Only what's necessary

Studies in neuroscience demonstrate that a focus on mindfulness meditation and contemplative spiritual practice has the capacity to increase our non-anxious awareness and significa...

Politics is a way of life in every organization. Like it or not, managers must develop political savvy in order to succeed as leaders; every interaction has political undertones th...

The Western state system is a unique historical entity that has survived in various forms for almost four hundred years. After independence, postcolonial societies were eager to jo...

Roman political leaders used distance from Rome as a key political tool to assert pre-eminence. Through the case studies of Caesar’s hegemony, Augustus’s autocracy, and Tiberi...

The textbook covers all the most important aspects of entropy, one of the fundamental concepts of classical and statistical thermodynamics, as well as all physical chemistry. Vario...

Income tax is an essential part of a lawyer’s knowledge and professional training. Whilst it is not necessary to have knowledge to the extent that a specialist tax lawyer would hav...

Abstract This book presents a novel theory of probability and judgements of probability: strong coherentist subjectivism. Logue combines three claims in his expositi...

This chapter completes the historical narrative by addressing the following puzzle: the modern state which developed through war-making and colonization is now seen to be necessary...