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Colonial Violence

European Empires and the Use of Force

By: Dierk Walter

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Colonial Violence

European Empires and the Use of Force

By: Dierk Walter

A comprehensive account of how Europeans have used violence to conquer, coerce and police in pursuit of imperialism and colonial settlement

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Oxford University Press

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0190840005

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Colonial Violence

European Empires and the Use of Force

By: Dierk Walter

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Colonial Violence

European Empires and the Use of Force

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A comprehensive account of how Europeans have used violence to conquer, coerce and police in pursuit of imperialism and colonial settlement

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Pop Culture Germany!

Media, Arts, and Lifestyle

By: Catherine C. Fraser,Dierk O. Hoffman

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Pop Culture Germany!

Media, Arts, and Lifestyle

By: Catherine C. Fraser,Dierk O. Hoffman

From the reality TV show Superstar to Formula One ace Michael Schumacher, Pop Culture Germany! explores the exciting world of contemporary German popular culture. Like no other volume of its kind, Pop Culture Germany! captures the breadth and vitality of popular culture in modern Germany, exploring both familiar and lesser-known aspects of German art, entertainment, television, music, and film. Written by expert contributors who are rooted in German language and culture, the book focuses on German popular culture since 1945, providing an indispensable guide for anyone planning a trip to Germany for business or pleasure or for those who wish to have a deeper understanding of the German nation. This book offers a concise, in-depth overview of the evolution and impact of German media, arts, lifestyles, and recreation, written with a historical perspective.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1851097384

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Innovation for Sustainable Electricity Systems

Exploring the Dynamics of Energy Transitions

By: Barbara Praetorius,Dierk Bauknecht,Martin Cames,Corinna Fischer,Martin Pehnt,Katja Schumacher,Jan-Peter Voß

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Innovation for Sustainable Electricity Systems

Exploring the Dynamics of Energy Transitions

By: Barbara Praetorius,Dierk Bauknecht,Martin Cames,Corinna Fischer,Martin Pehnt,Katja Schumacher,Jan-Peter Voß

Innovation is key to achieving a sustainable electricity system. New technologies and organizational changes can bring about more sustainable, climate-friendly electricity structures. Yet the dynamics of innovation are complex, and difficult to shape. This book, written by experts in the field, sets out to explore the dynamics, the drivers and the setting of innovation processes. Case studies on micro cogeneration, carbon capture and storage, consumer feedback, network regulation and emissions trading provide insights into innovation dynamics in the electricity system and are analyzed to derive strategic implications for innovation policies. A special focus is placed on drivers and barriers of change, and their consequences for shaping the innovation process. This book is an indispensable source of information for researchers and decision makers in energy and climate change as well as for lecturers and students interested in the principles and ramifications of electricity innovation dynamics.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3790820768

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Dürer's Fight Book

The Genius of the German Renaissance and His Combat Treatise

By: Dierk Hagedorn,Daniel Jaquet

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Dürer's Fight Book

The Genius of the German Renaissance and His Combat Treatise

By: Dierk Hagedorn,Daniel Jaquet

Albrecht Dürer is probably the most famous German artist of the Renaissance, if not of all time. His works are world-famous and he was a master in numerous artistic disciplines such as woodcut, copperplate engraving, drawing and painting. What is less well known is that he was interested in weapons and fencing throughout his life. He produced several woodcuts for a tournament book by Emperor Maximilian I, but he devoted himself much more thoroughly to the subject of duels in his own extensive fencing manuscript. Dürer’s fight book stands out from the mass of illustrated fencing manuscripts because of its outstanding quality. In well over 100 elaborate drawings, the master uniquely depicts dynamic pairs of fighters practising contemporary combat techniques, such as wrestling or sword and dagger fighting. Since its creation more than 500 years ago, the fight book has never been published in its entirety. This edition offers the complete contents of the manuscript for the very first time: All illustrations are reproduced in color and the complete text is presented in a letter-perfect transcription as well as a translation into modern English. Albrecht Dürer's fight book offers a unique, new look at Dürer the artist and Dürer the fighter.

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Greenhill Books

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1784387061

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Medieval Armoured Combat

The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven

By: Dierk Hagedorn,Bartlomiej Walczak

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Medieval Armoured Combat

The 1450 Fencing Manuscript from New Haven

By: Dierk Hagedorn,Bartlomiej Walczak

The "Gladiatoria" group of German fencing manuscripts are several editions of a treatise on armoured foot combat, specifically aimed at duel fighting.Gloriously-illustrated, and replete with substantial commentary, these works are some of the greatest achievements in the corpus of late medieval fight books. These works have both tremendous artistic merit and incalculable historical value.In this remarkable full colour volume, authors Dierk Hagedorn and Bartomiej Walczak elegantly present their work on the copy of this treatise now in the Yale Center for British Art, including a reproduction of the manuscript, a full transcription, and translations into English.The work includes a foreword by Sydney Anglo which explains how the work shows a highly sophisticated pedagogical system of movement and applauds the editors for presenting the material in a clear and practical way.Additional essays discuss other aspects of the manuscript - including a tale of Dierk Hagedorn's adventures tracking down the manuscript.

