This book addresses the idea that art and literature deal in the subject of everyday reality and discusses the subject of the familiar and the trivial in the work of canonical writers and artists.

The common law dates back to 11th century England and the British Empire. In this Very Short Introduction Joseph Getzler explains the evolution of the common law through the centuries, describing the main institutions; from courts, procedures, and juries, to the main categories of law, including property, tort, contract, and public law.

This volume fills a major gap in the literature on fundamental rights: the existing European works are confined almost exclusively to EU competition law, and there is a dearth of secondary sources on the fundamental rights of companies under EU law and the European Convention on Human Rights more generally, despite the rich and relentless flow of rulings from both the Luxembourg and the Strasbourg courts. This book covers all the principal substantive rights such as property, privacy and freedom of speech, as well as various procedural rights (eg the right to a fair trial, double jeopardy and the privilege against self-incrimination). Not only does this volume provide comprehensive coverage of this increasingly important case law, but it also examines the relevant US authorities in great depth, and the comparison with European law often leads to surprising results. International law is also covered at length, while English law serves as the main point of reference on numerous issues. Despite the wealth of detail, the book's coverage of this broad and varied subject is sufficiently succinct to enable the reader to gain an overall view. It not merely describes the law as it stands, but also proposes an overall approach. This work is aimed at practitioners and academics alike.

Dieses Buch gibt einen fundierten Einblick in die logistischen Prozesse und Systeme in der maritimen Transportkette. Nach einer Einführung in die Aufgaben und Ziele der maritimen Logistik sowie deren Bedeutung für den globalen Warentransport werden die logistischen Akteure in der maritimen Supply Chain systematisiert. Daran schließt eine Darstellung der Schiffe und deren Routen sowie der Häfen und Terminals aus logistischer Sicht an. Die an Bedeutung gewinnenden Informationsflüsse und die IT-Systeme bilden einen weiteren Schwerpunkt. Aufgezeigt werden zudem die aktuellen und zukünftigen Herausforderungen an logistische Lösungen, orientiert an den Handlungsfeldern Produktivität, Sicherheit und Ökologie.¿

This textbook will present, in a rigorous way, the basic theory of the discrete-time and the continuous-time Markov chains, along with many examples and solved problems. This textbook is intended for a basic course on stochastic processes at an advanced undergraduate level and the background needed will be a first course in probability theory.

The dilemma of a liberal human rights lawyer is this: one both believes in and doubts human rights. This new offers a critical, albeit sympathetic, exploration of the conditions for practising and enforcing human rights in a world steeped in ambivalence.

Das auf mehrere Bande angelegte Werk prasentiert nahezu das gesamte deutsche Verfassungsrecht des Zeitraumes zwischen 1806 und 1918. Hiermit wird der sich gleichsam schrittweise vollziehende Ubergang von einem traditionell standischen oder gar furstlich-absolutistischen zu einem zumeist monarchisch-konstitutionellen System aufgearbeitet, dessen jaher Untergang schlielich in die nationalstaatlich-republikanisch gepragte demokratisch-parlamentarische Staatsform Weimars mundet. Mit dem Gesamtwerk steht dem Fachpublikum eine leicht zugangliche, bislang nicht gekannte Fulle von Dokumenten zur Verfugung, die fur die verfassungsrechtliche Entwicklung Deutschlands und seiner einzelnen Staaten von zentraler Bedeutung waren. Dabei wird groer Wert auf die authentische, d. h. buchstaben- und zeichengetreue Ubernahme der Texte gelegt. Dem jeweiligen Dokumententeil sind in jedem Band "Historische Einfuhrungen" vorangestellt. In diesem Rahmen werden an den einschlagigen Dokumenten orientierte (verfassungs-) rechtliche, zeitlich wie territorial ubergreifende entwicklungsgeschichtliche Darstellungen vorgenommen. In dem hier vorliegenden 3. Band werden erstmals uber 450 Verfassungsdokumente prasentiert, welche fur die verfassungsstaatliche Entwicklung des Groherzogtums Berg und des Herzogtums Braunschweig pragend waren. Begleitet wird diese Textedition durch eine ausfuhrliche historische Einfuhrung.

