27 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

ýKlezemr has become one of the primary languages of the musical avant-garde.O (The New Yorker) ýThe music of my childhood memories came flooding back through the decades as I read. Maybe, as Seth Rogovoy suggests, itís time for our music to awaken once more to an entirely new generation.O (Arlo Guthrie) THE ESSENTIAL KLEZMER is the definitive guide to an ancient music made new again, mesmerizing dance music that I simultaneously reverential, m...

Keine Beschreibung.

∗ Bodo Hombach is one of the most prominent figures in Third Way politics. He is a key adviser to Schroder and a leading exponent of social democratic principles. ∗ The Politics of the New Centre is a theoretically innovative text which sets out the meaning of the Third Way for political and economic policy.

Fans--they are mysterious and magical, and have been elevated to an art form by the great artists and decorators. They can be viewed as a tangible extension of femininity, style, and elegance. This book tells the fascinating tale of the fan as both a charming fashion accessory and a sophisticated mirror reflecting the changes in fashion and culture over time. Covering medieval times to the twentieth century, individual chapters trace the histo...

In the last 20 years, an incredibly diverse group of important artists and designers have been associated with UrbanGlass: New York Center for Contemporary Glass, influencing the character and shape of the Studio Glass Movement in different and profound ways. This gorgeous volume documents the work of 173 of these artists, and celebrates their achievements in art and design using the most exciting art medium being explored today. An authoritat...

In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its Orphic, magical power to unsettle oppressive realities, to liberate the soul and to create, at least temporarily, a medium of freedom. This collection explores literary invocations of music from the Harlem Renaissance to Toni Morrison.

This study elucidates the relationship between identity formation and resistance to racial and sexual oppression in a group of contemporary American novels the author terms "dissenting fictions, " narratives that assert the subjectivity and historicity of marginalized peoples at precisely the moment when postmodern critiques proclaim the death of the subject and the inaccessibility of historical "truth." Of primary concern is the question of h...

Die in dieser Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Max Kaase versammelten Beiträge greifen die wichtigsten Themenbereiche auf, mit denen sich Max Kaase im Laufe seines wissenschaftlichen Wirkens beschäftigt hat: Neben Fragen der politischen Partizipation, insbesondere des Wahlverhaltens, werden verschiedene Aspekte politischer Orientierungen und Verhaltensweisen im Allgemeinen sowie der politischen Kommunikation im Besonderen behandelt und Grund...

The explosive growth in the field of molecular biology over the last two decades has started to make a great impact on clinical medicine. Genes have been cloned for diseases that were poorly understood only a decade ago. Additionally, investigators are increasingly aware that there are strong genetic components to complex disorders, such as osteoporosis, that are not classically thought of as genetic disorders. New insights into the pathogenes...

Europe is entering a new political epoch. The centre-left, now in government in many EU countries, has struggled to modernize itself and is now defining the shape of politics for the future.Bodo Hombach's book is one of the most important early attempts to flesh out the Third Way - moving it from being a successful electoral project to become a governing philosophy. Hombach, one of Gerhard Schr"der's closest advisers, who was Minister of State...

Patience Agbabi was born in London in 1965 and educated at Oxford and SussexUniversities. Renowned for her live performances, her poems have beenbroadcast on television and radio all over the world. Her work has alsoappeared on the London Underground and human skin. She has lectured inCreative Writing at several UK universities including Greenwich, Cardiff and Kent. In 2004 she was nominated one of the UK's NextGeneration Poets. Bloodshot Mono...

Strömungslehre" ist Teil des zweibändigen Werkes "Fluid- und Wärmetransport". Die Grundlagen der Fluiddynamik werden ausführlich behandelt. Nach kurzer Wiederholung der Grundlagen der Hydrostatik werden reibungsfreie eindimensionale Strömungen behandelt, wobei ausführlich auf die Stromfadentheorie sowie die Unterschiede zwischen kompressibler und inkompressibler Fluidströmung am Beispiel von Ausströmvorgängen eingegangen wird. Es folgen die Ab...

Lipid Glossary 2 is a handy reference for a wide range of lipid scientists and technologists, as well as for those involved in the trading of these materials.The major part of the book is the glossary which contains brief and simple definitions, such as the names of fatty acids and lipids, the major oils and fats, terms associated with their analysis, refining, and modification, and the major journals and societies concerned with lipid chemist...

This book summarizes recent progresses in inorganic fluorine chemistry. Highlights include new aspects of inorganic fluorine chemistry, such as new synthetic methods, structures of new fluorides and oxide fluorides, their physical and chemical properties, fluoride catalysts, surface modifications of inorganic materials by fluorination process, new energy conversion materials and industrial applications. Fluorine has quite unique properties (hi...

Experten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis präsentieren in diesem Buch aktuelle Entwicklungstrends des globalen Dienstleistungshandels aus Sicht des Standorts Deutschland sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen der heimischen Dienstleistungswirtschaft.

Keine Beschreibung.

This book is a collection of part of the written versions of the Physics Courses given at the Winter School "Order, Chance and Risk: Aperiodic Phenomena from Solid State to Finance" held at the Les Houches Center for Physics, between February 23 and March 6, 1998. The School gathered lecturers and participants from all over the world. On a thematic level, the content of the school can be viewed both as a continuation (aperiodic phenomena in so...

Over the past decade, major advances have taken place in the management of osteoporosis. Newdasses of pharmaceutical agents have been developed, tested, and used to treat millions of patients, education and early detection programs have been instituted around the world, and bone densitometry has received widespread recognition by healthcare agencies as being central to the preven­ tive health strategy necessary to care for an aging population....

Helps clear the confusion about analyzing pretest-posttest data. This work also helps to understand the pros and cons of different methods - ANOVA, ANCOVA, percent change, and difference scores and learn to choose the appropriate statistical test. It gathers and elucidates the concepts and techniques useful for studies incorporating baseline data.

Mit § 21 des am 1.1.1995 in Kraft getretenen neuen Markengesetzes ist erstmals eine gesetzliche Regelung für die Verwirkung im Kennzeichenrecht geschaffen worden. Danach kann der Unterlassungsanspruch eines Kennzeicheninhabers gegenüber einem Zeichenverletzer nach Ablauf einer Fünfjahresfrist verwirken. Die Regelung basiert auf Art. 9 der europäischen Markenrechtsrichtlinie. Die allgemeinen deutschen Verwirkungsgrundsätze, die aus § 242 BGB ab...