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The reference text focuses on the principles of designing sustainable electronics, including considerations for reducing the environmental impact of electronics during the design phase. It covers topics such as product life cycle assessment, eco-design, and green materials selection.

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures have gained significant attention in recent years due to their applications in various fields. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in ZnO-based nanostructures for energy harvesting, sensing, and environmental remediation applications.

This text, featuring contributions from leading experts, synthesizes foundational knowledge and cutting-edge research, thereby bridging the gap between theory and practice. With an interdisciplinary scope, the book addresses both academic and industrial perspectives.

This book overviews contemporary international petrochemicals business and explains related managerial complexities, business challenges, and opportunities to enhance competitiveness. It enables the readers to explore critical issues facing the industry, such as profitability and investment economics, optimizing business processes.

Leibniz, this study argues, is the genuine initiator of German Idealism. His analysis of freedom as spontaneity and the relations he establishes among freedom, justice, and progress underlie Kant's ideas of rightful interaction and his critiques of Enlightened absolutism. Freedom and Perfection offers a historical examination of perfectionism, its political implications and transformations in German thought between 1650 and 1850. Douglas Moggach demonstrates how Kant's followers elaborated a new ethical-political approach, 'post-Kantian perfectionism', which, in the context of the French Revolution, promoted the conditions for free activity rather than state-directed happiness. Hegel, the Hegelian School, and Marx developed this approach further with reference to the historical process as the history of freedom. Highlighting the decisive importance of Leibniz for subsequent theorists of the state, society, and economy, Freedom and Perfection offers a new interpretation of important schools of modern thought and a vantage point for contemporary political debates.

Everyone is exposed to manipulation daily, and everyone manipulates too. The impact of manipulations in personal, social, and political life is enormous. But which influences count as manipulations, and how should they be assessed morally? This book offers the first comprehensive philosophical theory of the meaning and moral status of manipulation.

This book covers the mathematical methods needed to understand life dynamics, focusing on cellular processes, adaptation, morphogenesis, and the origin of life. It is indispensable for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers, interested in theory and modeling in biology, and how these intersect with mathematics and physics.

Engineers, designers, applied mathematicians, physicists, and historians of science can now directly access James Clerk Maxwell's seminal ideas in structural mechanics. Annotations of his texts combined with summaries of the latest research show how this often-overlooked aspect of Maxwell's work has immediate relevance for 21st-century design.

"We are all parties to a social contract and obligated under it. But how is such an agreement possible in a society riven by deep moral disagreement? This book explains the social-contract tradition from its beginnings in the English Revolution, through Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau to its culmination in Rawls"--

This important volume provides the first comprehensive historical discussion of the institutional dimension of G. W. F. Hegel's political thought. It also provides an accessible entry point into the Philosophy of Right and sheds new light on the history of democratic theory in early nineteenth-century Europe.

Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automata down to the figural assimilation between body parts and products of human craft in Greek and Roman medicine.

We can introspect. We can look inwards, as it were, at our own minds and represent what is occurring there. Philosophers and psychologists have speculated about how we do this, but there has been little exploration of the wider theoretical landscape in the area. Could other beings, such as non-human animals and artificial intelligences, introspect too? What forms might their introspection take? Do some humans introspect in nonstandard ways, and can humans develop new introspective powers through techniques such as meditation?This book, a reprint of a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies, explores this neglected landscape. It opens with a target article by the editors, which proposes an ambitious research programme on possible forms of introspection and provides maps and conceptual tools to get the project under way. This is followed by fifteen commentaries from leading philosophers and cognitive scientists. Topics discussed include the experimental study of introspection, introspection in animals, LLMs, and group minds, and the effects on introspection of meditation and certain psychiatric conditions. The volume concludes with a reply by the editors, which revises and extends their original proposal.The Landscape of Introspection offers an informed, contemporary, and challenging view of what introspection is - and could be.

This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the captivating and diverse photonic systems seen in nature and explores how we take inspiration from them to create new photonic materials and devices. The author walks readers through examples taken from nature, delves into their characterization and performance, and describes the unique

Der Band enthält Analysen zur Geschichte und Kultur zweier Nachbarstaaten, ihrer Verflechtungen und Gegensätze von 1848/49 über den Ersten Weltkrieg, Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus bis in die Gegenwart. Die Beiträge verbindet die Frage, wie Italiener:innen und Deutsche Geschichte zu "machen" oder ihr zu entgehen versuchten und wie sie sie reflektierten. Sie reichen von ironischer Brechung der Nationsbildung im Roman, von Frauen und Monarchen als Akteure 1848/49, über Divenkult vor 1914, die Wahrnehmung des frühen Faschismus durch deutsche Juden und den Versuch, jüdische Reformpädagogik von 1933 trotz Staatsrassismus in Italien fortzusetzen, bis hin zu SS-Propaganda im besetzten Norditalien und dem Leben italienischer Zwangsarbeiter in Berlin. Für die Zeit nach 1945 geht es um Demokratisierungen, auch in den Geschichtswissenschaften, Italiens Prägung durch kommunistische Kultur, die viele Deutsche anzog, den Vergleich Süditalien-Ostdeutschland und die Erinnerung an Mussolini heute.

Your year-long stargazing companion. This illustrated monthly guide to exploring the stars and planets is designed for naked-eye astronomy -- perfect for both enthusiasts and beginners. Eco-friendly materials and a new and improved design for 2026.