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3A173359924X.jsonld | The new Hemingway studies | The subject of endless biographies, fictional depictions, and critical debate, Ernest Hemingway continues to command attention in popular culture and in literary studies. He remains both a definitive stylist of twentieth-century literature and a case study in what happens to an artist consumed by the spectacle of celebrity. The New Hemingway Studies examines how two decades of new-millennium scholarship confirm his continued relevance to an era that, on the surface, appears so distinct from his-one defined by digital realms, ecological anxiety, and globalization. It explores the various sources (print, archival, digital, and other) through which critics access Hemingway. Highlighting the latest critical trends, the contributors to this volume demonstrate how Hemingway's remarkably durable stories, novels, and essays have served as a lens for understanding preeminent concerns in our own time, including paranoia, trauma, iconicity, and racial, sexual, and national identities. |
3A1777630053.jsonld | Machine-type communication for maritime Internet-of-Things : from concept to practice | Introduction -- Maritime Machine-Type Communication -- System Architecture -- Radio Spectrum -- Network Design -- Air Interface Design -- Proximity Communication Component -- Satellite Communication Component -- Terrestrial Communication Component -- Transmitter and Receiver Design -- Conclusion. This book introduces the concept of machine-type communication (MTC) for maritime Internet of Things. The first part of the book portrays a maritime MTC system from an architectural perspective and describes an MTC framework and the fundamental components, laying out a foundation that leads to an ultimate solution to the maritime IoT requirements and challenges. The second part ties together all discussed in the first part and demonstrates how to apply it to a practical system through a realistic design example based on an international maritime mobile spectrum. The book serves as a comprehensive tutorial of the maritime MTC from the top (the network architecture) to the bottom (the air/radio interface and regulatory radio spectrum constraints), guiding readers to an easier understanding of the maritime MTC-related issues and the rationale behind the design. The primary readers of this book include maritime communication engineers, maritime IoT professionals, maritime academia, and the general MTC and IoT communities. Presents the concept of machine-type communication (MTC) for maritime Internet of Things (IoT) and its services, requirements, and challenges; Explains space-earth-integrated maritime machine-type communication system architecture with a comparison with its land counterpart; Sets out a comprehensive framework and details the ways to implement it on a practical radio spectrum; Includes maritime MTC radio spectrum and regulations, network design, protocol design, and air interface design. |
3A1698071647.jsonld | OECD Tax Policy Reviews: Seychelles 2020 | This report is part of the OECD Tax Policy Reviews publication series. The Reviews are intended to provide independent, comprehensive and comparative assessments of OECD member and non-member countries’ tax systems as well as concrete recommendations for tax policy reform. By identifying tailored tax policy reform options, the objective of the Reviews is to enhance the design of existing tax policies and to support the adoption of new reforms. This report provides an assessment of Seychelles' tax system and recommendations for tax reform, with a focus on the business tax. Chapter 1 gives an overview of Seychelles' key economic and tax challenges. Chapter 2 provides a comprehensive assessment of Seychelles' business tax system and simulates the impact of different business tax reform scenarios, based on business taxpayer microdata. Chapter 3 focuses on improving the design of non-business taxes. |
3A1670378888.jsonld | Cognitive linguistic explorations of writing in the classroom | "Research into the analysis of classroom-based writing is replete with techniques and methods meant to bring clarity to the question of how to best conduct instruction and assessment. Findings and suggestions for practice are rooted in a philosophy that asks teachers and linguists to judge students' writing against a pre-determined standard. Too often, the results do little more than inform teachers and researchers as to which students met the standard and which did not. This book offers research into the analysis of classroom writing that does not use a set standard or rubric to assess student writing but instead relies on insights from cognitive linguistics to explore the connections between cognition and language in student writing. The result is a creative and linguistically driven analysis of classroom writing that allows the linguist or teacher to view student writing on its own terms"-- 1. Cognitive Linguistics -- 2. Teaching Writing -- 3. Metaphor and Writing -- 4. Event Cognition and Language Arts -- 5. Event Cognition Math -- 6. Conclusion. |
3A625998464.jsonld | Corporate Governance: Improving Competitiveness and Access to Capital in Global Markets : A Report to the OECD by the Business Sector Advisory Group on Corporate Governance | Through its impact on corporate competitiveness and access to global capital markets, corporate governance plays an increasingly important role for entrepreneurship, economic growth and employment. In its report to the OECD, the Business Sector Advisory Group on Corporate Governance emphasizes that while corporate governance should remain primarily a private sector prerogative, governments have a distinct and important responsibility in providing a regulatory framework that allows investors and enterprises to adapt corporate governance practices to rapidly changing circumstances. There is no static or final structure in corporate governance that every country or corporation should emulate: experimentation and variety should be expected and encouraged within the limits of credible regulations emphasizing fairness, transparency, accountability and responsibility. Within this framework, the Advisory Group presents the perspectives that it believes should guide public policies related to corporate governance, suggests areas for private sector voluntary action and recommends further actions by the OECD to help articulate a set of common principles guiding national policy reviews and reforms. |
3A156516010X.jsonld | Handbook of economic field experiments / edited by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States), Esther Duflo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States) ; Volume 1: Handbook of field experiments | Handbook of Field Experiments provides tactics on how to conduct experimental research, also presenting a comprehensive catalog on new results from research and areas that remain to be explored. This updated addition to the series includes an entire chapters on field experiments, the politics and practice of social experiments, the methodology and practice of RCTs, and the econometrics of randomized experiments. These topics apply to a wide variety of fields, from politics, to education, and firm productivity, providing readers with a resource that sheds light on timely issues, such as robustness and external validity. Separating itself from circumscribed debates of specialists, this volume surpasses in usefulness the many journal articles and narrowly-defined books written by practitioners |
3A599810904.jsonld | Bau[t]en für die Künste : zeitgenössische Architektur in Niederösterreich | "Building(s) for the arts" offers a comprehensive overview of the outstanding buildings that were created for the arts and culture in Lower Austria over the last 20 years. Many cultural buildings with a cross-regional effect are discussed along with many smaller buildings"--Provided by publisher |
3A1749241455.jsonld | Religion, gender, and wellbeing in Africa | Foreword / Esther Mombo -- Foreword / Elias Kifon Bongmba -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Encountering "the Voice" of Wellbeing in African Contexts / Chammah J. Kaunda -- The Transferability of Selected Theologies of Isabel Apawo Phiri on HIV and -- AIDS Prevention and Care to Christian Women in Southern Malawi / Rachel NyaGondwe Fiedler -- Pastoral Care and Social Support for Elderly Orphans in the Era of HIV and AIDS / Lucy Thokozile Chibambo -- Covid-19 and Violence against Women and Children in Zambia: A Gendered Perspective / Bridget Nonde Masaiti Mukuka -- Religion, Women's Reproductive Health and Rights: Engagement of Religion in Implementation of The International Conference on Population and Development Program of Action (ICPD Poa) / Lydia Mwaniki -- The Role of Religion in Public Life: COVID-19 and Gender-based Violence in Kenya / Martin Munyao and Elizabeth Kithuka -- COVID-19, Masculinities, and Religion in South Africa / Buhle Mpofu -- Restoring Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Abigail's Model of Courage, Faith, Humility, and Forgiveness / Esther Lubunga Kenge -- Identity, Masculinity, and Contested Domains in Africa's "Religious" Conflicts / Sokfa F. John -- Listening to the Voices from Below on Marital Violence and Silence: The Case of Judges 19 / Sinenhlanhla S. Chisale -- (Mis- or Re-)Interpretation of Islam Sacred Text, Marriage, and Spirituality / Sindile Ngubane-Mokiwa -- Pentecostalism, African Tradition, and Singleness in Zimbabwe / Kudzi Biri -- Politics of Spousal Shaving of Pubic Hair: The Narrativity of Bemba Marriage and Hidden Violence Against Women / Mutale Mulenga-Kaunda -- The Impact of Theological Education of Pastors' Wives in the Baptist Convention of Malawi (BACOMA) / Molly Longwe -- Conclusion: Isabel Apowa Phiri on Religion and Wellbeing in Africa / Julius M. Gathogo and Chammah J. Kaunda. "Religion, Gender, and Wellbeing in Africa argues that religion and spirituality continue to occupy a central position in the relational and social experiences of many Africans and, as such, it is within a religio-spiritual framework that ideas and practices related to most African women and their wellbeing are interpreted and formulated"-- |
3A1154358194.jsonld | EU enlargement and the future of the welfare state | The eastern expansion of the EU resembles German unification in its monentousness. Whereas the latter led to a 26% increase in the population of the Federal Republic, the former will increase the population of the EU by 28% if all ten entry aspirants are accepted. A special problem will be posed by migration. By view of the existing wage differences between eastern and western European countries, a massive westward migration can be expected after EU expansion. A temporary east-to-west migration up to the time that the eastern countries have created an efficient capital stock makes economic sense if it is driven by wage differences and meets with a flexible labour market. Migration does not make economic sense, however, if, and to the extent to which, it is induced by the current social assistance systems. Moreover, welfare-motivated migration would create competition western European states to frighten off potential migrants, which would lead to an erosion of the traditional social welfare state. If the EU plan incorporated a limitation of the free movement of labour, the beneficial migration would also be stopped. A better solution would be to limit access to the western social systems, at least for a transitional period in order to filter out migration induced by differing social standards. An EU-wide application of the home-country principle in the granting of social benefits would achieve this goal. |
3A1733952705.jsonld | Beginning Quarkus framework : build cloud-native enterprise Java applications and microservices | 1. Welcome to Quarkus – Gives the reader a high-level overview of the Quarkus platform, the goals, features and a comparison with alternatives - Supersonic Subatomic! - Quarkus Feature Tour - Quarkus vs Springboot vs JavaEE - Getting started with Quarkus2. Microservices – Gets the reader started with building microservices with Quarkus, including production-grade features - Getting started with microservices in Quarkus - Swagger Support - OpenAPI Documentation - SwaggerUI - Microprofile Support (I might add a few more microprofile-specific components if there's any Quarkus-flavored twist to them) - REST Client - Security - Validation - Reactive Programming - Vert.x - Reactive Routes - Reactive Filters - Configuration - Configuration Options - Configuration Management with HashiCorp Vault3. Dependency Injection - Shows the reader how Quarkus works with existing DI frameworks in the Java ecosystem - CDI - Spring4. Quarkus Data Layer – Introduce the reader to handling data using Quarkus - Reactive SQL - JSON - Flyway - DynamoDB - MongoDB5. Batch Processing – Show the reader how to perform batch operations in Quarkus6. Testing – Show the reader how to test Quarkus-based code7. Quarkus Security – Implement Quarkus-specific security features (might roll this into the Microservice chapter)8. Deployment and Packaging – Introduce the reader to different deployment scenarios that Quarkus is engineered for (might whittle down/collapse some of these as the writing progresses) - Basic Deployment - Native Packaging - Kubernetes - GraalVM - Hot Reloading Code - Serverless. |
3A183175343X.jsonld | Open source law, policy and practice | This book delivers an in-depth examination of the policy, legal, and commercial structures relating to the usage and exploitation of Open Source Software, enabling readers to understand the legal environment within which Open Source operates. |
3A87650148X.jsonld | The making of Jane Austen | "Returning author Devoney Looser has written a study of Jane Austen's legacy in high and popular culture, looking at stage and film adaptations of her work, how Austen has been taught in classrooms, Austen's depiction in visual culture, and Austen's role in the women's suffragist movement. Looser draws on popular print and unpublished archival sources, amassing evidence from high, middlebrow, and popular culture, in order to craft a more capacious history of posthumous reception. The book is a detailed and revealing account of what Looser calls the "public dimension" of Jane Austen, who is a "manufactured creation." Looser has dug deep and come up with brand-new material on Austen, something that is very hard to do. This is the kind of material that Janeites and Austen scholars live for"-- |
