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Physics is the science that explores the foundations of the natural world. It investigates the fundamental forces, the interactions between matter and energy, and the laws that govern our universe. Physicists study phenomena at the microscopic level, such as particle physics, and at the macroscopic level, such as the motion of planets. Through experiments, mathematical models, and theoretical insights, physicists strive to understand and explain the complexity of the universe. Physics forms the basis for technological advancements and provides us with insights into the workings of the world around us.
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  1. The Energy of Russia
    1. Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

    The Energy of Russia

    Hydrocarbon Culture and Climate Change

    "This book examines the role of Russia’s energy resources in shaping not only its policy, polity and political processes, but its social identity and worldview, thereby exerting critical influence over Russia’s relations with the rest of the world. The main thread running through the book is that ‘geography has played a significant role in framing how the country has been governed —and it continues to do so’ (Chapter 1) in that ‘geographical space [is seen] as controllable flows of resources, not as a territory of communities’ (Chapter 2). Russia has been historically dependent on natural rather than human resources, with the vastness of Russia’s natural wealth located in its periphery, away from its urban centres. A spatiality and materiality approach thus argues that the natural and human resources of Russia are detached from one another, and that this detachment shapes Russia’s polity, understood as broad territorial governance." — Diana Bozhilova, Europe-Asia Studies (2021)   "It is also possible that resources, and the wealth, power, and security they support, mitigate some of contemporary Russia’s worst tendencies. One can imagine that a federal state deprived of resource revenues and lacking physical infrastructure with centralizing effects would become more, not less authoritarian, and bellicose internationally." — Boris Barkanov, The Russian Review (2021)

    € 30,50