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How is new knowledge produced in the social, natural, and biomedical sciences? What is the role of serendipity versus planning? How has technology changed knowledge production, from AI to large datasets? This book presents insights into the pursuit of new knowledge from fields as diverse as medicine, engineering, linguistics, and theology. Over twenty researchers and scientists describe the modalities of discovery in their disciplines, offering a diverse survey of the social norms and politics of knowledge. Written in nontechnical language, this collection is designed to make research practices from widely different domains comprehensible to each other. A generative synthesis in the final chapter offers new insights into how discovery happens and its consequences for science and society. On Discovery will be essential reading for anyone interested in philosophical and social dimensions of knowledge.

An engaging textbook for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduates covering the core subjects in linear algebra, with a unique emphasis on ideas from analysis. This edition includes over 200 new exercises and in-depth coverage of contemporary applications, including quantum mechanics, machine learning, data science, and quantum information.

Finite differences are widely used for solving problems in scientific computing. One aspect underrepresented in textbooks concerns high-accuracy methods. Bengt Fornberg addresses that here. Full of conceptual insights, general perspectives, and practical considerations, it will be welcomed by graduate students, researchers, and educators.

The first book-length treatment of how loss and damage policy and politics works at the national level, this book appeals to a broad audience with its timely focus on a headline-dominating issue. A valuable primer for practitioners addressing loss and damage, including policymakers, experts, and civil society stakeholders.

The first book-length treatment of how loss and damage policy and politics works at the national level, this book appeals to a broad audience with its timely focus on a headline-dominating issue. A valuable primer for practitioners addressing loss and damage, including policymakers, experts, and civil society stakeholders.

50 years ago, the initial aim for electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) was to prevent stillbirth. The authors believe EFM must be considered and analyzed as a classic screening test and requires contextualization for improved performance.

This is an integrated analysis of written texts and the evidence of material culture (standing remains and recent archaeological discoveries) which provides a much fuller picture of tenth-century Rome than any previous study. It is intended for all those with interests in medieval Rome, medieval art, and medieval archaeology.

An original analysis of the law on disfigurement equality that will appeal to researchers and students in the area of Disability Studies and Law, Social Policy, Employment Law and HR Practice, as well as organisations supporting people with appearance-altering conditions and Policymakers working in the field of body image and equality.

Along the coast of Gujarat, nineteenth-century merchant houses or havelis still stand in historic port cities. In this ambitious, multifaceted work, Ketaki Pant uses these old spaces as a lens through which to view not only the vibrant stories of their occupants, but the complex entanglements of Indian Ocean capitalism.

The fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England ranges from the seventh century - with studies of Archbishop Theodore's computus, the creation of English law-writing, and Aldhelm's Irish influences - into modernity, with new accounts of John Leland's De uiris illustribus and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several new discoveries also feature, including fragments of an Old English-glossed psalter, three Agnus Dei pennies, a proposed 'solution' to the Wife's Lament, and the likely site of the urbs Giudi described by Bede. Readers will encounter Eadgifu, a woman who governed Kent; the names of English clerics; the waning land of the kingdom of the Hwicce; the many uses and meanings of bells; and runes in the Vineyard of the Lord. Also included is an account of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England's 2021 virtual conference, and an essay surveying current scholarship on Archbishop Wulfstan II of York, commissioned to mark the millennium of his death. An index of the contents of volumes 1-50 marks the reaching of a different milestone. An abstract precedes each article. The fiftieth volume of Anglo-Saxon England ranges from the seventh century - with studies of Archbishop Theodore's computus, the creation of English law-writing, and Aldhelm's Irish influences - into modernity, with new accounts of John Leland's De uiris illustribus and of iron as a metaphor for Old English verse in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Several new discoveries also feature, including fragments of an Old English-glossed psalter, three Agnus Dei pennies, a proposed 'solution' to the Wife's Lament, and the likely site of the urbs Giudi described by Bede. Readers will encounter Eadgifu, a woman who governed Kent; the names of English clerics; the waning land of the kingdom of the Hwicce; the many uses and meanings of bells; and runes in the Vineyard of the Lord. Also included is an account of the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England's 2021 virtual conference, and an essay surveying current scholarship on Archbishop Wulfstan II of York, commissioned to mark the millennium of his death. An index of the contents of volumes 1-50 marks the reaching of a different milestone. An abstract precedes each article.

Pierre Boulez's career as composer, conductor, recording artist, writer, teacher and systems builder was both influential and controversial. This book explores his early life, education, engagements with his modernist predecessors and contemporaries, and the importance for him of literature, visual art, mathematics, philosophy and technology.

The book is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience interested in psychiatry. It explores areas central to human nature such as the experience of mental illness and the basis of mental capacity. Throughout, it relates these concepts to a dualistic structure of 'classic' and 'romantic' perspectives.

This unprecedented history of intelligence cooperation during the Cold War reveals the key role of European agencies in facilitating Mossad's Operation Wrath of God. Through unique access to unredacted sources, Aviva Guttmann uncovers a secret security order which operated independently of foreign policy constraints or public scrutiny.

This is the first monograph in English devoted to the central Qur'anic idea of the fi?ra: that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. Uncovering the medieval Islamic philosophical tradition's engagement with fi?ra, the author explores important and wider contested questions in contemporary ethics.

"This book will be useful to practitioners, policymakers, graduate students and researchers of environmental law, environmental studies, human rights, sustainable development, social justice and area studies on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and West Asia. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core"--

"Considering how the mobility afforded by walking made possible the various surveys and tours that characterized descriptions of the capital during the long eighteenth century, this study engages with accounts across genres to demonstrate how walking shaped representations of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century city"--

With a broader range of entries than any other reference book on stage directors, this Encyclopaedia showcases the extraordinary diversity of theatre as a national and international artistic medium. It covers both individual directors and a range of directorial modes and styles across different global traditions in contemporary theatre.

Volume 209 contains 2022 judgment on reparations of the International Court of Justice in Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda), decision of Philippines Supreme Court in Ocampo v. Enriquez, and judgment of the English High Court in Dynasty Company v. Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq.