Springer berlin springer sep 2026 (301 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die Grundlagen und Konzepte der modernen Kombinatorik auf anschauliche Weise. Die verständliche Darstellung richtet sich an Studierende der Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Informatik und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und ermöglicht einen einfachen, beispielorientierten Zugang zu den Methoden der Kombinatorik. Beginnend mit den Grundaufgaben der Kombinatorik werden die Leser und Leserinnen Schritt für Schritt mit weiterführenden Themen wie erzeugende Funktionen, Rekurrenzgleichungen, Möbius-Inversion, Graphenpolynome und endliche Automaten vertraut gemacht. Eine Vielzahl von Beispielen, Abbildungen und Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen erleichtert das Verständnis und dient der Vertiefung und praktischen Anwendung des Lehrstoffs.Die vorliegende vierte Auflage wurde komplett überarbeitet und um neue Themen ergänzt. Neu aufgenommen wurden das Tutte-Polynom und das Ising-Polynom, die vielfältige Anwendungen in der Physik und der Informatik besitzen. 384 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die Grundlagen und Konzepte der modernen Kombinatorik auf anschauliche Weise. Die verständliche Darstellung richtet sich an Studierende der Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Informatik und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und ermöglicht einen einfachen, beispielorientierten Zugang zu den Methoden der Kombinatorik. Beginnend mit den Grundaufgaben der Kombinatorik werden die Leser und Leserinnen Schritt für Schritt mit weiterführenden Themen wie erzeugende Funktionen, Rekurrenzgleichungen, Möbius-Inversion, Graphenpolynome und endliche Automaten vertraut gemacht. Eine Vielzahl von Beispielen, Abbildungen und Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen erleichtert das Verständnis und dient der Vertiefung und praktischen Anwendung des Lehrstoffs.Die vorliegende vierte Auflage wurde komplett überarbeitet und um neue Themen ergänzt. Neu aufgenommen wurden das Tutte-Polynom und das Ising-Polynom, die vielfältige Anwendungen in der Physik und der Informatik besitzen. 384 pp. Deutsch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt die Grundlagen und Konzepte der modernen Kombinatorik auf anschauliche Weise. Die verständliche Darstellung richtet sich an Studierende der Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften, Informatik und Wirtschaftswissenschaften und ermöglicht einen einfachen, beispielorientierten Zugang zu den Methoden der Kombinatorik. Beginnend mit den Grundaufgaben der Kombinatorik werden die Leser und Leserinnen Schritt für Schritt mit weiterführenden Themen wie erzeugende Funktionen, Rekurrenzgleichungen, Möbius-Inversion, Graphenpolynome und endliche Automaten vertraut gemacht. Eine Vielzahl von Beispielen, Abbildungen und Übungsaufgaben mit Lösungen erleichtert das Verständnis und dient der Vertiefung und praktischen Anwendung des Lehrstoffs.Die vorliegende vierte Auflage wurde komplett überarbeitet und um neue Themen ergänzt. Neu aufgenommen wurden das Tutte-Polynom und das Ising-Polynom, die vielfältige Anwendungen in der Physik und der Informatik besitzen.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware -In diesem Open Access Buch wird Leben und Wirkung von Rudolf Carnap untersucht. Carnap (18911970) zählt heute zu den bedeutendsten Philosophen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Als zentrale Figur des Wiener Kreises und als Wegbereiter der analytischen Philosophie und des logischen Empirismus prägte er das Denken seiner Zeit nachhaltig. Mit seinem wissenschaftlichen Humanismus' einem entschiedenen Bekenntnis zu Aufklärung, Moderne und zur grundlegenden Rolle der Wissenschaften für menschliche Entscheidungen bietet Carnap eine überzeugende Alternative zu den im 20. Jahrhundert vorherrschenden wissenschafts- und aufklärungskritischen Strömungen. Zugleich gilt er als Vorbild für eine rationale Diskurskultur, die sich auf wissenschaftliche Fakten und argumentative Klarheit stützt.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book provides a critical exploration of how public services, particularly school-related services, shape the ability of immigrant communities to exercise their fundamental rights in the city. It offers a methodological, evidence-based pathway to assess the enabling capacity of these services, especially in digitally mediated environments. Focusing on services as key interfaces between citizens and their rights, the book examines how barriers in access, comprehension, and interaction disproportionately affect vulnerable users, limiting their full participation in urban life. By centering the experiences of immigrant parents and their interactions with school procedures, it highlights the extent to which public services can enable or hinder processes of social and educational integration. At the heart of the book is the application of the Mediation Grammar (MG), a user-based service quality standard developed within the H2020 easyRights project. The MG is used as both an analytical and evaluative framework to assess the empowerment gaps that arise when users access and use public services. These gaps are examined through three dimensions essential to language accessibility, information adequacy, and rights actualisation, providing an overall evaluation of the enabling capacity of services from the perspective of service users and their ability to exercise their rights in the city. 111 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book