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"Artificial Intelligence has demonstrated such advancements that commentators ask if AI should be granted the moral status of personhood. This book argues that this view assumes that personhood corresponds to how well one's thinking mirrors the biases, worldview, and intelligence of the middle class, relegating the poor to the status of "non-human.""--

"Around the world and across time, singers and their songs stand at the crossroads of differing politics and perspectives. Levi S. Gibbs edits a collection built around the idea of listening as a political act that produces meaning. Contributors explore a wide range of issues by examining artists like Romani icon Esma Redžepova, Indian legend Lata Mangeshkar, and pop superstar Teresa Teng. Topics include gendered performances and the negotiation of race and class identities; the class-related contradictions exposed by the divide between highbrow and pop culture; links between narratives of overcoming struggle and the distinction between privileged and marginalized identities; singers' ability to adapt to shifting notions of history, borders, gender, and memory in order to connect with listeners; how the meanings we read into a singer's life and art build on one another; and technology's ability to challenge our ideas about what constitutes music. Cutting-edge and original, Social Voices reveals how singers and their songs equip us to process social change and divergent opinions"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Prologue -- 1 Principles for Defense -- 2 Security at the Source -- 3 Building Blocks -- 4 The Beginnings of a True System -- 5 Warning -- 6 A Wider Universe of Nuclear Plots and Defenses -- 7 The Way Forward -- Appendix Radiation Detection and Weapons Effects Calculations -- Glossary -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Maps, Tables and Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Style and Citations -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Forgery and memory at the end of the first millennium -- Introduction Forgery and Memory in an Age of Iron -- Chapter 1 Forgery in the Chancery? Bishop Anno at Worms -- Chapter 2 Forging Episcopal Identity: Pilgrim at Passau -- Chapter 3 Forging Liberty: Abingdon and Æthelred -- Chapter 4 Forging Exemption: Fleury from Abbo to William -- Chapter 5 True Lies: Leo of Vercelli and the Struggle for Piedmont -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Royal and Papal Charters -- A note on the type

This book explores Albert Einstein's theory of war and peace in a multidisciplinary perspective. The research focuses on the cause of war, the means to prevent it, the distinction between antimilitarism, pacifism, internationalism and federalism, the dividing line between intergovernmental and supranational organizations.

I. Introduction -- II. History of long-firm fraud in England -- III. Craft of the long-firm fraudster -- IV. Social and criminal organisation of long-firm fraud -- V. Motivations and criminal careers of long-frim fraudsters -- IV. Informal control of long-firm fraud -- VII. Long-firm fraud and the criminal law -- VIII. Policing of long-firm fraud -- IX. Prosecution and trial of long-firm fraudsters -- X. Sentencing of long-firm fraudsters -- XI. Towards a theory of long-firm fraud -- XII. Control of long-firm fraud : some issues for the future.

"New Technologies in Developing Societies examines critically, and from theoretical, practical and policy perspectives how new technologies are transforming day-to-day human activities in Africa and other developing regions. In particular it addresses how technologies are harnessed to enhance socioeconomic conditions, and how people use technologies to empower themselves and to foster a strong deliberative democracy. It also studies how they deal with the challenges that new technologies pose to the protection of intellectual property rights of indigenous people, and the struggles between tradition and modernity in the HIV/AIDS prevention campaign. "--

"Discusses the dynamics of democratization affecting most international institutions. Provides a general theoretical assessment of the process of democratization of international organizations and integrates case studies from global, regional and inter-regional organizations"--"Provided by publisher"--