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Fields, Factories, and Workshops - Or Industry Combined with Agriculture and Brain Work with Manual Work

This book comprises a fascinating discussion of the future of agriculture as conceived at the start of the twentieth century. It explores the advantages which societies could derive from a combination of industrial pursuits with intensive agriculture, and 'brain work' with manual work. This is a book that is sure to appeal to those with a keen interest in the history of agriculture, and is a text not to be missed by the discerning collector of vintage farming literature. Chapters include: 'The Decentralisation of Industries', 'The Possibilities of Agriculture', 'Small Industries and Industrial Villages', 'Brain Work and Manual Work', and more. Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (1842–1921) was a Russian writer, activist, revolutionary, economist, scientist, sociologist, essayist, historian, researcher, political scientist, geographer, geographer, biologist, philosopher and advocate of anarcho-communism. He was a prolific writer, producing a large number of pamphlets and articles, the most notable being “The Conquest of Bread and Fields, Factories and Workshops” and “Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution”. This classic work is being republished now in a new edition complete with an excerpt from “Comrade Kropotkin” by Victor Robinson.

The Shadow King

Maaza Mengiste

‘DEVASTATING’ Marlon James, ‘A MODERN CLASSIC’ Andrew Sean Greer, ‘INCREDIBLE’ Lemn Sissay, ‘BRILLIANT’ Salman Rushdie, ‘MAGNIFICIENT’ Aminatta Forna, ‘EPIC’ Mary Morris, ‘WONDERFUL’ Laila Lalami, ‘UNFORGETTABLE’ The Times, ‘REMARKABLE’ New York Times, 'A MASTERPIECE' Washington Post
ETHIOPIA. 1935.
With the threat of Mussolini’s army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie’s army, rushes to mobilise his strongest men before the Italians invade.
Hirut and the other women long to do more than care for the wounded and bury the dead. When Emperor Haile Selassie goes into exile and Ethiopia quickly loses hope, it is Hirut who offers a plan to maintain morale. She helps disguise a gentle peasant as the emperor and soon becomes his guard, inspiring other women to take up arms. But how could she have predicted her own personal war, still to come, as a prisoner of one of Italy’s most vicious officers?
The Shadow King is a gorgeously crafted and unputdownable exploration of female power, and what it means to be a woman at war.

The Meaning of Life

The School of Life

Addresses with insight and compassion a question which, throughout history, has been a cause for much speculation and debate. Turns the pursuit of a meaningful life from a comedically-complex impossibility to something we can all comprehend, aim for and succeed at. A philosophical approach to finding meaning in life, exploring the varied potential sources of meaning, from love and family, to work, culture and nature. Beautifully produced, high end gift format. Illustrated with full colour images.

The Transformation of the European Union

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The EU has undergone a deep transformation in the last 25 years. The goals adopted by the EU at the international level in climate negotiations have led to the internal adoption of goals by the EU member states. The book examines the changes experienced by the European Union that have gone on in parallel to its leadership in climate negotiations since 1992 and analyses whether combating climate change has contributed to the transformation of European policies.The book takes an in-depth look at the greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions reduction goals adopted by European states, the leadership of the EU in climate negotiations, the creation of the Energy Union, the commitment to a model of sustainable development, the promotion of a circular economy and the enhancement of cities, as relevant actors in the reduction of emissions and boosting of sound environmental practices.Contents: <ul><li>List of Figures</li><li>List of Tables</li><li>List of Contributors</li><li>Introduction</li><li>Leadership in the European Union: Climate, Energy and Economy (Xira Ruiz-Campillo)</li><li>The European Union and Its Role in Climate Change Negotiations at the UNFCCC: From a Loss to a Recovery of Leadership with Costs 2009–2018 (María del Pilar Bueno)</li><li>Evolution and Overview of the Current European Legal Commitment Heading for a Unique Model of Sustainable Development (María Dolores Sánchez Galera)</li><li>Climate Change and Development Cooperation in the European Union (Kattya Cascante Hernández)</li><li>A European Action Plan for Circular Economy (Elena Bulmer Santana)</li><li>The Energy Union: The EU at Work (María Isabel Nieto)</li><li>Implementing Climate Security in the European Union (Rosa Giles-Carnero)</li><li>The Role of European Cities in the Fight Against Climate Change: Networking for Local Climate Policy Convergence (Ekaterina Domorenok)</li><li>Index</li></ul> Readership: A wide range of readers: from those interested in the European Union to those interested in the environment, energy, security or sustainability policies in the EU; Researchers, graduate students, and general public interested in these subjects (environmental activists, economists interested in a new economy or the energy union, etc.).European Union;Climate Change;Sustainability;Environment00

