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Chargaffs Prognosen sind sicher noch düsterer geworden, vielleicht aber seine Schriften noch unentbehrlicher. 14 Essays sind in diesem Band versammelt: Analysen, Vorschläge und Bekenntnisse. Die Themen: Über die Vorstellung vom unendlichen Fortschritt. Über das Recht auf Leben. Über die Konsumentenrevolution in Ostdeutschland. Über die Ironie. Über Ludwig Wittgenstein. Über Bioethik und die »Fortschritte« der Organtransplantation. Über Genie, ...

Asklepios, der Gott der Heilung. Prometheus, der Titan. Die Mysterien der Kabiren. Und Hermes, der dreist-listige Gott der Reisenden. In lange vergriffenen Studien spürt Karl Kerényi vier Handlungs- und Bedeutungsträgern nach, ausgeleuchtet von der Dichtung, den Zeugnissen des Kults, der bildenden Kunst und ihrer Stätten. Aus dem Reichtum antiker Kultur gestalten Kerényis Essays ein lebendiges Panorama der wirkmächtigsten Götter- und Heroenwe...

Jünger ist wie kein anderer Schriftsteller zum Repräsentanten seines Jahrhunderts geworden, weil er die ungeheuren Möglichkeiten ebenso in ihm wahrnahm wie die dämonischen Abgründe, und weil es ihm gelang, beide Wahrnehmungen von seiner Person abzulösen und in die Objektivität einer erzählenden und einer essayistischen Darstellung zu überführen. Er ist den Herausforderungen seiner Zeit mit Herausforderung begegnet und hat damit drei Generation...

Thomas Meineckes Roman ist ein bizarres Kabinett der gender troubles. Es treten auf: die »zwangsheterosexuelle« Vivian Atkinson, damit beschäftigt, in ihrer Magisterarbeit die Philosophie der amerikanischen Feministin Judith Butler und die Irrtümer Otto Weiningers über Geschlecht und Charakter in Verbindung zu bringen. Da sind der feministische Gelegenheitsarzthelfer Hans Mühlenkamm, die bisexuelle Tennisspielerin Korinna Kohn und die lesbisch...

Dieser Lyrikband Thomas Rosenlöchers wurde aus den beiden bereits zu DDR-Zeiten erschienenen Bänden »Ich lag im Garten bei Kleinzschachwitz« und »Schneebier« zusammengestellt. Etwas vom Damals ins Heute retten, das will Thomas Rosenlöcher mit dem vorliegenden Band, dessen Gedichte mit dem Wegfall des alten Staates nun auch schon eine Zeitenwende hinter sich haben - und plötzlich gelten sie auch für heute. Humorvoll bis sarkastisch, mit Ironie ...

Inhalt des Buchs sind die Referate und Diskussionen der 13. August Lösch-Tage, die 1996 in Heidenheim an der Brenz stattfanden. Das Thema wird in drei Schwerpunkten "Soziale Transformation", "Regionalpolitische Herausforderungen" und "Siedlungsentwicklung" behandelt. Den Abschluß bildet das Referat "Herausforderungen der Europäischen Wirtschafts- und Währungsunion an die neuen Länder" von Reimut Jochimsen, Präsident der Landeszentralbank Nordr...

Data Mining Methods for Knowledge Discovery provides an introduction to the data mining methods that are frequently used in the process of knowledge discovery. This book first elaborates on the fundamentals of each of the data mining methods: rough sets, Bayesian analysis, fuzzy sets, genetic algorithms, machine learning, neural networks, and preprocessing techniques. The book then goes on to thoroughly discuss these methods in the setting of ...

Towards Intelligent Manufacturing Systems This book contains the selected articles from the third International Conference on lriformation Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing. A rapid evolution in a number of areas leading to Intelligent Manufacturing Systems has been observ@d in recent years. Significant efforts are being spent on this research area, namely in terms of international cooperative projects, like the IMS i...

Authors Raymond P. Daugherty and Carl Leukefeld argue for replacing the youth-based, `zero tolerance' approach to substance abuse prevention that has been dominant in the field over the past two decades. Their dynamic alternative is the Lifestyle Risk Reduction Model, which revises standard prevention strategies to make them relevant throughout the entire life span. Features of this revolutionary new paradigm include Five Principles of Lifesty...

At the end of the 20th century, the increasing popularity of new religious movements causes concern in America. These selected readings address such related questions as: what is a cult?, who joins them and why?, are cults inclined to be violent?, and why did the Waco and Jonestown tragedies occur?

This volume consists of papers delivered at the conference 'The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy', organised in celebration of the hun­ dredth anniversary ofKazimierz Twardowski's first lecture as Professor of Phi­ losophy at Lvov University. This lecture can be regarded as the starting point of the development of analytic philosophy in Poland, which culminated in the Warsaw School of Logic. The conference was held in Lvov (15-17...

In this book, recognized industry experts and regulatory inspectors from the world's pharmaceutical manufacturing regions provide stability requirements in all the major markets and discuss all aspects of stability testing and biotechnology. Participants in the ICH debates interpret the ICH guidelines. Other discussions focus on European requirements, the ICH initiatives, the US SUPAC initiative, matrixing and bracketing approaches from the cG...

Fuzzy Control of Industrial Systems: Theory and Applications presents the basic theoretical framework of crisp and fuzzy set theory, relating these concepts to control engineering based on the analogy between the Laplace transfer function of linear systems and the fuzzy relation of a nonlinear fuzzy system. Included are generic aspects of fuzzy systems with an emphasis on the many degrees of freedom and its practical design implications, model...

High-risk sexual behavior has been linked to social problems such as substance abuse, domestic violence, homelessness, and deprivation. This volume's unique multidisciplinary biopsychosocial approach combines relevant medical information regarding disease states with the cultural, social, and psychological facets of successful prevention programs. Becker and Rankin outline specific interventions that address the needs of particularly vulnerabl...

This book provides a comprehensive and innovative overview of new and emerging sous vide and cook-chill techniques that are, or soon to be, commercially used for the food industry. Written by a range of international experts, the book integrates all subjects relative to sous vide and cook-chill processing, allowing food industry personnel to assimilate quickly the essential principles behind each technique and their applications. It is an esse...

The Optical Society of America Conference on Applications of High Fields and Short Wavelength Sources, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, from March 20-22, 1997, was an exceptionally exciting conference. This conference was the seventh in a series of topical con­ ferences, held every two years, which are devoted to the generation and application of high field and short wavelength sources. The meeting was truly international in scope, with equa...

An attempt to disrupt, critique and question the practices and assumptions of medieval studies in light of recent theoretical debates in postmodern, queer, feminist, and post-colonial theory.

Industrial Price, Quantity, and Productivity Indices: The Micro-Economic Theory and an Application gives a comprehensive account of the micro-economic foundations of industrial price, quantity, and productivity indices. The various results available from the literature have been brought together into a consistent framework, based upon modern duality theory. This integration also made it possible to generalize several of these results. Thus, th...

We present here the second issue devoted entirely to the spin-labeling technique as part of Biological Magnetic Resonance. Volume 14 commemorates a modifi- tion in our editorial policy with the retirement of my esteemed coeditor, Jacques Reuben. From thisjuncture into the future, each issue will focus on some special topic in magnetic resonance. Each volume will be organized in most cases by guest editors, for example forthcoming issues will a...

A revised/updated edition of the regarded 1993 book "Driven by Growth", this work presents the political-economic evolution of the Asia-Pacific countries, with overviews of the impact of economic development on political change. This edition includes chapters on Burma and Vietnam.