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The Game of Contradictions

The Philosophy of Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth Century Science

By: Sven-Eric Liedman

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The Game of Contradictions

The Philosophy of Friedrich Engels and Nineteenth Century Science

By: Sven-Eric Liedman

One of the major contributions to scholarship on Marx, Engels and nineteenth-century science, Liedman’s work is here presented in English translation and with a new preface by the author.

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9004528792

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Theory and Practice of Specialised Online Dictionaries

Lexicography versus Terminography

By: Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera,Sven Tarp

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Theory and Practice of Specialised Online Dictionaries

Lexicography versus Terminography

By: Pedro A. Fuertes-Olivera,Sven Tarp

This book is the first comprehensive monograph on the Function Theory of Lexicography, which originated at the Aarhus School of Business (Aarhus University). Function Theory considers dictionaries to be tools that are constructed for assisting specific users with punctual needs in specific usage situations, e.g. communicative-oriented situations and cognitive-oriented situations. The book's main focus is on defending the independent academic status of lexicography and its corollary: The process of designing, compiling and updating (specialised) online dictionaries needs a theoretical framework that addresses general and specific aspects. The former are common to all types of information tools, the latter are mainly dependent on the media for which the information tool is constructed and their specific target users. This books offers both aspects and moves from the highest level of abstraction to very detailed aspects of lexicographic work, e.g. how to convert an originally-conceived polyfunctional online dictionary into several monofunctional usage-based ones. The book illustrates that the theory and the methodology currently used by advocates of the Function Theory of Lexicography offers better results than other approaches and therefore makes its case for proposing the Function Theory for terminological/terminographical work.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110368331

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9783110368338

Lexicography in the Borderland Between Knowledge and Non-knowledge

General Lexicographical Theory with Particular Focus on Learner's Lexicography

By: Sven Tarp

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Lexicography in the Borderland Between Knowledge and Non-knowledge

General Lexicographical Theory with Particular Focus on Learner's Lexicography

By: Sven Tarp

The book contains a state-of-the-art summary of the theoretical discussions within the field of lexicography during the last decades. On this basis it presents and argues for a new general theory, called the function theory. It goes on to develop this theory in one single field, i.e. learners lexicography where it both formulates the basic elements of a general theory for learners' dictionaries as well as a number of specific theories for special subfields such as selection, meaning, semantic relations, morphology, syntactic properties and word combinations. It contains a big number of examples extracted from existing dictionaries which are discussed from the point of view of the theories formulated.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3484391340

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9783484391345

SS General

By: Sven Hassel

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SS General

By: Sven Hassel

SS GENERAL is the definitive Stalingrad novel, a gripping portrait of war's brutal realities. It was said that Stalingrad had been burning since August, ever since the first German bombs were dropped... Sven Hassel and his comrades are plunged into the maelstrom of Stalingrad. Radio Moscow reports that one German soldier dies every minute. Trapped by the Russian counter-attack, starving soldiers must resort to cannibalism to survive. But 'Tiny', Porta, the Legionnaire and Sven attempt to break out, to fight their way across the frozen steppe. Their leader: an SS general who takes no prisoners...

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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0297865757

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9780297865759

The Future of Management Control is Fair

A New Perspective on Beyond Budgeting as Promoter of Trust and Ethical Behavior

By: Sven Olaf Schmitz

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The Future of Management Control is Fair

A New Perspective on Beyond Budgeting as Promoter of Trust and Ethical Behavior

By: Sven Olaf Schmitz

The design of Management Control Systems (MCS) in the context of financial institutions should be reconsidered with regards to their ability to improve organizational justice perceptions. Promoting organizational justice can help banks to build significantly more trust and influence employees’ behaviors in the best interest of the organization. Especially the design of Beyond Budgeting as a MCS that emphasizes social control mechanisms and facilitates autonomous working appears to be a promising concept for the design of future MCS in the context of financial institutions.

