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Morir es un Alivio (2021)
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Garcia-Reyes, K. (2021). Morir es un Alivio. Planeta

Dying is a Relief is a new book by Dr. Karina García Reyes based on interviews conducted with men who previously worked in various roles for criminal groups in Mexico (original title in Spanish: Morir es un Alivio, Planeta, 2021).

Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design (2021)
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Yang, C., Zeng, C., & Zhang, J. (2021). Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design. CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003119173

In the last decades robots are expected to be of increasing intelligence to deal with a large range of tasks. Especially, robots are supposed to be able to learn manipulation skills from humans. To this end, a number of learning algorithms and techni... Read More about Robot Learning Human Skills and Intelligent Control Design.

The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture (2021)
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Stiegler, C. (2021). The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press (MIT Press)

The 360° Gaze is the first comprehensive study that traces immersive experiences across a wide range of media and cultural practices in postmodern culture. With its interdisciplinary methodology, this book reveals the intersections between immersive... Read More about The 360° Gaze: Immersions in Media, Society and Culture.

Policing County Lines: Responses to Evolving Provincial Drug Markets (2021)
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Spicer, J. (2021). Policing County Lines: Responses to Evolving Provincial Drug Markets. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54193-4

The County Lines phenomenon has become one of the most significant drug market developments in the UK over recent years. This book analyses how it is being responded to by the police in affected provincial areas. Drawing on unique ethnographic fieldw... Read More about Policing County Lines: Responses to Evolving Provincial Drug Markets.

Irúsan or, canting for architects (2020)
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Drofiak, N. (2020). Irúsan or, canting for architects. Zurich: gta Verlag / ETH Zurich

In 1931, architect Ivan Il’icˇ Leonidov was sent 2,800 kilometres northeast of Moscow to assist in constructing the new Soviet arctic port of Igarka. The city, though presented as an inscription of the future into the vast void of Siberia, in fact st... Read More about Irúsan or, canting for architects.

Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries (2020)
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Galt, F. (2020). Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries. Bristol: Bristol University Press

Frances C. Galt explores the role of trade unions and women’s activism in the British film and television industries in this important contribution to debates around gender inequality. The book traces the influence of the union for technicians and... Read More about Women's Activism Behind the Screens: Trade Unions and Gender Inequality in the British Film and Television Industries.

Emotion in the Digital Age: Technologies, Data and Psychosocial Life (2020)
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Ellis, D., & Tucker, I. (2020). Emotion in the Digital Age: Technologies, Data and Psychosocial Life. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315108322

Emotion in the Digital Age examines how emotion is understood, researched and experienced in relation to practices of digitisation and datafication said to constitute a digital age. The overarching concern of the book is with how emotion operates in,... Read More about Emotion in the Digital Age: Technologies, Data and Psychosocial Life.

Market Manipulation and Insider Trading – Regulatory Challenges in the United States of America, the European Union and the United Kingdom (2019)
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Ryder, N., & Herlin-Karnell, E. (2019). Market Manipulation and Insider Trading – Regulatory Challenges in the United States of America, the European Union and the United Kingdom. (1). London, UK: Hart Publishing

The European Union regime for fighting market manipulation and insider trading – commonly referred to as market abuse – was significantly reshuffled in the wake of the financial crisis of 2007/2008 and new legal instruments to fight market abuse were... Read More about Market Manipulation and Insider Trading – Regulatory Challenges in the United States of America, the European Union and the United Kingdom.

Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of R. S. Thomas (2018)
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Rogers, S. (2018). K. Stavreva (Ed.), Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of R. S. Thomas. Gale Researcher

R. S. Thomas was one of the major British poets of the twentieth century. He is particularly celebrated in his native Wales, and his poetry is recognized as vital for defining and contesting Welsh nationhood, history, landscape, and identity. While h... Read More about Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of R. S. Thomas.

Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of Hugh MacDiarmid (2018)
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Rogers, S. (2018). K. Stavreva (Ed.), Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of Hugh MacDiarmid. Gale Researcher

C. M. Grieves played a crucial role in Scottish public life and, under his famous pseudonym — Hugh MacDiarmid — produced some of the world’s most important poetry of the first half of the twentieth century. MacDiarmid is best known for his innovation... Read More about Gale Researcher Guide for: Britain's Languages and Regional Literatures: The Case of Hugh MacDiarmid.

Directing CyberTheatre (2013)
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Salihbegovic, F. (2013). Directing CyberTheatre. Belgrade, Serbia: University of Arts, Belgrade

In a series of essays assembled under the heading 'Directing Cyber Theatre', Salihbegovic is offering his understanding about several technical and aesthetic aspects of the contemporary digital performance and 'cyber theatre' as vast, versatile, and... Read More about Directing CyberTheatre.