Volker Schmidt's Books

Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum: An Analysis (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)

By: Volker Max Langbehn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Arno Schmidt's Zettel's Traum: An Analysis (Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture)

By: Volker Max Langbehn

Arno Schmidt (1914-1979) is considered one of the most daring and influential writers of postwar Germany; the Germanist Jeremy Adler has called him a "giant of postwar German literature." Schmidt was awarded the Fontane Prize in 1964 and the Goethe Prize in 1973, and his early fiction has been translated into English to high critical acclaim, but he is not a well-known figure in the English-speaking world, where his complex work remains at the margins of critical inquiry. Volker Langbehn's book introduces Schmidt to the English-speaking audience, with primary emphasis on his most famous novel, Zettel's Traum. One reviewer called the book an "elephantine monster" because of its unconventional size (folio format), length (1334 pages and over 10 million characters), and unique presentation of text in the form of notes, typewritten pages, parallel columns, and collages. The novel narrates the life of the main characters, Daniel Pagenstecher, Paul Jacobi and his wife Wilma, and their teenage daughter Franziska. In discussing the life and works of Edgar Allan Poe, the four engage in the problems connected with a translation of Poe. Langbehn's study investigates how literary language can mediate or account for the world of experiences and for concepts. Schmidt's use of unconventional presentation formats challenges us to analyze how we think about reading and writing literary texts. Instead of viewing such texts as a representation of reality, Schmidt's novel destabilizes this unquestioned mode of representation, posing a radical challenge to what contemporary literary criticism defines as literature. No comprehensive study of Zettel's Traum exists in English.Volker Langbehn is assistant professor of German at San Francisco State University.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

232

Publisher

Camden House

Published Date

ISBN 10

1571132619

ISBN 13

9781571132611

Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse of the Third Reich

By: Volker Ullrich

[G]ripping, immaculately researched . . . In Mr. Ullrich’s account, the murderous behavior of the Reich’s last-ditch loyalists was not a reaction born of rage or of stubbornness in the face of defeat—common enough in war—but of something that had long ago tipped over into the pathological." —Andrew Stuttaford, Wall Street Journal The best-selling author of Hitler: Ascent and Hitler: Downfall reconstructs the chaotic, otherworldly last days of Nazi Germany. In a bunker deep below Berlin’s Old Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler and his new bride, Eva Braun, took their own lives just after 3:00 p.m. on April 30, 1945—Hitler by gunshot to the temple, Braun by ingesting cyanide. But the Führer’s suicide did not instantly end either Nazism or the Second World War in Europe. Far from it: the eight days that followed were among the most traumatic in modern history, witnessing not only the final paroxysms of bloodshed and the frantic surrender of the Wehrmacht, but the total disintegration of the once-mighty Third Reich. In Eight Days in May, the award-winning historian and Hitler biographer Volker Ullrich draws on an astonishing variety of sources, including diaries and letters of ordinary Germans, to narrate a society’s descent into Hobbesian chaos. In the town of Demmin in the north, residents succumbed to madness and committed mass suicide. In Berlin, Soviet soldiers raped German civilians on a near-unprecedented scale. In Nazi-occupied Prague, Czech insurgents led an uprising in the hope that General George S. Patton would come to their aid but were brutally put down by German units in the city. Throughout the remains of Third Reich, huge numbers of people were on the move, creating a surrealistic tableau: death marches of concentration-camp inmates crossed paths with retreating Wehrmacht soldiers and groups of refugees; columns of POWs encountered those of liberated slave laborers and bombed-out people returning home. A taut, propulsive narrative, Eight Days in May takes us inside the phantomlike regime of Hitler’s chosen successor, Admiral Karl Dönitz, revealing how the desperate attempt to impose order utterly failed, as frontline soldiers deserted and Nazi Party fanatics called on German civilians to martyr themselves in a last stand against encroaching Allied forces. In truth, however, the post-Hitler government represented continuity more than change: its leaders categorically refused to take responsibility for their crimes against humanity, an attitude typical not just of the Nazi elite but also of large segments of the German populace. The consequences would be severe. Eight Days in May is not only an indispensable account of the Nazi endgame, but a historic work that brilliantly examines the costs of mass delusion.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

