Medical Nihilism
This book argues that if we consider the ubiquity of small effect sizes in medicine, the extent of misleading evidence in medical research, the thin theoretical basis of many interventions, and the malleability of empirical methods, and if we empl...
Medical Nihilism
Medical nihilism is the view that we should have little confidence in the effectiveness of medical interventions. This volume argues that medical nihilism is a compelling view of modern medicine. If we consider the frequency of failed medical inte...
Care and Cure
The philosophy of medicine has become a vibrant and complex intellectual landscape, and Care and Cure is the first extended attempt to map it. In pursuing the interdependent aims of caring and curing, medicine relies on concepts, theories, inferen...
Pseudo Differential Operators And Markov Processes, Volume Ii: Generators And Their Potential Theory
In this volume two topics are discussed: the construction of Feller and Lp-sub-Markovian semigroups by starting with a pseudo-differential operator, and the potential theory of these semigroups and their generators. The first part of the text esse...
Evolutionary Conservation Genetics
Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role and requirement of genetic variation for population persistence. However, considerable debate now surrounds the role of genetic factors (as opposed to non-genetic factors such as habitat dest...
Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills, Second Edition
This accessible, hands-on text has now been revised and updated, with expanded coverage of topics including how theory may emerge from exploratory data analysis. The book prepares graduate students, new researchers, and even seasoned investigators...
Logic of Life
"The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written."-Michel Foucault Nobel Prize-winning scientist François Jacob's The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and science. Focusing on heredity, which J...
Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West
This book seeks to explain the historical process by which in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries scientific knowledge became an integral part of the culture of Europe and how this in turn led to the Industrial Revolution. Comparative in stru...
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
Child Security in Asia
Millions of children around the world are affected by conflict, and the enduring aftermath of war in post-conflict societies. This book reflects on the implications of children's insecurity for governments and the international humanitarian commun...
EU Antitrust Law and Sport Governance
This is the first book to examine the significance of European Union antitrust law for the future of sport in Europe. Drawing on multi-disciplinary perspectives from law, economics, sport management and politics, and including case studies about t...
Toolbox
Transform your corner of the world with strategies from a social change visionary In The Toolbox: Strategies for Crafting Social Impact, celebrated nonprofit executive Jacob Harold delivers an expert guide to doing good in the 21st century. In the...
Libya
Libya is teetering on the edge of collapse, having become a new haven for terrorist organizations and an epicenter of the refugee crisis. Few could have imagined that the uprising against the longstanding regime of Mu'ammar Al-Gaddafi would expose...
Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Introduction to Natural Language Processing
Living the Enlightenment
Long recognized as more than the writings of a dozen or so philosophes, the Enlightenment created a new secular culture populated by the literate and the affluent. Enamoured of British institutions, Continental Europeans turned to the imported mas...
Judaism and Christianity in the Age of Constantine
With the conversion of Constantine in AD 312, Christianity began a period of political and cultural dominance that it would enjoy until the twentieth century. Jacob Neusner contradicts the prevailing view that following Christianity's ascendancy, ...
Giants of the Monsoon Forest
For more than a thousand years, people in the rainforests of India and Burma have worked with elephants to log these otherwise impassable forests and move people and goods (often illicitly) under cover of the forest canopy. Jacob Shell takes us de...
Circus
Winner of 2019 British Book Design & Production Award for Scholarly, Academic & Reference Books This beautiful book charts the development of the circus as an art form around the world, from antiquity to the present day. Using over 200 cir...
Introduction to Clustering Large and High-Dimensional Data
There is a growing need for a more automated system of partitioning data sets into groups, or clusters. For example, digital libraries and the World Wide Web continue to grow exponentially, the ability to find useful information increasingly depen...
Rockefeller
Why would the first family of oil so ardently support environmental climate research and activism? Join author and researcher Jacob Nordangård as he uncovers the whole sordid truth. The Rockefeller family is one of the richest in the world. Yet, w...
