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Der gut situierte Fattah, obwohl kein richtiger Mediziner, ist zum Operateur und Klinikchef aufgestiegen, seine Spezialität: Zerrissene Hymen wieder zusammenzunähen. Als er sich in eine seiner Patientinnen, die siebzahnjährige Shahrsad, verliebt, die dem jungen Mustafa versprochen ist, kommt es zum Konfl ikt. Beide, Fattah und Mustafa, sind treue Anhänger des Regimes, Mustafa ein Wärter und Folterer im berüchtigten Gefängnis Evin, was Shahrsad...

Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is one of the latest and most powerful flow visualization techniques, using numerous cameras to track flow tracers in two or three dimensions. This book provides a review of both experimental and computational aspects of PTV for academic and industrial researchers and engineers.

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The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century, tracing the myriad ways religious ideas, practices, and materialities interact with affect to configure life in urban African spaces.

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One Voice Rising is a memoir by Ute healer, elder, and historian Clifford Duncan, as told to Anglo writer, Linda Sillitoe. Duncan (1933-2014) was an inspiring leader and a powerful medicine man, and he was, as Sillitoe wrote, "simultaneously one of the most bicultural and traditional American Indians in the West." Duncan here covers both personal and tribal history during a crucial period in the tribe's development. His discussions with Sillit...

Full of practical tips, discussion points and hands-on activities, this inspiring text celebrates young children as "emergent biologists" and explains how their natural inquisitiveness can be harnessed to increase early understanding of scientific concepts, and so lay the foundations for future learning about the living world.

In analysing speeches made by legislators, this book provides theoretical and empirical answers to questions such as: Why do some Members of Parliament (MPs) take the parliamentary floor and speak more than others, and why do some MPs deviate more than others from the ideological position of their party? The authors evaluate their hypotheses on legislative speechmaking by considering parliamentary debates in seven European democracies: Czech R...

Taking an interdisciplinary perspective, Witchcraft and Folk Belief in the Age of Enlightenment represents the first in-depth investigation of Scottish witchcraft and witch belief post-1662, the period of supposed decline of such beliefs, an age which has been referred to as the 'long eighteenth century', coinciding with the Scottish Enlightenment. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries were undoubtedly a period of transition and ...

Over the past two decades international entrepreneurship has become a key issue in international business studies. This second edition of International Entrepreneurship examines this key emerging issue from its foundations, entrepreneurship, strategic management and international business studies. The book proposes an integrated interpretive framework in which to place international entrepreneurship, examining both theoretical and practical in...

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Dieses Fachbuch behandelt anschaulich den Aufbau und den praktischen Betrieb von Schwingungs-Messsystemen. Es wird die Funktionsweise der gesamten Messkette vom Aufnehmer bis zur Auswertung beschrieben und das Zusammenwirken der Elemente durch zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele verdeutlicht. Einen völlig neuen Schwerpunkt bildet die Schwingungsanalyse mittels MATLAB®.

Ensure every student can become fluent in Python with this highly practical workbook that will guide them through the theory and logic behind coding.Written for 14-16-year olds by a leading Python specialist and teacher, and aligned to curriculum requirements, this essential book will provide 100s of coding examples, puzzles and problems to strengthen computational thinking skills, that can be completed as homework or during class time.Python ...

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Enable students to construct, communicate and justify correct mathematical arguments with a range of activities and examples of maths in the real world.- Engage and excite students with examples and photos of maths in the real world, plus inquisitive starter activities to encourage their problem-solving skills- Build mathematical thinking with our 'Toolkit' and mathematical exploration chapter, along with our new toolkit feature of questions, ...

Um ihre Familie wieder zu vereinen, hat Nayna Sharma zugestimmt zu heiraten - einen Mann, den ihre Eltern für sie auswählen. Doch zuvor möchte sie noch einmal ausbrechen - und findet sich in den Armen eines geheimnisvollen Fremden wieder, der küssen kann wie kein anderer. Aber Raj sucht kein Abenteuer, er sucht eine Liebe fürs Leben. Und staunt nicht schlecht, als ihm die unbekannte Schönheit am nächsten Tag als mögliche Ehefrau vorgestellt wi...

From its origination, Arlington National Cemetery's history has been compellingly intertwined with that of African Americans. This book explains how the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the home of Robert E. Lee and a plantation of the enslaved, became a military camp for Federal troops, a freedmen's village and farm, and America's most important burial ground. During the Civil War, the property served as a pauper's cemetery for men too po...

This second edition is an update of the intersection of border security, immigration, and assimilation in the U.S.A. In addition to the history of immigration and custom services and shifts in attitudes about immigration, this edition provides new information about the operations of the Department of Homeland Security to secure the border. A new chapter examines developments in immigration policy relating to the border wall, family separation,...

Was ist "gute" Architektur? An diese scheinbar einfache Frage sind umfangreiche Kriterien geknüpft - ganz ähnlich wie an "gutes" Essen, das in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten verstärkt zum gesellschaftlichen Thema geworden ist. Dieses Buch stellt eine Auswahl von Gebäuden zusammen, die auf einfachen Technologien, Handwerkskunst und dem sorgfältigen Einsatz von lokalen und natürlichen Materialien basieren. Die Bauten weisen eine hervorragende Bauqu...

Tokio mit seinem scheinbar endlosen Häusermeer hat sich zu einer Megastadt entwickelt, die ebenso kohärent wie widersprüchlich erscheint. Es gibt viele Lesarten Tokios, doch kaum jemand hat die Stadt bislang als ein Gefüge sich einander bedingender Prozesse analysiert. Phänomene wie die starke Verbundenheit mit Grund und Boden, das große zivile Engagement und die Wertschätzung des Immateriellen haben in Tokio eine Megastruktur von kleinen, ine...