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$v_1$-Periodic Homotopy Groups of $SO(n)$

By: Martin Bendersky,Donald M. Davis

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$v_1$-Periodic Homotopy Groups of $SO(n)$

By: Martin Bendersky,Donald M. Davis

Computes the 2-primary $v_1$-periodic homotopy groups of the special orthogonal groups $SO(n)$; the method is to calculate the Bendersky-Thompson spectral sequence, a $K_*$-based unstable homotopy spectral sequence, of $\operatorname{Spin}(n)$.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821835890

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Force Fields

Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique

By: Martin Jay

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Force Fields

Between Intellectual History and Cultural Critique

By: Martin Jay

Force Fields collects the recent essays of Martin Jay, an intellectual historian and cultural critic internationally known for his extensive work on the history of Western Marxism and the intellectual migration from Germany to America.

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Routledge

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1136643249

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9781136643248

Homer Lea

American Soldier of Fortune

By: Lawrence Martin Kaplan

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Homer Lea

American Soldier of Fortune

By: Lawrence Martin Kaplan

As a five-feet-three-inch hunchback who weighed about 100 pounds, Homer Lea (1876--1912), was an unlikely candidate for life on the battlefield, yet he became a world-renowned military hero. In the Dragon's Lair: The Exploits of Homer Lea paints a revealing portrait of a diminutive yet determined man who never earned his valor on the field of battle, but left an indelible mark on his times. Lawrence M. Kaplan draws from extensive research to illuminate the life of a "man of mystery," while also yielding a clearer understanding of the early twentieth-century Chinese underground reform and revolutionary movements. Lea's career began in the inner circles of a powerful Chinese movement in San Francisco that led him to a generalship during the Boxer Rebellion. Fixated with commanding his own Chinese army, Lea's inflated aspirations were almost always dashed by reality. Although he never achieved the leadership role for which he strived, he became a trusted advisor to revolutionary leader Dr. Sun Yat-sen during the 1911 revolution that overthrew the Manchu Dynasty. As an author, Lea garnered fame for two books on geopolitics: The Valor of Ignorance, which examined weaknesses in the American defenses and included dire warnings of an impending Japanese-American war, and The Day of the Saxon, which predicted the decline of the British Empire. More than a character study, In the Dragon's Lair provides insight into the establishment and execution of underground reform and revolutionary movements within U.S. immigrant communities and in southern China, as well as early twentieth-century geopolitical thought.

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813126169

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9780813126166

Political Jurisprudence

By: Martin Loughlin

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Political Jurisprudence

By: Martin Loughlin

Political jurisprudence is the branch of jurisprudence that treats law as an aspect of human experience called 'the political'. This is an approach that many contemporary jurists, those whose work presupposes the autonomy of legal order, tend to suppress. In this book, Martin Loughlin assesses the contribution made by political jurists and explains its contemporary significance. Political jurists maintain that the essential characteristics of modern legal order can only be revealed by considering how political authority is constituted. The political is orientated to the fact that people are organized into territorially-bounded units within which authoritative governing arrangements have been established, but the authority of this way of viewing the world is strengthened only through institution-building. Law may be an aspect of the political, but to perform its authority-generating functions effectively it must operate relatively autonomously. The political and the legal operate relationally, without one being reduced to the other. Loughlin introduces the rich literature of political jurisprudence through essays on innovative political jurists such as Hobbes, Burke, Constant, Romano, and Schmitt, and on such central themes as political right, institutionalism, constitutional legality, and reason of state. Building on his earlier books, The Idea of Public Law (OUP 2003) and Foundations of Public Law (OUP 2010), this collection extends his account of this influential strand of European legal thought.

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Oxford University Press

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0198810229

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The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture

By: Benjamin G. Martin

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The Nazi-Fascist New Order for European Culture

