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In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility characterised by an insistent compulsion to explain themselves and their Jewishness in ambivalent terms. Through detailed readings of novels by famous American authors such as Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, Bernard Malamud and Arthur Miller, alongside those...

A flurry of activity in Wemmicksville provides the setting for yet another lesson for Puchinello: He is loved and cherished because of Whose he is, not because of what he possesses. With warm illustrations of Martinez, this sequel to the phenomenal bestseller "You Are Special" is sure to become a classic in its own right.

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Attempts to manage natural resources through collaboration rather than competition, by agreements rather than conflict, have become the touchstone for many who see these efforts as the harbinger of global sustainable development. The received wisdom suggests that participatory natural resource management projects work because traditional knowledge of the resources and existing social structures can be utilised to develop more effective strateg...

Photon mapping, an extension of ray tracing, makes it possible to efficiently simulate global illumination in complex scenes. Photon mapping can simulate caustics (focused light, like shimmering waves at the bottom of a swimming pool), diffuse inter-reflections (e.g., the "bleeding" of colored light from a red wall onto a white floor, giving the floor a reddish tint), and participating media (such as clouds or smoke). This book is a practical ...

This book provides an overview of the published research on non-photorealistic rendering in order to categorize and distill the current reaserch into a body of usable techniques. A summary of non-photorealistic rendering algorithms is included.

This text provides an introduction to geometric modelling. The authors present a broad base of fundamentally important techniques for curve and surface representations in computer-aided modelling with a focus on how the techniques can be used in design.

The author revisits the complexities and complicated lifestyles of 'ordinary' rural Irish villagers in the 1940s and '50s.

Eine Reise durch die Jahrhunderte für 2-8 Spieler. Die Mischung mit anderen Ausgaben entfaltet einen zusätzlichen Reiz.

The collection of papers presented in this special issue arose out of two events. The first was the symposium "Escaping Satiation - Increasing Product Variety, Preference Change and the Demand Side of Economic Growth" which was held at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, in December 1997. The Fritz Thyssen Foundation provided financial support for this seminal symposium which is gratefully acknowledged. Wilhelm Ruprecht was of great hel...

Take a learning journey through billions of years of Earth history This indispensable guide to the fundamentals of geology is the ideal way to introduce yourself to all the basics, from rocks, minerals, and fossil fuels to earthquakes, volcanoes, and plate tectonics. Using quick quizzes and self-tests to reinforce key concepts, Geology carefully walks you through billions of years of Earth history. Illustrated with more than one hundred specia...

The increasing importance of intelligent agents and their impact on industry/business worldwide is well documented through academic research papers and industrial reports. There is a strong affinity between the Web a worldwide distributed computing environment and the capability of intelligent agents to act on and through software. The ultimate goal of intelligent agents is to accelerate the evolution of the Web from a passive, static medium t...

This book contains the presentations given at the Workshop on OpenMP App- cations and Tools, WOMPAT 2001. The workshop was held on July 30 and 31, 2001 at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA. It brought together designers, users, and researchers of the OpenMP application programming int- face. OpenMP has emerged as the standard for shared memory parallel progr- ming. For the rst time, it is possible to write parallel programs that ...

By analyzing accidents that have occurred, this book shows how we can learn and thus be better able to prevent accidents happening again. This book looks at various accidents covering the process industries, nuclear industry and transportation.

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Eine Reise durch die Jahrhunderte für 2-8 Spieler. Die Mischung mit anderen Ausgaben entfaltet einen zusätzlichen Reiz.

Haptic human-computer interaction is interaction between a human computer user and the computer user interface based on the powerful human sense of touch. Haptic hardware has been discussed and exploited for some time, particularly in the context of computer games. However, so far, little attention has been paid to the general principles of haptic HCI and the systematic use of haptic devices for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfa...

Building on classical queueing theory mainly dealing with single node queueing systems, networks of queues, or stochastic networks has been a field of intensive research over the last three decades. Whereas the first breakthrough in queueing network theory was initiated by problems and work in operations research, the second breakthrough, as well as subsequent major work in the area, was closely related to computer science, particularly to per...

Mit dem "Gesetz zur Kontrolle und Transparenz im Unternehmensbereich" aus dem Jahre 1998 hat der Gesetzgeber der häufig vernachlässigten Früherkennung unternehmerischer Risiken größere Bedeutung verschafft. In vielen Unternehmen wurde dieser Anlass dazu genutzt, ein Risikomanagement einzuführen, das in die allgemeine Unternehmensführung integriert werden muss. Dieser Sammelband liefert einen breiten Überblick über die vielfältigen Facetten des...