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Cybernetic Revolution And Global Aging - Humankind On The Way To Cybernetic Society, Or The Next Hundred Years

by Andrey Korotayev, Anton Grinin e Leonid Grinin

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 This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day.
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Navigating Complexity In Big History - Exploring Periodization Across Cosmic And Biosocial Dimensions

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 <p>This book explores periodization in Big History against the background of complexity growth across the Universe, on our planet, and in biological, social, and cultural systems. It traces the accelerating rise in complexity throughout history and the major historical transformations involved in the evolution of life, humans, and civilization. It draws on concepts from physics and evolutionary biology to offer potential models of the underlying mechanisms driving this acceleration, along with potential clues to how it might end.</p><p>In the editors’ introduction (Chapter 1), the effort to periodize is placed within the historical context along with considerations from complexity science. Subsequent chapters explore various aspects of periodization and complexity by (a) identifying symmetrical cosmic and biosocial trends, (b) testing rigor and criteria for evaluating periodization, (c) attempting to integrate different approaches through multiple perspectives, (d) proposing different strategies for determining geometric patterns in terrestrial bio-social evolution, and (e) applying the traditional threshold model to gain insights into possible future pathways. A concluding chapter identifies commonalities, research gaps, and possible approaches to integration as the current state of the world system rapidly evolves, while also offering a deeper understanding of complexity dynamics and historical processes. Each chapter includes an extensive bibliography, allowing a deeper and more detailed examination of the issues covered.</p>
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Global Energy Transition And Sustainable Development Challenges, Vol. 2 - Scenarios, Materials, And Technology

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 <p>This two-volume book presents the challenges of the global energy transition, offering a comprehensive exploration of the policies and drivers shaping the pace and trajectory of this transformation. Highlighting regional development, the book shows how different models and scenarios of energy transition emerge. It discusses important factors, such as materials and technologies, shedding light on the opportunities and constraints for the energy transition.</p><p>Global warming and climate change influenced the change in people’s consciousness and their awareness of the need for more limited use of hydrocarbon resources. Changes in weather conditions, rising sea levels, and destructive climate events such as hurricanes, forest fires, droughts, floods, etc. have become more frequent. Many countries around the world, reacting to these changes, have developed long-term plans to actively replace fossil fuels - gas, oil, and coal with renewable energy sources, mainly solar and wind. However, the low replacement rates observed in the global energy sector over the past 30 years raise the question of how far the decarbonization scenarios and models being implemented by many countries bring us closer to the ultimate goal of creating an economy with a low carbon footprint.</p><p>Seeking answers, the volumes feature 22 chapters split across the two books, which in detail discuss various aspects of the energy transition and their impact on the sustainability of economic development and the future of energy. This second volume, "Scenarios, Materials, and Technology," explores mechanisms and technological drivers for a sustainable transition in 12 chapters, from local industries to national economies.</p>
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Global Energy Transition And Sustainable Development Challenges, Vol. 1 - Models And Regions

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 <p>This two-volume book presents the challenges of the global energy transition, offering a comprehensive exploration of the policies and drivers shaping the pace and trajectory of this transformation. Highlighting regional development, the book shows how different models and scenarios of energy transition emerge. It discusses important factors, such as materials and technologies, shedding light on the opportunities and constraints for the energy transition.</p><p>Global warming and climate change influenced the change in people’s consciousness and their awareness of the need for more limited use of hydrocarbon resources. Changes in weather conditions, rising sea levels, and destructive climate events such as hurricanes, forest fires, droughts, floods, etc. have become more frequent. Many countries around the world, reacting to these changes, have developed long-term plans to actively replace fossil fuels - gas, oil, and coal with renewable energy sources, mainly solar and wind. However, the low replacement rates observed in the global energy sector over the past 30 years raise the question of how far the decarbonization scenarios and models being implemented by many countries bring us closer to the ultimate goal of creating an economy with a low carbon footprint.</p><p>Seeking answers, the volumes feature 22 chapters split across the two books, which in detail discuss various aspects of the energy transition and their impact on the sustainability of economic development and the future of energy. This first volume, "Models and Regions," focuses on regional disparities and economic drivers, presenting case studies from different regions in 10 chapters.</p>
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Cybernetic Revolution And Global Aging - Humankind On The Way To Cybernetic Society, Or The Next Hundred Years

by Andrey Korotayev, Anton Grinin e Leonid Grinin

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 This book explores the global technological transformations that have shaped development of society for eons, from the emergence of Homo sapiens to the modern day.
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Global Challenges Of Climate Change, Vol.2 - Risk Assessment, Political And Social Dimension Of The Green Energy Transition

