Yahya Hassan, född 1995, debuterar med en självbetitlad diktsamling om en uppväxt präglad av våld, svek och kriminalitet. Det är en modig och explosiv bok som slagit kritikerna och läsarna med häpnad. Den har kallats en absolut nödvändig beskrivning av ett Danmark av idag - och är därmed[...]
Yahya Hassan, född 1995, debuterar med en självbetitlad diktsamling om en uppväxt präglad av våld, svek och kriminalitet. Det är en modig och explosiv bok som slagit kritikerna och läsarna med häpnad. Den har kallats en absolut nödvändig beskrivning av ett Danmark av idag - och är därmed[...]
Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become very popular as embedded components on computing platforms. Suitable for researchers and practicing engineers concerned with power-efficient, FPGA design, this book describes power reduction techniques for FPGAs.[...]
The commercialization of sport since the 1990s has had a number of consequences. The market forces that have defined commercialization, notably pay-per-view television, whilst initially welcomed as important new sources of revenue, have also had the unanticipated consequences of de-stabilizing many [...]
Mergers and acquisitions are one of the cornerstones of firm growth, and have attracted considerable attention from the scholarly research community in the last three decades. Several studies have concluded that M&A transactions do not result in better performance, and can even erode the acquiring [...]
It's bustling 1960s Beirut, and our young protagonist spends his days in his father and uncle's bakery, admiring the female customers, observing the many colourful characters, and listening in on fascinating grown-up conversations about everything from jaundice to the occult. The rest of the time he[...]
In Selim-Hassan the Seventh, a teenager is determined not to follow in his father's footsteps (but his great-great-great-great grandfather has other ideas). In The Wall, a young nomadic girl is determined to return her grandmother to the land of her birth, across the Great Wall of China.[...]
On April 21, 2008, Steven "Crash" Crashinsky saved more than a thousand people when he stopped his classmate David Burnett from taking their high school hostage armed with assault weapons and high-powered explosives. You likely already know what came after for Crash: the nationwide notoriety, the co[...]
On April 21, 2008, Steven "Crash" Crashinsky saved more than a thousand people when he stopped his classmate David Burnett from taking their high school hostage armed with assault weapons and high-powered explosives. You likely already know what came after for Crash: the nationwide notoriety, the co[...]
Draws together significant advances in various topics in applied mechanics. This title provides review articles on topics in the mechanical sciences. It is of interest to scientists and engineers working in the various branches of mechanics, as well as to the many who use the results of investigatio[...]
For a first-year graduate-level course on nonlinear systems. It may also be used for self-study or reference by engineers and applied mathematicians. The text is written to build the level of mathematical sophistication from chapter to chapter. It has been reorganized into four parts: Basic analysi[...]
For a first-year graduate-level course on nonlinear systems. It may also be used for self-study or reference by engineers and applied mathematicians. The text is written to build the level of mathematical sophistication from chapter to chapter. It has been reorganized into four parts: Basic analysi[...]
Structural Mechanics, first published in 1958, has become established as a classic text on the theory of structures and design methods of structural members. The book clearly and logically presents the subject's basic principles, keeping the mathematical content to its essential minimum. The seventh[...]
A blistering debut that does for the Iraqi perspective on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan what Phil Klay's "Redeployment "does for the American perspective
The first major literary work about the Iraq War from an Iraqi perspective--by an explosive new voice hailed as "perhaps the best writer o[...]
Arab immigrants began to arrive in the United States in the late-nineteenth century and in Britain after World War Two. Those immigrants have produced a vast literature that remains relatively unknown outside of specialist circles. Like other ethnic literatures, Arab-American and Arab-British writin[...]
This volume describes Hassan Fathy's plan for building the village of New Gourna, near Luxor, Egypt, without the use of more modern and expensive materials such as steel and concrete. Using mud bricks, the native technique that Fathy learned in Nubia, and such traditional Egyptian architectural desi[...]
In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve as filters for information overload. In this book, experts discuss the benefit[...]
This sumptuous book brings to life the rich past and the landmark creations of one of the world's great watchmakers. Founded in the Swiss city of Geneva in 1755 by the gifted craftsman and businessman Jean-Marc Vacheron, Vacheron Constantin is the oldest watch manufacturer in the world with an unint[...]
In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliban government, scattering its remnants across the c[...]
What is the network society? What effects does it have upon media, culture and politics? What are the competing forces in the network society, and how are they reshaping the world? The rise of the network society - the suffusion of much of the economy, culture and society with digital interconnectiv[...]
The rise of the network society - the suffusion of much of the economy, culture and society with digital interconnectivity - is a development of immense significance. This book aims to unpack the dynamics of this information order and shows how they have affected both the way media and politics are [...]