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Discipline in the Global Economy?

International Finance and the End of Liberalism

By: Jakob Vestergaard

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Discipline in the Global Economy?

International Finance and the End of Liberalism

By: Jakob Vestergaard

This book investigates the new mode of global economic governance. Vestergaard argues that only by abandoning certain ‘laissez-fairy tales’ about liberalism, may we begin to understand our present condition, and open a space for critical thought in the face of an ever-more pervasive neoliberalism.

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Routledge

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1135854866

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Occurrence and Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin Alkaloids

By: Christer Andersson,Jakob Kristinsson,Nordic Council of Ministers,Jørn Gry

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Occurrence and Use of Hallucinogenic Mushrooms Containing Psilocybin Alkaloids

By: Christer Andersson,Jakob Kristinsson,Nordic Council of Ministers,Jørn Gry

In some parts of the world mushrooms have had a central role in religious ritual ceremonies. Ethnomycological studies among the Indian tribes of Mexico - the Aztecs and the Chichimecas - revealed the mushrooms to be hallucinogenic. Chemists from a leading Pharmaceutical company took over, isolated and described the mushroom alkaloid psilocybin, that upon dephosphorylation after collection of the mushroom or in the human body, form psilocin that is the active hallucinogenic compound. For a long time psilocybin/psilocin was expected to become a constituent of psychedelic drugs useful for treatment of specific psychoses. As the effect of psilocybin/psilocin resembles that of LSD the isolated compound, as well as mushrooms containing the compound, became popular among recreational users of hallucinogenic drugs in Western America, and from there the habit of using these mushrooms have spread around the world. Psilocybin/psilocin is legally prohibited in many countries which usually treat the compound as a narcotic drug. Some countries also prohibit the use of some or all psilocybin-containing mushrooms. In this respect, the legal situation differs between Nordic countries. Although psilocybin-containing mushrooms are not what Nordic mushroom pickers are trying to find as food or food supplement, there is a risk, admittedly small, that these mushrooms accidentally will be collected. At the present situation, this may be a legal problem in some Nordic countries. This document aims at identifying when this might be the case without going into legal interpretations.

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Nordic Council of Ministers

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9289318368

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9789289318365

Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean

By: Knut Stamnes,Gary E. Thomas,Jakob J. Stamnes

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Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere and Ocean

By: Knut Stamnes,Gary E. Thomas,Jakob J. Stamnes

This updated edition provides a foundation of theoretical and practical aspects of radiative transfer for students and researchers in atmospheric, oceanic and environmental sciences.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107094739

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9781107094734

Roman Imperial Statue Bases

from Augustus to Commodus

By: Jakob Munk Hojte

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Roman Imperial Statue Bases

from Augustus to Commodus

By: Jakob Munk Hojte

The study of Roman imperial statues has made remarkable strides in the last two decades. Yet the field's understandable focus on extant portraits has made it difficult to generalize accurately. Most notably, bronze was usually the material of choice, but its high scrap value meant that such statues were inevitably melted down, so that almost all surviving statues are of stone. By examining the much larger and more representative body of statue bases, Jakob Munk Hojte is here able to situate the statues themselves in context. This volume includes a catalogue of 2300 known statue bases from more than 800 sites within and without the Roman Empire. Moreover, since it covers a period of 250 years, it allows for the first time consistent geographic, chronological and commemorative patterns to emerge. Hojte finds among other things that imperial portrait statues are connected chiefly with urban centres; that they were raised continuously during a given reign, with a higher concentration a couple years after accession; that a primary purpose was often to advertise a donor's merits; and that they increased sixfold in frequency from Augustus to Hadrian, an increase attributable to community erections. Jakob Munk Hojte is post.doc. and research assistant at the Danish National Research Foundations Centre for Black Sea Studies.