370

Publisher

Liveright Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1631498282

ISBN 13

9781631498282

Hitler

Ascent, 1889-1939

By: Volker Ullrich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hitler

Ascent, 1889-1939

By: Volker Ullrich

Originally published: Germany: S. Fischer Verlag.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1034

Publisher

Knopf

Published Date

ISBN 10

038535438X

ISBN 13

9780385354387

Chemical Micro Process Engineering

Fundamentals, Modelling and Reactions

By: Volker Hessel,Steffen Hardt,Holger Löwe

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chemical Micro Process Engineering

Fundamentals, Modelling and Reactions

By: Volker Hessel,Steffen Hardt,Holger Löwe

Micro process engineering is approaching both academia and industry. With the provision of micro devices and systems by commercial suppliers, one main barrier for using these units has been eliminated. More and more they become familiar, thereby being one facet of the upheaval in chemical industry. This book focuses on processes rather than on devices: what is 'before' and 'behind' micro device fabrication. A comprehensive and detailed overview is given on: - A multi-faceted, hierarchic analysis of chemical micro process technology - Modelling and simulation of micro reactors - Liquid- and liquid/liquid-phase reactions - Gas/liquid reactions - Gas-phase reactions (heterogeneous catalysis)

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

712

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

3527605371

ISBN 13

9783527605378

Hitler: Ascent

1889-1939

By: Volker Ullrich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hitler: Ascent

1889-1939

By: Volker Ullrich

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This landmark biography of Hitler puts an emphasis on the man himself: his personality, his temperament, and his beliefs. “[A] fascinating Shakespearean parable about how the confluence of circumstance, chance, a ruthless individual and the willful blindness of others can transform a country — and, in Hitler’s case, lead to an unimaginable nightmare for the world.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Volker Ullrich's Hitler, the first in a two-volume biography, has changed the way scholars and laypeople alike understand the man who has become the personification of evil. Drawing on previously unseen papers and new scholarly research, Ullrich charts Hitler's life from his childhood through his experiences in the First World War and his subsequent rise as a far-right leader. Focusing on the personality behind the policies, Ullrich creates a vivid portrait of a man and his megalomania, political skill, and horrifying worldview. Hitler is an essential historical biography with unsettling resonance in contemporary times.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1042

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101872055

ISBN 13

9781101872055

The Lions of Carentan

Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943–1945

By: Volker Griesser

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Lions of Carentan

Fallschirmjager Regiment 6, 1943–1945

By: Volker Griesser

“Fascinating . . . a must read for those who are interested in the Normandy, Market Garden, and Ardennes Operations” (Henrik Lunde, author of Hitler’s Preemptive War). This is the complete wartime history of one of the largest German paratrooper regiments, the 6th, from its initial formation in the spring of 1943 to its last day at the end of the war. With numerous firsthand accounts from key members reporting on their experiences, they describe the events of 1943–45 vividly and without compromise. These accounts reveal previously unknown details about important operations in Italy, Russia, Belgium, and Holland, and on the Normandy Front, the last German Parachute drop in the Ardennes, and the final battle to the end in Germany. With over 220 original photographs, many from private collections and never before published, this book fully illustrates the men, their uniforms, equipment, and weapons. Also included is an appendix with maps, battle calendar, staffing plans, a list of field numbers, and the Knight’s Cross recipients of the regiment. Having earned the respect of the Allied forces who fought against it during World War II, this work will inform current readers of the full record of Fallschirmjäger Regiment 6, and why the Allied advance into German-held Europe was so painstaking to achieve. “The great value of Griesser’s superb, richly detailed, and fabulously illustrated work is that it fills in a very wide gap in our knowledge about one of Nazi Germany’s elite branches of service . . . The Lions of Carentan represents a treasure trove for anyone interested in German airborne forces.” —Flint Whitlock, author of If Chaos Reigns

