From the beginning, the French philosopher Claude Lefort has set himself the task of interpreting the political life of modern society - and over time he has succeeded in elaborating a distinctive conception of modern democracy that is linked to both historical analysis and a novel form of philosoph[...]
This leisure and tourist map of the Outer Hebrides gives detailed coverage of the area's road network at a scale of 3.16 miles to 1 inch. The map shows places of tourist and historic interest, including castles, camping sites, country parks, galleries, gardens, golf courses, marinas, museums, nature[...]
The aim of this work is to bridge the gap between the well-known Newtonian mechanics and the studies on chaos, ordinarily reserved to experts. Several topics are treated: Lagrangian, Hamiltonian and Jacobi formalisms, studies of integrable and quasi-integrable systems. The chapter devoted to chaos a[...]
Institutional reforms and their contribution to development and growth have been a source of renewed interest as well as of many challenges over the last two decades. Identifying the forces that push towards reform and the conditions that determine the success or failure of reforms, building organiz[...]
This comprehensive text offers a balanced treatment of quantum field theory, providing both a formal presentation and numerous practical examples. A two-part approach, it begins with the standard quantization of electrodynamics, culminating in the perturbative renormalization. The second part compri[...]