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Mapping the Territorial Scope of EU Law
2024 || Hardcover || Wessel Geursen || Eleven international publishing
With globalisation, digitisation, more cross-border movement of persons and multinational businesses, events and cases have increasingly become transnational. Conversely, with the current geopolitical climate, the increase of migration and the recent pandemics, borders have regained importance. These developments raise questions about the territorial scope of legislation. In this book, 28 mechanisms have been identified which influence the territorial scope of EU law. With those mechanisms, t...
Why Machines Learn
the Elegant Maths Behind Modern AI
2024 || Hardcover || Anil Ananthaswamy || Allen Lane
Machine-learning systems are making life-altering decisions for us: approving mortgage loans, determining whether a tumour is cancerous, or deciding whether someone gets bail. They now influence discoveries in chemistry, biology and physics - the study of genomes, extra-solar planets, even the intricacies of quantum systems.
We are living through a revolution in artificial intelligence that is not slowing down. This major shift is based on simple mathematics, some of which goes back centuries...
Epistemology, Economics, and Ethics
A Practical Philosophy of Prehistoric Archaeology
2023 || Hardcover || Konrad Ott || Sidestone Press Academics
This book is intended to be a groundwork of how to theorise prehistory and archaeology and how to make connectivities between the past and the present. It is divided into four parts. The first part is epistemological. It explains why there must be theoretical investments if past ways of human life are to be understood and explained. This insight is specified to a ladder-model (sensu Hawkes) with conceptual scaffoldings on each step. Stepwise, sets of concepts are introduced. This constitutes ...