The first part of the volume contains the invited and contributed lectures at the Workshop covering such modern topics of Mathematical Physics as conformal field theory, non-cumulative geometry, integrable models, duality in string theory and gauge theory. The second part contains an extended version of the contribution of Victor Kac based on a ......
The pioneering essays in this volume explore national security challenges posed by new technologies and examine some ongoing efforts to understand and mitigate their potential negative effects. The authors, drawn from among a roster of international scholars, approach these issues from different yet ultimately complementary angles. Turkish scholar ......
Orientalism, The Cannibal Club And Victorian Ideas Of Sex, Race And Gender
New Perspectives on Sir Richard Burton by Dr. John Wallen provides exactly that: a fresh perspective from which to view one of the leading explorers and writers of the Victorian age. Burton has frequently been vilified by postcolonial writers as somehow an archetypal representative of the colonial mentality that reached out to grab an often ......
Orientalism, the Cannibal Club and Victorian Ideas of Sex, Race and Gender
A research monograph on the mid-Victorian rise of Sir Richard Burton, Orientalism and the phenomenon of the Cannibal Club is overdue as, although it has been dealt with superficially many times, there has never been a book length treatment which focuses clearly on the whole arc of its historical development and its relevance to the undercutting of ......
New Perspectives on Intelligence Gathering brings together an unusually wide range of perspectives on intelligence gathering, including but not limited to cyber security, across the vast Eurasian expanse. The volume comprises essays by a group of distinguished international authors from academic, journalistic, and military backgrounds, with ......
Understanding the New Roman Missal and its English Translation
The new Roman Missal is the third typical edition of the Roman Missal (Missale Romanum - editio typica tertia) promulgated by Pope John Paul II in the Jubilee Year 2000 and published in 2002. The English translation of this Missal is coming very soon. For a long time the English speaking believers have used and heard the words of this Missal which ......
Local government in the New England states has historically been regarded as a style of government that most closely embodies the spirit of American democracy. Although models of local government vary from one town to the next, the common thread which unites all New England towns is that the people are empowered to choose their own form of ......
This collaborative book by five distinguished scholars in overlapping fields suggests that fruitful living is extremely hard work and that social harmony requires the unlocking and the emancipation of the human brain - the core cerebral source for advancing human coherence, connectivity, cohesion and civility. The stakes are simply too high for ......
Black-Palestinian Solidarity Movements in the United States
Soon after a series of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, African-American protestors there and Palestinian protestors in the West Bank began to include the slogan "From Ferguson to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime" in their public statements. In Neither Thugs nor Terrorists, Randa Serhan uses cutting edge first-hand research to explore how these two ......
