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From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most
influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the
relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We
are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in
global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in
liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that
ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being
strained and rejected, even in democracy's notional heartlands.
Around the world, democratic capitalism, which depends on the
determined separation of power from wealth, is in crisis. Some now
argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that
democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful
rejoinder to both views. It analyses how the marriage between
capitalism and democracy has become so fraught and yet insists that
a divorce would be an almost unimaginable calamity. Martin Wolf,
one of the wisest public voices on global affairs, argues that for
all its recent failings - slowing growth, increasing inequality,
widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism, though
inherently fragile, remains the best system we know for human
flourishing. Capitalism and democracy are complementary opposites:
they need each other if either is to thrive. Wolf's superb
exploration of their marriage shows us how citizenship and a shared
faith in the common good are not romantic slogans but the essential
foundation of our economic and political freedom.
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. On April 22,
1915, the German military released 150 tons of chlorine gas at
Ypres, Belgium. Carried by a long-awaited wind, the chlorine cloud
passed within a few minutes through the British and French
trenches, leaving behind at least 1,000 dead and 4,000 injured.
This chemical attack, which amounted to the first use of a weapon
of mass destruction, marks a turning point in world history. The
preparation as well as the execution of the gas attack was
orchestrated by Fritz Haber, the director of the Kaiser Wilhelm
Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry in
Berlin-Dahlem. During World War I, Haber transformed his research
institute into a center for the development of chemical weapons
(and of the means of protection against them). Bretislav Friedrich
and Martin Wolf (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society,
the successor institution of Haber's institute) together with
Dieter Hoffmann, Jurgen Renn, and Florian Schmaltz (Max Planck
Institute for the History of Science) organized an international
symposium to commemorate the centenary of the infamous chemical
attack. The symposium examined crucial facets of chemical warfare
from the first research on and deployment of chemical weapons in
WWI to the development and use of chemical warfare during the
century hence. The focus was on scientific, ethical, legal, and
political issues of chemical weapons research and deployment -
including the issue of dual use - as well as the ongoing effort to
control the possession of chemical weapons and to ultimately
achieve their elimination. The volume consists of papers presented
at the symposium and supplemented by additional articles that
together cover key aspects of chemical warfare from 22 April 1915
until the summer of 2015.
Covering all aspects of oxygen delivery to tissue, including blood
flow and its regulation as well as oxygen metabolism, this book is
multidisciplinary and designed to bring together experts and
students from a range of research fields including biochemical
engineering, physiology, microcirculation, and hematology.
This two-volume work covers ultrafast structural and electronic
dynamics of elementary processes at solid surfaces and interfaces,
presenting the current status of photoinduced processes. Providing
valuable introductory information for newcomers to this booming
field of research, it investigates concepts and experiments,
femtosecond and attosecond time-resolved methods, as well as
frequency domain techniques.
The whole is rounded off by a look at future developments.
This two-volume work covers ultrafast structural and electronic
dynamics of elementary processes at solid surfaces and interfaces,
presenting the current status of photoinduced processes. Providing
valuable introductory information for newcomers to this booming
field of research, it investigates concepts and experiments,
femtosecond and attosecond time-resolved methods, as well as
frequency domain techniques.
The whole is rounded off by a look at future developments.
From the author of The Shifts and the Shocks, and one of the most
influential writers on economics, a reckoning with how and why the
relationship between democracy and capitalism is coming undone We
are living in an age when economic failings have shaken faith in
global capitalism. Political failings have undermined trust in
liberal democracy and in the very notion of truth. The ties that
ought to bind open markets to free and fair elections are being
strained and rejected, even in democracy's notional heartlands.
Around the world, democratic capitalism, which depends on the
determined separation of power from wealth, is in crisis. Some now
argue that capitalism is better without democracy; others that
democracy is better without capitalism. This book is a forceful
rejoinder to both views. It analyses how the marriage between
capitalism and democracy has become so fraught and yet insists that
a divorce would be an almost unimaginable calamity. Martin Wolf,
one of the wisest public voices on global affairs, argues that for
all its recent failings - slowing growth, increasing inequality,
widespread popular disillusion - democratic capitalism, though
inherently fragile, remains the best system we know for human
flourishing. Capitalism and democracy are complementary opposites:
they need each other if either is to thrive. Wolf's superb
exploration of their marriage shows us how citizenship and a shared
faith in the common good are not romantic slogans but the essential
foundation of our economic and political freedom.
Based on the 38th annual conference of the International Society on
Oxygen Transport to Tissue (ISOTT), held in Ascona, Switzerland in
July 2010, this volume covers all aspects of oxygen transport from
air to the cells, as well as looking at organs and organism,
instrumentation, and methods to sense oxygen and clinical evidence.
