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Introduction to Contact Mechanics, Second Edition is a gentle introduction to the mechanics of solid bodies in contact for graduate students, post doctoral individuals, and the beginning researcher. This second edition maintains the introductory character of the first with a focus on materials science as distinct from straight solid mechanics theory. Every chapter has been updated to make the book easier to read and more informative. A new ch...

In this radically revisionist work Conan Fischer investigates how the public brawling between Communists and Nazis during the Weimar Era masked a more subtle and complex relationship. It examines the way in which the National Socialists' growth across traditional class and regional barriers came to threaten the Communists on their home ground and forced them to adopt increasingly precarious, compromising strategies to confront this challenge. ...

Written for those new to art and art history, How to Speak Art: Understanding Its Language, Issues, and Themes uses thematic organization to explore works of art from prehistoric cave paintings to modern artists such as Christo. The book provides definitions of "art" and "artist, " explains the role of the art historian, and addresses common themes in the visual arts. Readers learn to decode art through visual analysis and to use the language ...

Within the Society for Creative Anachronism, Duke Nigel MacFarlane, KSCA, has reigned as king twice in the Kingdom of Ealdormere and has been a knight for over a decade. Originally from the Middle Kingdom he now dwells in the northlands with his lady, Duchess Adrielle Kerrec, OP, OL, surrounded by their household of Arrochar. In this volume, Sir Nigel expounds on the nature of chivalry, with his words on the subject being transcribed by his sq...

Felice Schragenheim (Berlino 1922-Bergen-Belsen 1945), giovane scrittrice e giornalista ebrea, affronta la vita e l'amore con un coraggio e con una lievità che ancora oggi ci sorprendono: si sente protagonista della commedia dell'esistenza e non si lascia intimorire né dalla dittatura nazista né dal pregiudizio benpensante. Sarà proprio questa sua sincerità che la porterà ad affrontare in prima persona, senza risparmiarsi, la tragedia del suo ...

This book develops a unique theory of change by drawing on American philosophy and contemporary feminist thought. Via a select history of ancient Greek and Pragmatist philosophies of change, Fischer argues for a reconstruction of transformation that is inclusive of women's experiences and thought.

In 2016, the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA) celebrated its 50th anniversary. This medieval reenactment group has grown from a backyard party held in the 1960s to a worldwide club with tens of thousands of members. To mark this occasion, Todd H. C. Fischer (known in the SCA as the Honourable Laird Colyne Stewart) vowed to write fifty poems in the year leading up to the anniversary. Collected in this volume are all fifty of those poems, ...

Excerpt from The Extraction of Potash Alum From Alunite: A Thesis The object of this work was to study the conditions and determine which conditions are the best for the extraction of potash alum from alunite. If such process. Using the con ditions thus determined. Is employed. The ex traction of the alum will be more economical than methods heretofore used. Most of which require a sulphuric acid leaching solution and generally require a sour...

Excerpt from Grand, Square and Upright Piano Fortes The tone is-rich and powerful, yet possessing that sweet singing quality so difficult to secure, and the cases are finished in the most workmanlike and beautiful manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of...

Il libro ci offre un saggio completo sull'arte delle fumigazioni aromatiche a partire dall'età della pietra, passando per le maggiori civiltà dell'antico Egitto, della Mesopotamia e dell'antica Grecia, per arrivare all'origine della cultura degli incensi nell'Estremo Oriente e alle tradizioni degli indiani d'America, oggi ancora vive. Quando si effettua una fumigazione si lasciano ardere lentamente resine e parti di specifiche piante su un car...

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Die vorliegende Arbeit integriert entwicklungspsychologische Erklärungsansätze des Risikoverhaltens, Stress-Copingtheorien, Theorien zur Wiederherstellung der Selbstachtung und Aufrechterhaltung der Identität sowie empirisch ermittelte Funktionen des Substanzkonsums in einen übergeordneten Copingansatz, der sowohl Distress- als auch Eustress-Komponenten berücksichtigt. Als zentrale Funktionen werden dabei die Emotionsregulation, die Identitäts...

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There has been considerable interest in the last two decades in the mechanical characterisation of thin film systems and small volumes of material using depth-sensing indentation tests. Usually, the principal goal of such testing is to obtain values for elastic modulus and hardness of the specimen material from experimental readings of indenter load and depth of penetration. But other properties such as residual stress, fracture toughness, and...

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New essays providing a comprehensive view of the pathbreaking dramatist and theorist Lessing.

Der Produktlebenszyklus ist eines der wichtigsten betriebswirtschaftlichen Konzepte zur Abbildung der langfristigen Umsatz- und Absatzentwicklung eines Produktes und somit ein zentrales Modell der betriebswirtschaftlichen Entscheidungsunterstützung. Allerdings ist das Wissen über die Ursachen der Unterschiede in Dauer und Verlauf der Produktlebenszyklen noch gering. Marc Fischer entwickelt erstmalig systematische Grundlagen zur ökonomischen B...