Spin glasses are disordered magnetic systems that have led to the development of mathematical tools with an array of real-world applications, from airline scheduling to neural networks. Spin Glasses and Complexity offers the most concise, engaging, and accessible introduction to the subject, fully explaining what spin glasses are, why they are important, and how they are opening up new ways of thinking about complexity.This one-of-a-kind guide to spin glasses begins by exp...

In a remarkable career spanning more than six decades, Philip W Anderson has made many fundamental contributions to physics. As codified in his oft-quoted phrase 'More is Different', Anderson has been the most forceful and persuasive proponent of the radical, but now ubiquitous, viewpoint of emergent phenomena: truly fundamental concepts that can and do emerge from studies of Nature at each layer of complexity or energy scale. Anderson's ideas have also extended deeply into other areas of ...

Migration is the most volatile sociopolitical issue of our time, as the current escalation of discourse and action in the United States and Europe concerning walls, border security, refugee camps, and deportations indicates. The essays by the international and interdisciplinary group of scholars assembled in this volume offer critical filters suggesting that this escalation and its historical precedents do not preclude redemptive counterstrategies. Encoded in narratives of affiliation and ...

Music Is My Life is the first comprehensive analysis of Louis Armstrong's autobiographical writings (including his books, essays, and letters) and their relation to his musical and visual performances. Combining approaches from autobiography theory, literary criticism, intermedia studies, cultural history, and musicology, Daniel Stein reconstructs Armstrong's performances of his life story across various media and for different audiences, complicating the monolithic and hagiograph...

***SILVER MEDALIST - GLOBAL BOOKS AWARD 2023***If you’re worried, if you’re stressed, if you’re scared…that just means you know what’s coming next.This book isn’t going to help you stop worrying about climate change. We should all be worrying.But if you are the type of person who feels that action is the cure for anxiety, this book is for you.What do we really need to worry about? How can we actually prepare? And how can we take pos...

***GOLD MEDALIST - GLOBAL BOOKS AWARD***Safe. Secure. Sustainable.Taking control of your water supply is a wise choice; now, it's also an easy choice.Whether your goal is saving the planet, cutting down your expenses, or preparing for an emergency, harvesting rainwater is the perfect way to prepare for the future. Anyone can collect clean water that hasn't been chemically disinfected, pumped from an unreliable well, or shipped in ...

Take a deep breath…This is going to be easy. I promise.Yellow leaves, wilted flowers, and dead plants bagged up and discreetly thrown out with the trash. Those are all things of the past.From now on, you’ll be living in a green oasis, surrounded by houseplants working tirelessly to detoxify your air and reduce your stress levels, all while creating an artistic indoor space you are proud of.Covering all the essentials of keep...

Water isn't just a resource; it is your family's life source.Taking control of your water supply is a wise choice; now, it's also an easy choice.Whether your goal is saving the planet, cutting down your expenses, or preparing for an emergency, harvesting rainwater is the perfect way to prepare for the future. Even a beginner can collect clean water that hasn't been chemically disinfected, pumped from an old well, or piped in from who-knows-where.

This volume examines the emergence of modern popular culture between the 1830s and the 1860s, when popular storytelling meant serial storytelling and when new printing techniques and an expanding infrastructure brought serial entertainment to the masses. Analyzing fiction and non-fiction narratives from the United States, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Turkey, and Brazil, Popular Culture—Serial Culture offers a transnational perspective on border-crossing serial genres f...

This book uniquely combines cutting-edge medical, psychological, and sociocultural topics pertinent to eating disorders. In the medical realm, the book focuses on Eating Disorders’ newly investigated associations with ADHD and sleep disorders, and on innovative treatments of osteoporosis in anorexia nervosa. Novel contributions in the psychological realm address families’ trans-generational transmission of Eating Disorders-related difficulties and novel internet-based treatments for such f...

An excellent series presenting top lecturers from the best institute for complex systems. Topics covered include: stochastic processes; fluid flow; pattern formation; information-based complexity; motor system problems; and the nature of adaptive change.

This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just "stopping the shooting." What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward to end current hostilities and those that look ahead to prevent their recurrence?To answer that question, a wide range of case studies is marshaled to explore relevant peacemaking si...