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Physics of Atomic Nuclei

By: Vladimir Zelevinsky,Alexander Volya

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This advanced textbook presents an extensive and diverse study of low-energy nuclear physics considering the nucleus as a quantum system of strongly interacting constituents. The contents guide students from the basic facts and ideas to more modern topics including important developments over the last 20 years, resulting in a comprehensive collection of major modern-day nuclear models otherwise unavailable in the current literature. The book emphasizes the common features of the nucleus and other many-body mesoscopic systems currently in the center of interest in physics. The authors have also included full problem sets that can be selected by lecturers and adjusted to specific interests for more advanced students, with many chapters containing links to freely available computer code. As a result, readers are equipped for scientific work in mesoscopic physics.

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3527693602

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A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II

The Former Earth

By: Alexander Wolfheze

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A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II

The Former Earth

By: Alexander Wolfheze

This book analyzes the world of 1914 by combining the approaches of traditionalist hermeneutics and 20th century geopolitics. The juxtaposition of these two frameworks, incorporated in the principles of Sacred Geography and Sea Power, allows for a Traditionalist perspective on the choices facing the Ten Great Powers on the eve of the Great War. The book’s multifaceted approach follows the iconoclastic “culture critique” method of the Traditional School that was developed by René Guénon, Frithjof Schuon and Julius Evola; it shows the pre-war world as essentially different from the post-war world. Thus, the Ten Great Power protagonists of the Great War may be understood on their own terms, rather than through a backward projection of politically-correct values on the existentially different human life-world of 1914. Dislodging the historical-materialist “progress” premise that underpins contemporary academic historiography, this book reasserts the highest claim of the Art of History: meta-narrative meaning.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527565149

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9781527565142

The Religion of Dostoevsky

By: Alexander Boyce Gibson

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The Religion of Dostoevsky

By: Alexander Boyce Gibson

Why has Dostoevsky influenced so much of the religious thinking of our times? His impact on modern theologians--Barth, for example--has been great, and thousands of his readers have been stirred by his extraordinary power to register metaphysical insights in narrative form. This fresh and subtle study of Dostoevsky's life and writing demonstrates that the great Russian's relevance for our day lies in his perception that religious faith and philosophic doubt are inseparable in his illustration that the practice of religion and intellectual scruples belong together and actually enhance each other. Gibson records what is known, from outside the novels, of his successive engagements and disengagements with the Christian faith. He then traces chronologically the path of Dostoevsky's developing thoughts and feelings as presented in the novels themselves, and his sentiments as distributed among his characters. Especially illuminating is the author's analysis of the dichotomies that make up the fascinating puzzle of Dostoevsky's complexity. Overlapping but never coinciding are the two perspectives of reflective artist and journalist-reporter. Buttressing Dostoevsky's dialectical method of thinking was the literary device of the "double," the character with contradictory ways of thought and behavior. Gibson shows how all these factors structured Dostoevsky's depiction of mental, moral, and religious ambiguities. This stimulating guide, which takes the reader from Notes from Underground through The Brothers Karamazov, explores the polarities of reason and faith as the irreconcilables that Dostoevsky constantly tries to reconcile. Everyone who has found his own vision of ethics or of religion expanded by Dostoevsky's work will find this literary study provocative and informative.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532604769

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9781532604768

Nations in Transit - 2000-2001

Civil Society, Democracy and Markets in East Central Europe and Newly Independent States

By: Alexander Motyl

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Civil Society, Democracy and Markets in East Central Europe and Newly Independent States

By: Alexander Motyl

How are democracy and market reforms faring in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union? Is civil society expanding or shrinking? Are the media free or fettered by official constraints? To what degree are nations governed by the rule of law? Are human rights respected? Do taxation and trade policies, property rights reforms, banking laws, privatization, and macroeconomic policies encourage or encumber private sector development and economic growth?, In Nations in Transit 2001, Freedom House asked leading regional specialists and in-house experts to answer a checklist of more than 70 indicators for 27 post-Communist countries in ten key areas: political process; civil society; independent media; governance and public administration; constitutional, legislative and judicial framework; corruption; privatization; macroeconomic policy; microeconomic policy; and social sector indicators. The survey, organized in a new essay format, was reviewed by an oversight board of leading U.S. scholars and by experts from Central and Eastern and the former Soviet Union., The results are incisive, authoritative, and comprehensive country-by-country reports that assess the progress of East Central European and former Soviet countries in ridding themselves of repressive political systems and inefficient statist economies. As an added dimension, Freedom House-which for nearly 25 years has rated global political rights and civil liberties in its benchmark Freedom in the World surveys-has developed a rating system that allows for a comparative analysis of democratic and market reforms in the countries covered by the survey., Nations in Transit 2001 is an invaluable resource and reference tool for governmental and nongovernmental institutions, schools and universities, and anyone else interested in better understanding the political, economic, and legal structures and institutions that constitute the infrastructure on which the transition to open societies and markets depends.