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Casemate

Published Date

ISBN 10

1612000177

ISBN 13

9781612000176

Diagonalizing Quadratic Bosonic Operators by Non-Autonomous Flow Equations

By: Volker Bach,Jean-Bernard Bru

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Diagonalizing Quadratic Bosonic Operators by Non-Autonomous Flow Equations

By: Volker Bach,Jean-Bernard Bru

The authors study a non-autonomous, non-linear evolution equation on the space of operators on a complex Hilbert space. They specify assumptions that ensure the global existence of its solutions and allow them to derive its asymptotics at temporal infinity. They demonstrate that these assumptions are optimal in a suitable sense and more general than those used before. The evolution equation derives from the Brocket-Wegner flow that was proposed to diagonalize matrices and operators by a strongly continuous unitary flow. In fact, the solution of the non-linear flow equation leads to a diagonalization of Hamiltonian operators in boson quantum field theory which are quadratic in the field.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

134

Publisher

American Mathematical Soc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1470417057

ISBN 13

9781470417055

Ernst Zermelo

An Approach to His Life and Work

By: Heinz Dieter Ebbinghaus,Volker Peckhaus

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ernst Zermelo

An Approach to His Life and Work

By: Heinz Dieter Ebbinghaus,Volker Peckhaus

This biography sheds light on all facets of the life and the achievements of Ernst Zermelo (1871-1953). Zermelo is best-known for the statement of the axiom of choice and his axiomatization of set theory. However, he also worked in applied mathematics and mathematical physics. His dissertation, for example, promoted the calculus of variations, and he created the pivotal method in the theory of rating systems. The presentation of Zermelo's work explores motivations, aims, acceptance, and influence. Selected proofs and information gleaned from letters add to the analysis. The description of his personality owes much to conversations with his late wife Gertrud. This second edition provides additional information. The system of citations has been adapted to that of Zermelo's Collected Works in order to facilitate side-by-side reading and thus profit from the thorough commentaries written for the Collected Works by experts in the respective fields. All facts presented are documented by appropriate sources. The biography contains nearly 50 photos and facsimiles.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

397

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

3662479974

ISBN 13

9783662479971

Computational Optimization of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations

By: Alfio Borzi,Volker Schulz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Computational Optimization of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations

By: Alfio Borzi,Volker Schulz

This book fills a gap between theory-oriented investigations in PDE-constrained optimization and the practical demands made by numerical solutions of PDE optimization problems. The authors discuss computational techniques representing recent developments that result from a combination of modern techniques for the numerical solution of PDEs and for sophisticated optimization schemes. The book offers readers a combined treatment of PDE-constrained optimization and uncertainties and an extensive discussion of multigrid optimization. It provides a bridge between continuous optimization and PDE modeling and focuses on the numerical solution of the corresponding problems.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

302

Publisher

SIAM

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611972051

ISBN 13

9781611972054

Pictorial Law

Modern Law and the Power of Pictures

By: Volker Boehme-Neßler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pictorial Law

Modern Law and the Power of Pictures

By: Volker Boehme-Neßler

We live in a digital Media Society, in which pictures are becoming more and more important. So, human communication is increasingly becoming a visual communication. That is not a new finding. But the new question is: What does this development mean for the law? Up to now the law is the part of the society which is most sceptical towards images. Law has still resisted the visual temptation. This will not last for ever. The rush of pictures in everyday life and in every part of the society is much too strong - and it is even getting stronger. The invasion of images will change the character of modern law deeply. Modern law will become a Pictorial Law.What are the chances and the risks of Pictorial Law and visual law communication? This is the topic of the book.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

