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The 2016 US election highlighted the potential for foreign governments to employ social media for strategic advantages. This Element explores how social media can amplify and shift the balance of popular opinion on complex foreign policy issues and the different impacts in an open media, democratic environment and a more controlled regime.

Introduces fundamental concepts, major models, and popular applications of pattern recognition for a one-semester undergraduate course. The text focuses on a relatively small number of core concepts with an abundance of illustrations and examples and provides extensive practice through student exercises.

This Element combines a machine learning-based approach to detect the prevalence and nature of generalization across tens of thousands of sentences from different disciplines alongside a robust discussion of potential solutions to the problem of the generalizability of textual evidence.

This Element defends a version of the classical theory of divine ideas; the containment exemplarist theory. This holds that God's own nature is the examplar of all possible creation, so God's ideas are ideas of himself. Containment exemplarism offers a montheism fit for metaphysics, as it is coherent, simple and explanatorily powerful.

This Element introduces defence economics. It presents the recent history of the subject and its range of coverage. Traditional topics covered include models of arms races, alliances, procurement and contracting, personnel polices, industrial policies and disarmament. Newer areas covered include terrorism and the economics of war and conflict.

If by monotheism we mean the idea of a single transcendent God who creates the universe out of nothing, then that is not found in the history of Hinduism. But if we mean a supreme, transcendent deity who impels the universe, an ultimate source of all other gods who are her or his emanations, then this can be found in Hinduism.

Ethical subjectivists hold that moral judgements are descriptions of our attitudes. Expressivists hold that they are expressions of our attitudes. Can these views accommodate three central features of moral practice: practicality of moral judgements, phenomenon of moral disagreement, and mind-independence of some moral truths?

Suitable for beginning graduate students, this book discusses the theory of Markov chains, drawing on the works of Kolmogorov and Feller, and bringing the tools of functional analysis into play in a way that is not done elsewhere. The author uses numerous examples and illustrations to demonstrate the theory.

Daniela L. Caglioti shows how states at war, when faced with real or alleged security threats, redrew the boundaries between members and non-members, thus redefining belonging and the path to citizenship. A key text for those interested in questions of citizenship, human rights, immigration, national borders, international law and security.

This book will appeal to those seeking tools for rational problem-solving and effective political engagement. Framing effects are everywhere. Being influenced by them is not a sign of irrationality. This book shows the power of rational framing in tackling personal dilemmas and breaking the deadlock in contemporary political discourse.

The authors give a unified treatment of nonlinear solid mechanics, dynamic conservation laws, and the associated finite element techniques, alongside exercises, examples, and working code, to provide a self-contained introduction to the dynamic simulation of nonlinear solids suitable for beginning masters and PhD students.

Structured population models can be used to describe processes such as infection transmission, cell growth and traffic flows. This book introduces the mathematical underpinnings of these applications, providing a unified framework for the study (numerical and analytic) of transport equations, and collecting results from various fields in one place.

Tying the Knot is for anyone interested in how couples have married from 1836 to the present day. It shows how the legal options have evolved and how social practices have changed, and demonstrates how the legal regulations have hindered many couples from marrying in accordance with their beliefs.

This comprehensive text on the theory and techniques of graph neural networks takes students, practitioners, and researchers from the basics to the state of the art. It systematically introduces foundational topics such as filtering pooling, robustness, and scalability and then demonstrates applications in NLP, data mining, vision and healthcare.

Computable structure theory studies the relative complexity of mathematical structures. Written by a contemporary expert, this is the first full monograph on the subject in 20 years. Aimed at graduate students and researchers in mathematical logic, it brings the main results and techniques in the field together into a coherent framework.

This book critically discusses two important trends in twentieth-century Indian politics around caste - the rise in the political salience of caste identities, and a shift in the way caste identity was conceptualized.

The caste system is central to understanding the politics of inequality and discrimination in India and elsewhere. This book explains how caste and law have mutually evolved in India's democratic order, providing new insights into why caste oppression may persist despite India's constitutional promises of equal opportunities.

Simple, elegant, and powerful, tools are available in user-friendly, free software to help design, build, and run models of social interactions, even on the most basic laptop. Focusing on a well-known model of housing segregation, this Element sets out the fundamentals of what is now known as 'agent based modeling'.

This edition extends the theory for viscoelastic wave propagation to include head waves and general ray theory. The additions, not published elsewhere, significantly increase interest in the book for advanced university courses, research, and applications in seismology, exploration geophysics, engineering, solid mechanics, acoustics, and physics.

This is a comprehensive, expository introduction to intersection homology, an important modern research area in the mathematical field of topology. The book is written to be accessible to graduate students in topology and researchers from other fields, and is suitable both as an introduction and as a thorough reference.

A unique text covering basic and advanced concepts of optimization theory and methods for process systems engineers. With examples illustrating key concepts and algorithms, and exercises involving theoretical derivations, numerical problems and modeling systems, it is ideal for single-semester, graduate courses in process systems engineering.

Edited by German philologist and Byzantine expert Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel (1787-1860), this 1832 work comprises the minor works of Eustathius (c.1115-c.1194), metropolitan of Thessalonica, as well as pieces relating to Trebizond by Michael Panaretos and John Eugenikos, from codices in Basel, Paris and Venice. Following a Latin introduction, all texts are in Greek.

A fully updated edition of the best-selling Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

This Element provides an account of Aristotle on women which combines what is found in his scientific biology with his practical philosophy. Scholars have often debated how these two fields are related. The current study shows that according to Aristotelian biology, women are set up for intelligence and tend to be milder-tempered than men.

When East Germany collapsed in 1989-1990, outside observers were shocked to learn the extent of environmental devastation that existed there. The communist dictatorship, however, had sought to confront environmental issues since at least the 1960s. Through an analysis of official and oppositional sources, Saving Nature Under Socialism complicates attitudes toward the environment in East Germany by tracing both domestic and transnational engagement with nature and pollution. The communist dictatorship limited opportunities for protest, so officials and activists looked abroad to countries such as Poland and West Germany for inspiration and support. Julia Ault outlines the evolution of environmental policy and protest in East Germany and shows how East Germans responded to local degradation as well as to an international moment of environmental reckoning in the 1970s and 1980s. The example of East Germany thus challenges and broadens our understanding of the 'greening' of post-war Europe, and illuminates a larger, central European understanding of connection across the Iron Curtain.

A must have for MBA students and professional managers who need to use English at work.

The Cambridge History of the American Civil War provides the most comprehensive analysis of the War to date. The three volume reference work covers the full range history of the conflict, from military campaigns and major battles to social changes and cultural reactions.

African forest landscapes are often considered as degraded. However, this fascinating 1996 study reveals how inhabitants have enriched their land when scientists believe they have damaged it. It provides a framework for ecological anthropology, and a challenge to old assumptions about the African landscape.

In this lavishly illustrated 1986 survey, two distinguished historians and engineers assess the major achievements of Islamic civilisation. They examine the public works of civil engineering, the machines and mechanical devices which served to control water, provide power, serve as instruments or to amuse.

This study analyses the different reform measures introduced in China in the last twenty years, and provides a full analysis of the existing agricultural system. It examines the policy options available for China, and argues that it should push forward its market-oriented reform measures.