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  • Output to Outcome

    An Operating Model for the Age of AI

    by Mik Kersten ...
    In the Age of AI, the constraint has shifted from producing outputs to delivering outcomes.As AI automates knowledge work at unprecedented scale, most organizations remain trapped measuring the wrong things—lines of code, features delivered, and other outputs that AI can now produce almost for free. The real constraint has shifted to organizational structure and the ability to turn strategy into ... Read more

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  • The Last Counterfeiter

    The Story of Fake Money, Real Art, and Forging the Impossible $100 Bill

    by Jason Kersten ...
    "The heart of this wonderful book, which reads like the script for a caper movie...as Williams improvises his way to becoming an expert counterfeiter." — Washington Post (Best Book of the Year selection)When Art Williams Jr.'s father abandoned the family and his bipolar mother lost her mind, a life of crime in Chicago quickly claimed him. Parking meter theft led to robbing drug dealers before Art ... Read more

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  • Demystifying the Caliphate

    Historical Memory and Contemporary Contexts

    In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of apprehension and disdain, as if they were the first steps towards usurping democracy. Yet these images and perceptions have little to do with reality. While some Muslims may be nostalgic for the Caliphate, only ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Glocal Metamodernisms

    European Fiction after Postmodernism

    Series series Studies in Metamodernism: Theory and Criticism across the Disciplines
    This volume explores how the contemporary European novel reflects the tensions between local and global conceptualizations of Metamodernism.Each chapter explicitly addresses metamodern novels' “glocality” in relation to international Metamodernism theory from a variety of perspectives including Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Spanish and Ukrainian. By bringing together insights into the ... Read more

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  • How important were spirituals & folk songs for the life of enslaved African Americans in the antebellum South?

    Essay from the year 2010 in the subject History - America, grade: 1,3, York University, language: English, abstract: Every study of the culture of black people in America inevitably reveals statements about the relationship between black and white Americans. In this essay this will not be a side effect but intended. On the following pages I want to put up the question whether spirituals – songs of ... Read more

    $7.04 USD

  • Hybrid Justice

    Innovation and Impact in the Prosecution of Atrocity Crimes

    Series series International Courts and Tribunals Series
    The last decade has seen the unexpected re-emergence of hybrid and internationalised courts - institutions which operate with varying combinations of national and international law, procedure, and staff. Whilst the establishment of the permanent International Criminal Court should have made hybrid mechanisms largely obsolete, hybrids have recently been established or proposed for atrocity crimes ... Read more

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  • The Dawn Fisherman

    Friedrich Miescher and the Discovery of DNA

    Series series History (R0)
    Thanks to blockbuster movies about superheroes and cloned dinosaurs, DNA now is an icon in popular culture. Yet if asked who discovered DNA, most people – including most scientists – would probably think of Watson and Crick, unaware that it all began almost a century earlier.This book tells the story of Swiss scientist Friedrich Miescher, whose pioneering work led to the discovery of DNA. Drawing ... Read more

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  • Democracy in Post-War Japan

    Maruyama Masao and the Search for Autonomy

    by Rikki Kersten ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    Democracy in Post-War Japan assesses the development of democracy through the writings of the brilliant political thinker Maruyama Masao. The author explores the significance of Maruyama's notion of personal and social autonomy and its impact on the development of a distinctively Japanese democratic ideal.This book, based on contemporary documents and on interviews with Maruyama, is the only full ... Read more

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  • Justice in Conflict

    The Effects of the International Criminal Court's Interventions on Ending Wars and Building Peace

    by Mark Kersten ...
    What happens when the international community simultaneously pursues peace and justice in response to ongoing conflicts? What are the effects of interventions by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on the wars in which the institution intervenes? Is holding perpetrators of mass atrocities accountable a help or hindrance to conflict resolution? This book offers an in-depth examination of the ... Read more

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  • NB-IoT Use Cases and Devices

    Design Guide

    by Kersten Heins ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book presents the cellular wireless network standard NB-IoT (Narrow Band-Internet of Things), which addresses many key requirements of the IoT. NB-IoT is a topic that is inspiring the industry to create new business cases and associated products. The author first introduces the technology and typical IoT use cases. He then explains NB-IoT extended network coverage and outstanding power saving ... Read more

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  • The Dynamics of Paratextuality in Late Antique Literature

    Stumbling Texts

    Series series sera tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception
    Through an examination of paratextuality in late antique literature, this collection of essays reconsiders the importance of the written material that appears in the margins of ancient poetic texts.Paratexts such as headings, prefaces, letters et al. have largely been skimmed over or completely disregarded in favour of the main ancient work. However, there is now a new wave of scholarship that ... Read more

    $32.99 USD