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Overview: Examines Bernard Shaw’s metadramatic strategies.Explores important postmodern language concepts in Major Barbara.Challenges widespread assumptions about identity and language formation.This book focuses on two important topics in Shaw’s .Major Barbara. and .Pygmalion. that have received little attention from critics: language and metadrama. If we look beyond the social, political, and economic issues that Shaw explored in these two plays, we discover that the stories of the two “Shavian sisters”— Barbara Undershaft and Eliza Doolittle—are deeply concerned with performance and what Ja

Overview: Topical book covering all aspects of, and offering multidisciplinary sources of information about Life.Compiled with all levels in mind - from novice to professional.Written by professionals in this f.Life As we Know It ["LAKI"] covers several aspects of Life, ranging from the prebiotic level, origin of life, evolution of prokaryotes to eukaryotes and finally to various affairs of human beings. Although it is hard to define Life, one can, however, characterize it and describe its features. Topics treated are categories of bacteria, algae and fungi, conscience, philosophy, theology, a

Overview: Groundbreaking book dealing with the impact of urbanization on climate and how cities can adapt to climate change.Provides innovative, practical and hands-on guidelines that can be implemented in citiThis book aims to integrate climate mitigation and adaptation tools into conventional urban planning. It emphasizes the value and importance of ICT as connected technology. The author believes  that ICT and IOT can facilitate controlling climate change attributes when deployed with appropriate ingredients and composition in cities in an integrated comprehensive manner. It was written wit

Overview: Es ist ein merkwürdiges Phänomen, dass die.Literaturwissenschaft bis heute die gesamte Jugendlyrik von Frank Wedekind aus den Jahren 1877 bis 1889 nicht wahrgenommen hat. Rund 90 Jahre nach seinem Tod weiß man,.dass Wedekind ein entscheidender Wegbereiter des neuen Theaters war, als Klassiker der Moderne gilt und als Lehrer von Berthold Brecht dessen Songs entscheidend beeinflusst hat. Seine ersten dichterischen Gehversuche in Lenzburg, die durch seine amourösen Abenteuer geprägt waren, bleiben jedoch bis heute im Dunkeln..Der Autor präsentiert mit „Liebesklänge“ eine gelungene Kombi

Overview: Up-to-date developments in the analysis and control area for nonlinear time-delay systems using T-S fuzzy model approach.Comprehensive monograph on T-S fuzzy systems with time delaySinceinitiatedbyLot?A. Zadehin1965,fuzzysettheoryhastriggeredacons- erably large body of areas to blossom. A fuzzy system is, in a very broad sense, anyfuzzylogic-basedsystemwherefuzzylogiccanbeusedeither asthebasisfor the representation of di?erent forms of system knowledge or the model for the interactions and relationships among the system variables. Fuzzy systems have proven to be an important tool for

Overview: First book describing in a detailed way oxygen stress in plants.Integrates knowledge from different disciplines.Gives a comprehensive overview of how plants cope with hypoxia.Includes supplementary maDuring the last ten years, knowledge about the multitude of adaptive responses of plants to low oxygen stress has grown immensely. The oxygen sensor mechanism has been discovered, the knowledge about the interaction network of gene expression is expanding and metabolic adaptations have been described in detail. Furthermore, morphological changes were investigated and the regulative mecha

Overview: In May 1997 the Faculty of Surgery from the University of Athens and elsewhere gathered with colleagues in Athens for the third time in 6 years to continue our discussions on the progress, problems, realization, and future of laproscopic surgery. The topics were rather inclusive with regard to the issues that defined the field, and the assembled investigators, educa­ tors, and clinicians brought a rich experience and clear vision of the field in the coming years. The decision had been made months before to collect our thoughts and experience as a colloquium of the state of laproscopi

Overview: Offers an authoritative reference work on life cycle impact assessment.Thoroughly explores the selection of impact categories and the classification of inventory flows for all the impacts that are fre.This book offers a detailed presentation of the principles and practice of life cycle impact assessment. As a volume of the LCA compendium, the book is structured according to the LCIA framework developed by the International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)passing through the phases of definition or selection of impact categories, category indicators and characterisation models (

Overview: Provides information on all the important families of materials that are being considered as viable candidate for lead-free piezoelectrics.Covers in-depth material properties of most promising composiEcological restrictions in many parts of the world are demanding the elimination of Pb from all consumer items. At this moment in the piezoelectric ceramics industry, there is no issue of more importance than the transition to lead-free materials. The goal of .Lead-Free Piezoelectrics. is to provide a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals and developments in the field of lead-free m

