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Biological and Bio-Inspired Fluid Dynamics - David E. Rival - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Biological and Bio-Inspired Fluid Dynamics - David E. Rival - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This text provides the reader with tools necessary to study biological and bio-inspired flows, all the while developing an appreciation for their evolutionary and engineering constraints. It is suitable for students already exposed to introductory concepts in fluid mechanics and applied mechanics as a whole, but who would not need an advanced training in fluid mechanics per se. Currently no textbook exists that can take students from an introductory position in fluid mechanics to these contemporary topics of interest. The book is ideal for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students studying a range of engineering domains as well as biology, or even medicine.

DKK 519.00
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Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh - Eamonn Jordan - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Justice in the Plays and Films of Martin McDonagh - Eamonn Jordan - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book interrogates the various manifestations of rival systems of justice in the plays and films of Martin McDonagh, in analysis informed by the critical writings of Michael J. Sandel, Steven Pinker, Julia Kristeva, and in particular Amartya Sen on violence, justice, equality and the law. In McDonagh''s works, failures to investigate adequately criminal actions are matched by multiple forced confessions and umpteen miscarriages of justice. The author explores McDonagh''s creative worlds as ones where distinctions between victim and perpetrator and guilt and innocence are precarious, where the burden of truth seldom reaches the threshold of beyond reasonable doubt and where the punishments and rewards of justice are applied randomly. This project considers the abject nature of justice in McDonagh''s writing, with the vast implications of justice being fragile, suspect, piecemeal, deviant, haphazard and random. Tentative forms of justice are tempered and then threatened by provocative, anarchic and abject humour. As the author argues, McDonagh''s writing cleverly circulates rival, incompatible and comparative systems of justice in order to substantiate the necessities and virtues of justice.

DKK 476.00
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An Introduction to Bayesian Inference, Methods and Computation - Nick Heard - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

An Introduction to Bayesian Inference, Methods and Computation - Nick Heard - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

These lecture notes provide a rapid, accessible introduction to Bayesian statistical methods. The course covers the fundamental philosophy and principles of Bayesian inference, including the reasoning behind the prior/likelihood model construction synonymous with Bayesian methods, through to advanced topics such as nonparametrics, Gaussian processes and latent factor models. These advanced modelling techniques can easily be applied using computer code samples written in Python and Stan which are integrated into the main text. Importantly, the reader will learn methods for assessing model fit, and to choose between rival modelling approaches.

DKK 800.00
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An Introduction to Bayesian Inference, Methods and Computation - Nick Heard - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

An Introduction to Bayesian Inference, Methods and Computation - Nick Heard - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

These lecture notes provide a rapid, accessible introduction to Bayesian statistical methods. The course covers the fundamental philosophy and principles of Bayesian inference, including the reasoning behind the prior/likelihood model construction synonymous with Bayesian methods, through to advanced topics such as nonparametrics, Gaussian processes and latent factor models. These advanced modelling techniques can easily be applied using computer code samples written in Python and Stan which are integrated into the main text. Importantly, the reader will learn methods for assessing model fit, and to choose between rival modelling approaches.

DKK 551.00
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Global Responses to Conflict and Crisis in Syria and Yemen - Maia Carter Hallward - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Global Responses to Conflict and Crisis in Syria and Yemen - Maia Carter Hallward - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book compares different international responses to the internal conflicts in Syria and Yemen through an examination of the coverage each conflict has received in the media. The work explores and evaluates rival explanations for why the Syrian conflict has garnered so much more attention than the Yemen conflict and the opportunities and limitations for using international law and international humanitarian law to discuss and analyze intervention. Using this assessment, the authors discuss why this differential attention matters in terms of IR theory, humanitarian response, and policy recommendations for responding to humanitarian crises.

DKK 476.00
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Structuring the Self - Majid Davoody Beni - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Structuring the Self - Majid Davoody Beni - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood. Beni constructs his ontological account of the self from the common structure that underpins the theoretical diversity that is manifested in rival and sometimes incompatible scientific accounts of the self and its aspects. The enterprise is inspired by recent structural realist theories in the philosophy of science, specifying the basic structure of the self, and explaining how representational, phenomenal, and social aspects of the self are embodied within this structure.

DKK 476.00
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Structuring the Self - Majid Davoody Beni - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Structuring the Self - Majid Davoody Beni - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book presents a unified account of the self, based on a network of knowledge sourced from several scientific accounts of selfhood. Beni constructs his ontological account of the self from the common structure that underpins the theoretical diversity that is manifested in rival and sometimes incompatible scientific accounts of the self and its aspects. The enterprise is inspired by recent structural realist theories in the philosophy of science, specifying the basic structure of the self, and explaining how representational, phenomenal, and social aspects of the self are embodied within this structure.