3A1658464982.jsonld | Implementation of EU Readmission Agreements : Identity Determination Dilemmas and the Blurring of Rights | By examining the implementation dynamics of EU Readmission Agreements (EURAs), this book addresses the practical reasons why irregular immigrants cannot be expelled. EURAs are one of the vital legal instruments framing EU external migration law with regard to the expulsion of irregular immigrants, yet their implementation has met with various obstacles. Above all, the process of determining an individual’s legal identity has proven to be one of the most controversial aspects in the implementation of EURAs. The analysis shows that the process of identifying who is whose national in the context of readmission creates two existential dilemmas: first from the perspective of the sovereignty of third countries of origin and the legal standards laid out in international instruments as regards states’ powers in determining nationality, and second regarding the agency of the individual as a holder of fundamental human rights. How do the EURAs deal with or aim at alleviating these identity determination dilemmas? The book provides a comparative analysis of the administrative procedures and rules envisaged by EURAs aimed at proving or presuming the nationality of the persons to be readmitted to their country of origin. It focuses on the ways in which nationality is to be determined or presumed in the scope of the 2010 EURA with Pakistan, and compares it with those foreseen in the EURAs with Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cape Verde, Georgia, and Turkey. As such, the book provides a unique and up-to-date study of EURAs and their implementation challenges in the broader context of EU external migration law and policy |
3A1858285607.jsonld | Gestalterinnen : Frauen, Design und Gesellschaft im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit | Gestalterinnen played a decisive role in the development of modernism in Vienna. This publication presents new research on women designers, ceramicists, fashion designers, graphic artists, garden architects, photographers, art historians and patrons. The contributions illuminate the eminent importance of these women for Viennese modernism and show how traditional role models were challenged during the interwar period. The Gestalterinnen confronted existing prejudices and created new visual languages in order to forge successful careers. At the same time, they contributed to critical discourse on the emancipation of women. The Gestalterinnen of Viennese modernism included among others: Emilie Flöge, Mathilde Flögl, Jacqueline Groag, Fanny HarlfingerZakucka, Yella Hertzka, Else Hofmann, Hilda Jesser, Maria Likarz, Madame d’Ora, Pauline Metternich-Sándor, Bertha Pappenheim, Marie ReidemeisterNeurath, Lisl Weil, Vally Wieselthier and Helene Wolf Introduction and two chapters in English Gestalterinnen hatten einen entscheidenden Anteil an der Entwicklung der Moderne im Wien der Zwischenkriegszeit. Die Publikation präsentiert neue Forschungen zu Designerinnen, Keramikerinnen, Modeschöpferinnen, Grafikerinnen, Gartenarchitektinnen, Fotografinnen, Kunsthistorikerinnen und Mäzeninnen. An ihrem Beispiel wird gezeigt, wie angestammte Rollenbilder in der Zwischenkriegszeit aufgebrochen wurden und welch eminente Bedeutung diese Frauen für die Wiener Moderne hatten. Sie setzten sich mit bestehenden Vorurteilen auseinander und schufen neue visuelle Sprachen, um erfolgreich Karriere zu machen. Gleichzeitig trugen sie zu einem kritischen Diskurs über die Emanzipation der Frau bei. Zu den Gestalterinnen der Wiener Moderne gehörten u.a. Emilie Flöge, Mathilde Flögl, Jacqueline Groag, Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka, Yella Hertzka, Else Hofmann, Hilda Jesser, Maria Likarz, Madame d'Ora, Pauline Metternich-Sándor, Bertha Pappenheim, Marie Reidemeister-Neurath, Lisl Weil, Vally Wieselthier, Helene Wolf und Berta Zuckerkandl |
3A1655087738.jsonld | Barrelledness in Topological and Ordered Vector Spaces | Preliminaries -- Some classes of locally convex spaces -- Ultrabarrelled, ultrabornological and quasiultrabarrelled spaces -- Order-quasibarrelled vector lattices -- Countably barrelled and countably quasibarrelled spaces -- ?-Barrelled and sequentially barrelled spaces -- Countably ultrabarrelled and countably quasiultrabarrelled spaces -- Countably order-quasiultrabarrelled vector lattices and spaces -- Order-quasiultrabarrelled vector lattices and spaces. |
3A1863829024.jsonld | Framing the Holocaust : photographs of a mass shooting in Latvia, 1941 | The Twelve Photographs -- Chapter 1: "Not to Tiptoe Away inthe Face of Suffering" -- Chapter 2: The Mystery of an Iconic Photograph -- Chapter 3: Reading against the Gaze -- Chapter 4: Ordinary Acts, Extraordinary Crimes -- Chapter 5: Describing Atrocity -- Chapter 6: A Day at the Beach -- Chapter 7: (Re)framing Gender -- Chapter 8: A Pedagogy of Witnessing -- Contributors -- Index. |
3A1654834858.jsonld | Elementary Functions : Algorithms and Implementation | This textbook presents the concepts and tools necessary to understand, build, and implement algorithms for computing elementary functions (e.g., logarithms, exponentials, and the trigonometric functions). Both hardware- and software-oriented algorithms are included, along with issues related to accurate floating-point implementation. This third edition has been updated and expanded to incorporate the most recent advances in the field, new elementary function algorithms, and function software. After a preliminary chapter that briefly introduces some fundamental concepts of computer arithmetic, such as floating-point arithmetic and redundant number systems, the text is divided into three main parts. Part I considers the computation of elementary functions using algorithms based on polynomial or rational approximations and using table-based methods; the final chapter in this section deals with basic principles of multiple-precision arithmetic. Part II is devoted to a presentation of “shift-and-add” algorithms (hardware-oriented algorithms that use additions and shifts only). Issues related to accuracy, including range reduction, preservation of monotonicity, and correct rounding, as well as some examples of implementation are explored in Part III. Numerous examples of command lines and full programs are provided throughout for various software packages, including Maple, Sollya, and Gappa. New to this edition are an in-depth overview of the IEEE-754-2008 standard for floating-point arithmetic; a section on using double- and triple-word numbers; a presentation of new tools for designing accurate function software; and a section on the Toom-Cook family of multiplication algorithms. The techniques presented in this book will be of interest to implementers of elementary function libraries or circuits and programmers of numerical applications. Additionally, graduate and advanced undergraduate students, professionals, and researchers in scientific computing, numerical analysis, software engineering, and computer engineering will find this a useful reference and resource. PRAISE FOR PREVIOUS EDITIONS “[T]his book seems like an essential reference for the experts (which I'm not). More importantly, this is an interesting book for the curious (which I am). In this case, you'll probably learn many interesting things from this book. If you teach numerical analysis or approximation theory, then this book will give you some good examples to discuss in class." — MAA Reviews (Review of Second Edition) "The rich content of ideas sketched or presented in some detail in this book is supplemented by a list of over three hundred references, most of them of 1980 or more recent. The book also contains some relevant typical programs." — Zentralblatt MATH (Review of Second Edition) “I think that the book will be very valuable to students both in numerical analysis and in computer science. I found [it to be] well written and containing much interesting material, most of the time disseminated in specialized papers published in specialized journals difficult to find." — Numerical Algorithms (Review of First Edition). Introduction -- Introduction to Computer Arithmetic -- Part I: Algorithms Based on Polynomial Approximation and/or Table Lookup, Multiple-Precision Evaluation of Functions -- The Classical Theory of Polynomial or Rational Approximations -- Polynomial Approximations with Special Constraints -- Polynomial Evaluation -- Table-Based Methods -- Multiple-Precision Evaluation of Functions -- Part II: Shift-and-Add Algorithms -- Introduction to Shift-and-Add Algorithms -- The CORDIC Algorithm -- Some Other Shift-and-Add Algorithms -- Part III: Range Reduction, Final Rounding, and Exceptions -- Range Reduction -- Final Rounding -- Miscellaneous -- Examples of Implementation -- References -- Index. |
3A1668230771.jsonld | How to kill the Scrum monster : quick start to agile Scrum methodology and the scrum master role | Implement Scrum or improve how Scrum works in your team or organization using this concise, sharp, and programmatic book. You will quickly learn what you need to know without getting confused with unnecessary details.-- |
3A1623161819.jsonld | Teaching comics and graphic narratives : essays on theory, strategy and practice | "The essays in this collection discuss how comics and graphic narratives can be useful primary texts and learning tools in college and university classes across different disciplines. The book brings together discussions among teacher-scholars to advance the scholarship on teaching comics and graphic narratives--and provides scholars with useful references, critical approaches, and particular case studies"--Provided by publisher |
3A086480197.jsonld | Value driven management : how to create and maximize value over time for organizational success | pt. I.Value Creation and Maximization Over Time: Value Driven Management as a Comprehensive Philosophy of Management.Ch. 1.Value Creation: There Is No Going Back!Ch. 2.Values and Value Creation in the Proactive New Organization.Ch. 3.Enlarging and Clarifying the Concept of Value Over Time.Ch. 4.The Underlying Assumptions of Value Driven Management --pt. II.Value Drivers in Action.Ch. 5.The Creation and Destruction of Value Over Time: Cases, Examples, and Anecdotes --pt. III.Implementing Value Driven Management.Ch. 6.The Balancing Act: Making Value Driven Management Work in Your Organization.Ch. 7.What's in It for Me? Value Driven Management and Personal Happiness. "According to Value Driven Management, companies that want to survive and prosper in today's globalized economy need to do more than single-mindedly pursue the transient economic value represented by increased quarterly profits, high stock prices, and shareholder wealth. Instead, they must create value that can be sustained over time." "Value Driven Management explains how to do just that. Starting with the premise that what people value drives their actions, the book introduces eight "value drivers": external cultural values, internal cultural values, employee values, supplier values, customer values, third-party values, competitor values, and owner values. Only by integrating these value drivers into an organization's leadership, management, and decision-making processes can an organization achieve and maintain success."--Jacket |
3A1649906072.jsonld | Optimization for Decision Making : Linear and Quadratic Models | Linear Equations, Inequalities, Linear Programming: A Brief Historical Overview -- Formulation Techniques Involving Transformations of Variables -- Intelligent Modeling Essential to Get Good Results -- Polyhedral Geometry -- Duality Theory and Optimality Conditions for LPs -- Revised Simplex Variants of the Primal and Dual Simplex Methods and Sensitivity Analysis -- Interior Point Methods for LP -- Sphere Methods for LP -- Quadratic Programming Models. Optimization for Decision Making: Linear and Quadratic Models is a first-year graduate level text that illustrates how to formulate real world problems using linear and quadratic models; how to use efficient algorithms – both old and new – for solving these models; and how to draw useful conclusions and derive useful planning information from the output of these algorithms. While almost all the best known books on LP are essentially mathematics books with only very simple modeling examples, this book emphasizes the intelligent modeling of real world problems, and the author presents several illustrative examples and includes many exercises from a variety of application areas. Additionally, where other books on LP only discuss the simplex method, and perhaps existing interior point methods, this book also discusses a new method based on using the sphere which uses matrix inversion operations sparingly and may be well suited to solving large-scale LPs, as well as those that may not have the property of being very sparse. Individual chapters present a brief history of mathematical modeling; methods for formulating real world problems; three case studies that illustrate the need for intelligent modeling; classical theory of polyhedral geometry that plays an important part in the study of LP; duality theory, optimality conditions for LP, and marginal analysis; variants of the revised simplex method; interior point methods; sphere methods; and extensions of sphere method to convex and nonconvex quadratic programs and to 0-1 integer programs through quadratic formulations. End of chapter exercises are provided throughout, with additional exercises available online. |
3A1613777000.jsonld | The myth about global civil society : domestic politics to ban landmines | Introduction: non-governmental organisations and the Landmines Treaty -- IR and NGOs : a simplistic story? -- NGOs and materialist state theory -- The landmines campaign and the Ottawa Convention : the involvement of NGOs in banning landmines -- Discourses and interests -- The state and civil society |
3A1031630279.jsonld | Mathematical methods in continuum mechanics of solids | This book primarily focuses on rigorous mathematical formulation and treatment of static problems arising in continuum mechanics of solids at large or small strains, as well as their various evolutionary variants, including thermodynamics. As such, the theory of boundary- or initial-boundary-value problems for linear or quasilinear elliptic, parabolic or hyperbolic partial differential equations is the main underlying mathematical tool, along with the calculus of variations. Modern concepts of these disciplines as weak solutions, polyconvexity, quasiconvexity, nonsimple materials, materials with various rheologies or with internal variables are exploited. This book is accompanied by exercises with solutions, and appendices briefly presenting the basic mathematical concepts and results needed. It serves as an advanced resource and introductory scientific monograph for undergraduate or PhD students in programs such as mathematical modeling, applied mathematics, computational continuum physics and engineering, as well as for professionals working in these fields. |
