Challenges for Europe in the World, 2030 embodies critical thinking about the long-term implications for Europe of the clear shift of power from the West to the East and the South. Designed as a multi
Challenges for Europe in the World, 2030 embodies critical thinking about the long-term implications for Europe of the clear shift of power from the West to the East and the South. Designed as a multi
Its him or the cat in this charming collaboration between first time author (and renown Quebec comic actor) Yves Pelletier and the established artist Pascal Girard (winner of the Doug Wright Award for
This book follows a successful symposium organized in June 2009 at the Human Brain Mapping conference. The topic is at the crossroads of two domains of increasing importance and appeal in the neuroim
This festschrift - written in honor of retired judge Pernilla Lindh of the European Court of Justice - reflects on the development of courts and judging in the European Union since its founding in the
President Abraham Lincoln guided the nation through the Civil War and promoted the abolition of slavery. The life of this remarkable man is now told in Spanish with over 100 black-and-white illustrati
With death looming, Jacques Derrida, the world's most famous philosopher, known as the father of "deconstruction," sat down with journalist Jean Birnbaum of the French daily Le Monde. They revisited
A manual for both designers and users, comprehensively presenting the current state of experts' knowledge on virtual reality (VR) in computer science, mechanics, optics, acoustics, physiology, psychol
FROM THE MIND OF LEGENDARY SCI-FI AUTHOR PHILIP K. DICK! Garson Poole had a pretty great life: good job, nice apartment, a sexy, flirtatious assistant. And then he wakes up in a hospital room...the
A major theme of safety studies is human error--how people screw up systems that are designed to be safe. The approach here is just the opposite--how workers mitigate the risk in risky environments an
Aquatic habitats supply a wide range of vital ecosystem benefits to cities and their inhabitants. The unsustainable use of aquatic habitats, including inadequate urban water management itself, however
Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) stores and retrieves data using devices called RFID tags: objects attached to or incorporated into a product, animal or person which communicate with an RFID read
Jacqueline Pascal (1625-1661) was the sister of Blaise Pascal and a nun at the Jansenist Port-Royal convent in France. She was also a prolific writer who argued for the spiritual rights of women and t
An exploration of Egyptian divinity illustrates the role of religion in ancient Egyptian culture, including the implications of polytheism and the interrelation of man, nature, and the divine
'If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural’Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and
This new volume, Latent Heat-Based Thermal Energy Storage Systems: Materials, Applications, and the Energy Market, offers up-to-date coverage of the fundamentals as well as recent advancements in ener
This book provides practical, business-orientated and accessible guidance on key aspects of German employment and labour law as well as adjoining fields. This second, completely revised edition presen
This book provides practical, business-orientated and accessible guidance on key aspects of German employment and labour law as well as adjoining fields. This second, completely revised edition presen
This book pioneers the field of gain-cell embedded DRAM (GC-eDRAM) design for low-power VLSI systems-on-chip (SoCs). Novel GC-eDRAMs are specifically designed and optimized for a range of low-power VL
The book marks the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda. The churches play a central role in the process of reconciliation in Rwanda. The theology of Dietrich Bonhoeffer offers fresh impulses, g
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Augmented Environments for Computer-Assisted Interventions, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2015, in Munich, German
Learning How to Feel explores the ways in which children and adolescents learn not just how to express emotions that are thought to be pre-existing, but actually how to feel. The volume assumes that t
Recent work on the multimodal paradigm of speech processing examines such topics as the sensory integration of auditory and visual information and audio-visual speech processing by computers.
Santo, the largest island in the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu, is an extraordinary geographical and cultural microcosm, combining reefs, caves, mountains, and satellite isles—with human history tha
One of the most challenging issues for the intelligent decision systems is to effectively manage the large-scale complex distributed environments such as computational clouds, grids, ad hoc and P2P ne
The Legion of Super-Heroes finds itself stranded in a distant galaxy, on the home planet of the vicious alien race known as the Progeny. While some of our heroes struggle to repair their damaged space
In the twelfth century, Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi affirmed that the Egyptian baths were “the most beautiful in the East, the most practical, and the best located.” Nine centuries later, forgotten by th
What is truth? What value should we see in or attribute to it? The war over the meaning and utility of truth is at the center of contemporary philosophical debate, and its arguments have rocked the f
Just over 100 invited and contributed papers emphasize understanding the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations, with significant coverage of metastable materials and externally forced t
A quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside-down.A struggling author’s life becomes disconcertingly entangled with the crime novel he’s writing.Vultures circle as a cantankerous r
‘Garnier’s crime novels add significantly to the latest renaissance for this type of dark narrative.’ Publishers WeeklyVolume 2 includes The Front Seat Passenger, in which Fabien discovers his wife di
