BOOKS with Alphabet L (La, Lb,Lc, Ld, Le…... )

Overview: Examines the hybrid nature of humour and comedy in works by Edgar Allan Poe, Gosse, Wyndham Lewis, and Katherine Mansfield.Explores the complex nature between laughter and violence.Views comedy in rel.Laughter, Literature, Violence, 1840-1930. investigates the strange, complex, even paradoxical relationship between laughter, on the one hand, and violence, war, horror, death, on the other. It does so in relation to philosophy, politics, and key nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary texts, by Edgar Allan Poe, Edmund Gosse, Wyndham Lewis and Katherine Mansfield – texts which explor

Overview: Includes a special chapter on simulations of nanoplasmonic systems.Provides information on symmetry and topology in optical systems.Emphasis on fundamental ideas and a pedagogical approachThe investigation of light-matter interactions in materials, especially those on the nanoscale, represents perhaps the most promising avenue for scientific progress in the fields of photonics and plasmonics. This book examines a variety of topics, starting from fundamental principles, leading to the current state of the art research.  For example,  this volume includes a chapter on the sensing of bi

Overview: This collection of essays is concerned with the impact of the experience of empire upon the literary imagination as far as Ireland, Africa and India are concerned. These essays examine the manner in which British imperial experience has been expressed in literature. The contributors discuss Conrad, Forster, Ballantyne, Rushdie, Lawrence of Arabia, Anglo-Irish writers, and such popular classics as ‘The Four Feathers‘. There is a select bibliography to encourage further reading.978-0-333-47525-6978-1-349-21431-0

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Overview: Includes supplementary material: .Globalisierung und Virtualisierung der Geschäftsbeziehungen vergrößern Bedeutung und Komplexität logistischer Herausforderungen. Die Gestaltung und das Management von Logistiknetzwerken oder der Beziehungen zu Logistikdienstleistern werden so zu wesentlichen Wettbewerbsfaktoren. Dies wurde von Forschung und Praxis erkannt und führt zur Entwicklung und Diskussion von Strategien, Methoden und Werkzeugen, welche es ermöglichen sollen, den gestiegenen Anforderungen gerecht zu werden. Das Buch wie die entsprechende Tagung haben zum Ziel, den international

Overview: Erster umfassender Überblick über das Thema "lokale Ökonomie".Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Fachrichtungen beleuchten das Thema von verschiedenen Seiten.Ausgewählte Fallbeispiele verdeutlichen die ProDas vorliegende Handbuch bietet einen umfassenden systematischen Überblick über das Themenfeld Lokale Ökonomie in Bezug auf Konzepte, Quartierskontexte und Interventionen. In prägnanten Kurzkapiteln diskutieren Wissenschaftler aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen (Humangeographie, Soziologie, Wirtschaftswissenschaften etc.) sowie Akteure aus der Stadtentwicklungspraxis grundlegende Konzepte

Overview: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 35th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2022, held in Chicago, IL, USA, in October 2022.. The 9 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 12 submissions. The conference covers all aspects of languages, compiler techniques, run-time environments, and compiler-related performance evaluation for parallel and high-performance computing. The scope of the workshop encompasses foundational results, as well as practical experience reports and bold n

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-7091-9674-8978-3-7091-9921-3

Overview: Introduces the work of Deligny, a key figure in post war French thought.Taps into contemporary interests in gender and disability.Contains anecdotes about Arbug, and weaves together biographical infor.Philosophical thinking allows itself to be nourished by seemingly non-committal exercises of thought but at the same time seeks forms of irrefutable knowledge. Because of this focus on both the subjective and the universal, philosophy also falls for the lure of the “what-if?” question. What if two legendary artists, writers or philosophers, who did not know each other, did enter into a

Overview: provides innovative strategies for coastal protection along the southern North Sea region.Includes supplementary material: From February 2004 until December 2007 the ComCoast project (Combined Fu- tions in Coastal Defence Zones) was carried out within the Interreg IIIB framework. The objective of this project was to investigate and to test the options for spatial coastal protection concepts. The mission statement of the project over its entire duration was: A wider approach in coastal thinking. I was glad to be part of this project and would like to thank all my European colleagues f