3A1752013905.jsonld | Turkey and the European Union : key dynamics and future scenarios | This volume studies the enduring complexity of EU–Turkey relations in all their thematic dimensions and with a view to offering future scenarios. It accomplishes three important aims. First, following a narratives analysis, the chapters analysing identity, politics, the economy, security, migration and energy identify the key dynamics that impact the relationship in these areas. Second, they evaluate how these drivers influence the three ideal-type future scenarios of convergence, cooperation and conflict, subsequently offering a relationship scenario for each thematic area. Third, the volume synthesises the chapters’ individual findings and argues that conflictual cooperation is the most likely scenario in future EU–Turkey relations. With contributions by İbrahim Semih Akçomak, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Lorenzo Colantoni, Angeliki Dimitriadi, Atila Eralp, Erkan Erdil, Doruk Ergun, Hanna Lisa Hauge, Ayhan Kaya, Ebru Ece Özbey, Bahar Rumelili, Beken Saatçioğlu, Eduard Soler i Lecha, Melike Sökmen, Funda Tekin, Sinan Ülgen and Wolfgang Wessels. Dieser Band untersucht die anhaltende Komplexität in den EU-Türkei Beziehungen unter Berücksichtigung aller relevanten thematischen Dimensionen und mit dem Ziel, ein plausibles Zukunftsszenario herauszuarbeiten. Nach einer Narrativ-Analyse identifizieren einzelne Kapitel wichtige Entwicklungen, die die Beziehungen in den Bereichen Politik, Sicherheit, Wirtschaft, Energie, Migration und Identität beeinflussen. Sie ordnen die Beziehungen im Lichte dreier idealtypischer Szenarien von Konvergenz, Kooperation und Konflikt ein und benennen das wahrscheinlichste Szenario für den jeweiligen Bereich. Basierend auf diesen Erkenntnissen wird das Szenario der konfliktreichen Kooperation für die mittelfristigen EU-Türkei Beziehungen identifiziert und im Detail erläutert. Mit Beiträgen von İbrahim Semih Akçomak, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Lorenzo Colantoni, Angeliki Dimitriadi, Atila Eralp, Erkan Erdil, Doruk Ergun, Hanna Lisa Hauge, Ayhan Kaya, Ebru Ece Özbey, Bahar Rumelili, Beken Saatçioğlu, Eduard Soler i Lecha, Melike Sökmen, Funda Tekin, Sinan Ülgen und Wolfgang Wessels. |
3A1856415996.jsonld | Handbook of ifo Surveys | As one of the main pillars of the ifo Institute's economic research, the ifo Business Survey has been conducted monthly since 1949, a year after the foundation of the ifo Institute. Since then, ifo has extended its survey activity by developing and administering additional business, expert, and public opinion surveys on a variety of topics. The survey results are of great value for economic research and provide an important basis for scientific policy analysis, while the indicators from the ifo Business Survey have proved to be indispensable for business cycle analysis and economic forecasting. In particular, the main indicator resulting from the ifo Business Survey, the ifo Business Climate Index for Germany, has emerged one of the most important early indicators for the German economy. Its monthly publication is frequently covered by the media and often impacts financial markets. This book provides a detailed overview of all ifo surveys. It outlines the methodological background, and provides selective and illustrative results together with interpretations. Filled with many potential applications of the survey results, the chapters also emphasize the immense research potential of the results and microdata. The structure of the book allows each chapter to be read and understood separately. First, the focus is on the ifo Business Survey with its many different results and indicators. Subsequently we present all other surveys, such as the ifo HR Survey, the ifo Education Survey, and the Economic Experts Survey, with selected results. All the microdata sets of the ifo surveys are collected at the LMU-ifo Economics & Business Data Center (EBDC). The final chapter of this book describes this data pool and how researchers can access it free-of-charge. |
3A1653048514.jsonld | Gerber–Shiu Risk Theory | Motivated by the many and long-standing contributions of H. Gerber and E. Shiu, this book gives a modern perspective on the problem of ruin for the classical Cramér–Lundberg model and the surplus of an insurance company. The book studies martingales and path decompositions, which are the main tools used in analysing the distribution of the time of ruin, the wealth prior to ruin and the deficit at ruin. Recent developments in exotic ruin theory are also considered. In particular, by making dividend or tax payments out of the surplus process, the effect on ruin is explored. Gerber-Shiu Risk Theory can be used as lecture notes and is suitable for a graduate course. Each chapter corresponds to approximately two hours of lectures. Introduction -- The Wald martingale and the maximum -- The Kella-Whitt martingale and the minimum -- Scale functions and ruin probabilities -- The Gerber–Shiu measure -- Reflection strategies -- Perturbation-at-maximum strategies -- Refraction strategies -- Concluding discussion -- References. |
3A161532982X.jsonld | The Routledge companion to the French Revolution in world history | Introduction / Alan Forrest and Matthias Middell -- Section I. Global repercussions of the French Revolution -- The French Revolution in the global world of the eighteenth century / Matthias Middell -- The sister republics, or the ephemeral invention of a French Republican commonwealth / Pierre Serna -- Revolution in France, revolutions in the Caribbean / Frédéric Régent -- The French Revolution in Spanish America / Michael Zeuske -- Republic and the Muslim world: for a regenerated Mediterranean system / Rachida Tlili -- The French Revolution and the Islamic world of the Middle East and North Africa / Ian Coller -- Section II. Topics of a transnational history of the French Revolution: comparisons -- Cross-channel entanglements: 1689-1789 / Robert H. Griffiths -- Atlantic entanglements: comparing the French and American revolutions / David Andress -- Japan's Meiji Revolution: an alternative model of revolution? / Hiroshi Mitani -- Section III. Topics of a transnational history of the French Revolution: entanglements -- War and cultural transfer in Europe / Alan Forrest -- Napoleon and Europe: the legacy of the French Revolution / Annie Jourdan -- Irish revolutionaries and the French Revolution / Ultán Gillen -- British radicals and revolutionary France: historiography, history and images / Pascal Dupuy -- Section IV. Traditions of seeing and interpreting the French Revolution -- The French Revolution seen from the Terres Australes / Peter McPhee -- The evolution of the Russian discourse on the French Revolution / Alexander Tchoudinov -- Revolutionary violence of the French type and its influence on the Chinese Revolution / Gao Yi |
3A164144469X.jsonld | Children and crime | Introduction -- Circumstances under which children become crime victims -- Child maltreatment overview -- Research on child maltreatment -- Children as eyewitnesses -- Child protective services -- Children as offenders overview -- Understanding children as crime perpetrators -- Gender, race, and juvenile delinquency -- Precursors of youth violence -- The juvenile justice system -- Child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency |
3A817347216.jsonld | Web programming with Dart | Web Programming with Dart is for programmers who want to master the new Dart programming language from Google, and also web developers who want to understand how Dart can integrate perfectly with HTML5 and CSS3. With this book you will understand the ins and outs of the language, how the tools work, and how to get the most from the core functions and libraries. Web Programming with Dart is a practical, example-led book, with case studies involving developing UI animations for the web, working with web services such as JSON, server side Dart applications, and the new Polymer.dart library for advanced HTML UI web components generation. Take a full tour of Dart's core features and its advanced functionality Learn the tools that come with Dart SDK and the most important libraries. Additionally you will work with the newest Polymer.dart library for web component creation. Develop your own command-line and server side applications and, of course, web applications with Dart |
3A720052289.jsonld | Ad hoc mobile wireless networks : principles, protocols, and applications | "Communication between various devices makes it possible to provide unique and innovative services. Although this inter-device communication is a very powerful mechanism, it is also a complex and clumsy mechanism, leading to a lot of complexity in the present day systems. This not only makes networking difficult but limits its flexibility as well. Many standards exist today for connecting various devices. At the same time, every device has to support more than one standard to make it inter-operable between different devices. Take the example of setting up a network in offices. Right now, entire office buildings have to make provisions for lengths of cable that stretch kilometers through conduits in the walls, floors and ceilings to workers' desks. In the last few years, many wireless connectivity standards and technologies have emerged. These technologies enable users to connect a wide range of computing and telecommunications devices easily and simply, without the need to buy, carry, or connect cables. These technologies deliver opportunities for rapid ad hoc connections, and the possibility of automatic, unconscious, connections between devices. They will virtually eliminate the need to purchase additional or proprietary cabling to connect individual devices, thus creating the possibility of using mobile data in a variety of applications. Wired local area networks (LANs) have been very successful in the last few years and now with the help of these wireless connectivity technologies, wireless LANs (WLANs) have started emerging as a much more powerful and flexible alternatives to the wired LANs"-- |
3A618462538.jsonld | Production Grids in Asia : Applications, Developments and Global Ties | Production Grids in Asia: Applications, Developments and Global Ties, an edited volume, is based on ISGC (International Symposium on Grid Computing), one of the most prestigious annual events in Asia. It brings together scientists and engineers worldwide to exchange ideas, present challenges/solutions, and introduce future development in the field of Grid Computing. ISGC 2008 was held at Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan in April 2008. The edited proceedings present international projects in Grid operation, Grid Middleware and e-Science applications. Leading Grid projects from Asia-Pacific are also covered. Production Grids in Asia: Applications, Developments and Global Ties is designed for a professional audience composed of industry researchers and practitioners within the Grid community. This volume is also suitable for advanced-level students in computer science. |
3A1654867632.jsonld | Quantum Theory and Statistical Thermodynamics : Principles and Worked Examples | Basics -- Simple Examples -- Atoms and Molecules -- Decay and Scattering -- Thermal Equilibrium -- Fluctuations and Dissipation -- Mathematical Appendix -- Glossary. This textbook presents a concise yet detailed introduction to quantum physics. Concise, because it condenses the essentials to a few principles. Detailed, because these few principles – necessarily rather abstract – are illustrated by several telling examples. A fairly complete overview of the conventional quantum mechanics curriculum is the primary focus, but the huge field of statistical thermodynamics is covered as well. The text explains why a few key discoveries shattered the prevailing broadly accepted classical view of physics. First, matter appears to consist of particles which, when propagating, resemble waves. Consequently, some observable properties cannot be measured simultaneously with arbitrary precision. Second, events with single particles are not determined, but are more or less probable. The essence of this is that the observable properties of a physical system are to be represented by non-commuting mathematical objects instead of real numbers. Chapters on exceptionally simple, but highly instructive examples illustrate this abstract formulation of quantum physics. The simplest atoms, ions, and molecules are explained, describing their interaction with electromagnetic radiation as well as the scattering of particles. A short introduction to many particle physics with an outlook on quantum fields follows. There is a chapter on maximally mixed states of very large systems, that is statistical thermodynamics. The following chapter on the linear response to perturbations provides a link to the material equations of continuum physics. Mathematical details which would hinder the flow of the main text have been deferred to an appendix. The book addresses university students of physics and related fields. It will attract graduate students and professionals in particular who wish to systematize or refresh their knowledge of quantum physics when studying specialized texts on solid state and materials physics, advanced optics, and other modern fields. |
3A160459442X.jsonld | A critical history of German film | Introduction : critical film history and German studies -- Early German film history 1895-1918 -- Weimar cinema 1919-1933 -- Nazi cinema 1933-1945 -- German cinema at the zero hour 1945-1949 -- Postwar East German cinema 1949-1989 -- Postwar West German cinema 1949-1989 -- German film after reunification 1990-2010 |
3A818724501.jsonld | Pro .NET performance : [optimize your C# applications ; make your users happier and your code snappier by maximizing the performance of your applications] | The book is full of C♯ code samples and tips to help you squeeze every bit of juice from your application--lower memory utilization, consistent CPU usage, and fewer I/O operations across the network and disk. Pro .NET Performance will change the way you think about .NET application development.-- Performance metrics -- Performance measurement -- Type internals -- Garbage collection -- Collections and generics -- Concurrency and parallelism -- Networking, I/O, and serialization -- Unsafe code and interoperability -- Algorithm optimization -- Performance patterns -- Web application performance |
3A1601138644.jsonld | Biomaterials : principles and practices | "Most current applications of biomaterials involve structural functions, even in those organs and systems which are not primarily structural in their nature, or very simple chemical or electrical functions. Complex chemical functions such as those of the liver and complex electrical or electrochemical functions such as those of the brain and sense organs cannot be carried out by biomaterials at this time. With these basic concepts in mind, this book focuses on biomaterials consisting of different materials such as metallic, ceramic, polymeric, and composite. It highlights the impact of recent advances in the area of nano- and microtechnology on biomaterial design"--Provided by publisher |
