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A global conspiracy. A man on the run. What happens when diplomacy fails? In the aftermath of a global pandemic, a beautiful and charismatic human rights activist is murdered, live on the internet, at the British Embassy in Paris. It is a mystery that no one wants solved. But, wh...en governments refuse to investigate, Ambassador Ed Barnes is determined to find out the truth himself. The quest for answers plunges Barnes into a world of cyber terrorists and warlords, taking him to Oxford, Copenhagen, the mountains of Snowdonia and Lebanon, where he picks up the trail of a shocking conspiracy. This is an international crisis - but also a personal one. Only Barnes can save his family, his diplomatic service and even his country. But can he save himself? An unputdownable thriller, written with unique insight into the highest levels of diplomacy. From the former ambassador and No.10 foreign policy advisor Tom Fletcher, this is an urgent 21st-century thriller into a shadowy world that now shapes all of our lives.
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Emanuel Derman was a quantitative analyst (Quant) at Goldman Sachs, one of the financial engineers whose mathematical models became crucial for Wall Street.
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Ecological Economics for the Anthropocene provides an urgently needed alternative to the long-dominant neoclassical economic paradigm of the free market, which has focused myopically--even fatally--on the boundless production and consumption of goods and services without heed to ...environmental consequences. The emerging paradigm for ecological economics championed in this new book recenters economics on the recognition of the fundamental physical and biological conditions for living on the Earth, requiring a deep reconfiguration of the goals of the economy, how we understand the fundamentals of human prosperity, and, ultimately, how we assess humanity's place in the community of beings.
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This edited volume explores a wide array of ethical issues surrounding the advent of cyberwarfare. The moral complexities presented by cyberwar are many and they challenge our traditional understandings of just war theory and the ethics of war. This volume directly addresses the ...pressing need for serious scholarly analysis of this new form of warfare.
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The Handbook of Applied Systems Science is organized around both methodological approaches in systems science, and the substantive topic to which these approaches have been applied. The volume begins with an essay that introduces three system science methods: agent-based modeling..., system dynamics, and network analysis. The remainder of the volume is organized around three broad topics: (1) health and human development, (2) environment and sustainability, and (3) communities and social change. Each section begins with a brief introductory essay, and includes nine chapters that demonstrate the application of system science methods to address research questions in these areas. This handbook will be useful for work in Public Health, Sociology, Criminal Justice, Social Work, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Urban Studies, and Psychology.
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Onlybasic algebra is needed forthis introduction tothe uses of probability and statistics in the physical sciences. An outstanding and ambitious textbook for nonscience majors. American Journal of Physics. 1996 edition.
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Systems, Self-Organisation and Information presents ground-breaking research in complex systems theory. Building upon foundational concepts, the volume introduces a theory of self-organization, providing definitions of concepts including system, structure, organization, functiona...lity, and boundary
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This book presents collaborative research presented by experts in the field of nonlinear science provides the reader with contemporary, cutting-edge, research works that bridge the gap between theory and device realizations of nonlinear phenomena.
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Network theory is a major topic of interdisciplinary research which covers diverse areas including physics, mathematics and sociology. This book covers all the basics and the most commonly used concepts in the field, provides examples of their applications in solving practical pr...oblems, and clear indications on how to analyse their results.
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This book explains how the methodology of systems analysis and mathematical methods of control theory (including game theory and graph theory) can be applied to the area of organizational management. The theory presented extends the traditional approach of management science by i...ntroducing the optimization and game-theoretical tools for systematic accounting of the special nature of a human being as a control object. The authors use formal methods to construct robust and efficient decision-making procedures.
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