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...

'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...

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...

Discover the hidden force behind strength, confidence, and vitality: your posture. In The Power of Posture, you will uncover how proper alignment is not just about standing tall - it is the foundation for greater physical performance, reduced pain, enhanced breathing, and sharper mental focus. Drawing from decades of real-world experience and evidence-based insights, this practical guide reveals simple, actionable techniques to correct slouching, screen time, and sedentary habits. Whether ...

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...

A murderous game. The killer makes the rules. Death hangs on the roll of the dice.In murder investigations, it pays to keep things simple: motive, method, opportunity. But the case in front of Detective Fabian Risk is a nightmare. A killer who strikes out of nowhere. No apparent motive. No consistent method. Victims are tortured, strangled, burned, dismembered – each grisly killing carried out with savage precision, as if following the rules of a hellish game.

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.What happens when schools can no longer bind society together?In an era of growing segregation, this book explores how Swedish schools and municipalities work to counteract inequality and foster civil inclusion. Through detailed case studies of school closures, mergers, and new openings, the authors trace how local actors try to achieve 'civil repair' – to strengthen equality and rebuild cohesion through education.

'Breathlessly suspenseful, ingeniously plotted and impossible to put down' Yrsa SigurdardottirThe epic, explosive Fabian Risk series concludes with this action-packed thriller from international number one bestseller Stefan Ahnhem.He has extorted. He has abused. He has raped. He has sacrificed colleagues as a means to reach the top. His name is Kim Sleizner – and he works as a police chief in Copenhagen.Dunja Hougaard used t...