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Aarhus Universitetsforlag

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8779349064

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9788779349063

Moral Economies of Money

Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society

By: Jakob Feinig

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Moral Economies of Money

Politics and the Monetary Constitution of Society

By: Jakob Feinig

For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices. If popular knowledge about money creation was once widely shared, how and why did it disappear? In this astute new work, Jakob Feinig shows how the relation between money users and money-issuing governments changed from British colonial North America to today's United States, discussing how popular movements reshaped money-creating institutions, and how their opponents attempted to silence them. He also reveals how monetary and political history unfolds in the tension between "moral economies of money" and "monetary silencing." Offering an introduction to money creation practices since the colonial era, the book enables readers to understand why most people are disconnected from knowledge about money creation today. At the same time, the book also allows readers to situate the recent prominence of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) against a broader historical background. Historians of capitalism, economic and political sociologists, social theorists, anthropologists of money, and anyone seeking to understand monetary activism, will find this book helps to clarify present-day possibilities in light of historical processes.

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Stanford University Press

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1503633454

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9781503633452

Narrative Ethics

By: Jakob Lothe

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Narrative Ethics

By: Jakob Lothe

While Plato recommended expelling poets from the ideal society, W. H. Auden famously declared that poetry makes nothing happen. The 19 contributions to the present book avoid such polarized views and, responding in different ways to the “ethical turn” in narrative theory, explore the varied ways in which narratives encourage readers to ponder matters of right and wrong. All work from the premise that the analysis of narrative ethics needs to be linked to a sensitivity to esthetic (narrative) form. The ethical issues are accordingly located on different levels. Some are clearly presented as thematic concerns within the text(s) considered, while others emerge through (or are generated by) the presentation of character and event by means of particular narrative techniques. The objects of analysis include such well-known or canonical texts as Biblical Old Testament stories, Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones, Ann Radcliffe’s The Italian and Matthew Lewis’s The Monk. Others concentrate on less-well-known texts written in languages other than English. There are also contributions that investigate theoretical issues in relation to a range of different examples.

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Rodopi

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9401209820

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Revelation of Time

The Circle of Life

By: Jakob Waechter

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Revelation of Time

The Circle of Life

By: Jakob Waechter

In the age of hypersonic planes, on a military maneuver of a Russian special force, a stealth spy plane is discovered. In a struggle to find the origin of this plane more and more intelligence agencies will be activated as those planes also get discovered in other countries. Meanwhile Jean the builder of the city sized habitats tries to make his dream come true, flying to the stars. From the habitat building he has enormous finances at hand. But things seem to turn out unexpected and he finds himself in a quarrel between politics, intelligence services and other groups that might have different objectives in mind. This leads to an escalation no one has foreseen.

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BookRix

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3739625449

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Household Tales

By: Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm

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Household Tales

By: Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm

Reproduction of the original: Household Tales by Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm

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China Constructing Capitalism

Economic Life and Urban Change

By: Michael Keith,Scott Lash,Jakob Arnoldi,Tyler Rooker

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China Constructing Capitalism

Economic Life and Urban Change

By: Michael Keith,Scott Lash,Jakob Arnoldi,Tyler Rooker

China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types, both of which – more or less – understand China in the context of neoliberalism. The more business- or business studies-oriented literature seems to argue that if China does not adapt the rule of clear and distinct property and contract law – in short, of Western institutions – its economy will stall. The second set of voices is more clearly from the left, arguing that the Chinese economy, and city, is neo-liberal. For them, China does not diverge widely from the Anglo-American model that, from 2008, has brought the world economy to its knees. China Constructing Capitalism takes issue with these analyses. The authors argue that it is not Western neo-liberalism that is constructing the Chinese economy, but instead that China is constructing its own version of capitalism. The two central theses of their argument are: economic life – neo-liberal economic life is individualized and disembedded, while the China model is relational and situated urban change – China has created a form of ‘local state capitalism’ which stands in contrast to neoliberal versions of the city. This book analyses China as a 'risk culture', examining among others Chinese firms and political ties, property development, migrant urbanisms and share trading rooms. It scrutinises the ever-present shadow of the risk-averse (yet uncertainty-creating) state. China Constructing Capitalism is a must-read for social scientists, policy makers and investors.

