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Weimar in Exile

The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America

By: Jean-Michel Palmier

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Weimar in Exile

The Antifascist Emigration in Europe and America

By: Jean-Michel Palmier

In 1933 thousands of intellectuals, artists, writers, militants and other opponents of the Nazi regime fled Germany. They were, in the words of Heinrich Mann, "the best of Germany," refusing to remain citizens in this new state that legalized terror and brutality. Exiled across the world, they continued the fight against Nazism in prose, poetry, painting, architecture, film and theater. Weimar in Exile follows these lives, from the rise of national socialism to their return to a ruined homeland, retracing their stories, struggles, setbacks and rare victories. The dignity in exile of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Bloch, Bertolt Brecht, Alfred Dblin, Hanns Eisler, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Anna Seghers, Ernst Toller, Stefan Zweig and many others provides a counterpoint to the story of Germany under the Nazis.

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1784786454

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The Good Book of Human Nature

An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible

By: Carel van Schaik,Kai Michel

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The Good Book of Human Nature

An Evolutionary Reading of the Bible

By: Carel van Schaik,Kai Michel

In The Good Book of Human Nature, evolutionary anthropologist Carel van Schaik and historian Kai Michel advance a new view of Homo sapiens' cultural evolution. The Bible, they argue, was written to make sense of the single greatest change in history: the transition from egalitarian hunter-gatherer to agricultural societies. Religion arose as a strategy to cope with the unprecedented levels of epidemic disease, violence, inequality, and injustice that confronted us when we abandoned the bush--and which still confront us today, "--Amazon.com.

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0465074707

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Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

By: Salvatore Gaspa,CŽcile Michel,Marie-Louise Nosch

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Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

By: Salvatore Gaspa,CŽcile Michel,Marie-Louise Nosch

The papers in this volume derive from the conference on textile terminology held in June 2014 at the University of Copenhagen. Around 50 experts from the fields of Ancient History, Indo-European Studies, Semitic Philology, Assyriology, Classical Archaeology, and Terminology from twelve different countries came together at the Centre for Textile Research, to discuss textile terminology, semantic fields of clothing and technology, loan words, and developments of textile terms in Antiquity. They exchanged ideas, research results, and presented various views and methods. This volume contains 35 chapters, divided into five sections: - Textile terminologies across the ancient Near East and the Southern Levant - Textile terminologies in Europe and Egypt - Textile terminologies in metaphorical language and poetry - Textile terminologies: examples from China and Japan - Technical terms of textiles and textile tools and methodologies of classifications

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Lulu.com

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1609621123

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Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

By: Jean-Michel Muller,Nicolas Brisebarre,Florent de Dinechin,Claude-Pierre Jeannerod,Vincent Lefèvre,Guillaume Melquiond,Nathalie Revol,Damien Stehlé,Serge Torres

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Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

By: Jean-Michel Muller,Nicolas Brisebarre,Florent de Dinechin,Claude-Pierre Jeannerod,Vincent Lefèvre,Guillaume Melquiond,Nathalie Revol,Damien Stehlé,Serge Torres

Floating-point arithmetic is the most widely used way of implementing real-number arithmetic on modern computers. However, making such an arithmetic reliable and portable, yet fast, is a very difficult task. As a result, floating-point arithmetic is far from being exploited to its full potential. This handbook aims to provide a complete overview of modern floating-point arithmetic. So that the techniques presented can be put directly into practice in actual coding or design, they are illustrated, whenever possible, by a corresponding program. The handbook is designed for programmers of numerical applications, compiler designers, programmers of floating-point algorithms, designers of arithmetic operators, and more generally, students and researchers in numerical analysis who wish to better understand a tool used in their daily work and research.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0817647058

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9780817647056

Elementary Functions:

Algorithms and Implementation

By: Jean-Michel Muller

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Elementary Functions:

Algorithms and Implementation

By: Jean-Michel Muller

Second Edition of successful, well-reviewed Birkhauser book, which sold 866 copies in North America Provides an up-to-date presentation by including new results, examples, and problems throughout the text The second edition adds a chapter on multiple-precision arithmetic, and new algorithms invented since 1997

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1475726465

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Diophantine Approximation on Linear Algebraic Groups

Transcendence Properties of the Exponential Function in Several Variables

By: Michel Waldschmidt

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Diophantine Approximation on Linear Algebraic Groups

Transcendence Properties of the Exponential Function in Several Variables

By: Michel Waldschmidt

The theory of transcendental numbers is closely related to the study of diophantine approximation. This book deals with values of the usual exponential function ez: a central open problem is the conjecture on algebraic independence of logarithms of algebraic numbers. Two chapters provide complete and simplified proofs of zero estimates (due to Philippon) on linear algebraic groups.