3A790811138.jsonld | Designing food safety and equipment reliability through maintenance engineering | "Existing maintenance engineering techniques pursue equipment reliabiltiy with a focus on minimal costs, but in the food industry, food safety is the most critical issue. This book identifies how to ensure food product safety through maintenance engineering in a way that produces added value and generates real profits for your organization. Integrating food safety techniques with reliability and maintenance engineering techniques, Designing food safety and equipment reliability through maintenance engineering details a maintenance design process that captures all conceivable critical factors in food manufacturing lines. While maintenance engineering normally starts with equipment reliability, this book starts wiht product safety to identify criticalities and maintenance solutions."--Back cover |
3A1655065645.jsonld | Convex Variational Problems : Linear, Nearly Linear and Anisotropic Growth Conditions | The author emphasizes a non-uniform ellipticity condition as the main approach to regularity theory for solutions of convex variational problems with different types of non-standard growth conditions. This volume first focuses on elliptic variational problems with linear growth conditions. Here the notion of a "solution" is not obvious and the point of view has to be changed several times in order to get some deeper insight. Then the smoothness properties of solutions to convex anisotropic variational problems with superlinear growth are studied. In spite of the fundamental differences, a non-uniform ellipticity condition serves as the main tool towards a unified view of the regularity theory for both kinds of problems |
3A1024814270.jsonld | Engaging Young Children : lessons from research about quality in early childhood education and care | The first years of life lay the foundations for a child’s future development and learning. Many countries have increased their financial support for provision of early childhood education and care (ECEC) over the past years. More recently, the focus of debate has been shifting from expanding access to affordable ECEC to enhancing its quality. A growing body of research suggests that the magnitude of the benefits for children will depend on the level of quality of early childhood services, with especially strong evidence in the case of disadvantaged children. In light of budgetary constraints, policy makers require the latest knowledge base of the quality dimensions that are most important for ensuring children's development and early learning. However, current research is often narrow in focus or limited to programme-level or national-level conclusions. This book expands the knowledge base on this topic. It draws lessons from a cross-national literature review and meta-analysis of the relationship between early childhood education and care structure (e.g. child-staff ratios, staff training and qualifications), process quality (i.e. the quality of staff-child interactions and developmental activities), and links to child development and learning. This report concludes with key insights, as well as avenues for further research. It was co-funded by the European Union. |
3A1809493366.jsonld | Al Wasl Plaza : Dubai Expo 2020 | In the book 'Al Wasl Plaza: Dubai Expo 2020' the architects, Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture highlight the inspiration and innovation of the design of Al Wasl Plaza. The book explores each aspect of the project including the garden, the trellis, three office buildings, and two hotel buildings, all of which serve to define the centre of Expo 2020. The book is essentially divided into three phases of design. The first phase focuses on the inspiration and conception of the project. Architectural studies, sketches, and models show the process that led to the final iconic form. The second phase introduces each of the parcels including the garden, trellis, offices, hotels, the Leadership Pavilion, and the Arrivals Plaza. Each chapter illustrates the design process, architectural details, and the development of the technical systems. The third and final phase summarises the construction process, sustainability achievements, and looks to the future to reveal the District 2020 legacy master plan concept by AS+GG |
3A1782150471.jsonld | Channelizers and reconstructors : a design guide | "Channelizers and reconstructors find use in a wide variety of signal processing systems across many industries, including aerospace and telecommunications. This book represents a comprehensive collection of techniques, tips and tricks for the practicing digital signal processing professional that designs and implements wideband communications and sensing systems. Collected from a wide range of sources from across the industry and academia, rich in text, graphics, and examples, this book brings together a comprehensive assortment of techniques that are needed to design and field channelizers and reconstructors in real-world systems. Through a wide range of analysis and worked examples in the Matlab (TM) programming language, the reader is guided step-by-step through the process of designing and implementing these systems in the most efficient way possible"-- |
3A1832241564.jsonld | Diabolische Vigilanz : Studien zur Inszenierung von Wachsamkeit in Teufelserzählungen des Spätmittelalters und der Frühen Neuzeit | While God looks directly into people's souls as inspector cordium, the relationship of observation between man and the devil appears as an immanent and indirect, lateral and potentially reciprocal one. The contributions in this volume describe how late medieval and early modern stories narratively modeled such constellations of attention, thereby negotiating mechanisms of social control together with forms of vigilant self-observation |
3A897751736.jsonld | Handbook of research on applied learning theory and design in modern education | "This book provides international perspectives from education professors and researchers, cyberneticists, psychologists, and instructional designers on the processes and mechanisms of the global learning environment"--Provided by publisher. |
3A1818434369.jsonld | The Bloomsbury handbook to Toni Morrison | "The first major collection of critical essays to appear since Morrison's death in mid-2019, this book contains peviously unpublished essays which both acknowledge the universal significance of her writing even as they map new directions. Essayists include pre-eminent Morrison scholars, as well as scholars who work in cultural criticism, African American letters, American modernism, and women's writing. The book includes work on Morrison as a public intellectual; work which places Morrison's writing within today's currents of contemporary fiction; work which draws together Morrison's "trilogy" of Beloved, Jazz, and Paradise alongside Dos Passos' USA trilogy; work which links Morrison to such Black Atlantic artists as Lubaina Himid and others as well as work which offers a reading of "influence" that goes both directions between Morrison and Faulkner. Another cluster of essays treats seldom-discussed works by Morrison, including an essay on Morrison as writer of children's books and as speaker for children's education. In addition, a "Teaching Morrison" section is designed to help teachers and critics who teach Morrison in undergraduate classes. The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison will be wide-ranging, provocative, and satisfying; a fitting tribute to one of the greatest American novelists"-- |
3A1655606689.jsonld | Römische Erinnerungsräume : Heiligenmemoria und kollektive Identitäten im Rom des 3. bis 5. Jahrhunderts n. Chr | Between the 3rd and 5th centuries AD Rome underwent a process of transformation which profoundly marked the urban, social, and religious structure of the city. Examing the memory of saints, this study inspects a central field in which this structural change took place. The main themes are, on the one hand, the connection between memoria and various group identities, and, on the other, the specific Christian concept of remembrance, which in turn formed an important prerequisite for the change from a city of late Classical Antiquity to an early medieval city |
3A1657051188.jsonld | Teachers and teacher performance in Bihar : implications for teacher education | Who are the teachers? -- What are classrooms like? -- Teacher assessments -- Generating composite scores for teacher |
3A1651636311.jsonld | High-Temperature Superconductors | This book presents the current knowledge about superconductivity in high Tc cuprate superconductors. There is a large scientific interest and great potential for technological applications. The book discusses all the aspects related to all families of cuprate superconductors discovered so far. Beginning with the phenomenon of superconductivity, the book covers: the structure of cuprate HTSCs, critical currents, flux pinning, synthesis of HTSCs, proximity effect and SQUIDs, possible applications of high Tc superconductors and theories of superconductivity. Though a high Tc theory is still awaited, this book describes the present scenario and BCS and RVB theories. The second edition was significantly extended by including film-substrate lattice matching and buffer layer considerations in thin film HTSCs, brick-wall microstructure in the epitaxial films, electronic structure of the CuO2 layer in cuprates, s-wave and d-wave coupling in HTSCs and possible scenarios of theories of high Tc superconductivity. |
3A014247275.jsonld | The tools of empire : technology and European imperialism in the nineteenth century | Introduction : Technology, imperialism, and history -- Part 1 : Steamboats and quinine, tools of penetration. Secret gunboats of the East India Company -- The Nemesis in China -- Malaria, quinine, and the penetration of Africa -- Part 2 : Guns and conquests. Weapons and colonial wars of the early nineteenth century -- The breechloader revolution -- African arms -- Arms gap and colonial confrontations -- Part 3 : The communications revolution. Steam and the overland route to India -- The emergence of efficient steamships -- The Suez Canal -- The submarine cable -- The global thalassocracies -- The railroads of India -- African transportation : dreams and realities -- The legacy of technological imperialism |
3A1744973091.jsonld | Handbook of research methods and applications in heterodox economics | Despite the important methodological critiques of the mainstream offered by heterodox economics, the dominant research method taught in heterodox programmes remains econometrics. This compelling Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to a range of alternative research methods, invaluable for analysing the data prominent in heterodox studies. Providing a solid basis for a mixed methods approach to economic investigations, the expertly crafted contributions are split into three distinct sections: philosophical foundation and research strategy, research methods and data collection, and applications. Introductions to a host of invaluable methods such as survey, historical, ethnographic, experimental and mixed approaches, together with factor, cluster, complex and social network analytics, are complemented by descriptions of applications in practice. Practical and expansive, this Handbook is highly pertinent for students and scholars of economics, particularly those dedicated to heterodox approaches, as it provides a solid reference for mixed methods not available in mainstream economics research methods courses Introduction -- Part I. Philosophical foundation and research strategy -- 1. Critical realism as a social ontology for economics / Jamie Morgan -- 2. Critical realism, method of grounded theory, and theory construction / Frederic S. Lee -- 3. An interdisciplinary perspective on heterodoxy / Rick Szostak -- Part II. Research methods and data collection -- 4. Separate or symbiotic? Quantitative and qualitative methods in (heterodox) economics research / Lynda Pickbourn and Smita Ramnarain -- 5. Historical method and data / Natalia Bracarense -- 6. Using survey methods in heterodox economic research / Tiago Cardão-Pito -- 7. Qualitative and ethnographic methods in economics / Amit Basole and Smita Ramnarain -- 8. Experimental methods and data / Andrew Mearman -- 9. Factor analysis, cluster analysis, and nonparametric research methods for heterodox economic analysis / Michael J. Murray -- 10. Regression analysis: a review / Paul Downward -- 11. Critical realism, econometrics, and heterodox economics / Nuno Ornelas Martins -- 12. Social network analysis / Bruce Cronin -- 13. Agent-based computational economics: simulation tools for heterodox research / Jonathan F. Cogliano and Xiao Jiang -- 14. Modeling as a research method in heterodox economics / Frederic S. Lee -- 15. Mixed research methods and data triangulation: an answer for economics? / Ioana Negru -- Part III. Applications -- 16. A mixed methods approach to investment behavior / Armağan Gezici -- 17. Price stability / Gyun Cheol Gu -- 18. Studying low-income households / Lynne Chester -- 19. Marketization and human service providers: an industry study / Bob Davidson -- 20. A qualitative case study of the Mexican stock market (BMV) from the perspective of critical realism and grounded theory / Jesús Muñoz -- 21. Looking into the black box: policy as a contested process / Jamee K. Moudud -- 22. Modeling the economy as a whole: stock-flow models / Gennaro Zezza -- 23. A mixed methods approach to investigating the employment decisions of aged care workers in Australia / Therese Jefferson, Siobhan Austen, Rhonda Sharp, Rachel Ong, Valerie Adams and Gill Lewin -- 24. Combining qualitative and quantitative methods in field work: an application to research on gender, migration and remittances in Ghana / Lynda Pickbourn -- 25. A data triangulation approach to understanding the behavior of small landholders in Bulgaria / Mieke Meurs -- 26. Measuring the intra-household distribution of wealth in Ecuador: qualitative insights and quantitative outcomes / Carmen Diana Deere and Zachary Catanzarite -- 27. The use of quasi-experimental design in urban and regional research and political economy / Thomas E. Lambert and Michael Bewley -- 28. Detecting business cycles / Susan K. Schroeder -- 29. A régulationist analysis of an industry sector using mixed research methods / Lynne Chester. |
3A1622575113.jsonld | The queer child, or growing sideways in the twentieth century | Growing sideways, or why children appear to get queerer in the Twentieth century -- The smart child is the masochistic child : pedagogy, pedophilia, and the pleasures of harm -- Why the (lesbian) child requires an interval of animal : the family dog as a time machine -- What drives the sexual child? the mysterious motions of children's motives -- Feeling like killing? murderous motives of the queer child -- Oedipus raced, or the child queered by color : birthing "your" parents via intrusions -- Money is the child's queer ride : sexing and racing around the future |
