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This volume provides a wide selection of problems (and solutions)
to all those interested in mathematical problem solving and is
accessible to readers from high school students to professionals.It
is a resource for those interested in mathematical competitions
ranging from high school level to the William Lowell Putnam
Mathematical Competition (for undergraduate students). The
collection offers challenges for students, teachers, and
recreational mathematicians.
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought
for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just
one political option among many. The book is organized thematically
around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience,
and resistance, and according to figures who are vital to the
present trajectory of dialectics, including Hegel, Adorno,
Foucault, Jameson and Zizek. New analysis of these concepts and
theorists is used to show how they transform our understanding of
social life as well as offer a way of understanding social
transformation. Interspersed throughout this theoretical work are
dialectical examinations of political phenomena from tolerance,
democracy, and the rise of Barack Obama, to state-economy relations
as well as those of power and resistance. A radical and often
revolutionary theory of society is pursued that is no longer
confined to the terms of Marxism or any other school of thought. In
this regard a novel advance is made by presenting the history of
dialectical criticism as an 'anti-tradition,' which is defined as a
practice that is characterized by a history of discontinuity,
discord, and incompatible applications. A theory of dialectics
emerges that is flexible, coherent, and which can account for much
more than capitalism and class politics. This work will be of great
interest to all scholars of Marxism, critical theory, social and
political theory and political philosophy
Dialectics and Contemporary Politics recasts dialectical thought
for a post-Marxist age in which labour movement politics is just
one political option among many. The book is organized thematically
around concepts such as immanent critique, ideology, experience,
and resistance, and according to figures who are vital to the
present trajectory of dialectics, including Hegel, Adorno,
Foucault, Jameson and Zizek. New analysis of these concepts and
theorists is used to show how they transform our understanding of
social life as well as offer a way of understanding social
transformation. Interspersed throughout this theoretical work are
dialectical examinations of political phenomena from tolerance,
democracy, and the rise of Barack Obama, to state-economy relations
as well as those of power and resistance. A radical and often
revolutionary theory of society is pursued that is no longer
confined to the terms of Marxism or any other school of thought. In
this regard a novel advance is made by presenting the history of
dialectical criticism as an anti-tradition, ' which is defined as a
practice that is characterized by a history of discontinuity,
discord, and incompatible applications. A theory of dialectics
emerges that is flexible, coherent, and which can account for much
more than capitalism and class politics. This work will be of great
interest to all scholars of Marxism, critical theory, social and
political theory and political philosophy.
Attempts to try individuals such as Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam
Hussein for international crimes and the creation of the
International Criminal Court highlight the growing currency and
importance of international criminal law as a discipline in its own
right. Contemporary importance and academic interest in the subject
is rapidly eclipsing that in the more mainstream discipline of
human rights. For practitioners, scholars and students of
international criminal law (ICL), this unique collection provides
access to the core international instruments in one convenient
volume. Containing seventy-nine principal documents on ICL dating
from 1919 to 2005, this user-friendly book organizes the documents
around generally recognised categories of international crimes,
such as war crimes, crimes against humanity and terrorism. It also
includes constitutive instruments of the most important
international, domestic and hybrid tribunals, including the Statute
of the International Criminal Court, its rules of procedure and
elements of crimes. Principal international and regional
instruments which deal with the facilitation of a truly
international system of criminal justice, in the form of
extradition and mutual assistance are also included. Each document
has been carefully edited to present information that is directly
relevant to international criminal law while all extraneous
material has been excluded. Most importantly, each extract has its
own introduction which provides the reader with official citations,
parties, date of entry into force, an outline of the legislative
history, links to related documents and a brief commentary
analyzing and contextualizing the principal provisions.
Attempts to try individuals such as Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam
Hussein for international crimes and the creation of the
International Criminal Court highlight the growing currency and
importance of international criminal law as a discipline in its own
right. Contemporary importance and academic interest in the subject
is rapidly eclipsing that in the more mainstream discipline of
human rights. For practitioners, scholars and students of
international criminal law (ICL), this unique collection provides
access to the core international instruments in one convenient
volume. Containing seventy-nine principal documents on ICL dating
from 1919 to 2005, this user-friendly book organizes the documents
around generally recognised categories of international crimes,
such as war crimes, crimes against humanity and terrorism. It also
includes constitutive instruments of the most important
international, domestic and hybrid tribunals, including the Statute
of the International Criminal Court, its rules of procedure and
elements of crimes. Principal international and regional
instruments which deal with the facilitation of a truly
international system of criminal justice, in the form of
extradition and mutual assistance are also included. Each document
has been carefully edited to present information that is directly
relevant to international criminal law while all extraneous
material has been excluded. Most importantly, each extract has its
own introduction which provides the reader with official citations,
parties, date of entry into force, an outline of the legislative
history, links to related documents and a brief commentary
analyzing and contextualizing the principal provisions.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th
International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM
2011, held in Dayton, OH, USA, in October 2011. The 32 revised full
papers and 3 revised short papers presented together with the
abstracts of 2 invited talks and 6 "discussant" contributions were
carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers are
organized in topical sections on argumentation systems,
probabilistic inference, dynamic of beliefs, information retrieval
and databases, ontologies, possibility theory and classification,
logic programming, and applications.
We live in an era of misinformation, much of it spread by authority
figures, including politicians, religious leaders, broadcasters,
and, of course, apps and websites. With so much bogus information
coming from so many sources, how can anyone be expected to discover
the truth? In Debunk It, author John Grant uses modern,
ripped-from-the-headlines examples to clearly explain how to
identify bad evidence and poor arguments. He provides a roundup of
the rhetorical tricks people use when attempting to pull the wool
over our eyes, and even offers advice about how to take these
unscrupulous pundits down. This revised and expanded edition
includes an additional chapter on fake news. So if you're tired of
hearing blowhards spouting off about climate change, history,
evolution, medicine, and more, this is the book for you. Debunk It
is the ultimate guide for young readers seeking a firmer footing in
a world that's full of holes.
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