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Sulem, C. The nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Self-focusing and wave collapse. New York: Springer, 1999.

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Sulem, Catherine, and Pirre-Louis Sulem, eds. The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Self-Focusing and Wave Collapse. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b98958.

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Sulem, C. The nonlinear Schrödinger equation: Self-focusing and wave collapse. New York: Springer, 1999.

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T, Smith F., and Langley Research Center, eds. Near-planar TS waves and longitudinal vortices in channel flow: Nonlinear interaction and focusing. Hampton, Va: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, 1989.

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T, Smith F., and Langley Research Center, eds. Near-planar TS waves and longitudinal vortices in channel flow: Nonlinear interaction and focusing. Hampton, Va: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, 1989.

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Hall, P. Near-planar TS waves and longitudinal vortices in channel flow: Nonlinear interaction and focusing. Hampton, Va: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, 1989.

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Nye, J. F. Natural focusing and fine structure of light: Caustics and wave dislocations. Bristol: Institute of Physics Pub., 1999.

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Kamvissis, Spyridon. Semiclassical soliton ensembles for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2003.

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T-R, McLaughlin Kenneth D., and Miller Peter D, eds. Semiclassical soliton ensembles for the focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2003.

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Sousa, Carole. W.A.V.E.: Wave of Asian voices emerging : a prevention curriculum for Asian youth focusing on relationships and violence. Boston: Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence, 2003.

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International Workshop on Shock Wave Focusing Phenomena in Combustible Mixtures: Ignition and Transition to Detonation of Reactive Media under Geometrical Constraints (1998 Aachen, Germany). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Shock Wave Focusing Phenomena in Combustible Mixtures: Ignition and Transition to Detonation of Reactive Media under Geometrical Constraints, December 15-16, 1998. Aachen: Shaker, 2000.

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International Workshop on Shock Wave Focusing Phenomena in Combustible Mixtures (1998 Aachen, Germany). Proceedings of the International Workshop on Shock Wave Focusing Phenomena in Combustible Mixtures: Ignition and transition to detonation of reactive media under geometrical constraints : December 15 to 16, 1998. Aachen, Germany: Shock Wave Laboratory, 2000.

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1953-, Srivastava R. C., ed. Shock focussing effects in medical science and sonoluminescence. New York: Springer, 2003.

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Stamnes, Jakob J. Waves in focal regions: Propagation, diffraction, and focusing of light, sound, and water waves. Bristol: A. Hilger, 1986.

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Harmuth, Henning F. Electromagnetic Signals: Reflection, Focusing, Distortion, and Their Practical Applications. Boston, MA: Springer US, 1999.

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N, Boules Raouf, and Hussain Malek G. M, eds. Electromagnetic signals: Reflection, focusing, distortion, and their practical applications. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.

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Hall, Philip. Near-planar TS waves and longitudinal vortices in channel flow: nonlinear interaction and focusing. Hampton, Va: ICASE, 1989.

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Srivastava, Ramesh C. Shock Focussing Effect in Medical Science and Sonoluminescence. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003.

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Clulow, Adam, and Tristan Mostert, eds. The Dutch and English East India Companies. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462983298.

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The Dutch and English East India Companies were formidable organizations that were gifted with expansive powers that allowed them to conduct diplomacy, wage war and seize territorial possessions. But they did not move into an empty arena in which they were free to deploy these powers without resistance. Early modern Asia stood at the center of the global economy and was home to powerful states and sprawling commercial networks. The companies may have been global enterprises, but they operated in a globalized region in which they encountered a range of formidable competitors. This groundbreaking collection of essays explores the place of the Dutch and English East India Companies in Asia and the nature of their engagement with Asian rulers, officials, merchants, soldiers, and brokers. With contributions from some of the most innovative historians in the field, The Dutch and English East India Companies: Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia presents new ways to understand these organizations by focusing on their diplomatic, commercial, and military interactions with Asia.
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Knotter, Ad. Transformations of Trade Unionism. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789463724715.

