A group of 8 to 12-year-olds gathered at an afterschool recreation center and decided to create a short-story that they name Ben Richards. The story is ablout a young boy who transforms into a Werewolf under the moonlight. The children worked collaboratively, using their imagination and creativity to bring the character and his adventures to life in their animated book.
There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and the unhealthy consumers eating it. Why has the billion-dollar sugar trade created such inequities? In this insightful analysis, Ben Richardson argues that the most compelling answers to this question can be found in the dynamics of global capitalism. Led by multinational companies, the mass consumption of sweetened snacks has taken hold in the Global South and underpinned a new wave of foreign investment in sugar production. The expansion of large-scale and highly-industrialised farms across Latin America, Asia and Africa has kept the price of sugar down whilst pushing workers out of jobs and rural dwellers off the land. However, challenges to these practices are gathering momentum. Health advocates warning against costly diseases like diabetes, trade unions fighting for better pay, and local residents campaigning for a cleaner environment are all re-shaping the way sugar is consumed and produced. But to truly transform sugar, Richardson contends, these political activities must also address the profit-driven nature of food and farming itself.
There is more sugar in the world's diet than ever before, but life is far from sweet for the exploited producers making nature's 'white gold' and the unhealthy consumers eating it. Why has the billion-dollar sugar trade created such inequities? In this insightful analysis, Ben Richardson argues that the most compelling answers to this question can be found in the dynamics of global capitalism. Led by multinational companies, the mass consumption of sweetened snacks has taken hold in the Global South and underpinned a new wave of foreign investment in sugar production. The expansion of large-scale and highly-industrialised farms across Latin America, Asia and Africa has kept the price of sugar down whilst pushing workers out of jobs and rural dwellers off the land. However, challenges to these practices are gathering momentum. Health advocates warning against costly diseases like diabetes, trade unions fighting for better pay, and local residents campaigning for a cleaner environment are all re-shaping the way sugar is consumed and produced. But to truly transform sugar, Richardson contends, these political activities must also address the profit-driven nature of food and farming itself.
La pianificazione del movimento senza collisioni in tempo reale in un ambiente non stazionario un problema importante in molti sistemi autonomi, tra cui la robotica e i sistemi intelligenti. I sistemi robotici intelligenti hanno la capacit di pianificare i movimenti e di navigare autonomamente. Questa capacit diventa fondamentale soprattutto per i robot che operano in ambienti dinamici, dove possono verificarsi cambiamenti imprevedibili e improvvisi. Questo progetto affronta le questioni fondamentali associate alla pianificazione del percorso di un robot in un ambiente che cambia dinamicamente e che soggetto a incertezze. Questo libro presenta una metodologia basata su una combinazione unica di tecniche di reti neurali e dinamiche e di automi cellulari. Le Reti Neurali Cellulari (CNN) prendono il meglio di entrambe le metodologie di pianificazione del percorso, in modo da poter effettuare con successo una navigazione autonoma, condotta in tempo reale all'interno di un ambiente dinamico. Sfruttando le eleganti propriet delle funzioni armoniche e l'interconnettivit locale non lineare dei neuroni all'interno di una CNN, possibile ottenere la completa eliminazione dei minimi locali, producendo una metodologia di pianificazione del percorso stabile e convergente.