By: Benjamin G. Martin

Following France’s crushing defeat in June 1940, the Nazis moved forward with plans to reorganize a European continent now largely under Hitler’s heel. While Germany’s military power would set the agenda, several among the Nazi elite argued that permanent German hegemony required something more: a pan-European cultural empire that would crown Hitler’s wartime conquests. At a time when the postwar European project is under strain, Benjamin G. Martin brings into focus a neglected aspect of Axis geopolitics, charting the rise and fall of Nazi-fascist “soft power” in the form of a nationalist and anti-Semitic new ordering of European culture. As early as 1934, the Nazis began taking steps to bring European culture into alignment with their ideological aims. In cooperation and competition with Italy’s fascists, they courted filmmakers, writers, and composers from across the continent. New institutions such as the International Film Chamber, the European Writers Union, and the Permanent Council of composers forged a continental bloc opposed to the “degenerate” cosmopolitan modernism that held sway in the arts. In its place they envisioned a Europe of nations, one that exalted traditionalism, anti-Semitism, and the Volk. Such a vision held powerful appeal for conservative intellectuals who saw a European civilization in decline, threatened by American commercialism and Soviet Bolshevism. Taking readers to film screenings, concerts, and banquets where artists from Norway to Bulgaria lent their prestige to Goebbels’s vision, Martin follows the Nazi-fascist project to its disastrous conclusion, examining the internal contradictions and sectarian rivalries that doomed it to failure.

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Harvard University Press

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0674973992

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9780674973992

Archaeology Meets Science

Biomolecular Investigations in Bronze Age Greece

By: Holley Martlew,Martin Jones

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Archaeology Meets Science

Biomolecular Investigations in Bronze Age Greece

By: Holley Martlew,Martin Jones

The 'Archaeology meets Science' project is currently transforming our understanding of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilisations, through the in-depth application of state of the art scientific analyses to ceramic artefacts and skeletal material. This book is the fruit of this acclaimed research, which was carried out between 1997 and 2003, and presented in an exhibition in a number of museums across Europe and the United States, starting with the National Archaeological Museum in Athens. Moving beyond the standard archaeological format of illustrations with descriptions of contexts, the book analyses each object from the inside , and consequently each has a different story to tell. Organic residue and stable isotope analysis has extended our knowledge beyond anything previously gleaned through conventional archaeological research, and we now have a much better understanding of the food and drink consumed by ordinary people in Bronze Age Greece. There are some fascinating insights, such as the origin of modern Greek retsina, which was traced first to the time of Agamemnon, then to Crete in the 17th century BC and finally to the Early Minoan Period, c. 2000 BC. The book provides the primary scientific evidence on which the world renowned scientists who have carried out this work have based their conclusions.

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Oxbow Books

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1782974547

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9781782974543

Enterprise Search

Enhancing Business Performance

By: Martin White

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Enterprise Search

Enhancing Business Performance

By: Martin White

Is your organization rapidly accumulating more information than you know how to manage? This updated edition of Enterprise Search helps you create an enterprise search solution based on more than just technology. Author Martin White shows you how to plan and implement a managed search environment that meets the needs of your business and your employees. You'll learn why it’s absolutely vital to have a dedicated staff manage your search technology and support your users. New material for this second edition includes material on SharePoint 2013 search, managing open source search development, website search, designing the search user, and assessing search performance. Chapters now include a Further Reading section for computer science and information science students. Topics include: 10 critical success factors to assess organizational search maturity Essential skills needed to support a successful search application How to specify and manage open source search development How to manage SharePoint 2013 search Methods to assess the business impact of search Best practices in user interface design The importance of search for websites What to include in a search strategy

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"O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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1491915498

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9781491915493

The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930

By: Martin A. Ruehl

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The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination, 1860–1930

By: Martin A. Ruehl

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's bourgeois elites became enthralled by the civilization of Renaissance Italy. As their own country entered a phase of critical socioeconomic changes, German historians and writers reinvented the Italian Renaissance as the onset of a heroic modernity: a glorious dawn that ushered in an age of secular individualism, imbued with ruthless vitality and a neo-pagan zest for beauty. The Italian Renaissance in the German Historical Imagination is the first comprehensive account of the debates that shaped the German idea of the Renaissance in the seven decades following Jacob Burckhardt's seminal study of 1860. Based on a wealth of archival material and enhanced by more than one hundred illustrations, it provides a new perspective on the historical thought of Imperial and Weimar Germany, and the formation of a concept that is still with us today.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316298655

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An Introduction to Beam Physics

By: Martin Berz,Kyoko Makino,Weishi Wan

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An Introduction to Beam Physics

