Using an autoethnographic approach, this book offers practical strategies and case studies to help scholars better perform the many roles of an academic.With academic formation at its foundational core, the book presents practical strategies aimed at facilitating academic performance, particularly in the areas of research-informed teaching, interdisciplinarity and collaboration, community engagement and the development of an international academic profile. The view...

Build and deploy AI-driven trading systems using the 7-Stage workflow with pandas, Polars, LightGBM, PyTorch, Optuna, zipline-reloaded, MLflow, Feast, and SHAPKey FeaturesBuild point-in-time pipelines, integrate alternative data, and ensure data integrityBuild and validate predictive models using GBMs, Transformers, and causal inference frameworks to create robust, interpretable alpha signalsDeploy RAG systems, autonomous financial agents, and ...

The Dandelion Theory:A Monadic Liberation JourneyWhat if Western philosophy got it fundamentally wrong by leading us into individual isolation.For atleast 500 years, we've lived with three critical errors: Leibniz's closed monads, Descartes' "I think therefore I am," and Aristotle's past-determined causality. These mistakes fragmented us from the sacred, from each other, and from our true nature.Drawing on 30 years of studying western thinking and inter trib...

Introductory Sports Engineering and Technology provides a fundamental primer to the world of Sports Engineering and Technology, including the key themes that dominate design and practice. The text has been created to provide a comprehensive overview of key principles and is developed from established and recognised education providers.This new text includes case studies and worked examples to facilitate deeper learning and prepare readers for a high-performance future in s...

Art practices reveal the entwinement of perception and understanding, opening possibilities for new ways of enacting the political. An artwork can serve as more than solely an aesthetic object: in the public sphere it beckons us to resist, challenge, and change the world around us.Wide-ranging in scope and application, Life in Art showcases how, at the intersection of art and phenomenology, sociopolitical issues can be examined anew. Thirteen diverse, international, establ...

Education Fiction aims to inspire readers who are passionate about critically exploring possible futures of education and learning. This edited volume addresses key educational issues of our present and future through a collection of short stories. In today’s educational landscape, shaped by rapid AI developments, a climate crisis, and growing commercial interests, Education Fiction provides a space to reflect on current trends and envision alternative possibilities for e...

'Because he had the courage to make his passionate protest against a worldwide terror, Castellio's feud with Calvin must remain everlastingly memorable'Stefan Zweig saw sixteenth-century Geneva as a place gripped by heresy-hunting fanaticism and raging ideologies of violence. A world in which free-thinking humanists too often foresaw, and failed to protest, the disasters that draconian leaders would bring upon Europe. Theologian and writer Sebastian Castel...

Advocates for an approach to Christian end-times, not as the anticipation of particular futures, but as a way to inhabit the existential crises of our present, the ‘times of extinction’ in which we livePublic environmental concern has turned to the so-called “sixth mass extinction event” currently underway. The interdisciplinary field of extinction studies was established to increase our cultural understanding of that phenomenon, but hitherto there has been little ...

Test more, assume less. Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke reveals why leaders should adopt a scientific mindset—and how experimentation drives smarter decisions in an uncertain world.Every day, leaders face high-stakes decisions about products, customers, strategy, and resource allocation. Yet many of these decisions rely on untested assumptions. Overconfidence, gut instinct, and "what worked before" often substitute for evidence, leaving companies ex...

Joining the authoritative New Naturalist library is this definitive natural history of a beloved quiet space: the churchyard.In this much-anticipated addition to the New Naturalist library, Stefan Buczacki and George Peterken delve into the natural haven provided by churchyards, their flora and faun and their importance in the natural history of urban and rural environments alike.

What if the words coming out of your mouth are the only thing standing between you and the life you want?Most people think they're stuck because of circumstances-bad luck, limited resources, the wrong timing. Travis Flateau has a different diagnosis: you're speaking your defeat into existence every single day, and you don't even know it.In Shifting Gears, the founder of TBT Racing Global draws on thirty years of building motorcycles, growing an int...

In the first history of the oceanic Anthropocene, Stefan Huebner explores the twentieth-century extension of human habitats into oceanic spaces. He shows how the effects of this amphibious transformation have followed a very different trajectory from human-driven change on land, in terms of both socioeconomic development and environmental degradation. The extension of the human habitat through artificial islands such as seabed-fixed and floating structures has granted vertical access to Ea...