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  • Trading Beyond Understanding

    Machine Learning, Risk, and Markets

    by Christian Borch ...
    Series series Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
    Machine learning is fundamentally transforming financial markets. Where trading strategies were once crafted by human experts—executed manually or through pre-coded rules—firms now build models that generate the strategies themselves. These are not just tools but trading automatons: semi-independent systems designed to learn from markets and act on their own. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning

    by Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Machine learning, renowned for its ability to detect patterns in large datasets, has seen a significant increase in applications and complexity since the early 2000s. The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning offers a state-of-the-art and forward-looking overview of the intersection between machine learning and sociology, exploring what sociology can gain from machine learning and ... Read more

    $243.99 CAD

  • Preparing for Hybrid Threats to Security

    Collaborative Preparedness and Response

    Edited by Odd Jarl Borch, Tormod Heier ...
    This book examines hybrid threats within the broader context of a security crisis in Europe.As geopolitical tensions increase and great power rivalries intensify, can states protect their communities? While conventional wars are fought, parallel battles take place by more subtle and non-violent means. This multi-disciplinary book examines how hybrid threats undermine political governance and ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Physical Testing of Paper

    Volume 1, Second Edition,

    Edited by Richard E. Mark, Charles Habeger, Jens Borch, M. Bruce Lyne ...
    Contains basic principles and the latest techniques in paper and paperboard testing. Fosters an understanding of theory and mechanical testing parameters to evaluate results and make improvements. Emphasizes new procedures utilizing advanced microscopy equipment. ... Read more

    $662.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Physical Testing of Paper

    Volume 2

    Edited by Jens Borch, M. Bruce Lyne, Richard E. Mark, Charles Habeger ...
    This handbook focuses on physical paper testing in the laboratory and online. Divided into five parts, it highlights assays for paper interactions with light, moisture, electricity, and heat. Topics expanded upon include laboratory testing procedures; microscopy analysis and paper surface properties; liquid and gas penetration; electrical and thermal interactions; and methods of surface ... Read more

    $592.99 CAD

  • Crisis and Emergency Management in the Arctic

    Navigating Complex Environments

    Edited by Natalia Andreassen, Odd Jarl Borch ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
    This book sheds light on the management challenges of crisis and emergency response in an arctic environment.It explores how the complexity of the operational environment impacts on the risk of operations and addresses a need for tailor-made emergency response mechanisms. Through case studies of the arctic environment, the book illustrates how factors such as nature, geography, demographics and ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion

    On Mimesis and Society

    Edited by Christian Borch ...
    Series series CRESC
    Terrorist attacks seem to mimic other terrorist attacks. Mass shootings appear to mimic previous mass shootings. Financial traders seem to mimic other traders. It is not a novel observation that people often imitate others. Some might even suggest that mimesis is at the core of human interaction. However, understanding such mimesis and its broader implications is no trivial task. Imitation, ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Urban Commons

    Rethinking the City

    Edited by Christian Borch, Martin Kornberger ...
    Series series Space, Materiality and the Normative
    This book rethinks the city by examining its various forms of collectivity – their atmospheres, modes of exclusion and self-organization, as well as how they are governed – on the basis of a critical discussion of the notion of urban commons. The idea of the commons has received surprisingly little attention in urban theory, although the city may well be conceived as a shared resource. Urban ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Critical Finance Studies

    Edited by Christian Borch, Robert Wosnitzer ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    There has been an increasing interest in financial markets across sociology, history, anthropology, cultural studies, and related disciplines over the past decades, with particular intensity since the 2007–2008 crisis which prompted new analyses of the workings of financial markets and how “scandals of Wall Street” might have huge societal ramifications. The sociologically inclined landscape of ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Social Avalanche

    Crowds, Cities and Financial Markets

    by Christian Borch ...
    Individuality and collectivity are central concepts in sociological inquiry. Incorporating cultural history, social theory, urban and economic sociology, Borch proposes an innovative rethinking of these key terms and their interconnections via the concept of the social avalanche. Drawing on classical sociology, he argues that while individuality embodies a tension between the collective and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Niklas Luhmann

    by Christian Borch ...
    Series series Key Sociologists
    Niklas Luhmann offers an accessible introduction to one of the most important sociologists of our time. It presents the key concepts within Luhmann’s multifaceted theory of modern society, and compares them with the work of other key social theorists such as Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, and Zygmunt Bauman.The book pays particular attention to introducing and discussing Luhmann’s original ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Crowds

    An Alternative History of Sociology

    by Christian Borch ...
    When sociology emerged as a discipline in the late nineteenth century, the problem of crowds constituted one of its key concerns. It was argued that crowds shook the foundations of society and led individuals into all sorts of irrational behaviour. Yet crowds were not just something to be fought in the street, they also formed a battleground over how sociology should be demarcated from related ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD