Richard Rowlands Verstegan: A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil By Romana Zacchi, Massimiliano Morini (eds.)
2012 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 2503535755 | PDF | 3 MB
Employing a blend of historical, philological, literary and linguistic methods, 'Richard Rowlands Verstegan: A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil' paints a full-bodied portrait of Richard Rowlands Verstegan (or Verstegen, 1550?-1640) - a man whose multiple and variously spelled name reflects a multifaceted public personality. English by birth and upbringing, Dutch by fatherly descent, Verstegan spent most of his life on the Continent, employed intermittently as a Catholic spy, poet, religious translator, polemicist, and philologist. While this many-sidedness is typical of the Renaissance period, some of Verstegan's interests and positions were innovative or extravagant - witness his familiarization of the epigram in the Netherlands (1617), or his description of Teutonic England in the Restitution of Decayed Intelligence (1605).In this collection of essays, Verstegan's life and works are both explored in themselves and as mirrors of his times. As each contributor investigates one or more aspects of Verstegan's careers, a wider perspective is created of English and Dutch religious politics, of the prevailing literary modes and fashions of the period, and of the picture that Europe was beginning to paint for itself. Conversely, this all-encompassing view demonstrates the centrality of a figure who has long been relegated to the margins of English, Dutch, and European history.

Paul Acker, "Revising Oral Theory: Formulaic Composition in Old English and Old Icelandic Verse"
English | 1998 | ISBN: 0815331029 | PDF | pages: 154 | 8.5 mb

Rethinking the crit New pedagogies in design education
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9781003289432 | 252 pages | True PDF | 43.58 MB
Assessment in architecture and creative arts schools has traditionally adopted a 'one size fits all' approach by using the 'crit', where students pin up their work, make a presentation and receive verbal feedback in front of peers and academic staff. In addition to increasing stress and inhibiting learning, which may impact more depending on gender and ethnicity, the adversarial structure of the 'crit' reinforces power imbalances and thereby ultimately contributes to the reproduction of dominant cultural paradigms.

Responsible Journalism in Conflicted Societies: Trust and Public Service Across New and Old Divides by Jake Lynch, Charis Rice
2022 | ISBN: 1032013281, 1032013303 | English | 216 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Setting out multiple perspectives from media and journalism scholars, this collection addresses the implications that today's technological, socio-political, and economic conditions have for relations between journalists, sources, audiences, and wider publics.

ITechLaw Association, Charles Morgan, "Responsible AI: A Global Policy Framework"
English | 2019 | pages: 308 | ISBN: 173399310X | PDF | 15,7 mb
The International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw) - with membership of technology attorneys and law firms from more than 70 countries - has published Responsible AI: A Global Policy Framework. The 304-page book provides in-depth review and a proposed framework of eight discussion principles that address some of the hottest technology and moral issues of responsible development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence. Written by a multi-disciplinary group of 54 technology law experts, industry representatives and researchers from 16 countries, the book offers a detailed, actionable framework built on the following principles: Ethical Purpose and Societal Benefit, Accountability, Transparency and Explainability, Fairness and Non-discrimination, Safety and Reliability, Open Data and Fair Competition, Privacy, and AI and Intellectual Property.

Hubert Selby Jr., Darren Aronofsky, Richard Price, "Requiem for a Dream: A Novel"
English | 1999 | ISBN: 1560252480, 0714526827 | 288 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The acclaimed novel that inspired the Darren Aronofsky film-the story of three friends whose pursuit of wealth ends in addiction and tragedy. "To understand Selby's work is to understand the anguish of America"(New York Times Book Review).

Ganesh Ram Santhanam, Samik Basu, Vasant Honavar, "Representing and Reasoning with Qualitative Preferences: Tools and Applications"
English | 2016 | pages: 156 | ISBN: 1627058397 | PDF | 2,1 mb
This book provides a tutorial introduction to modern techniques for representing and reasoning about qualitative preferences with respect to a set of alternatives. The syntax and semantics of several languages for representing preference languages, including CP-nets, TCP-nets, CI-nets, and CP-theories, are reviewed. Some key problems in reasoning about preferences are introduced, including determining whether one alternative is preferred to another, or whether they are equivalent, with respect to a given set of preferences. These tasks can be reduced to model checking in temporal logic. Specifically, an induced preference graph that represents a given set of preferences can be efficiently encoded using a Kripke Structure for Computational Tree Logic (CTL). One can translate preference queries with respect to a set of preferences into an equivalent set of formulae in CTL, such that the CTL formula is satisfied whenever the preference query holds. This allows us to use a model checker to reason about preferences, i.e., answer preference queries, and to obtain a justification as to why a preference query is satisfied (or not) with respect to a set of preferences. This book defines the notions of the equivalence of two sets of preferences, including what it means for one set of preferences to subsume another, and shows how to answer preferential equivalence and subsumption queries using model checking. Furthermore, this book demontrates how to generate alternatives ordered by preference, along with providing ways to deal with inconsistent preference specifications. A description of CRISNER-an open source software implementation of the model checking approach to qualitative preference reasoning in CP-nets, TCP-nets, and CP-theories is included, as well as examples illustrating its use.

Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class By Patricia A. Banks
2010 | 134 Pages | ISBN: 0415800609 | PDF | 3 MB
Patricia A. Banks traverses the New York and Atlanta art worlds to uncover how black identities are cultivated through black art patronage. Drawing on over 100 in-depth interviews, observations at arts events, and photographs of art displayed in homes, Banks elaborates a racial identity theory of consumption that highlights how upper-middle class blacks forge black identities for themselves and their children through the consumption of black visual art. She not only challenges common assumptions about elite cultural participation, but also contributes to the heated debate about the significance of race for elite blacks, and illuminates recent art world developments. In doing so, Banks documents how the salience of race extends into the cultural life of even the most socioeconomically successful blacks.

Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91: A Different History by Rustam Alexander
English | May 25, 2021 | ISBN: 1526155761 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 2.3 MB
This ground-breaking book challenges the widespread view that sex and homosexuality were unmentionable in the USSR. The Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras (1956-82) have remained obscure and unexplored from this perspective. Drawing on previously undiscovered sources, Alexander fills in this critical gap. The book reveals that from 1956 to 1982, doctors, educators, jurists and police officers discussed homosexuality.

Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China by Sigrid Schmalzer
English | January 20, 2016 | ISBN: 022633015X | True EPUB | 320 pages | 24.6 MB
In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world-and forestall the spread of more "red," or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where modernization and scientific progress could not be divorced from politics, green and red revolutions proceeded side by side.