The Monetary Turning Point: From Bank Money to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031239563 | 275 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 2 MB
The monetary system is at a turning point. The question is no longer if, but how soon countries will roll out a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This book discusses the recomposition of the money supply from the present bank money regime to a monetary system determined by CBDC. As the book sets out, the future of money is going to be digital and sovereign. Nonetheless, the relationship between the various types of money is competitive rather than being the peaceful coexistence that was officially envisaged. CBDC competes with the incumbent bank money as well as with private cryptocurrencies that are challenging both central-bank money as well as bank money. For technological and political reasons, bank money will not be able to emulate the superior properties of sovereign digital tokens. Uncovered and unwarranted cryptocurrencies, too, will not stand the competition in the long run. The shifts in the monetary system are changing the role of central banks in the interplay of monetary, fiscal and private-creditary functions and open up improved options for monetary policy. The book will be of interest to academics, researchers, and policymakers in monetary and financial economics, and digital currencies.

The Medieval Haggadah: Art, Narrative, and Religious Imagination by Marc Michael Epstein
English | May 9, 2011 | ISBN: 0300156669 | True PDF | 337 pages | 19.7 MB
In this beautifully illustrated book, historian Marc Michael Epstein explores four magnificent and enigmatic illuminated haggadot-manuscripts created for use at home services on Passover. They include the earliest known surviving illuminated haggadah: the Birds' Head Haggadah, made in Mainz around 1300, in which many of the faces on the human figures depicted throughout are replaced with those of birds. Also presented is the Golden Haggadah from Barcelona, c. 1320-30, along with two Spanish "siblings," the Rylands Haggadah and its purported Brother, made between 1330 and 1340, which share similar iconography and style.

The Matter of Black Living: The Aesthetic Experiment of Racial Data, 1880-1930 by Autumn Womack
English | April 18, 2022 | ISBN: 022680674X, 022680691X | True PDF | 288 pages | 10.9 MB
Examining how turn-of-the-century Black cultural producers' experiments with new technologies of racial data produced experimental aesthetics.

The Law and Practice of Global ICT Standardization
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1009300571 | 389 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book presents a first comprehensive effort to explore the mechanics and fundamentals of global ICT standardization. It offers a comprehensive study of legal rules governing ICT standardization; systematically analyses governance and institutional features of some most prominent Standards Development Organizations; and presents qualitative empirical evidence on implementation of these rules in practice. By evaluating legal and procedural rules in light of current practices and tendencies in the industry, the book explores various options available for disciplining ICT standardization from the viewpoint of the applicable legislation, judiciary, and internal governance rules of Standards Development Organizations and offers practical solutions on how to increase the legitimacy of ICT standards. Adding to the previous theoretical approach to the field of standardization from historical, legal and political science perspective, this book applies theoretical considerations to unexplored scenarios, offering a holistic picture of ICT standardization and providing a novel contribution to the field.

The Last Viking: The True Story of King Harald Hardrada by Don Hollway
English | September 7, 2021 | ISBN: 1472846524 | 340 pages | PDF (Converted) | 3.95 Mb
The Last Viking tells the dramatic story of King Harald Hardrada of Norway, one of the greatest warriors to have ever lived. Drawing on original source material, Don Hollway recreates the violence and drama of the late Viking era in a gripping chronicle that transports the reader from the frozen wastelands of Scandinavia to the glittering opulence of the Byzantine empire and then finally to a muddy field of rural England.

The Language of Design: Theory and Computation by Andy Dong
English | PDF(True) | 2009 | 206 Pages | ISBN : 1848820208 | 4.86 MB
"The Language of Design" articulates the theory that there is a language of design. Drawing upon insights from computational language processing, the language of design is modeled computationally through latent semantic analysis (LSA), lexical chain analysis (LCA), and sentiment analysis (SA). The statistical co-occurrence of semantics (LSA), semantic relations (LCA), and semantic modifiers (SA) in design text is used to illustrate how the reality producing effect of language is itself an enactment of design, allowing a new understanding of the connections between creative behaviors. The computation of the language of design makes it possible to make direct measurements of creative behaviors which are distributed across social spaces and mediated through language. The book demonstrates how machine understanding of design texts based on computation over the language of design yields practical applications for design management.

Greg Klein, "The King of New Orleans: How the Junkyard Dog Became Professional Wrestling's First Black Superstar"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1770410309 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 2.9 mb
A Big Easy legend returns to the limelight New Orleans was once one of the hottest cities for pro wrestling because of one man ― Sylvester Ritter, better known as the Junkyard Dog. JYD became a legend in the Big Easy, drawing huge crowds to the Superdome, a feat no other wrestler ever came close to. In 1980, he managed to break one of the final colour barriers in the sport by becoming the first black wrestler to be made the undisputed top star of his promotion. This biography aims to restore JYD to his deserved place in the history books by looking at his famous feuds, the business backstories, and the life of the man outside the ring. The King of New Orleans recounts the story of how an area known for racial injustice became the home of wrestling's most adored African-American idol. A remarkable tale of a man still remembered on the streets of New Orleans and in the hearts of pro wrestling fans.

The Influencer Industry: The Quest for Authenticity on Social Media by Emily Hund
English | February 14, 2023 | ISBN: 0691231028 | True PDF | 232 pages | 3.8 MB
A critical history of the social media influencer's rise to global prominence

The Industry of Marrying Europeans By Vu Trong Phung, Thuy Tranviet
2005 | 74 Pages | ISBN: 0877271704 | PDF | 6 MB
This work by Vu Trong Phung, written in the 1930s, reports and expands on the author's meetings with North Vietnamese women who had made an "industry" of marrying European men. The Industry of Marrying Europeans is notable for its sharp observations, pointed humor, and unconventional mix of nonfictional and fictional narration, as well as its attention to voice: Vu Trong Phung records the French-Vietnamese pidgin dialect spoken by these couples. This prolific writer died at age twenty-seven, leaving behind one of the most impressive bodies of work in modern Vietnamese literature.

Anika Orrock, "The Incredible Women of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League: "
English | ISBN: 1452173648 | 2020 | 160 pages | EPUB | 22 MB
This book chronicles the history of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League and the stories of the first women to play professional baseball in a league of their own.