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This enlightening book comprehensively maps the current state of
economic psychology and behavioural economics. Exploring key
concepts, topics and models in the field, it is also a launching
pad for future research, providing useful insights on how to make
good personal and professional decisions, advancing microeconomic
discourse. The book lays out how economic decisions are made by
answering key questions in the bordering field between economics
and psychology. Close to the ecological rationality research
program, it presents the main factors that determine economic
choices, before exploring the most common algorithms used to
concretize economic decisions and the main strategies for altering
preferences. Chapters focus on the general issues surrounding
economic choices, such as preferences, beliefs and emotions, and on
the heuristic algorithms applied by people in decision-making
processes, among which there are outstanding social concerns.
Drawing these elements together, the author presents a seminal
model combining preferences and heuristics to explain choices in
the consumption of goods and services. This book will be an
invaluable resource for academic and professional economists
seeking to deepen their understanding of the psychological
dimension of economic decisions. It will also be a useful guide for
students of economics, management and the wider social sciences
curious about decision-making procedures.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Software is an integral part of our lives today. Modern software
systems are highly complex and often pose new challenges in
different aspects of Software Engineering (SE).Artificial
Intelligence (AI) is a growing field in computer science that has
been proven effective in applying and developing AI techniques to
address various SE challenges.This unique compendium covers
applications of state-of-the-art AI techniques to the key areas of
SE (design, development, debugging, testing, etc).All the materials
presented are up-to-date. This reference text will benefit
researchers, academics, professionals, and postgraduate students in
AI, machine learning and software engineering.Related Link(s)
Intellectual property (IP) has become one of the most influential
and controversial issues in today's knowledge-based society. This
challenging book exposes the reader to key issues at the heart of
the public debate now taking place in the field of IP. It considers
IP at the macro level where it affects many issues. These include:
international trade policy, ownership of breakthrough technologies,
foreign direct investment, innovation climates, public-private
partnerships, competition rules and public health where it is
strongly embedded in contemporary business decision making. Meir
Pugatch has assembled an international and diverse cast of
contributing authors, who offer new insights into a broad span of
the most pressing IP-related issues. They shed light on the
increasing dominance of IP in the design and execution of basic and
applied research, the evaluation of intangible assets, and the
protection and management of knowledge assets, underscoring its
importance in relation to national economic development strategies
and business strategies of knowledge-based industries and
companies. The Intellectual Property Debate will appeal to
scholars, practitioners, and government officials interested in the
fields of international trade and intellectual property policy,
intellectual property law, technology transfer and valuation, and
international business.
A moving account of survival and faith from Israel Meir Lau, a
Holocaust survivor and former Chief Rabbi of Israel, with forewords
by former President of Israel Shimon Peres and the bestselling
author of Night, Elie Wiesel—both Nobel Peace Prize laureates.
 One of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, Israel Meir
Lau was just eight years old when the camp was liberated in 1945.
Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to
become Chief Rabbi of Israel--and like many of the great rabbis,
Lau is a master storyteller. Out of the Depths is his harrowing,
miraculous, and inspiring account of life in one of the Nazis’
deadliest concentration camps and how he managed to survive against
all possible odds. Lau, who lost most of his family in the
Holocaust, also chronicles his life after the war, including his
emigration to Mandate Palestine during a period that coincides with
the development of the State of Israel. The story continues through
the present day, with that once-lost boy of eight now a brilliant,
charismatic, and world-revered figure who has visited with three
popes, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, and countless global
leaders, including Queen Elizabeth, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama,
and Tony Blair.  Lau’s insightful reflections on his
experiences during the Holocaust and World War II make Out of the
Depths a compelling tribute to the strength and resilience of the
human spirit. Originally published in Hebrew under the title Do Not
Raise a Hand Against the Boy, this is a deeply inspiring and
powerful memoir for readers of Holocaust books such as The Daughter
of Auschwitz and Man’s Search for Meaning. Â
Every hand is the map of a life, revealing the past and the
potential of the future. Both a science and an art, hand analysis
can provide a key to assessing accurately an individual's physical
and psychological nature.
Mir Bashir's classic work is renowned for its comprehensive
exploration of the art of hand reading. The text carefully explores
and explains the two methods of analysis: cheirognomy and
cheiromancy.
Cheirognomy is the study of the shape of the hand, finger
formations, nails, skin texture and the eight mounts of the hand.
