|
Showing 1 - 25 of
114 matches in All Departments
'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh
45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so
begins Andre Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived
with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. As one of
France's leading post-war philosophers, Andre Gorz wrote many
influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or
remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to
his dying wife. In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to
D was published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady
marked the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. Andre Gorz
and his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully
side by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could
not live without one another. An international bestseller, Letter
to D is the ultimate love story - and all the more poignant because
it's true.
The aim of this book is to provide insight into Data Science and
Artificial Learning Techniques based on Industry 4.0, conveys how
Machine Learning & Data Science are becoming an essential part
of industrial and academic research. Varying from healthcare to
social networking and everywhere hybrid models for Data Science,
Al, and Machine Learning are being used. The book describes
different theoretical and practical aspects and highlights how new
systems are being developed. Along with focusing on the research
trends, challenges and future of AI in Data Science, the book
explores the potential for integration of advanced AI algorithms,
addresses the challenges of Data Science for Industry 4.0, covers
different security issues, includes qualitative and quantitative
research, and offers case studies with working models. This book
also provides an overview of AI and Data Science algorithms for
readers who do not have a strong mathematical background.
Undergraduates, postgraduates, academicians, researchers, and
industry professionals will benefit from this book and use it as a
guide.
Innovative Engineering with AI Applications Innovative Engineering
with AI Applications demonstrates how we can innovate in different
engineering domains as well as how to make most business problems
simpler by applying AI to them. Engineering advancements combined
with artificial intelligence (AI), have resulted in a
hyper-connected society in which smart devices are not only used to
exchange data but also have increased capabilities. These devices
are becoming more context-aware and smarter by the day. This timely
book shows how organizations, who want to innovate and adapt, can
enter new markets using expertise in various emerging technologies
(e.g. data, AI, system architecture, blockchain), and can build
technology-based business models, a culture of innovation, and
high-performing networks. The book specifies an approach that
anyone can use to better architect, design, and more effectively
build things that are technically novel, useful, and valuable, and
to do so efficiently, on-time, and repeatable. Audience The book is
essential to AI product developers, business leaders in all
industries and organizational domains. Researchers, academicians,
and students in the AI field will also benefit from reading this
book.
'You're 82 years old. You've shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh
45 kilos yet you're still beautiful, graceful and desirable' - so
begins Andre Gorz's 'open love letter' to the woman he has lived
with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him.
As one of France's leading post-war philosophers, Andre Gorz
wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as
widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful
letter to his dying wife.
In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was
published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked
the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. Andre Gorz and
his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side
by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not
live without one another.
An international bestseller, "Letter to D" is the ultimate love
story - and all the more poignant because it's true.
Andre Gorz's earlier books-from Ecology as Politics to Farewell to
the Working Class and Paths to Paradise-have informed and inspired
the most radical currents in Green movements in Europe and America
over the last two decades. In Critique of Economic Reason, he
offers his fullest account to date of the terminal crisis of a
system where every activity and aspiration has been subjected to
the rule of the market. By carefully delineating the existential
and cultural limits of economic rationality, he emphasizes the
urgent need to create a society which rejects the work ethic in
favor of an emancipatory ethic of free time. At the heart of his
alternative is an advocacy not of "full employment," but of an
equal distribution of the diminishing amount of necessary paid
work. He presents a practical strategy for reducing the working
week, and develops a radical version of a guaranteed wage for all.
Above all, he argues that a utopian vision is now the only
realistic proposal, and that "economic reason must be returned to
its true-that is subordinate-place."
After a bomb blast rips through Sikandar Chowk Park, Allahabad,
killing fifty-seven people, a journalist pieces together the lives
of eleven of the dead from the heap of mutilated bodies. Among them
a self-effacing music teacher who won't go abroad on a fellowship
because of his family of stray dogs; an Anglo-Indian widow coping
with the knowledge of her husband's infidelity thirty-five years
ago; a precocious 'problem' child; a firebrand feminist confronting
the sexual misdemeanours of her friend's husband; and a young dalit
woman who defies her marriage and her society and enters into a
relationship with an unemployed Brahmin boy - all ordinary people
leading ordinary lives in a quintessential mofussil Indian
township. Neelum Saran Gour's vibrant prose conjures up a multitude
of characters involved in a maze of relationships, and the dynamics
of events which propel them to Sikandar Chowk Park on the fateful
day. In the process, she crafts a tale at once poignant and witty
which ingeniously addresses contemporary issues of communal and
caste prejudices, bigotry and faith, forgiveness and redemption.
Over the last twenty-five years, Western societies have been
reversing into the future. They are able neither to reproduce
themselves in accordance with past norms, nor to exploit the
unprecedented freedom offered by the savings in working time which
new technology has generated. In this major new book, André Gorz
argues that the societies created by Fordism have been falling
apart and have given way to "non-societies," in which a tiny
dominant stratum has grabbed most of the surplus wealth. In the
absence of any alternative political project, social disintegration
and individual despair have prevailed.