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Casemate Publishers

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1784383341

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Stochastic Resonance

By: Samuel Herrmann, Peter Imkeller,Ilya Pavlyukevich, Dierk Peithmann

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Stochastic Resonance

By: Samuel Herrmann, Peter Imkeller,Ilya Pavlyukevich, Dierk Peithmann

Stochastic resonance is a phenomenon arising in a wide spectrum of areas in the sciences ranging from physics through neuroscience to chemistry and biology. This book presents a mathematical approach to stochastic resonance which is based on a large deviations principle (LDP) for randomly perturbed dynamical systems with a weak inhomogeneity given by an exogenous periodicity of small frequency. Resonance, the optimal tuning between period length and noise amplitude, is explained by optimizing the LDP's rate function. The authors show that not all physical measures of tuning quality are robust with respect to dimension reduction. They propose measures of tuning quality based on exponential transition rates explained by large deviations techniques and show that these measures are robust. The book sheds some light on the shortcomings and strengths of different concepts used in the theory and applications of stochastic resonance without attempting to give a comprehensive overview of the many facets of stochastic resonance in the various areas of sciences. It is intended for researchers and graduate students in mathematics and the sciences interested in stochastic dynamics who wish to understand the conceptual background of stochastic resonance.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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1470410494

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9781470410490

Holomorphic Dynamical Systems

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 7-12, 2008

By: Nessim Sibony,Dierk Schleicher,Dinh Tien Cuong,Marco Brunella,Eric Bedford,Marco Abate

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Holomorphic Dynamical Systems

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, July 7-12, 2008

By: Nessim Sibony,Dierk Schleicher,Dinh Tien Cuong,Marco Brunella,Eric Bedford,Marco Abate

The theory of holomorphic dynamical systems is a subject of increasing interest in mathematics, both for its challenging problems and for its connections with other branches of pure and applied mathematics. A holomorphic dynamical system is the datum of a complex variety and a holomorphic object (such as a self-map or a vector ?eld) acting on it. The study of a holomorphic dynamical system consists in describing the asymptotic behavior of the system, associating it with some invariant objects (easy to compute) which describe the dynamics and classify the possible holomorphic dynamical systems supported by a given manifold. The behavior of a holomorphic dynamical system is pretty much related to the geometry of the ambient manifold (for instance, - perbolic manifolds do no admit chaotic behavior, while projective manifolds have a variety of different chaotic pictures). The techniques used to tackle such pr- lems are of variouskinds: complexanalysis, methodsof real analysis, pluripotential theory, algebraic geometry, differential geometry, topology. To cover all the possible points of view of the subject in a unique occasion has become almost impossible, and the CIME session in Cetraro on Holomorphic Dynamical Systems was not an exception.

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Springer

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3642131719

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Groovy in Action

By: Cédric Champeau,Dierk Koenig,Hamlet D'Arcy,Paul King

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Groovy in Action

By: Cédric Champeau,Dierk Koenig,Hamlet D'Arcy,Paul King

Summary Groovy in Action, Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, comprehensive guide to Groovy programming. It introduces Java developers to the dynamic features that Groovy provides, and shows how to apply Groovy to a range of tasks including building new apps, integration with existing code, and DSL development. Covers Groovy 2.4. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology In the last ten years, Groovy has become an integral part of a Java developer's toolbox. Its comfortable, common-sense design, seamless integration with Java, and rich ecosystem that includes the Grails web framework, the Gradle build system, and Spock testing platform have created a large Groovy community About the Book Groovy in Action, Second Edition is the undisputed definitive reference on the Groovy language. Written by core members of the Groovy language team, this book presents Groovy like no other can—from the inside out. With relevant examples, careful explanations of Groovy's key concepts and features, and insightful coverage of how to use Groovy in-production tasks, including building new applications, integration with existing code, and DSL development, this is the only book you'll need. Updated for Groovy 2.4. Some experience with Java or another programming language is helpful. No Groovy experience is assumed. What's Inside Comprehensive coverage of Groovy 2.4 including language features, libraries, and AST transformations Dynamic, static, and extensible typing Concurrency: actors, data parallelism, and dataflow Applying Groovy: Java integration, XML, SQL, testing, and domain-specific language support Hundreds of reusable examples About the Authors Authors Dierk König, Paul King, Guillaume Laforge, Hamlet D'Arcy, Cédric Champeau, Erik Pragt, and Jon Skeet are intimately involved in the creation and ongoing development of the Groovy language and its ecosystem. Table of Contents PART 1 THE GROOVY LANGUAGE Your way to Groovy Overture: Groovy basics Simple Groovy datatypes Collective Groovy datatypes Working with closures Groovy control structures Object orientation, Groovy style Dynamic programming with Groovy Compile-time metaprogramming and AST transformations Groovy as a static language PART 2 AROUND THE GROOVY LIBRARY Working with builders Working with the GDK Database programming with Groovy Working with XML and JSON Interacting with Web Services Integrating Groovy PART 3 APPLIED GROOVY Unit testing with Groovy Concurrent Groovy with GPars Domain-specific languages The Groovy ecosystem

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Simon and Schuster

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1638352879

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Colonial Violence

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Colonial Violence

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Pop Culture Germany!

Pop Culture Germany!

Innovation for Sustainable Electricity Systems

Innovation for Sustainable Electricity Systems

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Dürer's Fight Book

Medieval Armoured Combat

Medieval Armoured Combat

Stochastic Resonance

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Holomorphic Dynamical Systems

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