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Now in its third edition, this book describes photosynthesis by considering the processes involved throughout the various level of plant and their contributions to the complete process. It also considers the molecular and biochemical events which take place in the photosynthetic system.

The Visible Human Project is a critical investigation of the spectacular, three-dimensional recordings of real human bodies- dissected, photographed and converted into visual data files- made by the US National Library of Medicine in Baltimore. Catherine Waldby uses new ideas from cultural studies, science studies and social studies of the computer to situate the Visible Human Project in its historical and cultural context, and to consider the...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Begriffe Internet und Electronic Commerce (EC) sind in letzter Zeit in aller Munde. Insbesondere dem elektronischen Handel, also dem Vertrieb von Produkten und Dienstleistungen über das Internet, werden immense Wachstumsraten vorausgesagt. Die Grundlage für diese Entwicklung bilden die neuen technischen Möglichkeiten, die das Internet bietet. Multimediale Daten können kostengünstig und sehr schnell in die ganze W...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Seit der Liberalisierung der Energiewirtschaft durch das ¿Gesetz zur Neuregelung des Energiewirtschaftsrechts¿ am 25. April 1998 das die Binnenmarktrichtlinien für Strom und Gas in nationales Recht umgesetzt hat haben die Energieversorgungs-unternehmen (EVU) die Möglichkeit, Strom nicht nur innerhalb ihrer ehemaligen Versorgungsgebiete, sondern in ganz Deutschland (und teilweise auch in Europa) zu verkaufen. Durch e...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit besteht darin, ausgewählte erbrechtliche sowie erbschaftsteuerliche Probleme beim sog. Berliner Testament, die in der Fachliteratur sowie Rechtsprechung vorrangig erörtert und diskutiert werden, zu analysieren. Hierbei werden ausgehend von der Darstellung der Abgrenzung des Berliner Testaments zur Vor- und Nacherbfolge sowohl die Problematiken der wechselbezüglichen Verfügungen in einem Berline...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Ziel der Arbeit ist, einen detaillierten Überblick über den Markt für Personalcomputer in Japan und in der Volksrepublik China zu vermitteln, sowie Unterschiede und Gemeinsamkeiten beider Märkte herauszustellen und Potentiale aufzuzeigen. Grundlage dafür bilden aktuelle statistische Daten und Kennzahlen. Beide Märkte rechtfertigen ihre Beschreibung durch ihre enorme weltweite Bedeutung: Der japanische Markt für PCs g...

Eases quietly into a ferociously angry subject... Diane Ravitch affirms her faith in the American dream despite a detailed narrative which suggests, if anything, that education in New York has fairly consistently failed those who needed it most... Meticulously detailed and strains for fairness and impartiality." -- "New York Times

This title, the 52nd in symposium series, presents a comprehensive review of apoptosis and features contributions from many internationally recognised authors. The book is the first to integrate programmed cell death in plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Rapid publication ensures that the very latest research is included.

Brisbane 1992: A boy, Amir, sees his parents on the news, under arrest for protesting at the Iranian Embassy in Canberra against atrocities in their homeland. Amir forces Hamid and Jhila to tell their story, believing that a hostile Australian pubic will understand their 'terrorist' actions which shows the bigger picture of their past. Revitalising memories of his wrongful imprisonment and torture in a Tehran jail, Hamid confronts an oppressiv...

Biology of Menopause presents the proceedings of an international symposium held from September 10-13, 1998 in Newport Beach, CA. The proceedings review current knowledge and explores future research directions on the biologic changes of the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis across the menopausal transition and the associated changes in physiologic systems outside of the HPO axis, including the brain, the musculoskeletal and cardiovascular s...

Vulgar Latin" refers to those features of Latin language that were not recommended by the classical grammarians but existed nonetheless. Although "Vulgar Latin" is not well documented, evidence can be deduced from details of the spelling, grammar, and vocabulary that occur in texts of the later Roman Empire, late antiquity, and the early Middle Ages. Every aspect of "Vulgar Latin" is exemplified in this book, proving that the language is not s...

Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Wave Equations concentrates mainly on the wave equations for spin-0 and spin-1/2 particles. Chapter 1 deals with the Klein-Gordon equation and its properties and applications. The chapters that follow introduce the Dirac equation, investigate its covariance properties and present various approaches to obtaining solutions. Numerous applications are discussed in detail, including the two-center Dirac equation, hol...

After the conquest of the Americas in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Roman Catholic clergy developed graphic catechisms to use for the conversion of native inhabitants in Latin America. This book presents and analyzes a mid-nineteenth century Andean pictographic catechism produced for speakers of Quechua. A facsimile of the original pictographs is accompanied by supporting text in English (translated from the original Spanish) and Quec...

Environmental Transitions" is a detailed and comprehensive account of the environmental changes in Central and Eastern Europe, both during and after state socialism. The book illustrates how transformations after 1989 have brought major environmental improvements, as well as new environmental problems. "Environmental Transitions" contains detailed case studies from the region including: * an historical-geographical analysis of the environmen...

The past two decades have seen an increase in the number of organisations working together in multiagency settings and increased calls for partnership and participation in organisational and public life. Models for this kind of working arrangement range from contracting out and joint planning, through to more formal arrangements such as setting up a joint agency. How to make these arrangements effective in developing policy and aiding decision...

Analysis of Multifactorial Diseases examines the evidence of genetic factors that increase susceptibility to a range of complex diseases and describes the approaches taken to identify these genes. It reviews the successes and failures and examines whether there are any general conclusions to be drawn from this current range of approaches.

Revolutionary Pedagogies, " an innovative edited collection of essays from the cream of the cultural and policy studies crop, examines the theory/practice debate as it has been articulated pedagogically. These essays respond to the need to renegotiate the premise for an ethico-political intervention into the scene of teaching and learning. The contributors--major theorists and distinguished thinkers--seek to answer the question of whether a re...

For nearly twenty-five years, the field of youth studies has employed the same conceptual tools to explain the conduct of young people, tools that inexorably lead to the same recurrent conclusions - youth equals resistance, youth equals alienation, youth equals problem. Youth, Sex, and Government offers a way out of this theoretical Groundhog Day. Starting with the familiar notion of youth subcultures, but also addressing topics such as young ...

To understand and value Wordsworth's efforts to make poetry a tool of cultural intervention, critics must, like him, struggle with the Cartesian dualisms that dominate Western culture. Drawing on a number of interdisciplinary sources, including classical rhetoricians Isocrates and Quintilian, and twentieth-century scientists Gregory Bateson and Antonio Damasio, this study develops a coherent framework for understanding Wordsworth's efforts to ...

Women Reading Corneille: Feminist Psychocriticisms of 'Le Cid' is a series of readings from the famous seventeenth-century French play, Pierre Corneille's Le Cid (1637). Using a reader-centered approach, this study applies five different examples of feminist psychoanalytic literary criticism to Corneille's masterpiece in order to illustrate the enduring interest of the play. At the same time, it explores several issues in the ongoing debates w...