When we think of Ethiopia we tend to think in cliches: Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, the Falasha Jews, the epic reign of Emperor Haile Selassie, the Communist Revolution, famine and civil war. Among the countries of Africa it has a high profile yet is poorly known. How- ever all cliches contain within them a kernel of truth, and occlude much more. Today's Ethiopia (and its painfully liberated sister state of Eritrea) are largely obscured by these mythical views and a secondary literature...

“All things being equal”.This is a term motivational speakers and social scientists often use to indemnify themselves from the likely failures that could result when the applications of their postulations and counsels don’t come out the way they prescribed.And the sour truth is, that “all things are never equal!”You could indulge yourself in several theories of success to encourage you about the positives in life. But the sad reality however, is that t...

Some secrets are hidden not in the deepest depths of the Earth, but in the farthest reaches of Time itself.In this foundational masterpiece of Science Fiction, a brilliant Victorian inventor builds a magnificent machine capable of slipping through the boundaries of the fourth dimension. Hurtling forward to the year 802,701 AD, the Time Traveller discovers a seemingly idyllic paradise populated by the Eloi—a gentle, fairy-like species who spend their days bathing, e...

William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction stories.'The Baumoff Explosive' (sometimes known as 'Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani') was first published in 1919. This story is one of Hodgson's most powerful and disturbing and is especially relevant to modern times because of its themes of blasphemy, religious mania, obsession with the crucifixion of Jesus, and suicide bombing.A ...

This book focuses on one of the major challenges of the newly created scientific domain known as data science: turning data into actionable knowledge in order to exploit increasing data volumes and deal with their inherent complexity. Actionable knowledge has been qualitatively and intensively studied in management, business, and the social sciences but in computer science and engineering, its connection has only recently been established to data mining and its evolution, ‘Knowledge Discov...

The future of AI is not just technical. It's profoundly human. Every day, AI systems are shaping our choices, our work, and even our freedoms. But behind creating and using algorithms lies a gap, one that's rarely discussed and is barely addressed: Traceability. • How can we hold AI accountable when its decisions are invisible? • How can people without technical backgrounds influence technologies thatimpact their lives? • And why do so many organizations still treat AI ethics as an afterth...

This book investigates the deep economic causes of environmental unsustainability and offers a new vision to rebuild sustainability economics. While sustainability scholars are hard at work with documenting the tangible systemic crisis of our Biosphere, the economic roots of this crisis are rarely exposed, examined nor addressed. This book’s central contribution to sustainability studies is to argue that what we should sustain is not economic growth but social-ecological well-being defined...

This book highlights the applications of data mining technologies in structural dynamic analysis, including structural design, optimization, parameter identification, model updating, damage identification, in civil, mechanical, and aerospace engineering. These engineering applications require precise structural design, fabrication, inspection, and further monitoring to obtain a full life-cycle analysis, and by focusing on data processing, data mining technologies offer another aspect in st...

This practical guidebook describes the basic concepts, the mathematical developments, and the engineering methodologies for exploiting possibility theory for the computer-based design of an information fusion system where the goal is decision support for industries in smart ICT (information and communications technologies). This exploitation of possibility theory improves upon probability theory, complements Dempster-Shafer theory, and fills an important gap in this era of Big Data and Int...

This publication, published by SamEnrico, covers A Beginners Guide to Hi Ho! Cherry-O (Volume 1)

This exciting collection presents an in-depth, up-to-date analysis of the unprecedented phenomenon of increasing numbers of grandparents worldwide, co-existing and interacting for longer periods of time with their grandchildren.The book contains analyses of topics that have so far received relatively little attention, such as transnational grandparenting and gender differences in grandparenting practices. It is the only collection that brings together theory-driven research on gran...

This accessible and classroom-tested textbook/reference presents an introduction to the fundamentals of the interdisciplinary field of data science. The coverage spans key concepts from statistics, machine/deep learning and responsible data science, useful techniques for network analysis and natural language processing, and practical applications of data science such as recommender systems or sentiment analysis.Topics and features:Provides numerous pr...