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In "Humanity's Ledger: The Trust Protocol Overview", Aaron Vick embarks on a thought-provoking exploration of trust in our rapidly evolving digital world. This book dives into the transformative power of blockchain technology, redefining trust and transparency in the age of AI and automation. It challenges traditional notions of societal contracts and personal identity, offering insightful perspectives on the human essence in a technologically advanced...
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Get the Summary of Brian Greene's The Hidden Reality in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Hidden Reality" by Brian Greene explores the concept of parallel universes and the scientific theories that support their existence. The book delves into the evolution of the definition of "universe," which has expanded from everything in existence to the parts we can observe, and now to the idea of multiverses. Greene examines...
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For centuries, physics has been the cornerstone of our understanding of the natural world. From classical mechanics to quantum mechanics, physics has given us the tools to describe and predict the behavior of everything around us. But as our knowledge of the universe grows, we are forced to confront the limits of our current understanding.In "Beyond the Quantum World," we take a journey through cutting-edge research that is expanding the boundaries...
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Les sujets de physique de base suivants sont présentés dans ce livre :crise de la physique classiquemécanique quantique et mécanique ondulatoirephysique du solide et physique des semi-conducteursthéorie quantique des champsélectrodynamique quantique et questions ouvertes
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Get the Summary of Philip Ball's Beyond Weird in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Beyond Weird" by Philip Ball offers a deep dive into the perplexing world of quantum mechanics, a field that challenges our conventional understanding of reality. The book explores the evolution of quantum theory since its inception in the early 20th century, highlighting the ongoing quest to unravel its foundational principles. Ball...
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The Situationist International were a group of anti-authoritarian, highly cultured, revolutionary artists whose energy and enragement fundamentally shaped the revolutions of the late 1960's, most famously in Paris in May '68. They took on their shoulders the history of the workers' struggle, saw that it had been corrupted by authoritarianism and transformed it, with influences incorporating the avant-garde via Dada and Surrealism. They were not Marxologists,...
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Max Weber is one of the founding fathers of sociology. He is often referred to as a sophisticated 'value-free' sociologist. This new critical introduction argues that Weber's sociology cannot be divorced from his political standpoint. Weber saw himself as a 'class conscious bourgeois' and his sociology reflects this outlook. Providing clear summaries of Weber's ideas – concentrating on the themes most often encountered on sociology courses – Kieran...
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This is an account of the Jewish state's motives behind building the West Bank wall, arguing that at the heart of the issue is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region's Palestinians become a majority.
The book charts Israel's increasingly desperate responses to its predicament including military repression of Palestinian dissent on both sides of the Green Line; accusations that Israel's Palestinian citizens and the Palestinian Authority...
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The first volume of Arendt's celebrated three-part study of the philosophical origins of the totalitarian mind. This volume focuses on the rise of antisemitism in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Index.
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Capital Volume I is essential reading on many undergraduate courses, but the structure and style of the book can be confusing for students, leading them to abandon the text. This book is a clear guide to reading Marx's classic text, which explains the reasoning behind the book's structure and provides help with the more technical aspects that non-economists may find taxing.
Students are urged to think for themselves and engage with Marx's powerful...
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"Unlock Your Inner Artist: Embracing Creativity for Self-Empowerment" is an empowering guide that helps readers tap into their boundless creative energy and embrace their true artistic potential. Through thought-provoking exercises and practical advice, author Karl Royle guides readers on a transformative journey of self-discovery and personal growth. This book empowers individuals to break free from self-doubt, unleash their creative genius, and...
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Rosa Luxemburg's writings reveal one of the most brilliant and passionate minds drawn to the revolutionary socialist movement. Through the letters, pamphlets and theorising, we see an outstanding social and economic theorist, a dedicated political activist and a devoted confidant.
Providing an extensive overview of her writings, this volume contains a number of items never before anthologised. Her work was broad in scope tackling capitalism...
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Science - A branch of knowledge in which what is known is presented in an orderly way. A branch of study that is concerned with collecting facts and forming laws to explain them.Project - A plan or scheme to do something. A task or problem in school. A group of houses or apartment buildings built according to a single plan. It is said that if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. But what if the plan was to fail all along? What if the grand plan...
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A cohesive theory of everything from quantum physics and gravity to black holes and inertia. The theory hinges upon the existence of a single oscillating particle and the scalable forces created by the mass it governs. This hypothesis suggests that light and electromagnetism are the flow of a bipolar pair of these particles in resonance; while electrons and photons are discreet groups of this charge. Using this theory, everything is explicable, from...
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Anarchist politics are at the heart of today's most vibrant and radical social movements. From squatted social centres and community gardens to acts of sabotage and raucous summit blockades, anarchist groups and networks are spreading an ethos of direct action, non-hierarchical organizing and self-liberation that has redefined revolutionary struggle for the 21st century.
Anarchy Alive! is a fascinating, in-depth look at the practice and theory...
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Following the disappearance of the Soviet Union, scholars across the political spectrum tackled the world-historical significance of the end of communism. This book addresses the balance-sheets of modern political history offered by three writers -- Francis Fukuyama, Eric Hobsbawm and Perry Anderson -- comparing them with the future projected by Marx in The Communist Manifesto.
Gregory Elliott argues that Marx is central to all three accounts...
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On July 4, 2012, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva madehistory when they discovered an entirely new type of subatomic particle that many scientists believe is the Higgs boson. For forty years, physicists searched for this capstone to the Standard Model of particle physics-the theory that describes both the most elementary components that are known in matter and the forces through which they interact. This particle points to the Higgs...
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