Heartbreak

The School of Life

Almost no one gets through life without, at some point, having their heart broken. Advice at such a dark moment tends to focus on letting time do the healing. But there is also a vital role for understanding and perspective. We sometimes make our situation far worse than it needs to be through certain ideas we develop about why we’ve been left. We start to tell ourselves that we are not good enough, that we fail at everything, that this one rejection means we will always be maltreated… Our thoughts make our sorrow a great deal more intense than it could be. This is a book to help us over heartbreak by offering us some context, some history, some psychology and a little philosophy. We learn about how our responses to abandonment are formed, what the best way to think about an ex might be and how to envisage future relationships when we are in despair. We come away gently cheered that we are not alone, consoled that our suffering will have an end—and intrigued by the endless and subtle sorrows and joys of relationships. "Everyone we admire, everyone we find interesting has had, or will have, their heart broken. Our heartbreak seems to cut us off from the rest of humanity; secretly it brings us closer together."

Lattice Boltzmann and Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers

Yan Wang

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has been widely applied in a wide variety of industrial applications, including aeronautics, astronautics, energy, chemical, pharmaceuticals, power and petroleum.This unique compendium documents the recent developments in CFD based on kinetic theories, introducing flux reconstruction strategies of kinetic methods for the simulation of complex incompressible and compressible flows, namely the lattice Boltzmann and the gas kinetic flux solvers (LBFS or GKFS). LBFS and GKFS combine advantages of both Navier-Stokes (N-S) solvers and kinetic solvers.Detailed derivations, evaluations and applications of LBFS and GKFS, and their advantages over conventional flux reconstruction strategies are analyzed and discussed in the volume.The must-have reference text is useful for scholars, researchers, professionals and students who are keen in CFD methods and numerical simulations.Contents: <ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Kinetic Equations</li><li>Lattice Boltzmann Flux Solver for Isothermal and Thermal Flows</li><li>Multiphase Lattice Boltzmann Flux Solver for Two-Phase Flows</li><li>Maxwellian Function-Based Gas Kinetic Flux Solver</li><li>Simplified Distribution Function-Based Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers</li><li>Discrete Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers</li><li>Gas Kinetic Flux Solvers for Incompressible Flows</li></ul> Readership: Professionals, academics, researchers, and graduate students in mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, engineering mechanics and mathematical physics. Finite Volume Method;Navier-Stokes Equations;Lattice Boltzmann Method;Gas Kinetic Scheme;Latice Boltzmann Flux Solver;Gas Kinetic Flux Solver00

Principles of Quantum Artificial Intelligence

Andreas Wichert

This unique compendium presents an introduction to problem solving, information theory, statistical machine learning, stochastic methods and quantum computation. It indicates how to apply quantum computation to problem solving, machine learning and quantum-like models to decision making — the core disciplines of artificial intelligence.Most of the chapters were rewritten and extensive new materials were updated. New topics include quantum machine learning, quantum-like Bayesian networks and mind in Everett many-worlds.Contents: <ul><li>Introduction</li><li>Computation</li><li>Problem Solving</li><li>Information</li><li>Reversible Algorithms</li><li>Probability</li><li>Introduction to Quantum Physics</li><li>Computation with Qubits</li><li>Periodicity</li><li>Search</li><li>Quantum Problem-Solving</li><li>Grover's Algorithm and the Input Problem</li><li>Statistical Machine Learning</li><li>Linear-Algebra Based Quantum Machine Learning</li><li>Stochastic Methods</li><li>Adiabatic Quantum Computation and Quantum Annealing</li><li>Quantum Cognition</li><li>Quantum like-Evolution</li><li>Quantum Computation and the Multiverse</li><li>Conclusion</li></ul> Readership: Professionals, researchers, academics, and graduate students in databases, artificial intelligence, pattern recognition and neural networks. Quantum Computing;Quantum Theory;AI;Machine Learning;Quantum Machine Learning;Quantum Cognition;Multiverse00