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 International renowned scholars discuss the inherent risks that arise in consequence of the transition to the intensive use of low carbon energy sources and global warming, risks related to food and water security, as well as risks of social and political conflicts.
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Capitalism And Migration - The Rise Of Hegemony In The World-System

by Nestor Rodriguez

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 This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.
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Reconsidering The Limits To Growth - A Report To The Russian Association Of The Club Of Rome

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 <p>Echoing the famous "The Limits to Growth" report from 1972, this edited volume analyses the changes that the World System has undergone to the present, on the fiftieth anniversary of the original report. During the past fifty years, both the concept and understanding of these limits have significantly changed. This book highlights that the evolution of the World System has approached a new critical milestone, moving into a fundamentally new phase of historical development, when the old economic and social technologies no longer work as efficiently as before or even begin to function counterproductively, which leads the World System into a systemic crisis. </p><p>The book discusses the transition of human society to a new phase state, the shape of which has not yet been determined. New approaches are needed for both, for the analysis of the global situation, and for forecasts. The book is based on an integrated approach including the world-systems, historical and evolutionaryperspectives, as well as a systematic view of society, in which changes in one subsystem cause transformations in others. Through mathematical modeling, it defines the main vectors of transformations of the World System; makes a detailed forecast of the development of all the main subsystems of the society and the World System, while presenting horizons of changes from short-term to ultra-long-term; and presents different development scenarios as well as recommendations on how to achieve a transition to the most favorable scenario. </p><p>The book will appeal to members and followers of the Club of Rome, policy-makers, as well as to scholars from various disciplines interested in a better understanding of the World System evolution, global futures, development studies, climate change, and future societies. </p><div></div>
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World Statehood - The Future Of World Politics

by Heikki Patomaki

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 <p>Developing a processual understanding of world statehood, this book combines history, political philosophy, explanatory social science, and critical-reflexive futures studies. While doing so, it poses essential questions about world political integration, especially (i) whether and to what degree elements of world statehood exist today, (ii) whether the development of further elements of world statehood in some stronger sense can be seen as a tendential direction of history, and (iii) whether, and under what conditions, a world state could be viable?</p><p>The book is organised into three parts. The first part, "Cosmopolitical processes", explores whether world history as a whole is directed towards planetary integration, focusing on the emergence of cosmopolitanism, the world economy, and the peace problematic. The second part of the book, "Reflexive futures and agency", focuses on the contemporary 21st-century processes of world history in terms of how non-fixed pasts, changingcontexts, and anticipations of the future interact. The author explains how certain rational directionality is compatible with the possibility of deglobalisation, disintegrative tendencies, and "gridlock" in global governance in the key areas of the economy, security, and environment. In the final part of the book, "World statehood and beyond", the author develops further the processual and open-ended account of the formation of interconnected elements of world statehood by discussing the cases of a global greenhouse gas tax and world parliament. He also analyses the feasibility of different paths towards global-scale integration and the potential for conflicts, divisions, and disintegration.</p><p>This book is a must-read for students and scholars of political science, international relations, history, sociology, political philosophy, and futures studies interested in a better understanding of world statehood, world political integration, as well as the future of world politics.</p><br>
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Origin Of Language And Consciousness - How Social Orders And Communicative Concerns Gave Rise To Speech And Cognitive Abilities

by Nikolai S. Rozov

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 <p>This book presents an evolutionary theory of the origin and step-by-step development of linguistic structures and cognitive abilities from the early stages of anthropogenesis to the Upper Paleolithic. Emphasizing the social nature of the human mind and using an extended version of C.Hempel''s explanatory logic, the author proves that language and consciousness emerged and evolved through the daily efforts of our ancestors to overcome mutual misunderstandings in increasingly complex social orders with increasing tasks on memory, thinking, and normative regulation of behavior, with the addition of new and new communicative concerns.</p><p>The book addresses questions such as the following:</p><ul><li>What unique social conditions led to the emergence of the first protosyllables and protowords?</li><li>What steps enabled the crossing of the "linguistic Rubicon" (between animal communication and human speech)?</li><li>Why were syllables and phonemes needed? </li><li>How did ourancestors overcome the difficulties of misunderstanding?</li><li>How, when, and why did ancient people learn to speak in turns? Why did they begin to talk about past and distant events? </li><li>What is consciousness and how did it evolve along with language?</li><li>How many original languages were there and why are there roughly 200 philas (language macrofamilies)?</li><li>How and why did the number of languages and the degree of their complexity change in pre-written history?</li><li>Did the Romance languages really evolve from Latin?</li></ul><p>Accordingly, the book will appeal to scholars in various disciplines who are interested in a better understanding of the cognitive aspects of anthropogenesis and the ancient origins of language and consciousness.</p>
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Capitalism And Migration - The Rise Of Hegemony In The World-System

by Nestor Rodriguez

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 This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.
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Global Challenges Of Climate Change, Vol.2 - Risk Assessment, Political And Social Dimension Of The Green Energy Transition

