Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer, typographer and artist Stefan Sagmeister (born 1962) often tests and transgresses the boundary between art and design, through his imaginative implementation of typography. "The Happy Film Pitch Book" both documents Sagmeister's touring exhibition, "Th[...]
Izvestnye novelly odnogo iz velichajshikh pisatelej XIX veka Stefana Tsvejga uvlekajut neobychnymi sjuzhetami, v nikh est nekij nerv, est skrytaja naprjazhennost i dramatizm. Tak, geroinja novelly "Dvadtsat chetyre chasa iz zhizni zhenschiny" povedala istoriju odnogo-edinstvennogo svoego dnja, dnja,[...]
En ny Stefan och Staffan-bok är den nionde i ordningen och heter Stefan och Staffan på Hejsbook. Författarna hoppas åter kunna förgylla sina trogna radiolyssnares tillvaro med de bästa bitarna ur säsongens Fritt Fram.[...]
The study of ethnic minorities and their role in the domestic politics of their host states has long attracted scholars from a wide range of disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. By contrast, national (or external) minorities, have been under-represented in the literature on ethnic mino[...]
Romanens handling er lagt noen år fram i tid. De fire ungdommene Judit, David, Dinah og Gabriel går på skolen Fuglereiret. En kveld de sitter på skolens nye terrasse begynner et veldig regnvær som til slutt skyller med seg hele terrassen med ungdommene på. Når de til slutt driver i land aner [...]
Search has been vital to artificial intelligence from the very beginning as a core technique in problem solving. This title presents a thorough overview of heuristic search with a balance of discussion between theoretical analysis and efficient implementation and application to real-world problems.[...]
The third edition of Social Anxiety: Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives integrates examinations of social anxiety, shyness, and embarrassment with the research on social anxiety disorder subtypes, biological theories and cognitive-behavioral or pharmacological treatment outcome studies[...]
Interest in human rights has grown enormously over the past fifty years. But while the media focus mainly on dramatic issues such as unlawful killings, torture, disappearances, or free speech violations, institutions charged with the implementation of human rights (as set out in international treati[...]
It has been close to six decades since Watson and Crick discovered the structure of DNA and more than ten years since the human genome was decoded. Today, through the collection and analysis of a small blood sample, every baby born in the United States is screened for more than fifty genetic disorde[...]
How did national histories in Europe come into being and which were most successful in underpinning national identities? Who constructed the narratives of 'the nation' and why were they accepted, rejected or contested? How did the discourse of 'the nation' integrate narratives of ethnicity, race, cl[...]
Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived. Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from The New Yorker to the Saturday Evening Post, the choicest ad-libs and quips[...]
The state of the art in biopharmaceutical FUSION PROTEIN DESIGNFusion proteins belong to the most lucrative biotech drugs--with Enbrel(R) being one of the best-selling biologics worldwide. Enbrel(R) represents a milestone of modern therapies just as Humulin(R), the first therapeutic recombinant prot[...]
Matthew Arnoldâs Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptio[...]
This is the definitive report on "Fragments," Binjamin Wilkomirski's invented "memoir" of a childhood spent in concentration camps, which created international turmoil.
In 1995 "Fragments," a memoir by a Swiss musician named Binjamin Wilkomirski, was published in Germany. Hailed by critics, who [...]
The European Union is not a state, but a collection of states. From the outset, this European project has struggled to turn its many histories into one unifying narrative. United more by what they rejected than by their aspirations, Europe today is dedicated - in principle if not in practice - to th[...]
Performance Optimization of Numerically Intensive Codes offers a comprehensive, tutorial-style, hands-on, introductory and intermediate-level treatment of all the essential ingredients for achieving high performance in numerical computations on modern computers. The authors explain computer architec[...]
Cardiovascular imagers are faced with the challenge of interpreting cases that include artifacts, unusual findings, or anatomic variants on an almost daily basis. These studies can result in confusion and may lead to misdiagnosis even for the most experienced imager. This book provides an approachab[...]
This easy-to-read guide provides a concise introduction to the engineering background of modern communication systems, from mobile phones to data compression and storage. Background mathematics and specific engineering techniques are kept to a minimum so that only a basic knowledge of high-school ma[...]
The Travaux Preparatoires of the Crime of Aggression contains a complete documentation of the fifteen years of negotiations which led up to the historic adoption of the amendments to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court at the 2010 Review Conference in Kampala. Arranged chronological[...]