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Springer Nature

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3658312327

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9783658312329

Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia

By: Sven Kalmring

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Towns and Commerce in Viking-Age Scandinavia

By: Sven Kalmring

The Viking Age, from c.750 to 1050 CE, was an era of major social change in Scandinavia. By the end of this period of sweeping transformation, Scandinavia, once a pagan periphery, had been firmly integrated into occidental Europe. Archaeological remains offer evidence of this process, which included and intertwined with Christianisation, state formation, and the dawn of urbanisation in Scandinavia. In this volume, Sven Kalmring offers an interdisciplinary and geographically wide-ranging approach to understanding the emergence of towns and commerce in Viking-age Scandinavia and their eventual demise by the end of the period. Using the towns of Hedeby, Birka, Kaupang, and Ribe as case studies, he also tracks the diverging characteristics of these urban communities against the background of traditional social structures in the Viking world. Instead of tracing the results of Viking Age urbanisation, or mapping that process by establishing economic networks, Kalmring focusses on the very reasons behind the emergence of towns, and their eventual decline.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009298046

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9781009298049

Pragmatic Inversion of Geophysical Data

By: Sven-Erik Hjelt

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Pragmatic Inversion of Geophysical Data

By: Sven-Erik Hjelt

Geophysical measurements are not done for the sake of art only. The ultimategoal is to solve some well-defined geological, tectonical or structural problems. For this purpose, the data have to be interpreted, translated, into a physical model of the subsurface. ... This book describes some ofthe most important common features of different geophysical data sets. (fromthe Introduction) Users at universities but also practitioners in exploration, physics or environmental sciences, wherever signal processing is necessary, will benefit from this textbook.

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3540472630

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Grand Strategy in 10 Words

A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century

By: Biscop, Sven

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Grand Strategy in 10 Words

A Guide to Great Power Politics in the 21st Century

By: Biscop, Sven

In a world that has returned to great power rivalry, understanding the grand strategy of these powers is crucial. This book introduces ten key terms for analysing grand strategy and shows how the world’s great powers – the United States, China, Russia and the European Union (EU) – shape their strategic decisions today. Outlining the steps needed for a less confrontational grand strategy and a more peaceful and stable world order, this lively and accessible introduction shows how the choices made in each of these ten areas will determine the course of world politics in the first half of the 21st century.

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Policy Press

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1529217520

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Taxation of Hybrid Financial Instruments and the Remuneration Derived Therefrom in an International and Cross-border Context

Issues and Options for Reform

By: Sven-Eric Bärsch

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Taxation of Hybrid Financial Instruments and the Remuneration Derived Therefrom in an International and Cross-border Context

Issues and Options for Reform

By: Sven-Eric Bärsch

Despite the enormous diversity and complexity of financial instruments, the current taxation of hybrid financial instruments and the remuneration derived therefrom are characterized by a neat division into dividend-generating equity and interest-generating debt as well as by a coexistence of source- and residence-based taxation. This book provides a comparative analysis of the classification of hybrid financial instruments in the national tax rules currently applied by Australia, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands as well as in the relevant tax treaties and EU Directives. Moreover, based on selected hybrid financial instruments, mismatches in these tax classifications, which lead to tax planning opportunities and risks and thus are in conflict with the single tax principle, are identified. To address these issues, the author provides reform options that are in line with the dichotomous debt-equity framework, as he/she suggests the coordination of either tax classifications or tax treatments.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642324576

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9783642324574

The Language of Medicine

An Indispensable Medical Dictionary for Every Home

By: Sven Frank

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The Language of Medicine

An Indispensable Medical Dictionary for Every Home

By: Sven Frank

Es handelt sich bei dem Buch um ein Wörterbuch mit medizinischen Fachbegriffen auf Englisch. Dieses medizinische Lexikon hilft Menschen, die im englischsprachigen Ausland arbeiten möchten, die medizinische Fachterminologie zu verstehen.

