Emmanuel Levinas is one of the key philosophers in the post-Heideggerian field and an increasingly central presence in contemporary debates about identity and responsibility. His work spans and encapsulates the major philosophical and ethical concerns of the twentieth century, combining the insights of a basic phenomenological training with the demands of a Jewish culture and its basis in the endless exegesis of Talmudic reading. His concerns and subjects are wide: they include the Other, ...

Best known for his theories of ethics and responsibility, Emmanuel Levinas was one of the most profound and influential thinkers of the last century. In this clear, accessible guide, Seán Hand examines why Levinas is increasingly fundamental to the study of literature and culture today. Exploring the intellectual and social contexts of his work and the events that shaped it, Hand considers:the influence of phenomenology and Judaism on Levinas’s thoughtkey concepts...

"Alter Ego is the first monograph in English on the critical writings of Michel Leiris (1901-90). A groundbreaking autobiographer and pioneering ethnographer, Leiris also produced important criticism on art, opera, jazz and literature, which acts as a key commentary on twentieth-century intellectual movements and demonstrates vividly the constant refashioning and reformulation of contemporary ideas and aesthetics. Hand defines and situates Leiris's core themes, analyses his criticism in ea...

Despite an outpouring of scholarship on the Holocaust, little work has focused on what happened to Europe's Jewish communities after the war ended. And unlike many other European nations in which the majority of the Jewish population perished, France had a significant post‑war Jewish community that numbered in the hundreds of thousands. Post-Holocaust France and the Jews, 1945–1955 offers new insight on key aspects of French Jewish life in the decades following the end of World War II.

A playbook for decoding unspoken rules of work culture and accelerating up the corporate ladderEvery workplace operates on a set of unwritten norms that shape its internal culture. While business schools and management programs can provide excellent training in finance, marketing, strategy, and research methods, they rarely prepare students for how to discern these unspoken rules that are crucial for career mobility.Mastering the Corporate Chess Game

An acclaimed reporter presents the first major biography of the legendary, and divisive, conservative pastor who reshaped the landscape of American politics—Jerry Falwell. At a time when the Tea Party movement is dominating much of America's social and political discourse, the story of Falwell's Moral Majority will resonate strongly. Indeed, Falwell's language may sound familiar to anyone who has heard recent speeches by figures like Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, or Michelle Bachmann.

A comprehensive guide to understanding network architecture, communication protocols, and network analysis to build secure applications compatible with the latest versions of C# 8 and .NET Core 3.0Key FeaturesExplore various network architectures that make distributed programming possibleLearn how to make reliable software by writing secure interactions between clients and serversUse .NET Core for network device automation, DevOp...

Convert Android to a powerful pentesting platform.Key FeaturesGet up and running with Kali Linux NetHunterConnect your Android device and gain full control over Windows, OSX, or Linux devicesCrack Wi-Fi passwords and gain access to devices connected over the same network collecting intellectual dataBook DescriptionKali NetHunter is a version of the popular and powerful Kali Linux pentesting platform, designed to be installed ...

For over thirty years, Opening the Hand of Thought has offered an introduction to Zen Buddhism and meditation unmatched in clarity and power. This is the revised edition of Kosho Uchiyama's singularly incisive classic.This new edition contains even more useful material: new prefaces, an index, and extended endnotes, in addition to a revised glossary. As Jisho Warner writes in her preface, Opening the Hand of Thought "goes directly to the heart of Zen practice . . ...

The follow up to Łazarewicz's harrowing Żeby Nie Było Śladów (Leave No Trace) depicting the case of the political murder of Grzegorz Przemyk—which earned Łazarewicz the Nike Literary Award in 2017—the Gorgonowa Case focuses on the case of Rita Gorgonowa, a cause célèbre of the interwar period in Poland.Gorgonowa, a governess having an affair with her employer, was accused of brutally murdering his daughter, the 17-year-old Lusia on New Year’s Eve in 1931. Despite ...

Implement state-of-the-art deep reinforcement learning algorithms using Python and its powerful librariesKey FeaturesImplement Q-learning and Markov models with Python and OpenAIExplore the power of TensorFlow to build self-learning modelsEight AI projects to gain confidence in building self-trained applicationsBook DescriptionReinforcement learning is one of the most exciting and rapidly growing fields in machine learning. T...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.She wasn’t born to rule.She wasn’t meant to be remembered.And yet, from behind silk screens and whispered conversations, she learned how power really works—and took it.In a China shaken by war, foreign pressure, and internal collapse, a young girl from a modest Manchu family enters the Forbidden City as one of many forgotten concubines. No rank. No voice. No future beyond survival.But she watches....