Human Behaviour in Design
Human Behaviour in Design addresses important aspects of creative engineering design. The main topics are the interaction between two complementary modalities - "image" and "concept", internal and external components of design ...
Impact of Design Research on Industrial Practice
Showcasing exemplars of how various aspects of design research were successfully transitioned into and influenced, design practice, this book features chapters written by eminent international researchers and practitioners from industry on the Imp...
Practical Guide to Bio-inspired Design
Bio-inspired design (also called biomimetics or biomimicry) is a promising approach for the development of innovative technical products - not only in mechanical engineering, but also in areas such as material science and even computer engineering...
Structural Complexity Management
Product design is characterized by a steady increase in complexity. The main focus of this book is a structural approach on complexity management. This means, system structures are considered in order to address the challenge of complexity in all ...
Cost-Efficient Design
This translation has been developed from the fifth edition (2005) of the Authors' German text, "Kostengünstig Entwickeln und Konstruieren". The discussion on the methods of cost reduction and cost-driven design draw heavily on the "...
An Invitation to Feminist Ethics
Feminist ethics addresses how power, through gender, affects moral practice and theory. This enterprise is more important than ever before in an age of sharpened attention and concern for feminist issues and injustices. Yet the number of terms whi...
DAFX
The rapid development in various fields of Digital Audio Effects, or DAFX, has led to new algorithms and this second edition of the popular book, DAFX: Digital Audio Effects has been updated throughout to reflect progress in the field. It maintain...
The Merchant Republics
The Merchant Republics analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses - Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg - developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and as republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648-17...
The Merchant Republics
The Merchant Republics analyzes the ways in which three major economic powerhouses - Amsterdam, Antwerp and Hamburg - developed dual identities as 'communities of commerce' and as republics over the course of the long eighteenth century (c.1648-17...
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, Mary Lindemann examines medicine from a social and cultu...
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe
Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe offers students a concise introduction to health and healing in Europe from 1500 to 1800. Bringing together the best recent research in the field, Mary Lindemann examines medicine from a social and cultu...
Convincing Rebel Fighters to Disarm
One of the key mission objectives of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) was to disarm and repatriate foreign combatants in the eastern region of the country. To achieve this, MONUC adopted a ?push and pull" strategy. T...
AI and the Future of Democracy
This comprehensive volume examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can either strengthen or undermine democratic society. It introduces groundbreaking frameworks including “AI-Enhanced Reflexive Control” (AIRC), and categorizes vulnerable democracies into three types — underdeveloped, strained, and stressed — each of which facing unique AI-related challenges. Drawing on extensive case studies including Romania’s 2024 election annulment, Bulgaria’s disinformation networks, and democratic innovations in Kenya and the Philippines, contributors analyze AI’s impact across electoral processes, legal systems, and public discourse. The book systematically examines five critical categories of unethical AI applications — disinformation, electoral interference, human rights manipulation, cultural exploitation, and privacy invasion — while exploring AI’s potential as a democratic equalizer. Featuring accessible introductions to AI topics, real-world case studies, and actionable policy
Power, Politics and International Events.
Although the event management field has grown considerably over the last decade, critical, social-scientific studies of the international events industry are rare. This book intends to help fill this void. It focuses on power, social and political...
100 Dikter
Till Lindemann är för de flesta känd som sångare och textförfattare i Rammstein, men har sedan tjugo år tillbaka även ägnat sig åt att skriva lyrik. Med sina ofta korta och vassa dikter träffar han läsaren direkt och överraskar ofta.Till Lindemann skapar något nytt och originellt utifrån den tyska romantiska dikttraditionen där bland annat natur, kropp, kärlek, djur, död och sexualitet är viktiga komponenter. Han leker med de klassiska diktformerna, folkmusiktraditioner och rim, och skapar utifrån det en alldeles egen ton.Det är nu som vårt vi försvinnerNu då inga tårar längre rinnerStadig arm och vackert benMen inga ögonGråter som en stenOch inget hjärta
100 Poems
100 Poems
Health and Healing in Eighteenth-Century Germany
Although the physicians and surgeons of eighteenth-century Germany have attracted previous scholarly inquiry, little is known about their day-to-day activities-and even less about the ways in which those activities fit into the economic, political...
