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Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Adoption Parameters, Perceptions, Perspectives
by Tan YigitcanlarThis book delves into the complex landscape of autonomous urban mobility, analysing the factors that influence public adoption, stakeholder perspectives, and societal perceptions in this rapidly evolving field. Aimed at scholars, policymakers, urban planners, and industry professionals, this book offers a thorough exploration of the key elements driving the integration of autonomous vehicles in urban settings. Drawing on empirical evidence from diverse case studies, it first investigates public awareness, emphasising the roles of knowledge, exposure, and media in shaping perceptions of autonomous vehicles, and underscores the critical need for targeted awareness campaigns. Subsequent chapters examine pre-trial attitudes towards autonomous shuttles, demonstrating how initial experiences significantly impact adoption willingness, and advocate for pilot programs to cultivate informed, positive perceptions.This book also explores the potential of smart mobility solutions to bridge first/last mile gaps, presenting data on how autonomous vehicles can improve urban transport efficiency and accessibility. By analysing socio-demographic predictors, it highlights varying perceptions of the benefits and challenges of autonomous demand-responsive transit, underscoring the importance of tailored strategies for diverse urban populations. Stakeholder perspectives, gathered through interviews and case studies, offer practical recommendations for overcoming technological, regulatory, and societal hurdles. Comparative insights from international case studies broaden the understanding of local factors influencing autonomous vehicle acceptance, while advanced modelling techniques identify the key drivers of driverless car adoption. Finally, this book explores the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles in developing countries, offering visionary insights into their capacity to reshape urban landscapes.With its data-rich content and forward-thinking analysis, this book is an indispensable guide to the future of urban transportation and the critical role of autonomous mobility.This volume, alongside its companion—Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Innovation Principles, Priorities, Policies—offers a holistic view of autonomous urban mobility. Together, these books provide a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous urban mobility, the principles guiding its innovation, the wide-ranging impacts of its adoption on society, policy, and urban environments, and the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles in the future of urban transportation.
Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Innovation Principles, Priorities, Policies
by Tan YigitcanlarThis book provides a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving field of autonomous urban mobility, examining its transformative potential and the principles guiding its innovation. This essential resource offers deep insights into the societal, policy, and urban impacts of autonomous vehicles, drawing on an extensive body of research. Beginning with a review of smart urban mobility innovations, the book explores technological advancements such as connected vehicles, mobility-as-a-service platforms, and shared autonomous systems, evaluating their successes and challenges.This book traces the evolution of autonomous vehicle research over the past two decades, identifying key trends, methodologies, and future research directions, underscoring the importance of interdisciplinary approaches to address complex challenges. Subsequent chapters critically assess the technical capabilities, societal impacts, and policy frameworks necessary for the widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles, with a focus on implications for land use, infrastructure, and environmental planning. Public acceptance is a recurring theme, with an in-depth analysis of socio-demographic, psychological, and contextual factors influencing attitudes towards autonomous mobility. This book also examines the role of shared autonomous systems in addressing urban challenges such as congestion and equity, highlighting their potential to create more sustainable urban transportation networks. Concluding with a discussion on the disruptive impacts of autonomous vehicles on urban form and land use, the author provides a balanced perspective on the opportunities and risks of mobility-as-a-service.This key reference book equips academics, policymakers, urban planners, and industry professionals with the knowledge to navigate the complex interplay of technology, policy, and societal impact, advancing the vision of smarter and more sustainable cities.This volume, alongside its companion—Autonomous Urban Mobility: Understanding Adoption Parameters, Perceptions, Perspectives—offers a holistic view of autonomous urban mobility. Together, these books provide a comprehensive exploration of the rapidly evolving landscape of autonomous urban mobility, the principles guiding its innovation, the wide-ranging impacts of its adoption on society, policy, and urban environments, and the transformative potential of autonomous vehicles in the future of urban transportation.
Autonomous: Why the Fittest Businesses Embrace AI-First Strategies and Digital Labor
by Henry King Vala AfsharA compelling roadmap to building an autonomous business, best positioned to win, using digital labor powered by Agentic and physical AIAn autonomous business is designed to be AI-first in its strategies and operations to maximize value and minimize time to value, and when it is done right it will unlock unprecedented speed, scale and shared success. But getting from one-off AI implementations - where most companies are at today - to autonomy will be neither easy nor obvious. Business leaders will need to challenge all the conventions, standard operating procedures and orthodoxies underpinning businesses designed by humans for humans – which is to say just about all of them! They will need to build digital labor to non-linearly scale the health, conditioning and talent of their teams, business and ecosystem, enabling 24x7x365 continuity and responsiveness, removing blockages and waste that trap or reduce value. They will need to manage the relationships between the two types of intelligent resources, digital and human. They will need to design for AI control and teach human leaders to “let go of the steering wheel”. The goal of Autonomous is to further expand the Boundless design principles that have guided the fastest growing companies in the world, and to ready business leaders, strategists and designers for success in the AI economy.
