This book should be of interest to students and teachers in Sociology, Psychology, History, Philosophy and Science.

This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has played an important part in human self-understanding throughout the development of Western society. But with the emergence of modernity, melancholy has become its most pervasive and significant experience.

Covering the recent developments and applications of Monte Carlo methods in chemistry, this volume unites and integrates recent trends. This volume includes contributions of Monte Carlo simulations to the fields of quantum chemistry, materials science, biophysical chemistry and chemical dynamics, and spans a wide range of topics from few-body to many-body systems, small molecules to large biomolecules and sampling of conformational space to chemical reactions.

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