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Unforgiving Years is a thrilling and terrifying journey into the disastrous, blazing core of the twentieth century. Victor Serge's final novel, here translated into English for the first time, is at once the most ambitious, bleakest, and most lyrical of this neglected major writer's works.

The book is arranged into four sections, like the panels of an immense mural or the movements of a symphony. In the first, D, a lifelong revolutionary who has broken with the Communist Party and expects retribution at any moment,...

In 1933, Victor Serge was arrested by Stalin s police, interrogated, and held in solitary confinement for more than eighty days. Released, he spent two years in exile in remote Orenburg. These experiences were the inspiration for "Midnight in the Century," Serge s searching novel about revolutionaries living in the shadow of Stalin s betrayal of the revolution.
Among the exiles gathered in the town of Chenor, or Black-Waters, are the granite-faced Old Bolshevik Ryzhik, stoic yet gentle Varvara, and Rodion, a young, self-educated worker who is trying to make sense of the world and...

Smart materials have been categorized employing taxonomical methods used in classification of cybernetics systems. This approach has allowed the systematization of the variety of smart materials (both developed and conceptualized) as well to substantiate the three-stage process of the materials making. This book proposes a phenomenological model describing smart materials.

This is the second volume in a subseries of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics called Levy Matters, whichis published at irregular intervals over the years. Each volume examines a number of key topics in the theory or applications of Levy processes and pays tribute to the state of the art of this rapidly evolving subject with special emphasis on the non-Brownian world.
The expository articles in this second volume cover two important topics in the area of Levy processes.
The first article by Serge Cohen reviews the most
important findings on fractional Levy fields to date in a...