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Routledge

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1134004516

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C.G. Jung: Face to Face with Christianity

Conversations on Dreaming the Myth Onward

By: Jakob Lusensky

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C.G. Jung: Face to Face with Christianity

Conversations on Dreaming the Myth Onward

By: Jakob Lusensky

These in-depth conversations with leading Jungian analysts and scholars—including Murray Stein, Ann Lammers, Paul Bishop, and David Tacey—explore C.G. Jung's lifelong wrestling with Christianity and its importance for us today. Can analytical psychology be understood as Jung’s attempt to recover a genuine experience of being Christian? If so, was it successful? Jakob Lusensky, in an accessible introduction and throughout these remarkable conversations with experts, pursues Jung's dreaming the myth onward not merely as a fact of history, a historical breakthrough in how and why we undertake analysis, but as a living fundament for people on the path of individuation today—with implications reaching far beyond the individual. Wide-ranging and insightful, this collection is meant for Jungians (analysts, analysands, readers) for Christians (laypeople and leadership), and for any person anywhere likewise wrestling at the intersection of psychology and religion.

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Chiron Publications

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1685032230

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Chez Max

By: Jakob Arjouni

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Chez Max

By: Jakob Arjouni

Provoked by the events of 9/11 and the US reaction, Jakob Arjouni has written a clever and satiric novel focusing on a state intelligence officer and the workings of mass hysteria. 2064 - Securely fenced off from the rest of the world, life in Euroasia, except for a handful of suicide bombings and border disputes, is constantly improving. On the other side of the fence, countries are being exploited and wracked by regression, dictatorship, and religious fanaticism. People live in poverty and misery. Max Schwartzwald is the owner of Chez Max, a smart Parisian restaurant, but he is also an Ashcroft agent, a member of a secret government organisation whose mission is to promptly identify and weed out anything that may threaten the political status quo. Schwartzwald's biggest problem is his Ashcroft partner, Chen Wu, a self-righteous loudmouth, who leaves no taboo unbroken, attacks every human weakness and takes liberties at will - all because of the spectacular successes he has achieved within the organisation. But is Chen a double agent who is bringing illegal immigrants into the Euroasian world and is this the opportunity for Max to get rid of his partner once and for all?

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Bedford Square Publishers

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184243778X

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Property Rights and Bijuralism

Can a Framework for an Efficient Interaction of Common Law and Civil Law Be an Alternative to Uniform Law?

By: Jan Jakob Bornheim

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Property Rights and Bijuralism

Can a Framework for an Efficient Interaction of Common Law and Civil Law Be an Alternative to Uniform Law?

By: Jan Jakob Bornheim

Using the Canadian experience as a model, Jan Jakob Bornheim shows that the efficient interaction of common law and civil law can take place on both vertical and horizontal planes."--

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161591682

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Hope and Otherness: Christian Eschatology and Interreligious Hospitality

By: Jakob W. Wirén

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Hope and Otherness: Christian Eschatology and Interreligious Hospitality

By: Jakob W. Wirén

In Hope and Otherness, Jakob Wirén analyses the place and role of the religious Other in contemporary eschatology. In connection with this theme, he examines and compares different levels of inclusion and exclusion in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish eschatologies. He argues that a distinction should be made in approaches to this issue between soteriological openness and eschatological openness. By going beyond Christian theology and also looking to Muslim and Jewish sources and by combining the question of the religious Other with eschatology, Wirén explores ways of articulating Christian eschatology in light of religious otherness, and provides a new and vital slant to the threefold paradigm of exclusivism, inclusivism and pluralism that has been prevalent in the theology of religions. “Jakob Wirén’s study pushes forward the frontiers of three disciplines all at the same time: theology of religions; comparative religions and eschatology. (...) This is a challenging and important book.” - Gavin D'Costa, University of Bristol, Professor of Catholic Theology, 2017 “This book explores of the status of religious others in Christian eschatology, and of eschatology itself as a privileged place for reflecting on religious otherness. Wiren mines not only Christian, but also Jewish and Muslim sources to develop an inclusive eschatology. Hope and Otherness thus represents an important contribution to both theology of religions and comparative theology.” - Catherine Cornille, Boston College, Professor of Comparative Theology, 2017

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BRILL

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9004357068

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9789004357068

DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER

By: Jakob Walter

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DIARY OF A NAPOLEONIC FOOT SOLDIER

