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Henry Mayr-Harting explores the intellectual culture underpinning Ottonian rule in tenth-century Germany, as seen through a surviving account of the life of Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne (935-65). Written shortly after Bruno's death by the otherwise obscure monk Ruotger, this biography examines the political and scholarly achievements of one of the...

A great variety of complex phenomena in many scientific fields exhibit power-law behaviour, reflecting a hierarchical or fractal structure. Many of these phenomena seem to be susceptible to description using approaches drawn from thermodynamics or statistical mechanics, particularly approaches involving the maximization of entropy. During recent...

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A sweeping account of neoliberal governmental restructuring across the world, The Logic of Discipline offers a powerful analysis of how this undemocratic model is unraveling in the face of a monumental-and ongoing-failure of the market....

An Oral HistoryThis book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter....