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Dominant Algorithms to Evaluate Artificial Intelligence: From the View of Throughput Model (2022)
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Rodgers, W. (2022). Dominant Algorithms to Evaluate Artificial Intelligence: From the View of Throughput Model. Bentham Science Publishers. https://doi.org/10.2174/97898150495411220101

This book describes the Throughput Model methodology that can enable individuals and organizations to better identify, understand, and use algorithms to solve daily problems. The Throughput Model is a progressive model intended to advance the artific... Read More about Dominant Algorithms to Evaluate Artificial Intelligence: From the View of Throughput Model.

The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead (2022)
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Williams, T., Samset, K., & Holst Volden, G. (Eds.). (2022). The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003257172

Large public projects represent major complex investment and whilst there has been much written about how to develop, manage and deliver such projects, practice still does not match up with expectations. In this book, researchers from the Norwegian C... Read More about The Front-end of Large Public Projects: Paradoxes and Ways Ahead.

Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (2022)
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Pearson, R. (in press). Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Thoresby Society

This book offers the first comprehensive account of all aspects of life in the industrial out-townships of Leeds, including their social, economic, political, religious, educational and cultural histories, during their period of transition from eight... Read More about Knowing One's Place: Community and Class in the Industrial Suburbs of Leeds during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.

Supporting Course and Programme Leaders: Practical Wisdom for Leaders, Educational Developers and Programme Leaders (2022)
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Lawrence, J., Morón-García, S., & Senior, R. (Eds.). (2022). Supporting Course and Programme Leaders: Practical Wisdom for Leaders, Educational Developers and Programme Leaders. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003127413

Offering research- and evidence-based approaches that explore the essential components of programme leadership in higher education, this book is designed to define, develop and support the programme leadership role and all those who undertake it.

Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World (2022)
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Damousi, J., Burnard, T., & Lester, A. (Eds.). (2022). Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World. Manchester University Press

This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth... Read More about Humanitarianism, empire and transnationalism, 1760-1995: selective humanity in the Anglophone World.

The Republic, Secularism and Security: France versus the Burqa and the Niqab (2022)
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Cohen-Almagor, R. (2022). The Republic, Secularism and Security: France versus the Burqa and the Niqab. (1). Springer

This book analyses French cultural policies in the face of what the French government perceives as a challenge to its Republican secular raison d'être. It makes general arguments about France’s changing identity and specific arguments about the burqa... Read More about The Republic, Secularism and Security: France versus the Burqa and the Niqab.

The Poetry of Life : Understanding Human Control Systems and the Brilliance of their Design and Function (2022)
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St Clair Gibson, A. (2022). The Poetry of Life : Understanding Human Control Systems and the Brilliance of their Design and Function. UK Book Publishing

A coherent series of 60 essays examining all aspects of life and its control, from basic body and mind function, to mroe generic theories of mechanisms underpinning life, and then on to philosophical issues associated with life as we know it.

Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002 (2022)
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Pearson, R. (2022). Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-94088-1

Rapid structural change resulting from system collapse is less common in insurance than in the history of other financial institutions. One exception was the crisis at the Lloyd’s insurance market in the late twentieth century. Hitherto, explanations... Read More about Delusions of Competence: The Near-Death of Lloyd’s of London 1970 - 2002.

Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948 (2022)
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Johnston, H., Godfrey, B., & Cox, D. J. (2022). Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948. McGill-Queen's University Press

Penal Servitude is the first comprehensive study to examine the convict prison system that housed all those sentenced to penal servitude during this time. The research details the administration and evolution of the system, from its creation in the 1... Read More about Penal Servitude: Convicts and long-term imprisonment, 1853-1948.

Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery (2022)
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Byrne, J. (2022). Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery. Liverpool University Press

Beyond Trawlertown takes a journey through the British distant-water fishery and its port-city connections in an era of disruption. In 1976, defeat in the Anglo-Icelandic Cod Wars saw the British trawling fleet excluded from their traditional hunting... Read More about Beyond Trawlertown: Life and legacy in the wake of Hull's distant-water trawl fishery.

Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe (2021)
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Knudsen, B. T., Oldfield, J., Buettner, E., & Zabunyan, E. (Eds.). (2021). Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003100102

Decolonizing Colonial Heritage explores how different agents practice the decolonization of European colonial heritage at European and extra-European locations. Assessing the impact of these practices, the book also explores what a new vision of Euro... Read More about Decolonizing Colonial Heritage: New Agendas, Actors and Practices in and beyond Europe.

A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime (2021)
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O’Leary, N. (2021). A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87679-1

Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map. For politicians, newspapers, the media and the public at large, criminal injury and loss are a source of constant concern and anxiety. Criminologists and media analysts have... Read More about A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime.

Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing (2021)
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(2021). J. Shattock, J. Wilkes, K. Newey, & V. Sanders (Eds.), Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003199861

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century. Volume I of four explores the subjects of life-writing, including biography, autobiography, diaries and letters. This volume will be of gre... Read More about Literary and Cultural Criticism from the Nineteenth Century. Volume 1: Life Writing.