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Kollektive Autor:innenschaft – digital/analog (Kontemporär. Schriften zur deutschsprachigen Gegenwartsliteratur #19)
By Michael Gamper, Anna Luhn, Nina Tolksdorf, Paul Wolff. 2023
Das Thema der kollektiven Autor:innenschaft, bereits in den 1990er Jahren mit Blick auf die damals neuen technologischen Möglichkeiten breiter diskutiert,…
scheint aktuell erneut auf ein wachsendes Interesse zu stoßen, etwa unter dem Stichwort der ›Kollaboration‹. Der vorliegende Band fragt nach der Schwellenfunktion der digitalen Wende, die sich in eine Folge von weiteren medialen, epistemischen, ästhetischen und sozialen Schwellen und historisierbaren Konstellationen einreiht, die Konzepte von kollektiver Autorschaft/Autor:innenschaft hervorgebracht und grundsätzlich verändert haben. Die partizipatorische Kultur sowie Verfahren der »produsage«, die sich in den medialen Konvergenzbewegungen der jüngeren Vergangenheit feststellen lassen, haben Zurechnungsstrategien von Autorschaft, an denen lange festgehalten wurde, außer Kurs gebracht. Dazu sind auch die in der Tradition der Avantgarden stehenden Projekte der generativen Codeliteratur zu zählen, die sich von den auf und mittels Plattformen produzierten und distribuierten Texten durch das vorausgesetzte Code-Wissen und den gezielten Gebrauch digitaler Technik unterscheiden lassen. Wurde die automatische Generierung von Text in der Vergangenheit oft als Auslagerung von Autor:innenschaft auf die Maschine konzipiert, rückt hier die Frage nach der »Arbeitsteilung zwischen Mensch und Maschine« in den Vordergrund.Social and Political Deglobalisation: Covid-19, Conflict, and Uncertainties in Malaysia
By Khoo Ying Hooi, Kavitha Ganesan, Anantha Raman Govindasamy. 2023
This book focuses on the discourse of de-globalisation in Malaysia by looking at the implications of this process politically, economically, socially,…
and environmentally. The rise of right-wing political parties and a decline in global economic interdependence have rapidly fuelled the de-globalisation process by creating conflicts and uncertainties in many parts of the world. The battle against the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred a great challenge among the global community, thus becoming a catalyst in the de-globalising process worldwide. While there have been contested opinions on whether we are now in the temporary phase of de-globalisation, what is clear is that the pandemic adds momentum to the trend. Now that the world has entered the post-Covid-19 phase, is the discourse of de-globalisation still relevant? Since the emergence of this pandemic, Malaysia has been facing not only a change of government but also a rapid decline in its economy, a rise in unemployment and living costs, with the human rights situation deteriorating as the State of Emergency was imposed. All of these add up to a shift toward de-globalisation. Chapters in this book, therefore, engage with this issue from different perspectives, such as conventional warfare, bio-constitutional implications to the right to health, labour, migrants and refugees, digital education, indigenous people and so forth.Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South
By Ayurella Horn-Muller. 2024
Kudzu abounds across the American South. Introduced in the United States in the 1800s as a solution for soil erosion,…
this invasive vine with Eastern Asian origins came to be known as a pernicious invader capable of smothering everything in its path. To many, the plant’s enduring legacy has been its villainous role as the “vine that ate the South.” But for a select few, it has begun to signify something else entirely. In its roots, a network of people scattered across the country see a chance at redemption—and an opportunity to rewrite a fragment of troubled history.Devoured: The Extraordinary Story of Kudzu, the Vine That Ate the South detangles the complicated story of the South’s fickle relationship with kudzu, chronicling the ways the boundless weed has evolved over centuries, and dissecting what climate change could mean for its future across the United States. From architecture teams experimenting with it as a sustainable building material, to clinical applications treating binge-drinking, to chefs harvesting it as a wild edible, environmental journalist Ayurella Horn-Muller spotlights how kudzu’s notorious reputation in America is gradually being cast aside in favor of its promise.Weaving careful research with personal stories, Horn-Muller investigates how kudzu morphed from a miraculous agricultural solution to the monstrous archetypal foe of the southern landscape. Devoured is a poignant narrative of belonging, racial ambiguity, outsiders and insiders, and the path from universal acceptance to undesirability. It is a deeply reported exploration of the landscapes that host the many species we fight to control. Above all, Devoured is an ode to the earth around us—a quest for meaning in today’s imperiled world.Falling Long-Term Growth Prospects: Trends, Expectations, and Policies
By M. Ayhan Kose and Franziska Ohnsorge. 2023
A structural growth slowdown is under way across the world: at current trends, the global rate of potential growth is…
