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Innovative wastewater treatment technologies - the innoqua project
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book discusses decentralised wastewater treatment and the role of nature-based solutions within the context of the twenty-partner international INNOQUA project.
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Compressed sensing approach to systems and control
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book provides a comprehensive guide to compressed sensing-based techniques, focusing primarily on their application to systems and control.
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Introduction to multiple antenna communications and reconfigurable surfaces
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This textbook gives a gentle introduction to multiple antenna communications with a focus on system modeling, channel capacity theory, algorithms, and practical implications.
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Ignorance
George G. Szpiro offers an engaging and witty tour of what we can learn from ignorance. In a series of fast-paced chapters, he unravels problems ranging across science, mathematics, law, economics, politics, religion, psychology, and philosophy.
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Devops for trustworthy smart iot systems
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book reports on the ENACT project work to empower the development and operation as well as the continuous and agile evolution of Smart IoT Systems.
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Towards sustainable and trustworthy 6g
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. This book is aimed to lay the architectural foundation for the next European program towards 6G, i.e., Smart Networks & Services Joint Undertaking
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Massively better healthcare
In this groundbreaking book, Halle Tecco provides an insider’s guide to transforming our healthcare system through innovation.
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Security risk management for the internet of things
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Introduces novel risk assessment techniques and their role in the IoT Security risk management processes. Presents architectures and platforms for security, including implementation based on the edge/fog computing...
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Artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity for connected and automated vehicles
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. CARAMEL is a research project co-funded by the European Union. The project applies Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques to detect and prevent potential cybersecurity threats to autonomous and co...
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The late wanderings of du fu
A close reading of Du Fu's poems as he confronts the brilliance and collapse of the Tang dynasty and transformed all he experienced into poetry.
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Systems entrepreneurship
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Systems Entrepreneurship is based on the author’s experience as a technology entrepreneur as well as from 50 years on a business-school faculty.
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The epic history of macaroni and cheese
This book is a delectable history of macaroni and cheese, tracing an extraordinary journey of cultural exchange and social change.
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Methods and design principles for financial innovation, explaining the supply side for interoperability in finance- and insurance-tech
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. In this second part of the INFINITECH book series, the basic concepts for FinTech referring to the diversity in the use of technology to underpin the delivery of financial services are reviewed.
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Daoist liturgy of the most high for daily recitation
A complete, meticulous English translation of the The Daoist Liturgy of the Most High for Daily Recitations, which is performed in Daoist temples every morning and evening.
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Convex optimization for machine learning
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. The goal of the book is to help develop a sense of what convex optimization is, and how it can be used in a widening array of practical contexts with a particular emphasis on machine learning
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Application of network function virtualization in modern computer environments
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Offers a practical blend of theoretical considerations and practical NFV implementation in modern computer environments. A valuable resource for students, engineers, and researchers looking for a comprehensive gui...
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Models of representation in czech literary history
In the last twenty years of their academic engagement in the field of literary history, the authors have focused predominantly on the explorations of various possible ways of writing literary history with the impulses and inspiration produced by recent literary theory. Their long discussions resu...
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Investigating corruption in the afghan police force
Based on unprecedented empirical research conducted with lower levels of the Afghan police, this unique study assesses how institutional legacy and external intervention, from countries including the UK and the US, have shaped the structural conditions of corruption in the police force and the st...
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When the stars begin to fall
A bold, thought-provoking pathway to the national solidarity that could, finally, address the ills of racism in America“Racism is an existential threat to America,” Theodore R. Johnson declares at the start of his profound and exhilarating book. It is a refutation of the American Promise enshrine...
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The jewish body
An encyclopedic survey of the Jewish body as it has existed and as it has been imagined from biblical times to the presentThat the human body can be the object not only of biological study but also of historical consideration and cultural criticism is now widely accepted. But why, Robert Jütte as...
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Evading international norms
How do states violate human rights norms after legalization? Why are these violations so persistent? What are the limits of legalization for protecting human rights norms? Conventional wisdom offers a variety of answers to these questions, but most often they conflate laws and norms and focus onl...
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Rehearsals of manhood
A bold reconception of ancient Greek drama by one of the most brilliant and original classical scholars of his generationWhen John Winkler died in 1990, he left an unpublished manuscript containing a highly original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama. Rehearsals ...
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The economics of imperfect labor markets, third edition
The leading textbook on imperfect labor markets and the institutions that affect them—now completely updated and expandedToday's labor markets are witnessing seismic changes brought on by such factors as rising self-employment, temporary employment, zero-hour contracts, and the growth of the shar...
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War
A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor BookAn award-winning, stunningly illustrated, sober depiction of war.A recipient of the prestigious Nami Concours prize, this remarkable book of striking, often surreal illustrations and sparse prose reveals the many sides of war: where it comes from, how it creeps ...
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Call it horses
Winner of the 2019 Dzanc Prize for Fiction Set in small-town West Virginia in the twilight of the eighties, Call It Horses tells the story of three women—niece, aunt, and stowaway—and an improbable road trip. Frankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah)....
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Getting in and getting on in the youth labour market
Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK. Using the theoretical lens of a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the authors consider the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of youth employability training and demonstrate how different...
