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    A Short Guide to Operational Risk - Book Cover

    A Short Guide to Operational Risk

    This comprehensive yet concise guide provides an accessible introduction to operational risk management for professionals across all industries and sectors. The renowned author defines operational risk and its crucial role within holistic enterprise-wide risk governance frameworks. In a highly practical manner, the book guides readers through the core processes of identifying, assessing, [...]

    Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China

    Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China

    From the cultural to the digital revolution in Shanghai

    This book examines how older adults in Shanghai, China are engaging with digital technologies like smartphones as they age. It is based on 16 months of ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author in Shanghai.

    Ancient Knowledge Networks

    Ancient Knowledge Networks

    A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia

    Ancient Knowledge Networks is a book about how knowledge travels and is shared in ancient societies. It focuses specifically on the cuneiform scholarly networks that existed in first millennium Assyria and Babylonia.

    Buy Now - Emily West - Book Cover

    Buy now

    How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly

    This book analyzes how Amazon promoted a brand image of convenience, comfort, personalized service and seamless customer experience through its e-commerce platform and services like Prime shipping.

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    Heritage Dynamics

    Understanding and adapting to change in diverse heritage contexts

    This book develops a new theoretical framework called “heritage dynamics” to analyse heritage as an adaptive and transformative socio-cultural practice rather than something fixed. Through case studies, it applies this framework to examine how heritage responds to change in various contexts. The book aims to reorient heritage management thinking towards approaches embracing [...]

    Innovation Matters - Book Cover

    Innovation matters

    Competition Policy for the High-Technology Economy

    This openly accessible work proposes refocusing competition policy priorities towards innovation promotion over price effects, particularly for high-technology industries. Through analyses of frameworks such as Arrow's replacement effect and views of iterative technological advancement, the book evaluates how network impacts and cumulative innovation influence these sectors.

    On the Formation of Marxism - Book Cover

    On the Formation of Marxism

    Karl Kautsky’s Theory of Capitalism, the Marxism of the Second International and Karl Marx’s Critique of Political Economy

    This book by Jukka Gronow talks about how Karl Kautsky played a big role in shaping how people in the European social democratic labor movement understood and interpreted Marxism in the years before World War I. As the main authority on Marx and Engels’ ideas during this time, Kautsky’s specific analysis of [...]

    Selling the American People - Book Cover

    Selling the American people

    Advertising, Optimization, and the Origins of Adtech

    This comprehensive open access book provides a deep-time perspective on the origins and evolution of data-driven digital advertising. Through a detailed historical analysis tracing back to the 1950s emergence of computerization, it examines how technical specialists in advertising and media progressively blended computation, quantitative methodologies, and calculative logics into a powerful ideology [...]

    The Dissolution of Mind - Book Cover

    The Dissolution of Mind

    A Fable of How Experience Gives Rise to Cognition

    This publication presents an original thesis regarding the nature of experience and cognition’s architecture. Presented as a dialogue between characters Alice and Professor O, it offers commentary reformulating traditional frameworks through a thought experiment engaging diverse readers. Recommended for: Philosophers, cognitive scientists, and anyone interested in exploring alternative perspectives on the nature [...]

    The Knowledge of Good - Book Cover

    The Knowledge of Good

    Critique of Axiological Reason

    Explore Robert S. Hartman's theory of value and major 20th-century value theorists. Gain new perspectives on ethics and axiology. Recommended for scholars and students of value theory and ethics.

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    Visual Studio 2022 Succinctly

    Discover the power of Visual Studio 2022, Microsoft’s newest integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows, web, and mobile app development. It’s packed with upgrades and optimized for . NET. This short ebook guide gives an overview of the exciting new features that boost productivity and streamline the development process. Recommended for: Beginner-to-intermediate [...]