In Green Light! Martin Wolfe gives us the big picture of World War
II airborne warfare in Europe through the lens of one unit, a
squadron typical of some sixty others. Troop carrier squadrons
delivered paratroopers behind enemy lines, tugged gliders into
battle zones, and, between combat operations, freighted up to the
front everything from food to artillery shells and carried back
wounded infantrymen and newly freed slave laborers. Wolfe's
firsthand account is an engaging and informative narrative that
goes beyond the facts to investigate the feelings of the tightly
knit unit. He also describes the management and training techniques
that prepared the squadron for its role in four of the five main
invasions of Nazi Europe. In all the literature about World War II
, this is the first account to show how all levels of a squadron
functioned-clerks as well as pilots, maintenance mechanics as well
as flying crew chiefs, the mess hall as well as headquarters. In
addition, Wolfe's is the first book to show the interplay between
unit experience and high command theory-what units like the 81st
Troop Carrier Squadron could actually accomplish and how concepts
of airborne warfare changed at Supreme Headquarters. He explains
why and how it was not until the last airborne invasion, in March
1945, that the full potential of the troop carrier was reached.
Wolfe melds the recollections of ninety veterans of this squadron
with a general history of Allied airborne forces in World War II.
Through their words, Green Light! paints vivid portraits of the
real men of the war, not the Rambos or Sad Sacks of popular
culture. And through the retelling of their experiences, the book
shows that the truism "war is hell" does not hold for all soldiers
all the time.
A bestseller in hardback, this book offers a powerful defence of
the global market economy. Martin Wolf explains how globalization
works, critiques the charges against it, argues that the biggest
obstacle to global economic progress has been the failure not of
the market but of governments, and offers a realistic scenario for
economic internationalism in the post-9/11 age. For this paperback
edition, Wolf provides a new introduction to update the debate.
The European Union, by virtue of its size alone, is called upon to
play a central role in establishing a prosperous and liberal world
economy. But, says Martin Wolf, its historic approach raises
serious doubts about whether it is capable of rising to the
challenge.
Es wurde hier von uns der Versuch unternommen, Vorstellungen uber
eine an- wendungsorientierte Darstellung des Gegenstands-und
Methodenbereichs E lektro- technik in die Praxis eines Lehrbuches
umzusetzen. Dabei sind wir davon aus- gegangen, daB eine
anwendungsorientierte Darstellung adressatenspezifisch sein muB,
wenn sie den Leser helfen soli, Handlungskompetenz in seinem
Arbeits- bereich zu erwerben. Die Adressaten dieses Buches sind
Lehrer des Faches Elektro- technik, solche, die in der Praxis der
Ausbildung in Schule und Betrieb arbeiten, aber auch Studenten,
daher eine lehrorientierte Darstellung. Die Schwerpunkte liegen im
Bereich MeBtechnik zur ErschlieBung der technischen Realitat und in
der Analyse der grundlegenden technischen Anwendungen. Wir haben
uns dabei auf die Basiskenntnisse der Elektrotechnik, auf die
technischen Grundlagen beschrankt und die
physikalisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Grundkenntnisse voraus-
gesetzt. Die spezialisierten Fachkenntnisse sollen auf dieser Basis
aufgebaut werden. Nur so konnte es uns gelingen, ein anwendbares
und in der Realitiit uberprufbares, nicht von der
technisch-gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung dauernd entwertetes
Fundament zu entwickeln. Trotzdem hat uns in der langen Zeit der
Arbeit am Manuskript die Veranderung auch in diesem Bereich ofter
uberholt, z. B. durc die Umstellung der Normen fur die
Schaltzeichen oder die Veranderung der VDE-Vorschriften. Wir
glauben aber, eine Darstellung erarbeitet zu haben, die die heutige
Realitat widerspiegelt und auch ansatzweise die Entwicklung dahin
aufzeigt. Freuen wurden wir uns, Anregungen fur eine
Weiterentwicklung dieses Ansatzes aus der Praxis der Anwendung in
der Ausbildung zu erhalten. Detlef Gronwald und Wolf Martin v
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Fugitive Demigod Twelve centuries after Prometheus turned my lazy
ass into a Host-hybrid, his irate alien buddies chased me to the
planet Oneia, which made me human again - as good as dead to a
Host. Luckily, I've had practice being dead. And I brought a friend
to carry my corpse.
An innocent and distracted American tourist (Ed Jenesep) is
involved in a plot that threatens world peace, with no other help
other than a suspicious girl (Gretchen), who seems to want to steal
his heart or remove it. As they delve into the mystery, everything
suggests that Hitler actually did not die at the end of the Second
World War and, frozen, has been kept alive all the time and is now
about to make his return. "Hitler said that the Third Reich would
last a thousand years, it seems now we will come to understand what
he meant by that."
Pillar Of Salt is a full color, hardbound, fine art retrospective
of three decades of the work of Visionary Outsider, Expressionist
Eco-feminist artist and writer
Su Zi. Featuring Su Zi's two-dimensional work, the book is divided
into sections of drawings, paintings and prints. Mostly a Southern
artist (American ), the work includes pleine aire botany studies,
and other drawings from life, as well as visionary images in the
form of prints and paintings. To date, this text is the only
catalogue of the work of this sometimes-controversial artist.