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tredition

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3384021266

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9783384021267

The Sphere of Attention

Context and Margin

By: P. Sven Arvidson

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The Sphere of Attention

Context and Margin

By: P. Sven Arvidson

The phone call came mid-afternoon in February of 1996. The program chair for the annual meeting for the Southern Society of Philosophy and Psychology wanted to make sure he had the facts right. “This is somewhat unusual...” he began. “You’re a philosophy professor who wants to present to psychologists in the psychology portion of the meeting.” “That’s right.” “Well your paper was accepted for that part of the program but the others just wanted me to check and make sure that’s where you want to be presenting.” “That’s right.” Reassured, the professor wished me luck and said good-bye. In my session at the meeting, I was the last to present. As my time approached, the medium-sized room slowly became crowded. I dreamed that these psychologists had left their other meetings early to make sure to catch my presentation on the use of metaphors in attention research. As I arose to present I noticed that the half-full room had become standing room only! Finally, after years of feeling as if I was struggling alone in promoting and defending a phenomenology of attention, I had an eager audience for my message. My persistence had paid off. I delivered my message with passion.

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1402035721

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9781402035722

Institutional Change

Theory and Empirical Findings

By: Sven-Erik Sjostrand

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Institutional Change

Theory and Empirical Findings

By: Sven-Erik Sjostrand

This book brings together some 15 papers drawn from the 330 papers presented at the Third Annual Conference of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics in Stockholm, Sweden in June 1991. Part 1 outlines a basic theory of institutional change; Parts 2 and 3 examine case studies in international experience with institutional change. The authors of the original papers include Douglas North, Amitai Etzioni, Oliver Williamson, as well as eminent scholars from Eastern and Western Europe, representing views and analyses from ten different countries.

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Routledge

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1315486237

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9781315486239

The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall

Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages

By: Sven Meeder

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The Irish Scholarly Presence at St. Gall

Networks of Knowledge in the Early Middle Ages

By: Sven Meeder

The Carolingian period represented a Golden Age for the abbey of St Gall, an Alpine monastery in modern-day Switzerland. Its bloom of intellectual activity resulted in an impressive number of scholarly texts being copied into often beautifully written manuscripts, many of which survive in the abbey's library to this day. Among these books are several of Irish origin, while others contain works of learning originally written in Ireland. This study explores the practicalities of the spread of this Irish scholarship to St Gall and the reception it received once there. In doing so, this book for the first time investigates a part of the network of knowledge that fed this important Carolingian centre of learning with scholarship. By focusing on scholarly works from Ireland, this study also sheds light on the contribution of the Irish to the Carolingian revival of learning. Historians have often assumed a special relationship between Ireland and the abbey of St Gall, which was built on the grave of the Irish saint Gallus. This book scrutinises this notion of a special connection. The result is a new viewpoint on the spread and reception of Irish learning in the Carolingian period.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350038687

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9781350038684

Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848

By: Sven-Erik Rose

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Jewish Philosophical Politics in Germany, 1789-1848

By: Sven-Erik Rose

In this book Rose illuminates the extraordinary creativity of Jewish intellectuals as they reevaluated Judaism with the tools of a German philosophical tradition fast emerging as central to modern intellectual life. While previous work emphasizes the "subversive" dimensions of German-Jewish thought or the "inner antisemitism" of the German philosophical tradition, Rose shows convincingly the tremendous resources German philosophy offered contemporary Jews for thinking about the place of Jews in the wider polity. Offering a fundamental reevaluation of seminal figures and key texts, Rose emphasizes the productive encounter between Jewish intellectuals and German philosophy. He brings to light both the complexity and the ambivalence of reflecting on Jewish identity and politics from within a German tradition that invested tremendous faith in the political efficacy of philosophical thought itself.