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The historical experiences of workers organizing in Europe and the United States figure among the many forms of workers’ resistance resulting from the variety of labour relations in the global past. They cannot and will not be uniformly duplicated or copied from their present form in the global transformations of labour and workers’ movements that we are witnessing today. Nevertheless, in the twentieth century trade unionism as a form of collective agency among workers became a global phenomenon. With growing numbers of workers being exposed to wage labour and labour markets, the cases of workers organizing in the original heartlands of trade unionism in Europe and the United States can provide a historical background for future prospects and transformations. Based on comparisons of long-term developments and focusing on transnational connections, Transformations of Trade Unionism shows that historically there have been many varieties of trade unionism, emerging independently or transforming older ones, and that these varieties and transformations can be explained by specific and changing labour regimes. The case studies all start from Dutch examples, or incorporate a Dutch element, but the comparative and transnational approach connects these histories to general developments in Europe and United States from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. This publication was made possible thanks to the generous financial support of the Stichting Unger - van Brero Fonds
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Sulem, Catherine. The Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation: Self-Focusing And Wave Collapse. Springer, 2013.

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Sulem, Catherine, and Pierre-Louis Sulem. Nonlinear Schroedinger Equations: Self-Focusing and Wave Collapse (Applied Mathematical Sciences/139). Springer, 1999.

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Computation of nonlinear backscattering using a high-order numerical method. Hampton, Va: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center, 2001.

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Neisius, Andreas, Micheal E. Lipkin, Glenn M. Preminger, and James F. Glenn. Stone fragmentation techniques. Edited by John Reynard. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199659579.003.0017.

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After its implementation in 1980, shock wave lithotripsy (SWL) became the first-line treatment for more than 80% of patients with urolithiasis. During the last three decades, SWL technology has advanced rapidly in terms of shock wave generation, focusing, patient coupling, and stone localization. Indications for SWL have evolved as well. Although endoscopic treatment techniques continue to improve, SWL continues to be considered first-line therapy for the treatment of many urinary stones. This chapter reviews the fundamental principles of SWL and presents advances in lithotripsy technology such as shock wave generation and focusing, advances in stone localization (imaging), different energy source concepts, and coupling modalities. Our understanding of the pathophysiology and the physics of shock waves can enhance extracorporeal SWL efficacy while limiting complications. Finally, current indications for and contraindications to SWL depending on stone location and in context of the updated AUA/EAU Guidelines are discussed.
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(Editor), Ramesh C. Srivastava, Dieter Leutloff (Editor), Kazuyoshi Takayama (Editor), and Hans Grönig (Editor), eds. Shock Focussing Effect in Medical Science and Sonoluminescence. Springer, 2003.

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Milkman, Ruth. Gender and Trade Unionism in Historical Perspective. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040320.003.0006.

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This chapter examines the historical link between gender and unionism by focusing on variations among labor unions in policies and practices affecting women from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. After reviewing the debate about women's participation, membership, and leadership within unions, the chapter discusses four major waves of unionization that have produced four distinct cohorts of labor organizations, each of which formed in a different era of labor movement growth: the craft unions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the industrial unions that took shape in the needle trades in the 1910s; the larger wave of industrial unions that emerged in the 1930s, and the public- and service-sector unions of the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on sociological theories of organization, it then considers the conditions under which unions have been effective political vehicles for women workers. It shows that the political effectiveness of unions for women workers is correlated with the historical conditions under which each wave of unions first developed, as well as their age and maturity as organizations.
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Butyrskiy, Evgeniy. Theoretical foundations of hydroacoustics and ocean acoustics. Strategy of the Future, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.37468/book_171022.

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The textbook was written in accordance with the program of the discipline "Theoretical foundations of hydroacoustics and ocean acoustics". The manual discusses the characteristics of the acoustic environment, mathematical models of the propagation of acoustic waves in the ocean, methods for solving wave equations, the main physical phenomena associated with the transmission of acoustic energy over distances, types of sound velocity distribution and the corresponding acoustic ray trajectories, focusing factors and anomalies. Much attention is paid to the principles of emission and reception of hydroacoustic waves, the characteristics of the primary and secondary hydroacoustic fields, as well as models of noise and interference in the ocean and sound propagation in a statistically homogeneous medium. Particular attention is paid to determining the range of hydroacoustic means. The textbook is intended for cadets of the radio engineering department of the Naval Polytechnic Institute, but can be used by cadets and university students specializing in this field, as well as teachers and specialists in the field of hydroacoustics.
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Beyer, Charlotte. “This Really Isn’t a Job for a Girl to Take on Alone”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039805.003.0012.

