• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction •

Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven "nations" that continue to shape North America

According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, ea...

The book describes what it means to say the world is complex and explores what that means for managers, policy makers and individuals. The first part of the book is about the theory and ideas of complexity. This is explained in a way that is thorough but not mathematical.

It compares differing approaches, and also provides a historical perspective, showing how such thinking has been around since the beginning of civilisation. It emphasises the difference between a complexity worldview and the...

Market Leader Extra is a five-level English course for students who want to learn English and learn about business, and for business people who want to advance their careers. New business skills lessons develop the business skills students need for working in business.

Become more mindful of the user when building digital products, and learn how to integrate a user-centered approach into your thinking as a web or app developer. This book shows you how the user experience is the responsibility of everyone involved in creating the product and how to redefine development principles when building user-centered digital products.

Para jóvenes y adultos que quieran conocer la cultura española a través de su historia, política, economía, manifestaciones artísticas y costumbres. Nivel B1 - B2 del MCER. La nueva edición incluye las soluciones a las actividades con explicaciones para poder ampliar algunos temas y abordar diferentes puntos de vista. Ideal para cursos de lengua y civilización y clases de cultura y conversación. Incluye también doce audiciones descargables que ayudan a explotar las actividades del l...

Nierfunctiestoornissen komen bij patiënten op de intensivecare veel voor en zijn een afspiegeling van de ernst van de ziekte. Een patiënt met nierfalen heeft een andere prognose dan een patiënt zonder nierfalen. Patiënten met meervoudig orgaanfalen hebben vaak nierfunctievervangende therapie nodig. Vanaf de jaren tachtig heeft nierfunctievervangende therapie bij intensivecarepatiënten met meervoudig orgaanfalen zich ontwikkeld van peritoneaal dialyse en arterioveneuze hemofiltratie naar ...

Discover Toni Morrison's most iconic work in this Pulitzer-prize winning novel that exemplifies her powerful and important place in contemporary American literature. 'An American masterpiece' AS ByattIt is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to el...

User experience (UX) design practices have seen a fundamental shift as more and more software products incorporate machine learning (ML) components and artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms at their core. This book will probe into UX design's role in making technologies inclusive and enabling user collaboration with AI. AI/ML-based systems have changed the way of traditional UX design.

Instead of programming a method to do a specific action, creators of these systems provide data and nurtur...

'One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts.' (The Times) You are accused of a crime.

Who would you rather determined your fate - a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence. Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions - in healthcare, tran...