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The second edition addresses typographic and conceptual errors from the first edition, reorganizing content for clarity. Chapter 4 is now split into two, focusing on discrete and continuous nonlinear economic dynamics. An appendix includes essential details on linear dynamical systems, invariant subspaces, and center-manifold reductions. The book also revisits Popper's views on determinism in relation to chaotic nonlinear systems and expands on price-quantity adjustments, limit cycles, and relaxation oscillations in Chapter 2.

The book offers explanations and clarifications for the bewildering variety of titles and job profiles in the social professions in Europe. It presents them both as a product of specific national welfare arrangements and as a sign of a special kind of professional autonomy that so far helped to correct national welfare trends. Now this autonomy is once more called for in the light of the complete re-structuring of all European welfare states and a European model of social work could deliver impulses for real alternatives to growing exclusion and inequality.

Exploration, production and utilisation of construction raw materials play a key role in the development of all countries whether industrial or developing. Construction raw materials are used for the development and expansion of infrastructure in the broadest sense of the word, involving the creation of housing and transport connections, and the numerous products which simplify our daily lives. Geologists, construction engineers, regional planners, etc., in developing countries are increasingly frequently confronted with the need to evaluate the usability and quality of occurrences and deposits of construction raw materials. However, a lack of geological and technical expertise in many developing and emerging countries often prevents the utilisation of local mineral raw materials for use in construction. In an effort to support engineers and planners in making decisions, the most important assessment criteria have been compiled in this „manual“ in a user-oriented and intuitive way. The manual is intended to stimulate ideas in developing countries, to kick-start projects, and to initiate self-help.