expected to fall to a three-decade low over the remainder of the 2020s. Nearly all the forces that have powered growth and prosperity since the early 1990s have weakened. In addition, a series of shocks has affected the global economy over the past three years. A persistent and broad-based decline in long-term growth prospects imperils the ability of emerging market and developing economies to combat poverty, tackle climate change, and meet other key development objectives. The challenges presented by this potential inability call for an ambitious policy response at the national and global levels. This book presents the first detailed analysis of the growth slowdown and a rich menu of policy options to deliver better growth outcomes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This book presents a sobering analysis of the secular growth slowdown based on the most comprehensive database of potential growth estimates available to date. With nearly all the forces that have driven growth and prosperity in recent decades now weakened, the book argues that a prolonged period of weakness is under way, with serious implications for emerging market and developing economies. The authors call for bold policy actions at both the national and global levels to lift growth prospects. The book is essential reading for policy makers, economists, and anyone concerned about the future of the global economy. Beatrice Weder di Mauro Professor of International Economics, Geneva Graduate Institute, and President of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Economic policy making is becoming increasingly complicated in the 2020s. In addition to tackling traditional trade-offs in aggregate demand management and improving efficiency on the supply side, policy makers need to address new priorities and challenges, from addressing climate change and its impacts to improving income distribution, all in the context of lower growth rates, waning productivity growth, and flattening of the globalization process that has brought unprecedented prosperity across the globe and lifted more than a billion people out of poverty. In Falling Long-Term Growth Prospects, the authors do a phenomenal job of assessing these trends at the global and regional levels, identifying and unpacking salient twenty-first-century policy challenges, and providing thoughtful and evidence-based policy prescriptions for leaders in advanced, emerging market, and developing economies. Importantly, the book underscores that these challenges tend to be global and, hence, global cooperation at all levels is necessary to achieve optimal results. Alas, we seem to be going in the opposite direction; this book offers a road map to put us back on the path to creating a more integrated, prosperous, and equitable global community. Michael G. Plummer Director, SAIS Europe and ENI Professor of International Economics, The Johns Hopkins UniversityRich Forever: What They Didn’t Teach You about Money, Finance and Investments in School
By Bianca Miller-Cole, Byron Cole. 2023
We all want financial freedom. But we also know just how much pressure the subject of money exerts on us,…
and many of us feel our personal finances are out of control. But that's not surprising - after all, no-one ever explained how to manage money properly - or if they did, we didn't listen.If a head-in-the-sand approach to personal finance ever worked, it doesn't now. Not only do we openly worry about the state of our finances and the cost of living, we increasingly yearn for the kind of financial independence which will enable us to do our own thing and live life to the full. This paradox is right at the heart of everything we do, and a solution is needed.This book will teach you everything you should have learned about money at school - but didn't. It will stop you waking in the middle of the night to check you have enough money for your home, your childcare, your summer holiday or your secret masterplan.And the process of learning how to embrace, not hide, from your financial responsibilities will release you from layers of anxiety, shame and confusion.You will learn how to be rich forever - rich in time, rich in freedom, rich in opportunity. It will revolutionise the way you think and feel about money and free you to grow!Colour Third Edition: A workshop for artists, designers
By David Hornung. 2005
Taking a practical approach to colour, Colour: A workshop for artists and designers is an invaluable resource for art students…
and professionals alike. With its sequence of specially designed assignments and in-depth discussions, it effectively bridges the gap between colour theory and practice to inspire confidence and understanding in anyone working with colour. This third edition is updated with more contemporary examples drawn not just from painting, but from textiles, graphic design, illustration and animation. An expanded discussion of digital techniques, new assignments and a refreshed design have all been brought together to create a highly readable and relevant text.B&V Friends Forever: Sleepover (B&V Friends Forever #22)
By Archie Superstars. 2024
BRAND NEW STORY: Betty, Veronica, Sabrina, and a few friends are all having a sleepover at a cottage on the…
mysterious estate Alexander and Alexandra Cabot inherited. But when weird things beyond levitation and ghost stories start happening, Sabrina suspects magic is afoot! Plus, more stories of sleepover fun, including pillow fights, gossip, and plenty of cute pajamas!Betty & Veronica Double Digest #322 (Betty & Veronica Double Digest #322)
By Archie Superstars. 2024
TWO BRAND NEW STORIES! First, someone has stolen a copy of Ms. Grundy’s semester final and it’s up to crime…
podcast host Fran Frazer—along with Betty & Veronica—to find out who took it and why. Then, after ice skating with the gang, Sabrina shares some hot cocoa her aunts made for her with everyone—little does she know it’s actually a potion to help her skate better! What happens when magic ends up in the wrong hands (or, in this case, feet!)?Communication in a Civil Society
By Shelley D. Lane, Ruth Anna Abigail, John Casey Gooch. 2024
Using the concept of “civility” as the major theme, this fully updated second edition offers a unique and alternative way…
