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American cinema has always been violent, and never more so than now: exploding heads, buses that blow up if they stop, racial attacks, and general mayhem. From slapstick's comic violence to film "noir, " from silent cinema to Tarantino, violence has been an integral part of America on screen. This new volume in a successful series analyzes violence, examining its nature, its effects, and its cinematic and social meaning.

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1. An important new book by Habermas - one of the world′s leading social and political thinkers. 2. Addresses the impact of globalization on politics and cultural identity. 3. Accessible to non-specialists, this book is an excellent introduction to Habermas′ views.

1. An important new book by Habermas - one of the world′s leading social and political thinkers. 2. Addresses the impact of globalization on politics and cultural identity. 3. Accessible to non-specialists, this book is an excellent introduction to Habermas′ views.

Die biologische Chemie befaßt sich mit der Chemie biologisch aktiver Verbindungen und ist ein enorm wichtiges, schnellebiges Forschungsgebiet. Dieses einführende Lehrbuch setzt keine Vorkenntnisse in Biologie voraus und ist daher ideal geeignet für Chemiestudenten. Ausgehend von der physikalischen Chemie der Zelle erklären die Autoren Struktur, Funktionsweise und gegebenenfalls katalytische Eigenschaften von Proteinen, illustriert durch zahlre...

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ONAG, as the book is commonly known, is one of those rare publications that sprang to life in a moment of creative energy and has remained influential for over a quarter of a century. Originally written to define the relation between the theories of transfinite numbers and mathematical games, the resulting work is a mathematically sophisticated but eminently enjoyable guide to game theory. By defining numbers as the strengths of positions in c...

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The book describes most of the methods that are currently used in metastasis research. Both in vivo and in vitro protocols are illustrated, so that the metastatic process can be either analysed as a whole, or single events addressed separately. Each method is described in the frame of the metastatic process, therefore its significance and its limitations in the context of metastasis are always taken into account. Whenever possible, several alt...

Choose from 40 fresh, fun block patterns and ten projects that combine the ease of paper piecing with enchanting designs. Block designs feature charming dishes and cups, plus other creative motifs such as colorful vegetables.

Combining institutional textual and audience analysis, this book introduces students to the factors which have shaped television's development in contemporary Europe, and invites them to assess the issues that are at stake in its future. Divided into three parts, the book moves from the European broadcasting environment, through current patterns and trends in programming and programme making, to TV genres and issue-specific broadcasting. I...

Combining institutional textual and audience analysis, this book introduces students to the factors which have shaped television's development in contemporary Europe, and invites them to assess the issues that are at stake in its future. Divided into three parts, the book moves from the European broadcasting environment, through current patterns and trends in programming and programme making, to TV genres and issue-specific broadcasting. I...

Inhaltsangabe:Gang der Untersuchung: Die Arbeit gliedert sich in sechs Kapitel. Kapitel 2 legt den Grundstein für die Arbeit indem die Funktionen von Börsen im Wertpapierhandel dargestellt werden. Ausgehend vom klassischen institutionellen Börsenbegriff wird über dessen funktionale Ausprägung der für diese Arbeit gültige Börsenbegriff entwickelt. Dieser ermöglicht eine Abgrenzung zu den alternativen Handelssystemen, welche als börsenähnliche...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die Veränderungsgeschwindigkeit mit der die Umweltfaktoren auf die Unternehmen einwirken, hat in den letzten Jahren deutlich zugenommen, und dieses wird sich weiter fortsetzen. Für die Unternehmen und insbesondere für die Produktion, resultiert daraus ein großer Veränderungsbedarf. Wissenschaftler und Ökonomen umschreiben das Phänomen mit dem Terminus Dynaxity. Das heißt: Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft entwickeln sich ...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Die zunehmender Leistungsfähigkeit der verfügbaren Internetdienste eröffnet immer vielfältigere Möglichkeiten der Nutzung dieser neuen Technologien auf dem Gebiet der Automatisierungstechnik. Neben ¿klassischen¿ Prozessinformationen besteht oftmals der Wunsch auch Bild- und Tondaten zu übertragen. Diese Arbeit beinhaltet hauptsächlich eine Einführung in zur multimedialen Prozessdatenübertragung relevante Internettec...

Sir Joshua Reynolds could never have anticipated an edition of his letters, he once told Boswell that "If I felt the same reluctance in taking a Pencil in my hand as I do a pen I should be as bad a Painter as I am a correspondent". Yet although his surviving letters are those of a busy man, and many are perfunctory responses or requests, they remain of considerable interest to the reader.This is the first edition of letters by Reynolds to be p...

Henry McBride (1867-1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that began in 1913 -- the year of the famous Armory Show in New York that opened American eyes to avant-garde developments in European art -- and continued until the advent of Abstract Expressionism in the late 1940s and early 1950s. A sensitive and discerning observer of the changing cultural landscape, McBride not only wrote prolifically for publication ...

This is the first complete English translation of On the Purity of the Art of Logic, a handbook of logic written in Latin by English philosopher Walter Burley (c. 1275-1344/5). The work circulated in the Middle Ages in two versions, a shorter and a longer one, both translated here by Paul Vincent Spade. The translations arc based on the only complete edition of Burley's treatises, corrected by Spade on the basis of one of the surviving manuscr...

Statutes of Liberty (1993) was the first book on The New York School of Poets, and offers the definitive critical account of its key figures: John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler. This second edition contains up-to-date material on the group and its growing influence on postmodern poetics. A new postscript focuses on the work of Ashbery, currently the most esteemed American poet since Wallace Stevens, and his profile output in the 199...