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fifteen countries in Scandinavia, Europe, Asia, Australia, and
U.S.A. All of them came to Stockholm primarily because they
recognize the growing im portance of networks as complex systems,
and their home institutions do not offer any systematic lectures on
this topic. The Networks Course was originally initiated jointly by
the Summer University of Southern Stockholm Foundation and the
County Council of Stockholm, the Swedish Aviation Administration,
the Swedish National Road Administration, the Swedish Post, the
Swedish State Railways, and Telia AB. They have all served as joint
sponsors and hosts for the Course. In the year 1993 the Course also
was sponsored by the Swedish Transport and Communications Research
Board. All these organizations have supported the publication of a
series of key lectures from the Course, to be released as a single
volume entitled Networks in Action. It is the ambition of the
Foundation to create continuity in its activities for the future.
The board has proposed to its principals to take a decision in this
direction. It is my expectation that this will be the case for the
Networks Course from 1995. This book will then serve as a basic
reference for use in an era when the topic of
Communication-Networks will be included on a permanent basis in the
Summer University's agenda."
Since the beginning of the fifties, the ruling paradigm in the
discipline of economics has been that of a competitive general
equilibrium. Associated dynamic analyses have therefore been
preoccupied with the stability of this equilibrium state,
corresponding simply to studies of comparative statics. The need to
permeate the boundaries of this paradigm in order to open up new
pathways for genuine dynamic analysis is now pressing. The
contributions contained in this volume spring from this very
ambition. A growing circle of economists have recently been
inspired by two distinct but complementary sources: (i) the
pathbreaking work of Joseph Schumpeter, and (ii) recent
contributions to physics, chemistry and theoretical biology. It
turns out that problems which are firmly rooted in the economic
discipline, such as innovation, technological change, business
cycles and economic development, contain many clear parallels with
phenomena from the natural sciences such as the slaving principle,
adiabatic elimination and self-organization. In such dynamic
worlds, adjustment processes and adaptive behaviour are modelled
with the aid of the mathematical theory of nonlinear dynamical
systems. The dynamics is defined for a much wider set of conditions
or states than simply a set of competitive equilibria. A common
objective is to study and classify ways in which the qualitative
properties of each system change as the parameters describing the
system vary.
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Winterreis (Paperback)
David Batten
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Charting winter journeys, travelling to funerals and to the
anniversary of a young death, David Batten reflects on loss in its
many guises. Facing grief with a meticulous attention, whether it
strikes in close family or political reality, Winterreis touches on
truths as urgent now as when Willhelm Muller wrote his own
Winterreise, a poetry cycle with which Batten resonates and echoes,
or when Franz Schubert composed his song cycle of the same name,
based on Muller's poems. The poems here become an "assembly of the
omens encountered while wandering in contemporary Europe..." and a
commemoration of those making music and poetry, who too often die
young. Poignant, cathartic and ultimately life-affirming, this is
considered poetry written with grace.
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Untergang (Paperback)
David Batten
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Exploring how humanity is rooted in and linked to everywhere and
everything, David Batten brought a fresh voice and precise language
to his reflective, but ultimately hopeful debut, Transhumance. In
Untergang, he moves from the open, cosmic, affirming tone to a
sequence that is internally reflective - darker, almost
claustrophobic. Whereas his first collection ended on the plateau,
in the light, anticipating summer, Untergang starts indoors in the
dark of a power cut in the depth of winter and finishes inside the
writer's ribcage, where it is even darker. This is not a world
without hope, but it is one that urgently needs to wake, to face
the dark and change it. Increasingly confident, Batten uses his
distinctive, lyrical voice as a call to reflect on what might
really matter in life.
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Rotterdam (Paperback)
David Batten
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Paul travels to work on a day like any other: filled with
reflection and questions. But the chill is more than the wind
slicing in off the North Sea and Paul's soul searching runs deeper,
with no end in sight. Part autobiography, part humanist study,
Rotterdam is a unique, moving text. -- Welsh Books Council
One of the biggest killers in history is back...and looking for
victims. A 14th Century corpse is unearthed in the name of science,
bringing with it a punishing legacy. Dormant underground for
hundreds of years, the plague has grown stronger than ever. Once
set free, it never sleeps and it takes no prisoners. Archaeologists
released it. Neither doctors, the police nor the army can stop it.
Only one man can fight the new Black Death. To win, he must escape
the clutches of crazed vigilantes, hell bent on executing him in
the name of humanity, and survive not one but two nightmare
journeys to salvation. This Son of York gives an uncompromising
portrayal of modern-day York's trial by pestilence. The accuracy of
detail within is just as uncompromising and as unrelenting as the
story being told. Will York ever return to normality? The answer
lies in This Son Of York's gritty narrative.
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