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Jonathan Z. Smith on Religion

Jonathan Z. Smith on Religion

Jonathan Z. Smith (1938–2017) was unquestionably one of the most important and influential voices of critical reflection within the academic study of religion in the last century. His work explored the nature and history of religious phenomena across cultures—from ancient Jewish practices to Maori cults from early Christianity to mass suicide in the twentieth century—while critiquing the assumptions underlying the very category of religion. This important volume offers the first full critical assessment of the influence of Jonathan Z. Smith’s thought on the subject of religion. Christopher I. Lehrich systematically examines and develops a critical overview that will assist others in engaging more fully with Smith’s scholarship. This book is an essential reading for students and scholars interested in the work of Jonathan Z. Smith as well as the history of religion more broadly. | Jonathan Z. Smith on Religion

GBP 36.99
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Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (1823–1922) who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors seven governors and two U. S. presidents. The book presents the complex life of Stephen Smith a consistent figure in the history of public health mental health housing reform in New York and even urban reforestation. Utilizing Smith’s writings public records and recently discovered personal correspondence this research shows how Smith succeeded where others failed. It also acknowledges that Smith was unsuccessful in convincing his fellow professionals to fight for a cabinet level public health department or to resist the rise of custodial care for the mentally impaired. Given Smith’s many accomplishments the book asks us to consider if what stopped him stops us highlighting the relevance of Smith’s story to contemporary debates. Pestilence Insanity and Trees is a readable and well-documented narrative and a resource for students and scholars filling gaps in the history of American medicine public health mental health and New York social reform. | Pestilence Insanity and Trees How Stephen Smith Changed New York

GBP 130.00
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Smith: Psychology of Education II (4-vol. set)

Smith: Psychology of Education II (4-vol. set)

This new title in Routledge’s Major Themes in Education series is a four-volume collection of major works of scholarship. It is an essential successor to an earlier Routledge anthology Psychology of Education (978-0-415-19302-3) (2000) edited by Peter K. Smith and Anthony D. Pellegrini. Research in and around psychology and education has experienced dramatic growth in recent years. Psychology of Education (2000) was the first comprehensive collection of the field’s canonical and cutting-edge research and this new collection takes full account of the many important developments that have taken place since its appearance. Psychology of Education II also includes coverage of areas without the scope of the first collection. With a full index together with a comprehensive introduction newly written by the editor which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context Psychology of Education II is an indispensable work of reference. | Smith: Psychology of Education II (4-vol. set)

GBP 625.00
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Thinking Developmentally from Constructivism to Neuroconstructivism Selected Works of Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Thinking Developmentally from Constructivism to Neuroconstructivism Selected Works of Annette Karmiloff-Smith

In the World Library of Psychologists series international experts present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books key articles salient research findings and their major practical theoretical contributions. This influential volume of papers chosen by Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith before she passed away recognises her major contribution to the field of developmental psychology. Published over a 40-year period the papers included here address the major themes that permeate through Annette’s work: from typical to atypical development genetics and computation modelling approaches and neuroimaging of the developing brain. A newly written introduction by Michael S. C. Thomas and Mark H. Johnson gives an overview of her research journey and contextualises her selection of papers in relation to changes in the field over time. Thinking Developmentally from Constructivism to Neuroconstructivism: Selected Works of Annette Karmiloff-Smith is of great interest to researchers and postgraduates in child development specialising in atypical development developmental disorders and developmental neuroscience. It also has appeal to clinical neuropsychologists and rehabilitation professionals. | Thinking Developmentally from Constructivism to Neuroconstructivism Selected Works of Annette Karmiloff-Smith

GBP 36.99
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Machine Learning for Managers

Machine Learning for Managers

Machine learning can help managers make better predictions automate complex tasks and improve business operations. Managers who are familiar with machine learning are better placed to navigate the increasingly digital world we live in. There is a view that machine learning is a highly technical subject that can only be understood by specialists. However many of the ideas that underpin machine learning are straightforward and accessible to anyone with a bit of curiosity. This book is for managers who want to understand what machine learning is about but who lack a technical background in computer science statistics or math. The book describes in plain language what machine learning is and how it works. In addition it explains how to manage machine learning projects within an organization. This book should appeal to anyone that wants to learn more about using machine learning to drive value in real-world organizations. | Machine Learning for Managers