to teach and learn about communication.The book brings together discrete areas that explore the fundamentals of communication and intrapersonal communication, interpersonal communication, small group communication, and public speaking. Every chapter includes theories, concepts, and examples that allow students to use civil and ethical communication skills in their personal relationships, in collaboration with colleagues, and in giving public speeches and professional presentations. This new edition highlights advances in and concepts related to mediated and technology-based communication, such as chatbots, technostress, and dating apps, and shows how students can engage in civil face-to-face and mediated interaction. Additionally, each chapter includes a real-world incident that students are asked to analyze in terms of specific chapter information and skills related to civility.Communication in a Civil Society is an ideal textbook for Introduction to Communication, Interpersonal Communication, and Public Speaking courses.Materials for instructors including PowerPoint slides, a test bank, and an instructor’s manual, are available at www.routledge.com/9781032513263.Advances in Measurement Technology and Disaster Prevention focuses on research of measurement technology and the development of disaster prevention and…
mitigation. The topics include: Measurement in Civil Engineering Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Hydraulic Engineering and Surveying Applications Protection Engineering The book will be of interest to professionals and academics in the above-mentioned areas.Medical Presentations: A Prescription for Success
By Terry Irwin, Julie Terberg, Echo Swinford. 2024
“A comprehensive guide to planning, constructing, and delivering presentations. This is the missing manual that every doctor needs”.Rowan Parks, Professor…
of Surgical Sciences and Honorary Consultant Surgeon,University of Edinburgh; President of Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh“A fantastic, fool proof guide to presenting like a pro!”Alice Roberts, Professor of Public Engagement in Science, University of Birmingham; Broadcaster and AuthorThis book will teach healthcare professionals how to craft more effective and engaging PowerPoint® presentations, taking readers through the preparation of a presentation from concept to delivery. The book is based on decades of the authors’ personal experiences teaching PowerPoint® and slide design. The text is based on a sound understanding of educational theory. Readers will learn how to present interesting and visually appealing slides. In particular, the focus will be on designing professional-looking slides that convey a clear and memorable message.The book will be valuable to any healthcare professional required to put together presentations, whether a high-flying academic doctor or nurse presenting their research at international conferences, a trainee giving a talk at an in-house educational session, or a student preparing a presentation as part of their course work.Economic Capital and Risk Management in Islamic Finance (Islamic Business and Finance Series)
By Abdul Ghafar Ismail, Muhamed Zulkhibri. 2024
Economic capital is the subject of great debate among academics and professionals in the field of risk management. Conceptually, Islamic…
finance's encouragement of risk-sharing eliminates the debt burden encountered by the conventional banking sector. The majority of the Islamic banking system is based on equity-based financing. To be effective in practice, a variety of well-functioning institutions are required to translate Islamic banking concepts into a 'real-world' financial system. In spite of this, the regulatory, legal, product and operational requirements specific to Islamic banks may necessitate a distinct strategy for managing capital-related risks. This book provides a comprehensive review of the theoretical and practical aspects of Islamic economic capital in relation to contemporary Islamic finance.Drawing on the risk-sharing concept, this book delves into the core concept of economic capital from an Islamic perspective, including comparisons to conventional finance theory. Furthermore, it introduces alternative models and offers practical examples to strengthen the regulation and supervision of the Islamic banking system. It also addresses critical policy challenges concerning economic capital in Islamic finance, especially in dual banking countries. This book seamlessly integrates new theory with empirical insights and discusses emerging themes, including stress testing and Shari'ah compliance issues. Most of the chapters are illustrated with real-world cases and practical examples.This book is intended for advanced degree students in finance, and investment professionals, as well as financial practitioners and advisors, particularly those who are pursuing Islamic economics and finance courses.Close Reading in Elementary School: Bringing Readers and Texts Together
By Diana Sisson, Betsy Sisson. 2024
Many literacy experts believe close reading has the power to create strong, independent readers, but what does that really mean,…
and how does it work in the classroom? This book is your must-have guide to getting started! It provides step-by-step strategies and scaffolds for teaching close reading and improving students’ comprehension of complex texts. You will learn how to teach close reading based on text type, how to accelerate learning through increasingly challenging texts in both print and digital media, how to use close reading as a springboard for close talks and close writes, and how to support your students to move forward confidently with a repertoire of tools to employ as they navigate complex text in their daily lives.Special Features: A clear explanation of what text complexity really means and how it varies by student An easy-to-use framework for creating a close reading lesson that builds student reading stamina Scaffolds to help students at all ability levels to do a close reading Close reading strategies