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Aimed at researchers and graduate students, this book provides up-to-date information for understanding electronic interactions that impact the optical properties of rare earth ions in solids. Its goal is to establish a connection between fundamental principles and the materials properties of rare-earth activated luminescent and laser optical materials. The theoretical survey and introduction to spectroscopic properties include electronic ener...

This collection of personal and professional perspectives addresses the key steps towards deinstitutionalization as they have been experienced by people with intellectual disabilities: living inside total institutions, moving out, living in the community and moving on to new forms of both institutionalization and community life.

Erst Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts entdeckte Carl Gauß, der Enkel von Carl F. Gauß, das wissenschaftliche Tagebuch seines Großvaters. Dieses Büchlein gewährt Einblick in die kreativste Schaffensperiode des naturwissenchaftlichen Genies. Der wissenschaftliche Werdegang des jungen Gauß ist dadurch für die entscheidenden Jahre 1796-1800 und dann mit Unterbrechungen für seine 'astronomische Schaffensperiode' bis 1814 nachprüfbar geworden. Der Nutzwert...

February, 1865, Columbia, South Carolina Sherman's army is destroying everything in its path as it blazes through South Carolina. Blake Winberry, a Confederate cavalry captain, is transferred from the Virginia front, determined to defend his home state. There he finds out his fiancée has left him for a profiteering draft-dodger, adding insult to jeopardy. Judith Rogers has lost her husband and her home to the war. A desperate journey through S...

A detailed survey of a growing scourge of the global economy-the smuggling of people, materials, and money.

Testing was once regarded as a separate and unique discipline within the overallsoftware development process. The reality today is that a growing number ofprojects are spreading the responsibility of testing among more members of theteam. In other words, testing is no longer limited to testers. This new bookintroduces Fit: a proven, effective, and powerful open source framework forautomating the software testing process. Fit (Framework for Int...

Die richterliche Hinweispflicht in ihrer aktuell kodifizierten Form ist nicht etwa eine Schöpfung des Gesetzgebers. Im Rahmen der jüngsten ZPO-Reform hat der Gesetzgeber die richterliche Hinweispflicht lediglich in derjenigen Ausgestaltung übernommen, die ihr die Rechtsprechung schon in den neunziger Jahren gegeben hatte: demzufolge hat der Zivilprozeß unter dem Primat der Offenheit zu stehen und Hinweise sind den Parteien frühzeitig, vollstän...

Der Autor Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. L. Simon ist Fachanwalt für Steuerrecht und Fachanwalt für Strafrecht und Notar in Frankfurt am Main. Daneben engagiert er sich als Vizepräsident der Rechtsanwaltskammer Frankfurt am Main für die Belange junger Rechtsanwälte und als Südostasien-Experte für die Intensivierung internationaler Beziehungen. Er ist Professor für Wirtschafts- und Privatrecht an der Fachhochschule Frankfurt am Main und lehrt neben den juri...

Written from an American Indian perspective with input from religious scholars and community leaders, this reference work explores indigenous North American religions and religious practices and rituals.

The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb is a short history of the origins and development of the American atomic bomb program during World War II. Beginning with the scientific developments of the pre-war years, the monograph details the role of United States government in conducting a secret, nationwide enterprise that took science from the laboratory and into combat with an entirely new type of weapon. The monograph concludes with a di...

In Candle in the Window, Seth Coleman and Rachel Ramsey, who are pledged to marry, are caught in a web of life's adversities forcing them to be separated. Seth is drafted into the army and must serve a tour of duty in Korea during the height of the war. Rachel is kidnapped by powerful Oriental drug lords and is held hostage in Japan in an attempt to thwart interference into their illicit operations by Rachel's father, General Erik von Horstman...

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Macmillan English Little Explorers B are aimed at children aged 5-6. The stories have been written using high-frequency words, plus story-specific words which as far as possible are clarified by illustrations. Each Reader comes in full-colour and contains one complete story.

This book investigates religion from the earliest times to the present in the form of a scientific study. If statements cannot be verified by more than one source, they will be accepted only as statements - not as facts.

This study covers:The range of primary chemicals obtained at present from seawater, inland brines and rock salt deposits, A review of established plants, Process flow diagrams , Process descriptions, Material and energy requirements of the major processes, Capital and operating costs and personnel requirements, Probable future trends of production, with special reference to bromine production as a consequence of existing and proposed restricti...

This book brings together edited extracts from classic texts by the internationally renowned feminist sociologist, Ann Oakley, starting with work first published in the early 1970s. Ann Oakley's research and writing on sex and gender, housework, motherhood, women's health, and social science, have enormously influenced the thinking of many inside and beyond social science, and have helped to shape the academic study of women and gender right u...

Bramwell, "the pride of West Virginia's southern tip, " sprang up almost overnight as a result of the 1800s coal-mining boom. It boasted more millionaires per capita than any other town in this country. These vintage photographs tell of devastation by the 1890 flood and the 1910 fire. In 1957, a warm January caused the Bluestone River to cover Main Street and limited transportation to rowboats. Herein, stories unfold of the early days when coa...

Twelve authors probe the mind of the Romantic era in its thinking about music. They provide a searching examination of writings by music theorists, critics, aestheticians, philosophers, and commentators from 1800 to 1875. In doing so, they wield new critical tools as well as old, casting fresh light, for example, on familiar problems of musical form by inspecting eighteenth-century rhetoric and nineteenth-century gendered discourse, exploring ...

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Exactly solvable models are very important in physics from a theoretical point of view and also from the experimentalist's perspective, because in such cases theoretical results and experimental results can be compared without ambiguity. This is a book about an important class of exactly solvable models in physics. The subject area is the Bethe-ansatz approach for a number of one-dimensional models, and the setting up of equations within this ...