Neither the title of the 35th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, nor its timing and location were coincidental -- The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies being discussed in 2001 in Poland, a country which had experienced two totalitarianisms in the previous century. The events of the new millennium thus far demonstrate that history is aimless unless the societies who are its agents have moral goals or visions which they pursue. The contents of this volume constitute the best evidence of a belief in the universality and importance of moral issues for the social...

This book examines the new powerful method discovered by the author for the study of nonlinear dynamical systems relying on reduction of nonlinear differential equations to the linear abstract Schroedinger-like equation in Hilbert space. Besides the possibility of unification of many apparently completely different techniques, the introduced "quantal" Hilbert space formalism enables new original methods to be discovered for solving nonlinear problems arising in investigation of ordinary and partial differential equations as well as difference equations. Applications covered in the book...