Cheiromancy is the interpretation of the lines and markings
engraved on the palm's surface. Mir Bashir considers the seven
major lines, as well as treating in detail the wealth of minor and
unusual signs and marks.
This new edition of The Art of Hand Analysis contains over 400
illustrations, providing the reader with a visual encyclopaedia to
accompany this authoritative text.
By combining careful analysis with experience and intuition, Mir
Bashir demonstrates that divination through hand reading is neither
superstition nor game, but a path to self-discovery and a wonderful
way to satisfy age-old curiosity.
The essays collected here, prepared by a think tank of the Elijah
Interfaith Academy, explore the challenges associated with sharing
wisdom-learning, teachings, messages for good living-between
members of different faith traditions. In a globalized age, when
food, music, and dress are shared freely, how should religions go
about sharing their wisdom? The essays, representing six faith
traditions (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist),
explore what wisdom means in each of these traditions, why it
should be shared-internally and externally-and how it should be
shared. A primary concern is the form of appropriate sharing, so
that the wisdom of the specific tradition maintains its integrity
in the process of sharing. Authors reflect on specific wisdoms
their tradition has or should share, as well as what it has to
receive from other faiths. Special emphasis is placed on the themes
of love and forgiveness and how these illustrate the principles of
common sharing. Love and humility emerge as strong motivators for
sharing wisdom and for doing so in a way that respects the
tradition from which the wisdom comes as well as the recipient.
This book offers a theory that can enrich ongoing encounters
between members of faith traditions by suggesting a tradition-based
practice of sharing the wisdom of traditions, while preserving the
integrity of the teaching and respecting the identity of the one
with whom wisdom is shared.
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The Unheard Voices
Saima Mir
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This collection of essays celebrates 10 years of the SI Leeds
Literary prize for unpublished fiction by Black and Asian women
writers. These are important words spoken by important women about
the lives they have lived, their experiences, and all the things
they’ve really wanted to write about but have had trouble getting
commissioned, due to narrow expectations of the publishing
industry. Essays include: Why I Write, Discouragement and Courage,
The Versions of Me You Do Not See, Three Wise Women, Writing, Race
and Sex. Contributing writers include Suad Kamardeen, Yasmin
Alibhai-Brown, Gail Boland, Irenosen Okojie, Wenyan Lu, Amita
Murray, Mahsuda Snaith, Shereen Tadros, Winnie M Li, Fiona Goh,
Saima Mir, Huma Qureshi.
Have urban schools failed, or has reform failed urban schools? This
book examines existing urban school programs, ranging from
desegregation to reading improvement, in light of available
historical, empirical, and case study evidence. Miron and St. John
and their contributors probe the underlying theoretical, normative,
and political assumptions embedded in specific reform initiatives.
They explore how reforms might be reconstructed to better address
the underlying challenges and they demonstrate that reforms can be
constructively critiqued throughout the stages of implementation,
arguing that greater attention should be paid to ethnic and
cultural traditions within urban, educational settings.
This book takes a multi-disciplinary critique of economics' first
principles: the fundamental and inter-related structuring
assumptions that underlie the neo-classical paradigm. These
assumptions, that economic agents are rational, self-interested
individuals, continue to influence the teaching of economics,
research agendas and policy analyses. The book argues that both the
theoretical understanding of the economy and the actual working of
real-world market economies diminish the scope for thinking about
the relation between ethics, economics, and the economy. It
highlights how market economies may "crowd out" ethical behavior
and our evaluation of them elides ethical reflection. The book
calls for a more pluralistic and richer approach to economic
theory, one that allows ample room for ethical considerations. It
provides insight into understanding human motivations and human
flourishing and how a good economy requires reflection on the
ethical relations between the self, world, and time.
With stunning photographs from the ice edge, a firsthand account of
a researcher’s time in Antarctica and of the perilous journeys of
the world’s largest penguin species: the iconic emperor. Â
Nearly all emperor penguin colonies are extremely remote; of the
sixty-six known, fewer than thirty have been visited by humans, and
even fewer have been the subject of successful research programs.
One of the largest known emperor penguin colonies is found on a
narrow band of sea ice attached to the Antarctic continent. In
Journeys with Emperors, Gerald L. Kooyman and Jim Mastro take us to
this far-flung colony in the Ross Sea, showing us how scientists
gained access to it, and what they learned while living among the
penguins as they raised their chicks. Â The primary mission
was to record the birds’ activities at sea, and the data revealed
important aspects of emperor penguin behavior and physiology: for
instance, that in the course of hunting for food, some of the
penguins dive to depths of greater than five hundred meters (a
third of a mile, which is deeper than for any other diving bird).