examines how emerging border technologies such as AI-driven risk scoring, autonomous surveillance towers, biometric identity systems, predictive analytics, and algorithmic decision tools reshape the criminalization and securitization of migration. Positioned at the intersection of criminology, critical migration studies, and socio-technical analysis, this book argues that AI and other autonomous surveillance technologies do not simply manage migration: instead, these tools actively produce racialized suspicion, legitimize expanded policing, and enable new forms of pre-emptive control over people-on-the-move, often leading to adverse outcomes including discrimination, racism, and even death. The term border necrotechnicsdescribes the assemblage of automated systems, infrastructures, and practices through which states and corporations decide which lives are rendered killable, deportable, or indefinitely surveilled at and beyond the border.Drawing on interdisciplinary scholarship, this book situates border AI and surveillance within a broader genealogy of punishment, racialized security practices, and the policing of global mobility. The author argues that AI systems automate historical logics of exclusion, embedding them in digital infrastructures that appear neutral yet replicate deep structural inequalities. Through ethnographic interviews and field observations it offers rare insight into how people experiencing forced displacement encounter emerging surveillance technologies firsthand. 163 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book stems from recent developments in Europe that prompted the European Commission to fund the COST Action TU1405 GABI (Geothermal Applications in Buildings and Infrastructures), fostering networking and knowledge exchange among experts in energy geostructures. This initiative paved the way for drafting European level recommendations for their design and construction. The resulting document has been prepared by the European Large Geotechnical Institute Platform (ELGIP) and its Energy Geostructures Working Group, in collaboration with the COST Action CA21156 FOLIAGE (FOstering Large scale ImplementAtion of energy GEostructures).These recommendations present best practices and the current state of the art in the design, construction and monitoring of energy geostructures. Their goal is to offer a practical and accessible guide for public and private stakeholders, professionals in construction and geotechnics and anyone interested in this technology. The book provides an integrated and coherent framework that supports all stages of the design process from initial studies, conceptual modelling and site investigations to project development, monitoring, long term modelling and the evaluation of environmental impacts. 89 pp. Englisch. …

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Why does effort no longer pay Why does trust erode even without collapse Why does democracy function yet feels hollow We understand the system yet choose not to invest in it. It s the rise of the nobody-cares equilibrium.Through three figures the hustler, the sucker, and the nobody-cares agent Nobody Cares reveals the hiddenlogic of modern behavior. Using tools of game theory,this book shows how indifference can be rational.Through epistemic logic, it explains how everyonecan know and still not act. Drawing on attentioneconomics, it reveals why caring has become costly.We live in the age of indifference. Yet the real problem is not that nobody cares. It is that everyone actsas if nobody else does.'This is a book for anyone troubled by the gap between what we know and what we do and, for those whose task it is to teach others to care, an illuminating formal analysis.' Sonja Smets, ILLC, University of Amsterdam 343 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book offers a rigorous and historically grounded analysis of Black women s political thought, activism, and institutional engagement across six decades. This book begins with 1965 a pivotal year in which the Voting Rights Act fundamentally transformed political participation for African Americans and, notably, the year Kamala Harris was born. This temporal convergence serves as the book s organizing framework, illustrating how the expansion of voting rights and the evolution of Black feminist politics created the conditions that made Harris s Vice Presidency possible. Drawing on political science, history, gender studies, and Black feminist theory, the chapters trace major developments in U.S. political life from 1965 to 2025. Topics include the interventions of Michelle Wallace, Ntozake Shange, and Alice Walker, as well as the implications of the Clarence Thomas Anita Hill hearings for understanding gendered political vulnerability. The analysis also engages the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations, showing how contemporary movements including Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the resistance to book bans extend a longer tradition of Black feminist political critique. The text foregrounds key analytical concepts such as linked fate and Black feminist epistemology, making it an essential resource for scholars and students of American politics, African American studies, and feminist theory. By situating Kamala Harris s Vice Presidency within a broader historical trajectory, the book demonstrates that Black feminist political behavior is indispensable to understanding the development of modern U.S. democracy.With each edition of Black Feminist Politics, Duchess Harris solidifies its position as an