By: Jakob Walter

A grunt’s-eye report from the battlefield in the spirit of The Red Badge of Courage and All Quiet on the Western Front—the only known account by a common soldier of the campaigns of Napoleon’s Grand Army between 1806 and 1813. When eighteen-year-old German stonemason Jakob Walter was conscripted into the Grand Army of Napoleon, he had no idea of the trials that lay ahead. The long, grueling marches in Prussia and Poland sacrificed countless men to Bonaparte’s grand designs. And the disastrous Russian campaign tested human endurance on an epic scale. Demoralized by defeat in a war few supported or understood, deprived of ammunition and leadership, driven past reason by starvation and bitter cold, men often turned on one another, killing fellow soldiers for bread or an able horse. Though there are numerous surviving accounts of the Napoleonic Wars written by officers, Walter’s is the only known memoir by a draftee, and as such is a unique and fascinating document—a compelling chronicle of a young soldier’s loss of innocence as well as an eloquent and moving portrait of the profound effects of war on the men who fight it. Professor Marc Raeff has added an Introduction to the memoirs as well as six letters home from the Russian front, previously unpublished in English, from German conscripts who served concurrently with Walter. The volume is illustrated with engravings and maps, contemporary with the manuscript, from the Russian/Soviet and East European collections of the New York Public Library. Honest, heartfelt, deeply personal yet objective, The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier is more than an informative and absorbing historical document—it is a timeless and unforgettable account of the horrors of war.

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Doubleday

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0307817563

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9780307817563

Multimedia and Hypertext

The Internet and Beyond

By: Jakob Nielsen

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Multimedia and Hypertext

The Internet and Beyond

By: Jakob Nielsen

Reflecting the changes in the hypertext/multimedia market, this book includes illustrated examples of a variety of new hypermedia systems, particularly those related to the Internet, plus many examples of the use of Mosaic and the HTML.

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Morgan Kaufmann

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0125184085

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9780125184083

John McDowell

Experience, Norm, and Nature

By: Jakob Lindgaard

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John McDowell

Experience, Norm, and Nature

By: Jakob Lindgaard

John McDowell: Experience, Norm, and Nature combinesoriginal essays by leading contemporary philosophers with point bypoint responses by McDowell himself to explore the central themesof one of the most innovative philosophers of our day. Provides original and critical essays examiningMcDowell’s reading and appropriation of Sellars, Kant, andHegel in his own philosophy Explores McDowell’s notions of perceptual experience andhis proposed rethinking of our conception of nature in light of thechallenges that reason and normativity introduce Includes an original essay by McDowell that includessignificant developments of his conception of perceptualexperience Offers thorough and penetrating responses by McDowell to hiscritics

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John Wiley & Sons

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144430674X

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9781444306743

Physically Based Rendering

From Theory to Implementation

By: Matt Pharr,Wenzel Jakob,Greg Humphreys

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Physically Based Rendering

From Theory to Implementation

By: Matt Pharr,Wenzel Jakob,Greg Humphreys

Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation, Third Edition, describes both the mathematical theory behind a modern photorealistic rendering system and its practical implementation. Through a method known as 'literate programming', the authors combine human-readable documentation and source code into a single reference that is specifically designed to aid comprehension. The result is a stunning achievement in graphics education. Through the ideas and software in this book, users will learn to design and employ a fully-featured rendering system for creating stunning imagery. This completely updated and revised edition includes new coverage on ray-tracing hair and curves primitives, numerical precision issues with ray tracing, LBVHs, realistic camera models, the measurement equation, and much more. It is a must-have, full color resource on physically-based rendering. - Presents up-to-date revisions of the seminal reference on rendering, including new sections on bidirectional path tracing, numerical robustness issues in ray tracing, realistic camera models, and subsurface scattering - Provides the source code for a complete rendering system allowing readers to get up and running fast - Includes a unique indexing feature, literate programming, that lists the locations of each function, variable, and method on the page where they are first described - Serves as an essential resource on physically-based rendering