230

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3642118895

ISBN 13

9783642118890

Hitler: Downfall

1939-1945

By: Volker Ullrich

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hitler: Downfall

1939-1945

By: Volker Ullrich

A riveting account of the dictator’s final years, when he got the war he wanted but led his nation, the world, and himself to catastrophe—from the author of Hitler: Ascent “Skillfully conceived and utterly engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review In the summer of 1939, Hitler was at the zenith of his power. Having consolidated political control in Germany, he was at the helm of a newly restored major world power, and now perfectly positioned to realize his lifelong ambition: to help the German people flourish and to exterminate those who stood in the way. Beginning a war allowed Hitler to take his ideological obsessions to unthinkable extremes, including the mass genocide of millions, which was conducted not only with the aid of the SS, but with the full knowledge of German leadership. Yet despite a series of stunning initial triumphs, Hitler’s fateful decision to invade the Soviet Union in 1941 turned the tide of the war in favor of the Allies. Now, Volker Ullrich, author of Hitler: Ascent 1889–1939, offers fascinating new insight into Hitler’s character and personality. He vividly portrays the insecurity, obsession with minutiae, and narcissistic penchant for gambling that led Hitler to overrule his subordinates and then blame them for his failures. When he ultimately realized the war was not winnable, Hitler embarked on the annihilation of Germany itself in order to punish the people who he believed had failed to hand him victory. A masterful and riveting account of a spectacular downfall, Ullrich’s rendering of Hitler’s final years is an essential addition to our understanding of the dictator and the course of the Second World War.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

881

Publisher

Vintage

Published Date

ISBN 10

1101872063

ISBN 13

9781101872062

Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Jens-Volker Kratz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Fundamentals and Applications

By: Jens-Volker Kratz

Nuclear and Radiochemistry The leading resource for anyone looking for an accessible and authoritative introduction to nuclear and radiochemistry In the newly revised Fourth Edition of Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications, distinguished chemist Jens-Volker Kratz delivers a two-volume handbook that has become the gold standard in teaching and learning nuclear and radiochemistry. The books cover the theory and fundamentals of the subject before moving on the technical side of nuclear chemistry, with coverage of nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, and radionuclides in the life sciences. This latest edition discusses the details and impact of the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters, as well as new research facilities, including FAIR and HIM. It also incorporates new methods for target preparation and new processes for nuclear fuel recycling, like EURO-GANEX. Finally, the volumes extensively cover environmental technological advances and the effects of radioactivity on the environment. Readers will also find: An accessible and thorough introduction to the fundamental concepts of nuclear physics and chemistry, including atomic processes, classical mechanics, relativistic mechanics, and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle Comprehensive explorations of radioactivity in nature, radioelements, radioisotopes and their atomic masses, and other physical properties of nuclei Practical discussions of the nuclear force, nuclear structure, decay modes, radioactive decay kinetics, and nuclear radiation In-depth examinations of the statistical considerations relevant to radioactivity measurements Written for practicing nuclear chemists and atomic physicists, Nuclear and Radiochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications is also an indispensable resource for nuclear physicians, power engineers, and professionals working in the nuclear industry.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

983

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

3527349057

ISBN 13

9783527349050

Feynman-Kac-Type Theorems and Gibbs Measures on Path Space

With Applications to Rigorous Quantum Field Theory

By: József Lörinczi,Fumio Hiroshima,Volker Betz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Feynman-Kac-Type Theorems and Gibbs Measures on Path Space

With Applications to Rigorous Quantum Field Theory

By: József Lörinczi,Fumio Hiroshima,Volker Betz

This monograph offers a state-of-the-art mathematical account of functional integration methods in the context of self-adjoint operators and semigroups using the concepts and tools of modern stochastic analysis. These ideas are then applied principally to a rigorous treatment of some fundamental models of quantum field theory. In this self-contained presentation of the material both beginners and experts are addressed, while putting emphasis on the interdisciplinary character of the subject.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

521

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Published Date

ISBN 10

3110203731

ISBN 13

9783110203738

Journalists Between Hitler and Adenauer

From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany

By: Volker R. Berghahn

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Journalists Between Hitler and Adenauer