DKK 646.00
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Historical Epistemology of Ecological Economics - Alberto Fragio - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Historical Epistemology of Ecological Economics - Alberto Fragio - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This volume uses historical epistemology in order to address several topics in the history of economic thought, with special emphasis on ecological economics, environmental metaphors of scarcity, and mathematical ecology. Using the field of ecological economics as an anchor point, the author reflects on the styles of reasoning in economics with a view towards understanding the nature of disagreement that stems from a failure of communication between rival approaches in economics. A thorough inquiry into issues related to identity, coherence, pluralism, and reception, this volume will appeal to researchers and students interested in history of economic thought, ecological economics, and philosophy of the sciences.

DKK 731.00
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The Power of Perceptions in the Middle East - Warda Samara - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The Power of Perceptions in the Middle East - Warda Samara - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book analyzes conflicting political views and narratives held by different forces, both at the local and regional levels in the Middle East. Based on case studies and analysis of local economic projects, it highlights the often conflicting concepts and visions for economic and social development in the Middle East as espoused by rival political groups and grassroots organizations. The book also discusses the power of perceptions and knowledge production in shifting dynamics of power and changing the social-political dynamics in the Middle East. Furthermore, it provides a case study on the multidimensional problem of the Sykes-Picot Agreement. It will appeal to scholars of Middle Eastern politics and economics as well as political decision-makers and investors, interested in the political and economic development of the Middle East.

DKK 901.00
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The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Timothy C. F. Stunt - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The Life and Times of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Timothy C. F. Stunt - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and in doing so touches on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history. Several recent scholars have celebrated the 200th anniversary of the German textual critic Tischendorf but Tregelles, his contemporary English rival, has been neglected, despite his achievements being comparable. In addition to his decisive contribution to Biblical textual scholarship, this study of Tregelles'' career sheds light on developments among Quakers in the period, and Tregelles''s enthusiastic involvement with the early nineteenth-century Welsh literary renaissance usefully supplements recent studies on Iolo Morganwg. The early career of Tregelles also gives valuable fresh detail to the origins of the Plymouth Brethren, (in both England and Italy) the study of whose early history has become more extensive over the last twenty years. The whole of Tregelles''s career therefore illuminates neglected aspects of Victorian religious life.

DKK 884.00
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Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation - Robert Geal - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation - Robert Geal - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book develops a new approach for the study of films adapted from canonical ''originals'' such as Shakespeare''s plays. Departing from the current consensus that adaptation is a heightened example of how all texts inform and are informed by other texts, this book instead argues that film adaptations of canonical works extend cinema''s inherent mystification and concealment of its own artifice. Film adaptation consistently manipulates and obfuscates its traces of ''original'' authorial enunciation, and oscillates between overtly authored articulation and seemingly un-authored unfolding. To analyse this process, the book moves from a dialogic to a psychoanalytic poststructuralist account of film adaptations of Shakespeare''s plays. The differences between these rival approaches to adaptation are explored in depth in the first part of the book, while the second part constructs a taxonomy of the various ways in which authorial signs are simultaneously foregrounded and concealed in adaptation''s anamorphic drama of authorship.

DKK 604.00
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The Adventures of Ma Suzhen - Paul Bevan - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The Adventures of Ma Suzhen - Paul Bevan - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

The comic novel, The Adventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia "knight-errant" fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing strongman, who has been murdered by a rival gang in China''s most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai. After publication of the book in 1923, the character of Ma Suzhen appeared on stage, and subsequently in a film made by the Mingxing Film Company. The book version translated here, displays a delightful combination of the xia and popular"Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies" genres, with additional elements of Gong''an "court case" fiction. The translation is followed by an essay that explores the background to the legend of Ma Suzhen - a fictional figure, whose exhilarating escapades reflect some of the new possibilities and freedoms available to women following the founding of the Chinese Republic.