- Do we work for social media? - Why do we go into debt? - How is desire manufactured in fast fashion? - How are our diets governed? - Who owns what in the sharing economy? I-PEEL: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life provides a new introduction to the field of IPE by locating it in our daily experiences. By using topics such as social media, debt, food, and clothes as thematic entry points, this textbook shows how concepts from IPE can be used to understand and question the world around us. Eight core chapters each start with a discussion of an everyday object or practice linked to that topic, including social media influencing, student debt, chocolate, and fast fashion. From there the chapters open out to discuss broader questions that speak to the core themes of IPE and its study of power, wealth, and global capitalism. Each chapter ends with a pair of learning activities, such as creating your own meme (chapter 8, Humour), to help apply what you have read. These are accompanied by student-voice podcasts, in which current IPE students discuss how they approached the activity. Developed by the creators of the popular teaching tool www.i-peel.org: I-PEEL: The International Political Economy of Everyday Life is a ground-breaking, exciting, and engaging new approach to IPE that places you at the centre of knowledge production. The first edition includes a wealth of embedded digital resources, which are accessible through the enhanced e-book, and are viewable in a university's VLE. The online student resources include: - Videos from the authors introducing the I-PEEL approach - Quickfire quiz questions - Author chapter-introduction podcasts - Reflective multiple-choice questions - Support for tackling the chapter's learning activities - Student reflection podcasts - Web links to relevant blogs, debates, and videos - An interactive flashcard glossary The online digital lecturer resources include: - A guide to the I-PEEL approach - Customisable PowerPoint slides
Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour, this book looks at the impact of the EU’s ‘new generation’ free trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon extensive original research, including over 200 interviews with key actors across the EU and its trading partners, it considers the effectiveness of the trade-labour linkage in an era of global value chains.The EU believes trade can work for all, claiming that labour provisions in its free trade agreements ensure that economic growth and high labour standards go hand-in-hand. Yet whether these actually make a difference to workers is strongly contested. This book explains why labour provisions have been profoundly limited in the EU’s agreements with the CARIFORUM group, South Korea and Moldova. It also shows how the provisions were mismatched with the most pressing workplace concerns in the key export industries of sugar, automobiles and clothing, and how these concerns were exacerbated by the agreements’ commercial provisions. This pioneering approach to studying the trade-labour linkage provides insights into key debates on the role of civil society in trade governance, the relationship between public and private labour regulation, and the progressive possibilities for trade policy in the twenty-first century.This book will appeal to research scholars, post-graduate students, trade policy practitioners, policy researchers allied to labour movements, and informed activists.
Exploring the contentious relationship between trade and labour, this book looks at the impact of the EU’s ‘new generation’ free trade agreements on workers. Drawing upon extensive original research, including over 200 interviews with key actors across the EU and its trading partners, it considers the effectiveness of the trade-labour linkage in an era of global value chains.The EU believes trade can work for all, claiming that labour provisions in its free trade agreements ensure that economic growth and high labour standards go hand-in-hand. Yet whether these actually make a difference to workers is strongly contested. This book explains why labour provisions have been profoundly limited in the EU’s agreements with the CARIFORUM group, South Korea and Moldova. It also shows how the provisions were mismatched with the most pressing workplace concerns in the key export industries of sugar, automobiles and clothing, and how these concerns were exacerbated by the agreements’ commercial provisions. This pioneering approach to studying the trade-labour linkage provides insights into key debates on the role of civil society in trade governance, the relationship between public and private labour regulation, and the progressive possibilities for trade policy in the twenty-first century.This book will appeal to research scholars, post-graduate students, trade policy practitioners, policy researchers allied to labour movements, and informed activists.
Hace un a o que Ben ech a Alison de su vida y no ha conseguido olvidarla. No ha conseguido dejar de pensar en ella ni un solo d a. Y sus hermanos ya no saben qu hacer para que vuelva a ser el chico alegre que era cuando estaba con ella. l tampoco tiene ni idea, la verdad.Hace un a o que Alison regres a su hogar en Texas porque Nueva York le dol a demasiado. Porque all hab a conocido el amor m s puro, el m s bonito, el que pod a cambiarle la vida a una persona. Pero Ben la hab a dejado. Y ella, un a o despu s, ni siquiera conoc a la raz n.Podr a ser el destino el que hiciera que volvieran a encontrarse, pero no ser as . Ser el dolor. Y en el peor momento de su vida, el m s lleno de dudas e incertidumbre, Ben tendr que decidir si prefiere seguir sobreviviendo con los sentimientos anestesiados por el miedo a perderlo todo... o lanzarse a vivir.
Life in the big city has its problems: traffic, overpopulation, and crime, not to mention the brain-hungry living dead. But for hard rockers Straw and Whip, life among the flesh-eating populace is easy. They pass their time disguising themselves to fit in with the decaying hordes, pilfering musical instruments from deserted shopping malls, eating like kings, and performing rooftop rock shows . . . until they meet a gun-crazy vixen named Betty. Soon the duo begin to feel the flames of jealousy over who in all likelihood is the last woman on earth.
