In his groundbreaking paper “Absence of diffusion in certain random lattices (1958)”, Philip W Anderson originated, described and developed the physical principles underlying the phenomenon of the ...localization of quantum objects due to disorder. Anderson's 1977 Nobel Prize citation featured that paper, which was fundamental for many subsequent developments in condensed matter physics and technical applications. After more than a half century, the subject continues to be of fundamental importance. In particular, in the last 25 years, the phenomenon of localization has proved to be crucial for the understanding of the quantum Hall effect, mesoscopic fluctuations in small conductors, some aspects of quantum chaotic behavior, and the localization and collective modes of electromagnetic and matter waves.
In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no
one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae
(1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life,
dramatic ...in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero
fighting the oppressiveness of family and society. Osugi helped to
create this public persona when he published his autobiography
( Jijoden ) in 1921-22. Now available in English for the
first time, this work offers a rare glimpse into a Japanese boy's
life at the time of the Sino-Japanese (1894-95) and the
Russo-Japanese (1904-5) wars. It reveals the innocent-and
not-so-innocent-escapades of children in a provincial garrison town
and the brutalizing effects of discipline in military preparatory
schools. Subsequent chapters follow Osugi to Tokyo, where he
discovers the excitement of radical thought and politics. Byron
Marshall rounds out this picture of the early Osugi with a
translation of his Prison Memoirs (Gokuchuki) , originally
published in 1919. This essay, one of the world's great pieces of
prison writing, describes in precise detail the daily lives of
Japanese prisoners, especially those incarcerated for political
crimes.
Most Americans consider détente -- the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union -- to be among the Nixon administration's most significant foreign policy successes. The ...diplomatic back channel that national security advisor Henry Kissinger established with Soviet ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin became the most important method of achieving this thaw in the Cold War. Kissinger praised back channels for preventing leaks, streamlining communications, and circumventing what he perceived to be the US State Department's unresponsive and self-interested bureaucracy. Nixon and Kissinger's methods, however, were widely criticized by State Department officials left out of the loop and by an American press and public weary of executive branch prevarication and secrecy.
Richard A. Moss's penetrating study documents and analyzes US-Soviet back channels from Nixon's inauguration through what has widely been heralded as the apex of détente, the May 1972 Moscow Summit. He traces the evolution of confidential-channel diplomacy and examines major flashpoints, including the 1970 crisis over Cienfuegos, Cuba, the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT), US dealings with China, deescalating tensions in Berlin, and the Vietnam War. Moss argues that while the back channels improved US-Soviet relations in the short term, the Nixon-Kissinger methods provided a poor foundation for lasting policy.
Employing newly declassified documents, the complete record of the Kissinger-Dobrynin channel -- jointly compiled, translated, annotated, and published by the US State Department and the Russian Foreign Ministry -- as well as the Nixon tapes, Moss reveals the behind-the-scenes deliberations of Nixon, his advisers, and their Soviet counterparts. Although much has been written about détente, this is the first scholarly study that comprehensively assesses the central role of confidential diplomacy in shaping America's foreign policy during this critical era.
Nea Kokkinia, today’s Nikaia, is a city that is about five kilometers from the port of Piraeus. It was founded in 1923 by refugees from Asia Minor and constitutes the largest organized urban refugee ...settlement in Piraeus, which was created through the collaboration of rehabilitation agencies, the Greek State, foreign charities, but also the active participation of the refugees themselves through the associations they created. The refugee associations were established simultaneously with the settlement of the refugees in the area. The study of the integration of refugees and the efforts they made for their rehabilitation and social integration constitute an invisible aspect of the refugee issue. However, a “bottom-up” approach transforms refugees into active subjects of history and co‑shapers of their place and life, since within the cities these individuals live, work, have fun, play sports, and socialize, they form their identities, and claim their rights and even organize themselves. This article presents these unseen aspects of the complex process of urban regeneration and associations.
Some leading Japan scholars present new research and thinking on the profound relationship between culture and disaster in Japan, focusing on the triple disasters of March 2011, the great quakes of ...1995 and 1923, and the atomic bombings of 1945.
En el presente trabajo se presenta una aproximación a los contenidos de las ponencias del IICongreso Nacional de Pediatría, celebrado en San Sebastián en 1923, con ocasión del centenario del mismo.
...Se destaca como hilo conductor de las mismas el problema de la mortalidad infantil, que en aquellos años era muy elevada en España y era una preocupación de políticos, de intelectuales y de la clase médica.
Se constata que alguna de las propuestas y preocupaciones de los pediatras que asistieron a dicho congreso siguen vigentes hoy en día.
In this work, we present an overview of the contents of the communications presented at the Second National Congress of Paediatrics, held in San Sebastian in 1923, on the occasion of the 100th year anniversary.
The problem of infant mortality stands out as a common thread, which in those years was very high in Spain and was a concern of politicians, intellectuals and the medical profession.
It is worth noting that some of the proposals and concerns of the paediatricians who attended that congress continue to be relevant today.
What made Henry Kissinger the kind of diplomat he was? What experiences and influences shaped his worldview and provided the framework for his approach to international relations? Suri offers a ...thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the twentieth century.
After the disappointing events of the 1960s, including the loss of Algeria, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, and the American war in the former French colony of Indo-China, people in France ...began to look seriously to Freudianism in the transformed version of Jacques Lacan, for a new way of understanding human relations and the relations between human beings and society. The movement in France is not specifically psychoanalytic but developed against such a background. Psychoanalytic thought acquired the kind of centrality in French intellectual life once associated with existentialism and Marxism and later with structuralism--a centrality it probably never possessed in the United States, even at the peak of its popularity. The movement was a reassessment and rethinking of Freud s thought and influence, and it iwa a movement that was almost unknown to the American public.
