The author, Piotr Gwiazda, comments in the interview contained in this book on the title Messages: "The first association will be - perhaps inevitably - with the phone, email, and text messages we send and receive on a daily basis. Also the messages that "pour out of various devices" (as in Muriel Rukeyser's poem): news stories, speeches, alerts, warning labels, traffic and weather reports, TV and radio commercials, those targeted ads on Google and Facebook. Communications overload - but with a touch of magic to it. Again, we are both consumers and producers of messages: we post, we blog, we update, we upload. But I was also thinking about the broader connotations of the word. After all, messages can be exchanged in the course of a simple conversation.
This book provides a detailed study of nonlinear partial differential equations satisfying certain nonstandard growth conditions which simultaneously extend polynomial, inhomogeneous and fully anisotropic growth. The common property of the many different kinds of equations considered is that the growth conditions of the highest order operators lead to a formulation of the equations in Musielak–Orlicz spaces. This high level of generality, understood as full anisotropy and inhomogeneity, requires new proof concepts and a generalization of the formalism, calling for an extended functional analytic framework. This theory is established in the first part of the book, which serves as an introduction to the subject, but is also an important ingredient of the whole story. The second part uses these theoretical tools for various types of PDEs, including abstract and parabolic equations but also PDEs arising from fluid and solid mechanics. For connoisseurs, there is a short chapter on homogenization of elliptic PDEs. The book will be of interest to researchers working in PDEs and in functional analysis.
Structured population models are transport-type equations often applied to describe evolution of heterogeneous populations of biological cells, animals or humans, including phenomena such as crowd dynamics or pedestrian flows. This book introduces the mathematical underpinnings of these applications, providing a comprehensive analytical framework for structured population models in spaces of Radon measures. The unified approach allows for the study of transport processes on structures that are not vector spaces (such as traffic flow on graphs) and enables the analysis of the numerical algorithms used in applications. Presenting a coherent account of over a decade of research in the area, the text includes appendices outlining the necessary background material and discusses current trends in the theory, enabling graduate students to jump quickly into research.
Located between the former Soviet Union and eastern Germany, Poland has the potential to become a political and economic bridge between the East and West. It is crucial to European security and stabilization; yet the list of reference books on recent Polish history is very short. This book fills that gap, providing information on Polish political, economic, and cultural history since 1945.
This book provides a detailed study of nonlinear partial differential equations satisfying certain nonstandard growth conditions which simultaneously extend polynomial, inhomogeneous and fully anisotropic growth. The common property of the many different kinds of equations considered is that the growth conditions of the highest order operators lead to a formulation of the equations in Musielak–Orlicz spaces. This high level of generality, understood as full anisotropy and inhomogeneity, requires new proof concepts and a generalization of the formalism, calling for an extended functional analytic framework. This theory is established in the first part of the book, which serves as an introduction to the subject, but is also an important ingredient of the whole story. The second part uses these theoretical tools for various types of PDEs, including abstract and parabolic equations but also PDEs arising from fluid and solid mechanics. For connoisseurs, there is a short chapter on homogenization of elliptic PDEs. The book will be of interest to researchers working in PDEs and in functional analysis.
This book tells the story of the dissident imaginary of samizdat activists, the political culture they created, and the pivotal role that culture had in sustaining the resilience of the oppositional movement in Poland between 1976 and 1990. This unlicensed print culture has been seen as one of the most emblematic social worlds of dissent. Since the Cold War, the audacity of harnessing obsolete print technology known as samizdat to break the modern monopoly of information of the party-state has fascinated many, yet this book looks beyond the Cold War frame to reappraise its historical novelty and significance. What made that culture resilient and rewarding, this book argues, was the correspondence between certain set of ideas and media practices: namely, the form of samizdat social media, which both embodied and projected the prefigurative philosophy of political action, asserting that small forms of collective agency can have a transformative effect on public life here and now, and are uniquely capable of achieving a democratic new beginning. This prefigurative vision of the transition from communism had a fundamental impact on the broader oppositional movement. Yet, while both the rise of Solidarity and the breakthrough of 1989 seemed to do justice to that vision, both pivotal moments found samizdat social media activists making history that was not to their liking. Back in the day, their estrangement was overshadowed by the main axis of contention between the society and the state. Foregrounding the internal controversies they protagonized, this book adds nuance to our understanding of the broader legacy of dissent and its relevance for the networked protests of today.
The monograph "The New Age of Management” is a response to the changing environment of business operations and management in the era of modern globalization challenges. The global surrounding of management embedded in the complex national and wider international context drives the development of new management concepts and paradigms. And in this new global reality of the 21st century which, on the one hand, greatly benefits from scientific and technological achievements and developments, and, on the other hand, has been marked by pandemics, war, and socio-economic crises, modern enterprises are searching for a new direction – in this respect, this monograph should be treated as a specific signpost showing, perhaps not yet a road, but a path to follow.
This book systematically discusses the contribution of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to China’s transition from an emerging to an advanced economic and financial system after more than five years. From a historical perspective, it explains to what extent the BRI plan is effective enough to help China bounce back from its economic slowdown and the financial implications in a policy trilemma context. Further, it investigates both the rationale of the BRI and its pitfalls, focusing on the various options for financing the project based on the Mundell & Fleming model. The book also analyses the impact of the BRI as well as possible policy options to deal with China’s policy trilemma in a structurally more balanced “new normal” economic growth model. Lastly, it reviews the financial stability issues concerning liberalization policies in China.
