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Is the "sharing economy" really about sharing? -- How do the sharing economy and conventional businesses affect one another? -- Who benefits from the sharing economy? -- Is the sharing economy here to stay? -- For further discussion -- Organizations to contact -- Bibliography of books -- Index

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Are Special Interest Groups Beneficial to Democracy? -- Overview: Interest Groups Are Multidimensional -- Strong Backing Often Equals Efficacy -- Unions Are Among the Few Groups Representing the Middle Class -- Special Interest Groups Do Influence Policy -- Lobbying Has the Potential to Undermine Democratic Ideals -- Chatper 2: Are Widespread Perceptions of the Political Elite Fair? -- Overview: The Concept of Elitism Is Nuanced and Complicated -- Political Elites Control Power Resources over the Masses -- Elites Are a Class, Not a Belief -- The Caricature of the Liberal Metropolitan Elite Is Inaccurate -- "Metropolitan Elite" Is a Lazy Misnomer -- Chapter 3: Do Special Interest Groups Keep the Political Elite in Check? -- Overview: Interest Groups and Elite Theories Explain the Driving Forces in Politics -- Several Categories of Special Interest Groups Contribute to the Shape of American Politics -- The Policy Preferences of Special Interests Must Align with Those of the General Public -- The Interests of the Wealthy Dominate the Political System -- Money Is the Most Influential Factor in Elections -- Chapter 4: Do Average Americans Have an Opportunityto Be Heard? -- Overview: The Average American vs. the Political Elites -- Efforts to Foster Change, However Small, Can Make a Difference -- Protest Can Rejuvenate Democracy -- Corporations Have Tremendous Global Influence -- Conservative Lawmakers Strive to Limit Protesters' Rights -- Organizations to Contact -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.

Autoionizing resonances are paradigmatic examples of two-path wave interferences between direct photoionization, which takes a few attoseconds, and ionization via quasi-bound states, which takes much longer. Time-resolving the evolution of these interferences has been a long-standing goal, achieved recently in the helium atom owing to progress in attosecond technologies. However, already for the hydrogen molecule, similar time imaging has remained beyond reach due to the complex interplay between fast nuclear and electronic motions. We show how vibrationally resolved photoelectron spectra of H2 allow one to reconstruct the associated subfemtosecond autoionization dynamics by using the ultrafast nuclear dynamics as an internal clock, thus forgoing ultrashort pulses. Our procedure should be general for autoionization dynamics in molecules containing light nuclei, which are ubiquitous in chemistry and biology ; This work was supported by European Research Council advanced grant 290853-XCHEM within the seventh framework program of the European Union. We also acknowledge the financial support from MINECO projects FIS2013-42002-R and FIS2016-77889-R, and the European COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action XLIC CM1204, and the computer time from the Centro de Computación Científica de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Marenostrum Supercomputer Center. A.P. acknowledges a Ramón y Cajal contract from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Spain). F.M. acknowledges support from the "Severo Ochoa" Programme for Centres of Excellence in R&D (MINECO, grant SEV-2016-0686) and the "María de Maeztu" Programme for Units of Excellence in R&D (MDM-2014-0377). S.E.C. acknowledges funding from the Helmoltz Recognition Award. The Extreme Light Infrastructure Attosecond Light Pulse Source project (GINOP-2.3.6-15-2015-00001) was financed by the European Union and cofinanced by the European Regional Development Fund

"Women are a mistake of nature. with their excess of moisture and bodily heat that indicates physical and mental deficiency. they are a kind of invalid, misbegotten and failed man. The full realisation of human kind is man". These words by St Thomas Acquinas could be used as a motto of crusade launched over two millennia by the Catholic Church against women. Agnieszka Błońska and Joanna Wichowska seek out the sources, symptoms and consequences of this continuing offensive, particularly intensified in rent years in Poland. The story of possessed and exorcised nuns serves as a pretext for research into the long history of colonization of female body, sexual repression, stigmatization of difference and imposition of rigid gender roles. In this investigation a woman becomes a representative of all those, who are left behind a superior norm of human kind, which is man – a heterosexual father, thinker, warrior, priest, god; she is an agent of all "misfits" – those expelled from the privileged majority. In this performance the Church Fathers, Mothers Joans and devils living in their bodies and minds will speak. But most importantly, contemporary women and men who willingly or not take part in a supposedly defensive cultural war fought all over Europe and Poland; a war declared by the Church and politicians. The alleged aggressor in here is "gender ideology", also called "genedrism". The alleged victim – religious people, defended by far-sighted "shepherds". The battleground – a family, femininity and masculinity, treated by bishops as given by God and similarly as body (is that so?) non discussable and unchangeable. Which role in this battle is assigned to each and all of us? Which role are we accept, consciously or not? To what extend are we upholding patriarchy ourselves? And finally, does particular female perspective have to indicate exclusion from common "human" experience? The performance is inspired by motifs from Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz's story "Mother Joan of the Angels". It was made for the 4th Art and Community Festival Happy City and premiered on the 7th of December in Teatr Powszechny in Warsaw, Poland. The research involved Dr. Anna Szwed from Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Dr. Agnieszka Koscianska from Warsaw University and Marta Abramowicz, writer.