Stefan: 3445 books
Heuristic Search
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Search has been vital to artificial intelligence from the very beginning as a core technique in problem solving. The authors present a thorough overview of heuristic search with a balance of discussion between theoretical analysis and efficient implementation and application to real-world problems....
by Alexandru Stefan Nicolita-Cristian
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Nowadays, anyone with a good idea can secure an unbelievable income with the help of this fantastic tool which is internet. Who holds the information, holds the power. And the most important tool of this era is obviously the internet.
The aim of this book is to guide you step by step to achieve online...
Crowds and Democracy
The Idea and Image of the Masses from Revolution to Fascism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Between 1918 and 1933, the masses became a decisive preoccupation of European culture, fueling modernist movements in art, literature, architecture, theater, and cinema, as well as the rise of communism and fascism and experiments in radical democracy.
Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies,...
by Alastair D. Burt, MD, Linda D. Ferrell
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Since its first publication more than 35 years ago, MacSween’s Pathology of the Liver, by Drs. Alastair D. Burt, Linda D. Ferrell, and Stefan G. Hübscher, has established itself as the definitive reference on liver pathology. The 7th Edition continues the tradition of excellence with more than...
Virus Alert
Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Bound up with the human cost of HIV/AIDS is the critical issue of its impact on national and international security, yet attempts to assess the pandemic's complex risk fail to recognize the political dangers of construing the disease as a security threat. The securitization of HIV/AIDS not only affects...
by David Stefan Doddington
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Contesting Slave Masculinity in the American South demonstrates the significance of internal divisions, comparison, and conflict in shaping gender and status in slave communities of the American South. David Stefan Doddington seeks to move beyond unilateral discussions of slave masculinity, and instead...
by Stefan Ball, Judy Howard, Heather Simpson
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Over the last few years there has been a revolution in the way we think about horses. At last we have clear ideas about how horses see the world, and about how they feel about themselves and the things we ask them to do.
This book helps us to put these insights to work.
Emotional Healing...
by Stefan Verstappen
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
The modern urban environment is rife with dangers. Crime, violence, natural disasters, wars, and terrorism are real life possibilities for which few people are prepared. The Art of Urban Survival offers readers simple, safe, and practical advice on how to prepare for, and react to dozens of life threatening...
by Stefan Ball, Judy Howard
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2011
Cats have their ups and downs, just like people. Emotional Healing for Cats tells you what to do on the down days, including how to:
-help your cat adjust to change and deal with illness and anxiety
-deal with behavioural problems
-understand life from your cat's point of view
With a full guide...
Survival of the Nicest
How Altruism Made Us Human and Why It Pays to Get Along
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014
This revelatory tour de force by an acclaimed and internationally bestselling science writer upends our understanding of “survival of the fittest”—and invites us all to think and act more altruistically
The phrase “survival of the fittest”...
Sounding the Limits of Life
Essays in the Anthropology of Biology and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
What is life? What is water? What is sound? In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists—biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers—are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and...
A History of the ‘Alawis
From Medieval Aleppo to the Turkish Republic
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The ‘Alawis, or Alawites, are a prominent religious minority in northern Syria, Lebanon, and southern Turkey, best known today for enjoying disproportionate political power in war-torn Syria. In this book, Stefan Winter offers a complete history of the community, from the birth of the ‘Alawi (Nusayri)...
Abductive Analysis
Theorizing Qualitative Research
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
In Abductive Analysis, Iddo Tavory and Stefan Timmermans provide a new navigational map for theorizing qualitative research. They outline a way to think about observations, methods, and theories that nurtures theory formation without locking it into predefined conceptual boxes. The book provides...
Africa's Development Impasse
Rethinking the Political Economy of Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Orthodox strategies for socio-economic development have failed spectacularly in Southern Africa. Neither the developmental state nor neoliberal reform seems able to provide a solution to Africa's problems. In Africa's Development Impasse, Stefan Andreasson analyses this failure and explores the potential...