3A1683557158.jsonld | Jeanette Winterson and Religion | "Since the publication of her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Jeanette Winterson quickly established herself as a powerful and insightful writer on sexuality and gender. However, the profound and persistent religious themes of her work have received much less critical attention. Jeanette Winterson and Religion is the first in-depth study of the ways in which Winterson navigates the sacred and the profane in the full range of her writing, from her first novel to later works such as The PowerBook and The Stone Gods. This book reads the author's work alongside the theological turn in the thought of such theorists as Alain Badiou, John D. Caputo and Julia Kristeva as well as feminist and queer theologians such as Catherine Keller and Marcella Althaus-Reid. In this way, Jeanette Winterson and Religion reveals how Jeanette Winterson stakes out a unique and intriguing post-secular literary form of the sacred."-- 1. -- Introduction 2. -- 'I Love Both of Them': Queer Love and the Religious in Oranges are not the Only Fruit -- 3. -- 'Colours and Folly': Retelling the Noah Story in Boating For Beginners 4. -- The Love Event in The Passion 5. -- Sexing the Cherry and the Monstrous Maternal 6. -- Written on the Body and the Negative Theology Tradition 7. -- Art & Lies: Literature in a Neoliberal Age 8. -- Gut Symmetries, New Physics and Kabbalah 9. -- The PowerBook and Virtual Culture 10.Lighthousekeeping and the Religious Vocation 11.The Stone Gods' Climate Change Apocalypse 12. Conclusion |
3A1679529056.jsonld | Life itself is an art : the life and work of Erich Fromm | "Erich Fromm (1900-1980) is known to most readers as the author of the international bestseller The Art of Loving (1956). What may be less widely known is that Fromm was a social psychoanalyst whose psychoanalytic theories, developed around a humanistic concept of man and society, have had a profound impact on many fields and disciplines: on social life and societal organization, on politics, on religion, on psychotherapy and, last but not least, on the practice of mindfulness. Rainer Funk was Erich Fromm's last assistant. He wrote his dissertation about Fromm, was designated by Fromm's last will to be his sole literary executor, and is the editor of Fromm's writings. From his very intimate knowledge of Fromm's life and ideas, and his access to an archive that includes 6,000 letters, Funk introduces Fromm's central concepts and examines them in relation to Fromm's lived experiences and to his idea that life itself is an art. The question of "the art of living" runs through all of the chapters, from the Introduction, in which Funk describes meeting Fromm for the first time in 1972, to the last chapter, in which Funk reflects on the impact of Fromm's social-psychoanalytic writings and his efforts to live well."-- Introduction: direct encounter -- Roads to the unconscious -- The individual as a social being -- How man succeeds -- How society succeeds at the expense of man -- Ways toward direct encounter. |
3A1727316193.jsonld | The deliverance of others : reading literature in a global age | When otherness overcomes reason -- Whose story is it? -- Art : a foreign exchange -- Pacific Ocean feeling : affect, otherness, mediation |
3A775405272.jsonld | Pollen Biology : A Laboratory Manual | Pollen grains are everywhere - in the air, in the water, in soil and in the food we eat. Pollen has direct relevance in agriculture, horticulture, plant breeding, crop improvement and biotechnology. They are further of use for montioring cytotoxic effects - by herbicides, pesticides and pollutants - testing for allergic reactions, and for basic studies on gene expression, research on differentiation and polarity. Detailed instructions of the standard techniques, which have all been tested and improvised by the authors, are given, such as collection and storage of pollen, pollen culture, germination, tests for viability, incompatibility and isolation of protoplasts. Introduced by an explanation of the principles involved, the step-by step protocols are complemented by personal notes and precautions, specifying the reagents used and various appendices on basic and specific requirements for laboratory exercises on pollen |
3A1614720681.jsonld | Rache und Triumph : Krieg, Gefühle und Gedenken in der Moderne | Images of the enemy continue to play a significant role in the commemorative activities of many nations, and have often been cast in permanently offensive form in war memorials. For the first time, Loretana de Libero examines these "ardent passions" and their artistic expression in the memorial landscapes of Germany and its wartime enemies from the perspective of research on emotions and stereotypes |
3A639430228.jsonld | PostgreSQL 9.0 : high performance ; accelerate your PostgreSQL system and avoid the common pitfalls that can slow it down | PostgreSQL database servers have a common set of problems they encounter as their usage gets heavier and requirements more demanding. You could spend years discovering solutions to them all, step by step as you encounter them. Or you can just look in here. All successful database applications are destined to eventually run into issues scaling up their performance. Peek into the future of your PostgreSQL database's problems today. Know the warning signs to look for, and how to avoid the most common issues before they even happen. Surprisingly, most PostgreSQL database applications evolve in the same way: Choose the right hardware. Tune the operating system and server memory use. Optimize queries against the database, with the right indexes. Monitor every layer, from hardware to queries, using some tools that are inside PostgreSQL and others that are external. Using monitoring insight, continuously rework the design and configuration. On reaching the limits of a single server, break things up; connection pooling, caching, partitioning, and replication can all help handle increasing database workloads. The path to a high performance database system isn't always easy. But it doesn't have to be mysterious with the right guide. This book is a clear, step-by-step guide to optimizing and scaling up PostgreSQL database servers. - Publisher |
3A1813242445.jsonld | Intelligent cyber-physical systems for autonomous transportation | This book provides comprehensive discussion on key topics related to the usage and deployment of AI in urban transportation systems including drones. The book presents intelligent solutions to overcome the challenges of static approaches in the transportation sector to make them intelligent, adaptive, agile, and flexible. The book showcases different AI-deployment models, algorithms, and implementations related to intelligent cyber physical systems (CPS) along with their pros and cons. Even more, this book provides deep insights into the CPS specifically about the layered architecture and different planes, interfaces, and programmable network operations. The deployment models for AI-based CPS are also included with an aim towards the design of interoperable and intelligent CPS architectures by researchers in future. The authors present hands on practical implementations, deployment scenarios, and use cases related to different transportation scenarios. In the end, the design and research challenges, open issues, and future research directions are provided. Presents application use cases of AI-based cyber physical systems (CPS) in urban transportation; Includes practical models, algorithms and implementations for AI solutions; Includes detailed implementation of intelligent algorithms along with evaluation results. Part I Overview of Transportation Systems -- Transportation Systems -- Future Autonomous Transportation - Challenges and Prospective dimensions -- Part II Artificial Intelligence -- Artificial Intelligence -- Artificial Intelligence: Evolution, Benefits and Challenges -- Artificial Intelligence - Need, Evolution and Applications for Transportation Systems -- Artificial Intelligence Deployment in Transportation Systems -- Part III Cyber-Physical Systems -- Cyber-Physical Systems: Historical Evolution and Role in Future Autonomous Transportation -- Cyber Physical Systems in Transportation -- Part IV Application Use Cases of Autonomous Transportation Systems -- "Correlation between Traffic Lights and Emergency Vehicles in Intelligent Transportation System" -- Use Case for Underwater Transportation -- Advanced Signal Processing for Autonomous Transportation Big Data -- Deep neural network based prediction of high-speed train induced subway track vibration -- Advanced Complex Data Analysis of Autonomous Transportation for Smart City Industrial Environment -- A Meta Sensor Based Autonomous Vehicle Safety System for Collision Avoidance using Li-Fi Technology -- Part V Security Perspective in Intelligent Transportation Systems -- Secure Information Transmission in Intelligent Transportation Systems using Blockchain Technique -- "Privacy-preserved Mobile Crowdsensing for Intelligent Transportation Systems". |
3A1697938019.jsonld | The Routledge companion to inter-American studies | pt. I. Key ideas, methods, and developments -- pt. II. Theory put into practice : comparative, relational, and processual case studies -- pt. III. Power, politics, and asymmetries. |
3A1620177129.jsonld | Fluid-structure interactions in low-Reynolds-number flows | Fluid-structure interactions have been well studied over the years but most of the focus has been on high Reynolds number flows, inertially dominated flows where the drag force from the fluid typically varies as the square of the local fluid speed. There are though a large number of fluid-structure interaction problems at low values of the Reynolds number, where the fluid effects are dominated by viscosity and the drag force from the fluid typically varies linearly with the local fluid speed, which are applicable to many current research areas including hydrodynamics, microfluidics and hemodynamics. Edited by experts in complex fluids, Fluid-Structure Interactions in Low-Reynolds-Number Flows is the first book to bring together topics on this subject including elasticity of beams, flow in tubes, mechanical instabilities induced by complex liquids drying, blood flow, theoretical models for low-Reynolds number locomotion and capsules in flow. The book includes introductory chapters highlighting important background ideas about low Reynolds number flows and elasticity to make the subject matter more approachable to those new to the area across engineering, physics, chemistry and biology |
3A1759923885.jsonld | Sound change | "Understanding sound change through contemporary theory and historical evidence. Drawing examples from a range of world languages, this textbook introduces the ways in which speech sounds become different over time. It explores how we produce and hear particular sounds and how overall word shapes and the pronunciation of individual words change. The roles of phonetics and phonology, morphology and syntax, traditional formal models and recent exemplar-based work in sound change are all examined. In covering both structural and societal issues, the book integrates different kinds of historical evidence and different theories into a coherent understanding of the full process of sound change." |
3A797413464.jsonld | Handbook of the English novel of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries | Introduction -- Systematic questions. Christoph Bode: The English novel as a distinctly modern genre -- Alissa G. Karl: The novel in the economy, 1900 to the present -- Christoph Reinfandt: Genres: the novel between artistic ambition and popularity -- Ingrid Hotz-Davies: Gender: performing politics in prose? performativity, masculinity, feminism, queer -- Dirk Wiemann: The burden of representation: Reflections on class, ethnicity and the twentieth-century British novel -- Close readings. Russell West-Pavlov: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (1899/1902) -- Dirk Vanderbeke: James Joyce, Ulysses (1922) -- Ralf Schneider: E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924) -- Timo Müller: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (1927) -- Anya Heise-von der Lippe: Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932) -- Ingo Berensmeyer: Henry Green, Party Going (1939) -- Dirk Van Hulle: Samuel Beckett, Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable (1951,1958) -- Lars Eckstein: Sam Selvon, The Lonely Londoners (1956) -- Alice Ridout: Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook (1962) -- Brooke Lenz: John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman (1969) -- Jens Martin: Gurr B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates (1969) -- Astrid Erll: J. G. Farrell, The Empire Trilogy (1970-1978) -- Christoph Reinfandt: William Golding, Darkness Visible (1979) -- Miriam Wallraven: Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus (1984) -- Madelena Gonzalez: Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses (1988) -- Tatjana Pavlov-West: Jeanette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (1989) -- Lena Steveker: A. S. Byatt, Possession (1990) -- Gerold Sedlmayr: Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials (1995-2000) -- Michael Meyer: Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000) -- Dirk Wiemann: David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (2004) -- Raphael Zähringer: China Miéville, Embassytown (2011) -- Andrew James Johnston: Hilary Mantel, The Thomas Cromwell Trilogy (2009) -- Christoph Reinfandt: Tom McCarthy, Satin Island (2015) |
