For the last two centuries, nationalism has been a central feature of society and politics. Few ideologies can match its power and resonance, and no other political movement and symbolic language has such worldwide appeal and resilience. But nationalism is also a form of public culture and political religion, which draws on much older cultural and symbolic forms.Seeking to do justice to these different facets of nationalism, the second edition of this popular and respected overview...

For decades, conventional medicine has pigeonholed uric acid as the singular culprit behind gout-a simple waste product of high living and purine overload. The Great Uric Acid Debacle shatters this outdated paradigm. Written not from the detached perspective of a clinical textbook, but from the deeply personal trenches of lived experience, this book explores the hidden reality of systemic metabolic crises.Despite never being diagnosed with gout, Rev. C. D. Smith's body tol...

Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema, 1967-2022: Genre, History, Event explores how popular film offers us frameworks through which to historicize the present and to imagine alternative futures in the opacity of the contemporary moment.This book offers an original way to interpret the contemporary as form, presenting the idea of contemporaneity as historical concept and not simply as "period" in the temporal sense. It explores how we might histor...

As the last Holocaust survivors bear witness in an age of deepfakes, avatars, and artificial intelligence (AI), the authenticity of witness is at stake as never before. Holocaust XR examines immersive and extended reality (XR) technologies through the lens of testimonial methodology, ethics, representation, and authenticity.Written by a principal architect of the field of immersive testimony—Dimensions in Testimony, The Last Goodbye, IWalk—this v...

Your circuit works on the breadboard. Now learn the concepts that turn it into a board ready for production.You've built the circuit. It works on your breadboard. Now what?For most makers and electronics enthusiasts, that's where the journey ends. Technical reference manuals assume you already know PCB fundamentals. Software tutorials show you which menu to click. Neither one teaches the underlying concepts: what a via is and why you need it, how layers wor...

Billionaires can afford the best of everything, including medical care. But William Aloma's money can't protect him from a surgical robot that dispenses justice along with the best surgical results.Dr. Richard Atkins and his team suspect that the newest robot AI, is intentionally injuring patients on the OR table when it judges them to be bad for society - rapists and murderers, but also billionaires and politicians.Can Atkins prove the AI is acting malicio...

Fort Larned is the first of three historical novels depicting the life of fictional adventurer, Lane Collier. From his beginnings as a Civil War army scout and later as a celebrated buffalo hunter, lawman, and rancher Lane Collier symbolizes the tenacity and resourcefulness of the North American plains frontiersman during the second half of the 19th century. Such men clawed a living and built a civilization from seemingly barren grasslands and hostile prairie where onl...

“A real page turner: a must read for devotees of America’s struggle for Liberty, and for scholars and students of the Military Art of Leadership. Joining history and modern management thought in one volume—illuminating great men in the crucible of crisis and combat: from the strategic to the tactical, from the political to the logistical. Here is a compelling, expert-telling of the Revolutionary War in its critical human dimension: Leadership. Steven Smith and Kevin Dougherty’s col...

In nearly two decades since Samuel P. Huntington proposed his influential and troubling 'clash of civilizations' thesis, nationalism has only continued to puzzle and frustrate commentators, policy analysts and political theorists. No consensus exists concerning its identity, genesis or future. Are we reverting to the petty nationalisms of the nineteenth century or evolving into a globalized, supranational world? Has the nation-state outlived its usefulness and exhausted its progressive and...

Grasp the fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence and build your own intelligent systems with easeKey FeaturesEnter the world of AI with the help of solid concepts and real-world use casesExplore AI components to build real-world automated intelligenceBecome well versed with machine learning and deep learning conceptsBook DescriptionVirtual Assistants, such as Alexa and Siri, process our requests, Google's cars have started t...

Pilsners, blonde ales, India pale ales, lagers, porters, stouts: the varieties and styles of beer are endless. But as diverse as the drink is, its appeal is universal – beer is the most-consumed alcoholic beverage in the world. From pubs and inns to restaurants, bars and microbreweries, beer has made itself a staple drink around the globe. Celebrating the heritage of the world’s favourite tipple, Gavin D. Smith traces beer from its earliest days to its contemporary consumption.Afte...

When Dr. Monica Gray's unrivaled robotic surgery skills thrust her into the midst of a bitter war, she finds herself fighting for more than just her patients' lives.As the leading telesurgeon in the world, Monica is persuaded to lend her cutting-edge talents to NATO's war effort against Russia. But what begins as a call to serve those in need quickly escalates into a high-stakes game of global espionage.Soon Monica and her uncannily adept AI surgical partne...