Avant-Garde World Creation: Cosmogony and the Total Work of Art in Europe 1913-1923 (Routledge Research in Art History)
by Abigael van AlstThis book explores the widespread fascination with world creation among early twentieth-century artists and examines those trends within the European avant-garde.The book reflects on what ‘the world’ looks and feels like before and after World War One—and thus also concerns creativity and destruction alike in the context of modernity. Over the course of three chapters, the author focusses on works in which avant-garde artists combine and experiment with various arts and media to create alternative narratives of the world’s creation. These works include three canonized ‘total works of art’: Der Weltbaumeister (The World’s Master Builder, 1920), an illustrated book imagined as an architectural play by the Expressionist architect Bruno Taut; the Futurist opera Победа над Cолнцем (Victory Over the Sun, 1913) by Aleksei Kruchenykh, Velimir Khlebnikov, Kazimir Malevich and Mikhail Matiushin; and the Cubist ballet La Création du monde (The Creation of the World, 1923) by Blaise Cendrars, Fernand Léger, Darius Milhaud and Jean Börlin. Providing new readings of these classic works that dive deeply into the avant-garde’s inter-artistic search for new modes of mediation as well as its dialogue with science, politics and technology, Abigael van Alst demonstrates how each of these artworks staged a cosmogony—an alternative story of the universe's creation—which, simultaneously, experimentally and critically recounted the story of modernity.This new book is ideal for researchers and scholars in History of Art, Modernism, and Comparative Literature.
Awakening Leadership: The Journey to Conscious Influence
by Mark Bojeun, PhDIn a time defined by complexity, disruption, and rapid innovation, Awakening Leadership: The Journey to Conscious Influence offers a transformative roadmap for leaders ready to rise with clarity, courage, and conscience. Merging timeless leadership principles with modern insights in emotional intelligence, mindfulness, ethical decision-making, and AI ethics, this book redefines how leaders influence, inspire, and impact the world around them.Across fifteen compelling chapters, Dr. Mark Bojeun presents an integrated framework for conscious leadership—one that harmonizes performance with purpose and results with relationships. Readers will explore how to cultivate self-awareness, lead with authenticity, and build the emotional resilience necessary to thrive in uncertain environments. They will discover how to foster inclusive, values-driven cultures that ignite innovation, while learning to communicate with empathy, intentionality, and strategic presence.The book also provides guidance for navigating ambiguity, driving transformation, and leading with clarity in an increasingly AI-augmented world—all while aligning personal development with meaningful organizational impact.Whether you are a senior executive refining your leadership presence, an emerging leader seeking deeper influence, or an educator preparing the next generation of changemakers, Awakening Leadership: The Journey to Conscious Influence delivers the mindset, structure, and tools to lead consciously and create a legacy built on trust, relevance, and purpose.Lead with awareness. Influence with integrity. Transform with intention.
Awe-Inspiring Lists About the Wonders of the World
by Heather E. SchwartzThe world is an amazing place. Natural wonders, like black-sand beaches and white rainbows, and human-made achievements, like skyscrapers and technology, are just waiting to be explored! Bright pictures, humorous designs, and amazing facts will invite readers to appreciate the wonders of the world.
A’ja Wilson
by Matt ChandlerA’ja Wilson comes from a family of basketball players. But she wasn’t born a superstar. In fact, Wilson was not a natural talent. She worked hard to become the best player, and it paid off. In middle school, Wilson was promoted to the high school varsity team. After that, there was no stopping her! From her college career at the University of South Carolina to her professional career with the Las Vegas Aces, Wilson’s determination shines through in this encouraging sports biography.
B2B Content Marketing Strategy: A Media-First Framework That Accelerates Growth
by Devin BramhallHow can you create B2B content marketing strategies that deliver predictable growth?B2B Content Marketing Strategy is a practical guide for mid-career marketers who want to implement human-centric strategies that break through long, complex buyer journeys and deliver measurable results. It combines proven principles, detailed frameworks and actionable tools to help you optimize content across every stage of the marketing cycle.Written by B2B marketing expert, Devin Bramhall, for professionals navigating shifting buyer behaviour, rapid platform changes and outdated playbooks, this book shows how to align media, technology, and audience insight to achieve sustainable growth. Drawing on real-world examples from Cisco, Help Scout and Navattic, you will learn how to:- Develop living audience profiles that evolve with market needs- Apply a media-first approach across owned, earned and paid channels- Optimize content plans to align with brand and revenue goals- Build communities that increase reach, trust and loyaltyWith detailed chapters, practical models and case studies from startups to global enterprises, B2B Content Marketing Strategy equips you to implement high-impact strategies that strengthen credibility, accelerate growth and enhance your career impact.Themes include: strategy, principles, B2B marketing, media-first approach, content optimization, audience engagement
Back to the Music
by Keith WainThe band is working on a cover of a song for the first time. It should be fun and fresh and exciting. And it is—for Soren. But the rest of the band is distracted. An old video game console is one problem, and phones keep the band's attention wandering. It feels like music is a thing of the past.
Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem
by Kathy LavezzoChallenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism Humanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem, Kathy Lavezzo demonstrates how the temporal divide scholars typically accept is a fiction that has shaped racial discourse over a longue durée. The hard line drawn between “then” and “now” is of a piece with the line separating whiteness from humans deemed irrevocably other. Thus, Lavezzo advocates a “bad”—that is, depressing and disturbing, even nauseating—historicism attuned to the interpenetration of race, whiteness, and periodicity in the “west.” Teasing out the dialectical invocation of both periods by figures as diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, Carolyn Bynum, Stuart Hall, Johan Huizinga, Paule Marshall, Karl Marx, Gloria Naylor, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Sylvia Wynter, Lavezzo demonstrates how the tension between and across categories of the “medieval” and the “modern” has mobilized intense emotional and political responses. Inspired by Lavezzo’s discovery that Hall, the beloved founder of cultural studies, planned as a student at Oxford to become a medievalist but was dissuaded from that path by his teacher Tolkien, Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem unpacks the implications of that charged encounter. Central chapters contrast Tolkien’s white heritage medievalism with a speculative inquiry into the Piers Plowman dissertation that Hall never wrote. Other chapters assess the white “feel” of periodization by scholars, including Jacob Burckhardt, Huizinga, Fredric Jameson, and Bynum, and draw on theorists, including Du Bois and Wynter, to chart the medieval roots of a racialized discourse of progress and primitivism. Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem culminates in new readings of Gloria Naylor’s Bailey’s Cafe and Paule Marshall’s The Fisher King, demonstrating their importance as productively pessimistic engagements with the racial legacies of both the medieval and the modern.
Bailey and the Blaze
by Dolores AndralThe year is 1864 and Atlanta, Georgia, has been set ablaze during the Civil War! Twelve-year-old Bailey is feeling nervous as the Union Army advances on Atlanta. While most people are fleeing the city, her family is not. Bailey’s father works at a newspaper, and he must stay to report the news. But when the Union Army arrives and sets fire to the city, her whole family is in danger. Will Bailey find a way to help protect her family as Atlanta burns to the ground?
Bake Your Own Brownies
by Mari BolteCraving chocolate goodness? Early and emergent readers can bake their own batch of yummy fudgy brownies! Step-by-step instructions plus clear photos guide elementary children through this simple and sweet recipe that they (with a little adult assistance) can make themselves—and then enjoy!
Bake Your Own Cookies
by Mari BolteA warm cookie is a special treat. Early and emergent readers can bake their own batch of sugar cookies topped with colorful sprinkles! Step-by-step instructions plus clear photos guide elementary children through this simple and sweet recipe that they (with a little adult assistance) can make themselves—and then enjoy!
Bake Your Own Cupcakes
by Mari BolteIt’s a party with this festive dessert! Early and emergent readers can bake their own batch of sprinkle cupcakes topped with creamy vanilla frosting. Step-by-step instructions plus clear photos guide elementary children through this simple and sweet recipe that they (with a little adult assistance) can make themselves—and then enjoy!
Bake Your Own Soda Bread
by Mari BolteFresh bread is yummy to smell and even tastier to eat! Early and emergent readers can bake their own loaf of soft soda bread topped with honey butter. Step-by-step instructions plus clear photos guide elementary children through this simple recipe that they (with a little adult assistance) can make themselves—and then enjoy!
Bane’s Batcave Blitz
by Steve KortéBane is bringing a battle straight to Batman’s home turf! After planting a tracking device on the Batmobile, this super-villain follows the Dark Knight to his underground headquarters, the Batcave. Caught off-guard, Batman signals members of the Bat-Family for help, including his crime-fighting partner Batgirl. Can the heroes stop Bane’s Batcave blitz, or will this villain claim the Batcave’s trophy room as his prize? Full of fast-paced action and vibrant illustrations, this Bat-Family Adventures book is perfect for young super hero fans!
Bangladesh in Anglophone and Vernacular Literature: Cultural Imaginings of a Postcolonial Nation (Routledge Research on Asian Literature)
by Asif IqbalThis book illuminates individual and collective imaginings of postcolonial Bangladesh. It explores the emergence of Bangladesh as a nation from a variety of perspectives.The author studies the impact of Muslim nationalism on the subaltern life-worlds of East Bengal during the Partition, religious minorities and their insecurity in East Pakistan, East Pakistan’s political insurgencies, the victims of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, the Indian stake in the 1971 War, and the cosmopolitan interpretations of the war. The literary and cultural texts that inform this project include contemporary Bengali novels, South Asian Anglophone literature, as well as selected visual media and digital sources. The project’s reading of these texts in conjunction with politics and history has interdisciplinary relevance.This book will be of interest to researchers in South Asian Literature, South Asian History and Culture, World Literatures in English as well as Area Studies, Security Studies, and Political Theory.