3A1618374222.jsonld | New perspectives on Hispanic contact linguistics in the Americas | "...characterizes the nature of the contact situation: Spanish in contact with indigenous languages; Spanish in contact with coerced-migration languages; Spanish in contact with free-migration languages; and Spanish in contact with languages outside of Latin America but still within the Americas"-- Page [4] of cover Introduction / Sandro Sessarego and Melvin González-Rivera -- Maya-Spanish contact in Yucatan, Mexico: context and sociolinguistic implications / Jim Michnowicz -- Rapanui features in the morphosyntactic system of Easter Island Spanish / Verónica González López -- The formal Guaraní and Spanish of Paraguayan bilinguals / Shaw Nicholas Gynan, Ernesto Luis López Almada, Carlos Marino Lugo Bracho and María Eva Mansfield de Agüero -- Continuity and innovation in Peruvian Spanish: pragmatics and contact in (differential) object marking / Elisabeth Mayer and Manuel Delicado Cantero -- Borrowed clause combining patterns in two Arawakan languages: Baure and Paunaka / Switha Danielsen and Lena Terhart -- Codeswitching and borrowing in Aruban Papiamentu: the blurring of categories / Yolanda Rivera and Patrick-André Mather -- Nominal ellipses in an Afro-Hispanic language of Ecuador: the Choteño case / Sandro Sessarego and Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach --Cimarroneras in Venezuela: the role of isolated communities in the potential development of a Spanish Creole / Avizia Yim Long and Manuel Díaz-Campos -- The individual as the Locus of Variation and Change in a contact situation in Panama / Delano S. Lamy -- Romance language contact in Mexico: the case of Veneto-Spanish bilingualism / Hilary Barnes -- Portuguese/Portuñol in Misiones, Argentina: another "Fronterizo"? / John M. Lipsky -- Preposition stranding in a non-preposition stranding language: contact or language change? / Melvin González-Rivera, Ramón Padilla-Reyes, and John Rueda-Chaves -- Definite and indefinite articles in Nikkei Spanish / Ana María Díaz Collazos -- Doing being Boricua on the island and in the U.S. Midwest: perceptions of national identity and lateralization of /c/ in Puerto Rican Spanish / Wilfredo Valentín-Márquez -- Castilian in New York City: what can we learn from the future? / Rafael Orozco -- Language attitudes and linguistic identities in Miami / Diego Pascual y Cabo -- Heritage speakers' Spanish in California: how unbalanced bilingualism affects reverse construction of the gustar-type / Viola Miglio and Stefan Th. Gries -- Spanish and English in contact in the Cyber World / Antonio Medina-Rivera |
3A785602186.jsonld | Grimm legacies : the magical spell of the Grimms' folk and fairy tales | "In Grimm Legacies, esteemed literary scholar Jack Zipes explores the legacy of the Brothers Grimm in Europe and North America, from the nineteenth century to the present. Zipes reveals how the Grimms came to play a pivotal and unusual role in the evolution of Western folklore and in the history of the most significant cultural genre in the world--the fairy tale. Folklorists Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm sought to discover and preserve a rich abundance of stories emanating from an oral tradition, and encouraged friends, colleagues, and strangers to gather and share these tales. As a result, hundreds of thousands of wonderful folk and fairy tales poured into books throughout Europe and have kept coming. Zipes looks at the transformation of the Grimms' tales into children's literature, the Americanization of the tales, the "Grimm" aspects of contemporary tales, and the tales' utopian impulses. He shows that the Grimms were not the first scholars to turn their attention to folk tales, but were vital in expanding readership and setting the high standards for folk tale collecting that continue through the current era. Zipes concludes with a look at contemporary adaptations of the tales and raises questions about authenticity, target audience, and consumerism. With erudition and verve, Grimm Legacies examines the lasting universal influence of two brothers and their collected tales on today's storytelling world. "-- |
3A1010362860.jsonld | Roman Ingarden's philosophy of literature : a phenomenological account | Ingarden's relevance today -- Introduction to the concept of identity -- Some traditional approaches -- Ingarden's general ontology -- Nature and identity of a literary work in American aesthetics -- Nelson Goodman's syntactical identity -- Richard Wolheim's amendment -- Psychologism -- Semantic accounts -- Joseph Margolis's culturally emergent objects -- Phenomenological concept of identity -- Identity of a perceptual object -- The concept of intentionality -- The Concept of constitution -- Ideality and identity of the objectivities of understanding -- Husserl's theory of meaning -- Ingarden's objections to Husserl's transcendental idealism -- Hermeneutic challenges against the possibility of transcendental phenomenology -- Literary work as a schematic structure -- The notion of a 'purely intentional object' -- Schematism -- Structure of a literary work of art -- The stratum of linguistic sound formations -- The stratum of meanings -- Meanings of sentences -- The stratum of presented objects -- The stratum of schematized aspects In 'Roman Ingarden's Philosophy of Literature' Wojciech Chojna discusses Ingarden's theory of literary works and develops a phenomenological account of identity which accommodates differences in interpretations and value judgments without succumbing to relativism. The latter is overcome not through falling back on essentialism but from within relativism.0Literature offers us diverse experiences changing our perceptions of ourselves and the worlds we live in. Absolutism proclaiming unmitigated access to the meaning of literary texts is intolerant of differences and leads to violence in life. Conversely, relativism, in the illusory spirit of radical tolerance, turns meanings and values into historically contingent, incompatible interpretations, where communication and reconciliation is impossible, thus justifying ideological conflicts and violence |
3A654646082.jsonld | Standards : recipes for reality | This book investigates standards as the recipes that shape not only the physical world, but human social interactions. The author outlines the history of formal standards and describes how modern science came to be associated with the moral-technical project of standardization of both people and things. The author also explores how standards are intimately connected to power, empowering some but disempowering others |
3A626859700.jsonld | Scientific structuralism | Structural realism: a neo-Kantian perspective / Michela Massimi -- In defence of ontic structural realism / Steven French and James Ladyman -- Structuralist approaches to physics: objects, models and modality / Katherine Brading -- Mathematical structural realism / Christopher Pincock -- Structural empiricism, again / Otavio Bueno -- Structural realism, continuity and its limits / Ioannis Votsis -- Structuralism about scientific representation / Martin Thomson-Jones -- Ontic structural realism as a metaphysics of objects / Michael Esfeld and Vincent Lam -- Scientific explanation and scientific structuralism / Mauro Dorato and Laura Felline |
3A1646627520.jsonld | Clinical Ultrasound in Benign Proctology : 2-D and 3-D Anal, Vaginal and Transperineal Techniques | 2-D and 3-D anal ultrasound are among the most recent and advanced tools available for both the diagnosis and the management of anorectal diseases. They are neither expensive nor harmful for the patients and progressively replaced anal mapping with EMG electrodes for the diagnosis of sphincter's defects and anismus, which represents nearly 50% of the cases of chronic constipation. Anal US may provide the clinician with useful information for both classification, diagnosis and management of anorectal sepsis, anal incontinence and anorectal-perineal chronic pain. Almost any case presented in this Atlas shows both imaging and clinical pictures, thus allowing both the radiologist and the clinician to assess the reliability of the exam and the outcome of the selected treatment. |
3A893395498.jsonld | The nature of leadership | Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Leadership : past, present, and future / John Antonakis & David V. Day -- The major schools of leadership -- Leader traits and attributes / Steve J. Zaccaro, Samantha Dubrow, & Mary Jo -- Kolze -- Charisma and the "new leadership" / John Antonakis -- In the minds of followers / Douglas J. Brown -- Relational leadership / Olga Epitropaki, Robin Martin, Geoff Thomas -- Contingencies, context, situation, and leadership / Roya Ayman, Matthew W. Lauritsen -- Shared leadership / Craig L. Pearce, Christina L. Wassenaar -- Evolutionary, biological, and neuroscience perspectives / Mark van Vugt -- Current topics in leadership -- Social cognition and leadership / Konstantin O. Tskhay & Nicolas O. Rule -- Leadership and gender / Linda L. Carli & Alice Eagly -- Power and leadership / Rachel E. Sturm & Lucas Monzani -- Leadership and identity / Daan van Knippenberg -- Leadership, culture, and globalization / Deanne N. Den Hartog & Marcus W. Dickson -- Leadership development / David V. Day & Aiden M. A. Thornton -- Entrepreneurial leadership / Maija Renko -- Philosophical and methodological issues in leadership -- Studying leadership : research design and methods / Philippe Jacquart, Michael S. Cole, Allison S. Gabriel, Joel Koopman, Christopher C. Rosen -- Ethics and effectiveness : the nature of good leadership / Joanne B. Ciulla -- Corporate social responsibility and leadership / Guido Palazzo -- Chronicles of leadership / Warren Bennis with a forward from David Day & John Antonakis -- Name index -- Subject index -- About the editors -- About the contributors |
3A1697688985.jsonld | Social Protection System Review : A Toolkit | The positive impacts of social protection on reducing poverty and inequality and contributing to development are well evidenced. Establishing an integrated system facilitates the provision of a social protection floor, whereby individuals are appropriately protected throughout the life cycle. This is achieved not only by making sure there is a sufficient range of programmes to cover a population’s risk profile but also by sharing information on different individuals to ensure they are linked to an appropriate programme. The Social Protection System Review is one of a small number of tools that serve to analyse how effective a country is in establishing a social protection system that responds to the needs of its people both today and in the future. The toolkit presents methodologies which can be implemented in any country, at any income level and by any institution. It is intended to generate policy recommendations that are actionable through national systems. |
3A102344898X.jsonld | The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship | James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao (1994), 'Expropriation and Inventions: Appropriable Rents in the Absence of Property Rights', American Economic Review, 84 (1), March, 190-209 -- Lynne G. Zucker, Michael R. Darby and Marilynn B. Brewer (1998), 'Intellectual Human Capital and the Birth of U.S. Biotechnology Enterprises', American Economic Review, 88 (1), March, 290-306 -- David B. Audretsch (1995), 'New Firms', in Innovation and Industry Evolution, Chapter 3, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 39-64, references -- Scott Shane (2001), 'Technological Opportunities and New Firm Creation', Management Science, 47 (2), February, 205-20 -- Boyan Jovanovic (2001), 'New Technology and The Small Firm', Small Business Economics, 16 (1), February, 53-5 -- Zoltan J. Acs and Attila Varga (2002), 'Geography, Endogenous Growth, and Innovation', International Regional Science Review, 25 (1), 132-48 -- Claudio Michelacci (2003), 'Low Returns in R&D Due to the Lack of Entrepreneurial Skills', Economic Journal, 113 (484), January, 207-25 -- Bo Carlsson, Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch and Pontus Braunerhjelm (2009), 'Knowledge Creation, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth: A Historical Review', Industrial and Corporate Change, 18 (6), December, 1193-229 -- Zoltan J. Acs, Pontus Braunerhjelm, David B. Audretsch and Bo Carlsson (2009), 'The Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship', Small Business Economics, 32 (1), January, 15-30 -- Zoltan Acs, Lawrence A. Plummer and Ryan Sutter (2009), 'Penetrating the Knowledge Filter in "Rust Belt" Economies', Annals of Regional Science, 43 (4), 989-1012 -- David B. Audretsch and Erik E. Lehmann (2005), 'Does the Knowledge Spillover Theory of Entrepreneurship Hold for Regions?', Research Policy, 34, 1191-202 -- Zoltan J. Acs and Attila Varga (2005), 'Entrepreneurship, Agglomeration and Technological Change', Small Business Economics, 24 (3), 323-34 -- Edward P. Lazear (2005), 'Entrepreneurship', Journal of Labor Economics, 23 (4), 649-80 -- Jarle Møen (2005), 'Is Mobility of Technical Personnel a Source of R&D Spillovers?', Journal of Labor Economics, 23 (1), 81-114 -- Thomas Hellmann (2007), 'When Do Employees Become Entrepreneurs?', Management Science, 53 (6), June, 919-33 -- Hans K. Hvide (2009), 'The Quality of Entrepreneurs', Economic Journal, 119 (539), July, 1010-35 Recommended readings (Machine generated): F.A. Hayek (1945), 'The Use of Knowledge in Society', American Economic Review, XXXV (4), September, 519-30 -- Joseph A. Schumpeter (1947), 'The Creative Response in Economic History', Journal of Economic History, VII (2), November, 149-59 -- Kenneth J. Arrow (1962), 'Economic Welfare and the Allocation of Resources for Invention', in Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economics Research, The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity: Economic and Social Factors. A Conference of the Universities-National Bureau Committee for Economic Research and the Committee on Economic Growth of the Social Science Research Council, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 609-26 -- William J. Baumol (1968), 'Entrepreneurship in Economic Theory', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 58 (2), May, 64-71 -- Harvey Leibenstein (1968), 'Entrepreneurship and Development', American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 58 (2), May, 72-83 -- Robert E. Lucas, Jr. (1978), 'On the Size Distribution of Business Firms', Bell Journal of Economics, 9 (2), Autumn, 508-23 -- Zvi Griliches (1979), 'Issues in Assessing the Contribution of Research and Development to Productivity Growth', Bell Journal of Economics, 10 (1), Spring, 92-116 -- Boyan Jovanovic (1982), 'Selection and the Evolution of Industry', Econometrica, 50 (3), May, 649-70 -- Ariél Pakes and Shmuel Nitzan (1983), 'Optimum Contracts for Research Personnel, Research Employment, and the Establishment of "Rival" Enterprises', Journal of Labor Economics, 1 (4), October, 345-65 -- Zoltan J. Acs and David B. Audretsch (1988), 'Innovation in Large and Small Firms: An Empirical Analysis', American Economic Review, 78 (4), September, 678-90 -- David S. Evans and Boyan Jovanovic (1989), 'An Estimated Model of Entrepreneurial Choice under Liquidity Constraints', Journal of Political Economy, 97 (4), 808-27 -- Paul M. Romer (1990), 'Endogenous Technological Change', Journal of Political Economy, 98 (5, Part 2), October, S71-S102 -- Paul S. Segerstrom, T.C.A. Anant and Elias Dinopoulos (1990), 'A Schumpeterian Model of the Product Life Cycle', American Economic Review, 80 (5), December, 1077-91 -- Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt (1992), 'A Model of Growth through Creative Destruction', Econometrica, 60 (2), March, 323-51 -- Adam B. Jaffe (1989), 'Real Effects of Academic Research', American Economic Review, 79 (5), December, 957-70 -- Adam B. Jaffe, Manuel Trajtenberg and Rebecca Henderson (1993), 'Geographic Localization of Knowledge Spillovers as Evidenced by Patent Citations', Quarterly Journal of Economics, 108 (3), August, 577-98 -- Zoltan J. Acs, David B. Audretsch and Maryann P. Feldman (1994), 'R&D Spillovers and Recipient Firm Size', Review of Economics and Statistics, 76 (2), May, 336-40 -- Luc Anselin, Attila Varga and Zoltan Acs (1997), 'Local Geographic Spillovers between University Research and High Technology Innovations', Journal of Urban Economics, 42 (3), 422-48 -- Peter Thompson and Melanie Fox-Kean (2005), 'Patent Citations and the Geography of Knowledge Spillovers: A Reassessment', American Economic Review, 95 (1), March, 450-60 |