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This chapter undertakes a reappraisal of Sara Paretsky's 1982 crime novel Indemnity Only. It examines its critical engagement with genre and the diverse landscape of feminist criticism during the period of its publication, and discusses Paretsky's articulation of an evolving feminist position in genre fiction. As we enter the fourth wave of feminism and new feminist initiatives and campaigns take off, an assessment of the importance of second-wave feminist literature in the light of those developments is timely. A number of critics have discussed Paretsky's novel as an example of feminist appropriation of genre fiction. The chapter extends these readings by arguing for its centrality to second-wave feminist fiction, focusing on specific areas and thematic concerns that highlight the complex relationship between Paretsky's text and feminist criticism and illustrate the ongoing dialogue between activism and fiction.
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Apazidis, Nicholas. Shock Focusing Phenomena: High Energy Density Phenomena and Dynamics of Converging Shocks. Springer, 2019.

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Apazidis, Nicholas, and Veronica Eliasson. Shock Focusing Phenomena: High Energy Density Phenomena and Dynamics of Converging Shocks. Springer, 2018.

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Sheppard, Colin J. R., and Peter Torok. High Aperture Focusing of EM Waves and Applications in Optical Microscopy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Stamnes, J. J. Waves in Focal Regions: Propagation, Diffraction and Focusing of Light, Sound and Water Waves. CRC Press LLC, 2017.

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Waves in Focal Regions: Propagation, Diffraction and Focusing of Light, Sound and Water Waves. CRC Press LLC, 2017.

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McMahon, Laura. Animal Worlds. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446389.001.0001.

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Focusing on a recent wave of international art cinema, Animal Worlds offers the first sustained analysis of the relations between cinematic time and animal life. Through an aesthetic of extended duration, films such as Bestiaire (Denis Côté, 2012), The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky, 2011) and A Cow’s Life (Emmanuel Gras, 2011) attend to animal worlds of sentience and perception, while registering the governing of life through biopolitical regimes. Bringing together Gilles Deleuze’s writings on cinema and his reflections (with Félix Guattari) on animals, while drawing on Jacques Derrida, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Nicole Shukin and others, the book argues that these films question the biopolitical reduction of animal life to forms of capital, opening up realms of virtuality, becoming and alternative political futures.
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Coulson, Victoria. Elizabeth Bowen's Psychoanalytic Fiction. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474480499.001.0001.

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Despite the exceptional literary quality, remarkable conceptual sophistication and compelling socio-historical interest of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing, her fiction has received relatively little critical attention in comparison to the work of such acknowledged giants of the modern canon as, for example, Woolf and Joyce. The past decade has seen a lively burgeoning of interest in Bowen’s work, recent scholarship focusing with a new intensity on the question of the relationship between Bowen’s writing and the socio-political matrix from which it emerges. Situating itself within this new wave of scholarship and engaging closely with its socio-historical and literary-critical concerns, this book sets out to offer a provocative and substantial new account of Bowen’s fiction that highlights in particular the force and originality of Bowen’s virtually psychoanalytic thinking about development, sexuality and gender.
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Welzel, Christian, and Ronald F. Inglehart. Democratization. Edited by Christian W. Haerpfer and Patrick Bernhagen. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hepl/9780198732280.001.0001.

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Democratization introduces the theoretical and practical dimensions of democratization. Focusing on the ‘global wave of democratization’ that has advanced since the early 1970s, this text examines the major perspectives, approaches, and insights that have informed research on democratization. The book is divided into four parts based on four aspects of democratization. Part One deals with theoretical and historical perspectives; Part Two focuses on causes and dimensions of democratization; Part Three looks at actors and institutions; and Part Four is concerned with regions of democratization such as Southern Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and East Asia. Topics include the distinction between democratic and undemocratic states, the role of democratization in foreign policy, and the contributions of social movements, protest, and transnational advocacy networks to democratic transition. Key themes covered in this thoroughly revised and updated second edition include: theories of democratization; critical prerequisites and driving social forces of the transition to democracy; pivotal actors and institutions involved in democratization; conditions for democratic survival and the analysis of failed democratization; demonstrations of how these factors have played a role in the different regions in which the global wave of democratization transplaced authoritarian and communist systems; and possible futures of democratization worldwide.
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Whatley, Christopher A. Contested Commemoration. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736233.003.0010.