essential and enduring text that affirms the vital importance of using a Black Feminist analysis to interpret US politics, society, and culture.Crystal M. Moten, author of Continually Working: Black Women, Community Intellectualism and Economic Justice in Postwar Milwaukee 293 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As we stand on the verge of remarkable technological revolutions powered by Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Information Science, the landscape of Information Systems is also on the brink of transformative changes. These revolutionary technologies promise to unlock unprecedented capabilities and efficiencies for business and society, but also introduce a complex array of ethical, legal, societal, and organizational challenges. This book argues that humanity is about to achieve Information Singularity , meaning the pivotal moment or threshold where the amount of information that can be accessed and analysed becomes endlessly vast, ending our conception of data as something can be stored and managed by humans.Due to the complexity and rapid pace of such changes, the outcomes and impacts of technological singularity are difficult to predict. Some envision a utopian future of abundance and prosperity, while others warn of dystopian scenarios and existential risks. Who will create information and how will it be handled, will information be true, reliable, and humanity-oriented Or, will it be state, business, or even machine-oriented This book ponders those questions from the perspective of Information Systems stakeholders in the high-tech industries and academia, including case studies to demonstrate the implications of AI and quantum technologies, a practical outline of the legal and regulatory frameworks and insights into the future of Information Systems. 266 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book tackles the key theoretical and practical challenges confronting humanity as it stands at the brink of self-destruction. Its wide ranging investigations counter the enfeeblement of thought and action by showing how reason can free itself of bondage to the principle of non-contradiction and reduction to calculation, how the reigning dogmas that block true knowledge of mind and obscure the limitations of artificial intelligence can be overcome, how language enables rather than limits the freedom of thinking and conduct, how the concrete context of action cannot rob it of its autonomy, why capital punishment is illegitimate, how caste can be overcome and religion can be reformed to be compatible with democracy, how fascism can be philosophically refuted, and how nuclear and climate change Armageddon can be averted in an era of globalization.This book is essential reading for all scholars, researchers and advanced students of political philosophy and German idealism. 221 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book discusses the market logic of recruitment agencies who deploy migrant domestic workers in Southeast Asia. Agencies are involved in all stages of worker migration trajectory from their selection, to their training, and their management at the destination. The book describes how and why these private actors play such an outsized role in this kind of worker mobility, and examines their relations with employers, workers and state apparatuses. It focuses on agents operating in the largest migrant sending countries (the Philippines and Indonesia) and receiving countries (Malaysia and Singapore) in Southeast Asia. These pioneering migration industries in the region have established practices and norms that have and continue to diffuse to other world regions. This book is of interest to policymakers, practitioners, students and researchers in migration studies, global governance, gender and migration, globalization and development, Southeast Asian studies, and area studies in political science. 146 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of theFirst International Workshop on Transition Network Analysis, TNA 2026, held in Bergen, Norway, on April 27, 2026.The 14 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They were organized into the following topical sections: Methodological Contributions; Modeling Learning Trajectories; and Modeling Collaboration Dynamics. 199 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access set, LNAI 16688-16689, constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2026, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during July 26 29, 2026.The 41 full research papers and 8 short papers included in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers cover the following topical sections:Part I: Theorem Proving and Automation; SAT, SMT, and Verification; Intuitionistic, Modal, and Temporal Logics;Part II: Calculi, Proof Theory, and Decision Procedures; and Unification, Rewriting, and Computational Models. 380 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access 3-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 38th International Conference, CAV 2026, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2026.The 54 full papers, together with 21 short tool papers,and 6 industrial experience reports and case studies, were carefully reviewed and selected from 319 submissions.These papers apply or extend formal methods to a wide range of domains such as concurrency, machine learning and neural networks, quantum systems,as well as hybrid and stochastic systems.This annual conference is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. This year, CAV was held as part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC). 