DKK 434.00
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Building EU Regulatory Capacity - Eva Heims - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Building EU Regulatory Capacity - Eva Heims - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book examines regulatory capacity beyond the nation state. It suggests that we can only understand why EU agencies are able to build EU regulatory capacity if we acknowledge that national regulators provide their expertise, staff and resources to the regulatory processes taking place in these EU bodies. This raises the puzzle of why national regulators are willing to provide ''life support'' to potentially rival organisations. The book is devoted to answering this question in order to understand how EU regulatory capacity is created in the absence of a full supranational regulatory bureaucracy. To do so, the book studies to what extent national regulators from two countries (the UK and Germany) support EU agencies in their work across four policy sectors (drug safety, food safety, maritime safety and banking supervision). The book makes a significant contribution by developing a bureaucratic politics perspective that highlights the importance of national regulators for EU regulatory capacity building.

DKK 561.00
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Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation - Robert Geal - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation - Robert Geal - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book develops a new approach for the study of films adapted from canonical ''originals'' such as Shakespeare''s plays. Departing from the current consensus that adaptation is a heightened example of how all texts inform and are informed by other texts, this book instead argues that film adaptations of canonical works extend cinema''s inherent mystification and concealment of its own artifice. Film adaptation consistently manipulates and obfuscates its traces of ''original'' authorial enunciation, and oscillates between overtly authored articulation and seemingly un-authored unfolding. To analyse this process, the book moves from a dialogic to a psychoanalytic poststructuralist account of film adaptations of Shakespeare''s plays. The differences between these rival approaches to adaptation are explored in depth in the first part of the book, while the second part constructs a taxonomy of the various ways in which authorial signs are simultaneously foregrounded and concealed in adaptation''s anamorphic drama of authorship.

DKK 426.00
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JPMorgan’s Fall and Revival - Nicholas P. Sargen - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

JPMorgan’s Fall and Revival - Nicholas P. Sargen - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book tells the untold story of how JPMorgan became a universal bank in the 1980s-1990s and the events leading to it being acquired by Chase in 2000. It depicts the challenges Morgan’s leaders – Lew Preston and Dennis Weatherstone – confronted when the firm’s business model was disrupted by the developing country debt crisis and premier corporate borrowers increasingly accessing capital markets, up to its current management with Jamie Dimon. It depicts what happened to Morgan in the larger story of U.S. banking consolidation. As Morgan sought to re-enter the world of securities and navigate around Glass-Steagall barriers, their overriding goal was to ensure it would remain a pre-eminent wholesale bank serving multinational corporations. Opportunities to grow through acquisition were presented and considered, including purchasing a stake in Citibank in the early 1990s. However, Preston and Weatherstone were reluctant to integrate areas unfamiliar to Morgan such as retail banking or to assimilate cultures that were disparate from the firm’s. This first-hand account explores whether Morgan could have stayed independent had its leaders pursued the strategic plan that called for it to make targeted acquisitions in areas where it had well-established businesses. Instead, in the mid-1990s, it went from being the hunter to the hunted. Rival banks that had been burdened by bad loans to developing countries and commercial real estate capitalized on rising share prices during the tech boom to acquire other institutions. Meanwhile, Morgan’s profits and share price lagged, which left it vulnerable. During this time, all of the leading financial institutions struggled to change their business models. In the end, no U.S. money center bank was able to become a universal bank on its own. What ensued was a growing concentration of financial assets in a handful of institutions that was the precursor to the 2008 financial crisis, which is explored further using Morgan as a lens, in a book that is sure to interest banking and Wall Street professionals and business readers alike.

DKK 343.00
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JPMorgan’s Fall and Revival - Nicholas P. Sargen - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

JPMorgan’s Fall and Revival - Nicholas P. Sargen - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book tells the untold story of how JPMorgan became a universal bank in the 1980s-1990s and the events leading to it being acquired by Chase in 2000. It depicts the challenges Morgan''s leaders - Lew Preston and Dennis Weatherstone - confronted when the firm''s business model was disrupted by the developing country debt crisis and premier corporate borrowers increasingly accessing capital markets, up to its current management with Jamie Dimon. It depicts what happened to Morgan in the larger story of U.S. banking consolidation. As Morgan sought to re-enter the world of securities and navigate around Glass-Steagall barriers, their overriding goal was to ensure it would remain a pre-eminent wholesale bank serving multinational corporations. Opportunities to grow through acquisition were presented and considered, including purchasing a stake in Citibank in the early 1990s. However, Preston and Weatherstone were reluctant to integrate areas unfamiliar to Morgan such as retail banking or to assimilate cultures that were disparate from the firm''s. This first-hand account explores whether Morgan could have stayed independent had its leaders pursued the strategic plan that called for it to make targeted acquisitions in areas where it had well-established businesses. Instead, in the mid-1990s, it went from being the hunter to the hunted. Rival banks that had been burdened by bad loans to developing countries and commercial real estate capitalized on rising share prices during the tech boom to acquire other institutions. Meanwhile, Morgan''s profits and share price lagged, which left it vulnerable. During this time, all of the leading financial institutions struggled to change their business models. In the end, no U.S. money center bank was able to become a universal bank on its own. What ensued was a growing concentration of financial assets in a handful of institutions that was the precursor to the 2008 financial crisis, which is explored further using Morgan as a lens, in a book that is sure to interest banking and Wall Street professionals and business readers alike.