Overview: 978-94-009-7268-1978-94-009-7266-7Series ISSN 0077-0639 Series E-ISSN 2215-1729

Overview: Ausgezeichnete didaktische Aufbereitung.Zahlreiche Illustrationen und ausgewählte Bildfolgen.Überblick über die wichtigsten Naturkatastrophen.Ausführliches, illustriertes Glossar.Verständlich, spannen.Wie entstehen Gebirge, Wüsten, Gletscher oder Vulkane? Welche Naturkräfte haben den beeindruckenden Grand Canyon geschaffen? So vielfältig wie das Gesicht der Erde sind die Antworten in diesem großartig illustrierten Buch. Von der Stellung der Erde im Sonnensystem bis hin zum Einwirken des Menschen auf das Landschaftsbild erklärt es die Entstehung der Oberflächenformen. Einzelbildfolgen

Overview: Assists communities and regional development specialists to understand the ambiguities of growth and garner enduring benefits from resource development.Offers solutions and alternatives for building rThis book addresses the socio-economic impacts of rapid economic development due to a global mining boom. It reviews the efforts taken by communities, governments and companies in Australia to deliver enduring benefits while minimising the negative consequences of rapid growth. In particular, the effects and tensions of new workforce arrangements, worker mobility and condensed mine life

Overview: First comprehensive, coherent review on the major groups of peptide antibiotics.In the last 10 years a proliferation of information concerning the lantibiotics and related peptide antibiotics has come to the fore. This is the first book to summarize this information comprehensively and concisely. Unlike other reviews, which consider the lantibiotics in isolation, this book brings together for the first time the concepts and interrelationships between lantibiotics and other antibiotics, bacteriocins and antimicrobial peptides. This conceptualization should stimulate new ideas, discuss

Overview: Overview over recent trends in logistics research.Contributions from renowned experts in the field.Provides innovative research on digital and sustainable supply chain management conceptsThe conference proceedings contains contributions to the Logistics Management conference 2019. The  objective of the LM conferences is to discuss new ideas and technical developments related to the management of logistic systems. A special focus is put on digitalization of supply chains and decarbonization in the transport industry.978-3-030-29823-4978-3-030-29821-0Series ISSN 2194-8917 Series E-ISSN

Overview: Les patients porteurs d’une Infirmité Motrice Cérébrale (IMC) sont confrontés à de nombreux problèmes neuromoteurs liés aux dommages cérébraux dont les conséquences fonctionnelles, dans les premières années de vie, ont un retentissement sur l’acquisition de la marche. Une meilleure connaissance de la marche et de ses niveaux de contrôle ainsi qu’une analyse clinique affinée et quantifiée au laboratoire permettent de définir des options thérapeutiques en collaboration avec le patient, sa famille et l’équipe soignante. La lutte contre les troubles du tonus et les troubles neuro-orthopé

Overview: Very interdisciplinary - features work from scholars in a variety of other disciplines such as Education, History, Visual Culture/Art History etc.Looks at at eighteenth-century childhoods from a varieThe essays in this volume offer fresh and innovative considerations both of how children interacted with the world of print, and of how childhood circulated in the literary cultures of the eighteenth century. They engage with not only the texts produced for the period’s newly established children’s book market, but also with the figure of the child as it was employed for a variety of pur

Overview: Treats classical diophantine equations but also modern Diophantine issues.Uses ‘concrete’ methods but also offers modern abstract interpretations.Contains a large number of Supplements and hinted exerThese lecture notes originate from a course delivered at the Scuola Normale in Pisa in 2006. Generally speaking, the prerequisites do not go beyond basic mathematical material and are accessible to many undergraduates. The contents mainly concern diophantine problems on affine curves, in practice describing the integer solutions of equations in two variables. This case historically sugge

Overview: This study consists of an empirical examination of the legal effect of war on treaties to which the United States and one or more enemy states were parties at the outbreak of World War II. Doctrine is regarded as of secondary importance to this study and is therefore treated summarily. Some attention is devoted to historical aspects of the problem to lend perspective to the developments of World War II. The basic plan of this work is simple. After definitions have been established for "war" and "treaties," certain assumptions implicit in this study are discussed. Next, relevant doctr