The researchers also discovered that, crucially, most of the
emperor’s life is actually spent at sea, with fledged chicks and
adults making separate, perilous journeys through icy water. When
chick nurturing is complete, the fledglings abandon the colony in
large groups, heading north to the Southern Ocean. The adults leave
at the same time, traveling one thousand kilometers eastward across
the Ross Sea to a sea-ice sanctuary for molting. During this
journey, they must gain enough weight to survive the month-long
molt, when every feather is replaced and the birds cannot enter the
water to feed. After the molt, many if not most return to the
colony to breed once again. For the males, this means another
fast—this time for 120 days as they incubate their eggs. The
nearness of the colony to the ice edge spared the penguins the
long, energy-draining march for which other colonies are
well-known. It also allowed researchers to observe the penguins’
departures to and arrivals from their foraging journeys, as well as
their dangerous interactions with leopard seals and killer whales.
 Featuring original color photographs and complemented with
online videos, Journeys with Emperors is both an eye-opening
overview of the emperor penguin’s life and a thrilling tale of
scientific discovery in one of the most remote, harsh, and
beautiful places on Earth.
Discusses the importance, threats, and management of biodiversity
of freshwater ecosystems Provides detailed coverage of modern and
updated techniques used in the evaluation and conservation of
freshwater biodiversity Looks at the impact of pesticides pollution
on freshwater environs on aquatic and terrestrial life Reviews how
global climate change affects freshwater biodiversity
This book presents a methodology for the design, construction,
monitoring, optimization, and post-occupancy evaluation of net-zero
and positive-energy communities based on the experiences gained in
the EU Horizon 2020 ZERO-PLUS project. It describes the steps,
tools, and methods developed during the project, providing
practical information for the energy and construction sector that
will be of interest to students, engineers, architects, developers,
and professionals working around high performance architecture and
sustainable communities. Through the ZERO-PLUS project, a
consortium of 32 partners from 8 countries, including academic
institutions, technology providers, architects, and construction
companies designed four communities covering completely different
geo-climatic regions, construction practices, and cultural
backgrounds in Cyprus, Italy, France, and the UK. The communities
were designed, optimized, constructed, monitored, handed over to
tenants, post-occupancy evaluated, and troubleshooted through a
system of continuous collaboration and data acquisition. This book
presents these case studies and shows how the project targets of
reducing electricity consumption below 20 kWh/sq.m./y, increasing
electricity production from Renewable Energy Systems to over 50
kWh/sq.m./y and at cheaper costs when compared to current zero
energy buildings, were reached and surpassed. These cases
demonstrate that a holistic and interactive approach to design and
construction can bring communities a high standard of
sustainability. The key features of the book include: • Practical
guidance drawn from the interdisciplinary, international, and
remote cooperation between experts from academia and industry
across the construction sector • A survey of the state of the art
on net-zero and positive-energy communities, including the
experience and the lessons learned from previous projects and from
the ZERO-PLUS project • Descriptions of novel emerging renewable
energy technologies, integrated into real case study communities to
achieve the energy generation target of the communities • A
comprehensive set of approaches, tools, guidelines, best practices,
challenges, and lessons learned from the 5-year ZERO-PLUS project
and the completion of four residential case studies to inform the
reader of how to achieve affordable net-zero energy communities •
Four typologies of residential communities located in different
climatic conditions are presented touching on the critical aspects
of the design, construction, monitoring, and occupancy phase • A
discussion of future trends for developing communities that are
more liveable, accessible, and sustainable, and which can comply
with new energy policies in a way that is affordable for the owners
and residents.
This much-needed picture book about navigating the difficult
experience of pregnancy loss meets young readers at their level to
offer a tender look at grieving someone who never entered the
world. Raya can’t wait for her baby sister to arrive. She’s
already got a name—Nura—and Raya is certain they’ll be best
friends. She’s got all kinds of plans for things they’ll do
together like run through the sprinklers, play dress-up, and give
piggyback rides. But one day, Mama returns from the doctor with
tears in her eyes. Nura won’t be coming home after all. Raya
feels confused and sad, like all the love she has for Nura is
trapped inside her. With the help of family, friends, and her
school counselor, though, Raya finds a way to grieve this loss and
to share the love she’ll always feel for her sister.
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