlds explores how the Dark Souls series and Elden Ring are able to reconcile extreme difficulty in both gameplay and narrative with broad appeal. Arguing that the games are strategically positioned in relation to contemporary audiences and designed to tap into the new forms of interpretation afforded by d...

    $539.00

  • THE PEOPLE OF THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
    JOHN MARCO ALLEGRO
    First published in 1959, The People of the Dead Sea Scrolls gives a complete pictorial record of the dramatic story of the Dead Sea Scrolls – actually shows the places where the Scrolls were found, as well as the desert and caves in which the people of the Scrolls lived just before the dawn of Christianity. The striking photographs tell the exciting story of the discovery of th...

    $1,339.00

  • INNOVATION STRATEGIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN TOURISM
    MARCO VALERI
    This book analyzes the importance of innovation as the key driver of sustained success in the tourism industry and the knowledge sharing process. It explores its impact on innovation capability and innovation performance of organizations. With 12 chapters written by 22 contributors, the book offers international reflections. The first part of the book focuses on innovation mana...

    $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...

    $996.56

  • 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

  • CORPORATE GOVERNANCE MODELS
    MARCO MASTRODASCIO
    The activities carried out in a business organization stem from the contribution of subjects who cooperate in the expectation of obtaining adequate rewards. The ability of organisations to reach a specific level of performance is influenced by the ownership structure, while the management is directed and controlled through a set of rules and incentives. This set regulates the d...

    $539.00

  • 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