'Rent from the Land' examines the effects of the massive political and economic changes of postsocialism on rural society and environment in Albania. Stahl argues that the area's postsocialist transformations led to changes in the creation and distribution of resource rent, which shifted land users' incentives and productive decision-making and ultimately led to environmental change. ‘Rent from the Land’ brings together five years of research on Albanian transformation, and breaks new ground by discussing postsocialist transformation from a political ecology perspective.

Rent from the Land: A Political Ecology of Postsocialist Rural Transformation (Anthem Series on Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies)

Business & Money

Stahl, Johannes

Economics

Anthem Press

An overview on the challenging new topic of phase-aware signal processing Speech communication technology is a key factor in human-machine interaction, digital hearing aids, mobile telephony, and automatic speech/speaker recognition. With the proliferation of these applications, there is a growing requirement for advanced methodologies that can push the limits of the conventional solutions relying on processing the signal magnitude spectrum. Single-Channel Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication provides a comprehensive guide to phase signal processing and reviews the history of phase importance in the literature, basic problems in phase processing, fundamentals of phase estimation together with several applications to demonstrate the usefulness of phase processing. Key features: <ul>
<li>Analysis of recent advances demonstrating the positive impact of phase-based processing in pushing the limits of conventional methods.</li> <li>Offers unique coverage of the historical context, fundamentals of phase processing and provides several examples in speech communication.</li> <li>Provides a detailed review of many references and discusses the existing signal processing techniques required to deal with phase information in different applications involved with speech.</li> <li>The book supplies various examples and MATLAB® implementations delivered within the PhaseLab toolbox.</li> </ul>
Single-Channel Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication is a valuable single-source for students, non-expert DSP engineers, academics and graduate students.

Single Channel Phase-Aware Signal Processing in Speech Communication: Theory and Practice

Engineering & Transportation

Mowlaee, Pejman

Kulmer, Josef

Mayer, Florian

Engineering

wiley

Forests and People: Property, Governance, and Human Rights

Sikor, Thomas

Routledge

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

When Things Become Property: Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia (Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy, 3)

Politics & Social Sciences

Dorondel, Stefan

To, Phuc Xuan

Anthropology

Berghahn Books

Governments have conferred ownership titles to many citizens throughout the world in an effort to turn things into property. Almost all elements of nature have become the target of property laws, from the classic preoccupation with land to more ephemeral material, such as air and genetic resources. When Things Become Property interrogates the mixed outcomes of conferring ownership by examining postsocialist land and forest reforms in Albania, Romania and Vietnam, and finds that property reforms are no longer, if they ever were, miracle tools available to governments for refashioning economies, politics or environments.

This book provides colorful insight into the beauty, wit, provocation, and arguments of this highly fundamental form of art.

Street Art (Art Pocket)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

H.F.Ullmann Publishing Gmbh

Street art is by far the most controversial art form of our times. It takes place in the street, far away from galleries, and at the verge of legality. Nevertheless or maybe because of this, it fascinates and is developing into an art form that increasingly gains acceptance. The sprayed or glued pictures that can be found primarily in big cities on house walls and rail cars are anonymous, provocative, and non-academic. They often, but not always, pick up political protest and sometimes are part of an attempt to bring poetry to the city. This book shows the graffiti’s scope of expression in over 250 pictures and explanatory texts. Extra pages illuminate special aspects such as name graffiti, hip hop, or street art vs. globalization. An ideal opus for people who want to learn more about this elementary and controversial art form.

Street Art

Humor & Entertainment

Pop Culture

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