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Routledge

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1000678288

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9781000678284

Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910

A Comparison with British India

By: Alexander Morrison

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Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910

A Comparison with British India

By: Alexander Morrison

Russian Rule in Samarkand examines the structures, personnel, and ideologies of Russian imperialism in Turkestan, taking Samarkand and the surrounding region as a case-study. The creation of a colonial administration in Central Asia presented Russia with similar problems to those faced by the British in India, but different approaches to governance meant that the two regimes often stood in stark contrast to one another. While the Russian administration was characterised by corruption and inefficiency, British rule in India was often more violent, and its subjects much more heavily taxed. Opening with the background to the political situation in Central Asia and a narrative of the Russian conquest itself, the book moves on to analyse official attitudes to Islam and to pre-colonial elites, and the earliest attempts to establish a functioning system of revenue collection. Uncovering the religious and ethnic composition of the military bureaucracy, and the social background, education and training of its personnel, Alexander Morrison assesses the competence of these officers vis-à-vis their Anglo-Indian counterparts. Subsequent chapters look at the role of the so-called 'native administration' in governing the countryside and collecting taxes, the attempt to administer the complex systems of irrigation leading from the Zarafshan and Syr-Darya rivers, and the nature and functions of the Islamic judiciary under colonial rule. Based on extensive archival research in Russia, India, and Uzbekistan, and containing much rare source material translated from the original Russian, Russian Rule in Samarkand will be of interest to all those interested in the history of the Russian Empire and European Imperialism more generally.

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OUP Oxford

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019156317X

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The Drama of Russian Political History

System against Individuality

By: Alexander V. Obolonsky

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The Drama of Russian Political History

System against Individuality

By: Alexander V. Obolonsky

In his introduction, Alexander Obolonsky notes that Russian history and life are full of paradoxes, most of them rather sad. Why, he asks, have the Russians, who have not only been endowed by nature with enormous natural, human, and intellectual resources, but who have also developed a great literary and scientific heritage and made significant contributions to world civilization, proved unable to arrange the conditions of their own existence to realize their great potential? “What fundamental deficiency,” he wonders, “made this great anomaly possible?”Alexander Obolonsky has undertaken the formidable task of reinterpreting Russian history from the Time of Troubles and the reign of Ivan the Terrible to perestroika, glasnost, and the dismantling of the Soviet system under Gorbachev and Yeltsin. He seeks to understand the present and assess the social trends that will shape the future through a careful reconsideration of Russia’s past.In his sweeping analyses of historical trends, Obolonsky structures his analytic narrative around two opposed concepts–a system-centered understanding of social existence in which individuals are viewed as “cogs” functioning for the sake of the whole, and a liberal person-centered paradigm in which society seeks to promote the development of the individual.Obolonsky distrusts all monistic explanations, from Marxism and geopolitics to scientific and technological models. He prefers to utilize a variety of variables—ethical, economic, sociopsychological, cultural—to explain Russian history, presenting its course as a long-term and ongoing struggle between two competing models of life. Oblolonsky is neither a determinist nor a romantic. In his thought-provoking and historically grounded analysis, he challenges standard interpretations regarding Russia, the USSR, the role of political leaders, and the Russian people. Far from satisfied with Russia’s past, Obolonsky worries that Russia’s future will be tainted by the persistence of an anti-individualist mentality and attitudes shaped by centuries of autocratic rule and by a conservative mass consciousness rooted in Russian experience.Students of Russian history, politics, and culture, and also those interested in the broader issues of twentieth-century society will find this informative magnum opus of a senior Russian scholar insightful and thought-provoking.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1585442240

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9781585442249

Political Culture of the Russian 'Democrats'

By: Alexander Lukin

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Political Culture of the Russian 'Democrats'

By: Alexander Lukin

The Political Culture of Russian Democrats examines the origins and development of the world view of those who call themselves 'democrats' in Russian in the last years of the USSR. The book develops a distinct approach to the study of political culture and applies it to a specific social group–members of the democratic movement in Soviet Russia. The author examines the emergence of the ideas of Russian 'democrats' during the Gorbachev era in Soviet politics, and traces the development of those beliefs in the post-Soviet era. The book argues that the liberal and democratic terminology of western politics were assimilated by Russian political culture, with the terms acquiring a different meaning.