Baseball Blues
by Jake Maddox Bryan Patrick AveryKevin Paige, the best hitter on his baseball team, is in the biggest slump of his life. Determined to get his swing back before big-time Coach Bingo can watch him play, Kevin practices more than ever. But he's getting worse—not better. Kevin will need to learn balance to find his swing again.
Baseball Is the Best!
by Joe TischlerEating a hot dog at the ballpark is fun. Watching a favorite star make a great catch is too. Whether playing it or watching it on TV, learning about the game’s rules, positions, skills, pro stars, and more will show readers just why baseball is the best! A fun quiz at the end of the book reinforces learning.
Baseball’s Most Controversial Plays
by Matt ChandlerThe history of baseball is riddled with controversial plays. In Game 6 of the 1985 World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals faced off against the Kansas City Royals in Game 6. In the bottom of the ninth inning, was the runner safe or was he out? In Game 1 of the 1996 American League Championship Series, the New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles took the field. In the eighth inning, was it a home run? Or did fan interference make it an automatic out? On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga went for a perfect game. In the final out, was the runner safe or was he out? The umpires made their calls. Now it’s your turn. Do you agree with the umps?
Basketball Is the Best!
by Joe TischlerWatching a superstar slam dunk is fun. Dribbling the ball down the basketball court is too. Whether playing it or watching it on TV, learning about the game’s positions, skills, rules, pro stars, and more will show readers just why basketball is the best! A fun quiz at the end of the book reinforces learning.
Basketball’s Most Controversial Plays
by Heather E. SchwartzIn 2024, New York Knicks player Jalen Brunson was called for a foul with less than a second left in a tied game. The Knicks lost. In Game 1 of the 2018 NBA Finals, a critical call on LeBron James was reversed after officials used replay review. In the last game of the 2024 WNBA Finals, the officials called a foul on Minnesota Lynx player Alanna Smith with six seconds left in the game. The game went into overtime, and the Lynx lost. Take a closer look at these controversial basketball calls and make your own decision. Do you agree with the officials?
Batman Is Brave, and So Are You!
by Benjamin BirdIn this inspiring DC Super Heroes picture book, a young boy and Batman both face their fears in parallel journeys of bravery. The boy takes on the daunting challenge of speaking on Sharing Day just as the Caped Crusader works to thwart a destructive scheme constructed by The Joker. Demonstrating actionable steps such as breathing, positive self-talk, and asking for help, our two heroes show that bravery isn’t about feeling unafraid, but keeping calm and preserving in the face of fear—no matter how big or small. An encouraging read perfect for reminding young readers of their own special superpower: Being brave!
Bats!
by Lydia LukidisThere’s more to bats than meets the eye! Some bats are hairless. Others have giant ears. Besides their fascinating physical features, bats play an important role in the world’s ecosystems. Young readers will dispel misconceptions about these night-time fliers and find out why their conservation is so important. Dynamic photos, activities, and engaging narrative shine a light on these mysterious and misunderstood mammals.
Battery Technology: Fundamentals of Battery Electrochemistry, Systems and Applications
by Heinz Wenzl Alexander BörgerUnderstand the technology that will power our future with this comprehensive guide Energy supply is perhaps the most challenging engineering problem and social and economic issue of the modern age. Energy storage technologies and in particular batteries are an important option to optimize energy supply systems both technically and economically. They help to drive down costs, make new products and services possible and can reduce emissions. Batteries are now key components for vehicles, portable products and the electricity supply system. Understanding batteries, in particular the two dominant battery technologies, lead-acid and lithium-ion, has therefore never been more essential to technological developments for these applications. Battery Technology: Fundamentals of Battery Electrochemistry, Systems and Applications offers a comprehensive overview of how batteries work, why they are designed the way they are, the technically and economically most important systems and their applications. The book begins with background information on the electrochemistry, the structure of the materials and components and the properties of batteries. The book then moves to practical examples often using field data of battery usage. It can serve both as an introduction for engineering and science students and as a guide for those developing batteries and integrating batteries into energy systems. Battery Technology readers will also find: A focused introduction to electrochemical and materials science aspects of battery researchAn author team with decades of combined experience in battery research and industryClear structure enabling easy use Battery Technology is ideal for materials scientists, software engineers developing battery management systems, design engineers for batteries, battery systems and the many auxiliary components required for safe and reliable operation of batteries.