Stilla Nätter - Dikter
Till Lindemann är för de flesta känd som sångare (och textförfattare) i Rammstein. Mindre känd är han för att under tjugo år ha skrivit lyrik dikter, varav några få har blivit låtar, men de allra flesta lever sitt eget liv. Nästan förbigående klingar de högst häpnadsväckande, dock rytmiska och musikalisk noggranna texterna, i vilka ett djupsinnigt, retligt, sårbart lyrisk Jag träder in i en intim tvåspråkighet med läsaren. Därunder ljuder dikterna som Alexander Gorkow skriver i det tyska förordet som om de i kalla nätter har ristats ut ur isen , men också i sådan vemod, längtan och känslosinne.Denna utgåva har liksom den tyska, utgiven av Alexander Gorkow som 2012 vann det tyska Journalistpriset för sitt reportage om Rammsteins USA-turné i Süddeutschen Zeitung, en rad svartvita illustrationer av konstnären Matthias Matthies.
100 Poems
100 Poems
ON QUIET NIGHTS
ON QUIET NIGHTS
Sto. Lirika
Novyj sbornik stikhov otlichaetsja ot predyduschikh bolshej otkrovennostju i prjamotoj. Till osvoilsja kak poet, bolshe net zapretnykh tem. '100' - eto shkatulka s sekretom: pod poshlostju i tsinizmom vy uvidite iskrennjuju zabotu o mire, kotoryj nas okruzhaet. Till - chelovek, kotoryj tonko chuvstvuet realnost, fiksiruet ee i peredaet v pesnjakh i stikhakh. Sto stikhov v etom sbornike - eto sto trofeev Tillja. Sto tem, kotorye vzbudorazhili ego, zastavili perezhit ikh i vyplesnulis v stikhakh. Eto mozhet byt ssora prokhodjaschikh mimo vljublennykh, chja-to fraza, broshennaja nebrezhno v telefon, pribyvajuschij poezd ili zhivotnye na pastbische. V novom sbornike Till - okhotnik, kotoryj redko pokidaet svoju tsitadel, no kogda on vykhodit, to ot ego pul ne skroetsja nichto. Poetomu ego lirika mestam mozhet razrazitsja ostroj bolju i zaskripet na zubakh. Vnutri vy najdete illjustratsii khudozhnika Dena Zozuli, s kotorym vy uzhe khorosho znakomy po proshlym sbornikam Tillja. No v etot
ON QUIET NIGHTS
ON QUIET NIGHTS
Holding and Letting Go
Holding and Letting Go
Ingenjörens guide till Python
Bokens utgångspunkt är ingenjörens behov av programmering för att lösa problem. Steg för steg byggs läsarens kunskaper upp i Python-programmering. Mot slutet av boken kommer läsaren att ha grundläggande kunskaper i utveckling av Python-program för...
Economy of Brands
In many businesses brands account¿for the majority of shareholder value. It is¿crucial to understand how the economy of brands works and can be exploited to create sustainable value. The purpose of this book is to develop and enhance the understan...
Holding and Letting Go
The social practice of forming, shaping, expressing, contesting, and maintaining personal identities makes human interaction, and therefore society, possible. Our identities give us our sense of how we are supposed to act and how we may or must treat others, so how we hold each other in our identities is of crucial moral importance. To hold someone in her identity is to treat her according to the stories one uses to make sense of who she is. Done well, holding allows individuals to flourish personally and in their interactions with others; done poorly, it diminishes their self-respect and restricts their participation in social life. If the identity is to represent accurately the person who bears it, the tissue of stories that constitute it must continue to change as the person grows and changes. Here, good holding is a matter of retaining the stories that still depict the person but letting go of the ones that no longer do. The book begins with a puzzling instance of personhood,
Harkrankens sista resa
En sen julikväll mitt i Europa år 1972 fick två vagabonder lift med ett gäng ungdomar i en folkvagnsbuss. Den ene liftaren var Vietnamveteran och såg ut som en börsmäklare på drift. Den andre var i uppenbar upplösning och det var jag. I bilen befa...