for a variety of literary and informational genres Ideas for strengthening reading through targeting comprehension skills, including analyzing text structure and evaluating arguments Suggestions for helping students read with increasing levels of rigor Techniques for how to lessen student technology distractions and dig deeper into digital text Guidelines and procedures for close talks – purposeful, focused discussions about text Procedures for close writes that vary based on genre and student ability level Recommendations to ensure students have the close reading skills to be effective readers in and out of the classroom In addition, each chapter includes study guide questions to help you apply the ideas in the book to your own classroom. With this practical book, you will have all the tools you need to make close reading a reality!The Architecture of the Bight of Biafra challenges linear assumptions about agency, progress, and domination in colonial and postcolonial cities,…
adding an important sub‑Saharan case study to existing scholarship on globalization and modernity.Intersected by small creeks, rivulets, and dotted with mangrove swamps, the Bight of Biafra has a long history of decentralized political arrangements and intricate trading networks predating the emergence of the Atlantic world. While indigenous merchants in the region were active participants in the transatlantic slave trading system, they creatively resisted European settlement and maintained indigenous sovereignty until the middle of the nineteenth century. Since few built artifacts still exist, this study draws from a close reading of written sources—travelers’ accounts, slave traders’ diaries, missionary memoirs, colonial records, and oral histories—as well as contemporary fieldwork to trace transformations in the region’s built environment from the sixteenth century to today. With each chapter focusing on a particular spatial paradigm in this dynamic process, this book uncovers the manifold and inventive ways in which actors strategically adapted the built environment to adjust to changing cultural and economic circumstances. In parallel, it highlights the ways that these spaces were rhetorically constructed and exploited by foreign observers and local agents. Enmeshed in the history of slavery, colonialism, and the modern construction of race, the spatial dynamics of the Biafran region have not been geographically delimited. The central thesis of this volume is that these spaces of entanglement have been productive sites of Black identity formation involving competing and overlapping interests, occupying multiple positions and temporalities, and ensnaring real, imagined, and sometimes contradictory aims.This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architecture, architectural history, urban geography, African studies, and Atlantic studies.Patient-Centered Medicine: Transforming the Clinical Method
By Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown, W. Wayne Weston, Thomas Freeman, Bridget L. Ryan, Carol L. McWilliam, Ian R. McWhinney. 2024
The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and teaching of medicine since the first…
edition of Patient-Centered Medicine - Transforming the Clinical Method was published in 1995. This timely fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered clinical method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development, and it brings the reader fully up to date. It reinforces the relevance of the method in the current much-changed realities of health care in a world where virtual care will remain common, dependence on technology is rising, and societal changes away from compassion, equity, and relationships toward confrontation, inequity, and self-absorption.Fully revised by its highly experienced author team ensuring wide interest and written for those practising now and for the practitioners of the future, this new edition will be welcomed by a wide international audience comprising all health professionals from medicine, nursing, social work, occupational therapy, physical therapy, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, and other fields.Viking Heritage and History in Europe: Practices and Re-creations (Critical Heritages of Europe)
By Sara Ellis Nilsson, Stefan Nyzell. 2024
Viking Heritage and History in Europe presents new research and perspectives on the use of the Vikings in public history,…
especially in relation to museums, re-creation, and re-enactment in a European context.Taking a critical heritage approach, the volume provides new insights into the re-creation of history, imagining the past, interpretation, ambivalence of authenticity, authority of History, remembrance and memory, medievalism, and public history. Highlighting the complexity of the field of public history today, the fourteen chapters all engage with questions of historical authenticity and authority. The volume also critically examines the public’s reception, engagement with, and interpretation of the Viking Age and the concepts of who these individuals were. Each chapter illuminates an aspect of these themes in relation to museums, leisure activities, politics, tourism, re-enactment, and popular culture – all from the vantage point of Viking cultural heritage.Viking Heritage and History in Europe is one of the first volumes to examine the use and role of the Vikings within the field of public history, both past and present. The book will be of interest to those engaged in the study of heritage, public history, history, the Vikings, vikingism, medievalism, and media history.Jumping Computation: Updating Automata and Grammars for Discontinuous Information Processing
By Alexander Meduna, Zbyněk Křivka. 2024
Jumping Computation: Updating Automata and Grammars for Discontinuous Information Processing is primarily a theoretically oriented treatment of jumping automata and…