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Brandeis University Press

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1611685796

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9781611685794

The Irish in Early Medieval Europe

Identity, Culture and Religion

By: Roy Flechner,Sven Meeder

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The Irish in Early Medieval Europe

Identity, Culture and Religion

By: Roy Flechner,Sven Meeder

Irish scholars who arrived in Continental Europe in the early Middle Ages are often credited with making some of the most important contributions to European culture and learning of the time, from the introduction of a new calendar to monastic reform. Among them were celebrated personalities such as St Columbanus, John Scottus Eriugena, and Sedulius Scottus who were in the vanguard of a constant stream of arrivals from Ireland to continental Europe, collectively known as 'peregrini'. The continental response to this Irish 'diaspora' ranged from admiration to open hostility, especially when peregrini were deemed to challenge prevalent cultural or spiritual conventions. This volume brings together leading historians, archaeologists, and palaeographers who provide-for the first time-a comprehensive assessment of the phenomenon of Irish peregrini in their continental context and the manner in which it is framed by modern scholarship as well as the popular imagination.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137430613

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9781137430618

Driving Impact

Value creation in the world of tomorrow

By: Sven T. Marlinghaus,Sven T.; Rast Marlinghaus

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Driving Impact

Value creation in the world of tomorrow

By: Sven T. Marlinghaus,Sven T.; Rast Marlinghaus

Ready for the future – with networked supply chain management. The effects of globalisation are nowhere more apparent than in the worldwide networking of individual companies, industries and entire geographic areas. Indeed, global value networks are the new paradigm of modern economics. As a result, none of the issues which are critical to our economic future can be addressed without the involvement of supply chains and sufficient consideration of their impact. This book gives an insight into the megatrends which are shaping our economy today and which will continue to do so in the future. A unique perspective on this issue is ensured by the combination of experienced authors: supply chain experts and KPMG partners Sven Marlinghaus and Christian Rast alongside the future researchers at TrendONE. The authors also give specific recommendations on how companies and public organisations could adapt their supply chains to these megatrends.

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MI Wirtschaftsbuch

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3864161142

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9783864161148

Negotiating Peace

A Guide to the Practice, Politics, and Law of International Mediation

By: Sven M. G. Koopmans

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Negotiating Peace

A Guide to the Practice, Politics, and Law of International Mediation

By: Sven M. G. Koopmans

This book is the first and only practical guide to negotiating peace. In this ground-breaking book Sven Koopmans, who is both a peace negotiator and a scholar, discusses the practice, politics, and law of international mediation. With both depth and a light touch he explores successful as well as failed attempts to settle the wars of the world, building on decades of historical, political, and legal scholarship. Who can mediate between warring parties? How to build confidence between enemies? Who should take part in negotiations? How can a single diplomat manage the major powers? What issues to discuss first, what last? When to set a deadline? How to maintain confidentiality? How to draft an agreement, and what should be in it? How to ensure implementation? The book discusses the practical difficulties and dilemmas of negotiating agreements, as well as existing solutions and possible future approaches. It uses examples from around the world, with an emphasis on the conflicts of the last twenty-five years, but also of the previous two-and-a-half-thousand. Rather than looking only at either legal, political or organizational issues, Negotiating Peace discusses these interrelated dimensions in the way they are confronted in practice: as an integral whole. With one leading question: what can be done?

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Oxford University Press

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0192561618

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9780192561619

A World at the Crossroads

New Conflicts, New Solutions : Annals of Pugwash 1993

By: Joseph Rotblat,Sven Hellman

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A World at the Crossroads

New Conflicts, New Solutions : Annals of Pugwash 1993

By: Joseph Rotblat,Sven Hellman

This book focuses on subjects of great topical interest, such as nuclear disarmament, trade in arms, peacekeeping and conflict resolution, environmental security and sustainability. Major themes include the elimination of nuclear weapons, control of the arms trade, the role of multinational and international organizations in peace-keeping, environmental sustainability and security in the Nordic/Baltic region.