Die Finite-Elemente-Methode stellt heutzutage ein Standardverfahren zur Berechnung beliebig komplexer Strukturen dar. Die erhebliche Steigerung der Rechenleistung und die Verbesserung der Software in den letzten Jahren haben dazu geführt, dass die einfachen, überschaubaren statischen Berechnungen weitgehend verdrängt wurden und alles rechenbar scheint. Die Anwendung von Rechenprogrammen im Betonbau ist jedoch nicht unproblematisch.Anhand praxisrelevanter Beispiele aus dem Hoch- und Ingenieurbau werden Fragen der numerischen Abbildung von Betontragwerken, die dabei auftretenden Probleme und mögliche Fehlerquellen erläutert.Die Hauptthemen sind:- Stabtragwerke (D-Bereiche, Aussteifungsberechnung, Plattenbalkenbrücken)- Scheiben - wandartige Träger (Bewehrungsermittlung, Modellierung der Auflager)- Platten (Modellierung der Auflager, Flachdecke, Kreisplatte, Singularitäten)- Schalen (Elementierung, Unterzüge, Verbundtragwerke)- stofflich nichtlineare Berechnungen- Gebäudemodelle mit BIM.Das Buch richtet sich sowohl an praktisch tätige Bauingenieure als auch an Studierende.Der schnelle Ausverkauf der 1. und 2. Auflage hat gezeigt: das Buch schließt eine Lücke.

This book examines the practice of judicial reasoning in Tort law. Drawing on comparative examples from the French judicial tradition, it connects the choice of approaches in judicial reasoning with its procedural and institutional context.

This work presents the physics and applications of high-power laser radiation on self-contained transitions in metal atoms. High brightness metal vapour lasers are considered the most powerful in the visible spectral range among all existing laser types.It includes material by highly regarded scientists previously unavailable to western scientists.

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as "fracking," is a technique used by the oil and gas industry to mine hydrocarbons trapped deep beneath the Earth's surface. The principles underlying the technology are not new. Fracking was first applied at the commercial level in the United States as early as 1947, and over the decades it has been applied in various countries including Canada, the UK, and Russia. The author worked with engineering teams as early as the mid-1970s in evaluating ways to improve oil recovery from this practice.By and large fracking was not an economically competitive process and had limited applications until the early 2000s. Several factors altered the importance of this technology, among them being significant technological innovations in drilling practices with impressive high tech tools for exploration, well construction and integrity, and recovery along with discoveries of massive natural gas reserves in the United States and other parts of the world. These factors have catapulted the application of the technology to what is best described as the gold rush of the 21st century, with exploration and natural gas plays proceeding at a pace that seemingly is unrivaled by any historical industrial endeavor. But this level of activity has invoked widespread criticism from concerned citizens and environmental groups in almost every nation across the Globe.This outstanding new volume offers the industry a handbook of environmental management practices that can mitigate risks to the environment and, through best practices and current technologies, to conform to the current standards and regulations that are in place to provide the world with the energy it needs while avoiding environmental damage. For the new hire, veteran engineer, and student alike, this is a one-of-a-kind volume, a must-have for anyone working in hydraulic fracturing.

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The first sustained study examining the reflection of China's new economic and cultural power on screen

This is the first book to explore the manifestation of myth, magic and mysticism in music since 1920 against a background of the emergent literary movement that has become known as magic realism. Caroline Rae demonstrates how writers and composers shared a fascination for ancient mythologies, legend, ritual, Africanism and diverse non-Western traditions, as well as a predilection for the exploration of dislocated time and memory. Their common aim was to revitalise existing forms of expression and thereby to seek creative and spiritual renewal. The work of Borges, Asturias, Paz, Carpentier, García Márquez and others is considered in this French context, alongside connections with the composers Varèse, Jolivet, Millaud and Villa Lobos. The book also examines those composers such as Messiaen, Berio and Ohana, who had little or no direct contact with magic realist writers but whose music reveals concerns with similar themes. Rae therefore elaborates a new and engaging interpretation of the creative preoccupations of leading French and Latin American composers of the twentieth century.

For fans of quirky, obsessive narrative histories, such as Confederates in the Attic and How Things Work, Underground explores the history, science, architecture, and mythology of the subterranean landscape and in the process reengineers our relationship with the worlds beneath our feet.