grammars, covering all essential theoretical topics concerning them, including their power, properties, and transformations. From a practical viewpoint, it describes various concepts, methods, algorithms, techniques, case studies and applications based upon these automata and grammars. In today’s computerized world, the scientific development and study of computation, referred to as the theory of computation, plays a crucial role. One important branch, language theory, investigates how to define and study languages and their models, which formalize algorithms according to which their computation is executed. These language-defining models are classified into two basic categories: automata, which define languages by recognizing their words, and grammars, which generate them. Introduced many decades ago, these rules reflect classical sequential computation. However, today’s computational methods frequently process information in a fundamentally different way, frequently “jumping” over large portions of the information as a whole. This book adapts classical models to formalize and study this kind of computation properly. Simply put, during their language-defining process, these adapted versions, called jumping automata and grammars, jump across the words they work on. The book selects important models and summarizes key results about them in a compact and uniform way. It relates each model to a particular form of modern computation, such as sequential, semi-parallel and totally parallel computation, and explains how the model in question properly reflects and formalizes the corresponding form of computation, thus allowing us to obtain a systematized body of mathematically precise knowledge concerning the jumping computation. The book pays a special attention to power, closure properties, and transformations, and also describes many algorithms that modify jumping grammars and automata so they satisfy some prescribed properties without changing the defined language. The book will be of great interest to anyone researching the theory of computation across the fields of computer science, mathematics, engineering, logic and linguistics.Released in 2017, the first edition of Why CISOs Fail reimagined the role of the Chief Information Security Officer in…
a new and powerful way. Written to be easily consumable by both security pros as well as everyone who must deal with them, the book explores the different realms in which security leaders fail to deliver meaningful impact to their organizations, and why this happens. Its central thesis—that security is primarily a human behavioral discipline rather than a technology one—has been gaining increased attention as a core tenet of the field, and the book was ultimately inducted into the cybersecurity canon as a leading book on security management.In this freshly updated edition, Barak Engel adds new sections that correspond with the chapters of the original book: security as a discipline; as a business enabler; in sales; in legal; in compliance; in technology; and as an executive function. He explores new ideas in each operational area, providing essential insights into emerging aspects of the discipline. He then proposes two critical concepts for security management—the concept of "digital shrinkage" and the transition from CISO to CI/SO—that together offer a new paradigm for any organization that wants to become truly successful in its security journey.Why CISOs (Still) Fail is delivered in Barak's conversational, humoristic style, that has attracted a global audience to this and his other book, The Security Hippie. As he notes, the book's goal is to entertain as much as to inform, and he dearly hopes that you have fun reading it.Innovative Solutions for Soil Structure Interaction: Proceedings of the 3rd GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2019 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures – The Official International Congress of the Soil-Structure Interaction Group in
By Hany El-Naggar, Khalid El-Zahaby, Hany Shehata. 2020
This book focuses on the role of soil structure interaction and soil dynamics. It discusses case studies as well as…
physical and numerical models of geostructures. Infrastructure is the key to create a sustainable community. It affects our future well-being as well as the economic climate. Indeed, the infrastructure we are building today will shape tomorrow's communities. GeoMEast 2019 created a venue for researchers and practitioners from all over the world to share their expertise to advance the role of innovative geotechnology in developing sustainable infrastructure. It covers soil structure interaction under static and dynamic loads, dynamic behavior of soils, and soil liquefaction. It is hoped that this book contributes to further advance the state of the art for the next-generation infrastructure.Introduction to Advanced Nursing Practice: An International Focus (Advanced Practice in Nursing)
By Madrean Schober. 2016
Prepared under the auspices of the International Council of Nurses (ICN), this first volume provides a comprehensive overview of the…
rapidly emerging field of advanced nursing practice. It addresses central issues in the role and practice development that are fundamental to defining and differentiating the nature of this field. Topics include defining the role, role characteristics, scope of practice, education, regulation and research. Obstacles to and facilitators of that role are addressed and include ethical questions arising in the context of practice development. With an international focus, this volume examines international developments in the field, as reflected in country-specific case studies and examples. It offers a valuable resource for advanced practice nurses, educators and administrators at healthcare institutions.