The million- selling Lord of the Rings calendars created during the '70s by renowned fantasy artists Greg and Tim Hildebrandt are now considered artistic masterpieces. This coffee table art book, "The Tolkien Years of the Brothers Hildebrandt", collects all that fantastic art, while telling the unto[...]

Why does nature prefer some shapes and not others? The variety of sizes, shapes, and irregularities in nature is endless. Skillfully integrating striking full-color illustrations, the authors describe the efforts by scientists and mathematicians since the Renaissance to identify and describe the pri[...]

"Design and Synthesis of Membrane Separation Processes" provides a novel method of design and synthesis for membrane separation. While the main focus of the book is given to gas separation and pervaporation membranes, the theory has been developed in such a way that it is "general" and valid for any[...]

Column Profile Maps (CPMs) provide one versatile tool that can be applied to wide range of separation synthesis problems. This book provides all the necessary guidance to create, optimize, design, and analyze distillation and related separation processes using novel, graphical techniques.[...]

"Creative young chef Brent Savage receives rave reviews for his hot Sydney restaurant - Bentley Restaurant & Bar. Brent's globally influenced, cutting-edge food is often described as 'art on a plate'. This book reveals the secrets behind his creations in an accessible, engaging manner, and it will i[...]

Mittelpunkt dieses Romans ist das Klavier, das im 19. Jahrhundert Europa eroberte und von kühnen Pionieren sogar bis in den Wilden Westen gebracht wurde. Hildebrandt beschreibt seinen Siegeszug und seine Niederlagen in Salons und Konzertsälen. Beethoven mit seinem rabiaten Auftreten in der Aristok[...]

Minimal Surfaces is the first volume of a three volume treatise on minimal surfaces (Grundlehren Nr. 339-341). Each volume can be read and studied independently of the others. The central theme is boundary value problems for minimal surfaces. The treatise is a substantially revised and extended vers[...]

Many properties of minimal surfaces are of a global nature, and this is already true for the results treated in the first two volumes of the treatise. Part I of the present book can be viewed as an extension of these results. For instance, the first two chapters deal with existence, regularity and u[...]

I Vanheim frykter menneskene at verdens undergang er nær. Snøstormene herjer selv om der er sommer, og frykten for ødelagte avlinger, sult og frost er enorm. Yppersteprestinne Frøya prøver å alliere seg med dødsgudinnen Hel, men det er ikke lett. Frøya må til slutt velge mellom Valhalls und[...]

Når man placerer professor Steen Hildebrandt og bestyrelsesformand Michael Christiansen i samme lokale, falder talen hurtigt på ledelse og lederskab. De har begge markante meninger om emnet samt mangeårige erfaringer - og derfor står de nu sammen bag bogen Lederskab til tiden.

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I denne bog gør Professor Steen Hildebrandt op med det ensidige vækstbegreb, og nuancerer bæredygtighedsbegrebet. Bogen er et opgør med en del af den vækst-, arbejds- og konkurrencetænkning, der har udviklet sig op gennem de sidste mange år, og som har ført til dybe kriser og dyb splittelse[...]