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Macroeconomic theoreticians and statisticians have diverged in recent years and no longer speak the same language with the same words often having different meanings. This book maps the differences between macroeconomic theory and measurement and explores their intellectual, historical and, in some cases, ideological origins.

The Handbook of Forgiveness, 2nd edition consolidates research from a wide range of disciplines and offers an in-depth review of the science of forgiveness..

This state-of-the-art volume offers comprehensive coverage of socio-cultural approaches to science as well as analysing new theoretical developments and incorporating discussions about future directions within the field. This handbook is an essential reference for anyone with an interest in this area.

This book will help students of Computer Science and Information Science to get a better understanding of Biometric Computing and its related analysis for identification and recognition. It provides information on biometric traits such as fingerprint, face recognition, palmprint, Iris scan etc.

This book is a collection of sixteen empirical cases in critical Cross-Cultural Management (CCM). All cases approach culture in CCM beyond national cultures, and all examine power as an integrative part of any cross-cultural situation.

This book examines one of Amnesty International¿s first major campaigns against torture, and the impact this had on the organization¿s development of a new agenda. It makes a strong contribution to research on state crime, human rights, and torture.

Statistical methods for sequential hypothesis testing and changepoint detection have applications across many fields. This book presents an overview of methodology in these related areas, providing a synthesis of research from the last few decades.

This collection explores the work of Wilfrid Sellars in relation to other twentieth-century thinkers. It analyzes his thought in light of his influential predecessors, namely Wittgenstein, Carnap, Lewis, Hönigswald, Wilson, and Ajdukiewicz, and his place within the analytic tradition.

With more than three decades of experience as a thought-leader and expert practitioner, PMI® Fellow Dr. David Hillson shares practical insights into how positive risks can be identified, assessed, and turned into opportunities.

This book examines the complex encounters between Polish migrant women and local populations in Manchester and Barcelona, with attention to the ways in which difference is negotiated and managed through everyday practices of conviviality, which help to overcome hierarchies and create elements of sameness.

This book develops a virtue-based defense of the value of perinatal hospice. Engaging with important themes from the work of MacIntyre and Adams, it shows how perinatal hospice manifests virtues crucial to meeting the needs of families in these difficult circumstances.

Organised as a dialogue between nature and design, this book explores design ideas, opportunities, visions and practices through relating and uncovering experience of the natural world.

Using textual analysis, interviews with game designers, audience surveys and close analysis of player forum discussion, this book examines the unique nature of the producer/consumer relationship within promotional Alternate Reality Games (ARGs).

This book provides a comprehensive interpretation of the multiple manifestations of populism using Italy, the only country amongst consolidated constitutional democracies in which populist political forces have been in government on various occasions since the early 1990s, as the starting point and bench mark.

In this collection, an eminent authority on the history of political thought and on the intellectual history of modern Hellenism employs his twin academic specializations in political science and in intellectual history to understand the intricacies of the historical experience of his native island.

The aim of this book is to provide the background of the warp knitting patterning with a large amount of simulated 3D images of the structures, corresponding to the modern available tools for this. The warp knitted structures can have very complex architectures and very limited understanding exists on how they are built. The pattern book will allow the readers to look at complex pattern with marked separated yarns with different colours to understand how they are bound while searching for relations between the architectures and their properties. It also includes architecture of the warp knitted structures along with technical know-how of production of these structures on machines.