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Morgan Kaufmann

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0128007095

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9780128007099

Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency

By: Jakob Nielsen

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Coordinating User Interfaces for Consistency

By: Jakob Nielsen

In the years since Jakob Nielsen's classic collection on interface consistency first appeared, much has changed, and much has stayed the same. On the one hand, there's been exponential growth in the opportunities for following or disregarding the principles of interface consistency-more computers, more applications, more users, and of course the vast expanse of the Web. On the other, there are the principles themselves, as persistent and as valuable as ever. In these contributed chapters, you'll find details on many methods for seeking and enforcing consistency, along with bottom-line analyses of its benefits and some warnings about its possible dangers. Most of what you'll learn applies equally to hardware and software development, and all of it holds real benefits for both your organization and your users. - Begins with a new preface by the collection's distinguished editor - Details a variety of methods for attaining interface consistency, including central control, user definitions, exemplary applications, shared code, and model analysis - Presents a cost-benefits analysis of organizational efforts to promote and achieve consistency - Examines and appraises the dimensions of consistency-consistency within an application, across a family of applications, and beyond - Makes the case for some unexpected benefits of interface consistency while helping you avoid the risks it can sometimes entail - Considers the consistency of interface elements other than screen design - Includes case studies of major corporations that have instituted programs to ensure the consistency of their products

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Elsevier

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0080503152

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9780080503158

Introduction to the Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing

By: Charles Elachi,Jakob J. van Zyl

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Introduction to the Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing

By: Charles Elachi,Jakob J. van Zyl

INTRODUCTION TO THE PHYSICS AND TECHNIQUES OF REMOTE SENSING DISCOVER CUTTING EDGE THEORY AND APPLICATIONS OF MODERN REMOTE SENSING IN GEOLOGY, OCEANOGRAPHY, ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE, IONOSPHERIC STUDIES, AND MORE The thoroughly revised third edition of the Introduction to the Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing delivers a comprehensive update to the authoritative textbook, offering readers new sections on radar interferometry, radar stereo, and planetary radar. It explores new techniques in imaging spectroscopy and large optics used in Earth orbiting, planetary, and astrophysics missions. It also describes remote sensing instruments on, as well as data acquired with, the most recent Earth and space missions. Readers will benefit from the brand new and up-to-date concept examples and full-color photography, 50% of which is new to the series. You’ll learn about the basic physics of wave/matter interactions, techniques of remote sensing across the electromagnetic spectrum (from ultraviolet to microwave), and the concepts behind the remote sensing techniques used today and those planned for the future. The book also discusses the applications of remote sensing for a wide variety of earth and planetary atmosphere and surface sciences, like geology, oceanography, resource observation, atmospheric sciences, and ionospheric studies. This new edition also incorporates: A fulsome introduction to the nature and properties of electromagnetic waves An exploration of sensing solid surfaces in the visible and near infrared spectrums, as well as thermal infrared, microwave, and radio frequencies A treatment of ocean surface sensing, including ocean surface imaging and the mapping of ocean topography A discussion of the basic principles of atmospheric sensing and radiative transfer, including the radiative transfer equation Perfect for senior undergraduate and graduate students in the field of remote sensing instrument development, data analysis, and data utilization, Introduction to the Physics and Techniques of Remote Sensing will also earn a place in the libraries of students, faculty, researchers, engineers, and practitioners in fields like aerospace, electrical engineering, and astronomy.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111952301X

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Debris-flow Hazards and Related Phenomena

By: Matthias Jakob,Oldrich Hungr

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Debris-flow Hazards and Related Phenomena

By: Matthias Jakob,Oldrich Hungr

With climate change and deforestation, debris flows and debris avalanches have become the most significant landslide hazards in many countries. In recent years there have been numerous debris flow avalanches in Southern Europe, South America and the Indian Subcontinent, resulting in major catastrophes and large loss of life. This is therefore a major high-profile problem for the world's governments and for the engineers and scientists concerned. Matthias Jakob and Oldrich Hungr are ideally suited to edit this book. Matthias Jakob has worked on debris flow for over a decade and has had numerous papers published on the topic, as well as working as a consultant on debris flow for municipal and provincial governments. Oldrich Hungr has worked on site investigations on debris flow, avalanches and rockfall, with emphasis on slope stability analysis and evaluation of risks to roads in built-up areas. He has also developed mathematical models for landslide dynamic analysis. They have invited world-renowned experts to joint them in this book.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540271295