By: Martin Berz,Kyoko Makino,Weishi Wan

The field of beam physics touches many areas of physics, engineering, and the sciences. In general terms, beams describe ensembles of particles with initial conditions similar enough to be treated together as a group so that the motion is a weakly nonlinear perturbation of a chosen reference particle. Particle beams are used in a variety of areas, ranging from electron microscopes, particle spectrometers, medical radiation facilities, powerful light sources, and astrophysics to large synchrotrons and storage rings such as the LHC at CERN. An Introduction to Beam Physics is based on lectures given at Michigan State University’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, the online VUBeam program, the U.S. Particle Accelerator School, the CERN Academic Training Programme, and various other venues. It is accessible to beginning graduate and upper-division undergraduate students in physics, mathematics, and engineering. The book begins with a historical overview of methods for generating and accelerating beams, highlighting important advances through the eyes of their developers using their original drawings. The book then presents concepts of linear beam optics, transfer matrices, the general equations of motion, and the main techniques used for single- and multi-pass systems. Some advanced nonlinear topics, including the computation of aberrations and a study of resonances, round out the presentation.

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CRC Press

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0750308087

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9780750308083

The Third Reich

Charisma and Community

By: Martin Kitchen

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The Third Reich

Charisma and Community

By: Martin Kitchen

The twelve years of the Third Reich casts a dark shadow over history. Fierce debates still rage over many of the hows, whys and wherefores of this perplexing period. Leading expert on German history, Martin Kitchen, provides a concise, accessible and provocative account of Nazi Germany. It takes into account the political, social, economic and cultural ramifications, and sets it within the context of the times, while pointing out those areas that still defy our understanding. This lively account addresses major issues such as the reasons for Hitler’s extraordinary popularity, his hold over the German people even when all seemed lost, the role of ideology, the cooption of the elites, and the descent into war for race and space, culminating in the horrors of the holocaust.

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1317866363

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9781317866367

The Weimar Republic Sourcebook

By: Anton Kaes,Martin Jay,Edward Dimendberg

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The Weimar Republic Sourcebook

By: Anton Kaes,Martin Jay,Edward Dimendberg

A laboratory for competing visions of modernity, the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) continues to haunt the imagination of the twentieth century. Its political and cultural lessons retain uncanny relevance for all who seek to understand the tensions and possibilities of our age. The Weimar Republic Sourcebook represents the most comprehensive documentation of Weimar culture, history, and politics assembled in any language. It invites a wide community of readers to discover the richness and complexity of the turbulent years in Germany before Hitler's rise to power. Drawing from such primary sources as magazines, newspapers, manifestoes, and official documents (many unknown even to specialists and most never before available in English), this book challenges the traditional boundaries between politics, culture, and social life. Its thirty chapters explore Germany's complex relationship to democracy, ideologies of "reactionary modernism," the rise of the "New Woman," Bauhaus architecture, the impact of mass media, the literary life, the tradition of cabaret and urban entertainment, and the situation of Jews, intellectuals, and workers before and during the emergence of fascism. While devoting much attention to the Republic's varied artistic and intellectual achievements (the Frankfurt School, political theater, twelve-tone music, cultural criticism, photomontage, and urban planning), the book is unique for its inclusion of many lesser-known materials on popular culture, consumerism, body culture, drugs, criminality, and sexuality; it also contains a timetable of major political events, an extensive bibliography, and capsule biographies. This will be a major resource and reference work for students and scholars in history; art; architecture; literature; social and political thought; and cultural, film, German, and women's studies.

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Univ of California Press

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0520909607

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9780520909601

Securing the Indian Frontier in Central Asia

Confrontation and Negotiation, 1865-1895

By: Martin Ewans

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Securing the Indian Frontier in Central Asia

Confrontation and Negotiation, 1865-1895

By: Martin Ewans

Throughout the nineteenth century, Central Asia was the scene of periodic confrontations between Britain and Russia. Sir Martin Ewans provides a ‘history of thought' of this crucial period in Central Asia by examining of the strategic thinking and diplomatic discourse of the most intense decades of the confrontation.

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1136995374

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9781136995378

Small Group Research

Implications for Peace Psychology and Conflict Resolution

By: Herbert Blumberg,M. Valerie Kent,A. Paul Hare,Martin F. Davies

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Small Group Research

Implications for Peace Psychology and Conflict Resolution

By: Herbert Blumberg,M. Valerie Kent,A. Paul Hare,Martin F. Davies

Small group research is of particularly wide interest to people working in a fairly broad variety of areas concerned with understanding conflict, especially for practitioners and researchers concerned with conflict resolution, peace, and related areas. The editors will focus on six main topical areas of small group research, which include: - Cooperation, competition, and conflict resolution - Coalitions, bargaining, and games - Group dynamics and social cognition - The group and organization - Team performance - Intergroup relations

