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Thoroughly revised and updated, this new edition of the text that helped define the field continues to present important methods in the quantitative analysis of geologic data, while showing students how statistics and computing can be applied to commonly encountered problems in the earth sciences. In addition to new and expanded coverage of key topics, the Third Edition features new pedagogy, end-of-chapter review exercises, and an accompanyi...

Integrating the business and technical aspects of the a power industry, this book explains how various methods for power systems operations and energy marketing relate to public policy, regulation, economics, and engineering science. It examines the technologies and techniques in use.

Howard Caygill systematically explores for the first time the relationship between Levinas' thought and the political. From Levinas' early writings in the face of National Socialism to controversial political statements on Israeli and French politics, Caygill analyses themes such as the deconstruction of metaphysics, embodiment, the face and alterity.He also examines Levinas' engagement with his contemporaries Heidegger and Bataille, and the i...

Clinical psychoanalysis since Freud has put reconstruction of the patient's history at the forefront of its task but in recent years, this approach has not been so prominent. This book aims to explore and re-evaluate the relationship between history and psychoanalysis. Roger Kennedy develops new perspectives on historiography by applying psychoanalytic insight into the key issues of narrative, time and subjectivity in the construction of histo...

A chorus of immigrant voices populates Judy Fong Bates's graceful and poignant first collection. Denizens of the ubiquitous small towns around Ontario, as far from their native land as can be imagined yet united by their proximity to the local Chinese laundry, her characters have in common their driving desire to assimilate, to fit in, to belong to a "majority" culture. But they are also people trapped by a certain cultural pride in confrontin...

This book presents a series of integrated computer programs for the dynamic analysis of structures. It will be an essential tool for practising civil and structural engineers, whilst also being of interest to academics and postgraduate students.

Hand aufs Herz! Haben Sie nicht auch schon einmal Briefe an einen Heißgeliebten, eine Heißgeliebte geschrieben? Oder gar auf eine Partnersuchanzeige geantwortet? Oder selbst eine aufgegeben, weil Sie Ihrem lang ersehnten Glück etwas auf die Sprünge helfen wollten? Angela Allmendinger aus München hat das Alleinsein gründlich satt. Als aktive, musische und sehnsüchtig nach dem Sinn des Lebens fragende und suchende junge Frau begreift sie nicht, ...

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Quantitative methods are needed in conservation biology more than ever as an increasing number of threatened species find their way onto international and national "red lists. " Objective evaluation of population decline and extinction probability are required for sound decision making. Yet, as our colleague Selina Heppell points out, population viability analysis and other forms of formal risk assessment are underused in policy formation beca...

Dr. Mauch beweist, daß diese Erkrankungen auf schweren Vergiftungen beruhen, die an allen Geweben lokale und flächenhafte Entzündungen auslösen können. Dr. Mauch garantiert, daß Sie bei genauer Anwendung nach seinem Buch in den meisten Fällen bereits nach wenigen Wochen Erleichterung bekommen, die Schwellungen und Schmerzen zurückgehen und, sofern das Gewebe noch nicht ganz zerstört ist, eine Regeneration und Heilung möglich ist. Daher: Nehme...

This volume examines the complex functions of visual metaphor in Indian Mahayana Buddhism. McMahan argues that the symbolic role of sight in Mahayana Literature shapes the traditions epistemic paradigm and concepts of enlightenment, as well as its visionary literature, symbolic imagery and visualization practices. Visual metaphors in a number of Mahayana sutras construct a discourse in which visual perception serves as a model for knowledge an...

Maria Immacolata Macioti's The Buddha Within Ourselves contains the results of a five-year study conducted by Professor Macioti, and a team of young scholars under her direction. This study focuses on Nichiren Buddhism as practiced by the members of the Italian Soka Gakkai, one of 177 sister organizations associated with Soka Gakkai International, a well known Japan-based Buddhist association that promotes peace, culture and education all over...

Every now and then a book appears which is literally ahead of its time ... The Political Unconscious is such a book ... it sets new standards of what a classic work is.' - Slavoj ZizekIn this ground-breaking and influential study, Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. A landmark publication, The Political Unconscious takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century. Fi...

This is a history of hard, accurate throwing and the manipulation of fire as unique human capabilities.

Endlich - der erste aller Malaussène-Romane in einer neuen Übersetzung Von Beruf ist Benjamin Malaussène Sündenbock, aber auch großer Bruder und Ernährer zahlreicher Halbgeschwister. Die ganze Sippschaft wohnt in einem alten Laden im bunten Pariser Stadtteil Belleville. Väter gibt es nicht, und Maman ist ständig in Liebesabenteuern unterwegs. Benjamin arbeitet in einem großen Pariser Kaufhaus in der Reklamationsabteilung, hält für alle Pannen ...

Holquist's masterly study draws on all of Bakhtin's known writings providing a comprehensive account of his achievement. Widely acknowledged as an exceptional guide to Bakhtin and dialogics, this book now includes a new introduction, concluding chapter and a fully updated bibliography. He argues that Bakhtin's work gains coherence through his commitment to the concept of dialogue, examining Bakhtin's dialogues with theorists such as Saussure, ...

The purpose of this book is to introduce algebraic topology using the novel approach of homotopy theory, an approach with clear applications in algebraic geometry as understood by Lawson and Voevodsky. This method allows the authors to cover the material more efficiently than the more common method using homological algebra. The basic concepts of homotopy theory, such as fibrations and cofibrations, are used to construct singular homology and ...