This work provides a comprehensive reference source of British and Irish botanists and horticulturalists over the past four centuries. The book also includes plant collectors, flower painters and for the first time garden designers.
Originally published in 1992, this chronicles the development of the powerful White House Office of Communications and its pivotal role in molding perceptions of the modern presidency. In this new edition, John Maltese brings his analysis up to date with a chapter detailing the media techniques of the Bush administration, the 1992 presidential campaign (including the use of talk shows like 'Larry King Live'), and the early Clinton administration.
From the award-winning author of A Walk Among the Tombstones, proven, practical advice on handling the pleasures and pitfalls of the writing game. Block's witty sourcebook is a must read for anyone serious about writing or about understanding how the process works.
Arkady Plotnitsky holds degrees in Mathematics from the University of St. Petersburg and Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches in the English Department.
This novel by the French writer Gabriel Josipovici is an exploration into the power of memory and imagination, also raising the question of how far it is possible for non-Jews to understand Jews. Josipovici's other works include "Text and Voice" and "Steps: selected fiction and drama".
B. PFLUG 1m Zusammenhang mit dem Thema "Differenzierte Therapie mit trizyklischen Antidepressiva" beziehen sich wichtige Fragen auf den Einsatz der derzeit in Deutschland verftigbaren Substanzen und ihre Wirkungen in verschiedenen Bereichen und Indikationen. Welche Rolle spielen pharmakologische Befunde fUr die Klinik, welche Erkenntnisse hat die Forschung in den letzten Jahren tiber diese Medikamente dazugewinnen konnen, die u.U. eine Revisio...
Man erziihlt von Enrico Fermi, er habe nie eine wissenschaftliche Veroffentli chung gelesen. Er las nur die ersten Zeilen, die aussagen sollten, was der Autor vorhatte. Sagten Sie das nicht, warf er die Arbeit gleich weg. Sagten sie es, legte er sie etwas sanfter beiseite, nahm einen Zettel und rechnete alles selbst aus. Manchmal bekam er weniger heraus als der Autor, manchmal aber auch mehr. Diese Arbeitsweise birgt fiir uns Nicht-Fermis gew...
This first English translation of Trozas, the fourth of Traven's legendary Jungle North, brings to completion his epic of the birth of the Mexican Revolution.
This volume provides an overview of the applications of modern solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) techniques to the study of catalysts, catalytic processes, species adsorbed on catalysts and systems relevant to heterogeneous catalysis. It characterizes the structure of catalytic materials and surfaces.
Das Buch entwickelt ein rechnerbasiertes Verfahren zur Planung von Projekten, das das Erfahrungswissen vergangener Projekte zum Aufbau neuer Projektpläne nutzt. Die Entscheidungsträger erhalten durch das Rechnersystem Vorschläge für die Planrevision.
A haunting and peculiar travelogue, Deeds of the Utmost Kindness employs forms as diverse as haiku and prose poetry in settings that range from Japan to the rural Ozarks to contemporary Moscow. The compelling strangeness of the poems' precise details exposes varied rhythms of thought and illustrated how different logics work in the metaphoric structures of changing places . Yet behind the uneasy sense of dislocation felt by the constant travel...
This text describes the methods of the Castro regime's programme to change Cuban cultural attitudes to women, youth, sports and labour through coercive and non-coercive means, and how they were, generally, unsuccessful.
Many commentators have remarked in passing on the resonance between deconstructionist theory and certain ideas of quantum physics. In this book, Arkady Plotnitsky rigorously elaborates the similarities and differences between the two by focusing on the work of Niels Bohr and Jacques Derrida. In detailed considerations of Bohr’s notion of complementarity and his debates with Einstein, and in analysis of Derrida’s work via Georges Bataille’s con...