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 The Reign of Emperor Antoninus Pius, AD 138161 by John S McHugh; English | 2022 | ISBN: 1526773988 | 274 pages | True PDF EPUB | 42.04 MB The reign of Antoninus Pius is widely seen as the apogee of the Roman Empire yet, due to gaps in the historical sources, his reign has been overlooked by modern historians. He is considered one of the five good emperors of the Antonine dynasty under whom the pax Romana enabled the empire to prosper, trade to flourish and culture to thrive. His reign is considered a Golden Age but this was partly an image created by imperial propaganda. There were serious conflicts in North Africa and Dacia, as well as a major revolt in Britain. On his death the empire stood on the cusp of the catastrophic invasions and rebellions that marked the reign of his successor Marcus Aurelius.
 The Postwar Economic Order: National Reconstruction and International Cooperation by Albert O. Hirschman English | 2023 | ISBN: 0231200587 | 366 pages | True EPUB | 6.38 MB Years before he became renowned as one of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman played an active role in the rebuilding of postwar Europe. Between 1946 and 1952, he worked as an economic analyst in the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, focusing on the reconstruction of Europe and the Marshall Plan. In that capacity, Hirschman wrote a number of reports about European economic policies, the first efforts at intra-European cooperation, and the uncertainties that surrounded the shaping of a new international economic order with the United States at its core.  The Philosophy of Mannerism by van Tuinen, Sjoerd; English | 2022 | ISBN: 1350322474 | 241 pages | True PDF | 9.99 MB Sjoerd van Tuinen argues for the inseparability of matter and manner in the form of a group portrait of Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, Souriau, Simondon, Deleuze, Stengers, and Agamben. Examining afresh the 16th-century style of mannerism, this book synthesizes philosophy and aesthetics to demonstrate not only the contemporary relevance of artists such as Michelangelo or Arcimboldo but their broader significance as incorporating a form of modal thinking and perceiving.
 The National Parks Cookbook by Ly, Linda;Taylor, Will; English | 2022 | ISBN: 0760375119 | 325 pages | True EPUB | 19.73 MB Relive the excitement of your vacation in your own kitchen with delicious recipes inspired by the chefs, restaurants, and iconic foods of the national parks.
 Mathematics Of Open Quantum Systems, The: Dissipative And Non-unitary Representations And Quantum Measurements by Konstantin A Makarov;Eduard R Tsekanovskii; English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811241228 | 300 pages | True PDF EPUB | 34.65 MB This book presents new developments in the open quantum systems theory with emphasis on applications to the (frequent) measurement theory.In the first part of the book, the uniqueness theorems for the solutions to the restricted Weyl commutation relations braiding unitary groups and semi-groups of contractions are discussed. The major theme involves an intrinsic characterization of the simplest symmetric operator solutions to the Heisenberg uncertainty relations, the problem posed by Jørgensen and Muhly, followed by the proof of the uniqueness theorems for the simplest solutions to the restricted Weyl commutation relations. The detailed study of unitary invariants of the corresponding dissipative and symmetric operators opens up a look at the classical Stone-von Neumann uniqueness theorem from a new angle and provides an extended version of the uniqueness result relating various realizations of a differentiation operator on the corresponding metric graphs.The second part of the book is devoted to mathematical problems of the quantum measurements under continuous monitoring. Among the topics discussed are the complementarity of the Quantum Zeno effect and Exponential Decay scenario in frequent quantum measurements, and a rigorous treatment, within continuous monitoring paradigm, of the celebrated 'double-slit experiment' where the renowned exclusive and interference measurement alternatives approach in quantum theory is presented in a way that is accessible for mathematicians. One of the striking applications of the generalized (1-stable) central limit theorem is the mathematical evidence of exponential decay of unstable states of the quantum pendulum under continuous monitoring.
 The Inner World of Unaware Phenomena by Bruce J. Diamond;Amy E. Learmonth;Katherine Makarec; English | 2023 | ISBN: 1498555470 | 135 pages | True PDF EPUB | 6.4 MB In this The Inner World of Unaware Phenomena: Pathways to Brain, Behavior, and Implicit Memory, authors Bruce J. Diamond, Amy E. Learmonth, and Katherine Makarec argue that there is an inner world within all of us that profoundly impacts our lives, and that memories, perceptions, tastes, preferences, biases, and beliefs are encoded and expressed on an unaware, largely non-conscious level. In other words, many aspects of our lives and actions are guided and influenced by factors about which we may know very little, but which nevertheless alter the quality, substance, and trajectory of our lives, our loves, our likes, and our dislikes. Drawing on novel experimental designs and computer and imaging-based technologies, the authors demonstrate that people can react to faces and places in measurable ways, despite the fact that they may profess to having never seen or visited these faces or places. The authors show that these unaware phenomena are not isolated instances, but rather that they permeate and influence virtually every aspect of our lives.  The FIFA World Cup : A History of the Planet's Biggest Sporting Event by Clemente A. Lisi English | 2022 | ISBN: 1538156431 | 415 pages | True PDF EPUB | 11.42 MB The first complete history of the FIFA World Cup with a preview of the 2022 event in Qatar.  The Epic Outdoor Griddle Cookbook by Walton, Adam;Walton, Brett; English | 2022 | ISBN: 0760378177 | 283 pages | True EPUB | 9.23 MB Learn from the outdoor-griddle experts, Adam and Brett Walton, aka The Waltwins, how to turn your flattop griddle into the most valuable and versatile cooking tool in your arsenal.  The Economics of Books and Reading English | 2022 | ISBN: 9783031181993 | 155 pages | True PDF | 6.31 MB This book gives an overview of the key issues related to books and reading within the field of cultural economics and identifies additional lacunae in this area of research. The field of cultural economics is surprisingly short on research on the book market and on the activity of reading compared with other more recently invented media such as films and musical recordings.In addition, books and reading are strongly impacted by the disruptive innovations of digital technology and the use of online distribution platforms that fuel much of the research on the more recently invented cultural media. This book shows that the area of books and reading has had contributions in historically established areas of cultural economics and those currently exciting attention - chiefly with respect to digital disruption. Finally, it explains how books and reading are a fully developed rational addition model rather than something just based on the addition of past behaviour. [center]  The Dawn of Israel by Grabbe, Lester L.; English | 2023 | ISBN: 0567663221 | 375 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.41 MB In this companion volume to his bestselling Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Lester L. Grabbe provides the background history of the main ancient Near Eastern peoples and empires: Babylonia, Assyria, Urartu, Hittites, Amorites, Egyptians. |
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