Foundations of Modern Econometrics

Yongmiao Hong

Modern economies are full of uncertainties and risk. Economics studies resource allocations in an uncertain market environment. As a generally applicable quantitative analytic tool for uncertain events, probability and statistics have been playing an important role in economic research. Econometrics is statistical analysis of economic and financial data. In the past four decades or so, economics has witnessed a so-called 'empirical revolution' in its research paradigm, and as the main methodology in empirical studies in economics, econometrics has been playing an important role. It has become an indispensable part of training in modern economics, business and management.This book develops a coherent set of econometric theory, methods and tools for economic models. It is written as a textbook for graduate students in economics, business, management, statistics, applied mathematics, and related fields. It can also be used as a reference book on econometric theory by scholars who may be interested in both theoretical and applied econometrics.Contents: <ul><li>Preface</li><li>Introduction to Econometrics</li><li>General Regression Analysis</li><li>Classical Linear Regression Models</li><li>Linear Regression Models with Independent Observations</li><li>Linear Regression Models with Dependent Observations</li><li>Linear Regression Models Under Conditional Heteroskedasticity and Autocorrelation</li><li>Instrumental Variables Regression</li><li>Generalized Method of Moments Estimation</li><li>Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Quasi-Maximum Likelihood Estimation</li><li>Modern Econometrics: Retrospect and Prospect</li><li>Bibliography</li><li>Index</li></ul> Readership: Graduate students in economics, business, management, statistics, applied mathematics, and related fields.Econometric;Models;Analytic0Key Features:<ul><li>This book has several important features. First, it covers, in a progressive manner, various econometrics models and related methods from conditional means to possibly nonlinear conditional moments to the entire conditional distributions, and this is achieved in a unified and coherent framework. There exists a strong logical link among the materials covered in different chapters of the book</li><li>Second, the book provides various intuitions, explanations and potential applications for important econometric concepts, theories and methods from an economic perspective. Economic examples are also provided to motivate important econometric methods and models. Such training is indispensable in teaching and learning econometrics</li><li>Third, the book emphasizes basic training in asymptotic analysis. It first provides a brief review of asymptotic analytic methods and tools, and then show how they are used to develop the econometric theory in each chapter. Asymptotic analysis helps readers gain deep insight into modern econometric theory, particularly the conditions under which the econometric theory, methods and models are valid and applicable. By going through various chapters in this book progressively, readers will learn how to do asymptotic analysis for econometric models. Such skills are useful not only for those students who intend to work on theoretical econometrics, but also for those who intend to work on applied subjects in economics because with such analytic skills, readers will be able to understand more specialized or more advanced econometrics textbooks</li></ul>