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We all play
A BEST CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THE YEAR: New York Times, Washington Post, New York Public Library, Kirkus Reviews, Globe and Mail, Horn Book, and Boston Globe“This celebration of nature is sprinkled with words from the Cree language… [and] celebrate[s] our interconnection with the creatures who share ...
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Life lived wild
A life worth living is lived at the edges where it is wild At the beginning of his memoir Life Lived Wild, Adventures at the Edge of the Map, Rick Ridgeway tells us that if you add up all his many expeditions, he’s spent over five years of his life sleeping in tents: “And most of that in small t...
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Fly by night physics
The essential primer for physics students who want to build their physical intuitionPresented in A. Zee's incomparably engaging style, this book introduces physics students to the practice of using physical reasoning and judicious guesses to get at the crux of a problem. An essential primer for a...
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Figures of the future
An in-depth look at how U.S. Latino advocacy groups are using ethnoracial demographic projections to bring about political change in the presentFor years, newspaper headlines, partisan speeches, academic research, and even comedy routines have communicated that the United States is undergoing a p...
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Aviary
"This quietly important book offers hope as it tackles grief and isolation and our essential humanity." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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Hybrid feedback control
A comprehensive introduction to hybrid control systems and designHybrid control systems exhibit both discrete changes, or jumps, and continuous changes, or flow. An example of a hybrid control system is the automatic control of the temperature in a room: the temperature changes continuously, but ...
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I ain’t marching anymore
A sweeping history of the passionate men and women in uniform who have bravely and courageously exercised the power of dissent Before the U.S. Constitution had even been signed, soldiers and new veterans protested. Dissent, the hallowed expression of disagreement and refusal to comply with the...
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Future luxe
In Future Luxe: What’s Ahead for the Business of Luxury, Erwan Rambourg identifies the major forces and emerging trends that are set to reshape luxury over the next decade. The expansion of Chinese consumption and the boost in women’s spending power around the world will fuel continued growth in ...
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Forging global fordism
A new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar eraAs the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the 1930s, in a bid to e...
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Nuclear country
Militarization and nuclearization were the historical developments most essential to the creation of the rural New RightBoth North Dakota and South Dakota have long been among the most reliably Republican states in the nation: in the past century, voters have only chosen two Democrats, Franklin R...
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Excavating memory
This book brings the Turkish writer Bilge Karasu (1930–1995) into a new critical spotlight by examining the author’s poetics of memory, as laid out in his narratives on Istanbul’s Beyoğlu. Gökberk contextualizes these posthumously published pieces in an approach informed by studies on memory, ide...
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Connecting families?
Are Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) connecting families? And what does this mean in terms of family routines, relationships, norms, work, intimacy and privacy? This edited collection takes a life course and generational perspective covering theory, including posthumanism and st...
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Artificial life after frankenstein
Artificial Life After Frankenstein brings the insights born of Mary Shelley's legacy to bear upon the ethics and politics of making artificial life and intelligence in the twenty-first century.What are the obligations of humanity to the artificial creatures we make? And what are the corresponding...
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The ecology of homicide
Like so many big cities in the United States, Philadelphia has suffered from a strikingly high murder rate over the past fifty years. Such tragic loss of life, as Eric C. Schneider demonstrates, does not occur randomly throughout the city; rather, murders have been racialized and spatialized, con...
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Employee proactivity in organizations
What makes some people more likely to initiate positive change within their organizations? Can this behaviour be influenced by management? Employee proactivity has largely been understood in terms of employees changing their environment or changing themselves. In this novel study Wu offers an alt...
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The man of the crowd
How four American cities shaped Poe's life and writingsEdgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) changed residences about once a year throughout his life. Driven by a desire for literary success and the pressures of supporting his family, Poe sought work in American magazines, living in the cities that produce...
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The immune mystery
A page-turning and powerful medical mystery for readers of Diagnosis by Lisa Sanders and The Beauty in Breaking by Michele HarperMore than 20 million Americans have autoimmune diseases, which occur when the immune system attacks the body. Autoimmune diseases are often misdiagnosed by doctors and ...
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Sea change
Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense amount of revenue and touched every level of society, from rural women tending silkworms t...
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B. r. ambedkar
A short, digestible biography of this important Indian statesman, whose compassion and devotion to public standards should serve as a model for the politicians of our day.
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Between life and death
The final literary testament of “one of the most innovative, brilliant novelists in the Western World” (New York Times), Between Life and Death is a startlingly brave, funny, poetic, and moving autobiographical novel about the four months Yoram Kaniuk spent in a coma near the end of his life. In ...
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In your eyes i see my words
In Your Eyes I See My Words, Volume 3 brings together the homilies and speeches of Archbishop Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio from 2009 through his election as Pope Francis on March 13, 2013. These writings provide an intimate glimpse into the theological, philosophical, scientific, and cultural-e...
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Is it ours?
Exploring artistic authorship and intellectual property in the contemporary world. If you have tattoos, who owns the rights to the imagery inked on your body? What about the photos you just shared on Instagram? And what if you are an artist, responding to the surrounding landscape of preexisting ...
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Penguin books and political change
This book employs the history of Penguin Books to offer a new account of Britain’s post-war politics.
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1620
Peter Wood argues against the flawed interpretation of history found in the New York Times’ 1619 Project and asserts that the true origins of American self-government were enshrined in the Mayflower Compact in 1620."1620 is a dispassionate, clear reminder that the best in America’s past is still ...
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