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Data driven business transformation

how to disrupt, innovate and stay ahead of the competition

The organizations that harness the power of data to transform their businesses will be the market leaders. You can be sure that your competitors will be looking for insights in their data to drive them ahead and that the disruptors in your sector will be ...

A new introduction to jurisprudence

legality, legitimacy and the foundations of the law

A New Introduction to Jurisprudence takes one of the central problems of law and jurisprudence as its point of departure: what is the law? Adopting an intermediate position between legal positivism and natural law, this book reflects on the concept of ‘liberal democracy’ or ‘constitutional ...

Computational propaganda

political parties, politicians, and political manipulation on social media

Social media platforms do not just circulate political ideas, they support manipulative disinformation campaigns. While some of these disinformation campaigns are carried out directly by individuals, most are waged by software, commonly known as bots, programmed to perform simple, repetitive, robotic tasks. Some social media ...

Fata Morgana

Comprende retratos de personas extranjeras que viven y trabajan en la región de la que procede Rollo, Salento, fotografías evocadoras y descriptivas de distintos elementos del paisaje, recreaciones o símbolos de la explotación de los trabajadores temporeros y algún componente metafórico como el espejismo de ...

Vidas paralelas

Creado a lo largo de más de un lustro, con la mitad de su contenido diseminado en revistas y antologías de varios países, Vidas paralelas es el libro que muchos soñamos. Schrauwen conjuga en él argumentos clásicos de la ciencia ficción —travesías espaciales, inteligencia artificial ...

Cyrano de Bergerac

El espadachín Cyrano de Bergerac tiene una lengua tan afilada como su nariz y su espada. Sin embargo, sus palabras no son suficientes para enamorar a su prima Roxane, cautivada por la belleza del apuesto Christian de Neuvillette, hombre de parca oratoria. Este joven se ...

Culture in nazi Germany

A fresh and insightful history of how the German arts-and-letters scene was transformed under the Nazis Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. In the years preceding WWII, a wide variety of artistic forms were used to instill a Nazi ideology ...

News from Germany

the competition to control world communications, 1900-1945

To control information is to control the world. This innovative history reveals how, across two devastating wars, Germany attempted to build a powerful communication empire-and how the Nazis manipulated the news to rise to dominance in Europe and further their global agenda. Information warfare may ...

Quest for status

chinese and russian foreign policy

A look at how the desire to improve international status affects Russia's and China's foreign policies Deborah Welch Larson and Alexei Shevchenko argue that the desire for world status plays a key role in shaping the foreign policies of China and Russia. Applying ...

The Club

Johnson, Boswell, and the friends who shaped an age

Prize-winning biographer Leo Damrosch tells the story of "the Club," a group of extraordinary writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join ...

Romanland

ethnicity and empire in Byzantium

A leading historian argues that in the empire we know as Byzantium, the Greek-speaking population was actually Roman, and scholars have deliberately mislabeled their ethnicity for the past two centuries for political reasons. Was there ever such a thing as Byzantium? Certainly no emperor ever ...

Human sacrifice

Sacrifice is not simply an expression of religious beliefs. Its highly symbolic nature lends itself to various kinds of manipulation by those carrying it out, who may use the ritual in maintaining and negotiating power and identity in carefully staged 'performances'. This Element will examine ...

Palaces of pleasure

from music halls to the seaside to football, how the victorians invented mass entertaiment

An energetic and exhilarating account of the Victorian entertainment industry, its extraordinary success and enduring impact The Victorians invented mass entertainment. As the nineteenth century's growing industrialized class acquired the funds and the free time to pursue leisure activities, their every whim was satisfied ...

A natural history of Beer

A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human culture What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world? From ancient Mesopotamian fermentation practices to the resurgent American craft brewery, Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall peruse the historical record ...

Humour

A compelling guide to the fundamental place of humour and comedy within Western culture-by one of its greatest exponents Written by an acknowledged master of comedy, this study reflects on the nature of humour and the functions it serves. Why do we laugh? What are ...

greek and latin poetry

(The i Tatti Renaissance Library; 86)

Angelo Poliziano (1454-1494) was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance and a leading figure in Florence during the Age of the Medici. His poetry, composed in a variety of meters, includes epigrams, elegies, and verse epistles, as well as translations of Hellenistic Greek ...

Wittgenstein: lectures, Cambridge 1930-1933

From the notes of G.E. Moore

This edition of G. E. Moore's notes taken at Wittgenstein's seminal Cambridge lectures in the early 1930s provides, for the first time, an almost verbatim record of those classes. The presentation of the notes is both accessible and faithful to their original manuscripts ...

The Cambridge History to Magic and witchcraft in the West

from Antiquity to the present

This book presents twenty chapters by experts in their fields, providing a thorough and interdisciplinary overview of the theory and practice of magic in the West. Its chronological scope extends from the Ancient Near East to twenty-first-century North America; its objects of analysis range from ...

The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World

The Cambridge History of Religion in the Ancient World provides a comprehensive examination of the history of the religions of the ancient Near East and Mediterranean world. The essays in these volumes have a broad reach, covering the ancient Near East and Mediterranean, and extending ...

La desertora

Este volumen recoge dos colecciones de cuentos de Halma Angélico, El templo Profanado (Pro Mater) (1930) y La Desertora (1932), que solo tuvieron una edición en su tiempo y que ahora se vuelven a publicar. El primero incluye cuatro cuentos, «El templo profanado», «La loba ...