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The book contains latest results in modelling the problems from social science domain by advanced computing approaches. Results about business simulation and optimization, knowledge extractions from big data, understanding and predicting the social behaviour, modelling health and environmental changes highlight the potential of underlying modelling and computing methods.

This volume deals with attitudes towards the relationship between norms, standards and varieties as evident from the Croatian and Slovenian linguistic situation. It includes articles on language policy, bilingualism and multilingualism, teaching and translation practice.

Despite scientific possibilities in diagnostics and therapy, chronic diseases - including cancer - continue to increase dramatically. Citing numerous examples, this study makes a strong case for therapy beyond classic academic medicine and encourages those affected by environmental stress to take their health into their own hands.

Working from an analysis of the philosophical assumptions of the cognitivist perspective, this book unpacks an argument for considering concepts as correlates of lexical labels - for a maximally productive understanding of the relation between concepts, categories, categorisation, and their theoretical models.

The author provides a study of the history of the city of Smyrna and the set-up of the Jewish and Christian community as well as an analysis both of the reception of the Hebrew Scriptures and the apostolic traditions examining the gradual historical process of the shaping of orthodoxy and the identity of the community.

The second issue of The Yearbook on History and Interpretation of Phenomenology focuses on the intertwined topics of normativity and of typification. The area of their application and specification is relatively broad: from biological questions through various lived experiences and political life to aesthetical judgments.

The volume takes a look at how impacts of climate change on cultural heritage and cultural diversity may challenge sustainable global peace. While the importance of the protection of cultural heritage in armed conflicts becomes recognized, the role of cultural policy as a reconciliatory, proactive element of sustainable peace has been underestimated.

This book is the first monograph on Ignacy Jan Paderewski as composer. It reveals the evolution of his style and aesthetics in context of European music culture of the second half of 19th and first decades of 20th-century.

Radio was an essential propaganda tool of the Third Reich. In the Czech provinces, it had to address an occupied enemy people. After an initial phase of primitive propaganda, the Nazis took a more factual and entertaining approach to Czech Radio. At the same time, radio ownership increased by 48%, and more Czechs could tune into Allied stations.

The study focuses on the parable of Nathan and the subsequent condemnation of King David. The author works with the hypothesis that it is not sufficient to limit the episode to the Succession Narrative. It acquires its full meaning only when considered in the context of the Deuteronomistic History within which it plays a very significant role.

Romanian identity narratives downplay the colonial setup of the country's past. Yet the postcolonial paradigm helps readers grasp national self-identification in modern Romanian culture. Anglo-American reporting on interwar Romania and Romanian historical fiction expound on the postcolonial and adversarial rhetoric of Romanian colonial history.

The book is a scholarly and creative consideration of audiovisual broadcasting. It looks at what makes a TV performance professional. Its targeted audience are primarily aspiring journalists, students, researchers and lecturers in media and communication, but also all those for whom the creation and impact of audiovisual image are important.

The author considers the use of clean technologies, especially electronic mobility, from the perspective of the empirical capital market. In addition to a comprehensive literature review, the book offers a new perspective on changing value chains and resulting raw material scarcities as well as an assessment of the industry's innovation development.

Memory in postcolonial Italy and Libya has been widely used, reinterpreted and staged by political powers and the media. This book investigates the roots of myth, colonial amnesia and censorship in postwar Italy, as well as Colonel Gaddafi's deliberate use of rituals, symbols, and the colonial past to shape national identity in Libya.

The essays explore the artistic interactions between northern and southern European artists of the 15th and 16th century and allow for a fresh view of the works by such masters like da Vinci, van der Weyden and Durer. Besides the book presents historical overviews of the complexities of artistic dialog between Italy and Northern Europe of the time.

The treatment of Descartes' philosophy within this book takes it to be a specific instance of rationalism. Descartes gave the human intellect the central role in this system; thus, it is considered a variant of an intellectual rationalism.

The book discusses various cases of financialisation and financial crisis in South-Eastern Europe. It represents not only the ex post analysis of how financial instability was created in a period of economic growth and how it could have been prevented, but also provides insights for policy-makers today.

The book offers a criticism of Schenkerian theory and analytic practice. Contrary to what is held, is it really valuable when it comes to musical description and interpretation? What about its relationships to other kinds of analysis, and to linguistic syntax and music cognition?

Literary ancient Egypt was used by Victorian and Edwardian writers to criticize the Western mindset, both in regard to Orientalism as well as industrialization, scientific development and arrogance towards different cultures.

Mainstream economic theories/models which are dominant today only are successful in explaining "a fictional world" and "fictional economic relationships" which are largely based upon unrealistic assumptions. It is high time to produce "new and alternative" theories and models to replace the "parables" of these mainstream ideologies.

The Shadow of Torture investigates debates on US torture during the Philippine-American War, the Vietnam War, and the Iraq War with the aim to provide a historical contextualization of the torture debate in the United States in the wake of Abu Ghraib. It argues that there are significant continuities, contrary to popular claims to exceptionalism.

The volume discusses domestication and foreignization in Polish-English and English-Polish translation. The case studies are based on research projects by graduates of the Department of English at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.

Korea and Japan must work together to open a new era for true peace and prosperity in East Asia. It is our reality, however, that the memory of the invasion, Japan's forced annexation of Korea in 1910 and the scars of exploitation are still important obstacles to new relations between the two countries.

This book includes some of the latest practices from computational social science. Covering a variety of examples taken from the real-life, the book outlines the state of the art social sciences applications and their implementations with computational methods.

This book includes some of the latest practices from business process management and modelling to relationship marketing. Covering a variety of examples taken from real-life, the book outlines the state of the art of social sciences applications and their implementations with Information and communication technologies.

What is the music of genocide? Can the experience of ultimate terror be expressed in music? How does music reflect on genocide? How do we perceive music after genocide? What is music and what is silence in a world marked by mass killings? Is post-genocidal silence really possible or appropriate?

This study uses historical and phenomenological perspectives in its investigation of the religious beliefs and rituals of Emu people, an indigenous society in Nigeria. Documenting their medicinal practices within the context of change, this study goes beyond structuralist and functionalist perspectives used by cultural anthropologists.

In order to articulate contemporary biopolitics the author examines Foucault's, Hardt's and Negri's theories. Phenomena of military interventions, terrorism and wars against terrorism are presented as contemporary biopolitics. The events such as the Arab Spring, OWS movement and the gap between EU forms and European realities are also analyzed.

This book is a dictionary of Camfranglais, which presents the lexicon and uses of this sociolect. Lexico-semantic manipulation is presented. Camfranglais is diachronically presented. The major strength of this book is the fact that it does all necessary lexical manipulations before drawing any conclusions.

This study explores the cultural trajectory of Japanese American internment, both during and after World War II. It also provides the most exhaustive biographical outline of John Okada to date and refutes the assumption that his novel No-No Boy was all but shunned when first published. A close reading positions the book within world literature.