621 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access 3-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 38th International Conference, CAV 2026, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2026.The 54 full papers, together with 21 short tool papers,and 6 industrial experience reports and case studies, were carefully reviewed and selected from 319 submissions.These papers apply or extend formal methods to a wide range of domains such as concurrency, machine learning and neural networks, quantum systems,as well as hybrid and stochastic systems.This annual conference is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. This year, CAV was held as part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC). 600 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides a theoretically grounded, practically oriented framework for fostering creativity in second and additional language education. Creativity is among the most valued graduate qualities of our time yet how to cultivate it deliberately in language education in the age of generative AI remains an open question. Drawing on sociocultural, psycholinguistic, cognitive, and linguistic theories, it offers research-informed pedagogical strategies and assessment methods that integrate AI ethically and productively as a partner for idea generation, a scaffold for multilingual practice, and a prompt for critical reflection. Illustrated with authentic classroom cases, it addresses learner agency, teacher creativity, academic integrity, and inclusive assessment. An essential resource for language teachers, researchers, curriculum designers, and students navigating creativity and AI in language education. 177 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book is a collection of selected papers from the technology track presented at the 17th International Conference ERIS 2025, held November 3 4, 2025, in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. This book covers diverse areas of AI research. This book is partially supported by the European Union-NextGenerationEU, through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of the Republic of Bulgaria [Grant Project No. BG-RRP-2.004-0008]. 107 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access 3-volume set constitutes the proceedings of the 38th International Conference, CAV 2026, held in Lisbon, Portugal, in July 2026.The 54 full papers, together with 21 short tool papers,and 6 industrial experience reports and case studies, were carefully reviewed and selected from 319 submissions.These papers apply or extend formal methods to a wide range of domains such as concurrency, machine learning and neural networks, quantum systems,as well as hybrid and stochastic systems.This annual conference is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. This year, CAV was held as part of the Federated Logic Conference (FLoC). 528 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access set, LNAI 16688-16689, constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference, IJCAR 2026, held in Lisbon, Portugal, during July 26 29, 2026.The 41 full research papers and 8 short papers included in these two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers cover the following topical sections:Part I: Theorem Proving and Automation; SAT, SMT, and Verification; Intuitionistic, Modal, and Temporal Logics;Part II: Calculi, Proof Theory, and Decision Procedures; and Unification, Rewriting, and Computational Models. 466 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book is intended to give a bird's-eye view of ellipses and planetary orbits. The only background required is secondary-school Euclidean geometry, analytic geometry, and trigonometry. That doesn't mean that the theorems and proofs are easy; to the contrary, many are very challenging.Although Isaac Newton invented the calculus and used it to study motion, from the time of the Greeks, proof meant proof by geometry. The book contains Newton's detailed geometric proof of the inverse-square law of orbits, based on Conic Sections Treated Geometrically, a widely used textbook from the nineteenth century written by William H. Besant. An important feature of the book is the numerous diagrams that are much more detailed than those appearing in the textbooks from the nineteenth century.Turning to planetary orbits, the book presents Kepler's equation for computing the position, speed and direction of a planet in its orbit, followed by the computation of Lagrange points, which are points in the solar system where a spacecraft can be placed so that the period of its orbit is the same as the Earth's.The history of mathematics has (or should have) an important place in mathematics education. Euclid is well-known but mathematicians were equally familiar with Conics by Apollonius of Perga. Some of his results are given in modern notation, although the presentation is faithful to his style. In addition, Kepler's own geometric proof of his First Law is given.The final chapter presents challenging theorems on ellipses: the Steiner inellipse, Marden's Theorem, the theorems of Pascal and Brianchon, and Newton's Ellipse Theorem. 225 pp. Englisch. …

