Best Selling Books by Milena

This book presents a detailed and critical discussion about how human wellbeing can be maintained and improved in a postgrowth era. It highlights the close links between economic growth, market capitalism, and the welfare state demonstrating that, in many ways, wellbeing outcomes currently depend on the growth paradigm. Here the authors argue that notions of basic human needs deserve greater emphasis in debates on postgrowth because they are more compatible with limits to growth. Drawing on theories of social practices, the book explores structural barriers to transitions to a postgrowth society, and ends with suggestions for policies and institutions that could support wellbeing in the context of postgrowth. This thought-provoking work makes a valuable contribution to debates surrounding climate change, sustainability, welfare states and inequality and will appeal to students and scholars of social policy, sociology, political science, economics, political ecology and human geography.

This detailed account of the controversy surrounding the publication of Albert Einstein''s theory of relativity explores the ferocious popular and academic opposition which at one time encircled one of the most important scientific breakthroughs of the twentieth century. Based on extensive archival research, this fascinating discourse includes a compelling and entertaining examination of the contemporary literature created by Einstein''s detractors. Exploring the arguments and strategies, social contexts, and motivations of Einstein''s detractors, and providing unique insights into the dynamics of scientific controversies, this book is ideal for anyone interested in the history and philosophy of physics, popular science, and the public understanding of science.

Orthodoxy has achieved a large scale revival in Russia following the collapse of Communism. However, paradoxically, although there is a high level of identification with Orthodoxy, there is in fact a low level of church attendance. This book, based on in depth ethnographic fieldwork, explores the social background and moral attitudes of the "little flock" of believers who actively participate in religious life. It reveals that the complex moral beliefs of the faithful have a disproportionately high impact on Russian society overall; that among the faithful there is a strong emphasis on striving for personal perfection; but that also there are strong collective ideas concerning religious nationalism and the synergy between the secular and the religious.

Love, Live, Light is a poetry book that enlightens you in all aspects of live, especially aspects which outweigh our century... Love as sweet & bitter as it can be... but Live to hold on unto, no matter how deep the creek you felle in... and Light your source of stimulation, the one of endurance (hope) and benefits in your new stand point...

Flying Officer Wayne Luthie of the RAF recounts his training and action in World War II. Shot down over Dunkirk, he is captured, tortured, but manages to escape. A first novel.

Demonstrates how Ondaatje''s multisensory, fluid and historically inflected writing can forge an intimately embodied, ethically responsible and politically enabling relationship between audience, author and text.

This innovative study of the role of competition law in the telecommunications industry starts from a classic perspective: While, in principle, regulation benefits social welfare and efficient allocation of resources, past regulatory experience shows that regulation can be flawed and lead to welfare harm rather than good. In the telecommunications industry specifically, inappropriately designed sector-specific remedies and regulatory delays in the introduction of new telecommunications services can hold up the development of the market towards effective competition and could incur considerable welfare losses. In addition, conventional antitrust analysis still lags behind the dynamic nature of the electronic communications markets. Milena Stoyanova sets out to establish a new understanding of the role of sector-specific regulation and competition law enforcement in the electronic communications sector, addressing such questions as the following: andu0095 Why a new regulatory framework? andu0095 Are sectoral regulation and competition law enforcement mutually exclusive or complementary? andu0095 Why should electronic communications markets be regulated to conform to competition law principles? andu0095 What does competition law add to sector-specific regulation? andu0095 What is the relationship or proportion between regulation and competition law enforcement? An overview of the telecommunications liberalization process initiated at European Community level reveals such problems as a divergent approach of national regulatory authorities in the application of one and the same norms, inability of competition authorities to rightly assess the technicalities underlying a competition problem, and difficulty in carrying out a periodical oversight of compliance with the competition law remedies. The author discusses the legal basis and rationale for the application of the essential facility doctrine to the electronic communications sector, and argues for new regulatory responses to the emergence of collective dominant firms in an oligopolistic setting and to the potential of multifirm conduct to restrict competition through price squeezing and other tactics. The book concludes with a specific case study on the harmonisation of recent Bulgarian legislation with the European Community sector-specific and competition law regimes andà propos the electronic communications sector. Effective competition in the electronic communications market is crucial for securing the dynamic role of the entire information and communications technologies sector, of which electronic communications form the largest segment. The sound and well-informed recommendations in this book ably address common and persistent problems, making Competition Problems in Liberalized Telecommunications a forward-looking mainstay for practitioners and other professionals involved in all aspects of the field.

With select exhibits of various art media on display, the exhibition shows the ways in which Czechoslovakia was presented in 1918-1939 and 1945-1992 as a state entity, and how the visual arts and its institutions played a role in representing the country. The list of art media is broad and ranges from small- and large-scale oil paintings and bronze sculptures to prints, photographs, installations, and architectural models and plans, to films and even product design, exhibition design and organization, and the clothing made by the Centre for Folk Art Production. Besides being a detailed scientific catalogue on all the exhibited objects, this richly illustrated book also contains specialised studies devoted more closely to particular themes. It explores artworks of varying quality and made in diverse art media that took part in the representation of the Czechoslovak State in 1918-1939 and 1945-1992. Rather than examining the art-historical canon of 20th-century Czech art, this is a survey of the visual arts of the time, where famous paintings and sculptures by accomplished artists are shown alongside inconspicuous banknote images. Exhibition: National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic (20.11.2015 - 07.02.2016).

A little girl finds the rain to be a benevolent playmate.