DKK 349.00
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American Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design in the Evangelical Market - Benjamin L. Huskinson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland

American Creationism, Creation Science, and Intelligent Design in the Evangelical Market - Benjamin L. Huskinson - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland

''In this compelling and thoroughly researched book, Benjamin Huskinson demonstrates that just as there is broad diversity within evangelicalism, so too there is broad diversity among "creationists." His work on the Intelligent Design movement is superb, and he prompts me to rethink my long held conviction that Intelligent Design is merely the most recent evolutionary form of creationism. This is a very fine book.'' - Randall Balmer , Author of Evangelicalism in America and writer-host of "In the Beginning": The Creationist Controversy ''Benjamin Huskinson''s study of American creationism will be an eye-opener for those who sit on the opposite side of the evolution debate. He shows that far from being a unified assault on Darwinism, the campaign was actually a sequence of separate movements launched by rival evangelical groups competing for influence within their own community.'' - Peter Bowler , Author of Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons: Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design ''A thoughtful and careful analysis that throws as much light on the diversity of American evangelicalism as it does on Christian attitudes to evolutionary theory. Huskinson offers a smart analysis of religious anti-evolution movements which neither demonises nor ridicules but seeks to understand the tenets and beliefs of a movement far more complex and multivalent than most of us appreciate. A must-read for science communicators.'' - Philippa Levine , Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas, University of Texas at Austin, USA This book explores the cultural history of anti-evolution efforts in the United States from 1960 to the present, refuting several popular narratives about creation science in evangelical America. Separating theological terms like "creationism" from cultural movements such as "creation science" and "intelligent design" in an evangelical marketplace of ideas, it contests assumptions that evangelical movements against evolution are homogeneous, and it argues that intelligent design is not an off-shoot of the creation-science movement. It demonstrates that the rationale of creationist groups is relational as well as ideological, showing that the social function of American creationism, which is to establish the boundaries of ''orthodox'' religion, is key to understanding the competing strategies of creation-science organisations.

DKK 434.00
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Integral Investing - Mariana Bozesan - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Integral Investing - Mariana Bozesan - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Today, early-stage investors and entrepreneurs find themselves in a dilemma in which they must choose between profit and impact; between traditional, for-profit-only models on the one hand, and multiple-bottom-line structures with a positive social or environmental impact on the other. At a time in which climate change, exponentially growing technologies, social polarization, and looming pandemics are calling into question humanity''s priorities, this Report to the Club of Rome and the World Academy of Art and Science dissolves this dilemma by proposing a new investment paradigm, namely Integral Investing. Integral Investing incorporates and transcends the best practices of both traditional venture capital and impact investing. It provides a seamless integration and shows how technological progress need not be our rival, but can instead be our ally in ensuring the prosperous society we all want. Drawing on her own investments and stellar track record since 1995, the author reveals the mechanism of Integral Investing. At the heart of it is a powerful, 360-degree de-risking tool called the Theta Model, which reveals how to make smart investment decisions based on the comprehensive integration of traditional due-diligence criteria, sustainability metrics, and assessments of the founders'' and team culture. But it doesn''t stop there. In turn, this handbook demonstrates how to use human-centered AI to scale and digitalize the investment process. The goal here is to accelerate the use of exponential tech, capital, and consciousness leadership to transition to a sustainable global society: a process the author refers to as the Investment Turnaround. The 21 principles of Integral Investing, which she defines using Ken Wilber''s Integral Theory, lead to her manifesto on how to implement the UN Sustainable Development Goals within Planetary Boundaries by 2050 through early-stage investing and entrepreneurship. Similar to the 15th century, when the Medicis inspired the Renaissance, today humanity is once again at a crucial turning point where pioneering public and private financiers, investors, entrepreneurs, and other committed individuals have the opportunity to leave behind the legacy of a prosperous society. This handbook provides a source of inspiration, and shows how self-actualization, a positive mindset, and a consciousness that is backed by a world-centric desire can become the driving force for solving the global grand challenges.

DKK 509.00
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