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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part I Darcy Ribeiro's Pathways -- 1 Darcy Ribeiro, the Brazilian -- 2 Darcy Ribeiro, the Latin American Citizen -- 3 "Our Destiny" -- Part II The Civilisational Process -- 4 Civilisations, Totality, and Heterogeneity -- 5 Darcy Ribeiro's Theory of History -- Part III The Americas, the Latin America and the Brazilian People -- 6 Rewriting the Americas' History -- 7 Does Latin America Exist? -- 8 The Brazilian People: Integration and Heterogeneity -- Part IV Promising Dialogues and Epistemological Turns -- 9 Darcy Ribeiro: Interfaces with Black Intellectuals -- 10 Post(de)colonial Conversations -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Representing the first in-depth qualitative study of how social media such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are used to mediate contentious public parades and protests in Northern Ireland, this book explores the implications of mis-and dis-information spread via online platforms for peacebuilding in societies transitioning out of conflict

"The tenth century was a formative period for Islamic culture and Adam Mez's Renaissance of Islam offers a detailed survey of the Muslim world during that period. No other single work covers the subject as comprehensively. Mez drew upon a vast range of sources to produce a detailed account of all aspects of Islamic culture and society - finance, religion, geography, industry and trade, law, morals, navigation, etc. The result is a lucid and engaging work that even today remains a key resource for researchers and students alike. The original edition is now very rare. This new edition, introduced by Julia Bray, one of the leading scholars of the period, makes the work available once again and includes a bibliography and index specially prepared for this edition"--Bloomsbury website

Here are essays on the post-modern reception and interpretation of the Middle Ages. The first part of the book features four short essays that directly address manifestations of sexism in postmedieval responses to the Middle Ages: gender substitutions in a Grail Quest episode of the 2023 television series 'Mrs. Davis', repurposed misogyny in the last two episodes of 'Game of Thrones' (2011-19), traditional gender stereotypes in Capital One's credit card commercials from 2000 to 2013, and 'shaggy' medievalism in Robert Eggers' 2022 film 'The Northman'. The second part contains ten longer essays, which collectively continue to demonstrate the ubiquity of gender issues and the extraordinary flexibility of approaches to them

Delivering a Climate Neutral Europe summarises the achievements of twenty-five years of EU Climate Policy, with the emphasis on what has been achieved under the Green Deal. It also highlights climate issues on the table of policy makers in the next European policy cycle 2024-2029.

Front Cover -- Ethics in Online AI-based Systems -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Part I. Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Applications for Education -- Part II. Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Autonomous Services and Systems -- Part III. Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence Models and Experiences -- Part IV. Ethical Implications of Artificial Intelligence in Social and Political Involvement -- Final words -- Acknowledgments -- I. Ethical implications of artificial intelligence in applications for education -- 1 Adverse effects of intelligent support of CSCL-the ethics of conversational agents -- Introduction -- Conversational agents for collaborative learners -- How can CSCL agents interact with the learner? -- Effectiveness, advantages, and limits of agents in CSCL -- From general ethical frameworks for AI-based systems to area-specific considerations for CSCL agent design -- Breaking down high-level frameworks: overlap or disjoint? -- Classifying human-agent communication -- Who should be adapting to whom in CSCL settings? -- AI ethics and pedagogical ethics: clashing perspectives? -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Navigating the ethical landscape of multimodal learning analytics: a guiding framework -- Introduction -- Background and literature review -- Multimodal learning analytics: background, history, and aims -- The ethics of MMLA in education -- Methodology -- Participants -- Data collection -- Data analysis -- Result -- Theme 1: The emerging need for an ethical framework for MMLA -- Theme 2: Privacy, surveillance, and intrusiveness issues with MMLA -- Theme 3: Student agency over their learning and data ownership -- Theme 4: Trustworthiness of MMLA results -- Theme 5: Fairness and bias issues in MMLA systems.