Roman Jackiw

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Professor Roman Jackiw is a theoretical physicist renowned for his many fundamental contributions and discoveries in quantum and classical field theories, ranging from high energy physics and gravitation to condensed matter and the physics of fluids. Among his major achievements is the establishment of the presence of the famous Adler–Bell–Jackiw anomalies in quantum field theory, a discovery with far-reaching implications for the structure of the Standard Model of particle physics and all attempts to go beyond it. Other important contributions, among many, that one may mention here are the topological mass term in gravity and gauge theories, and the fractionalization of fermion number and charge in the presence of topological objects.Roman Jackiw, a Professor Emeritus at the MIT Center for Theoretical Physics, is the recipient of several international awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics and the Dirac Medal of the ICTP. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and honorary doctor of Kiev, Montreal, Tours, Turin and Uppsala universities.To celebrate his 80th birthday, many students and colleagues of Professor Jackiw have come together to share interesting anecdotes of working with him as well as their latest research, some of it inspired by his work. Edited by his former students Antti Niemi and Terry Tomboulis together with his long-time friend KK Phua, this festschrift volume is a must-have collection for all theoretical physicists.Contents: <ul><li>Personal Recollections:<ul><li>Recent Path Crossings with Roman and Anomalies (Stephen L Adler)</li><li>Roman Jackiw and the Family Structure (Luis Álvarez-Gaumè)</li><li>Romaniana: A Student's Appreciation of Roman Jackiw, on His 80th Birthday (Michael Bos)</li><li>Electron Fractionalization in Celebration of Roman Jackiw's 80th Birthday (Claudio Chamon)</li><li>Roman Jackiw and Our Physics in Common (John Mike Cornwall)</li><li>Fun in 2+1 (Stanley Deser)</li><li>Roman Jackiw and Gauge Field Theory: Reminiscences of MIT Postdoc Days (Nicholas Manton)</li><li>Recollections of a Most Fruitful and Enjoyable Collaboration: Looking Back at My Work with Roman Jackiw (Claudio Rebbi)</li><li>Roman Jackiw and My MIT Days (Paolo Rossi)</li><li>Roman Jackiw: A Beacon in a Golden Period of Theoretical Physics (Luc Vinet)</li><li>Roman Jackiw (Steven Weinberg)</li><li>Tribute to a Mentor (L C Rohana Wijewardhana)</li></ul></li><li>Scientific Contributions:<ul><li>Entanglement in Fermionic Chains and Bispectrality (Nicolas Crampé, Rafael I Nepomechie and Luc Vinet)</li><li>Gravitational Wilson Lines in AdS₃ (Eric D'Hoker and Per Kraus)</li><li>Bions and Instantons in Triple-Well and Multi-Well Potentials (Gerald V Dunne, Tin Sulejmanpasic and Mithat Ünsal)</li><li>On the Sudakov Form Factor, and a Factor of Two (Stefano Forte)</li><li>Emerging Majorana Modes in Junctions of One-Dimensional Spin Systems (Domenico Giuliano, Andrea Trombettoni and Pasquale Sodano)</li><li>Anomalies and Bose Symmetry (Daniel Kabat)</li><li>Sasakians and the Geometry of a Mass Term (V Parameswaran Nair)</li><li>Celestial Operator Products of Gluons and Gravitons (Monica Patez, Ana-Maria Raclariu, Andrew Strominger and Ellis Ye Yuan)</li><li>How to Split the Electron in Half (Gordon W Semenoff)</li><li>Anomalies and Topologies in Quantum Field Theories (Gerard 't Hooft)</li><li>Superinsulators, a Toy Realization of QCD in Condensed Matter (Maria Cristina Diamantini and Carlo A Trugenberger)</li><li>Three Easy Pieces (in Tribute to Roman Jackiw) (Frank Wilczek)</li><li>A Note on Boundary Conditions in Euclidean Gravity (Edward Witten)</li></ul></li></ul> Readership: Physics students and theoretical physicists.Theoretical Physics;Quantum Field Theory;High Energy Physics;Gravitation;Condensed Matter Physics;Fluid Dynamics;Adler–Bell–Jackiw Anomalies;Standard Model of Particle Physics;Topological Mass Term;Fractionalization of Fermion Number and Charge0Key Features:<ul><li>Dedicated to Roman Jackiw, a well-known theoretical physicist</li><li>Prominent contributors including Nobel laureates</li><li>Includes interesting anecdotes of famous physicists</li></ul>

Algorithms for Big Data

Moran Feldman

This unique volume is an introduction for computer scientists, including a formal study of theoretical algorithms for Big Data applications, which allows them to work on such algorithms in the future. It also serves as a useful reference guide for the general computer science population, providing a comprehensive overview of the fascinating world of such algorithms.To achieve these goals, the algorithmic results presented have been carefully chosen so that they demonstrate the important techniques and tools used in Big Data algorithms, and yet do not require tedious calculations or a very deep mathematical background.Contents: <ul><li>Preface</li><li>About the Author</li><li>Data Stream Algorithms:<ul><li>Introduction to Data Stream Algorithms</li><li>Basic Probability and Tail Bounds</li><li>Estimation Algorithms</li><li>Reservoir Sampling</li><li>Pairwise Independent Hashing</li><li>Counting Distinct Tokens</li><li>Sketches</li><li>Graph Data Stream Algorithms</li><li>The Sliding Window Model</li></ul></li><li>Sublinear Time Algorithms:<ul><li>Introduction to Sublinear Time Algorithms</li><li>Property Testing</li><li>Algorithms for Bounded Degree Graphs</li><li>An Algorithm for Dense Graphs</li><li>Algorithms for Boolean Functions</li></ul></li><li>Map-Reduce:<ul><li>Introduction to Map-Reduce</li><li>Algorithms for Lists</li><li>Graph Algorithms</li><li>Locality-Sensitive Hashing</li></ul></li><li>Index</li></ul> Readership: Professionals, academics, researchers and graduate students in theoretical computer science and big data.Streaming Algorithms;Map-Reduce;Property Testing;Sublinear Time Algorithms00

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