Przez prawie dwadzieścia lat nauczałem historii w szkołach, głównie liceach. Przez cały ten okres śledziłem rozwój tej nauki, poznawałem nowe, dotyczące kolejnych zagadnień, prace. Dopiero jednak pisząc tę książkę dostrzegłem jak wielką potęgą jest Internet. To dzięki niemu zyskujemy znacznie szybszy niż wcześniej dostęp do najnowszych badań, to na jego forach miliony ludzi dokonuje analizy poprzednich badań, pojawiają się nowe hipotezy. Dziś napisanie dziejów świata możliwe jest właściwie tylko przez wieloosobowe zespoły, specjalistów od różnych epok i regionów. Taką świadomość miał zresztą już w latach dwudziestych XX wieku Herbert George Wells, który i swoje "Dzieje…" chciał pisać wspólnie z ówczesnymi historykami brytyjskich uczelni i dopiero nie mogąc nakłonić ich do współpracy sam napisał to dzieło. Praca ta zajęła mu niewiele ponad rok. Cóż, wiedza historyczna wówczas była znacznie mniejsza, m.in. i z tego powodu dzieło Wellsa, jest niestety bardzo powierzchowne. Mógłbym jak Wells, choć bardziej skutecznie, podjąć się próby realizacji tego projektu tworząc szerszy zespół, odrzuciłem jednak ten pomysł. Mówiąc szczerze, po prostu nie stać mnie na taką inicjatywę, a od czasów Wellsa podobne zadanie podjęły już różne ośrodki badawcze i tworzenie kolejnej tego typu pracy mijałoby się z celem[1]. Uznałem, bowiem, że tylko całościowe spojrzenie na dzieje przez jedną osobę umożliwia znalezienie w nich pewnych trendów. W poniższej książce omawiam zaledwie początki naszej historii. Tę, my historycy ograniczamy do czasów od powstania pisma. To dość sztuczna cezura, z czasem rozwoju historii – jako nauki – wciąż zresztą przesuwana, gdyż ślady pisma, jego początków, odnajdywane są dla okresów nawet o kilka tysiącleci wcześniejszych. Warto tu jednak o niej przypomnieć, tym bardziej, że to pismo stało się tym czynnikiem, który znacząco przyczynił się do zachowania naszej pamięci, a co za tym idzie do rozwoju cywilizacji. Prezentowana książka jest dopiero drugą z zamierzonego przeze mnie projektu napisania dziejów świata. Obejmuje prawie dwa tysiąclecia, od początku III tysiąclecia p.n.e. do końca II tysiąclecia p.n.e., jeszcze w tym półroczu wydam trzecią z tego cyklu obejmującą okres nieco krótszy, bo tylko około ośmiu wieków pierwszego tysiąclecia p.n.e. poświeconą początkom idei imperializmu. Kryterium jakim kierowałem się wybierając takie cezury są formy organizacyjne przyjmowane przez społeczeństwa w tych latach. Poniższy poświęciłem początkom państwowości. Zamierzałem w prezentowanych tomach (również w pierwszym tomie z tego cyklu w ”Narodzinach cywilizacji”) ukazać rozwój cywilizacji, w tym również idei, a za jedne z ważniejszych wśród nich uważam formy organizacji państw, ale też idee wolności, równości i własności. Nie wiem, czy mi się to udało? Zresztą dopiero kończę trzy pierwsze tomy. Wyrażam w nich wiele nowych hipotez, próbuję znaleźć w omawianych dziejach jakiś kierunek, zbudować jakąś historiozofię. Efekt moich przemyśleń będą mogli Państwo ocenić sami po lekturze tych książek. Cztery następne są jeszcze na etapie bardzo wstępnym (książkę pt. „Stracony czas imperiów” wydam pod koniec drugiego półrocza tego roku), ale już dziś mogę stwierdzić, że pewne założenia historiozoficzne, które wyraziłem już w „Narodzinach cywilizacji”, okazały się zasadne. Praktycznie do dziś nie dokonałem w nich istotnych zmian.
When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989, Eastern Europe saw a new era begin, and the widespread changes that followed extended into the world of art. Art and Democracy in Post-Communist Europe examines the art created in light of the profound political, social, economic, and cultural transformations that occurred in the former Eastern Bloc after the Cold War ended. Assessing the function of art in post-communist Europe, Piotr Piotrowski describes the changing nature of art as it went from being molded by the cultural imperatives of the communist state and a tool of political propaganda to autonomous work protesting against the ruling powers. Piotrowski discusses communist memory, the critique of nationalism, issues of gender, and the representation of historic trauma in contemporary museology, particularly in the recent founding of contemporary art museums in Bucharest, Tallinn, and Warsaw. He reveals the anarchistic motifs that had a rich tradition in Eastern European art and the recent emergence of a utopian vision and provides close readings of many artists—including Ilya Kavakov and Krzysztof Wodiczko—as well as Marina Abramovic’s work that responded to the atrocities of the Balkans. A cogent investigation of the artistic reorientation of Eastern Europe, this book fills a major gap in contemporary artistic and political discourse.
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