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3662115697

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A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

By: Michel Laclotte

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A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

By: Michel Laclotte

An art world insider provides a witty and penetrating account of fifty years at the center of international culture. Art historian, curator, and museum director Michel Laclotte has been at the forefront of French cultural life over the past half century. This informal autobiography sheds light on his brilliant career with warmth and directness. Highlights include twenty years as chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Musée du Louvre, heading the team that created the Musée dOrsay, and taking the reins of the Louvre to lead the effort that culminated in the museums transformation into the ?Grand Louvre,” one of the worlds preeminent cultural attractions. Raising the curtain on fifty years of Western art scholarship, intrigue, and achievement, Laclotte introduces an extraordinary cast of characters who set Frances cultural direction in the postwar period from Charles de Gaulle and André Malraux in the 1950s to François Mitterand in the 1980s and 1990s. His story overlaps with virtually every major scholarly figure in French art history of the last half-century, as well as Laclottes mentors and colleagues throughout and beyond Europe, from Roberto Longhi and Anthony Blunt to Sir John Pope-Hennessy and Millard Meiss. An incomparable testament to a period of seismic change in the museum world, this volume will be essential reading for art world afficianados and all students of art and modern culture.

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WW Norton

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0789260077

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The LaTex Graphics Companion

Illustrating Documents with TeX and PostScript

By: Michel Goossens,S. P. Q. Rahtz,Frank Mittelbach

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The LaTex Graphics Companion

Illustrating Documents with TeX and PostScript

By: Michel Goossens,S. P. Q. Rahtz,Frank Mittelbach

Complementing The LaTeX Companion, this new graphics companion addresses one of the most common needs among users of the LaTeX typesetting system: the incorporation of graphics into text. It provides the first full description of the standard LaTeX color and graphics packages, and shows how you can combine TeX and PostScript capabilities to produce beautifully illustrated pages. You will learn how to incorporate graphic files into a LaTeX document, program technical diagrams using several different languages, and achieve special effects with fragments of embedded PostScript. Furthermore, you'll find detailed descriptions of important packages like Xy-pic, PSTricks, and METAPOST; the dvips dvi to PostScript driver; and Ghostscript.

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Addison-Wesley Professional

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0201854694

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The Semantics of Prepositions

By: Michel Aurnague & Laure Vieu

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The Semantics of Prepositions

By: Michel Aurnague & Laure Vieu

A reconsideration of the semantics of a lexical category--prepositions--that has recently witnessed a plethora of investigations. The volume approaches the issue first from a more general perspective, namely the extent to which insights into the meaning of prepositions give clues to the semantic structure of lexical units and its processing in general. It goes on to deal with the meaning of prepositions from the perspective of how natural language processing can benefit from the insights of theoretical linguistics, especially with respect to machine translation and image understanding. Most of the papers were originally presented at a workshop held in February 1990 at the Institut fur Angewandte Informationsforschung. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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3110136341

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Surface Crystallographic Information Service

A Handbook of Surface Structures

By: J.M. Maclaren,J.B. Pendry,P.J. Rous,D.K. Saldin,Gabor A. Somorjai,Michel A. Van Hove,Dimitri Vvedensky

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Surface Crystallographic Information Service

A Handbook of Surface Structures

By: J.M. Maclaren,J.B. Pendry,P.J. Rous,D.K. Saldin,Gabor A. Somorjai,Michel A. Van Hove,Dimitri Vvedensky

Surface crystallography is a discipline which has come of age. There exist in the literature several hundred complete determinations of atomic configurations at surfaces: yet the number is not so great that cataloguing these structures is too daunting a task. We felt that now was the right moment to begin a compilation that could be updated at frequent intervals to give a comprehensive picture of the known surface world. The following pages are the product of our labours. Our target community is the large number of surface chemists, materials scientists, physicists and others whose work involves surfaces. As the compilation expands with time our hope is that it will become one of the standard reference works for structures: in the manner that Wyckoff and other X-ray tables are for bulk crystals. We have devoted considerable thought to the format. The system we have chosen will no doubt have its critics, and in subsequent editions may well be improved, but it has been arrived at after extensive consultation. A problem that we faced in putting structures into standard format was the diversity of conventions used in the literature. It is to be hoped that our system will have sufficient virtue to serve as a standard format for future reporting of structures. That would make it much easier for surface crystallographers to use the work of others.

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9400939353

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9789400939356

Music in Cinema

By: Michel Chion

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Music in Cinema

By: Michel Chion

Michel Chion is renowned for his explorations of the significance of frequently overlooked elements of cinema, particularly the role of sound. In this inventive and inviting book, Chion considers how cinema has deployed music. He shows how music and film not only complement but also transform each other. The first section of the book examines film music in historical perspective, and the second section addresses the theoretical implications of the crossover between art forms. Chion discusses a vast variety of films across eras, genres, and continents, embracing all the different genres of music that filmmakers have used to tell their stories. Beginning with live accompaniment of silent films in early movie houses, the book analyzes Al Jolson’s performance in The Jazz Singer, the zither in The Third Man, Godard’s patchwork sound editing, the synthesizer welcoming the flying saucer in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, and the Kinshasa orchestra in Felicité, among many more. Chion considers both original scores and incorporation of preexisting works, including the use and reuse of particular composers across cinematic traditions, the introduction of popular music such as jazz and rock, and directors’ attraction to atonal and dissonant music as well as musique concrète, of which he is a composer. Wide-ranging and original, Music in Cinema offers a welcoming overview for students and general readers as well as refreshingly new and valuable perspectives for film scholars.

