Tag: World

The British Empire as a World Power Ten Studies


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English | 2001 | ISBN: 0714651516, 1138011118 | EPUB | pages: 296 | 0.6 mb
These ten studies analyse the steps of the formation dance the British danced in the Middle Eastern international system from the late 18th Century to the outbreak of the Cold War.

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Reimagining Capitalism in a Post-Globalization World


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 496 Pages | ISBN : 3031598571 | 63.4 MB
In a world that is grappling with soaring energy costs, widespread inflation, armed conflicts, and the looming specter of trade wars, world leaders and pundits are actively seeking transformative paradigms to usher in a sense of stability, many of them envisioning a reimagination of capitalism. This volume offers a unique Eastern European perspective on this phenomenon. Featuring select contributions presented at the 13th Annual Griffiths School of Management & IT’s Conference on Business, Entrepreneurship and Ethics (GSMAC 2023), this book explores the future of innovation, digital entrepreneurship, digital leadership and management, stakeholder capitalism, corporate social responsibility, among other areas. The enclosed research identifies challenges of the new social, economic, and technological paradigms companies are facing and offers concrete solutions.

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Practical Solutions for Diverse Real-World NLP Applications (Signals and Communication Technology)


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English | January 10, 2024 | ISBN: 3031442598 | 149 pages | MOBI | 5.24 Mb
This book unveils the most advanced techniques and innovative applications in the natural language processing (NLP) field. It uncovers the secrets to enhancing language understanding, and presents practical solutions to different NLP tasks, as text augmentation, paraphrase generation, and restoring spaces and punctuation in multiple languages. It unlocks the potential of hierarchical multi-task learning for cross-lingual phoneme recognition, and allows readers to explore more real-world applications such as error correction, aggregating industrial security findings as well as predicting music emotion values from social media conversations. "Practical Solutions for Diverse Real-World NLP Applications" is the suitable guidebook for researchers, students, and practitioners as it paves the way for them by delivering invaluable insights and knowledge.

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Old Age in the Roman World A Cultural and Social History


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English | ISBN: 080187128X | 2003 | 520 pages | PDF | 23 MB
Classical authors such as Cicero and Plutarch would have us believe that the elderly were revered, active citizens of ancient Rome. But upon closer inspection, it appears that older people may not have enjoyed as respected or as powerful a place in Roman society as has been supposed.

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Machine Learning for Real World Applications


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English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 815 Pages | ISBN : 9819718996 | 89.8 MB
This book provides a comprehensive coverage of machine learning techniques ranging from fundamental to advanced. The content addresses topics within the scope of the book from the ground up, providing readers with a trustworthy source of theoretical and technical learning content. The book emphasizes not only the theoretical features but also their practical and implementation aspects in real-world applications. These applications are crucial because they provide comprehensive experimental work that supports the validity of the offered approaches as well as clear instructions on how to apply such models in comparable and distinct settings and contexts. Furthermore, the chapters shed light on the problems and possibilities that researchers might use to direct their future research efforts. The book is beneficial for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, and industry personnel.

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King of the World The Life of Cyrus the Great


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English | June 17, 2022 | ISBN: 0190927178 | True PDF | 272 pages | 31.7 MB
The Persian Empire was the world’s first hyperpower, with territory stretching from Central Asia to Northeastern Africa and from Southeastern Europe to the Indus Valley. It was the dominant geopolitical force from the later sixth century to its conquest by Alexander in the 330s BCE. Much of the empire’s territory was conquered by its founder, Cyrus the Great, who reigned from 559-530 BCE. Cyrus became a legend in his own lifetime, and his career inspired keen interest from Persia’s unruly neighbors to the west, the ancient Greeks. The idealized portrait of Cyrus by the Greek Xenophon had a profound impact on ancient, medieval, and early modern debates about rulership.

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Kazuo Ishiguro Against World Literature


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English | ISBN: 1501388428 | 2024 | 192 pages | PDF | 3 MB
A study of how Kazuo Ishiguro’s novels respond to and represent the world through characters that are profoundly limited in their understanding of the systems that bind them.

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Inheritance The Evolutionary Origins of the Modern World


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English | August 20th, 2024 | ISBN: 067429162X | 368 pages | True EPUB | 1.40 MB
"An insightful and breathtaking exploration of humanity’s evolutionary baggage that explains some of our species’ greatest successes and failures." -Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens

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