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The Identity of God's People and the Paradox of Hebrews

By: Ole Jakob Filtvedt

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The Identity of God's People and the Paradox of Hebrews

By: Ole Jakob Filtvedt

Does the letter to the Hebrews display Jewish or Christian identity? Ole Jakob Filtvedt shows that it takes up a traditional Jewish category, namely membership in God's people, and proposes it for its audience as a collective identity but also significantly reshapes that category in light of belief in Jesus. (Publisher).

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161540131

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Sustainable Urban Mobility Futures

By: Tjark Gall,Flore Vallet,Laura Mariana Reyes Madrigal,Sebastian Hörl,Adam Abdin,Tarek Chouaki,Jakob Puchinger

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Sustainable Urban Mobility Futures

By: Tjark Gall,Flore Vallet,Laura Mariana Reyes Madrigal,Sebastian Hörl,Adam Abdin,Tarek Chouaki,Jakob Puchinger

This book provides a unique perspective on urban mobility focusing on past challenges and future trends. The book enables discussions of pathways towards sustainable and people-centred urban mobility building on existing concepts and introducing novel methods and consideration of future research. In particular, the book provides an overview of trends, design methods, and projects combining foresight and agent-based modelling to better integrate active mobility in Mobility-as-a-Service, assess impacts of automated vehicles in Paris, and compare multiple solutions in Cairo. The book provides a range of multidisciplinary concepts and methods that will be invaluable to both researchers in the field and students taking relevant courses.

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Springer Nature

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3031457951

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9783031457951

The Battle for the White House

The US Presidential Election 2020 under the impression of Polarization, Coronavirus Pandemic and Social Tensions.

By: Christiane Lemke,Jakob Wiedekind

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The Battle for the White House

The US Presidential Election 2020 under the impression of Polarization, Coronavirus Pandemic and Social Tensions.

By: Christiane Lemke,Jakob Wiedekind

This book provides a concise and engaging analysis of the particularly unusual 2020 election year in the USA. The political science perspective illuminates societal tensions in the context of the Corona pandemic and elaborates election-deciding discourses. Larger socio-political trends such as ideological polarisation are addressed as well as the different campaign strategies of the two parties. In addition, the book offers insights into the election results of this landmark presidential election for American society and for the development of its democracy. The final evaluation of the resulting implications for transatlantic relations rounds off the book.

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3658389346

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Photochemistry of Organic Compounds

From Concepts to Practice

By: Petr Klán,Jakob Wirz

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Photochemistry of Organic Compounds

From Concepts to Practice

By: Petr Klán,Jakob Wirz

Photochemistry of Organic Compounds: From Concepts toPractice provides a hands-on guide demonstrating the underlyingprinciples of photochemistry and, by reference to a range oforganic reaction types, its effective use in the synthesis of neworganic compounds and in various applications. The book presents a complete and methodical approach to thetopic, Working from basic principles, discussing key techniques andstudies of reactive intermediates, and illustrating syntheticphotochemical procedures. Incorporating special topics and case studies covering variousapplications of photochemistry in chemistry, environmentalsciences, biochemistry, physics, medicine, and industry. Providing extensive references to the original literature andto review articles. Concluding with a chapter on retrosynthetic photochemistry,listing key reactions to aid the reader in designing their ownsynthetic pathways. This book will be a valuable source of information andinspiration for postgraduates as well as professionals from a widerange of chemical and natural sciences.

