Beginner's Basque with Online Audio
Basque is a language spoken in Europe's Basque country, a region in the western Pyrenees that includes parts of northern Spain and southwestern France. Basque is considered to be a language isolate, or one that has no genealogical relationship wit...
The Making of Legal Authority
Accounts of the nature of legal authority typically focus on the authority of officially sanctioned rules issued by legally recognised bodies - legislatures, courts and regulators - that fit comfortably within traditional state-centred concepts of...
Censorship
This book is intended for scholars and students of media and communication studies, sociology, and politics; journalists.
The Story of Constitutions
Today, 189 out of 193 officially recognised nation-states have a written constitution, and 75% of these have been ratified since 1975. How did this worldwide diffusion of constitutions come about? In this book, Wim Voermans traces the varied and s...
Queer Muslims in Europe
Belgium was the second country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage. It has an elaborate legal system for protecting the rights of LGBT individuals in general and LGBT asylum seekers in particular. At the same time, since 2015 the country h...
Managing Open Innovation in SMEs
The concept of open innovation (OI) has become a very popular topic during the last decade, with an increasing number of small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) embracing OI practices to gain competitive advantage. With the majority of publicat...
Warrior Rule in Japan
Warrior Rule in Japan
Was Hunde bewegt
Was Hunde bewegt
Show Trial Under Lenin
Soviet Russia will conquer all the millions of problems that stand in its way, on one condition: as long as the cause of the political education of the broad masses of the people continually advances. We have nothing to be afraid of, if our people...
On Discovery
On Discovery
Yearnings in the Meantime
Shortly after the book's protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzeg...
Photography Now
In the last century, photography was always novel. Now, it feels like our world is over-saturated with images. In the 21st century, what can photography do that is new? This extensively illustrated survey answers that question, presenting fifty ph...
Hands-On Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading
Explore effective trading strategies in real-world markets using NumPy, spaCy, pandas, scikit-learn, and Keras Key Features Implement machine learning algorithms to build, train, and validate algorithmic models Create your own algorithmic design p...
Girl on Girl
A new generation of women is taking the art world – online and offline – by storm. In an image-obsessed culture saturated with social media, these 40 artists are using photography and the female gaze to redefine the fields of fashion, art, advertising and photojournalism, making a profound impact on our visual world.
Mary McCartney: Paris Nude
In July 2016, Mary McCartney travelled to Paris for a special photo shoot. Over two days, McCartney would stay with her subject Phyllis Wang at her St Germain apartment and photograph her in the nude. A mixture of black and white and colour, the d...
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Dual Nature of Islamic Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism fuses religion and politics, and in this compelling book Johannes J. G. Jansen describes and analyzes from original Arabic sources the Islamic incarnation of such a fusion. He offers comparisons with millenarian and revivalist movem...
Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading
Leverage machine learning to design and back-test automated trading strategies for real-world markets using pandas, TA-Lib, scikit-learn, LightGBM, SpaCy, Gensim, TensorFlow 2, Zipline, backtrader, Alphalens, and pyfolio. Purchase of the print or ...
Anne Carson: Antiquity
Anne Carson: Antiquity
Saints, Angels & Demons
Saints, Angels, and Demons is an illustrated compendium of the fascinating lives and meaningful legacies of nearly 400 iconic figures who have influenced history, religion, literature, and art, throughout the centuries and across the world. From S...
On Discovery
On Discovery
Like Family
An analytic and historical perspective of literary texts to understand the position of domestic workers in South Africa More than a million black South African women are domestic workers. Precariously situated between urban and rural areas, rich a...
AutiPower! Successful Living and Working with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
AutiPower! Successful Living and Working with an Autism Spectrum Disorder
Sakamoto Ry?ma and the Meiji Restoration
Exploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed exile, this study profiles activists such as Sakamoto Ryoma and Nakaoka Shintaro, who played an important role in the development of a...
Yearnings in the Meantime
Shortly after the book's protagonists moved into their apartment complex in Sarajevo, they, like many others, were overcome by the 1992-1995 war and the disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia More than a decade later, in post-war Bosnia and Herzeg...
Whistleblowing and Organizational Social Responsibility
Establishing a policy and building a culture that helps to protect organizations from financial wrong-doing, criminal or civil liability and permanent damage to corporate reputation has become a central theme of contemporary corporate policies tow...
Timeless Living Yearbook 2023
The fifth edition of this bestseller, celebrating 40 of the most beautiful houses and apartments from all over the world. The book contains exclusive new projects from renowned architects, interior designers, garden and landscape architects, and e...
Timeless Living Yearbook 2024
The sixth edition of this bestseller, celebrating 30 of the most beautiful houses and apartments from all over the world. The book contains exclusive new projects from renowned architects, interior designers, and experienced professionals around t...
American Minimal Music
This is the first book which deals with the school of American repetitive music, also know as minimal music. The early work of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass is discussed in the context of traditional Western music. Mini...