3A555868699.jsonld | The paraprofessional's guide to the inclusive classroom : working as a team | The paraprofessional: changing roles and responsibilities -- The inclusive classroom: being a member of the team -- Supporting individual students -- Providing curricular and individualized instructional support -- Encouraging positive behaviors -- Maintaining confidentiality |
3A63238882X.jsonld | Managing and Mining Graph Data | Deals with graph data analytics. This book contains surveys on the graph topics like graph languages, indexing, clustering, data generation, pattern mining, classification, keyword search, pattern matching, and privacy. It also studies various domain-specific scenarios like stream mining, web graphs, social networks, chemical and biological data |
3A1659251559.jsonld | The political economy of Chinese finance | Volume 17 of International Finance Review focuses on a variety of issues relating to the political economy of Chinese finance, including: the pattern of government ownership and control of Chinese firms; the role of government in corporate governance of industrial and financial firms; the interaction of culture, law and institutions in Chinese governance systems; corporate social responsibility, stakeholders and sustainable growth; the effect of political connections on corporate performance and society; privatization, IPOs, exchange listing and firm valuation; the role of government in banking and financial markets; practice of corporate risk management and insurance; foreign-exchange policy and its effect on firms and markets; foreign direct and portfolio investments in China; international investments and operations of Chinese firms; Chinese economic relations with the US and other countries. |
3A897387570.jsonld | Fighting over Fidel : the New York intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution | Hipsters and apparatchiks -- Naming the hurricane -- Socialists in Manhattan -- The cultural apparatus of the empire -- Moons of the revolution -- Negroes with guns -- The league of militant poets -- The skin of socialism |
3A728337762.jsonld | The science of meat quality | "The Science of Meat Quality looks at the development of quality meat products from the physiological processes that result in meat development through to final consumption of meat products. Each chapter opens with theoretical foundations to meat science practices alongside methodologies for measuring quality in relation specific aspects of meat and also provides the necessary tools to interpreting information gleaned from quality experimentation. The Science of Meat Quality will be an essential purchase for all animal and meat scientists concerned with the production of quality meat products"-- |
3A1740944062.jsonld | BIM-enabled cognitive computing for smart built environment : potential, requirements, and implementation | "This book explicitly brings together the BIM-enabled cognitive computing for smart built environment, and focuses on the potential, requirements and implementation of cognitive Internet of Things (CIoT) paradigm to buildings, Augmented Reality/Mixed Reality into cognitive building concepts, cognitive smart cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and scope, and challenges of utilizing the big data generated by smart cities from a machine learning perspective. This book offers contributions to the processing, analysis, management, modeling, and simulation of big data and the associated applicability to BIM-enabled cognitive systems that will advance different aspects of future cognitive cities"-- |
3A79984635X.jsonld | Theatre and adaptation : return, rewrite, repeat | Contemporary theatrical productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, West End drama, musicals and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with adapting existing works by other artists, writers, filmmakers and stage practitioners. Featuring seventeen interviews with internationally-renowned theatre and performance artists, Theatre and Adaptation provides an exceptionally rich study of the variety of work developed in recent years. First-hand accounts illuminate a diverse range of approaches to stage adaptation, ranging from playwriting to directing, Javanese pup |
3A086053817.jsonld | Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab world : the roots of sectarianism | Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on transliteration and terms -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The limits of tolerance: the social status of non-Muslims in the Ottoman Arab lands -- The roots of difference: ahl al-dhimma -- Ambiguities of inter-confessional relations in Ottoman society -- Christians and Jews in a Muslim world: the record of the qadi courts and the central state archives -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 The Ottoman Arab world: a diversity of sects and peoples Masters explores the evolution of Christian and Jewish communities in the Ottoman empire over four hundred years. Early communities lived with the hierarchy of Muslim law, but the nineteenth century marked the beginning of tensions between Muslims and Christians and the twentieth-century rhetoric of religious fundamentalism Becoming Catholic, remaining Syrian: the case of Hindiyya UjaymiThe ubiquitous Catholic merchant -- The changing fortunes of the region's Jewish merchants and the beginning of sectarian dissonance -- Finding allies in the long eighteenth century -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 Intercommunal dissonance in the nineteenth century -- The Tanzimat and the attempt to create a civic Ottomanism'' (Osmanlilik) -- Merchants, revisited -- Missionaries and teachers: a light unto the East'' -- Muslim reaction: a tale of two cities -- Conclusion CHAPTER 6 After the events'': the search for community in the twilight of empireOttomanism and Arabism -- Becoming Ottoman in Aleppo -- Conclusion -- CONCLUSION The changing boundaries of political community in the Ottoman Arab world -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Primary sources -- Achives -- Published -- Unpublished -- Secondary sources -- Published -- Unpublished -- Index The sectarian landscape of the Ottoman Arab landsHow many? -- Ta'ifa or millet? -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3 Merchants and missionaries in the seventeenth century: the West intrudes -- Trade and the creation of a Christian bourgeoisie -- Between Constantinople and Rome: the emergence of a Catholic Arab people -- The traditionalist counter-reformation'' -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 4 New opportunities and challenges in the long'' eighteenth century -- Millet wars: from repression to establishment -- The Melkite Catholic millet |
3A1822198097.jsonld | Cities and metropolises in France and Germany | In both countries, France and Germany, there is great pressure to change and adapt towards new forms of urbanity and to conceive new strategic approaches with limited public finance and a need for economic efficiency. Not all types of urban areas are equally affected by these issues. The book aims to do justice to this situation, considering in both cases the context of the national urban systems. As it proved impossible to address all the topics relevant to the spatial development of urban and rural areas, the authors decided to concentrate on a number of important topical themes which are undoubtedly relevant in both countries, albeit in different ways, and which could be significant for a comparison. The focus is thus on issues related to metropolises, small and medium-sized towns and particularly current issues of urbanity, sustainability, Smart Cities, transport and mobility, and the role of crossborder urban development. The structure of the chapters is conceived in these terms. Besides scientific and theoretical approaches, the authors also consider the practical planning perspective and methodological aspects of the topic at hand. They mainly address three relevant factors: the differences between the two institutional systems, the development paths and historical constants, and how new challenges are addressed on both sides of the border. |
3A1773879154.jsonld | The Theory of Search Games and Rendezvous | Search Games -- to Search Games -- Search Games in Compact Spaces -- General Framework -- Search for an Immobile Hider -- Search for a Mobile Hider -- Miscellaneous Search Games -- Search Games in Unbounded Domains -- General Framework -- On Minimax Properties of Geometric Trajectories -- Search on the Infinite Line -- Star and Plan Search -- Rendezvous Search -- to Rendezvous Search -- Elementary Results and Examples -- Rendezvous Search on Compact Spaces -- Rendezvous Values of a Compact Symmetric Region -- Rendezvous on Labeled Networks -- Asymmetric Rendezvous on an Unlabeled Circle -- Rendezvous on a Graph -- Rendezvous Search on Unbounded Domains -- Asymmetric Rendezvous on the Line (ARPL) -- Other Rendezvous Problems on the Line -- Rendezvous in Higher Dimensions. Search Theory is one of the original disciplines within the field of Operations Research. It deals with the problem faced by a Searcher who wishes to minimize the time required to find a hidden object, or “target. ” The Searcher chooses a path in the “search space” and finds the target when he is sufficiently close to it. Traditionally, the target is assumed to have no motives of its own regarding when it is found; it is simply stationary and hidden according to a known distribution (e. g. , oil), or its motion is determined stochastically by known rules (e. g. , a fox in a forest). The problems dealt with in this book assume, on the contrary, that the “target” is an independent player of equal status to the Searcher, who cares about when he is found. We consider two possible motives of the target, and divide the book accordingly. Book I considers the zero-sum game that results when the target (here called the Hider) does not want to be found. Such problems have been called Search Games (with the “ze- sum” qualifier understood). Book II considers the opposite motive of the target, namely, that he wants to be found. In this case the Searcher and the Hider can be thought of as a team of agents (simply called Player I and Player II) with identical aims, and the coordination problem they jointly face is called the Rendezvous Search Problem. |
3A1780562632.jsonld | Probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics : technological advancements towards safety and industrial applications | "Probiotics (the good bacteria) help restore the natural balance of bacteria in the gut. Prebiotics are classified as the non-digestible food ingredients that probiotics can feed off. They are used in the gut to increase populations of healthy bacteria, aid digestion and enhance the production of valuable vitamins. Synbiotics refer to food ingredients or dietary supplements combining probiotics and prebiotics. Various books have been published in this area, however, other books have focussed more on the health properties, whereas this book will contain detailed information about the different probiotic, prebiotic as well as synbiotic components, its production strategies and new developments in the production techniques in a concise manner including the safety regulations and policies as well as future perspectives"-- |
3A293175055.jsonld | The new American history | Beneficiaries of catastrophe: the English colonies in America / John M. Murrin -- The revolutionary generation: ideology, politics, and culture in the early republic / Linda K. Kerber -- Society, politics, and the market revolution, 1815-1848 / Sean Wilentz -- Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction / Eric Foner -- Public life in industrial America, 1877-1917 / Richard L. McCormick -- Prosperity, Depression, and war, 1920-1945 / Alan Brinkley -- America since 1945 / William H. Chafe -- Intellectual and cultural history / Thomas Bender -- Western history / Richard White -- Social history / Alice Kessler-Harris -- U.S. women's history / Linda Gordon -- The history of the family and the history of sexuality / Estelle B. Freedman -- African-American history / Thomas C. Holt -- American labor history / Leon Fink -- Ethnicity and immigration / James P. Shenton and Kevin Kenny -- Liberty and power: U.S. diplomatic history, 1750-1945 / Walter LaFeber |
3A1652500596.jsonld | Applications of Chaos and Nonlinear Dynamics in Science and Engineering - Vol. 3 | Chaos and nonlinear dynamics initially developed as a new emergent field with its foundation in physics and applied mathematics. The highly generic, interdisciplinary quality of the insights gained in the last few decades has spawned myriad applications in almost all branches of science and technology-and even well beyond. Wherever quantitative modeling and analysis of complex, nonlinear phenomena is required, chaos theory and its methods can play a key role. This third volume concentrates on reviewing further relevant contemporary applications of chaotic nonlinear systems as they apply to the various cutting-edge branches of engineering. This encompasses, but is not limited to, topics such fluctuation relations and chaotic dynamics in physics, fractals and their applications in epileptic seizures, as well as chaos synchronization. Featuring contributions from active and leading research groups, this collection is ideal both as a reference and as a ‘recipe book’ full of tried and tested, successful engineering applications |
3A1682131491.jsonld | Garden spot : Lancaster County, the old order Amish, and the selling of rural America | Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has been known for two centuries as the "Garden Spot of America," a quintessentially rural place. Walbert considers what it means to be the Garden Spot in a culture that associates rurality with the past and asks whether or not a truly rural future is possible for such communities |
3A896613186.jsonld | The queer fantasies of the American family sitcom | "The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom explores how the fantasies of genre, marketing, and children can never fully cloak the queerness lurking within the plucky families designed for American viewers' comic delight. Queer readings of family sitcoms demolish myths of yesteryear, demonstrating the illusion of American sexual innocence in television's early programs and its lasting consequences in the nation's self-construction, as they also allow fresh insights into the ways in which more recent programs negotiate new visions of sexuality while indebted to previous narrative traditions. Simply put, queer readings of America's domestic sitcoms radically unsettle the nation's simplistic vision of itself, revealing both a deeper vision of its families and of a television genre overwhelmingly dismissed as frivolous fare. Tison Pugh thoroughly explores six specific family sitcoms to illustrate how issues of sexuality intersect with other critical concerns of their respective periods and cultures"-- |
