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The Greeks Who Made Us Who We Are
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 35.00Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated. This volume seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to the threshold of divinity and a philosophical temperament... more...
The Lahu Minority in Southwest China
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social system, with the highest suicide rate in the world,... more...
Culture, Politics and Television in Hong Kong
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 195.00Ma looks at the ways in which the identity of Hong Kong citizens has changed in the 1990s especially since the handover to China in 1997. This is the first analysis which focuses on the role, in this process, of popular media in general and television in particular. The author specifically analyses at the relationship between television ideologies... more...
Psychophysics Beyond Sensation
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 150.00This volume presents a series of studies that expand laws, invariants, and principles of psychophysics beyond its classical domain of sensation. This book's goal is to demonstrate the extent of the domain of psychophysics, ranging from sensory processes, through sensory memory and short-term memory issues, to the interaction between sensation and action.... more...
Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 147.00Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar is an innovative reference guide to Mandarin Chinese, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. Divided into two sections closely linked by extensive cross-references, it covers: traditional grammatical categories such as phrase order, nouns, verbs and specifiers language functions... more...
Geotechnik
Wiley 2008; US$ 49.95Das Buch vermittelt alle wichtigen Aspekte über den Aufbau und die Eigenschaften des Bodens, die bei der Planung und Berechnung sowie bei der Begutachtung von Schäden des Systems Bauwerk-Baugrund zu berücksichtigen sind. Schwerpunkte sind die Baugrunderkundung, die Ermittlung von Bodenkennwerten im Labor, sowie die Behandlung von Setzungs-... more...
Geotechnik
Wiley 2012; US$ 47.95Das komplexe und technisch hoch spezialisierte Gebiet der Geotechnik bildet ein Fundament des Bauingenieurwesens, dessen Herausforderungen heute u. a. im innerstädtischen Infrastrukturbau, im Bauen im Bestand oder in der Gestaltung tiefer, in das Grundwasser hineinreichender Baugruben liegen. Das vorliegende Buch befähigt Bauingenieure, grundbauspezifische... more...
Data Engineering
Wiley 2004; US$ 153.00Although data engineering is a multi-disciplinary field with applications in control, decision theory, and the emerging hot area of bioinformatics, there are no books on the market that make the subject accessible to non-experts. This book fills the gap in the field, offering a clear, user-friendly introduction to the main theoretical and practical... more...
Cowboy Capitalism
Cato Institute 2004; US$ 10.00Almost all European pundits believe that, while the U.S. economy may create more growth, Europeans have it better when it comes to job security, income equality, and other factors. Olaf Gersemann, found the reality quite different. He found that what almost everyone in Europe "knows" is wrong: the greater market freedoms in America create a more flexible,... more...









