In the second part of this comprehensive all-new two-volume military history of the Franco-Prussian War, the author continues his narrative from the fall of the Second Empire until the ending of the war, and the founding of a unified Germany. The war against the Government of National Defence presen[...]

There are over four hundred thousand apps for the iPhone and tens of thousands of programmers creating them. Typically, apps are created by experienced developers. However, there are also great success stories of first-time developers, motivated by a great idea and the allure of making money on the [...]

JESS FRANCO: THE WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS FILMMAKERJess Franco was a director, cinematographer, writer, composer, editor, producer and actor in more than 150 fiercely independent films he made from 1959 to 2013. Born in Madrid, Spain, he was declared one of the most dangerous filmmakers by the Spanish[...]

The Tank Watch, the classic timepiece designed by Louis Cartier in 1917, is an icon of modern timepiece design. One of the world's first square wristwatches (the first was the legendary Santos Dumont designed by Cartier in 1904), the Tank Watch's functionality is rivaled only by its elegance; it rep[...]

The book deals with the random perturbation of PDEs which lack well-posedness, mainly because of their non-uniqueness, in some cases because of blow-up. The aim is to show that noise may restore uniqueness or prevent blow-up. This is not a general or easy-to-apply rule, and the theory presented in t[...]

The Rome I Regulation creates a common regime of conflict of law rules on international contract law for (most of the) EU Member States. These rules apply to both contractual and non-contractual disputes - a fact that poses great challenges to legal practitioners in every Member State, as there exis[...]

Parmi les nombreux ouvrages consacres a la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il en est peu qui traitent des relations entre pays occupes et pays neutres. Les relations economiques franco-suisses sont de celles-la. Leur maintien pendant toute la duree du conflit atteste tout a la fois la possibilite dont a be[...]