I -- The basics -- Bruhat order -- Weak order and reduced words -- Roots, games, and automata -- II -- Kazhdan-Lusztig and R-polynomials -- Kazhdan-Lusztig representations -- Enumeration -- Combinatorial Descriptions.Coxeter groups are of central importance in several areas of algebra, geometry, and combinatorics. This clear and rigorous exposition focuses on the combinatorial aspects of Coxete…
General Principles, Theories, and Models of Pattern Formation -- and Outline -- On the Origin of Patterns -- Mathematical Modeling of Biological Pattern Formation -- Cellular Automaton Modeling -- Cellular Automata -- Applications -- Random Movement -- Growth Processes -- Adhesive Cell Interaction -- Alignment and Cellular Swarming -- Pigment Cell Pattern Formation -- Tissue and Tumor Developme…
Dirac structures, momentum maps, and quasi-Poisson manifolds -- Construction of Ricci-type connections by reduction and induction -- A mathematical model for geomagnetic reversals -- Nonholonomic systems via moving frames: Cartan equivalence and Chaplygin Hamiltonization -- Thompson’s conjecture for real semisimple Lie groups -- The Weinstein conjecture and theorems of nearby and almost exist…
Chapter1: Low-resistivity structures in the seismically active lithosphere zones and observations of EM signals of seismic origination -- Chapter2: Theory of magnetic location of the epicentre area of a possible earthquake -- Chapter3: Tsunami precursors: mathematical model and applications -- Chapter4: Space Weather -- Chapter5: Structure of a Brain -- Chapter6: Space weather influence on bioe…
What is Algebra? -- Fields -- Commutative Rings -- Homomorphisms and Ideals -- Modules -- Algebraic Aspects of Dimension -- The Algebraic View of Infinitesimal Notions -- Noncommutative Rings -- Modules over Noncommutative Rings -- Semisimple Modules and Rings -- Division Algebras of Finite Rank -- The Notion of a Group -- Examples of Groups: Finite Groups -- Examples of Groups: Infinite Discre…
On Norbert Elias: Becoming a Human Scientist – Prologue -- A long Life Has its Advantages – or: The Late Career of a Book -- On the Plan of this Academic Work -- In Front of the Mirror -- Childhood, Youth, Maturation -- Old Heidelberg, You Delicate -- The First Appearance at the Zurich ‘Soziologentag’ -- The End in Frankfurt -- The Great Book -- Hoping and Waiting.The book focuses on th…
This book evaluates why cities choose to bid for the Olympics, why Olympic bids fail, and whether cities can benefit from failed bids. Attention is shifted away from host cities (or winners), to consider the impact of the bidding process on urban development in losing cities. Oliver and Lauermann show that bidding is often a politically strategic exercise, as planning ideas are recycled from on…
Introduction -- Agroextractivism: the desert grows -- The economic rationality of agroextractivism -- Territorial control and geographical expansion of agribusiness -- The government of the affects -- Agroecology in post-development settings -- Re-inhabiting the skin of the earth through agro-ecology -- The future, behind.This study discusses an original proposal aimed at critically analyzing t…
This book delves deeply into modern surrogacy arrangements, responding to both practical and ethical critiques by offering a radically new model for surrogate motherhood. Current practice distinguishes between two models of surrogacy – the altruistic (unpaid) model and the commercial (paid) model, both of which present social, ethical, and conceptual challenges. This book proposes a novel arr…
1. Introduction -- 2. Bourdieu’s intellectual biography -- 3. Classical and Modern Theories of the State -- 4. Bourdieu’s theory of the state -- 5. The Field of Power -- 6. State formation -- 7. An Assessment of Bourdieu’s theory of the State -- 8. Conclusion. .This book critically examines Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the state by assessing its theoretical and empirical value. Steven Lo…