Free Download Simon Lindgren, "Critical Theory of AI"
English | ISBN: 1509555765 | 2023 | 224 pages | EPUB | 684 KB
We live in an age of artificial intelligence. Machines think and act in ever more complex ways, making suggestions and decisions on our behalf. While AI might be seen as practical and profitable, issues of data surveillance, algorithmic control, and sexist and racist bias persist. In this rapidly changing landscape, social analysis of AI risks getting scaled down to issues of 'ethics', 'responsibility', and 'fairness'. While these are important issues, they must be addressed not from an 'AI first' perspective, but more thoroughly in terms of power and contention.

Free Download International House of Japan, "Critical Review of the Abe Administration "
English | ISBN: 1032548851 | 2023 | 284 pages | PDF | 3 MB
The second Abe administration, which lasted for seven years and eight months, turned out to be the longest administration in Japan's constitutional history. What factors contributed to its remarkable longevity? What accomplishments and enduring legacies did this administration achieve during its tenure?

Free Download Critical Reflections on ICT and Education: Selected Papers from the HKAECT 2023 International Conference by Anna Wing Bo TSO, Wendy Wing Lam CHAN, Steven Kwan Keung NG, Tiffany Shurui BAI, Noble Po Kan LO
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 256 Pages | ISBN : 9819975581 | 22.8 MB
This book includes selected papers from the Hong Kong Association for Educational Communications and Technology (HKAECT) 2023 International Conference. It provides readers with a collection of insightful chapters which delves into the realms of data visualization, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and augmented reality (AR). It also reflects on the dynamic shifts in online learning, blended learning, and self-directed learning. Part one of the volume includes case studies and examples of the integration of advanced technologies, such as data visualization, generative AI, and mixed reality in education. Part two shares experiences and observations from educators who embrace online learning, blended learning, and independent learning. Part three investigates the influences digital education has on learning, teaching, and society as a whole. The book paves a path for thought-provoking discussions on the future of education in a digitally connected world. It is a vital resource for educators, administrators, policymakers, and learners seeking to navigate and thrive in the rapidly evolving world of digital education.

Free Download Critical Factors for Adoption of Customer Relationship Management: A Study of Palestine SMEs by Omar Hasan Salah , Zawiyah Mohammad Yusof , Hazura Mohamed , Nur Fazidah Elias
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 137 Pages | ISBN : 9819983207 | 5.9 MB
This book explores the challenges in adopting customer relationship management (CRM) models in developing countries, with a focus on Palestine. Examining the cultural, organizational, and technological contexts, it reveals how these factors create adoption gaps, impacting customer pressure, employee engagement, and security. The narrative, enriched by real-world examples from Palestine, underscores the unique hurdles faced by firms in such environments.

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English | ISBN: 0367339323 | 2019 | 288 pages | PDF | 1426 KB
Recognizing the determination of a canon as an ongoing process of discussion and debate, which helps us to better understand the concept of meaningful and important literature, this edited collection turns a critical spotlight on young adult literature (YAL) to explore some of the most read, taught, and discussed books of our time.

Free Download Simon Statham, "Critical Discourse Analysis: A Practical Introduction to Power in Language "
English | ISBN: 0367133709 | 2021 | 242 pages | PDF | 21 MB
This book provides a comprehensive account of the discipline of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and demonstrates multiple linguistic methods through which it exposes and demystifies ideologies that are present in institutional discourse. The book enables readers to critique the complexities of the relationship between language and power to expose the ideological operation of discourse. Proceeding from a theoretical grounding for CDA in contemporary society, the book comprises analysis of a wide range of discourse examples, including the news media, political speeches, public service leaflets and social media. Readers are guided through a diverse range of models in CDA in order to scrutinise and assess the role of language in society and to consider and challenge the principles of powerful networks, institutions and organisations.

Free Download Taylor Johnston, "Critical Care: A Problem-Based Learning Approach "
English | ISBN: 0190885939 | 2022 | 320 pages | PDF | 30 MB
Critical Care: A Problem-Based Learning Approach provides a comprehensive review of the dynamic and ever-changing field of critical care. Its problem-based format incorporates a vast pool of practical, ABA board-exam-style multiple-choice questions for self-assessment, and is an ideal resource for exam preparation as well as ongoing clinical education among trainees and clinicians. Each of its 35 case-based chapters is accompanied by questions and answers, accessible online in a full practice exam. The cases presented are unique, as each chapter begins with a case description, usually a compilation of several actual cases; it then branches out through case-based questions, to increasingly complex situations. This structure is designed to create an authentic experience that mirrors that of working through the nuances of a complicated clinical scenario. The discussion sections that follow offer a comprehensive approach to the chapter's subject matter, thus creating a modern, complete, and up-to-date medical review of that topic.

Free Download Roberto Cantú, "Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies on Américo Paredes"
English | ISBN: 1527509354 | 2018 | 250 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Américo Paredes distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, short story writer, poet, folklorist, and as Professor of English and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Admired as one of the inspiring founders of Mexican American Studies in colleges and universities across the United States, Paredes life-long interest in Mexican-American history and culture motivated him during his early years to collect corridos from farmers and villagers living on the Lower Rio Grande, resulting in his pioneering book With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero (1958), and in other books on folklore, poetry, and narrative fiction. Border Folk Balladeers: Critical Studies on Américo Paredes is a book of significant value to scholars, teachers, students, and to the general reader interested in the history and culture of Mexicans and Mexican Americans born on both sides of the Mexico-US border. It contains a full-length introduction and eleven essays written exclusively for this volume by scholars in the fields of folklore, literary criticism, and critical race theory, and who are renowned authorities on the work of Américo Paredes. Grouped into three sections, this book includes studies on theories of the Texas Modern; the Latin American critical tradition; border writing in world literatures; ethnography in minority communities; an analysis of Texas-Mexican border jokelore; and, among other critical studies, a comprehensive probe into the international drug traffic in the Mexico-US border, with an emphasis on narcoballads and narconovels, the contemporary offshoots of the Texas-Mexican border corrido.

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In Anxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method Joel Michael Crombez accounts for the production of anxiety in modern societies and provides a method and theory for its diagnosis and treatment.

Free Download Andy Blunden, "Activity Theory: A Critical Overview "
English | ISBN: 9004541233 | 2023 | 234 pages | PDF | 21 MB
Andy Blunden presents a summary of the foundations of Activity Theory and a critical review of the work of activity theorists across the world, focussing on in medical and educational contexts, concluding with a review of the ethics of collaboration.