Siegfried Kracauer (1889-1966), friend and colleague of Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, was one of the most influential film critics of the mid-twentieth century. In this book, Johannes von Moltke and Kristy Rawson have, for the first time assembled essays in cultural criticism, film, literature[...]

The media are now redundant. In an overview of developments spanning the last seventy years, Siegfried Zielinski's " . . . After the Media]" discusses how the means of technology-based communication assumed a systemic character and how theory, art, and criticism were operative in this process. [...]

One of the most powerful methods of plasma diagnosis, light scattering in plasmas is essential in the research and development of fusion energy, environmental solutions, and electronics. This title guides researchers in the theory and measurement techniques of light scattering in plasmas.[...]

Millions have seen the movie and thousands have read the book but few have fully appreciated the mathematics developed by John Nash's beautiful mind. Today Nash's beautiful math has become a universal language for research in the social sciences and has infiltrated the realms of evolutionary biology[...]

An updated edition of the ultimate guide to understanding biology Ever wondered how the food you eat becomes the energy your body needs to keep going? The theory of evolution says that humans and chimps descended from a common ancestor, but does it tell us how and why? We humans are insatiably curi[...]

Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno - affiliated through friendship, professional ties, and argument - developed an astute philosophical critique of modernity in which technological media played a key role. This book explores in depth their reflections on cinema and photograph[...]

"The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston" includes "Sherston's Progress" and both "Memoirs,"

An evocation of the Edwardian age that has remained in print since its publication in 1928. It was the first volume of a classic trilogy, completed by "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" and "Sherston's Progress", that charted the destruction of the world for which Sassoon fought.[...]

It is the last watch of the lightship that stands at anchor in the Baltic Sea; it is nine years since the end of World War II and the mines she warned the shipping of have been removed. But on her last watch, her peace is interrupted: her captain, Freytag, takes in three men whose boat has broken do[...]

For the first time a book that addresses all aspects of muscle pain from basic science to clinical treatment. This book answers all possible questions regarding muscle pain--from local muscle soreness to the fibromyalgia syndrome. The unique concept behind the book is the combination of neuroanatom[...]