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Columbia University Press

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0231552858

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Diophantine Approximation

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, June 28 – July 6, 2000

By: David Masser,Yuri V. Nesterenko,Hans Peter Schlickewei,Wolfgang M. Schmidt,Michel Waldschmidt

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Diophantine Approximation

Lectures given at the C.I.M.E. Summer School held in Cetraro, Italy, June 28 – July 6, 2000

By: David Masser,Yuri V. Nesterenko,Hans Peter Schlickewei,Wolfgang M. Schmidt,Michel Waldschmidt

Diophantine Approximation is a branch of Number Theory having its origins intheproblemofproducing“best”rationalapproximationstogivenrealn- bers. Since the early work of Lagrange on Pell’s equation and the pioneering work of Thue on the rational approximations to algebraic numbers of degree ? 3, it has been clear how, in addition to its own speci?c importance and - terest, the theory can have fundamental applications to classical diophantine problems in Number Theory. During the whole 20th century, until very recent times, this fruitful interplay went much further, also involving Transcend- tal Number Theory and leading to the solution of several central conjectures on diophantine equations and class number, and to other important achie- ments. These developments naturally raised further intensive research, so at the moment the subject is a most lively one. This motivated our proposal for a C. I. M. E. session, with the aim to make it available to a public wider than specialists an overview of the subject, with special emphasis on modern advances and techniques. Our project was kindly supported by the C. I. M. E. Committee and met with the interest of a largenumberofapplicants;forty-twoparticipantsfromseveralcountries,both graduatestudentsandseniormathematicians,intensivelyfollowedcoursesand seminars in a friendly and co-operative atmosphere. The main part of the session was arranged in four six-hours courses by Professors D. Masser (Basel), H. P. Schlickewei (Marburg), W. M. Schmidt (Boulder) and M. Waldschmidt (Paris VI). This volume contains expanded notes by the authors of the four courses, together with a paper by Professor Yu. V.

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Springer

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3540449795

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The LaTeX Companion

By: Frank Mittelbach,Michel Goossens,Johannes Braams,Chris Rowley

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The LaTeX Companion

By: Frank Mittelbach,Michel Goossens,Johannes Braams,Chris Rowley

Written by the core LaTeX developers and maintainers, this essential reference contains more than 900 self-contained ready-to-run examples that can immediately be reused by readers.

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Pearson Education

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0201362996

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The LaTex Web Companion

Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML

By: Michel Goossens,S. P. Q. Rahtz,Sebastian Rahtz

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The LaTex Web Companion

Integrating TeX, HTML, and XML

By: Michel Goossens,S. P. Q. Rahtz,Sebastian Rahtz

Índice abreviado: 1.The Web, its documents, and LaTeX 2. Portable document format 3. The LaTeX2HTML translator 4. Translating LaTeX to HTML using TEXT4ht 5. Direct display of LaTeX on the Web 6. HTML, SGML, and XML: three markup languages 7. CSS, DSSSL, and XSL: doing it with style 8. MathML, intelligent math markup A. Example files B. Technical appendixes C. Internalization issues.

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0201433117

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9780201433111

XML Pocket Reference

By: Robert Eckstein,Michel Casabianca

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XML Pocket Reference

By: Robert Eckstein,Michel Casabianca

The XML Pocket Reference, 2nd Edition, is both a handy introduction to XML terminology and syntax, and a quick reference to XML instructions, attributes, entities, and datatypes. The new edition introduces information on XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) and Xpath.

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0596001339

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9780596001339

Representations of Finite Groups of Lie Type

By: François Digne,Jean Michel

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Representations of Finite Groups of Lie Type

By: François Digne,Jean Michel

An up-to-date and self-contained introduction based on a graduate course taught at the University of Paris.

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1108481485

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Book's by Michel Lang

Weimar in Exile

Weimar in Exile

The Good Book of Human Nature

The Good Book of Human Nature

Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD

Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

Handbook of Floating-Point Arithmetic

Elementary Functions:

Elementary Functions:

Diophantine Approximation on Linear Algebraic Groups

Diophantine Approximation on Linear Algebraic Groups

A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

A Key to the Louvre: Memoirs of a Curator

The LaTex Graphics Companion

The LaTex Graphics Companion

The Semantics of Prepositions

The Semantics of Prepositions

Surface Crystallographic Information Service

Surface Crystallographic Information Service

Music in Cinema

Music in Cinema

Diophantine Approximation

Diophantine Approximation

The LaTeX Companion

The LaTeX Companion

The LaTex Web Companion

The LaTex Web Companion

XML Pocket Reference

XML Pocket Reference

Representations of Finite Groups of Lie Type

Representations of Finite Groups of Lie Type

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