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461400252

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9781461400257

The Universal Kobayashi-Hitchin Correspondence on Hermitian Manifolds

By: Martin Lübke,Andrei Teleman

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The Universal Kobayashi-Hitchin Correspondence on Hermitian Manifolds

By: Martin Lübke,Andrei Teleman

We prove a very general Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence on arbitrary compact Hermitian manifolds, and we discuss differential geometric properties of the corresponding moduli spaces. This correspondence refers to moduli spaces of ``universal holomorphic oriented pairs''. Most of the classical moduli problems in complex geometry (e. g. holomorphic bundles with reductive structure groups, holomorphic pairs, holomorphic Higgs pairs, Witten triples, arbitrary quiver moduli problems) are special cases of this universal classification problem. Our Kobayashi-Hitchin correspondence relates the complex geometric concept ``polystable oriented holomorphic pair'' to the existence of a reduction solving a generalized Hermitian-Einstein equation. The proof is based on the Uhlenbeck-Yau continuity method. Using ideas from Donaldson theory, we further introduce and investigate canonical Hermitian metrics on such moduli spaces. We discuss in detail remarkable classes of moduli spaces in the non-Kahlerian framework: Oriented holomorphic structures, Quot-spaces, oriented holomorphic pairs and oriented vortices, non-abelian Seiberg-Witten monopoles.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821839136

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9780821839133

The Modernist Imagination

Intellectual History and Critical Theory : Essays in Honor of Martin Jay

By: Martin Jay

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The Modernist Imagination

Intellectual History and Critical Theory : Essays in Honor of Martin Jay

By: Martin Jay

Some of the most exciting and innovative work in the humanities is occurring at the intersection of intellectual history and critical theory. This volume includes work from some of the most prominent contemporary scholars in the humanities.

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Berghahn Books

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1845454286

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9781845454289

Prenatal Exposures

Psychological and Educational Consequences for Children

By: Roy P. Martin,Stefan C. Dombrowski

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Prenatal Exposures

Psychological and Educational Consequences for Children

By: Roy P. Martin,Stefan C. Dombrowski

In this first compendium in the growing literature of behavioral teratology, readers will discover an easy-to-access, concise presentation that covers a huge range of subjects. The book synthesizes important findings that help explain why prenatal events may result in abnormal behavior and learning disabilities later in life. It goes further to examine the role of prenatal perturbations in conditions as varied as dyslexia, schizophrenia, fetal alcohol syndrome, and autism.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387743987

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9780387743981

EBOOK Organisational Behaviour

By: Steven McShane,Mara Olekalns,Alex Newman,Angela Martin

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EBOOK Organisational Behaviour

By: Steven McShane,Mara Olekalns,Alex Newman,Angela Martin

Organisational Behaviour 6e and its rich suite of digital educational resources leads the market in this excitingfield. Now in its sixth edition, the engaging text has been developed to satisfy the evolving needs of learnersand academics with its offerings of contemporary theory and research, real-world examples, learning resources and visually stimulating design. CONTEMPORARY AND INFORMEDNew and updated discussions of current theories and practice that encouragecritical analysisFeatures that reinforce the text’s Asia-Pacific focus as well as its global orientation RELEVANT AND ENGAGINGNew OB Insight and OB Ethics featuresNew and revised chapter opening vignettesNew end-of-chapter and holistic case studies help students practise their diagnosticskills and apply OB conceptsUpdated OB by the Numbers features highlight interesting survey results ENABLES EFFECTIVE LEARNINGOrganisational Behaviour 6e is recognised for its up-to-date content presented in a clear,focused, accessible and thought-provoking style that enables learners to link theorieswith real-world practices.

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McGraw-Hill Education Australia

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1760423386

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9781760423384

Exploring Development Through Childhood

By: Martin Fabes,Richard Fabes,Carol Lynn Martin

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Exploring Development Through Childhood

By: Martin Fabes,Richard Fabes,Carol Lynn Martin

This text uses a chronological organization to teach principles of development through childhood and encourages readers to reflect on their own personal experience of development. A brief paperback version of Exploring Child Development, the authors' goal was to address the need for a book that actually showed the child in the context of human relationships. Children do not develop in a vacuum, as the process of development is shaped by the continuous interplay between individuals and their ever-changing environments. To illustrate the uniqueness of these individuals and environments, the authors have integrated examples of diversity throughout the text, in the domains of physical, psychological and cultural differences, gender, race, ethnicity, and social and economic status.

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