An integrated quantitative framework for understanding the dynamics of collective actionCollective action has been a fundamental aspect of human societies throughout history, from building irrigation systems and defenses in Neolithic times to coordinated disaster relief and scientific collaborations today. In this book, Sergey Gavrilets explains when and why groups of people cooperate, presenting a quantitative framework that unifies game theory with models of soci...

December 24, 2018, Moscow. Irina Akhmatova — a twenty-nine-year-old restaurant manager, wife, and mother — vanishes after arranging a ride through BlaBlaCar. The investigator discovers that three separate accounts on the platform, each with a different name and phone number, all trace back to a single device and a single IP address. Highway cameras track the suspect's car across hundreds of kilometers, digital forensics strip away every alias, and a coordinated arrest in Vladimir brings th...

Saint Petersburg, November 2019. A respected university historian and Chevalier of the Legion of Honor is pulled from the icy Moika River clutching a backpack filled with human remains. A veteran investigator uncovers the gruesome truth behind a decorated professor's double life — years of abuse hidden behind academic prestige, a murdered graduate student, and a narcissist who believed the laws of man did not apply to him. As the case dismantles the myth of genius excusing violence, the de...

Engineering of Point Defects in Solids: A Thermodynamic Approach to the Physics of Semiconductors covers the theoretical and experimental thermodynamics and kinetics of defect formations in solids, including the formation of complex defects from simple ones. The book describes point defects (vacancies, antistructural, interstitial atoms, and impurities) while also providing algorithms for calculating their defect concentrations, conductivity, and stoichiometric composition. Doping of a sub...

Moscow, November 2012. A quiet corporate lawyer named Dmitry Vinogradov walks into the offices of the pharmaceutical company Rigla, greets his colleagues with a polite "Good morning," and opens fire with two shotguns and 230 rounds of ammunition. Six people die; one survives with permanent injuries. Security guards tackle him while he is reloading. Veteran investigator Colonel Volkov — "the Wolfhound" — must reconstruct the mind of a meticulous killer who trained at shooting ranges for mon...

July 2018. A car riddled with bullets on the Rostov-Taganrog highway. A young mother dead inside. Her wounded father in shock. Witnesses say the shooter wore a police uniform. The Wolfhound takes on a case that strikes at the heart of law enforcement — a killer who used the authority of a badge to execute his target. The trail leads through personal vendettas and systemic abuse of power.Book 3 in The Wolfhound Files series.

The book provides a deep analysis of the properties of individual cascades of RF receivers, their design implementation, optimization of characteristics to achieve the highest transfer coefficient and minimum introduced distortions. Particular attention is paid to the characteristics of the preselector, which determines the sensitivity of the receiver, selects the operating frequency band and suppresses spurious channels. Depending on the range of operating frequencies, the bandwidth of th...

An ancient artifact.A forgotten code.A discovery capable of changing humanity forever.While traveling through Guatemala, technology researcher Javier discovers a mysterious Maya figurine unlike anything he has ever seen. What begins as a simple 3D scan soon draws him into a dangerous search connected to lost knowledge hidden deep within the ruins of an ancient civilization.Together with archaeologists, scientists, and explorers from around the world, Javier fo...

Samara, November 2014. A twenty-two-year-old woman drives out in her white Hyundai and disappears. Her phone goes dead. Then fake messages start arriving — someone pretending to be her. The Wolfhound traces digital breadcrumbs through her social circle and uncovers a devastating betrayal: the killer wasn't a stranger. It was someone Viktoria trusted completely. A gripping first-person account of a real missing persons case that became a murder investigation — and a reminder that the most d...

Uritsky, People’s Commissary of the Northern Commune, and a leading spirit of the Che-Ka of Petrograd, was assassinated on August 17, 1918, by a Socialist ex-student named Kannegiesser, who during the war had been a military cadet. In the official report of the assassination it was said: Leonid Kannegiesser asserts that he killed Uritsky solely of his own free will, in revenge for the arrest of certain army officers, and for the execution of his friend Peretzweig, but in no case in obedien...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the most profitable investment you could make required no money, no expertise, and delivered guaranteed returns every single night?In Sleep Your Way to Wealth, discover the scientifically-proven financial strategy that 99% of people overlook: transforming your sleep into a passive income generator for your health, career, and bank account.This groundbreaking audiobook reveals:How poor sleep silently costs you thousa...

As the international system undergoes its most profound reordering since the end of the Cold War, the assumptions that once anchored America’s global role are no longer analytically sufficient. Intensifying great-power rivalry, the weaponization of economic leverage, and accelerating geoeconomic polarization are reshaping the strategic environment faster than inherited explanatory frames can account for. This book advances a new conceptual architecture for interpreting US foreign policy — ...