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Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation

Machine Learning in Translation introduces machine learning (ML) theories and technologies that are most relevant to translation processes approaching the topic from a human perspective and emphasizing that ML and ML-driven technologies are tools for humans. Providing an exploration of the common ground between human and machine learning and of the nature of translation that leverages this new dimension this book helps linguists translators and localizers better find their added value in a ML-driven translation environment. Part One explores how humans and machines approach the problem of translation in their own particular ways in terms of word embeddings chunking of larger meaning units and prediction in translation based upon the broader context. Part Two introduces key tasks including machine translation translation quality assessment and quality estimation and other Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks in translation. Part Three focuses on the role of data in both human and machine learning processes. It proposes that a translator’s unique value lies in the capability to create manage and leverage language data in different ML tasks in the translation process. It outlines new knowledge and skills that need to be incorporated into traditional translation education in the machine learning era. The book concludes with a discussion of human-centered machine learning in translation stressing the need to empower translators with ML knowledge through communication with ML users developers and programmers and with opportunities for continuous learning. This accessible guide is designed for current and future users of ML technologies in localization workflows including students on courses in translation and localization language technology and related areas. It supports the professional development of translation practitioners so that they can fully utilize ML technologies and design their own human-centered ML-driven translation workflows and NLP tasks.

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God of the Machine

God of the Machine

The God of the Machine presents an original theory of history and a bold defense of individualism as the source of moral and political progress. When it was published in 1943 Isabel Paterson's work provided fresh intellectual support for the endangered American belief in individual rights limited government and economic freedom. The crisis of today's collectivized nations would not have surprised Paterson; in The God of the Machine she had explored the reasons for collectivism's failure. Her book placed her in the vanguard of the free-enterprise movement now sweeping the world. Paterson sees the individual creative mind as the dynamo of history and respect for the individual's God-given rights as the precondition for the enormous release of energy that produced the modern world. She sees capitalist institutions as the machinery through which human energy works and government as a device properly used merely to cut off power to activities that threaten personal liberty. Paterson applies her general theory to particular issues in contemporary life such as education . social welfare and the causes of economic distress. She severely criticizes all but minimal application of government including governmental interventions that most people have long taken for granted. The God of the Machine offers a challenging perspective on the continuing worldwide debate about the nature of freedom the uses of power and the prospects of human betterment. Stephen Cox's substantial introduction to The God of the Machine is a comprehensive and enlightening account of Paterson's colorful life and work. He describes The God of the Machine as not just theory but rhapsody satire diatribe poetic narrative. Paterson's work continues to be relevant because it exposes the moral and practical failures of collectivism failures that are now almost universally acknowledged but are still far from universally understood. The book will be essential to students of American history political theory and literature.

GBP 140.00
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Machine Learning and Music Generation

Machine Learning and Music Generation

Computational approaches to music composition and style imitation have engaged musicians music scholars and computer scientists since the early days of computing. Music generation research has generally employed one of two strategies: knowledge-based methods that model style through explicitly formalized rules and data mining methods that apply machine learning to induce statistical models of musical style. The five chapters in this book illustrate the range of tasks and design choices in current music generation research applying machine learning techniques and highlighting recurring research issues such as training data music representation candidate generation and evaluation. The contributions focus on different aspects of modeling and generating music including melody chord sequences ornamentation and dynamics. Models are induced from audio data or symbolic data. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Mathematics and Music. | Machine Learning and Music Generation

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The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

