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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface / FISCHER, WOLFRAM -- Introduction / CARON, FRANÇOIS -- ¿. The Extension of Technical Systems -- Introduction / TEMIN, PETER -- Innovation and Radio Industry in Europe during the Interwar Period / GRISET, PASCAL -- From Small Insulated Plants to Regional Networks: The Path of Growth of the Italian Electrical Industry from its Beginning to the 1930s ...

Physics practical classes form an important part of many scientific and technical courses in higher education. In addition to the older standard experiments, such practicals now generally include a few computer-controlled experiments developed in association with the research groups active in the particular university or college. Since there is relatively little exchange of information between the teaching staff of different institutes, the pe...

conventions of visual perception are emergent themes for sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. The contributors to "Visual Culture" all stem from these three traditions and all represent the vanguard of new research in their areas. Though their perceptions vary, they share a central problematic, the "visual" character of contemporary culture.

This book presents a comprehensive and coherent picture of how molecules diffuse across a liquid that is, on average, only two molecules thick. It begins by characterizing bilayers structurally, using X-ray diffraction, and then mechanically by measuring elastic moduli and mechanisms of failure. Emphasis is placed on the stability and mechanical properties of plant membranes that are subject to very large osmotic and thermal stresses. Using th...

The width of his view, the range of his reading, and the penetration of his mind compel the utmost respect for his treatment and his conclusions. It is a book which is bound to modify all subsequent histories of Chinese thought and indeed the histories of thought the world around.' - L. Carrington Goodrich in Far Eastern Survey (New York).

Diese Festschrift widmen Kollegen und Schüler dem Neuzeithistoriker der Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Klaus-Jürgen Müller, zum 65. Geburtstag. Sie ehren damit den herausragenden und international anerkannten Militärhistoriker, der Militärgeschichte immer als Teil der allgemeinen Geschichte verstanden hat.

Die Untersuchung beschäftigt sich mit der moralischen Pflicht, treu zu seinen Versprechen zu stehen. Der Autor verfolgt die Erklärungen, die die Philosophie für den allgemein zu beobachtenden Umgang der Menschen mit Versprechen gibt. Die Pflicht, Versprechen zu halten, ist ein zentraler Bestandteil eines jeden bekannten Systems moralischer Prinzipien. Die vorliegende Studie ist daher von allgemeinem moralphilosophischen Interesse und kann zum ...

Managing resources sustainably on the local level is essential for achieving the global goal of sustainable development. The importance of people's participation for sustainable development has recently become increasingly acknowledged yet there is little understanding of the multiple dimensions that such participation involves.Grassroots Environmental Action questions the viability of traditional management systems. Case studies from Latin Am...

This is a major survey of the American past from the earliest colonial settlements to the present day. Maldwyn A. Jones assesses not only the epic achievements of the nation, but also the tensions and limitations of the society behind the 'American dream'. In this second edition Professor Jones has continued his study to the present, with a new chapter examining the conservative revival of the 1980s and the presidential elections of 1992. He h...

This classic study of Santayana was the first book to appear in the Arguments of the Philosophers series. Growing interest in the work of this important American philosopher has prompted this new edition of the book complete with a new preface by the author reassessing his own ideas about Santayana and reflecting the new interest in the philosopher's work. A select bibliography of works published about Santayana since the book's first appearan...

This book summarizes the body of knowledge about sociology of education and cultural studies as it informs educational research and critical pedagogy. It synthesizes the most relevant work in social and cultural reproduction published in the last three decades in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese. The authors document and critique the theoretical discussion in developments in both advanced societies and peripheral ones, and link...

Using montage - relayering multiple pasts and on-going present - this challenges the obsession with "postmodernity, " demanding a deeper, more connective understanding of the pleasures and dangers of the European present.

Moving images are used as diagnostic tools and locational devices in hospitals, clinics and laboratories. But how and when did such use become established/accepted sources of knowledge about the body in medical culture? This book traces the history of scientific film since the late 19th century.

The Gods Have Landed is a comprehensive account of the religious dimension of the UFO/flying saucer experience. It examines the religious meanings attached to UFOs by the larger society as well as specific movements that claim inspiration from "Space Brothers" and other extra-terrestrial sources. It addresses the religious dimension of the phenomenon of alien abductions, particularly the impact of extra-terrestrial life on Christian theology. ...

The minutes of the Corporation provide fascinating detail of the local impact of hostilities on the social and economic life of the town.

Hrabal's postwar classic about a young man's coming of age in German-occupied Czechoslovakia is among his most beloved and accessible works. Closely Watched Trains is the subtle and poetic portrait of Milos Hrma, a timid young railroad apprentice who insulates himself with fantasy against a reality filled with cruelty and grief. Day after day as he watches trains fly by, he torments himself with the suspicion that he himself is being watched a...

Philosophers have always acknowledged that to embark on a philosophical discussion of the nature of God is to push philosophy to its limits, if not to transgress those limits entirely. Even those who were most confident that philosophy could and should throw light on the nature of God have usually been comparatively modest about how bright we should expect the light to be. In the "The Nature of God Gerard Hughes breaches the philosophical cons...

This book provides a thorough understanding of the general principles of measurement for taking off quantities. An essential guide to any quantity surveyor, architrect or engineer Taking off quantities: Civil Engineering demonstrates, through a series of detailed worked examples from a range of civil engineering projects, how the measurement techniques are actually used.

Proceedings from the 12th Rochester Trophoblast Conference, held in Autumn 1992 in Rochester, New York. The first part of the book addresses the role of the placenta in the transmission of the HIV infection, the central focus of the Conference. Other pre-natal infections, including CMV, Vaccina, Parvovirus, Syphillis, and Herpes Simplex, are then considered, and their implications for perinatal health investigated. The importance of cell regul...

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