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 A. Kolin, "State Power and Democracy: Before and During the Presidency of George W. Bush" English | 2011 | ISBN: 0230109357 | 262 pages | PDF | 2.1 MB State Power and Democracy is the first book to show that the Bush police state didn't commence when Bush was inaugurated. It proves, instead, that the seeds of an American police state can be traced all the way back to the founding of the republic.  Emilian Kavalski, "Stable Outside, Fragile Inside?: Post-Soviet Statehood in Central Asia " English | ISBN: 0754676005 | 2010 | 252 pages | PDF | 8 MB In the wake of Soviet disintegration, Central Asia became an idiom for the ensuing confusion in the post-Cold War climate of international affairs, characterized by inter-state order and intra-state anarchy. Dynamic changes associated with the end of communism, the 'revival' of ethnic, religious and clan mobilization and the gradual involvement of various international actors, have inspired extensive scholarly and policy engagement with the region. Yet most analyses fail to bring Central Asia into the mainstream of systematic interrogation. This timely volume analyzes the quality of statehood in the region by assessing the complex dynamics of Central Asian state-making and focusing on the simultaneous patterns of socialization and internalization in the region. It straddles four different bodies of literature and addresses the systematic lacunae in all of them to investigate the localization effects of Russia, China, the EU and NATO on forms of post-Soviet statehood in Central Asia - placing Central Asia in the study and practice of world politics.  Lewis J. Patsavos, "Spiritual Dimensions of the Holy Canons" English | 2007 | ISBN: 1885652682 | PDF | pages: 144 | 4.2 mb An introduction to the Canonical Tradition of the Orthodox Church.  Sparse Grids and Applications - Munich 2018 English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030813614 | 268 Pages | PDF | 7 MB Sparse grids are a popular tool for the numerical treatment of high-dimensional problems. Where classical numerical discretization schemes fail in more than three or four dimensions, sparse grids, in their different flavors, are frequently the method of choice.
 Spanish Phrase Book: 2500 Super Helpful Phrases and Words You'll Want for Your Trip to Spain or South America by Simple Language Learning English | December 2, 2019 | ISBN: 1647480574 | 262 pages | EPUB | 0.31 Mb If you want to enrich your travels with the most popular and useful Spanish phrases and vocabulary close at hand, then keep reading...
 Robert E. Denton Jr., Ben Voth, "Social Fragmentation and the Decline of American Democracy: The End of the Social Contract" English | 2016 | ISBN: 3319439219, 3319439235 | 205 pages | True PDF | 1.9 MB This book explores the social and political implications of what the authors identify as the decline of the social contract in America and the rise of a citizenry that has become self-centered, entitled, and independent. For nearly two decades, America has been in a "cultural war" over moral values and social issues, becoming a divided nation geographically, politically, socially, and morally. We are witnessing the decline of American Democracy, the authors argue, resulting from the erosion of the idea of the social contract. Especially since the "baby boomers," each successive generation has emphasized personal license to the exclusion of service, social integration, and the common good. With the social contact, the larger general will becomes the means of establishing reciprocal rights and duties, privileges, and responsibilities as a basis of the state. The balkanization of America has changed the role of government from one of oversight to one of dependency, where individual freedom and responsibility are sacrificed for group equality. This book examines the conditions of this social fragmentation, and offers ideas of an American Renaissance predicated on communicative idealism.  Simplifying Risk Management: An Evidence-Based Approach to Creating Value for Stakeholders English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032125624 | 213 Pages | PDF True | 9 MB Recent decades have seen much greater attention paid to risk management at an organizational level, as evidenced by the proliferation of legislation, regulation, international standards and good practice guidance. The recent experience of Covid-19 has only served to heighten this attention. Growing interest in the discipline has been accompanied by significant growth in the risk management profession; but practitioners are not well served with suitable books to guide them in their work or challenge them in their professional development.  Sharing Economy in Energy Markets: Modeling, Analysis and Mechanism Design English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811676445 | 326 Pages | PDF | 6 MB This book aims to incorporate an emerging successful business model, i.e., sharing economy, into energy markets, thus digging out the potential merits and applications in multi-energy sectors. With the core idea "access over ownership", sharing economy enables the collaborative consumption of idle resources through advanced information and communications technology. One critical challenge is to identify different market participants' occupation while accordingly designing pricing mechanisms. This book begins with an overview about the recent development of sharing economy in energy fields, and summarizes two energy market-related issues that sharing economy can hopefully address. One is how to quantify a marginal generator's contribution and thereby elicit truthful bidding under information asymmetry condition. The other is how to distinguish renewable and distributed energy resources' contribution and thus incentivize efficient aggregation considering increasing scale and uncertainty. Then sharing economy mechanisms are proposed and designed from a game theory perspective. On this basis, the following chapters thoroughly investigate the specific problems in spot markets, multi-area markets, renewable energy aggregation and energy systems integration. Additionally, the benefits brought by sharing economy are evaluated in terms of regional market bidding and transmission expansion deferral. Finally, the information and communications technologies related to sharing economy are modeled and analyzed. Hopefully, this book can greatly benefit the readers who are interested in energy economics and engineering.
 Russian Nationalism and the Russian-Ukrainian War (Europa Country Perspectives) by Taras Kuzio 2022 | ISBN: 1032043172 | English | 325 pages | EPUB | 1.8 MB This book is the first to provide an in-depth understanding of the 2014 crisis, Russia's annexation of Crimea and Europe's only war between Russia and Ukraine. The book provides a historical and contemporary understanding behind President Vladimir Putin Russia's obsession with Ukraine and why Western opprobrium and sanctions have not deterred Russian military aggression.  Renormalization: An Introduction by Manfred Salmhofer English | PDF | 1999 | 241 Pages | ISBN : 3540646663 | 17.6 MB This book provides a simple, but mathematically rigorous, introduction to perturbative renormalization. It can be read by students from the third year on and will leads them to a level where they can start reading the current research literature. The book gives a thorough introduction to the field-theoretic techniques required for renormalization. Special effort has been devoted to simplifying combinatorial proofs as much as possible by using generating function techniques. |
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