First Published in 1973 The Writing Machine presents a comprehensive history of the typewriter. Michael Adler not only investigated the history of the machine but also started collecting typewriters because of the difficulty of discovering what these old machines looked like. Then he found there were other collectors all over the world who supplied him with such a wealth of data that he had eventually to limit the scope of his ‘history’. There are hundreds and hundreds of makes and models of ‘conventional’ front-stroke type bar machines with four-row keyboards but they were virtually all the same. It is the unconventional ones that are interesting and it is on these that the author concentrates. The book is amusing as well as informative and it ends with a complete catalogue of ‘unconventional’ typewriters manufactured up to the 1930s when the ‘conventional’ machine had become universal. This book is a must read for anyone interested to learn about the writing machine. | The Writing Machine A History of the Typewriter

GBP 105.00
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Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research At the Crossroads

Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research At the Crossroads

Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research: At the Crossroads reviews the roots of the intersection between machine learning artificial intelligence (AI) and research on crime; examines the current state of the art in this area of scholarly inquiry; and discusses future perspectives that may emerge from this relationship. As machine learning and AI approaches become increasingly pervasive it is critical for criminology and crime research to reflect on the ways in which these paradigms could reshape the study of crime. In response this book seeks to stimulate this discussion. The opening part is framed through a historical lens with the first chapter dedicated to the origins of the relationship between AI and research on crime refuting the novelty narrative that often surrounds this debate. The second presents a compact overview of the history of AI further providing a nontechnical primer on machine learning. The following chapter reviews some of the most important trends in computational criminology and quantitatively characterizing publication patterns at the intersection of AI and criminology through a network science approach. This book also looks to the future proposing two goals and four pathways to increase the positive societal impact of algorithmic systems in research on crime. The sixth chapter provides a survey of the methods emerging from the integration of machine learning and causal inference showcasing their promise for answering a range of critical questions. With its transdisciplinary approach Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research is important reading for scholars and students in criminology criminal justice sociology and economics as well as AI data sciences and statistics and computer science. | Machine Learning for Criminology and Crime Research At the Crossroads

GBP 130.00
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The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

As the world reels from the impact of a global pandemic and increasing intensity of climate-caused hazards the humanitarian sector has never been more relevant. But providing aid to those affected by disasters and crises is more complex than ever. In The Humanitarian Machine aid workers reflect on their own experiences of working in crisis. As they write about their work and the ways in which they each approach the challenges of helping people they comment on some of the most vexing issues facing the humanitarian sector. Each speaks from their own perspective asking tough questions sharing thoughtful reflections about their ongoing work and unpacking what it really means to be a humanitarian worker. The stories they tell whether recounting a specific experience or reflecting on years of practice reveal the dilemmas they face and demystify the overly romanticized aura that sometimes surrounds humanitarian practice. Complementing the candid accounts that humanitarian leaders contribute in this book the editors examine how their stories perceptions and understandings align with similar conversations that take place in other settings. Viewed together in this way the insights and reflections provided in this book will be invaluable for humanitarian practitioners students and researchers alike. | The Humanitarian Machine Reflections from Practice

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Adam Smith’s Theory of Value and Distribution Economics as a Moral Science Once Again

Adam Smith’s Theory of Value and Distribution Economics as a Moral Science Once Again

Ever since the time of his early interpreters beginning with David Hume Adam Smith’s theory of value has been the subject of confusion and misunderstanding—including a controversy which still rages over whether Smith held a labour theory of value and if so whether he held to it throughout Wealth of Nations or if it was confined to the “Early and Rude State”? This book provides a close reading of Smith’s key text and also incorporates material from the other parts of Smith’s oeuvre especially from The Theory of Moral Sentiments to yield original and important insights into Smith’s theory of value. The book operates on the assumption that Smith is proposing relatively simple ideas about price and takes a conventional view that simple Supply and Demand models can illuminate clearly and consistently with his text his theory of price. Combining these elements the book argues that contra Marx Smith does not have a labour theory of value at all understood as a theory of the determination of the relative price structure. Instead Smith is placed squarely in the supply and demand general equilibrium framework and the claim that he is part of a “surplus tradition” which receives its highest treatment in the work of Piero Sraffa is refuted. This book will be of particular interest to Adam Smith specialists historians of economic thought and research economists who have an interest in Smith. | Adam Smith’s Theory of Value and Distribution Economics as a Moral Science Once Again

