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With the progress of artificial intelligence, the digitalization of the lifeworld, and the reduction of the mind to neuronal processes, the human being appears more and more as a product of data and algorithms. The book applies cutting-edge concepts of embodiment and enactivism to current scientific, technological and cultural developments

This accessible primer encompasses the basic concepts, theories, and applied elements of life history evolution.

The book presents a collection of short, self-contained introductions to important topics in modern theoretical physics, as presented at universities worldwide in seminars (some in colloquium style) and short courses.

The story of Isandlwana, the battle that shocked the British empire at its zenith, and Rorke's Drift, which immediately followed it and went some way to restoring wounded British pride: how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.

Mark Wilson explores our strategies for understanding the world. We frequently cannot reason about nature in the straightforward manner we anticipate, but must use alternative thought processes that reach useful answers in opaque and roundabout ways; and philosophy must find better descriptive tools to reflect this.

An introduction, using simple arguments, to the general field of Bose condensation and Cooper pairing. It often treats standard textbook material from a new perspective, and covers various currently "exploding" topics which are not discussed in traditional texts.

Adrian Wilkinson reviews the historical development of human resource management, showing how the changes in political, legal, and macroeconomic spheres have shaped how human resources are managed. Considering HRM in a global world, he considers how it is adapting to a very different work landscape.

This volume provides a detailed commentary on the first eight lives of Cornelius Nepos' De viris illustribus, shedding new light on Nepos' biographies of the Greek commanders of the fifth century BCE (Miltiades, Themistocles, Aristides, Pausanias, Cimon, Lysander, Alcibiades, and Thrasybulus).

This book offers a new perspective on authoritarian politics. Rather than the leadership of the authoritarian political systems being always characterized by arbitrariness, fear, and struggle for power, this book argues that politics of such regimes are structured by a series of rules which bring some consistency and predictability.

Drawing on insights from academics and practitioners around the world, this book takes some of the mystery and anxiety out of common perceptions about economic, cultural, and social transformation in the age of globalization, and offers clear and effective approaches for survival in a continually changing business environment.

This authoritative book explains the sources and scale of current economic challenges and proposes solutions to craft a brighter future by building a sustainable, green, and inclusive society in the years ahead.

In 'The Inflamed Feeling' Mats Lekander explores the science behind how you perceive your own health, using visual illusions, personal experiences, placebo, hypochondriacs, and historical anecdotes. Placed against a backdrop of the latest psychoneuroimmunology, he explores why you might feel healthy or why you might feel sick

Recent years have seen a rise in interest in the musical ensemble as an exemplary form of creative group behavior. This volume explores the organizational, psychological, and social processes at play within ensemble music-making.

Practical Epidemiology focuses on the importance of using epidemiological concepts and skills by health workers in Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMICs), in particular to investigate, plan and deliver primary health care services and to strengthen district level public health programmes.

A demonstration of the role that tax systems play in achieving international justice; this book establishes that current international tax systems facilitate wealthy states claiming an unfair share of the global economy, shows how this system feeds off human suffering, and explains how to achieve justice using existing international structures.

Designed for graduate and upper-level undergraduate university courses, this book provides a comprehensive treatment of quasibrittle fracture mechanics, including its practical applications across a range of materials and engineering structures, and features exercises and problems to test understanding.

Aimed at beginner graduate students, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to muon spectroscopy and its uses in, among other applications, the study of semiconductors, magnets, superconductors, chemical reactions, and battery materials.

Aimed at beginner graduate students, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to muon spectroscopy and its uses in, among other applications, the study of semiconductors, magnets, superconductors, chemical reactions, and battery materials.

The Oxford Handbook of Cyber Security presents forty-eight chapters examining the technological, economic, commercial, and strategic aspects of cyber security, including studies at the international, regional, amd national level.

This book examines how nineteenth-century Dutch Protestant theologians and thinkers met the challenges of the modernizing world around them.

This volume presents translations of key writings by the great 19th-century philosopher Bernard Bolzano, on what is now called grounding, a notion of prime importance in metaphysics and philosophy of explanation. These writings, some of them translated for the first time, are accompanied by new essays on this area of Bolzano's work.

Counting Religion in Britain, 1970-2020, the fourth volume in the author's chronological history of British secularization, sheds significant new light on the nature, scale, and timing of religious change in Britain during the past half-century, with particular reference to quantitative sources.

Originally published in 1959, this monograph by an Eastern European economist boldly and openly criticized socialist central planning.

This book assesses the prospects for achieving the sustainable development goals, and the role of international organizations in achieving them, in light of recent economic, medical, and environmental developments.

Pearce & Stevens' Trusts and Equitable Obligations provides students with a detailed and contextualized account of the law of equity and trusts.

Gerald McKenny follows Barth's efforts to present God's grace as a moral norm in his treatments of divine commands, moral reasoning, responsibility, and agency.

This novel book provides the reader with the fundamentals of data collection, model construction, analyses, and interpretation across a wide repertoire of demographic techniques and protocols, clearly guided throughout with fully reproducible R scripts.

This volume presents fourteen chapters discussing coin hoarding in the Roman Empire from c. 30 BC to AD 400. The chapters cover topics including the statistics used to analyse patterns of hoarding, regional studies, and the evidence about monetary circulation in the Roman Empire provided by hoard discoveries.

The Talk of the Town explores everyday communication in a sixteenth-century small town and the role it played in the circulation of information across and within early modern communities, using the notebooks of the St Gall linen trader Johannes Rutiner to gain unusual insights into an oral world, and show how conversation could shape society.

The only textbook that fully supports the OxfordAQA International A2 Level Business specification (9625), for first teaching from September 2018. Written by experienced examiners and authors, the clear international approach develops key skills for exam success and to evaluate business behaviour.