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0191544663

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Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky

Transposing Novels Into Opera, Film, and Drama

By: Alexander Burry

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Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky

Transposing Novels Into Opera, Film, and Drama

By: Alexander Burry

Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 2001.

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0810127156

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Living with Koryak Traditions

Playing with Culture in Siberia

By: Alexander David King

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Living with Koryak Traditions

Playing with Culture in Siberia

By: Alexander David King

What does it mean to be a traditional Koryak in the modern world? How do indigenous Siberians express a culture that entails distinctive customs and traditions? For decades these people, who live on the Kamchatka Peninsula in northeastern Siberia, have been in the middle of contradictory Soviet/Russian colonial policies that celebrate cultural and ethnic difference across Russia yet seek to erase those differences. Government institutions both impose state ideologies of culture and civilization and are sites of community revitalization for indigenous Siberians. ø In Living with Koryak Traditions, Alexander D. King reveals that, rather than having a single model of Koryak culture, Koryaks themselves are engaged in deep debates and conversations about what ?culture? and ?tradition? mean and how they are represented for native peoples, both locally and globally. To most Koryaks, tradition does not function simply as an identity marker but also helps to maintain moral communities and support vulnerable youth in dire times. Debunking an immutable view of tradition and culture, King presents a dynamic one that validates contemporary indigenous peoples? lived experience.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803235097

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What is Anarchism?

By: Alexander Berkman

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What is Anarchism?

By: Alexander Berkman

For those who have questions about Anarchism, or seek a better world, Berkman has the answers.

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AK Press

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1902593707

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Mesoscopic Nuclear Physics: From Nucleus To Quantum Chaos To Quantum Signal Transmission

By: Vladimir Zelevinsky,Alexander Volya

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Mesoscopic Nuclear Physics: From Nucleus To Quantum Chaos To Quantum Signal Transmission

By: Vladimir Zelevinsky,Alexander Volya

This book summarizes the recent development of nuclear science as an important part of mesoscopic physics, the intermediate world between the macroscopic and microscopic. This fast developing area with many practical applications includes complex atoms, molecules (including biological), nuclei, small-scale solid state systems, and future quantum computers. The complexity of the problem appears due to the richness of problems, from the necessity to study individual quantum levels, to the fundamental features of statistics and thermodynamics.

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9811263167

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Physics of Atomic Nuclei

By: Vladimir Zelevinsky,Alexander Volya

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Physics of Atomic Nuclei

By: Vladimir Zelevinsky,Alexander Volya

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Mesoscopic Nuclear Physics: From Nucleus To Quantum Chaos To Quantum Signal Transmission

By: Vladimir Zelevinsky,Alexander Volya

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Mesoscopic Nuclear Physics: From Nucleus To Quantum Chaos To Quantum Signal Transmission

By: Vladimir Zelevinsky,Alexander Volya

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Book's by Alexander Volya

Physics of Atomic Nuclei

Physics of Atomic Nuclei

A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II

A Traditionalist History of the Great War, Book II

The Religion of Dostoevsky

The Religion of Dostoevsky

Nations in Transit - 2000-2001

Nations in Transit - 2000-2001

Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910

Russian Rule in Samarkand 1868-1910

The Drama of Russian Political History

The Drama of Russian Political History

Political Culture of the Russian 'Democrats'

Political Culture of the Russian 'Democrats'

Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky

Multi-Mediated Dostoevsky

Living with Koryak Traditions

Living with Koryak Traditions

What is Anarchism?

What is Anarchism?

Mesoscopic Nuclear Physics: From Nucleus To Quantum Chaos To Quantum Signal Transmission

Mesoscopic Nuclear Physics: From Nucleus To Quantum Chaos To Quantum Signal Transmission

Physics of Atomic Nuclei

Physics of Atomic Nuclei

Mesoscopic Nuclear Physics: From Nucleus To Quantum Chaos To Quantum Signal Transmission

Mesoscopic Nuclear Physics: From Nucleus To Quantum Chaos To Quantum Signal Transmission

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