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Die Beiträge in diesem Band untersuchen die Reaktionen der außereuropäischen Völker auf die Herausforderungen, die sich durch die europäische Expansion stellten. Dabei steht die Frage im Vordergrund, welche Aspekte der europäischen Kultur übernommen wurden und in welchen Bereichen sich die außereuropäischen Kulturen behaupteten. Der in diesem Band dargestellte Themenkomplex reicht von der Interaktion auf persönlicher Ebene über die Entstehung ...

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Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing (and professionally encouraged) to transgress the canon and thereby the cultural boundaries of North America and Europe in the direction of ge...

The Question of Dependency and Economic Development is the first empirical study of the relationship between economic development in Third World countries and physical quality of life. The data covers three decades of observation and over eighty lesser developed countries in Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Brian Farmer presents his findings in digestible tables and charts and provides clear analysis. He points readers to numerous o...

A writerly study of Lady Hawarden's photographs and other visual representations of the complex erotics of adolescent girlhood.

This timely volume provides an in-depth analysis of recent events surrounding the conflict between Taiwan and China over Taiwan's sovereignty. After a thoughtful discussion of the origins of the dispute, Copper examines the hallmark 1996 election in Taiwan that brought to power the first direct elected Chinese chief executive in over 5, 000 years. He then discusses the ruling Nationalist Party's congress and explores how the party is changing ...

In this new book, Pottier provides an incisive account of food production and famine in the world today. Drawing on the work of anthropologists and other sources, he offers a wide-ranging account of the methods used to produce and distribute food in a variety of cultural and historical contexts, from India to sub-Saharan Africa.

Seit langem zählt der 'Banwell' im angelsächsischen Raum zu den beliebtesten Einführungen in die Molekülspektroskopie. Mit dieser Übersetzung ist nun auch den deutschsprachigen Lesern das sehr attraktive Buch von Colin N. Banwell und Elaine M. McCash zugänglich. Der Grundkurs ist eine für Studenten der Physik und der Chemie maßgeschneiderte Einführung in die Spektroskopie. Seine Beliebtheit ergibt sich aus der leicht verständlichen und grö...

The first interactive course covering first and second year algebra. Starting from such fundamental topics as integers and divisions, modular arithmetic and polynomials the content extends to rings, fields and permutation groups. The hypertext is written in Java-enhanced HTML, and Java applets illustrate the theory while also contributing interactive calculators for computing with integers, polynomials and permutations. The computer algebra sy...

Environmental pollution is one of the most serious threats to the future health of our planet. A wide and ever increasing range of chemicals from industry, agriculture, medicine and a host of other sources, continue to contribute to the earth′s chemical load.

For over half a century, Germans have lived in the shadow of Auschwitz. Who was responsible for the mass murder of millions of people in the Holocaust: just a small gang of evil men, Hitler and his henchmen, or certain groups within a particular system

Thepapersincludedinthisvolumecoverdiverseaspectsofthemanagement ofsuchdata, andtheyhavebeenorganizedinto?vegroups:understanding andmanipulatingspatio-temporaldata, integration, exchange, andvisualization, query processing, index evaluation, and constraints and dependencies.

This volume contains the papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Logic for Programming and Automated Reasoning (LPAR'99), held in Tbilisi, Georgia, September 6-10, 1999, and hosted by the University of Tbilisi. Forty-four papers were submitted to LPAR'99. Each of the submissions was reviewed by three program committee members and an electronic program com­ mittee meeting was held via the Internet. Twenty-three papers were acc...

This workshop series is now over ten years old, which is a pretty long time for a very focussed topic: Configuration Management. The first conference took place in 1988 (Grassau, Germany) and the topics were focussed on version control and rebuilding. Many people consider that SCM is one of the few areas of software engineering that can be considered to be really successful. Products, that more or less fulfill their p- pose, exist, and everybo...

This volume contains the contributions presented at the International Workshop on Current Trends in Applied Formal Methods organized October 7-9, 1998, in Boppard, Germany. The main objective of the workshop was to draw a map of the key issues facing the practical application of formal methods in industry. This appears to be particularly timely with safety and security issues becoming a real obstacle to industrial software and hardware develop...

This volume contains the papers presented at the Second International and - terdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'99), held in Trento (Italy) from 9 to 11 September 1999. CONTEXT'99 is the second in the CONTEXT series. The rst was held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1997. The CONTEXT conference series is meant to provide an interdisciplinary - rum where researchers can exchange ideas, methodologies, and results on c-...

The Pursuit of Godliness argues that holiness or sanctification is not something that someone achieves, but entails something a person becomes. Donald L. Alexander defines sanctification as God's taking possession of people in Christ and setting them apart by restoring the character traits originally present in the creature created in God's image. He derives evidence from the Bible that this restoration lies in the fruit of the Spirit and that...

A powerful and moving story of the racial transformation of an American neighborhood, told in memoir and oral narrative. It deserves to become a classic....This text needs to be understood and performed at least as regularly as Thornton Wilder 's Our Town. Sandy Primm, St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Although the popular literature concerned with Billy Graham as an evangelical icon is vast, there have been few serious academic considerations of his religious views. In America's Preacher and His Message, Timo Pokki provides the most extensive systematic analysis to date on Graham's theology, paying particular attention to views surrounding conversion and sanctification. The study not only provides a detailed analysis of Graham's thoughts on...

Written in highly readable layman's language, Fundamentals of Venture Capital is a concise introduction to the key issues facing both investors and entrepreneurs as they embark on the journey of turning a good idea into a profitable reality.