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This is a new revised edition of a book which has come to be widely recognized as the best and simplest introduction available to Marxist economic theory. In a very lucid style, carefully defining all the technical terms used, it provides a comprehensive treatment of "the law of motion of capitalist society" which Marx expounded in the three volumes of Capital: origins of capitalism, surplus value, rent, interest and profit, capitalist accumul...

Running away to an inn at the edge of the world where monsters slide through from other dimensions might not be 16-year-old Jorrie's smartest plan, but she's out of options. To avoid being sent to a military academy for out-of-control teens, Jorrie flees to an inn at the edge of the world owned by relatives she barely knows. When a skeleton is discovered in a near-by pond, long-hidden family secrets start emerging. Jorrie has no magical Tale...

Sometimes you just need someone to believe in you… Grace: When he saved me from a gang of thugs while living in the street, I thought I'd never see him again. But when I learned that he'd been arrested for an unthinkable crime, something told me they'd fingered the wrong guy. After all, he was rich, successful, and San Francisco's most eligible bachelor. Why would he risk throwing it all away for an impulsive fling? If it could happen to...

Unraveling Madness is a practical go-to guide to help shift you from limiting beliefs and habits to unlimited abundance, connection, and fulfilment. It takes a well rounded approach to enhanced well being of body, mind, and spirit and details an array of techniques to move you towards optimum health, expanded possibilities, and a state of spiritual awakening. This is the journey of seeing beyond the artificial constraints of the third dimensio...

This book provides readers with a comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference for miniaturized More-than-Moore systems with a broad range of functionalities that can be added to 3D microsystems, including flexible electronics, metasurfaces and power sources. The book also includes examples of applications for brain-computer interfaces and event-driven imaging systems. Provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference for miniaturized Mo...

This handbook brings together cutting-edge research from key contributors on the rapidly expanding and fast-changing field of UK youth gangs. It examines the contours of the academic debates, describes and explains the origins and evolution of violent street gangs in the UK against a backdrop of globalization, and discusses the factors surrounding the emergence of these gangs in each of the four UK nations and some English regions. It also exa...

This book uses numerous examples to describe the current opportunities and risks of air freight against the backdrop of stagnating transport volumes since the financial crisis in 2008. It shows what impact these developments have had on those involved, in particular shippers, airlines, airports and freight forwarders. The application-oriented presentation also provides an insight into the design of complex supply chains and the areas of tensio...

The book develops a novel framework for the analysis of global crises. It differentiates crises on three dimensions: permanent, recurring and ephemeral crises. This conceptualization allows us to analyze global crises not only in their immediate environment, but makes it possible to understand them in the broader context of social instability. The approach revolves around the terminology of discursive dislocation which provides fundamental ins...

The monograph examines the sources of Polish social divisions. It explains their emergence and discusses the mechanisms behind their evolution from 1945-2022. The findings corroborate the idea that divisions were formed irrespective of the current state of social hierarchy, or the accepted interpretation of justice, and that they existed both in totalitarian and democratic systems alike. The book distinguishes the category of divisions from th...

This book contains extended versions of the works and new research results presented at the 14th International Joint Conference on Knowledge-based Software Engineering (JCKBSE2022). JCKBSE2022 was originally planned to take place in Larnaca, Cyprus. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic forced it to be rescheduled as an online conference. JCKBSE is a well-established international biennial conference that focuses on the applications of A...

Politische Partizipation bezeichnet alle individuellen und gemeinschaftlichen Handlungen von Bürger:innen mit dem Ziel, direkt und indirekt politische Entscheidungen zu beeinflussen. Die Hinwirkung auf die Bereitschaft und die Befähigung zur politischen Partizipation ist als Ziel im Bildungswesen in demokratischen Gesellschaften verankert. Junge Menschen entwickeln diese Bereitschaft in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß. Die Frage ist, welche Kontexte ...

This book sheds light on the topic of financial water risk by examining the modeling challenges associated with physical, regulatory, and reputational water risk in finance. It explores various approaches to operationalize water risk from a financial analysis, investment management, and climate science perspective. The analysis of tools to assess water risk provides the basis for the development of appropriate risk-return management techniques...

The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically disrupted instruction across higher education. What have International Relations scholars learned from the experience of teaching through this situation? Contributors to this volume consider three themes: how they have adapted to new modes of instruction, what constitutes appropriate care for our students amid crisis, and how we as an epistemic community should prepare for future disruptions.

This book is designed as an easy night's read and introduction to fossil soils and the relatively new disciplines of Paleopedology and Astropedology. It includes line art and color illustrations to visualize the topic for the informed layperson or interested colleagues. It provides comprehensive information on paleosols, which are soils of the past providing a variety of clues to the evolution of life and climate on Earth and deals with topics...

This book presents the state of the art in High-Performance Computing on modern supercomputer architectures. It addresses trends in hardware and software development in general. The contributions cover a broad range of topics, from performance evaluations in context with power efficiency to Computational Fluid Dynamics and High-Performance Data Analytics. In addition, they explore new topics like the use of High-Performance Computers in the fi...

This book covers the work of Erik W. Aslaksen who continues to develop the view of society and its evolution published in earlier work ¿ The Social Bond (Springer 2018), The Stability of Society (Springer 2020), and Measures of Social Evolution (Springer 2021), bringing together core material of that work with the results of recent investigations in order to present the evolution of society as an integrated and continuous story leading right u...

The monetary system is at a turning point. The question is no longer if, but how soon countries will roll out a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). This book discusses the recomposition of the money supply from the present bank money regime to a monetary system determined by CBDC. As the book sets out, the future of money is going to be digital and sovereign. Nonetheless, the relationship between the various types of money is competitive rat...

This book examines the inter-firm networks created by interlock coordination through shared directors (inter-board) and managers (inter-department) at various levels: whole aggregate, core vs. peripheral companies, and distribution by country and sector. Presenting an empirical case study on all the limited liability or stock companies of the aerospace industry in the European Union and its interlock partners worldwide, the authors shed new li...

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