Chapter 20 will assist those readers planning a book project throughout the process of creating a proposal. This chapter breaks down the components of a book proposal (e.g., timeline, chapter descriptions, market analysis, and competitors) with suggestions and real examples for each step.

This chapter makes the case for macro-historical approaches as one of the best examples of ‘big picture’ theorising in International Relations (IR) and argues that Barry Buzan’s work is a great model of this type of theorising in IR. Furthermore, the chapter demonstrates that Buzan and his scholarship played a very significant sociological role in the discipline’s trajectory in terms of legitimising this type of research. During the decades when much of the field of IR had turned away from macro-historical approaches, Buzan was among a handful of scholars who kept advancing them. His connections to IR on both sides of the Atlantic connected Constructivism and the English School, and it is in the intersection of these schools that macro-historical approaches and Weberian style historical sociology have thrived in IR.

Chapter 4 discusses the literary, cultural, and political influence of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and the Faust legend in the works of Plath and her contemporaries. The chapter examines Plath’s textual engagement with Faustian plays and the way in which she seeks inspiration from the themes of the texts from her juvenilia until her late poetry. The historical, religious, psychoanalytical, and political interpretations of demons, demonic possession, and diabolism were present in post-war discourses, borrowing the vocabulary from the well-known play about a black magician and Mephistopheles. The chapter revises over-simplified narratives around Plath’s use of vocabulary associated with diabolism to show her knowledge of the subject that influenced her and demonstrates that American poets, such as Anne Sexton, Karl Shapiro, and John Berryman also employed Faustian themes in their poetry. It concludes that the Faust legend had significant role in post-war literature and culture, re-interpreting the meaning of diabolism and sin within the mid-century political landscape.

This chapter applies the Wick’s theorem to the contour single-particle Green’s function. The corresponding average is represented in the interaction picture, with no need to specify at the outset the kind of contour that is used. This procedure is summarized in a set of Feynman diagrammatic rules, which are reported schematically. Here, only the normal phase is considered, while, in Part II, the Feynman rules are extended to superfluid Fermi systems.

Compensating differentials explain how job characteristics influence pay variations across occupations and industries. This chapter examines how factors such as working conditions, job risk, location, and required skills affect compensation. It introduces the concept of risk premiums and labor market equilibrium, helping managers understand why employees demand higher wages for less desirable jobs. The chapter also explores employee mobility, workûlife balance considerations, and how market competition shapes compensating differentials. By applying these principles, organizations can better structure their pay policies to attract and retain talent while maintaining a competitive advantage.

In an attempt to demonstrate the scale, scope and orientation of Viennese commemorations of its musicians, this chapter examines funerals and graves, anniversary festivities and physical monuments, demonstrating how the city positions itself at the front and centre of commemorative activities. It focuses on Viennese fascination with death, the funerals and reburials of Beethoven, Strauss Sr, Strauss Jr and Schubert, anniversary celebrations for Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and statues erected of the city’s great musicians, often in controversial circumstances.

This chapter uses the Latin American case studies presented in the previous chapters to identify general cross-national patterns and historically ground the theory and statistical findings about transitional justice’s (TJ) violence prevention effect. It first shows that during the Cold War all six countries developed counterinsurgent states with striking similarities under autocracy. In all cases, authoritarian specialists in violence capitalized on their power to kill with impunity to dominate the criminal underworld. It then discusses how TJ was a fork in the road. The adoption of robust TJ processes, combining strong truth commissions and criminal prosecution of perpetrators, allowed Argentina, Peru, and Guatemala to dismantle counterinsurgent states, preventing criminal wars and reducing violence and gross human rights violations. But the persistence of state impunity and the survival of the counterinsurgent state led to Wars on Drugs or Gangs or Crime and to turf wars that resulted in mass atrocities in Mexico, El Salvador, and Brazil. The final section discusses how in cases with robust TJ the institutionalization of accountability policies can contribute to the development of self-sustaining peaceful democracies, and how a reformulated TJ toolkit can serve democracies with persistent impunity, trapped in deadly criminal wars, enter into paths of peaceful reconstruction.

A severe winter storm has caused widespread power outages in the area. Temperatures are in the 20s Fahrenheit. To power their multifamily home, a group of families has set up a gasoline-powered generator in the basement, which has been running overnight. This has caused elevated carbon monoxide (CO) levels in the home as the CO has permeated the drywall and reached every part of the home. Multiple members of the families have begun feeling ill. One of them, a 75-year-old grandfather with multiple medical problems, is confused, lethargic, and cannot walk. He has a carboxyhemoglobin level of 30%, ischemic changes on his ECG, and an elevated troponin. If high-flow oxygen is not applied, the patient will have unstable ventricular tachycardia requiring synchronized cardioversion. He will stabilize with appropriate therapy. Family members will complain of symptoms, and this should prompt their evaluation or referral to be evaluated. If this does not happen, one of them will collapse on the floor.

This chapter considers an open quantum system, exemplified by a junction made up of a central region of finite size and of (at least two) connected terminals, with a time-dependent bias superposed on the terminals. For simplicity, fermions in the terminals are assumed to be noninteracting, while those in the central region are interacting. In particular, the time-dependent current flowing through the system is calculated using the Schwinger–Keldysh formalism developed in Part I for the normal phase. To this end, the present problem is framed in a more general context by adapting the Zwanzig P-Q projector operators technique. In this way, “memory” effects arise due to the transfer of information from P to Q subspaces (and vice versa).

Chapter 2 narrates the beginning of Gao Pian’s military career on the northwestern frontier. Gao forged his military temperament during twenty years in the harsh and remote environment of the Hexi corridor, a conduit for trade and diplomacy as well as a zone of conflict with competing Inner Asian powers. The chapter opens with a discussion of the imperial “Divine Strategy” or Shence army and its place in Tang border defense policy. Like several of his forebears, Gao entered government service through that army, which was also responsible for the security of the imperial palace. In “Defense Commissioner of Qinzhou,” Gao is invested as a general and placed in charge of recovering Tang frontier prefectures lost to Tibet a century earlier. In “Turning the Tide,” he significantly contributes to containing the Tibetan Empire and renewing Tang’s ascendancy in Inner Asia. “Spirit of the Valley” was the religious epithet of the author of Daoist tales Pei Xing who joined the writers in Gao Pian’s orbit in Gansu and became a lifelong retainer. Under “Palace Politics,” Gao’s growing prominence at court exposes him to the intrigues of inner palace eunuchs.

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