Front Cover -- ADVANCES IN NATURAL GAS: FORMATION, PROCESSING, AND APPLICATIONS -- ADVANCES IN NATURAL GAS: FORMATION, PROCESSING, AND APPLICATIONS Natural Gas Products and Uses -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the editors -- Preface -- Reviewer acknowledgments -- I - Natural gas conversionand applications -- 1 - Introduction to high-value chemicals and energy production from natural gas -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Products from natural gas -- 2. Natural gas processing -- 3. Products from natural gas -- 3.1 Ammonia from natural gas -- 3.2 Acetic acid from methane -- 3.3 Methanol from natural gas -- 3.4 Propane from natural gas -- 3.5 Hydrogen from natural gas -- 4. Energy production from natural gas -- 5. Conclusion and future outlooks -- Abbreviations and symbols -- References -- 2 - Economic assessments and cost analysis of natural gas utilization as an energy production source -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Economic assessment principles and procedures -- 2.1 Capital cost and its elements -- 2.2 Operational cost and its elements -- 2.3 Analyses technique for economic feasibility -- 3. Cost analysis of natural gas utilization cases -- 4. Conclusion and future outlooks -- Abbreviations and symbols -- References -- 3 - Case studies on the natural gas conversion units -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Principles and procedures of natural gas conversion processes -- 2.1 Thermochemical-based conversion process -- 2.1.1 Process system engineering perspective of the thermochemical conversion of the natural gas -- 2.2 Methanol synthesis conventional process -- 2.3 Natural gas oxidation to olefins and gasoline -- 2.4 Fischer-Tropsch process -- 2.5 Natural gas conversion to olefins and gasoline using methanol -- 3. The biochemical-based conversion process -- 3.1 Methanotroph bacteria-based natural gas oxidation.

Front Cover -- Microplastics -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- About the author -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1 The proliferation of plastics -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.1.1 New polymers solve old problems -- 1.1.2 The development of an industry -- 1.1.3 From home to habitat -- 1.2 Microplastics -- 1.2.1 Fragmentation versus degradation -- 1.2.2 Environmental contamination: understanding nomenclature -- 1.3 Observation to outcry -- 1.4 Moving forward -- References -- 2 Microplastics on the move -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The effect of polymer structure on plastic transport -- 2.3 Airborne transport -- 2.3.1 Factors influencing airborne transport -- 2.4 Transport in water -- 2.4.1 Factors influencing vertical transport in water -- 2.4.1.1 Biofouling -- 2.4.1.2 Mixing -- 2.5 Factors influencing horizontal transport in water -- 2.5.1 Horizontal transport in lotic environments -- 2.5.2 Horizontal transport in lentic environments -- 2.5.3 Horizontal transport in marine environments -- 2.5.3.1 Windage -- 2.6 Transport in sediments and soils -- 2.7 Conclusions -- References -- 3 Monitoring environmental accumulation -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The call for microplastic monitoring -- 3.3 Modes of microplastic monitoring -- 3.3.1 The requirements of researchers versus the requirements of monitoring agencies -- 3.3.2 Extracting plastics from the environment -- 3.3.2.1 Sediments and soils -- 3.3.2.2 Terrestrial and exposed intertidal sediments -- 3.3.2.3 Submerged intertidal and benthic sediments -- 3.3.2.4 Characterisation of sediments and soils -- 3.3.2.5 Water column -- 3.3.2.6 Airborne plastics -- 3.3.2.7 Snow and ice -- 3.3.2.8 Citizen science -- 3.4 Secondary processing of microplastic samples -- 3.4.1 Exclusion of high-density material -- 3.4.2 Removal of organic matter -- 3.4.3 Staining.

"The complex exposition of the concept of economic crisis in Capital and its preparatory manuscripts gave rise to different interpretations about the causes and modalities of crises themselves. Are their causes chronic under-consumption, inter-sectoral disproportionality or a fall in the profit rate? Are they merely possible or absolutely inevitable? Jorge Grespan's work renews these traditional debates by treating the concept of crisis as the negative of the concept of capital. By means of a thoroughgoing exposition of Marx's masterwork, his book reconstitutes the steps by which Capital's exposition progressively enriches its content and form. To this end, dialectical categories such as measurelessness and relative necessity are mobilised and developed"--