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Focusing on the wave of statues of Scotland’s national poet Robert Burns that were erected in Victorian and Edwardian Scotland, the chapter explores the contests there were to ‘own’ and mould Burns’s legacy. Why did Burns matter so much to his countrymen in the century after his death? Revealed too are the various factors that led town councils and their allies to campaign in competition with one another for a Burns statue: these included finance (by attracting visitors), emulation, and civic standing, and the didactic role that public statuary could play in influencing the behaviour of working people. Critical too was the role of Burns statues in arousing Scottish patriotism and perhaps even popular nationalism, albeit within the Union context. Far from being ‘meaningless’, Burns statues mattered intensely to Scotland’s sculptors,to the bodies that commissioned them, and to the public at large.
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Pirota, Kleber Roberto, Angela Knobel, Manuel Hernandez-Velez, Kornelius Nielsch, and Manuel Vázquez. Magnetic nanowires: Fabrication and characterization. Edited by A. V. Narlikar and Y. Y. Fu. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199533053.013.22.

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This article describes the fabrication and characterization of magnetic nanowires, focusing on the magnetic properties of patterned arrays of metallic magnetic nanowires electrodeposited into the pores of anodized-alumina membranes. It also discusses the complex magnetization processes, both in isolated nanowires and in collectively patterned arrays. After providing an overview of the state-of-the-art on fabrication techniques of nanowires, the article considers the microstructure of magnetic nanowires and the magnetic properties of single nanowires. It then examines the collective behavior of arrays where the interactions among the magnetic entities play an important role, along with the transport properties of magnetic nanowires, the temperature-dependent effects (such as magnetoelastic-induced anisotropy), and the dynamic properties of magnetization such as ferromagnetic resonance characteristics and spin-wave excitations in ferromagnetic nanowires. Finally, it presents an overview of future research directions.
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Krafft, Caroline, and Ragui Assaad, eds. The Egyptian Labor Market. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192847911.001.0001.

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This book updates our understanding of how the Egyptian labor market, economy, and society have evolved in the aftermath of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings, the subsequent political upheaval and substantial economic challenges that followed, and the economic reforms introduced in late 2016. Not only was job creation anemic over the period from 2012 to 2018, but new jobs were also of low-quality, characterized by informality and vulnerability to economic shocks. These challenges pushed many in Egypt, especially the most vulnerable, into a more precarious labor market situation. The book examines the plight of the most vulnerable groups by focusing on the intersection of gender and economic vulnerability in the labor market. With this emphasis on vulnerability and a lens that is sensitive to gender differences and inequities, the contributors to this volume use data from the most recent wave of a unique longitudinal survey to illuminate different aspects of Egyptians’ lives. The aspects they explore include labor supply behavior, the ability to access good quality and well-paying jobs, the evolution of wages and wage inequality, the school-to-work transition of youth, the decline in public sector employment, international and internal migration, the situation of rural women, access to social protection, food security, vulnerability to shocks and coping mechanisms, health status, and access to health care services. These analyses are prescient in understanding the axes of vulnerability in Egyptian society that became all too salient during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Cecchi, Alessandro. Forming Form through Force. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199316090.003.0005.

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This chapter identifies connections between the formal strategies used in both Bruckner’s and Mahler’s symphonies. Its point of departure is the ‘energetic’ theory of musical form developed by Ernst Kurth in his monograph on Bruckner (1925), particularly the idea of the ‘intensifying wave’. On that basis it confronts the formal strategies of the first movements of Bruckner’s Ninth and Mahler’s First symphonies, focusing on the relationship between the structural disposition of ‘intensification processes’ and the deliberate blurrings of traditional formal boundaries based on ‘sonata form’. In the mentioned symphonies of Mahler and Bruckner, composition emerges as a ‘force field’ where sonata form does have a role to play, provided it is viewed not as an abstract scheme but as a concrete spectrum of compositional choices in continuous interaction with other instances, particularly a structural principle based on the disposition of intensification processes and the reaching of climaxes.
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Lin, C. W., N. F. Chiu, and C. C. Chang. Modulation design of plasmonics for diagnostic and drug screening. Edited by A. V. Narlikar and Y. Y. Fu. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199533060.013.18.

