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The book is a pictorial historiography of the British occupation of Berlin from 1945-1994 with insights and detailed information on the military and political status of the city. With previously unpublished documents and photographs, it reveals every facet of British life at the Wall, from the garrison's daily routine, the surveillance activities of the Military Mission (BRIXMIS) behind the Iron Curtain, the YAK 28 coup and the SIS/CIA spy tun...

In Am'ma Part there is a reference to sensible and material cosmic miracles to be deeply contemplated with clear thinking so that they may become passages that lead those who seek to recognize the Grand God to get a link with their Provider. If they continue this contemplation until they perceive the greatness of these miracles they will be able to perceive the Majesty of He who perfectly created them, and then their spirit, having submitted b...

As the newest Crime Scene Investigator for the Wichita Police Department, East Coast transplant Laura Merz finds herself out of her comfort zone and completely unprepared for the human dramas and comedies she encounters with each shift she works. She quickly learns that real life CSI work is nothing like what they show on television or what she studied in graduate school. She dusts for fingerprints, photographs bloody Klingon weapons, and de...

Cross-disciplinary and critical in its approach, The SAGE Handbook of Housing Studies is an elucidating look at the key issues within the field. It covers the study of housing retrospectively, but also analyses the future directions of research and theory, demonstrating how it can contribute to wider debates in the social sciences. A comprehensive introductory chapter is followed by four parts offering complete coverage of the area: Market...

This book intends to focus on network protocol and communication in the area of information and industrial control. Various research on sub-layer protocols including Data Link Layer (DLL), Application Layer (AL) and User Layer (UL) in instrumentation network and TCP/IP, Web based protocol for industrial and informatic network and control problems involving network communication, along with the design of corresponding system are presented expli...

Historically, the U.S. military's Special Operations Forces (SOF) have had primary responsibility for training, advising and assisting foreign military forces. Today, although this mission has not been completely relegated to conventional forces, the National Security Strategies of the current and previous administrations direct the U.S. military services to organise, train and equip themselves to carry out these activities on a larger scale w...

Laparoscopic surgery, also called minimally invasive surgery, is a modern surgical technique in which operations in the abdomen are performed through small incisions as compared to the larger incisions needed in laparotomy. In this book, the authors present current research from across the globe in the study of the procedures, risks and new developments in laparoscopy. Topics include laparoscopic reconstructive adnexal surgery, surgical treatm...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on April 4th 1949. The organisation constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party. This book presents new developments in the membership, operations and enlargement of NATO. Topics discussed include enlargement i...

This book presents current research in the study of economic and political issues in Europe. Topics discussed include house price determinants in Liverpool, United Kingdom, participatory democracy and civil society's role in governance in the perspective of the Lisbon Treaty, Transatlantic Regulatory Co-operation, long-range ballistic missile defence in Europe, current issues and updates in Greece and Bosnia and financial market supervision.

Today, entrepreneurship is one of the most written about topics in the field of business. This book attempts to bring the concept of opportunity into mainstream discussion and consideration by presenting a meta-theory which dissects all the elements of opportunity, so this phenomenon can be better understood. This book considers how opportunity is closely linked with our society's development, and how innovations today will lay the foundation ...

A first typeset and corrected study score of the five choral and instrumental pieces that punctuate the action of Philip Glass's mighty theatre piece of 1976, Einstein on the Beach (1976).

In the field of computer networking and other packet-switched telecommunication networks, the traffic engineering term quality of service (QoS) refers to resource reservation control mechanisms rather than the achieved service quality. This book presents research from across the globe in the study of network quality of service.

A circadian rhythm is an endogenously driven roughly 24-hour cycle in biochemical, physiological or behavioural processes. Circadian rhythms have been widely observed, in plants, animals, fungi and cyanobacteria. This book presents current research from across the globe in the study of the biology, cognition and disorders associated with circadian rhythms. Topics discussed include circadian clocks and eating disorders, disruption of circadian ...

Computergestützte Simulationen und Optimierungen ermöglichen das Untersuchen von anwendungsnahen Fragestellungen in den Natur- und Ingenieurwissenschaften. Dabei sind der Arbeitsspeicher und die Berechnungszeit oftmals die einschränkenden Ressourcen. In diesem Buch werden Techniken zur Reduzierung des Speicherverbrauchs und des Berechnungsaufwands der auftretenden dünnbesetzten Jacobi-Matrizen erläutert. Das Verringern des Berechnungsaufwands ...

Appalling and tragic, Ognjen Spahic's exceptional short novel animates the misery of Ceasescu's Romania and its inglorious fall with a metaphor fully up to the task: leprosy. Gerhard Henrik Armauer Hansen was a Norwegian scientist who isolated the Mycobacterium leprae in 1873 and his 'children' are the tragic sufferers of this ghastly disease. In Spahic's novel, it's 1989 and a dozen of them are confined to the last leper house in Europe, an u...

Visiting Mr Daniels establishes a successful transport company in New Angel, an emancipated community that worships destiny as negatively presented by its elites. En route the journey of life, three local monsters led by Carlos lurk to devour Daniels outright through their own different ways of doing the same journey. Only gods can predict the end of journey for Angel's 'idiots'.

In vielerlei Hinsicht sind die Selten-Erd-Elemente und Actinoiden einzigartig. Ihre Koordinationschemie ähnelt sowohl dem Verhalten der Gruppen 1 und 2, als auch der Koordinationschemie des d-Blocks. Das Auffüllen der f-Orbitale führt gleichzeitig zu Eigenschaften, die zu zahlreichen neuen technologischen und wissenschaftlichen Anwendungen z.B. in der Katalyse, der Medizin, als Leuchtstoffe oder in der Magnetochemie geführt haben. Eine besonde...

Keine langweiligen Mathestunden mehr! Mit diesen Arbeitsblättern können Sie das Rechnenüben abwechslungsreich und interessant gestalten. Anmalbilder, Punktebilder und/oder Lösungssätze bieten den Schülerinnen und Schülern die Möglichkeit der motivierenden Selbstkontrolle.Das Übungsmaterial eignet sich hervorragend für Hausaufgabe, Stillbeschäftigung, Gruppenarbeit oder zur Differenzierung.Aus dem Inhalt:Addition und Subtraktion bis 20Aufsteige...

Responding to current trends in anatomy curricula, this innovative new resource covers surface and radiological anatomy and cutaneous and muscular innervations as well as gross anatomy. Outstandingly realistic three-dimensional photographs and illustrations, plus a consistent chapter organization, summary tables, and other user-friendly features, enhance readers' mastery of essential information. It provides students with a unique resource for...

Analyzes a community from the standpoint of immigrant mothers in South Central Los Angeles who were concerned about the education of their children and the violence in their communities. Written in Spanish and English, the text brings together the women's observations as they put into action their developing political consciousness.