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This monograph provides graduate students and also professional researchers aiming to understand the dynamics of open quantum systems with a valuable and self-contained toolbox. Special focus is laid on the link between microscopic models and the resulting open-system dynamics. This includes how to derive the celebrated Lindblad master equation without applying the rotating wave approximation. As typical representatives for non-equilibrium configurations it treats systems coupled to multiple reservoirs (including the description of quantum transport), driven systems, and feedback-controlled quantum systems. Each method is illustrated with easy-to-follow examples from recent research. Exercises and short summaries at the end of every chapter enable the reader to approach the frontiers of current research quickly and make the book useful for quick reference.

Physics. --- Quantum theory. --- Mathematical physics. --- Quantum Physics. --- Mathematical Methods in Physics. --- Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences. --- Mathematical Physics. --- Quantum theory --- Nonequilibrium thermodynamics --- Maxwell's demon --- Physics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Atomic Physics --- Demon of Maxwell --- Maxwell demon --- Irreversible thermodynamics --- Non-equilibrium thermodynamics --- Thermodynamics of the steady state --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Physical mathematics --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Mathematics --- Quantum physics. --- Nonequilibrium thermodynamics. --- Maxwell's demon. --- Thermodynamics --- Irreversible processes --- Mechanics --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics

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The medieval world was full of malicious demons: fallen angels commissioned to tempt humans away from God. From demons disguised as beautiful women to demons that took frightening animal-like forms, this book explores the history of thought about demons: what they were, what they could and could not do, and how they affected human lives. It considers the debates, stories, and writing that eventually gave shape to the witchcraze of the early modern period.

Demonology --- Church history --- Christianity --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- History --- History of doctrines --- Middle Ages, 600-1500 --- Christianity. --- Middle Ages. --- demon. --- devil.

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The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion-as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese religious culture.

Demonology --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- History. --- China --- Religion. --- afterlife. --- ancestors. --- ancient china. --- china. --- chinese history. --- chinese jia jiao. --- chinese religion. --- christianity. --- comparative religions. --- cult. --- death. --- deity. --- demon. --- demonic. --- demonology. --- demons. --- divine power. --- divinity. --- folk belief. --- folk religion. --- folklore. --- ghosts. --- goblins. --- god of wealth. --- gods. --- greed. --- han cult. --- imperial china. --- lust. --- nonfiction. --- popular religion. --- possession. --- religion. --- religious culture. --- salvific religion. --- shanxiao. --- sin. --- spirit of the dead. --- spirituality. --- supernatural. --- vernacular religion. --- vice. --- wutong cult. --- wutong.

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"Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy is also a highly aestheticized encounter with the medium of comics and the materiality of the book. Scott Bukatman's dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened 'adventure of reading' in which syntheses of image and word, image sequences, and serial narratives create compelling worlds for the reader's imagination to inhabit. In Mignola's work, the imaginative space that exists on the page and within the book becomes a self-aware meditation upon the imaginative space of page and book. To understand the mechanics of creating a world on the page, Bukatman draws upon other media--including children's books, sculpture, pulp fiction, cinema, graphic design, painting, and illuminated manuscripts. Hellboy's World delves into shared fictional universes and occult detection, the riotous colors of comics that elude rationality and control, horror and the evocation of the sublime, and the place of abstraction in Mignola's art to demonstrate the pleasurable and multiple complexities of the reader's experience. Monsters populate the world of Hellboy comics, but Hellboy's World argues that comics are themselves little monsters, unruly sites of sensory and cognitive pleasures that exist, happily, on the margins. The book is not only a treat for Hellboy fans but will entice anyone interested in the medium of comics and the art of reading"--Provided by publisher.

Comic books, strips, etc. --- History and criticism --- Mignola, Michael --- Hellboy, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- History and criticism. --- Hellboy --- Mignola, Michael. --- Hellboy (Fictitious character : Mignola) --- Mignola, Mike --- Mignola, Mike. --- Comic books, strips, etc --- abstraction. --- adaptation. --- animation. --- childrens books. --- cinema. --- comics. --- darkhorse comics. --- demon. --- detective. --- fictional universes. --- folklore. --- graphic design. --- graphic novels. --- hellboy. --- horror. --- illuminated manuscripts. --- imagination. --- literary criticism. --- materiality. --- media. --- monsters. --- mystery. --- nonfiction. --- occult. --- painting. --- pleasure of reading. --- popular culture. --- pulp fiction. --- reader. --- reading. --- religion. --- sculpture. --- serial narratives. --- sublime. --- supernatural. --- visual narratives. --- Hellboy (Fictitious character from Mignola)

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The Aramaic incantation bowls from Sasanian Mesopotamia are the most important source we have for studying the everyday beliefs of the Jewish, Christian, Mandaean, Manichaean, Zoroastrian and Pagan communities on the eve of the Islamic conquests. In A Corpus of Syriac Incantation Bowls , Marco Moriggi presents new editions of forty-nine Syriac incantation bowls that were originally published between 1853 and 2012, with accompanying introductions, translations, philological notes, photographs and glossaries. Furthermore, there is a detailed analysis of the Estrangela and Manichaean scripts as used on the bowls, together with newly drawn script charts. In gathering, organising and updating most of the published Syriac bowls, this book provides a valuable resource for further research into both their language and content. 'This volume is a significant contribution to the study of the Syriac incantation bowls, and it should be of great interest to scholars of ‘magic’ in Late Antiquity as well as to those working in Syriac language, literature, and history, since the Syriac incantation bowls are a fascinating—yet often neglected—component of the broader Syriac heritage.' - Aaron M. Butts , The Catholic University of America - Washington D.C., JNES (October 2015) . 'Moriggi’s new book will no doubt become an essential reference work for all interested in Syriac magical texts from late-antiquity. It is also an important contribution not only to our knowledge of the language of the Syriac incantation bowls, but to the whole field of Babylonian Aramaic (JBA and Mandaic).' - Ohad Abudraham , Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Beer Sheva, Israel, Orientalia (2015) . 'The volume certainly makes an enormous contribution to furthering studies on Syriac incantation texts, and more generally on incantation bowls. For any scholar who has an interest in incantation bowls, this work is a ‘mustʼ' - Erica C. D. Hunter , SOAS University of London, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 113.1 (2018) .

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