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This article discusses the modulation design of plasmonics for diagnosis and drug screening applications. It begins with an overview of the advances made in terms of theoretical insights, focusing on the origins of surface plasmon wave and manipulation, admittance loci design method, and surface plasmon grating coupled emission. It then considers how prism coupler, Ge-doped silica waveguide, nanograting and active plasmonics can trigger the excitation of surface plasmon resonance (SPR). It also examines the metallic effect of long-range surface plasmon resonance and conducting metal oxide as adhesive layer before describing three SPR waveguide biosensors that were developed for the realization of a hand-held SPR system. In particular, it presents a lateral-flow microfluidic channel based on a nitrocellulose membrane and integrated with a SPR waveguide biosensor to achieve dynamic detection. Finally, the article evaluates the biomolecular layer effect, with emphasis on kinetics analysis of antibody binding.
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Priestland, David. The Left and the Revolutions. Edited by Nicholas Doumanis. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695669.013.6.

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This article provides a new interpretation of Europe’s revolutionary era between 1917 and 1923, exploring the origins of the revolutionary wave and its diverse impact across Europe, focusing on the role of the Left. It seeks to revive the insights of social history and historical sociology, which have been neglected by a recent historiography, that stress the role of contingency, the impact of war, and the influence of militaristic cultures. Yet unlike older social history approaches which emphasised domestic social conflict at the expense of ethnic politics and empire, it argues that the revolutions were the result of a crisis of old geopolitical and ethnic hierarchies, as well as social ones. It develops a comparative approach, presenting a new way of incorporating the experience of eastern Europe and the Caucasus into the history of Europe’s revolutions, and a new analysis of why Russia provided such fertile ground for revolutionary politics.
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Seth, Suman. Quantum Physics. Edited by Jed Z. Buchwald and Robert Fox. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696253.013.28.

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This article discusses the history of quantum physics, beginning with an analysis of the process through which a community of quantum theorists and experimentalists came into being. In particular, it traces the roots and fruits of Max Planck’s papers in irreversible processes in nature. It proceeds by exploring the origin and subsequent development of Niels Bohr’s so-called ‘planetary model’ of the atom, focusing on the extension of the model by Arnold Sommerfeld and members of his school as well to Bohr’s use of his principles of correspondence and adiabatic invariance. It also considers the post-war years, as the problems of atomic spectroscopy sparked the development of new methodological approaches to quantum theory. Finally, it offers a history of the two distinct new forms of quantum mechanics put forward in the mid-1920s: Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, and Pascual Jordan’s matrix mechanics, and Erwin Schrödinger’s wave mechanics.
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Calcaterra, Angela. Literary Indians. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646947.001.0001.

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Although cross-cultural encounter is often considered an economic or political matter, beauty, taste, and artistry were central to cultural exchange and political negotiation in early and nineteenth-century America. Part of a new wave of scholarship in early American studies that contextualizes American writing in Indigenous space, Literary Indians highlights the significance of Indigenous aesthetic practices to American literary production. Countering the prevailing notion of the “literary Indian” as a construct of the white American literary imagination, Angela Calcaterra reveals how Native people’s pre-existing and evolving aesthetic practices influenced Anglo-American writing in precise ways. Indigenous aesthetics helped to establish borders and foster alliances that pushed against Anglo-American settlement practices and contributed to the discursive, divided, unfinished aspects of American letters. Focusing on tribal histories and Indigenous artistry, Calcaterra locates surprising connections and important distinctions between Native and Anglo-American literary aesthetics in a new history of early American encounter, identity, literature, and culture.
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de Regt, Henk W. Visualizability and Intelligibility. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190652913.003.0007.

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This chapter investigates the relation between visualizability and intelligibility, by means of an in-depth study of the transition from classical physics to quantum physics in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this development, the issue of visualizability played a central role. After a brief discussion of the visualizability of classical physics, it examines the gradual loss of visualizability in quantum theory, focusing on the work of quantum physicists Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Werner Heisenberg, and Erwin Schrödinger. The chapter presents a detailed analysis of the role of visualizability (Anschaulichkeit) in the competition between Schrödinger’s wave mechanics and Heisenberg’s matrix mechanics, and in the discovery of electron spin. The contextual theory of understanding asserts that visualizability is one out of many possible tools for understanding, albeit one that has proved to be very effective in science. This conclusion is supported by an analysis of the role of visualization in postwar quantum physics, especially via Feynman diagrams.
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Trencsényi, Balázs, Michal Kopeček, Luka Lisjak Gabrijelčič, Maria Falina, Mónika Baár, and Maciej Janowski. Velvet Revolutions and the Thorny Paths of Transition. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829607.003.0004.