GBP 130.00
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Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer A History of the Information Machine

Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history of the computer and its unlimited information-processing potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written this fully updated fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of information technology the rise of social media fake news and the gig economy and the regulatory frameworks being put in place to tame the ubiquitous computer. Computer is an insightful look at the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way computers are integrated into the modern world. The authors examine the history of the computer including the first steps taken by Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century and how wartime needs and the development of electronics led to the giant ENIAC the first electronic computer. For a generation IBM dominated the computer industry. In the 1980s the desktop PC liberated people from room-sized mainframe computers. Next laptops and smartphones made computers available to half of the world’s population leading to the rise of Google and Facebook and powerful apps that changed the way we work consume learn and socialize. The volume is an essential resource for scholars and those studying computer history technology history and information and society as well as a range of courses in the fields of computer science communications sociology and management. | Computer A History of the Information Machine

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Cyber Security and Business Intelligence Innovations and Machine Learning for Cyber Risk Management

Cyber Security and Business Intelligence Innovations and Machine Learning for Cyber Risk Management

To cope with the competitive worldwide marketplace organizations rely on business intelligence to an increasing extent. Cyber security is an inevitable practice to protect the entire business sector and its customer. This book presents the significance and application of cyber security for safeguarding organizations individuals’ personal information and government. The book provides both practical and managerial implications of cyber security that also supports business intelligence and discusses the latest innovations in cyber security. It offers a roadmap to master degree students and PhD researchers for cyber security analysis in order to minimize the cyber security risk and protect customers from cyber-attack. The book also introduces the most advanced and novel machine learning techniques including but not limited to Support Vector Machine Neural Networks Extreme Learning Machine Ensemble Learning and Deep Learning Approaches with a goal to apply those to cyber risk management datasets. It will also leverage real-world financial instances to practise business product modelling and data analysis. The contents of this book will be useful for a wide audience who are involved in managing network systems data security data forecasting cyber risk modelling fraudulent credit risk detection portfolio management and data regulatory bodies. It will be particularly beneficial to academics as well as practitioners who are looking to protect their IT system and reduce data breaches and cyber-attack vulnerabilities. | Cyber Security and Business Intelligence Innovations and Machine Learning for Cyber Risk Management

GBP 130.00
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Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

The Handbook of Computational Social Science is a comprehensive reference source for scholars across multiple disciplines. It outlines key debates in the field showcasing novel statistical modeling and machine learning methods and draws from specific case studies to demonstrate the opportunities and challenges in CSS approaches. The Handbook is divided into two volumes written by outstanding internationally renowned scholars in the field. This second volume focuses on foundations and advances in data science statistical modeling and machine learning. It covers a range of key issues including the management of big data in terms of record linkage streaming and missing data. Machine learning agent-based and statistical modeling as well as data quality in relation to digital trace and textual data as well as probability non-probability and crowdsourced samples represent further foci. The volume not only makes major contributions to the consolidation of this growing research field but also encourages growth into new directions. With its broad coverage of perspectives (theoretical methodological computational) international scope and interdisciplinary approach this important resource is integral reading for advanced undergraduates postgraduates and researchers engaging with computational methods across the social sciences as well as those within the scientific and engineering sectors. | Handbook of Computational Social Science Volume 2 Data Science Statistical Modelling and Machine Learning Methods

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Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