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The contemporary geopolitical order is marked by profound instability: international law appears fractured and largely ineffective, might is often right as power prevails over principle. This book identifies one fundamental reason for the apparent gangsterish anarchy lack of enforcement power for international institutions and the primary premise of international law being that of an effectively absolute national sovereignty. Drawing on the political philosophies of Hobbes and Kant this books advances a bold proposal: the creation of a supranational world authority endowed with genuine enforcement powers. Such an authority would require states to cede voluntarily limited aspects of sovereignty essential for sustaining global peace and addressing shared interdependent challenges. Far from being utopian, this vision finds precedent in and could be modelled upon the European Union, whose supranational institutions offer both lessons and cautionary tales for designing a global framework.The book can be a starting point for a truly innovative and in our day much needed reflection on the future of geopolitical relations; and it sketches how a worldwide political cooperation, concretely inspired by values of solidarity and peace might be put in place. This book will be of interest to scholars of political theory, of international relations and of international law as well as political leaders and policy-makers the world over who are seeking truly lasting peace and prosperity. 199 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book provides the fundamentals for understanding and designing hydraulic systems, which remain crucial in many technical fields. Persistent innovations are often achieved through integration of power electronics and smart digital closed-loop controls. The book offers an easy-to-understand practical introduction, supported by scientific fundamentals, excellent graphics for all important components and numerous references. Relevant fluid mechanics and components, as well as a wide range of systems - from car jacks to aircraft hydraulics, from load sensing work hydraulics to modern power split vehicle drives - are explained in detail (strictly using ISO 1219-1 symbols). The book provides cross-sectional fundamentals and recommendations such as low-cost and energy-saving principles. In particular, it provides a wide range of recommendations for highly efficient hydrostatic vehicle transmissions. 302 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book places human, artificial, and organizational attention at the center of understanding how AI reshapes learning and decision making in organizations. Integrating insights from an undergraduate information systems seminar, it draws on three systematic literature reviews and an integrative synthesis to develope a multi level account of AI as an attentional actor that filters, highlights, and structures information. Situating its analysis across information systems, organizational learning, knowledge management, and human centered AI, the book synthesizes insights from more than 90 studies to show how attention mechanisms have become organizational capabilities influencing knowledge processes and sensemaking. The book argues that AI s value lies not in replacing human judgment but in augmenting human attention, with effective decisions emerging from the interplay between artificial signal detection and human contextual reasoning. It emphasizes that this potential depends on transparent, human centered design and governance to prevent bias, overreliance, or loss of agency. By conceptualizing hybrid human AI attention as an organizational capability, the book offers a unifying lens that links AI design, cognition, and decision processes, challenging automation centric narratives and highlighting the need for deliberate attentional governance in responsible AI adoption. The book addresses researchers and practitioners seeking insights into AI and attention while also supporting educators and students with clear guidance on conducting rigorous, structured literature analyses. 100 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book explores the intricate dynamics of the global politics and economy of film, focusing on the European Union's potential as a cultural powerhouse. As cinema remains one of Europe's most cherished cultural activities, the EU's film industry stands at a crossroads, poised to redefine its role on the international stage. Key concepts addressed in this volume include the EU's audiovisual regulations, the perceptions of European and non-European film professionals, and the reception of European films by global audiences. The book critically examines the EU's capacity to act as a global film enabler, counterbalancing the dominance of Hollywood and US-based streaming platforms. Through contributions from renowned scholars and insights from Horizon Europe projects, readers are invited to consider the EU's strategic potential in fostering cultural diversity and shaping global audiovisual governance.This book is essential for scholars, policymakers, and industry professionals interested in the intersection of film, power dynamics, and international cultural relations. It offers a comprehensive analysis of the EU's evolving role in the global film industry, providing valuable insights into its future as a cultural, economic and geo-political actor. 