Every crisis has signals. Most of us miss them.Born in a country that no longer exists, former senior international development practitioner Andrei Muntean has spent nearly three decades navigating crises across more than twenty countries on five continents. He has sat at tables where the question of whether there would be war or not was being decided. He has managed field missions in post-conflict environments and built national institutions from scratch where no laws, no preceden...

Can artificial intelligence really beat the casino?AI can analyze millions of results, calculate probabilities, detect patterns, simulate betting systems and process gambling data faster than any human. But can that computational power actually overcome the mathematics behind games of chance?Can AI Beat the Casino? explores what happens when artificial intelligence meets roulette, blackjack, slot machines, baccarat, sports betting and lotteries.The book examines how...

What if the dinosaurs did not completely disappear 66 million years ago?Science tells us that non-avian dinosaurs vanished during the catastrophic Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction. But determining exactly when the final population of a species disappeared is far more difficult than identifying its youngest known fossil.Did Dinosaurs Survive? investigates one of the most fascinating possibilities in natural history: could isolated populations of recognizable ...

Characteristic Features• Includes nearly 4,000 linear partial differential equations (PDEs) with solutions• Presents solutions to numerous problems relevant to heat and mass transfer, wave theory, hydrodynamics, aerodynamics, elasticity, acoustics, electrodynamics, diffraction theory, quantum mechanics, chemical engineering sciences, electrical engineering, and other fields• Outlines basic analytical methods for solving various problems in science a...

In a world where some are Marked—chosen by fate to love only once—our heroine is given a Mark that ties her to a love she does not yet know. But fate is not kind. The man she begins to fall for is not the one destiny has chosen for her. And in this world, to love against fate is to invite destruction.She must decide: Does she follow destiny, or does she fight it?

"The most important, most influential and most perfectly realized Russian novel written in the 20th century." ― The New York Times Book ReviewSet in 1905 in St. Petersburg, a city in the throes of sociopolitical conflict, the novel follows university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov, who has gotten entangled with a revolutionary terrorist organization with plans to assassinate a government official—Nikolai's own father, Apollon Apoll...

What kind of God would send his own Son to die? Jesus: The Unique God takes that ancient question seriously and arrives at an answer most readers will not expect: The Father did not send another to the cross. He went himself. Working from the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament and using the names of God in their original form--Yahweh, Elohim, the Set-apart Spirit--the book argues that Jesus and Yahweh are not two divine persons but one divine identity made knowable in two modes. The C...

Written at the height of Stalin's first "five-year plan" for the industrialization of Soviet Russia and the parallel campaign to collectivize Soviet agriculture, Andrei Platonov's The Foundation Pit registers a dissonant mixture of utopian longings and despair. Furthermore, it provides essential background to Platonov's parody of the mainstream Soviet "production" novel, which is widely recognized as one of the masterpieces of twentieth-century Russian prose. In addition to an overview of ...

The NPR reporter offers an "engaging and enlightening" window into late-90s Cuba, "from the cafes in Havana to the mysterious lairs of Santiago de Cuba" ( Kirkus Reviews).For NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, reporting from Cuba on the eve of Pope John Paul II's 1998 visit was an opportunity to understand the realities of life in a country that has long been the subject of stereotypes and misconceptions. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Cuba was t...

After enlisting in a revolutionary terrorist organization, the university student Nikolai Apollonovich Ableukhov is entrusted with a highly dangerous mission: to plant a bomb and assassinate a major government figure. But the real central character of the novel is the city of Petersburg at the beginning of the twentieth century, caught in the grip of political agitation and social unrest. Intertwining the worlds of history and myth, and parading a cast of unforgettable characters, Petersbu...

Washington’s eight years of preparing Ukraine and its armed forces for war with Russia was a mistake of historic proportions, due to its misperception of American military power based on its 1991 Gulf War victory against a minor military player. Washington believed its own propaganda about crippling sanctions on Russia, about the viability of its Ukrainian proxy army, and the economic and military weakness of Russia, spelling doom for the American empire and its “rules-based order”. By 202...

A "brilliant" novel of Elizabeth Bathory, the notorious sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat who bathed in the blood of virgins ( St. Petersburg Times).Turmoil reigns in post-Soviet Hungary when journalist Drake Bathory-Kereshtur returns from America to grapple with his family history. He's haunted by the legacy of his ancestor, the notorious sixteenth-century Countess Elizabeth Bathory, who is said to have murdered more than 650 young virgins and bathed ...