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Overview: Presents compelling encouragement to readers to reconsider the application of contemporary reading of the Jewish experience onto comics in the United States.Draws attention to the imprecision and incoIn this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critica

Overview: Offers new perspectives on enduring issues related to organic food and farming.Provides insight into organic issues in a broad range of countries from Europe, North America, Africa, New Zealand and As.This book is based on the assumption that “organic has lost its way”.  Paradoxically, it comes at a time when we witness the continuing of growth in organic food production and markets around the world. Yet, the book claims that organic has lost sight of its first or fundamental philosophical principles and ontological assumptions. The collection offers empirically grounded discussions

Overview: Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this book examines the intersection of race and ethnic relations and the life course. The essays in the volume thus reflect varieties of qualitative and quantitative methods in order to look at how these variables shape social organization and the experiences of those who live within the boundaries of society. The essays include works that use semi-structured interviews, ethnographies, and auto-ethnographies to inform the analysis of race, ethnicity and the life course.978-1-137-46311-1

Overview: Heutzutage ist es fast schon eine Selbstverständlichkeit, daß in immer kürzeren Ab­ ständen neuartige Rechnertypen auf dem Markt erscheinen. Insbesondere die Mi­ kroprozessoren haben in den letzten Jahren eine stürmische Entwicklung erfahren und viele der Architekturkonzepte, die zunächst den Großrechnern vorbehalten wa­ ren, haben in die Architekturen der Mikroprozessoren Eingang gefunden. In anderen Worten, viele der grundlegenden Ideen, welche die Architektur von Rechnern be­ treffen, existieren schon seit langer Zeit. Sie haben sich trotz all der Fortschritte im Detail und in der

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Overview: 978-3-662-31206-3978-3-540-48082-2Series ISSN 0303-4240 Series E-ISSN 1617-5786

Overview: Presents flight safety management and forecasting taking into account runway conditions and aerodrome infrastructure drawbacks.Discusses the strategy and methodology of flight regularity risk caused bThis book provides a comprehensive content for professionals engaged in the development of flight safety regulatory framework, as well as in the design and operation of ground-based or on-board flight support radio electronic systems. It presents mathematical tools and methods of probabilistic theory, mathematical statistics and graph theory, along with some provisions of decision-making

Overview: Presents the concepts of autonomous vehicles on the road.Studies the control and aerodynamics of rotorcrafts.Highlights the six-legged robot walking methodologyThis book introduces the technological innovations of robotic vehicles. It presents the concepts required for self-driving cars on the road. Besides, readers can gain invaluable knowledge in the construction, programming, and control of the six-legged robot. The book also presents the controllers and aerodynamics of several different types of rotorcrafts. It includes the simulation and flight of the various kinds of rotor-prop

Overview: Leading experts present methodologies for basinwide approaches to water quality restoration. In 15 chapters the identification of pollution sources, definition of standards and their attainability, surface and groundwater modeling, remediation of contaminated soils and sediments, development and implementation of low cost treatment technologies, basinwide water quality management and remediation, and economic and institutional issues are covered. The book focuses on the situation in central and eastern European countries; however, the topics and solutions are of general interest and

Overview: Fills a gap in research on enterprise internationalization within Latin American economies.Provides a series of detailed empirical case studies of businesses offering a wide range of services and prod.This book explores the concept of reverse entrepreneurship, providing real-life examples of innovative start-ups and ventures hoping to internationalize. Traditionally, entrepreneurial ideas have flowed from developed countries to emerging markets. This book, however, examines entrepreneurial ideas flowing in the opposite direction, with case studies from organizations that were initial

Overview: Unpacks the military’s embrace of resilience, which is a revolutionary shift.Provides a sustained scholarly study of resilience, beyond medicalized categories which dominate the field.Contributes to dThis book explores the concept of ‘resilience’ in the context of militaries and militarization. Focusing on the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, and continental Europe, it argues that, post-9/11, there has been a shift away from ‘trauma’ and towards ‘resilience’ in framing and understanding human responses to calamitous events. The contributors to this volume show how resilience-speech

Overview: Radicals, Rhetoric, and the War documents the Kent State antiwar protest at the height of the Vietnam era. Informed by thirty years of oral history interviews, the book details perspectives and voices from students, faculty, and administrators.978-1-4039-6874-6978-1-4039-8315-2Series ISSN 2731-5673 Series E-ISSN 2731-5681

Overview: Includes a comprehensive and updated analysis of all the phenomena relating to indefinites.Presents the open research problems in this field.Pays particular attention to the syntax-semantics interface.This volume explores the interpretation of indefinites and the constraints on their distribution by paying particular attention to key issues in the interface between syntax and semantics: the relation between the semantic properties of indefinite determiners and the denotation of indefinite DPs, their scope, and their behaviour in generic and conditional sentences. Examples come from F

Overview: This monograph aims at covering recent theoretical and experimental results concerning the complex character of f electrons in materials containing lanthanides and actinides such as, for example, alph.This unique monograph covers recent theoretical and experimental results on the complex character of f electrons in materials containing lanthanides (rare earths) or actinides, such as alpha-cerium and delta-plutonium. It answers the urgent need for a general presentation of the body of experimental and theoretical results presently available in this challenging domain. Some of the fast

Overview: Follows the items from the basics to the frontiers of research.Modular Structure: The Reader can pick out the interesting items of the content.Includes introduction into all necessary items - no deep In the beginning of 2003, I found a short article about the privacy implications of RFID technology in a newspaper. It raised my interest, and after reading some early research papers on the topic, I thought: “There must exist better solutions. ” I c- cerned myself with the topic in my spare time. After having developed my rst - lutions, I asked my supervisor, Prof. Dr. Paul Muller ¨ , w

Overview: Provides a complete framework for the economics fundamentally driving real markets.Showcases how real markets are affected by market structure, updated for the new regulatory realities, and the behavi.This book provides a framework for understanding the economics that drive markets, enabling investment professionals to understand the reality of markets and models, and to ‘be where the profits are’. .Economics is about the allocation of resources, so it is at the heart of markets. And yet to many, economics is a field that feels far removed from the realities of what they see trading.

Overview: Proposes a "risk dashboard" that will assist designers and clients in identifying and controlling long-term risks in building use and maintenance.Describes the evaluation process step by step.DemonstrThis book analyzes the risk management process in relation to building design and operation and on this basis proposes a method and a set of tools that will improve the planning and evaluation of design solutions in order to control risks in the operation and management phase. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between design choices and the long-term performance of buildin

Overview: 978-3-662-04662-3978-3-662-04660-9Series ISSN 0947-6075

Overview: Provides a carefully structured insight into the latest developments in renal cancer diagnostics and treatment.Contains clear guidance on the use of hybrid, real and virtual simulation techniques.Feat.Renal Cancer: Current Status and Innovations .provides a useful guide to the fundamental basics and latest diagnostic and treatment techniques for Renal Cancer. It features clearly structured and easy-to-understand chapters enabling the reader to develop a thorough understanding of screening, surveillance, diagnostics, pathology, robotic and open surgical approaches, ablation, medical t

Overview: .This book presents peer-reviewed papers based on the oral and poster presentations during the 5th International Conference on Renewable Energy Sources, which was held from June 20 to 22, 2018 in Krynica, Poland. The scope of the conference included a wide range of topics in renewable energy technology, with a major focus on biomass, solar energy and geothermal energy, but also extending to heat pumps, fuel cells, wind energy, energy storage, and the modelling and optimization of renewable energy systems. This edition of the conference had a special focus on the role of renewable ene