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Weapons of math destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens …
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives -- where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance -- are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models. In theory, this should lead to greater fairness: Everyone is judged according to the same rules, and bias is eliminated. But as Cathy O'Neil reveals in this bo…
- Edition
- First edition.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780553418811
- Collation
- x, 259 pages ; 22 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4833 CAT w
Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that our species owes its dominant position. Other animals have stronger muscles or sharper claws, but we have cleverer brains. If machine brains one day come to surpass human brains in general intelligence, then this new superintelligence could become very powerful. As the fate …
- Edition
- First edition.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780199678112
- Collation
- xvi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.4834 BOS s
Code: And Other Laws of Cyberspace, Version 2.0
This second edition, or Version 2.0, of Code has been prepared through the author's wiki, a web site that allows readers to edit the text, making this the first reader-edited revision of a popular book
- Edition
- Version 2.0.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780465039142
- Collation
- xvii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 343.0999 LES c
A gift of fire: social, legal, and ethical issues for computing technology
In Gift of Fire, A: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues for Computing Technology, Sara Baase presents a balanced exploration of the social, legal, philosophical, ethical, political, constitutional, and economic implications of computing and the controversies they raise. With an objective computer scientist's perspective, and with historical context for many issues, Baase covers the issues student…
- Edition
- 5th ed
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780134615271
- Collation
- xviii, 536 pages ; 24 cm
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- -
- Call Number
- 303.4834 BAA g
Middle East politics and international relations: crisis zone
Shahram Akbarzadeh.
- Edition
- 2nd Ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781003196778
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 327.56 AKB m
Qualitative communication research methods
This book is the only guide dedicated to qualitative research methods in communication. It introduces readers to every step of the qualitative research process, from developing research topics and questions, through writing a final report. In addition to covering the theories and methods currently used in qualitative communication research, the authors also discuss important trends influencing …
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781412974721
- Collation
- xvi, 377 p. ; 23 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 302.2072 LIN q
Defence diplomacy: strategic engagement and interstate conflict
This book analyzes examples of strategic engagement in order to identify the factors which contribute to the success or failure of defence diplomacy in preventing interstate conflict. For more than a century, nations have engaged in defence diplomacy to cultivate mutual understanding and mitigate conflict. A subset of defence diplomacy is strategic engagement, defined as peacetime defence diplo…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780367135966
- Collation
- 212 pages ; 24 cm
- Series Title
- Cass military studies
- Call Number
- 327.2 KAT d
People, states & fear: an agenda for international security studies in the po…
This widely acclaimed book examines how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Throughout, attention is placed on the interplay of threats and vulnerabilities, the policy consequences of overemphasising one or the other, and the existence of …
- Edition
- 25th anniversary
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780955248818
- Collation
- 1 online resource (318 pages).
- Series Title
- ECPR classics
- Call Number
- 327.11 BUZ p
Peace by peaceful means: peace and conflict, development and civilization
Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, describes his reason for writing this book as a 'systematic effort to give a theoretical foundation for peace research, peace education, and peace action'. As such, it provides a stimulating and wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories, and assumptions on which the study of peace is based. Two definitions of peace underlie this maj…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0803975112
- Collation
- viii, 280 p. ; 25 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 303.66 GAL p
Old and new terrorism: late modernity, globalization and the transformation o…
Offers a picture of the shifts in the practice and reception of terrorism and analyses how globalization has facilitated many of the changes
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780745643755
- Collation
- v, 218 pages ; 21 cm
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 363.325 NEU o
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