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 International renowned scholars discuss the inherent risks that arise in consequence of the transition to the intensive use of low carbon energy sources and global warming, risks related to food and water security, as well as risks of social and political conflicts.
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Capitalism And Migration - The Rise Of Hegemony In The World-System

by Nestor Rodriguez

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 This book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system.
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Global Challenges Of Climate Change, Vol.1 - Green Energy, Decarbonization, Forecasting The Green Transition

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 <div>This two-volume book offers a broad range of discussions on the immense challenge of climate change, one confronting every country on the planet and forcing them to find a path towards a sustainable future that will not have disastrous consequences in relation to our chances of survival. It also presents a snapshot of the status quo, which reflects all the decisions and measures taken to date. Analyzing the consequences of the steps that will shape our future, the two volumes also reflect on important decisions at a global level that have already been taken. </div><div><br></div><div>In this first volume on green energy, decarbonization, and forecasting the green transition, respected international scholars analyze various technical aspects of and alternatives to the so-called "green energy transition," as well as measures intended to help reach the ambitious goal of net zero emissions within the next thirty years. Throughout the 13 chapters, the authors forecast future scenarios for the use of alternative energy sources. Additionally, the book discusses questions regarding the suitability of current measures and presents innovative alternatives that have remained largely overlooked.</div><div><br></div><div>This book is a must-read for scholars, researchers and students, as well as policymakers interested in a better understanding of climate change, present scenarios, and alternative solutions and measures.</div><div><br></div>
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Global Challenges Of Climate Change, Vol.2 - Risk Assessment, Political And Social Dimension Of The Green Energy Transition

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 International renowned scholars discuss the inherent risks that arise in consequence of the transition to the intensive use of low carbon energy sources and global warming, risks related to food and water security, as well as risks of social and political conflicts.
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Power Concentration In World Politics - The Political Economy Of Systemic Leadership, Growth, And Conflict

by William R. Thompson

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 This book discusses the role of space, time and cyclical behavior in world politics. It also highlights the economic preconditions of systemic leadership, such as economic monopoly of new technologies and energy, which underlie the system leaderâ€™s material advantage over others.
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Novel Lanthanum Zirconate-Based Thermal Barrier Coatings For Energy Applications

by Jing Zhang, Xingye Guo, Yeon-Gil Jung e Zhe Lu

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 This book describes the latest developments of lanthanum zirconate based thermal barrier coatings. The physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of lanthanum zirconate powder and coatings are critically evaluated.
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Novel Lanthanum Zirconate-Based Thermal Barrier Coatings For Energy Applications

by Jing Zhang, Xingye Guo, Yeon-Gil Jung e Zhe Lu

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 This book describes the latest developments of lanthanum zirconate based thermal barrier coatings. The physical, thermal, and mechanical properties of lanthanum zirconate powder and coatings are critically evaluated.
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The 21st Century Singularity And Global Futures - A Big History Perspective

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 The fourth part presents philosophical perspectives on the potential deeper meaning and implications of the trend towards singularity, while the fifth and last part discusses the implications of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).
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Handbook Of Microwave And Radar Engineering

by Anatoly Belous

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 This comprehensive handbook provides readers with a single-source reference to the theoretical fundamentals, physical mechanisms and principles of operation of all known microwave devices and various radars.
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The Evolution Of Social Institutions - Interdisciplinary Perspectives

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 Further, the transformation of social institutions and relations between them is taking place not only within individual societies but also globally, as institutions may be trans-societal, and even institutions that operate in one society can arise as a reaction to trans-societal trends and demands.
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Global Brain Singularity - Universal History, Future Evolution And Humanityâ€™S Dialectical Horizon

by Cadell Last

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 This book introduces readers to global brain singularity through a logical meditation on the temporal dynamics of the universal process.
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The East Asian World-System - Climate And Dynastic Change

by Eugene N. Anderson

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 This book studies the East Asian world-system and its dynastic cycles as they were influenced by climate and demographic change, diseases, the expansion of trade, and the rise of science and technology.
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Native American Racism In The Age Of Donald Trump - Historical And Contemporary Perspectives

by Darren R. Reid

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 This book examines the resurgence of anti-Native Americanism since the start of Donald Trumpâ€™s bid for the US Presidency.
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