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Books narrated by Dirk Jacobs

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  • Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2025 Workshops

    AISys and AI4IP, Bangkok, Thailand, August 25–27, 2025, Proceedings

    Edited by Lukas Fischer, Ulrich Göhner, Sebnem Gül-Ficici, Dirk Jacob, Gabriele Kotsis, A Min Tjoa, Ismail Khalil ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on AI System Engineering: Math, Modelling and Software, AISys 2025 and the First International Workshop on Optimisation of Industrial Production with AI Algorithms, AI4IP, co-located with the 36th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2025, which took place in Bangkok, Thailand, ... Read more

    $69.65 CAD

  • Contested Concepts in Migration Studies

    Edited by Ricard Zapata-Barrero, Dirk Jacobs, Riva Kastoryano ...
    Series series Routledge Series on Global Order Studies
    This volume demonstrates that migration- and diversity-related concepts are always contested, and provides a reflexive critical awareness and better comprehension of the complex questions driving migration studies. The main purpose of this volume is to enhance conceptual thinking on migration studies.Examining interaction between concepts in the public domain, the academic disciplines, and the ... Read more

    $72.68 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Sustainable Development

    Valuation, Distribution, Governance

    by Dirk Jacob Wolfson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author shows how sustainable development may be organized, valued and distributed by introducing situational contracting as an interactive and contextual mode of governance. Situational contracting provides a road map for where we want to go, serving the prevailing ideology in implementing the trade between efficiency and fairness. ... Read more

    $58.04 CAD

  • Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice

    Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations

    by Jonathan Bateman, Lisa Breglia, John Carman, Oguz Erdur, Denise Maria Cavalcante Gomes, Charles Goodwin, Anders Gustafsson, Cornelius Holtorf, Dirk Jacobs, Hakon Karlsson, Angela McClanahan, David Van Reybrouck, Timoteo Rodriguez, Blythe E. Roveland, Michael Wilmore, Thomas Yarrow ...
    Series series Worlds of Archaeology
    Ethnographic perspectives are often used by archaeologists to study cultures both past and present - but what happens when the ethnographic gaze is turned back onto archaeological practices themselves? That is the question posed by this book, challenging conventional ideas about the relationship between the subject and the object, the observer and the observed, and the explainers and the explained ... Read more

    $50.21 CAD

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  • Sustainability Assessment

    Criteria and Processes

    by Bob Gibson, Selma Hassan, James Tansey ...
    Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making. Its basic demand is that all significant undertakings must make a positive contribution to sustainability. To apply this test, decision makers need criteria based on the core requirements of sustainability and the particularities of the context. As well, they need ... Read more

    $91.16 CAD

  • Archaeological Theory

    An Introduction

    by Matthew Johnson ...
    Archaeological Theory, 2nd Edition is the most current and comprehensive introduction to the field available. Thoroughly revised and updated, this engaging text offers students an ideal entry point to the major concepts and ongoing debates in archaeological research.New edition of a popular introductory text that explores the increasing diversity of approaches to archaeological theoryFeatures more ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Cult of Efficiency

    by Janice Gross Stein ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    We live in an age dominated by the cult of efficiency. Efficiency in the raging debate about public goods is often used as a code word to advance political agendas. When it is used correctly, efficiency is important: it must always be part of the conversation when resources are scarce and citizens and governments have important choices to make among competing priorities.Even when the language of ... Read more

    $12.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Geography

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John A. Matthews, David T. Herbert ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and ... Read more

    $6.02 CAD

  • How Numbers Rule the World

    The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics

    by Lorenzo Fioramonti ...
    Series series Economic Controversies
    Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?In How Numbers Rule the ... Read more

    $23.66 CAD

  • A History of Archaeological Thought

    by Bruce G. Trigger ...
    In its original edition, Bruce Trigger's book was the first ever to examine the history of archaeological thought from medieval times to the present in world-wide perspective. Now, in this new edition, he both updates the original work and introduces new archaeological perspectives and concerns. At once stimulating and even-handed, it places the development of archaeological thought and theory ... Read more

    $46.07 CAD

  • Crisis on Campus

    A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

    by Mark C. Taylor ...
    A provocative look at the troubled present state of American higher education and a passionately argued and learned manifesto for its future.In Crisis on Campus, Mark C. Taylor—chair of the Department of Religion at Columbia University and a former professor at Williams College—expands on and refines the ideas presented in his widely read and hugely controversial 2009 New York Times op-ed. His ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Archaeology of Bruce Trigger

    by Ronald Williamson ...
    Bruce Trigger has merged the history of archaeology with new perspectives on how to understand the past. He is a critical analyst and architect of social evolutionary theory an Egyptologist and an authority on aboriginal cultures in north-eastern North America. His contextualization of archaeology within broader society has encouraged appreciation of the power of archaeological knowledge and he ... Read more

    $26.54 CAD