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Montreal, wo er 1934 geboren wurde, sei der einzige Ort, an dem er sich je zu Hause gefühlt habe. Leonard Cohens Eltern sind gläubige Juden, und er selbst wird zeit seines Lebens ein spirituell Suchender sein. Und dann sind da noch die Frauen: Gitarre lernt er angeblich nur deshalb spielen, weil er ein Mädchen für sich gewinnen will. Zunächst aber zieht es ihn nicht zur Musik, sondern zur Literatur. Schon mit dreizehn lernt er die Gedichte Gar...

Economic growth--and the hope of better things to come--is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is not much better elsewhere. The Infinite Desire for Growth spotlights the obsession with wanting more, and the global tensio...

Building a career involves making the right job selections along the way. Often, especially early in a person's career, people select jobs based on the wrong reasons that wind up not helping them maximize their personal development. This book helps you think through how to consider making the correct job selections that are tied to your passions and gifts rather than interest or other things that will not propel you towards a fulfilling career...

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COLDMYTH is book 3 in the Coldmaker series and the final book in the epic new trilogy by modern master Daniel A. Cohen.

This new, third volume of Cohen-Tannoudji's groundbreaking textbook covers advanced topics of quantum mechanics such as uncorrelated and correlated identical particles, the quantum theory of the electromagnetic field, absorption, emission and scattering of photons by atoms, and quantum entanglement. Written in a didactically unrivalled manner, the textbook explains the fundamental concepts in seven chapters which are elaborated in accompanying...

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This new edition of the unrivalled textbook introduces the fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics such as waves, particles and probability before explaining the postulates of quantum mechanics in detail. In the proven didactic manner, the textbook then covers the classical scope of introductory quantum mechanics, namely simple two-level systems, the one-dimensional harmonic oscillator, the quantized angular momentum and particles in a centr...

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BOOK TWO OF THE COLDMAKER SAGA The Great Drought began eight hundred years ago when the sins of the Jadans angered the Crier, who ripped their Cold away. Most of the land died. The Khat became nobles. Jadans all became slaves and their warriors disappeared. Until now.

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Leading economist Cohen provides a whirlwind tour of the history of economic growth, from the early days of civilization to modern times, underscoring what is so unsettling today.

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Economic growth--and the hope of better things to come--is the religion of the modern world. Yet its prospects have become bleak, with crashes following booms in an endless cycle. In the United States, eighty percent of the population has seen no increase in purchasing power over the last thirty years and the situation is not much better elsewhere. The Infinite Desire for Growth spotlights the obsession with wanting more, and the global tensio...

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A warmly-written crossover fantasy adventure from Daniel A. Cohen

A warmly written debut title in a three-book fantasy crossover series.

This book is an in-depth discussion of rising inequalities in the western world. It explores the extent to which rising inequalities are the mechanical consequence of changes in economic fundamentals (such as changes in technological or demographic parameters), and to what extent they are the contingent consequences of country-specific and time-specific changes in institutions. It includes both theoretical and empirical contributions.

After WWII, Europe was awash in refugees. Never in modern times had so many been so destitute and displaced. No longer subjects of a single nation-state, this motley group of enemies and victims consisted of Jewish survivors of the Holocaust, ex-Soviet POWs, ex-forced laborers in the Third Reich, legions of people who fled the advancing Red Army, and many thousands uprooted by the sheer violence of the war. This book argues that postwar intern...