3A1772022020.jsonld | Microbial management of plant stresses : current trends, application and challenges | "Demonstrates microbial ecosystems as an indigenous system for improving plant growth, health and stress resilience Covers all the novel aspects of microbial regulatory mechanism. Key challenges associated with microbial delivery and successful establishment for plant growth promotion and stress avoidance Explores plant microbiome and the modulation of plant defense and ecological dynamics under stressed environment"-- |
3A169808529X.jsonld | Functional and smart materials | "This book presents a comprehensive and broad-spectrum picture of the state-of-the-art research, development, and commercial prospective of various discoveries conducted in the real-world of functional and smart materials. The book presents the various synthesis and fabrication route of functional and smart materials for universal applications such as material science, mechanical engineering, manufacturing, metrology, nanotechnology, physics, chemical, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, and food science. The content of this book opens the various scientific horizons which are proved to be of utmost beneficial for uplifting the standards of the day-to-day practices in the biomedical domain. Noticeably, myriads of innovations in the materials science and engineering are transforming our day-to-day life in an extraordinary manner. The book has captured emerging areas of materials science and advanced manufacturing engineering and presents the recent trends in research for young researchers, field engineers, and academic professionals"-- |
3A1659107687.jsonld | Selberg Zeta Functions and Transfer Operators : An Experimental Approach to Singular Perturbations | This book presents a method for evaluating Selberg zeta functions via transfer operators for the full modular group and its congruence subgroups with characters. Studying zeros of Selberg zeta functions for character deformations allows us to access the discrete spectra and resonances of hyperbolic Laplacians under both singular and non-singular perturbations. Areas in which the theory has not yet been sufficiently developed, such as the spectral theory of transfer operators or the singular perturbation theory of hyperbolic Laplacians, will profit from the numerical experiments discussed in this book. Detailed descriptions of numerical approaches to the spectra and eigenfunctions of transfer operators and to computations of Selberg zeta functions will be of value to researchers active in analysis, while those researchers focusing more on numerical aspects will benefit from discussions of the analytic theory, in particular those concerning the transfer operator method and the spectral theory of hyperbolic spaces |
3A66966250X.jsonld | Of little comfort : war widows, fallen soldiers, and the remaking of the nation after the Great War | An Army of Widows -- Trostlose Stunden : German War Widows -- The War Widows' Romance : Victory and Loss in the United States -- The Transnationalization of Soldiers, Widows, and War Relief -- "The Other Trench" : Remarriage, Pronatalism, and the Rebirthing of the Nation -- Epilogue |
3A1648155774.jsonld | Co-financing Lifelong Learning : Towards a Systemic Approach | This book identifies important economic barriers to expanded investment in lifelong learning, describes outlines financial strategies for addressing them, and reviews recent experience with various co-financing schemes. It includes country-by-country reports on innovative co-financing arrangements for lifelong learning. |
3A1659384524.jsonld | Zweitspracherwerb im Jugendalter | This compendium of papers on second language acquisition in adolescence is based on a workshop led by the editors that was held at the 2011 conference of the DGFF (German Society for Foreign Language Research). The papers cover a wide range of subjects, including age as a learning factor andassisted second-language acquisition. The volume also provides an overview of the state of international research in this field |
3A898627370.jsonld | The Oxford handbook of dance and wellbeing | "The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Wellbeing adopts a broad understanding of wellbeing, considering various applications of dance in promoting it. The five sections encompass diverse perspectives on dance and related movement practices, including (i) physical, socio-cultural and emotional aspects, (ii) performance, (iii) education, (iv) community, and (v) dance in health care settings. Within these diverse contexts, theoreticians, scientists, researchers and practitioners from around the world engage, and invited readers to engage, in configuring dance, wellbeing and creative cross-overs"-- |
3A647255723.jsonld | Der Buddhismus in Japan : Geschichte, Lehre, Praxis | Japanese Buddhism is one of the most influential, most diverse and vibrant traditions of Buddhism. Even in the so-called "West" various forms of Japanese Buddhism have long since taken root. This book is a comprehensive and current overall presentation of this fascinating religion in a European language. Picturing the current state of international research, Christoph Kleine delivers reliable, some of them seriously in Western languages and beyond highly specialized scholarly discourses, accessible information on the history, theory and practice of the most important pedagogical traditions, monastic orders, movements, sects and denominations of Japanese Buddhism. The presentation covers the entire period between the official introduction of Buddhism to Japan in the 6th Century and the present from |
3A180513737.jsonld | Coffee, society, and power in Latin America | "From plantation to cup" : coffee and capitalism in the United States, 1830-1930 / Michael F. Jim(c)♭nez -- The labors of coffee in Latin America : the hidden charm of family labor and self-provisioning / Verena Stolcke -- Coffee and the rise of commercial agriculture in Puerto Rico's highlands : the occupation and loss of land in Guaonico and Roncador (Utuado), 1833-1900 / Fernando Pic(c)đ -- Peasant, farmer, proletarian : class formation in a smallholder coffee economy, 1850-1950 / Lowell Gudmundson -- In difficult times : Colombian and Costa Rican coffee growers from prosperity to crisis, 1920-1936 / Mario Samper Kutschbach -- Labor system and collective action in a coffee export sector : S(c)Đo Paulo / Mauricio A. Font -- Wage labor, free labor, and vagrancy laws : the transition to capitalism in Guatemala, 1920-1945 / David McCreery -- Indians, communists, and peasants : the 1932 rebellion in El Salvador / H(c)♭ctor P(c)♭rez Brignoli -- At the banquet of civilization : the limits of planter hegemony in early-twentieth-century Colombia / Michael F. Jim(c)♭nez |
3A1813263760.jsonld | Words in Space and Time : A Historical Atlas of Language Politics in Modern Central Europe | With forty-two extensively annotated maps, this atlas offers novel insights into the history and mechanics of how Central Europe’s languages have been made, unmade, and deployed for political action. The innovative combination of linguistics, history, and cartography makes a wealth of hard-to-reach knowledge readily available to both specialist and general readers. It combines information on languages, dialects, alphabets, religions, mass violence, or migrations over an extended period of time. The story first focuses on Central Europe’s dialect continua, the emergence of states, and the spread of writing technology from the tenth century onward. Most maps concentrate on the last two centuries. The main storyline opens with the emergence of the Western European concept of the nation, in accord with which the ethnolinguistic nation-states of Italy and Germany were founded. In the Central European view, a “proper” nation is none other than the speech community of a single language. The Atlas aspires to help users make the intellectual leap of perceiving languages as products of human history and part of culture. Like states, nations, universities, towns, associations, art, beauty, religions, injustice, or atheism—languages are artefacts invented and shaped by individuals and their groups |
3A640679862.jsonld | International human rights litigation in U.S. courts | Written by leading human rights litigators and theorists, this treatise offers a comprehensive analysis of human rights litigation in U.S. courts under the Alien Tort Statute and related provisions |
3A543967824.jsonld | The continuities of German history : nation, religion, and race across the long nineteenth century | The vanishing point of German history -- The mirror turn lamp: senses of the nation before nationalism -- On catastrophic religious violence and national belonging: the Thirty Years War and the massacre of Jews in social memory -- From play to act: anti-Jewish violence in German and European history during the long nineteenth century -- Eliminationist racism -- Conclusion: Continuities in German history |
3A1678682500.jsonld | Future-proof software-systems : a sustainable evolution strategy | Sofware Everywhere -- Force of Entropy -- Three Devils of Systems Engineering -- Future-Proof Software-Systems -- Evolution Strategies -- Architecture -- Principle-Based Architecting -- Context for Managed Evolution -- The Future -- Special Topics -- Principles for Business Value -- Architecture Principles for Changeability -- Architecture Principles for Resilience -- Architecture Principles for Dependability Software is a crucial success factor for most of today’s products and services. The tremendous impact of software on all areas of our jobs, lives, the environment and on society is undisputed and is growing every day. The software community has a responsibility to produce and operate useful, dependable, and trustworthy software. The software should at the same time provide business value and guarantee a number of quality of service properties, such as security, safety, performance, integrity, etc. The lion’s share of current software investment is not for greenfield creation, but for the extension and evolution of existing software-systems. These systems are often very large, mission-critical, and long-lived. They need to be sustainable, both commercially and qualitatively. We call these “future-proof software-systems.” Experience has shown that a first-rate architecture is the foundation of future-proof software-systems. Therefore, the focus of this book is on architecture and architecture’s value for long-lived, mission-critical, trustworthy systems. This objective is achieved by using: • The powerful evolution strategy “Managed Evolution”; • The engineering best practice “Principle-Based Architecting”. Managed Evolution is based on a stepwise, risk-controlled, integrated approach leading to future-proof software-systems. In principle-based architecting, a set of proven, enforceable architecture principles are formulated and applied during each evolution cycle of the software-system. Following these architecture principles leads to the creation, evolution, and maintenance of superior, valuable architectures. This book does not represent a new development methodology but instead provides a set of good engineering practices that can be integrated into most development processes for the development of future-proof software-systems. About the Author Frank J. Furrer graduated as an electrical engineer at the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule in Zürich, Switzerland and earned his Ph.D. from the same institution. Afterward, he was active in the industry as an entrepreneur, as an architect, and as a management consultant for Information Technology and IT Systems Architectures. Since 2013, he teaches as an honorary professor at the Technische Universität Dresden, Germany (Faculty for Computer Science). This book represents the distilled outcomes of his long professional career as a software-systems architect, consultant, author, and educator |
3A651706610.jsonld | European guidelines for quality assurance in colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis | Recoge: 1. Introduction -- 2. Organisation -- Guiding principles for organising a colorectal cancer screening programme -- 3. Evaluation and interpretation of screening outcomes -- 4. Faecal occult blood testing -- 5. Quality assurance in endoscopy in colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis -- 6. Professional requirements and training -- 7. Quality assurance in pathology in colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis -- 8. Management of lesions detected in colorectal cancer screening -- 9. Colonoscopic surveillance following adenoma removal --10. Communication -- Appendices |
3A1032498668.jsonld | Drawing parallels : knowledge production in axonometric, isometric and oblique drawings | Introduction : parallel projections, mimesis, and intersections -- James Stirling's axonometric traps -- Modernism, scale, and gesamkunstwerk in J.J.P. Oud -- Occlusion and deliberately hidden lines : Hejduk's Wall House -- Indeterminacy and transfiguration : Hejduk's multiple projections -- Axonometry as theoretical instrument : the case of Eisenman -- Cedric Price's 'in action' drawings -- Cognition, image, and embodiment -- Conclusion: the purpose of drawing an axonometric |
3A71714058X.jsonld | Foundations of modern international thought | "Between the early seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries, major European political thinkers first began to look outside their national borders and envisage a world of competitive, equal sovereign states inhabiting an international sphere that ultimately encompassed the whole globe. In this insightful and wide-ranging work, David Armitage - one of the world's leading historians of political thought - traces the genesis of this international turn in intellectual history. Foundations of Modern International Thought combines important methodological essays, which consider the genealogy of globalisation and the parallel histories of empires and oceans, with fresh considerations of leading figures such as Hobbes, Locke, Burke and Bentham in the history of international thought. The culmination of more than a decade's reflection and research on these issues, this book restores the often overlooked international dimensions to intellectual history and recovers the intellectual dimensions of international history"-- |
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