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History is replete with examples of tyranny and its resultant brutality, however, the quintessence of tyranny - brutality perfected - is exemplified in Nazi Germany, whose infamy garners particular distinction. For the first time in history, a sophisticated modern industrialized nation energized its full resources for the express purpose of the destruction of human beings. This goal was paramount, even to the point of neglecting the effective ...

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A timely review of studies of the 'hot stars' that comprise a halo around our Galaxy and similar stars in other galaxies - essential reading for graduate students and researchers.

The book presents advanced stochastic models and simulation methods for random flows and transport of particles by turbulent velocity fields and flows in porous media. Two main classes of models are constructed: (1) turbulent flows are modeled as synthetic random fields which have certain statistics and features mimicing those of turbulent fluid in the regime of interest, and (2) the models are constructed in the form of stochastic differentia...

Kendahl had always wanted a puppy. Every year, as she blows out her birthday candles, she wishes for a puppy. Her parents always answer: "When you are older, " reminding her that it is a big responsibility. But finally, on her sixth birthday, a special dog by the name of Apple, fills her dream of having a puppy of her very own. Young Kendahl learns about work, responsibility and unconditional love in this delightful story for ages 3-8. "T...

Stalin's Ghosts examines the impact of the Gothic-fantastic on Russian literature in the period 1920-1940. It shows how early Soviet-era authors, from well-known names including Fedor Gladkov, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov and Evgenii Zamiatin, to niche figures such as Sigizmund Krzhizhanovskii and Aleksandr Beliaev, exploited traditional archetypes of this genre: the haunted castle, the deformed body, vampires, villains, madness and unnat...

This book explores the profound transformations that prisons and offender rehabilitation programmes in Eastern Germany have undergone with respect to religion. Drawing on participant observation and interviews of inmates, ex-prisoners, chaplains and prison visitors, this book connects the institutional to individual: focusing on the religious changes individuals experience when they are imprisoned and released. Becci also explores the difficul...

In this book, Nagel invites us to take a journey on an aural and oral road that explores music and emotion, and their links to the unconscious.

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This work presents a fully semiconductor-based laser source that meets the requirements of coherent optical communication links in space and further allows to benefit from the numerous advantages of semiconductor lasers. A hybrid master oscillator power amplifier(MOPA) concept enables narrow-linewidth high-power operation.The experimental part of this thesis describes how the linewidth of the laser sources is characterized with a beat note mea...

Psychische problemen kunnen niet altijd wachten tot de eerstvolgende werkdag of tot het einde van de wachtlijst. Soms is haast geboden. Daarom hebben GGzinstellingen een crisisdienst die op korte termijn mensen kan ontvangen of thuis bezoeken. Ruim de helft van de mensen die er werken zijn SPV (Sociaal Psychiatrisch Verpleegkundige). Hun werk is intensief en boeiend: zij moeten kennis van zaken hebben, flexibel, daadkrachtig en stressbestendig...

Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Entwicklung neuartiger Modenkopplungsverfahren zur Erzeugung ultrakurzer Pikosekunden-Laserimpulse hoher mittlerer Leistung auf der Basis leistungs- und langzeitstabiler Komponenten. Physikalische Grundlage bildet die effiziente Erzeugung optisch nichtlinearer Phasenverschiebungen einer 1064 nm Fundamentalwelle, hervorgerufen durch phasenfehlangepasste Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) in Lithiumtriborat. Die un...

Children of God sheds new light on the role of the child figure in modernity, and in theological responses to it, the book makes an important contribution to the disciplines of historical theology, theology and literature and ecumenical theology. Through a careful exploration of the continuities and differences in the work of Thomas Traherne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Charles Péguy, it traces the ways in which their d...

This book addresses the relationship between religion and knowledge from a sociological perspective, taking both religion and knowledge as phenomena located within ever changing social contexts. Including critical engagement with live debates about intelligent design and the ¿new atheism¿, this collection of essays brings recent research on religious movements into conversation with debates about socialisation, reflexivity and the changing cap...

Risk appetite is a hot topic, driven both by corporate governance requirements and senior managers' need to make risk-based decisions. But despite the high level of interest, there is no consensus on what risk appetite is, how it should be expressed or measured, or how it can be practically used in business or projects.

Examines all the justifications and myths about the war on Libya and methodically dismantles them. Arguing that NATO's war is part of a larger process of militarising US relations with Africa, this account shows that Western relations with a "rehabilitated” Libya were shaky at best, mired in distrust, and exhibiting a preference for regime change.

Aims to increase awareness about the specific circumstances of LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) diversity. Based on a wide array of literature this volume provides a global vision of this reality, explaining the evolution of homosexuality during history and reasons why it has been considered a sin, an illness and a crime.

Through a theoretical and empirical examination of the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1966 NATO crisis, and the 2003 Iraq crisis, Eznack explores the connections between affect and emotion, the occurrence of crises, and the repair of those crises in close allies' relationships, and provides a new perspective on alliances and friendly relations among states.

The Paper War and the Development of Anglo-American Nationalisms, 1800-1825 offers fresh insight into the evolution of British and American nationalisms, the maturation of apologetics for slavery, and the early development of anti-Americanism, from approximately 1800 to 1830.