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The “velvet” and not so “velvet” revolutions of 1989 triggered fervent discussions on the nature of the postcommunist political system. The paradigm of transitology provided the dominant framework for these debates, while civil society remained a key concept, even though it became increasingly contested by the neoliberals and neoconservatives, as well as by the “new left.” The seemingly dominant, although never uncontested, “liberal consensus” of the early 1990s became challenged by a new wave of conservativism which showed continuities with pre-1945 traditions. In this context, the heritage of communism and Nazism was addressed by different political actors and institutions focusing on memory politics, contributing to the polarization of the ideological field. The churches too gained political importance in the search for sources of authority, but they were also criticized because of their subservience to the state socialist regime before 1989 and for reverting to a conservative nationalist vision after the changes.
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Hess, Carol A. Miguel Ángel Estrella. Edited by Patricia Hall. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199733163.013.21.

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This chapter examines the place of Argentine pianist Miguel Ángel Estrella in the politics of Latin American music, focusing on the Dirty War, the wave of repression and violence by military regimes during the 1960s and 1970s. It begins with Estrella’s recital in September 1987 as a tribute to Nadia Boulanger, who died in October 1979 and was one protagonist in Estrella’s story. It then considers Estrella’s political activities in Argentina and his being formally charged with subversion, sedition, and terrorist activities, as well as his promotion of the masterworks of the Western canon. It also contextualizes Estrella’s experience in light of a number of broader issues, relating Estrella and his traditionalist repertory to the ongoing debate among composers and critics over socially engaged music (música comprometida); the historical antecedents of this debate and how they inform present-day reactions to the status of either the avant-garde or the Western canon in música comprometida; and how scholars in the United States might understand Estrella’s story.
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Sheppard, Colin J. R., and Peter Torok. High Aperture Focusing of EM Waves and Applications in Optical Microscopy (Series in Optics and Optoelectronics). Taylor & Francis, 2008.

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Cohadon, Pierre-François, Jack Harris, Florian Marquardt, and Leticia Cugliandolo, eds. Quantum Optomechanics and Nanomechanics. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198828143.001.0001.

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The Les Houches Summer School 2015 covered the emerging fields of cavity optomechanics and quantum nanomechanics. Optomechanics is flourishing and its concepts and techniques are now applied to a wide range of topics. Modern quantum optomechanics was born in the late 70s in the framework of gravitational wave interferometry, initially focusing on the quantum limits of displacement measurements. Carlton Caves, Vladimir Braginsky, and others realized that the sensitivity of the anticipated large-scale gravitational-wave interferometers (GWI) was fundamentally limited by the quantum fluctuations of the measurement laser beam. After tremendous experimental progress, the sensitivity of the upcoming next generation of GWI will effectively be limited by quantum noise. In this way, quantum-optomechanical effects will directly affect the operation of what is arguably the world’s most impressive precision experiment. However, optomechanics has also gained a life of its own with a focus on the quantum aspects of moving mirrors. Laser light can be used to cool mechanical resonators well below the temperature of their environment. After proof-of-principle demonstrations of this cooling in 2006, a number of systems were used as the field gradually merged with its condensed matter cousin (nanomechanical systems) to try to reach the mechanical quantum ground state, eventually demonstrated in 2010 by pure cryogenic techniques and a year later by a combination of cryogenic and radiation-pressure cooling. The book covers all aspects—historical, theoretical, experimental—of the field, with its applications to quantum measurement, foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum information. Essential reading for any researcher in the field.
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Frantz, Erica. Authoritarianism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190880194.001.0001.

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Despite the spread of democratization following the Cold War’s end, all signs indicate that we are currently seeing a resurgence of authoritarianism. Around forty percent of the world’s people live under some form of authoritarian rule, and authoritarian regimes govern about a third of the world’s countries. In Authoritarianism: What Everyone Needs to KnowRG, Erica Frantz guides us through today’s authoritarian wave, explaining how it came to be and what its features are. She also looks at authoritarians themselves, focusing in particular on the techniques they use to take power, the strategies they use to survive, and how they fall. As she demonstrates, understanding how politics works in authoritarian regimes and recognizing the factors that either give rise to them or trigger their downfall, remains as important as ever. This book paves the ways for such an understanding. Authoritarianism is a clear and concise overview that provides readers with a context for making sense of one of the most important-and most worrying-developments in contemporary world politics.
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