From Inner Emigration to the Moral Reconstruction of West Germany

By: Volker R. Berghahn

The moral and political role of German journalists before, during, and after the Nazi dictatorship Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer takes an in-depth look at German journalism from the late Weimar period through the postwar decades. Illuminating the roles played by journalists in the media metropolis of Hamburg, Volker Berghahn focuses on the lives and work of three remarkable individuals: Marion Countess Dönhoff, distinguished editor of Die Zeit; Paul Sethe, “the grand old man of West German journalism”; and Hans Zehrer, editor in chief of Die Welt. All born before 1914, Dönhoff, Sethe, and Zehrer witnessed the Weimar Republic’s end and opposed Hitler. When the latter seized power in 1933, they were, like their fellow Germans, confronted with the difficult choice of entering exile, becoming part of the active resistance, or joining the Nazi Party. Instead, they followed a fourth path—“inner emigration”—psychologically distancing themselves from the regime, their writing falling into a gray zone between grudging collaboration and active resistance. During the war, Dönhoff and Sethe had links to the 1944 conspiracy to kill Hitler, while Zehrer remained out of sight on a North Sea island. In the decades after 1945, all three became major figures in the West German media. Berghahn considers how these journalists and those who chose inner emigration interpreted Germany’s horrific past and how they helped to morally and politically shape the reconstruction of the country. With fresh archival materials, Journalists between Hitler and Adenauer sheds essential light on the influential position of the German media in the mid-twentieth century and raises questions about modern journalism that remain topical today.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

289

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0691210365

ISBN 13

9780691210360

Object-Oriented Magnetic Resonance

Classes and Objects, Calculations and Computations

By: Michael Mehring,Volker Achim Weberruss

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Object-Oriented Magnetic Resonance

Classes and Objects, Calculations and Computations

By: Michael Mehring,Volker Achim Weberruss

This book presents, for the first time, a unified treatment of the quantum mechanisms of magnetic resonance, including both nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron spin resonance (ESR). Magnetic resonance is perhaps the most advanced type of spectroscopy and it is applied in biology, chemistry, physics, material science, and medicine. If applied in conjunction with spectroscopy, the imaging version of magnetic resonance has no counterpart in any type of experimental technique. The authors present explanations and applications from fundamental to advanced levels. - The authors present explanations and applications from fundamental to advanced levels - This groundbreaking volume is accompanied by software which simulates magnetic resonance phenomena

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

582

Publisher

Elsevier

Published Date

ISBN 10

0080512976

ISBN 13

9780080512976

Future-Proofing

Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable

By: Carla Simone,Ina Wagner,Claudia Müller,Anne Weibert

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Future-Proofing

Making Practice-Based IT Design Sustainable

By: Carla Simone,Ina Wagner,Claudia Müller,Anne Weibert

Sustainability is crucial for the future of our societies. From a computing perspective, the challenge is to design IT artifacts that contribute to improving people's work and everyday life in a sustainable way, thereby also contributing to social and ecological sustainability. The book documents the experiences made by several leading research groups in Europe, North America and South Africa, describing their efforts to achieve sustainable design results, the difficulties that barred the way but also the strategies they adopted to achieve the goal of sustainability. The analysis of this rich empirical material helps thinking about how to more systematically address and possibly overcome the impediments to achieving a design result that is sustainable in practice. It points at the importance of considering the socio-technical nature of innovation, to focus on the relationship between ownership, appropriation and learning early on in a project, and to strive not only for technological flexibility but take care of issues of maintenance repair in designing computer-support. The book discusses the changes that would be necessary to make the main stakeholders in IT design more open to creating environments for sustainable innovation. The examples discussed in this book and their analysis can inspire researchers, institutions, managers, ICT professionals and educators to promote the goal of sustainable design results and increase the overall awareness of its strategic relevance"--

