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‘Mesoscale Modelling for Meteorological and Air Pollution Applications’ combines fundamental and practical aspects of mesoscale air pollution and meteorological modelling, including applications and evaluation approaches.

A powerful love story set in the class-conscious Tsarist Russia of the early 19th century. It embraces every level of that society – serf, provincial, aristocrat – in verse which is by turns beautiful, witty, wickedly perceptive and always readable.

Outlines a fresh and coherent framework, reviewing Akhmatova's oeuvre in its totality for the first time.

The proposed book illustrates the decline of community planning for healthy living and outlines measures that can be reintroduced to foster active lifestyles.

This book introduces a conceptually rich and innovative new framework for the ethics of nonviolence by drawing from Dostoevsky’s “Legend of the Grand Inquisitor.” It offers fresh insights into civil resistance and political theory.

‘Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times’ presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments – Athletic Leadership. Athletic CEOs are not humble or empathic; their leadership is grounded in a combination of toughness and adaptability. They deliver superior performance and transform their companies, employees and near-environments by systematically applying a set of meta-practices.

Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments – athletic leadership – that delivers superior results in a specific context, that is, one of fast obsolescence, high turbulence, intense government interference, mediocre levels of human capital development, and traditionally high levels of managerial control.

“Gaucho Dialogues on Leadership and Management” analyzes Latin American militias as organizations, highlighting the elements that best fit people who see themselves as members of groups—a description that fits the vast majority of the world. Among militias, loyalty largely overrides merit and can align a people into highly effective action, a characteristic that business organizations wish to promote.

This book examines Kripke’s influential interpretation of Wittgenstein’s later philosophy, as presented in his celebrated book Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (1982). It analyses the sceptical challenge to meaning and rule-following, clarifies its implications and surveys the major responses developed since the 1980s, offering a comprehensive reassessment of Kripke’s Wittgenstein.

Jean Lescure’s General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It was updated periodically through five editions and now appears in English for the first time.

This study examines the perplexing reasons for the Arab world's developmental descent from the pinnacle of Arab socialism to its present desolate condition, focusing on Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.

Ali Kadri examines how over the last three decades the Arab world has undergone a process of developmental descent, or de-development, under the combined barrage of wars and neoliberal policies.