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Folly Beach
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 7.99?Dottie Frank?s books are sexy and hilarious. She has staked out the lowcountry of South Carolina as her personal literary property.? ?Pat Conroy, author of The Prince of Tides and South of Broad The incomparable Dorothea Benton Frank is back with her latest Lowcountry Novel, Folly Beach . As she has with Lowcountry Summer , Return to Sullivans... more...
Seismic Design Aids for Nonlinear Pushover Analysis of Reinforced Concrete and Steel Bridges
CRC Press 2011; US$ 119.95Nonlinear static monotonic (pushover) analysis has become a common practice for performance-based seismic bridge design. The popularity of pushover analysis is due to its ability to identify the failure modes and the design limit states of bridge piers and provide the progressive collapse sequence of damaged bridges when subjected to major earthquakes.... more...
Mauerwerk-Kalender 2009
Wiley 2009; US$ 120.95Mauerwerk-Kalender (Masonry Yearbook) Der Vielseitigkeit von Mauerwerk als Tragstrukturelement, Wandbaustoff mit bauphysikalischen und ästhetischen Funktionen, als Träger von Innovationen in der Fertigteilbauweise und für energiesparendes Bauen wird das Werk im 34. Jahrgang mit einem ausgewogenen Verhältnis von aktuellen und überarbeiteten... more...
Structures and their Functions in Usan
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1987; US$ 180.00Usan is a Papuan language. In this monograph on the grammatical structures of Usan and their function the author shows the unique features of this language: how speakers can exploit certain principles for communicative purposes, how the language reflects their physical environment. Uniqueness can only be shown in the context of communality with other... more...
Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines
Future Medicine Ltd 2012; US$ 136.00Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is a pathogen with significant disease implications, especially for the (very) young and the (very) old. It causes mucosal infections such as otitis media and pneumonia but also causes invasive diseases such as bacteremia and meningitis. In this book of seven chapters, international experts address the major... more...
New Forms of Governance in Research Organizations
Springer 2007; US$ 109.99This book undertakes to develop a sector specific theory of governance of the public research sector and applies it to the German research system. The book is the outcome of a large interdisciplinary project. It analyzes the reforms in the German research system from an integrated perspective of law, economics and social sciences. The case of Germany... more...
The Universal (In the Realm of the Sensible)
Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 89.55The Universal (In the realm of the sensible): Beyond Continental Philosophy proposes a radical, new philosophical system that moves from ontology to ethics. Dorothea Olkowski develops the concept of an ontological unconscious, a connection arising from our sensible relation to the world that conditions encounters with the environment and with others.... more...
Shakespeare's Widows
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 100.00Shakespeare's Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses, grounded in the widows' material circumstances, Kehler uncovers the plays' negotiations between the opposed poles of residual Catholic precept and Protestant practice - between celibacy and remarriage. Reading from a feminist materialist... more...
Governance and Performance in the German Public Research Sector
Springer 2010; US$ 129.99Today, higher education and research institutions are confronted with variable and sometimes contradictory demands from state, industry, and society. They have to face growing volatility in education policy, and a research paradigm that sees an accelerating rate of knowledge growth as well as the internationalization of the knowledge process itself.... more...