Scottish Semiticist and Arabist William Robertson Smith was a celebrated biblical critic theorist of religion and theorist of myth. His accomplishments were multiple. Smith's German mentors reconstructed the history of Israelite religion from the Bible itself; Smith ventured outside the Bible to Semitic religion and thereby pioneered the comparative study of religion. Where others viewed religion from the standpoint of the individual Smith approached religion-at least ancient religion-from the standpoint of the group. He asserted that ancient religion was centrally a matter of practice not creed and singlehandedly created the ritualist theory of myth. Since Smith's time the ritualist theory of myth has found adherents not only in biblical studies but in classics anthropology and literature as well. Smith's accomplishments are seen most fully in Religion of the Semites adapted from a number of public lectures he gave at Aberdeen and first published in 1889. Smith delivered three courses of lectures over three years. It is this set that is reprinted here. Only recently were the notes for the second and third courses of lectures discovered and published. Religion of the Semites combines extraordinary philological erudition with brilliant theorizing. Among the fundamental emphases of the book are the foci on sacrifice as the key ritual and non-ancient sacrifice as communion with God rather than as penance for sin. Most important is Smith's use of the comparative method: he uses cross-cultural examples from other primitive peoples to confirm his reconstruction from Semitic sources. Smith combines pioneering sociology and anthropology with a staunchly Christian faith. For him Christianity is an expression of divine revelation. For Smith only continuing revelation can account for the leap from the collective ritualistic and materialistic nature of ancient Semitic religion to the individualistic creedal and spiritualized nature of Christianity. Lectures on the Religion of the Semites manages to meld social science with theology and remains a classic work in the social scientific study of religion. | Religion of the Semites The Fundamental Institutions

GBP 130.00
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Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understanding of the processes driving innovation so that we may gain a deeper insight into the development of economies. Specifically the study explores the concept of innovation potential and the factors that result in variations in innovation potential across metropolitan areas using the US machine tool industry as a case study. To provide a comparison the same models are also estimated for the semiconductor industry. The findings indicate that urbanisation economies localization economies human capital universities and invention-derived knowledge are significant factors. The study assesses the contributions of three different skill levels of human capital; college-educated graduate degree and locally produced PhD’s in mechanical and electrical engineering. Only the graduate and PhD degree measures are found to be significant indicating the importance of having a highly skilled pool of labour within the region. The influences of the factors appear to be similar across industries with some slight differences. The transfer of knowledge through patents is also studied. It is found that the transmission of this knowledge is slower between different industries relative to the transmission within the same industry. | Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U. S. Machine Tool Industry

GBP 21.99
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Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U.S. Machine Tool Industry

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understanding of the processes driving innovation so that we may gain a deeper insight into the development of economies. Specifically the study explores the concept of innovation potential and the factors that result in variations in innovation potential across metropolitan areas using the US machine tool industry as a case study. To provide a comparison the same models are also estimated for the semiconductor industry. The findings indicate that urbanisation economies localization economies human capital universities and invention-derived knowledge are significant factors. The study assesses the contributions of three different skill levels of human capital; college-educated graduate degree and locally produced PhD’s in mechanical and electrical engineering. Only the graduate and PhD degree measures are found to be significant indicating the importance of having a highly skilled pool of labour within the region. The influences of the factors appear to be similar across industries with some slight differences. The transfer of knowledge through patents is also studied. It is found that the transmission of this knowledge is slower between different industries relative to the transmission within the same industry. | Regional Innovation Potential: The Case of the U. S. Machine Tool Industry

GBP 66.99
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The Waste Land

The Waste Land

In this study first published in 1983 Professor Smith makes the argument that although The Waste Land is analogous in form to a musical composition that it is actually made of its literary echoes. He calls these a ‘music of allusions’ and shows the resemblance of this music in its evocativeness to the technique of Mallarmé and the French symbolists. Smith also comments extensively on Eliot’s critical theories as they bear on The Waste Land and traces the development of Eliot’s allusive and transformational poetic form from its genesis in early work. This title will be of interest to students of literature.

