All Things Become Alive by the Touch of the Parabola is the first full account of the journey by surrealist artist Wolfgang Paalen and poet Alice Rahon down the Northwest Coast. It weaves together travelogue, biography, Northwest Coast Indigenous cultures, art histories, anthropology, and an account of museum collecting during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Land Law: Text, Cases Materials builds on the success of Sourcebook on Land Law, and edition provides a comprehensive selection of materials supplemented by helpful and insightful commentary.

This volume brings together theoretical, empirical and comparative accounts of the European Social Model and transitional labour market policy. It is divided into four sections. Section one, 'Transitional Labour Markets and the European Social Model', contains theoretical accounts of the ESM and a discussion of policy implications for European social and employment policies that derive from research on transitional labour markets. Section two 'The European Employment Strategy and Transitional Labour Markets', is devoted to an economic as well as legal assessment of the European Employment Strategy and contains evaluations of new forms of governance both in European and member state policies, including discussions of the potential and limits of soft law instruments. In section three, 'National Transitional Labour Market Policies in Europe', country studies of labour market reforms in Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and France assess their contribution to an emerging ESM. Finally, section four, 'Transitional Labour Market Policies in Comparative and International Perspectives', contains comparative accounts of the ESM, including assessments of mobility and security patterns in Europe and beyond, and evaluations of recent flexicurity policies from a global perspective.

An examination of the way people suffering from dementing disorders in old age are regarded by various legal systems. The dilemmas and responsibilities faced by professionals and relatives are also explored.

This book covers the most important aspects of the Law of International Trade, particularly after the WTO era and attempts to give its audience a wider perspective of the study and research of the subject.

Spatial statistics is a specialised field of research, concepts and methods directed towards addressing problems inherent to the statistical treatment of spatial data.. This book is directed towards an audience of social and political scientists, much broader than the scientific community specialized in spatial statistics and spatial econometrics. As such, it will be written in a language appropriate for non-experts, requiring only a basic knowledge of statistics and a minimum familiarity with mathematical formalism.

This book provides a roadmap for city-specific environmental health studies based on ambient air quality and measures of public health. Chapter one highlights the benefits of city-specific understanding toward the main goal of improving human health through knowledge and action. The book does not address environmental regulation, but rather focuses on the opportunities for individual cities to properly inform their residents of risks and concerns.

Environmental criminology and its many sub-fields are increasingly becoming the focus of discussion among criminologists and criminal justice professionals. Many of the new courses being developed at universities through North America, Europe, and Oceania focus on geography of crime, geographic profiling, and crime prevention through environmental design. This work is one of the first works to specifically explore how the tenets of environmental criminology can be applied to modern urban design and crime analysis with the aim of creating safer and more secure communities.

Recently, there has been a resurgent interest in ray tracing due to the capability of the GPU. Reflecting recent trends, this second edition uses Java as the language for writing the ray tracer. The authors explain all concepts and processes with the aid of hundreds of diagrams, ray-traced images, and sample code. A supporting website provides Java code and a Java version of the skeleton ray tracers. The text is suitable for computer graphics students as well as individual programmers who would like to learn ray tracing.

This text covers life tables, survival models, and life insurance premiums and reserves. It presents the actuarial material conceptually with reference to ideas from other mathematical studies, allowing readers with knowledge in calculus to explore business, actuarial science, economics, and statistics. Each chapter contains exercise sets and worked examples, which highlight the most important and frequently used formulas and show how the ideas and formulas work together smoothly. Illustrations and solutions are also provided.

Exploring the challenging, interdisciplinary nature of nanotechnology through a life sciences filter, this book focuses on the applications of nanoscience and the engineering aspects of medical and biotechnological nanodevices. Divided into introductory, intermediate, and advanced sections, each chapter offers a succinct introduction, a detailed discussion of the topic at hand with illustrative examples, numerous figures and necessary equations, and a concise summary. Problem sets include exercises of varying difficulty as well as analytical and thought-provoking numerical problems.

This book is about protecting the interests of the public in the highly complex environment of corporate financial distress. The purpose of the book is to study systematically the subject of governmental concessions for financially distressed firms. Examples of such concessions are abundant, and they are pursued by financially distressed firms in both bankruptcy and non-bankruptcy contexts. The work examines how a government can balance the interests of the firm and its stakeholders with the interests of the general public. It discusses key questions such as: How does the government strike such a balance? What are the problems that arise when financially distressed firms petition the government for a concession, and what should be done to correct them? These questions are of significant importance as the social costs of governmental concessions may be higher than the costs associated with any other form of governmental aid to the private sector. At a time of heightened interest in sound financial regulation, the book will be a valuable guide for students, researchers and policy-makers in this and related areas such as public policy and governance.

This book explores the intersection of law and gender in dramatic narratives and in legal narratives. This allows the reader to compare the stories told onstage with those told in court (another kind of stage) with respect to their representations of women, with a particular emphasis on the role of women, in both theatre and law, to act as catalysts of change. The book is organized around four topics illustrating different contexts in which women have acted as a destabilizing force: Speaking Truth to Power, The Dangerous Sex, Judging Women, and A Voice for the Voiceless. The first topic explores the stories of women who explicitly confront male power. The second topic examines the stories of women who defy gender stereotypes by their use of violence. The third looks at gender in relationship to professional status and economic class. The final unit focuses on two groups of women who have historically been under-represented, women of color and lesbians. In each instance, stories from theatre are compared and contrasted with analogous stories from law cases. Written in an accessible style, the volume presents a humanistic perspective, grounded in "the facts" of the play or the case, looking at the texts as case studies, from two different disciplines, of "subversive" women acting as agents of change.

The main feature of the book is the jurisdictional aspects of extraterritorial assertions, specifically questionable assertions by states and their lack of clear legitimacy in international law. Some monographs and collections have dealt with certain features of the topics mentioned above but none had focused on the jurisdictional aspects of extraterritorial measures, their legality, and their impact on international law principles and norms as a result. This is an important area in international law and it includes current topics of transnational and international criminal actions that would be of interest to many.

Scientific Racism in Hungary, 1920-1945 examines racially informed debates on society and nation in interwar Hungary, their ideological frameworks and methodological affinities to debates on race and eugenics elsewhere in Europe. The book focuses on how anthropological ideas of race influenced debates on national character as well as biopolitical ideologies and welfare models of eugenic engineering between 1920 and 1945. During this period, Hungary went through profound territorial, social and national transformations, and experienced a wide range of political systems: from imperial to democratic, communist, authoritarian and fascist. Marius Turda shows how, under these circumstances, the idea of race became part of a larger biopolitical agenda, serving as a vehicle for transmitting a social and cultural message that transcended political differences and opposing ideological camps. This important study helps to deepen and refine the comparative history of race and eugenics in Europe by providing an innovative cross-cultural interpretation of biopolitical arguments about Hungarian national identity. It is of immense value both to historians of 20th-century Hungary and to anyone looking at the history of anthropology, race, nationalism and eugenics in modern Europe.

Throughout the Cold War, the films produced on both sides of the Iron Curtain both reflected and were shaped by the ideologies of their respective countries. Music played a key role defining the messages sent by these films. The essays in this book offer the first extended look at the relationship between music and ideology in the European cinema of the Cold War era. With contributions from an international array of scholars, this volume examines cinematic productions from Britain, East and West Germany, France, Yugoslavia, Poland, the Soviet Union, and Francoist Spain. The contributors explore the interactions between music, ideology, and cinema that shaped mass culture in the Cold War.