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1444300008

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9781444300000

Native America

A History

By: Michael Leroy Oberg,Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich

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Native America

A History

By: Michael Leroy Oberg,Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich

The latest edition of an accessible and comprehensive survey of Native America In this newly revised third edition of Native America: A History, Michael Leroy Oberg and Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich deliver a thoroughly updated, incisive narrative history of North America’s Indigenous peoples. The authors aim to provide readers with an overview of the principal themes and developments in Native American history, from the first peopling of the continent to the present, by following twelve Native communities whose histories serve as exemplars for the common experiences of North America’s diverse Indigenous nations. This textbook centers the history of Native America and presents it as flowing through channels distinct from those of the United States. This is a history of nations not merely acted upon, but rather of those that have responded to, resisted, ignored, and shaped the efforts of foreign powers to control their story. This new edition has been comprehensively updated in all its chapters and expanded with wider coverage of the most significant recent events and trends in Native America through the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Native America: A History, Third Edition also includes: A survey of pre-Columbian North American traditions and the various ways in which these traditions were deployed to comprehend and respond to the arrival of Europeans. In-depth examinations of how Native nations navigated the challenges of colonialism and fought to survive while marginalized behind the frontiers of European empires and the United States. Nuanced analyses of how Indigenous peoples balanced the economic benefits offered by assimilation with the cultural and political imperatives of maintaining traditions and sovereignty. An accessible presentation of American tribal law and the strategies used by Native nations to establish government-to-government relationships with the United States despite the repeated failures of that state to honor its legal commitments. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students seeking a broad historical treatment of Indigenous peoples in the United States, Native America: A History, Third Edition will earn a place in the libraries of anyone with an interest in seeking an authoritative and engaging survey of Native American history.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119768497

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9781119768494

Collective Aquifer Governance

Dispute Prevention for Groundwater and Aquifers through Unitization

By: Todd Jarvis,Jakob Wiley

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Collective Aquifer Governance

Dispute Prevention for Groundwater and Aquifers through Unitization

By: Todd Jarvis,Jakob Wiley

Modern models of groundwater governance require a rethink of scale and jurisdictional boundaries. Using case studies and a gaming activity to explore the incentives and challenges to aquifer governance, this book demonstrates how the principles of unitization agreements, applied to aquifers, could provide a new approach to governance models.

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Cambridge University Press

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110717208X

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Global Christianity

Current Trends and Developments

By: Vebjorn L. Horsfjord,Sven Thore Kloster,Gina Lende,Ole Jakob Loland

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Global Christianity

Current Trends and Developments

By: Vebjorn L. Horsfjord,Sven Thore Kloster,Gina Lende,Ole Jakob Loland

Over the last few decades, Christianity’s center of gravity has moved from the global north to the global south. While church buildings in Western Europe are being closed or sold, new megachurches are filled with believers in Africa and Latin America. Charismatic movements practice the Christian religion in new ways, challenging the established churches and society at large on all continents. This scholarly examination of contemporary World Christianity takes a fresh perspective on Christianity as a cultural, political, and social force in our time. It provides up-to-date regional surveys, gives ample attention to the fastest growing branch of Christianity, the Pentecostal movement, and focuses sharply on Catholicism, which with a wide margin is the world’s largest denomination. Furthermore, it explores how the Christian religion accommodates as well as challenges political, social, economic, and cultural developments.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1725281112

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The Political Theology of Pope Francis

Understanding the Latin American Pope

By: Ole Jakob Løland

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The Political Theology of Pope Francis

Understanding the Latin American Pope

By: Ole Jakob Løland

This book explores the political dimension of Pope Francis’ theology from a variety of perspectives and makes a unique contribution to the ongoing historiography of his pontificate. It defines the concept of political theology when applied to Pope Francis’ discourse and reflects on the portrayal of him as the voice of Latin America, a great reformer and a revolutionary. The chapters offer a thorough investigation of core texts and key moments in Pope Francis’ papacy (2013-), focusing in particular on their relation to canon theory, liberation theology, the rise of populism, and gender issues. As well as documenting some of the continuities between the ideas of Pope Francis and his predecessor Benedict XVI, the author asks what the Argentinian pontiff has brought from Latin America and considers the Latin American dimension to what has become known as the ‘Francis effect’. Overall, the book demonstrates how the Pope’s words and actions constitute a powerful political theology disseminated from a unique religious and institutional position. It will be of interest to scholars of theology, religion, and politics, particularly those with a focus on world Catholicism, political theology, and church history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000826465

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