In the late 1960s and early '70s Lewis Baltz became fascinatedby the stark, repellent, manmade landscape that was rolling over California's then still agrarian terrain. Baltz made a number of projects on this subject, the best known of which, The New Industrial Parks Near Irvine, California, was first published in 1974. With this book Baltz took his place near the center of the New Topographic movement, a newly coined term emblematic of a cool, distanced, yet critical view of the emerging man-altered landscape. The Topographic position, detached and glacial, has since influenced photographic practice in the United States, Germany and Japan.

In 1967, Jean-Luc Godard released his film "Week-end." One of its scenes, in which the two protagonists stubbornly overtake an extensive traffi c jam in a Facel Vega Facellia cabriolet,qualifies as the longest tracking shots in the history of cinema. The camera slowly passes by the line of about forty motionless cars whose occupants employ the most varied techniques to kill time. In a sense the viewer is also waiting, for seven long minutes, wondering what the cause of thetraffic jam might be.In what for Godard is a metaphor for life-the camera's journey ends in a pool of blood, the victims and the crippled cars have meanwhile been cleared from the street-Pascal Cavin sees, somewhat nostalgically, an impressive catalogue of cars. By isolating and labeling the individual vehicles in forty-five stills, he creates a thorough historical inventory of the automobile types populating the streets in the late 1960s.

Executive coaching has grown enormously in popularity over the last twenty years, and in the process the field has shifted from serving as a corrective measure for underperformers to helping high-potentials develop fully and allowing stars to continue to up their game. The Art of Self-Coaching is not intended to replace the experience of working one-on-one with a professional coach, but rather to augment the coaching process for active clients, to serve as a resource after a coaching engagement is concluded, and to provide a structured approach to managing one's professional growth and development to the large number of people who lack the opportunity to work directly with a coach. The book starts with a set of principles and practices that comprise the process of self-coaching. It then addresses the topic through a series of chapters aimed at different aspects of personal and professional development: Beginnings, Change, Emotion, Happiness, Resilience, Vulnerability, Unhappiness, Vice, Success, and Endings. Drawing upon recent research in neuroscience, social psychology and other disciplines, The Art of Self-Coaching will help readers better understand and leverage their strengths, address their weaknesses and areas for improvement, and provide a set of tools and conceptual frameworks to guide their ongoing development as people and as professionals.

The new Locke Lamora novel! Locke and Jean find themselves sucked into the horror of war. Will things ever be the same again?

This book is the first full-length study of Evagrian apatheia and the most detailed examination to date of Evagrian anthropology. It situates them in their overall context of cosmology, salvation history, and the spiritual life.

Edinburgh Critical Editions provides reliable and authoritative scholarly editions of hard to find works, based on primary sources, in simultaneous library hardback and e-reader formatsThis new series - whose scope is the long nineteenth century, defined approximately as 1780-1914 - aims to bring back into print works of key scholarly and historical interest. These works sold well in their period and were of significant influence on other authors considered as major (the significance, for example, of William Barnes for Thomas Hardy, or that of Leigh Hunt for Charles Dickens). In addition to the full text, each volume will contain a comprehensive critical and interpretive introduction, comprehensive annotation, significant variants listed in notes, and suitable appendices to provide context and define the importance of the text in question.

Thomas S. Kuhn wrote The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most influential books of the 20th century, a work which sold more than a million copies, changed the way we think about the evolution of ideasΓÇöespecially scientific ideasΓÇöand raised doubts about the long-term survival of even our most cherished scientific concepts. In The Death of Truth, Keay Davidson paints a vivid picture of Kuhn''s troubled career and personal life, as well as a vibrant account of the intellectual and cultural climate in which Kuhn worked. Drawing on direct access to family members and colleagues as well as his subject''s private papers, Davidson sheds light on Kuhn''s personal life, including the brilliant family eccentrics who influenced his work; his troubled emotional and family life; his oft-combative relations withcolleagues and critics; and his maddeningly erratic comments on the shocking implications of his theories. The book also provides an engaging picture of the intellectual and cultural world in which Kuhn''s ideas evolved, including the nasty battles over logical positivism and the widespread disillusionment withscience during an era of high-tech war, nuclear weapons, environmental ruin, and ruthless industrial globalization. Along the way, Davidson ranges from the battlefields of World War II to the academic squabbles of Harvard, Berkeley, Princeton, and MIT, and offers fascinating glimpses of eminent thinkers such as Kuhn''s famous foe Karl Popper, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, positivist crusader A.J. Ayer, the flamboyant "anarchist" Paul K. Feyerabend, and many others. The Death of Truth is the first full-length portrait of a truly revolutionary thinkerΓÇöa strange, troubled man who abandoned a brilliant career to challenge science''s most dogmatic assumptions.

Die Multiple Sklerose (MS) ist eine der schwersten und häufigsten Erkrankungen des zentralen Nervensystems. Auch wenn die Ursache noch immer unbekannt ist und das Krankheitsbild vielgestaltig - durch neue Untersuchungsverfahren ist es inzwischen leichter geworden, eine MS festzustellen. Die Autoren stellen in dem Band den aktuellen Stand von Diagnose und Therapie dar und beantworten Fragen zur Aufklärung von MS-Patienten, zu ihrer Ernährung, Lebensweise, Schwangerschaft, Beruf und Ausbildung. Ein Nachschlagewerk mit dem Schwerpunkt Patientenführung.

Explores the ancient relationship between India and China to conceptualise a 'third space' wherein we can discover how their emergence might benefit, rather than threaten, international society.

In Part I a wide range of research tools, from mathematical modeling and social simulation to conceptual systems modeling, are adopted to describe, explain, and analyze symbiosis, cooperation, conflicts, and confrontations between agents by identifying them as adaptive complex systems.

A study of the financial development of the Catholic Church in Scotland

Der Eurocode 4 - DIN EN 1994 "Bemessung und Konstruktion von Verbundtragwerken aus Stahl und Beton " mit seinen Nationalen Anhängen wird die Tragwerksplanung für Stahlverbundtragwerke in Deutschland für die nächsten Jahrzehnte bestimmen und hat die deutschen Regelwerke abgelöst. Für die Einarbeitung in den Eurocode 4 legt bauforumstahl e. V. erstmals eine Beispielsammlung vor.Das Buch dient als unentbehrliches Hilfsmittel bei der Erstellung prüffähiger statischer Berechnungen und wird für Praktiker und Studenten gleichermaßen empfohlen.

The first comprehensive study of the law and jurisprudence on provisional measures in investment arbitration as an important mechanism for investment protection.