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World Scientific

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9810220367

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Topicalization in Asian Englishes

Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction

By: Sven Leuckert

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Topicalization in Asian Englishes

Forms, Functions, and Frequencies of a Fronting Construction

By: Sven Leuckert

Shortlisted for the 2020 ESSE Book Award in English Language and Linguistics This monograph is the first comprehensive study of topicalization in Asian second-language varieties of English and provides an in-depth analysis of the forms, functions, and frequencies of topicalization in four Asian Englishes. Topicalization, that is, the sentence-initial placement of constituents other than the subject, has been found to occur frequently in the English spoken by many Asians, but so far the possible reasons for this have never been scrutinized. This book closes this research gap by taking into account the structures of the major contact languages, the roles of second-language acquisition and politeness as well as other factors in order to explain why topicalization is highly frequent in some varieties such as Indian English and much less frequent in other varieties such as Hong Kong English. In addition to exploring major and minor forces involved in explaining the frequency of topicalization, the forms and functions of the feature are assessed. Central questions addressed in this regard are the following: Which syntactic constituents tend to be topicalized the most and the least frequently? Which discourse effects does topicalization achieve? How can we approach topicalization methodologically? And, lastly, which influence do language processing and production have on topicalization?

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Routledge

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1351000411

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9781351000413

The Dead Do Not Die

"Exterminate All the Brutes" and Terra Nullius

By: Sven Lindqvist

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The Dead Do Not Die

"Exterminate All the Brutes" and Terra Nullius

By: Sven Lindqvist

The Dead Do Not Die includes the full unabridged text of "Exterminate All the Brutes", called "a book of stunning range and near genius" by David Levering Lewis. In this work, Lindqvist uses Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness as a point of departure for a haunting tour through the colonial past, retracing the steps of Europeans in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward and thus exposing the roots of genocide via his own journey through the Saharan desert. The full text of Terra Nullius is also included, for which Lindqvist traveled 7,000 miles through Australia in search of the lands the British had claimed as their own because it was inhabited by "lower races," the native Aborigines--nearly nine-tenths of whom were annihilated by whites."--Www.Amazon.com.

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The New Press

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1595589899

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9781595589897

On the Physiology of Voice Production in South-Siberian Throat Singing

Analysis of Acoustic and Electrophysiological Evidences

By: Sven Grawunder

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On the Physiology of Voice Production in South-Siberian Throat Singing

Analysis of Acoustic and Electrophysiological Evidences

By: Sven Grawunder

This book presents the first field-work based phonetic study focussing such extraordinary phonatory outcomes as occur in the context of South-Siberian throat singing. In throat singing specific voice production types serve as source, which are subject to various ways of formant shaping, merging, adjustment, and reinforcement, all of which function to enhance individual harmonics. Two main types are proposed for voice production in South-Siberian throat singing: a voice production by means of the vocal folds featuring a constriction of the aryepiglottic sphincter, and a voice production with involvement of the ventricular folds. Furthermore a simple schematic model for the articulation types in throat singing is suggested. One of the basic questions throughout this study is whether the phenomenon of throat singing shows fairly clear regional variants in different parts of southern Central Siberia or whether the variation is chiefly a matter of individual styles.

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Frank & Timme GmbH

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386596172X

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9783865961723

Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems

By: Sven Helmer,Alexandra Poulovassilis,Fatos Xhafa

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Reasoning in Event-Based Distributed Systems

By: Sven Helmer,Alexandra Poulovassilis,Fatos Xhafa

With the rapid expansion of the Internet over the last 20 years, event-based distributed systems are playing an increasingly important role in a broad range of application domains, including enterprise management, environmental monitoring, information dissemination, finance, pervasive systems, autonomic computing, collaborative working and learning, and geo-spatial systems. Many different architectures, languages and technologies are being used for implementing event-based distributed systems, and much of the development has been undertaken independently by different communities. However, a common factor is an ever-increasing complexity. Users and developers expect that such systems are able not only to handle large volumes of simple events but also to detect complex patterns of events that may be spatially distributed and may span significant periods of time. Intelligent and logic-based approaches provide sound foundations for addressing many of the research challenges faced and this book covers a broad range of recent advances, contributed by leading experts in the field. It presents a comprehensive view of reasoning in event-based distributed systems, bringing together reviews of the state-of-the art, new research contributions, and an extensive set of references. It will serve as a valuable resource for students, faculty and researchers as well as industry practitioners responsible for new systems development.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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364219723X