Overview: Good documents should have consistent look and feel.Hundreds of working examples, showing input and output side by side.Showing the most recent solutions for producing top-quality documents.Learn how LaTeX is a free, automated state-of-the-art typesetting system. This book teaches all the ins and outs of LaTeX which are needed to write an article, report, thesis, or book. The book teaches by example, giving many worked out examples showing input and output side by side. The book presents the most recent techniques for presenting data plots, complex graphics, and computer presentation

Overview: 978-3-531-11588-7978-3-322-88663-7Series ISSN 0175-615X

Overview: Written by experts, Gives a modern approach, Comprehensive in ScopeThis book is written for the growing number of people (teachers, administrators, support staff, parents, and community members) throughout the world who wish to face the challenges of school leadership in ways that feel right, make sense, and contribute to sustaining defensible educational practices. Using and extending the evolving core ideas of the global inviting school movement, it provides a hopeful approach to educational leadership, management, and mentorship that combines philosophical defensibility, administr

Overview: Provides a coherent framework for studying linguistic stratigraphy.Presents three unique case studies about languages that have been replaced by Quechuan languages.Shows how to systematically deal wit.This book examines the historical linguistic panorama of Western South America, focusing on the minor languages that were partially or fully replaced by the expansion of the Quechuan family through the region..The author presents a coherent and generally applicable framework for studying prehistoric language shift processes and reconstructing earlier linguistic landscapes before signifi

Overview: Social and natural scientists are currently obsessed withglobalization, but this has not been matched by an equal interest inthe societal consequences of local environmental change. Attention hasthus been withdrawn from community and locality and transferred toglobal processes, with an indifference to the reality of those at thereceiving end of the social, economic and political problems thatglobalization create. Local reality is obscured and conditions areimposed that are often insensitive to or even distort local needs,resource management, and production systems. .The case studies

Overview: Analyses the practice of States and International Organisations.Interdisciplinary and global approach.Addresses the secession/independence of territorial entitiesThe book deals with the secession/separation of territorial entities and the legal consequences that derive from it both for the parent state and for the seceded/separated entity or the entity that intends to secede/separate. This subject is approached from the triple perspective of international law, comparative law, and Spanish law..International law, because it is this legal system which contains the general legal framewo

Overview: Comprehensively covers use of linear models in matrix form.Utilizes R and open source spreadsheets as standard tools for algebraic calculations.Many examples and full-color screenshots data files to h.This textbook is an approachable introduction to statistical analysis using matrix algebra. Prior knowledge of matrix algebra is not necessary. Advanced topics are easy to follow through analyses that were performed on an open-source spreadsheet using a few built-in functions. These topics include ordinary linear regression, as well as maximum likelihood estimation, matrix decomposition

Overview: 978-3-476-12081-6978-3-476-04076-3Series ISSN 0558-3667 Series E-ISSN 2512-5222

Overview: Updated Information on Progress in Landslides Sciences.Landslides - Disaster Mitigation Presents its Achievements of major IPL projects in research and capacity building.Includes supplementary materiaThis book presents the global landslide risk preparedness implemented through the International Programme on Landslides (IPL). IPL was initiated by the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in 2002, and developed to a joint international programme by the IPL Global Promotion Committee (UNESCO, WMO, FAO, UNISDR, UNU, ICSU and WFEO as well as ICL) through the 2006 Tokyo Action Plan.

Overview: Draws on research into language contact, competition, and maintenance, and discusses the factors that determine these processes.Contextualizes a single, previously unresearched case study as part of t.This book is an innovative sociolinguistic study of New Australia, an Australian immigrant community in Paraguay in 1893, whose descendants today speak Guarani. Providing fresh data on a previously under-researched community who are an extremely rare case of language shifting from English heritage language to a local indigenous language, the case study is situated within the wider conte

Overview: Premier ouvrage consacré à cette thématique.Sujet d’actualité en oncologie.Domaine faisant partie intégrante du Plan Cancer.Ouverture sur la personnalisation thérapeutique.Evolution majeure diagnostiqLa notion de biomarqueur est de plus en plus utilisée en oncologie. Elle consiste à identifier des éléments biologiques pouvant avoir une utilité diagnostique, pronostique et thérapeutique ; Les biomarqueurs sont au cœur du Plan Cancer et représentent une évolution majeure en oncologie ouvrant la voie de la personnalisation thérapeutique. Dans cet ouvrage, sera présentée la définition de