278 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book describes everyday life in Close Supervision Centres special units within the England & Wales prison system that hold men considered too difficult or dangerous to be accommodated in mainstream prisons. Based on unprecedented access to these sites of deep confinement , and involving interviews with 40 men held within them, it documents in close and vivid detail the subjective experience of acutely controlled conditions, staff-prisoner dynamics, psychological power, and often tense relations between prisoners themselves. The analysis characterises the CSC system as a kind of crucible: a highly intense social and relational environment, which places extreme men alongside each other in an environment of extreme restriction. In capturing the social and emotional texture of deep incarceration, including feelings ranging from hopelessness and distress to sanctuary and mental liberation, the book explores penal legitimacy, and what humans can endure, at the outer edges of state power. 398 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Open Access book investigates how to build a narrative for progressive social change. It asks a central question: What would it take to create a society that delivers flourishing lives for all Drawing on extensive original research conducted in the UK and internationally, the book examines how, in a time of global 'permacrisis,' no convincing plan has yet emerged to prevent a slide into dystopia or to create a positive vision for collective wellbeing. While governments around the world appear to have run out of ideas about how to build a good society, people and organisations across civil society are actively developing them. This book describes their efforts and outlines how their work can contribute to meaningful systems change. 284 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book examines the use of artificial intelligence in design and digital prototyping across different scales, from products and objects to buildings and urban environments. It reviews current AI models applied in design, discusses the use of generative approaches such as diffusion models and GANs, and considers the role of platforms and ecosystems in supporting these processes. Drawing on examples across small, medium, and large scales, it outlines a methodological framework that connects AI-based generation with digital prototyping, offering a structured overview for researchers and practitioners interested in computational design. 122 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This timely volume is a guide to what is most essential to know about the crisis of housing insecurity among LGBTQIA+ populations in the United States, with a focus on interventions and solutions.Research consistently shows that LGBTQIA+ disproportionately experience housing insecurity, homelessness, and other housing needs at all stages of the life course. In this volume, the authors integrate and build on the research findings and recommendations from social scientists; housing, public health, and social service professionals and practitioners; legal scholars and policy analysts; and others on this topic, to explain what we know about housing insecurity among LGBTQIA+ populations, what we need to know, and what we can and must do to end it.Addressing housing insecurity among LGBTQIA+ populations is especially urgent now. First, housing insecurity and chronic homelessness in the US are at an all-time high. Second, housing insecurity in the US among LGBTQIA+ populations is more severe than in other high-income countries and more difficult to address. Third, LGBTQIA+ populations in the US and globally have been targets of an unprecedented political backlash over the last few years that resulted in a record number of state and federal bills attacking the rights of LGBTQIA+ populations.Addressing Housing Insecurity Among LGBTQIA+ Populations in the United States: Research, Policy, and Practice provides a comprehensive yet concise review of the subject, informed by scholarship on the causes, impacts of, and efforts to implement effective solutions to housing insecurity, and offers a research, practice, and policy agenda to address this crisis. The book is written to be accessible to diverse academic and professional audiences including higher education faculty, undergraduate and masters-level students, and educators, practitioners, and researchers in social work, public health, public policy, human services, psychology, sociology, education, housing and poverty studies, LGBTQIA+/queer/trans studies, family studies, and social justice studies. It can be a useful resource for policymakers; housing management and housing services professionals; LGBTQIA+ advocates and community organizers; and others who want to understand and end housing insecurity among LGBTQIA+ populations. 74 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This open access book examines how the Covid-19 pandemic exposed structural tensions in innovation systems and capitalist models in the global economy, with a particular focus on Asian healthcare systems. Structured in three parts, the edited volume first interrogates systemic crises in capitalism and innovation, then analyzes Covid-19 responses as a critical moment for rethinking health governance, and finally presents Asian experiences that challenge dominant models. Chapters draw on comparative political economy, science and technology studies (STS), and health policy to illuminate how Asia's diverse trajectories offer lessons for more inclusive and sustainable innovation.Written by an international team of scholars, this volume contributes to debates on post-pandemic capitalism, technological development, and global healthcare management by combining conceptual rigor with empirical depth. It will appeal to researchers and advanced students in political economy, health economics and management, innovation studies, STS, and public health more broadly, as well as policymakers in these fields. 444 pp. Englisch. …