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"Exterminate All the Brutes"

One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

By: Sven Lindqvist

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"Exterminate All the Brutes"

One Man's Odyssey into the Heart of Darkness and the Origins of European Genocide

By: Sven Lindqvist

Now part of the eponymous HBO docuseries written and directed by Raoul Peck, “Exterminate All the Brutes” is a brilliant intellectual history of Europe’s genocidal colonization of Africa—and the terrible myths and lies that it spawned “A book of stunning range and near genius. . . . The catastrophic consequences of European imperialism are made palpable in the personal progress of the author, a late-twentieth-century pilgrim in Africa. Lindqvist’s astonishing connections across time and cultures, combined with a marvelous economy of prose, leave the reader appalled, reflective, and grateful.” —David Levering Lewis “Exterminate All the Brutes,” Sven Lindqvist’s widely acclaimed masterpiece, is a searching examination of Europe’s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as his point of departure, the award-winning Swedish author takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, “Exterminate All the Brutes” exposes the roots of genocide in Africa through Lindqvist’s own journey through the Saharan desert. As he shows, fantasies not merely of white superiority but of actual extermination—“cleansing” the earth of the so-called lesser races—deeply informed the colonialism and racist ideology that ultimately culminated in Europe’s own Holocaust. Conquerors’ stories are the ones that inform the self-mythology of the West—whereas the lives and stories of those displaced, enslaved, or killed are too often ignored and forgotten. “Exterminate All the Brutes” forces a crucial reckoning with a past that still echoes in our collective psyche—a reckoning that compels us to acknowledge the exploitation and brutality at the heart of our modern, globalized society. As Adam Hochschild has written, “Lindqvist’s work leaves you changed.”

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1620977052

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A Swedish Dilemma

A Liberal European Nation's Struggle with Racism and Xenophobia, 1990-2000

By: Dennis Sven Nordin

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A Swedish Dilemma

A Liberal European Nation's Struggle with Racism and Xenophobia, 1990-2000

By: Dennis Sven Nordin

: A Swedish Dilemma examines Sweden's negative reaction to a growing minority population. Careful to qualify that Swedes did not react differently than other European societies, the book explores the country's xenophobic roots. Fear from and insecurity about the ramifications of multiculturalism led to increased violence and hostility toward refugees and immigrants. A Swedish Dilemma recounts a century-long progression of many governmental social programs, parliaments, and prime ministers that were unable to balance the desires of reactionaries with the needs of newcomers. The book also examines various consequences of inactivity such as ghettos, unemployment, gang wars, murders, and a resurgence of fascism. This compelling book explores the real Sweden and reveals a side heretofore completely missing from the positive images the nation has tried to project to the outside world

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University Press of America

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0761831517

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9780761831518

The Sven Hassel Collection

By: Sven Hassel

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The Sven Hassel Collection

By: Sven Hassel

From the fight for survival against the ferocious Red Army and the icy, shell-ravaged wastes of the vicious Russian winter, to the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front, Sven Hassel's gripping novels are based on his own experiences in the German army. Convicted of deserting the German army, Sven Hassel was sent to a punishment regiment on the Russian Front. He and his comrades were regarded as little more than dispensable killing-machines, cannon fodder for Hitler's war. His unflinching narrative takes us to the most extreme outposts of war, where soldiers face an inferno of blood and butchery. THE SVEN HASSEL COLLECTION includes all 14 books in Sven Hassel's series and exclusive extra material.

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1780226209

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