Mainstream economists seek solutions to this "crisis," but Gorz
argues that we are in fact in the grip of a new system which is
abolishing work as we know it. The worst forms of exploitation are
being restored, as each is forced to fight against all (both at the
individual and the national level) in a desperate struggle to
obtain the diminishing supply of work.
In the face of these developments, Gorz argues that we should fight
not against the destruction of work itself (in the sense of stable
employment), but against the new system's efforts to perpetuate the
ideology of work as a source of rights. We should welcome the
reduction in the working hours required to meet our material needs
and should realize the creative potential that this reduction could
release. Through measures such as a sufficient unconditional basic
income for all and new, co-operative economic structures, we can
reclaim work and rebuild a future beyond the wage-based
society.
Get insights and guidance around different challenges within the
industry and what levers you can consider to lead your business
transformation effortlessly enabled by RISE with SAP Key Features *
Gain actionable insights into end-to-end process performance with
process analytics * Scale performance and reliability to accelerate
your journey to cloud and beyond * Get a good overview of the
enabling tools and services which can be leveraged for the
transformation Book Description If you're unsure whether adopting
S/4HANA is the right move for your enterprise, then RISE with SAP
to a Sustainable Enterprise is for you. This is a comprehensive
guide that will help you determine your next steps and build a
business case, while preparing you for all possible scenarios and
helping you make informed decisions during implementation. This
practical guide is packed with clear and detailed advice, including
a run-through of what it takes to design the landscape with RISE
with SAP. You'll gain valuable insight into precisely what services
are available (such as Process Discovery, Data Migration, Fit to
standard approach, what scope items on RISE with SAP should be
considered) and you can make the most of RISE with the SAP-based
model. You'll also get an overview of different industry-based use
cases and how they can be brought to reality with the platform set
up on RISE with SAP offering. By the end of this book, you will be
able to build a detailed business case to determine if RISE with
SAP is the right transformation engine for you. You will also get
to know about an optimized landscape design on RISE with SAP that
addresses the pain points for your implementation / support
activities What you will learn * Understand the typical challenges
organizations and CXOs are facing today with the emerging market
trends * What to consider when creating a business case for RISE
with SAP * Learn different types of deployment options within RISE
with SAP along with other functional and non-functional services *
Recommended approach when adopting S/4HANA with levers such as
Process Discovery, Fit-To-Standard, Data Migration, Testing, and
Automation * Learn the "Art of Possible", when dealing with SAP,
Vendor ecosystem and other cloud products driven by industry use
cases Who This Book Is For This book is for either the client's
CXOs or solutions and enterprise architects who have been working
in the SAP ecosystem and want practical and concise advice on how
to get up and running toward adoption of S/4HANA leveraging RISE
with SAP as the enabling engine. This book is for you also in case
you are working towards creating a business case and trying to
identify all possible best practices around the adoption of RISE
with SAP and the associated industry use cases. Having prior
experience with either SAP or a different ERP will help you get the
most out of this book.
|
Ecologica (Paperback)
Andre Gorz; Translated by Chris Turner
|
R412
Discovery Miles 4 120
|
Ships in 12 - 17 working days
|
Writing in 2007, French social philosopher Andre Gorz was
remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international economic
meltdown of 2008: "The real economy is becoming an appendage of the
speculative bubbles sustained by the finance industry--until that
inevitable point when the bubbles burst, leading to serial bank
crashes and threatening the global system of credit with collapse
and the real economy with a severe, prolonged depression." This
prescient article is collected in Ecologica alongside many of
Gorz's final writings and interviews, which together offer
practical and often path-breaking set of solutions to our current
economic and political problems. In his writings Gorz condemns the
speculative global economic system and anatomizes its terminal
crisis. Advocating an exit from capitalism through the
self-limitation of needs and the networked use of the latest
technologies, he outlines a practical, democratically based
solution to our current predicament. Compiled by Gorz, Ecologica is
intended as a final distillation of his work and thought, a guide
to the survival of our planet. It is a work of political, rather
than scientific ecology--Gorz aruges that the key to planetary
survival is not a surrender to environmental experts and
eco-technocrats, but a switch to non-consumerist modes of living
that would amount to a type of cultural revolution. Praise for
Andre Gorz "To my mind the greatest of modern French social
thinkers."--Herbert Gintis, author of Schooling in Capitalist
America "Gorz's work was always within the Utopian tradition--a
label he welcomed but which was used pejoratively by his opponents.
. . . Many of his derided early warnings about globalization and
environmental degradation have become commonplace discourses in
political debates today. Ultimately, Gorz's Utopianism was
expressed in a very practical sense--we never know how far along
the road we are if we have no idea of the
destination."--Independent
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R398
R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
Hampstead
Diane Keaton, Brendan Gleeson, …
DVD
R49
Discovery Miles 490
|