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Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

Adam Smith’s An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was the product of the rich tradition of the Scottish Enlightenment but the book’s fame immediately spread across the whole of Europe. This book looks at the long journey of Smith’s ideas from Scotland to peninsular Spain reconstructing in detail the reception adaptation interpretation and application of Smith's central concepts from 1777 up to 1840. In light of methodological advances during the last two decades in the history of economic thought and the studies on the late Spanish Enlightenment and early Liberalism the book tackles a series of significant issues and gaps in the historiography. In particular: this book sheds new light on the role of France as an intermediate step as the ideas spread from Britain southwards; the analysis draws not just on translations but also handwritten materials book reviews syntheses summaries plagiarism and rebuttals; a wide range of methods of dissemination are considered including the printing press and periodicals parliamentary debates academic chairs and societies; the role of individual translators and agents is given due prominence; the political interpretations of the Wealth of Nations and the ways in which the book was incorporated into the work of Spanish economists in the decades following publication are also considered. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on the reception of Smith’s Wealth of Nations studies of the Spanish Enlightenment and history of economic thought more broadly. | Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations in Spain A History of Reception Dissemination Adaptation and Application 1777–1840

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Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

Machine Translation (MT) has become widely used throughout the world as a medium of communication between those who live in different countries and speak different languages. However translation between distant languages constitutes a challenge for machines. Therefore translation evaluation is poised to play a significant role in the process of designing and developing effective MT systems. This book evaluates three prominent MT systems including Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr each of which provides translation between English and Arabic. In the book Almahasees scrutinizes the capacity of the three systems in dealing with translation between English and Arabic in a large corpus taken from various domains including the United Nation (UN) the World Health Organization (WHO) the Arab League Petra News Agency reports and two literary texts: The Old Man and the Sea and The Prophet. The evaluation covers holistic analysis to assess the output of the three systems in terms of Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) adequacy and fluency scales. The text also looks at error analysis to evaluate the systems’ output in terms of orthography lexis grammar and semantics at the entire-text level and in terms of lexis grammar and semantics at the collocation level. The research findings contained within this volume provide important feedback about the capabilities of the three MT systems with respect to EnglishArabic translation and paves the way for further research on such an important topic. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of translation studies and translation technology. | Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation Google Translate Microsoft Translator and Sakhr

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Explorations in Urban Theory

Explorations in Urban Theory

For over three decades urban theorist Michael Peter Smith has engaged in constructing innovative theories on central research questions in urban studies. This book brings together his views on the state of urban theory sorting out the changing strengths and weaknesses in the field. Smith refocuses attention on the cultural social and political practices of urban inhabitants particularly the way in which their everyday activities have contributed to the social construction of new ethnic identities and new meanings of urban citizenship. Combining the methods of political economy and transnational ethnography he encourages us to think about new political spaces for practicing urban citizenship by analyzing the connections linking cities to the web of relations to other localities in which they are embedded. Smith systematically analyzes the dynamics of community power and urban change under new globalizing trends and increased transnational mobility. Expanding on his original conceptualization of transnational urbanism he frames urban political life within a wider transnational context of political practice in which an endless interplay of distinctly situated networks social practices and power relations are fought out at multiple scales in an inexorable politics of inclusion and exclusion. | Explorations in Urban Theory

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Transformational Sanctuaries in the Middle Level ELA Classroom Creating Truth Spaces for Black Girls

Transformational Sanctuaries in the Middle Level ELA Classroom Creating Truth Spaces for Black Girls

Drawing from an arts-based research and humanizing methodologies Dywanna Smith documents transformative and liberatory spaces in ELA middle level classrooms where students address and counteract discrimination colorism sizism and body shaming. Grounded in an original qualitative study of adolescent Black girls this book examines how such truth spaces serve as a medium for adolescents to self-examine their intersectional identities and give voice to their resilience in the face of marginalization. Incorporating original narratives including the author’s self-actualizing verse novel and the voices of Black female students Smith shines a light on new culturally sustaining pedagogies and offers much-needed implications for practice. Smith expertly weaves together poetry research and empathy; the result is a pioneering text that urges readers to understand the impact of anti-Black violence and the important role literacy sanctuaries can play in supporting Black girls’ resilience and development. The novel in verse at the heart of the volume is not only a provocative and necessary call for transformative change but also a window into a courageous lived experience. This book is essential reading for pre-service teachers scholars and students in literacy education inclusive education and teacher education. | Transformational Sanctuaries in the Middle Level ELA Classroom Creating Truth Spaces for Black Girls

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