Let all hear the story of a fruit that exists there in the Tropic,
a fruit that, when young, is green like the dollar and when it
matures, takes on the color of gold. Let all hear the legendary
history of the banana men, adventurers full of ambition who
traveled in search of fortune... and who found it. On their way,
they killed men, conquered women, tumbled governments and created
an empire the power of which was felt in the entire planet. Let all
hear the story of the Lords of the Tropic. "It is a prolific fruit,
and it will make you rich, if you love it and have luck. But if you
come to it seeking only fortune, you'll meet ruin and damnation.
In this manuscript, Martin Wolfe tells the story of the 81st Troop
Carrier Squadron who, as its name implies, carried and dropped
paratroopers onto the battlefield, often in the face of heavy enemy
fire. Despite sometimes heavy losses in this hazardous and
demanding job, the 81st TCS never wavered. This book relates the
exploits of the 81st, which mirror the combat experience of all
World War II troop carriers.
Diploma Thesis from the year 2001 in the subject Business economics
- Investment and Finance, grade: 1,0, University of Innsbruck
(Architektur/Bauingenieurswesen), language: English, abstract:
Inhaltsangabe: Abstract: Banks are financial intermediaries
originating loans and consequently facing credit risk. Credit risk
can be defined as the risk of losses caused by the default or by
the deterioration in credit quality of a borrower. Default occurs
when a borrower cannot meet his key financial obligations to pay
principal and interest. Banks increasingly recognize the need to
measure and manage the credit risk of the loans they have
originated not only on a loan-by-loan basis but also on a portfolio
basis. A precondition for diversification after the origination of
the loans is their transferability. But as it is wellknown
transferring credit risk of loans is difficult due to severe
adverse selection and moral hazard problems. That is why the use of
existing tools like loan sales has not been very successful in
transferring the credit risk on a broad scale. However, in recent
years, the development of markets for credit securitization and
credit derivatives has provided new tools for managing credit risk.
Credit derivatives are often described as synthetic loans which
reflects only too narrowly their common use and enormous potential.
More broadly defined credit derivatives are sophisticated financial
instruments that enable the unbundling and intermediation of
credit. A risk seller, which is the party seeking credit risk
protection, may want to reduce exposures while maintaining
relationships that may be endangered by selling their loans, reduce
or diversify illiquid exposures, or reduce exposures while avoiding
adverse tax or accounting treatment. A risk buyer, the party
assuming credit risk, may want to diversify credit exposures, get
access to credit markets which are otherwise restricted by
corporate statute or off-limits by regulation, or simply exploit
arbitra
In The Shifts and the Shocks, Martin Wolf - one of the world's most
influential economic commentators and author of Why Globalization
Works - presents his controversial and highly original analysis of
the economic course of the last seven years There have been many
books that have sought to explain the causes and courses of the
financial and economic crisis which began in 2007-8. The Shifts and
the Shocks is not another detailed history of the crisis, but the
most persuasive and complete account yet published of what the
crisis should teach us us about modern economies and economics. The
book identifies the origin of the crisis in the complex interaction
between globalization, hugely destabilizing global imbalances and
our dangerously fragile financial system. In the eurozone, these
sources of instability were multiplied by the tragically defective
architecture of the monetary union. It also shows how much of the
orthodoxy that shaped monetary and financial policy before the
crisis occurred was complacent and wrong. In doing so, it
mercilessly reveals the failures of the financial, political and
intellectual elites who ran the system. The book also examines what
has been done to reform the financial and monetary systems since
the worst of the crisis passed. 'Are we now on a sustainable
course?' Wolf asks. 'The answer is no.' He explains with great
clarity why 'further crises seem certain' and why the management of
the eurozone in particular 'guarantees a huge political crisis at
some point in the future.' Wolf provides far more ambitious and
comprehensive plans for reform than any currently being
implemented. Written with all the intellectual command and
trenchant judgement that have made Martin Wolf one of the world's
most influential economic commentators, The Shifts and the Shocks
matches impressive analysis with no-holds-barred criticism and
persuasive prescription for a more stable future. It is a book
no-one with an interest in global affairs will want to neglect. "We
have been inundated with books about the 'financial' aspects of the
crisis. There have also been many books about specific institutions
or memoirs by retired policy-makers. We need something different.
There are two dimensions of the crisis that have received
surprisingly little treatment. One is the link between developments
in the macro-economy and the behaviour of the financial sector. The
other is the global dimension of the crisis. Both these lie at the
heart of Martin Wolf's analysis of the causes of the crisis and of
his proposals to reduce the risk of another crisis. For these two
reasons this is an important book that will be influential. Most
important of all, it is in my view the right analysis and remedy"
Mervyn King "To think straight about the causes and solutions of
the financial crisis we must reject orthodox assumptions that more
finance and global financial integration are limitlessly
beneficial. The Shifts and the Shocks does just that, providing an
intellectually sparkling and vital account of why the crisis
occurred, and of the radical reforms needed if we are to avoid a
future repeat" Adair Turner "Martin Wolf is unsurpassed in the
world of economic journalists. His superb book may be the best of
all those spawned by the Great Recession. It is analytical and
rigorous without ever succumbing to fatalism or complacency"
Lawrence Summers
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