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  • AI Versus Epidemics

    by James Hughes, Sheridan Houghten, Michael Dubé, Daniel Ashlock, Joseph Alexander Brown, Wendy Ashlock, Matthew Stoodley ...
    Series series Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0)
    This book presents algorithms and tools that are designed to model and extract information from personal contact networks, which represent which individuals in a population are physically in contact with one another. The authors developed these tools based on research they conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, with the goal of improving responses to epidemics in the future. The book provides ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • FIDIC 2017

    A definitive guide to claims and disputes

    by Nicholas Alexander Brown ...
    FIDIC 2017: A definitive guide to claims and disputes second edition serves as a practical legal companion for managing the procedures for claims and disputes within the 2017 FIDIC suite of contracts. It is the first book to present a comprehensive treatment of the multi-tiered dispute avoidance and resolution process. The book explains each stage of the process and includes numerous flowcharts ... Read more

    $199.29 USD

  • Alternative Politics in Contemporary Japan

    New Directions in Social Movements

    by David H. Slater, Patricia G. Steinhoff, Shinji Kojima, Robin O'Day, Carl Cassegård, Makoto Nishikido, Yoko Iida, Rika Morioka, Yuki Asahina0, Vivian Shaw1, Vinicius de Aguiar Furuie2, Alexander Brown3 ...
    Modern social movements frequently serve as a space to voice concerns in a supportive and collective context and thus are an important venue for individuals to learn how to speak up for themselves. With the rise of new generations and advancement of technology such as digital networks, contemporary Japanese social movements and activism have transformed significantly in recent years, now with more ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Hate Speech Frontiers

    Exploring the Limits of the Ordinary and Legal Concepts

    by Alexander Brown, Adriana Sinclair ...
    No serious attempt to answer the question 'What is hate speech?' would be complete without an exploration of the outer limits of the concept(s). This book critically examines both the ordinary and legal concepts of hate speech, contrasting social media platform content policies with national and international laws. It also explores a range of controversial grey area examples of hate speech. Part I ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Transpacific Visions

    Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South

    by Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, Shinnosuke Takahashi, Dario Di Rosa, Danton Leary, Christine Winter, Caroline Norma, Facundo Garasino, Alexander Brown, Ryota Nishino0, Tessa Morris-Suzuki1 ...
    This book argues that transpacific history cannot be comprehended without including “vertical” connections; namely, those between the southern hemisphere and the northern hemisphere. It explores such connections by uncovering small histories of ordinary people’s attempts at événements which they undertake by means of uneven, unlevel, and multidirectional mobilities. In this way, this book goes ... Read more

    $107.79 USD

  • An Ethics of Political Communication

    by Alexander Brown ...
    Working in the tradition of analytic philosophy, Alexander Brown argues that many different forms of political communication (or anti-communication) that often infuriate the public can also be ethically or morally objectionable. These forms include question dodging, offering scripted answers, stonewalling, not listening, disseminating propaganda, pandering, being insincere, giving false denials, ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Telecoms and Media

    Edited by Alexander Brown ...
    Telecoms and Media, edited by Alexander Brown and Peter Broadhurst of Simmons & Simmons, summarises the main issues related to T&M regulation and policy in a global context including: government policy, WTO Basic Telecommunications Agreement commitments, fixed, mobile and satellite services, radio frequency requirements, next-generation mobile services, authorisation timescales and fees, ... Read more

    $442.99 USD

  • The Politics of Hate Speech Laws

    by Alexander Brown, Adriana Sinclair ...
    This book examines the complex relationship between politics and hate speech laws, domestic and international. How do political contexts shape understandings of what hate speech is and how to deal with it? Why do particular states enact hate speech laws and then apply, extend or reform them in the ways they do? What part does hate speech play in international affairs? Why do some but not all ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Personal Responsibility

    Why It Matters

    by Dr Alexander Brown ...
    Series series Think Now
    Personal responsibility is now very much on the political agenda. But what is personal responsibility? Why do we care about it? And what, if anything, should governments do to promote it?This book explores the idea that individuals bear a special responsibility for the success or failure of their own lives looking at philosophical theories, political ideologies, and public opinion on the subject. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Up from Harlem

    A Pictorial Autobiography

    by R. Alexander Brown ...
    Up From Harlem is an pictorial autobiography of the life and times of Roland Alexander Brown. This book is dedicated to his family and friends who have made his life wonderful and worth living. It is a homage tothe people who have influence his life over the last fifty years, and made him the person he is today. This Biography includes awards, people, education and otherinteresting facts ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Anti-nuclear Protest in Post-Fukushima Tokyo

    Power Struggles

    by Alexander Brown ...
    Series series Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) East Asian Series
    This book explores the politics of anti-nuclear activism in Tokyo after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of March 2011. Analyzing the protests in the context of a longer history of citizen activism in Tokyo, it also situates the movement within the framework of a global struggle for democracy, from the Arab Spring to Occupy Wall Street.By examining the anti-nuclear movement at both urban and ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • A Theory of Legitimate Expectations for Public Administration

    by Alexander Brown ...
    It is an unfortunate but unavoidable feature of even well-ordered democratic societies that governmental administrative agencies often create legitimate expectations (procedural or substantive) on the part of non-governmental agents (individual citizens, groups, businesses, organizations, institutions, and instrumentalities) but find themselves unable to fulfil those expectations for reasons of ... Read more

    $80.99 USD