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Free Download Petra Ahrens, "European Parliament’s Political Groups in Turbulent Times "
English | ISBN: 303094011X | 2022 | 311 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This open access book provides the first ever authoritative collection of scholarly insights, based upon original research, into the political groups of the EP tackling the fundamental changes since the Lisbon Treaty and the upsurge of radical right parties. It analyses political groups and their importance from multiple perspectives critically assessing their role and significance in EU politics. Each chapter is authored by leading scholars in the field, working on key topics in relation to political groups: political group formation and function, their role in parliamentary and EU policy-making, the way that Eurosceptic MEPs influence (or not) the Parliament, and the nature and form of interactions with external actors. In doing so, each chapter opens hitherto unexplored ‘black boxes’ in the political work of the EP, such as the internal practices of, and power relations within the political groups, and informal arenas of intra-group decision-making.

Free Download Characters and Blocks of Solvable Groups: A User’s Guide to Large Orbit Theorems
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031507053 | 168 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 11 MB
This book highlights recent developments in the representation theory of finite solvable groups, which seeks to connect group theory to linear algebra in ways that allow for better study of the groups in question. Over the last several decades, a number of results in the representations of solvable groups have been proven using so-called "large orbit" theorems. This book provides an extensive survey of the current state of the large-orbit theorems. The authors outline the proofs of the large orbit theorems to provide an overview of the topic, then demonstrate how these theorems can be used to prove new results about solvable groups.

Free Download Dr. Edward C. Chang PhD, "Positive Psychology in Racial and Ethnic Groups: Theory, Research, and Practice "
English | ISBN: 1433821486 | 2016 | 464 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Positive psychology has become a vibrant, well-regarded field of study, and a powerful tool for clinicians. But, for many years, the research in areas relevant to positive psychology, such as happiness, subjective well-being, and emotional intelligence, has been based on findings from largely white samples and has rarely taken the concerns of the ethnic community into consideration.

Free Download Alexandra Hardwick, "Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama "
English | ISBN: 0198887221 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB | 616 KB
Despite the crucial roles they often play, no study yet compares the off-stage assemblies, armies, and populations found in surviving Athenian dramatic works. Covering fifth- and early fourth-century tragedy and comedy, Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama analyses how off-stage groups influence and respond to events on stage, and how characters interact with these groups. Drama exploits these groups’ off-stage nature by depicting them through different characters’ viewpoints: characters often struggle to define, predict, or control off-stage groups, which obscures and challenges the audience’s ability to interpret them. The interaction between multivalent and sometimes contradictory narratives of off-stage groups demands a new interpretive framework. Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama provides this framework, offering new readings of several prominent comedies and tragedies. However, the importance of this framework extends beyond drama. The first chapter surveys depictions of group decision-making in fifth-century prose, in order to demonstrate how Athenian drama responds to prose depictions of group psychology. Athenian drama engages with the early ideas of group psychology circulating in fifth- and early fourth-century Athens; it creates fictive worlds where stereotypical depictions of collective emotion can be probed, explored and taken to their logical extremes. Studying off-stage groups therefore allows us to rethink our understanding of narrative, politics, and social psychology in drama, and the ways in which these fields intersect.

Free Download Groups and Characters by Larry C. Grove
English | PDF | 1997 | 218 Pages | ISBN : 0471163406 | 8.7 MB
An authoritative, full-year course on both group theory and ordinary character theory-essential tools for mathematics and the physical sciences

Free Download Lectures on Quantum Groups, Second Edition (2010 re-issue) By Pavel Etingof, Olivier Schiffmann
2010 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 1571462074 | DJVU | 3 MB
Revised second edition. The text covers the material presented for a graduate-level course on quantum groups at Harvard University. Covered topics include: Poisson algebras and quantization, Poisson-Lie groups, coboundary Lie bialgebras, Drinfelds double construction, Belavin-Drinfeld classification, Infinite dimensional Lie bialgebras, Hopf algebras, Quantized universal enveloping algebras, formal groups and h-formal groups, infinite dimensional quantum groups, the quantum double, tensor categories and quasi Hopf-algebras, braided tensor categories, KZ equations and the Drinfeld Category, Quasi-Hpf enveloping algebras, Lie associators, Fiber functors and Tannaka-Driein duality, Quantization of finite Lie bialgebras, Universal constructions, Universal quantization, Dequantization and the equivalence theorem, KZ associator and multiple zeta functions, and Mondoromy of trigonometric KZ equations. Probems are given with each subject and an answer key is included. New paperback re-issue of the revised second edition.

Free Download Robert Wilson, "The Finite Simple Groups"
English | 2009 | pages: 310 | ISBN: 1447125274, 1848009879 | PDF | 3,7 mb
Thisbookisintendedasanintroductiontoallthe?nitesimplegroups.During themonumentalstruggletoclassifythe?nitesimplegroups(andindeedsince), a huge amount of information about these groups has been accumulated. Conveyingthisinformationtothenextgenerationofstudentsandresearchers, not to mention those who might wish to apply this knowledge, has become a major challenge. With the publication of the two volumes by Aschbacher and Smith [12, 13] in 2004 we can reasonably regard the proof of the Classi?cation Theorem for Finite Simple Groups (usually abbreviated CFSG) as complete. Thus it is timely to attempt an overview of all the (non-abelian) ?nite simple groups in one volume. For expository purposes it is convenient to divide them into four basic types, namely the alternating, classical, exceptional and sporadic groups. The study of alternating groups soon develops into the theory of per- tation groups, which is well served by the classic text of Wielandt [170]and more modern treatments such as the comprehensive introduction by Dixon and Mortimer [53] and more specialised texts such as that of Cameron [19].

Free Download Primer for Point and Space Groups by Richard L. Liboff
English | PDF | 2004 | 231 Pages | ISBN : 0387402489 | 20.3 MB

Free Download An Introduction to Abstract Algebra: Sets, Groups, Rings, and Fields (437 Pages)
by Steven H Weintraub
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811246661 | 438 pages | True PDF | 10.84 MB

Free Download Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher By Jennifer Cyr
2019 | 134 Pages | ISBN: 1316638790 | PDF | 2 MB
What is a focus group? Why do we use them? When should we use them? When should we not? Focus Groups for the Social Science Researcher provides a step-by-step guide to undertaking focus groups, whether as a stand-alone method or alongside other qualitative or quantitative methods. It recognizes the challenges that focus groups encounter and provides tips to address them. The book highlights three unique, inter-related characteristics of focus groups. First, they are inherently social in form. Second, the data emerge organically through conversation; they are emic in nature. Finally, focus groups generate data at three levels of analysis: the individual, group, and interactive level. The book builds from these three characteristics to explain when focus groups can usefully be employed in different research designs. This is an essential text for students and researchers looking for a concise and accessible introduction to this important approach to data collection.Offers a clear set of guidelines regarding how to present focus group data for article- and book-length researchProvides a theoretical grounding for the use of focus groups in the social sciencesExplains how to use focus groups as a stand-alone method or in a mixed-methods research designClarifies when focus groups may be useful for the social science researcher, as well as when they may not be