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

402

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198862504

ISBN 13

9780198862505

Martin Bormann

Hitler’s Executioner

By: Volker Koop

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Martin Bormann

Hitler’s Executioner

By: Volker Koop

Born on 17 June 1900, Martin Ludwig Bormann became one of the most powerful and most feared men in the Third Reich. An obsessive bureaucrat, it was Bormann who helped steer Hitler’s apparatus of terror so effectively that he became the clandestine ruler of Nazi Germany. After joining the Nazi Party in 1927 Bormann rose through its ranks. Indeed, by July 1933 Bormann had maneuvered himself into the position where he became the Chief of Cabinet in the Office of the Deputy Führer, Rudolf Hess. In this role Bormann gradually consolidated his power base, so that when Hess carried out his infamous flight to the United Kingdom in 1941, Bormann stepped into his shoes. As the head of the Party Chancellery, Bormann duly took control of the Nazi Party. By the end of 1942, he was in effect Hitler’s deputy and his closest collaborator. With the Führer increasingly preoccupied with military matters, Hitler came to rely more and more on Bormann to handle Germany’s domestic affairs. On 12 April 1943, Bormann was appointed Personal Secretary to the Führer. Feared by ministers, Gauleiters, civil servants, judges and generals alike, Bormann identified strongly with Hitler’s ideas on racial politics, destruction of the Jews and forced labor and made himself indispensable as the Führer’s executioner. Cold as ice, he decided the fate of millions of people. In January 1945, with the Third Reich collapsing, Bormann returned to the Führerbunker with Hitler. Following Hitler’s suicide on 30 April, Bormann was named as Party Minister, thus officially confirming his rise to the top of the Party. Late the following day he fled from the bunker in an attempt to escape the encircling Red Army; his fate remaining a mystery for many years. In October 1946 he was found guilty in absentia by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and sentenced to death. Drawing heavily on recently declassified documents and files, the historian and journalist Volker Koop reveals the full story of the most faithful member of Hitler’s inner circle, an individual who, whilst little known to the German people, became the second most powerful man in the Third Reich.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

248

Publisher

Frontline Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1473886953

ISBN 13

9781473886957

The Embryonic Development of Drosophila melanogaster

By: Jose A. Campos-Ortega,Volker Hartenstein

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Embryonic Development of Drosophila melanogaster

By: Jose A. Campos-Ortega,Volker Hartenstein

. . . but our knowledge is so weak that no philosopher will ever be able to completely explore the nature of even a fly . . . " * Thomas Aquinas "In Symbolum Apostolorum" 079 RSV p/96 This is a monograph on embryogenesis of the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, conceived as a reference book on the morphology of embryonic development. A monograph of this extent and content is not yet available in the literature on Drosophila embryology, and we believe that there is a real need for it. Thanks to the pro gress achieved during the last ten years in the fields of develop mental and molecular genetics, work on Drosophila development has expanQ. ed considerably, creating an even greater need for the information that we present here. Our own interest in embryonic development of the wild type arose several years ago, when we began to study the development of mutants. In the course of these studies we repeatedly had occasion to discover gaps and inade quacies in the existing literature on the embryology of the wild type, so that we undertook to investigate many of these problems ourselves. Convinced that many of our colleagues will have encountered similar difficulties, we decided to publish the present monograph. Although not explicitly recorded, Thomas Aquinas was proba bly referring to the domestic fly and not to the fruit fly. Irrespec tive of which fly he meant, however, we know that Thomas was right.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

415

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3662224895

ISBN 13

9783662224892

Price-competition at the German mobile market

By: Volker Küpper

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Price-competition at the German mobile market

By: Volker Küpper

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Economy - Theory of Competition, Competition Policy, grade: 1,7, Aachen University of Applied Sciences, course: Struktur- und Wettbewerbspolitik, language: English, abstract: 1. Introduction 1.1 The measurement of demand The measurement of demand within the mobile market can be determined by four action parameters, which operators can use: • price • quality • service • advertising The implementation for those action parameters depends on the product itself, the phase of the market, the type of company and the market form, including barriers the market offers. In my homework I will focus on the criteria price and service to give a short explanation of the so called overall concept “Harvard School”. Discussing this concept, the state does not interrupt any action of the market. It includes the assumption that the market will find its equilibrium itself and does not need any interferences. After giving some general information about the German mobile market, I want to present my results about the development of prices for mobile services. Furthermore, another focus should be the service that operators provide. Therefore especially the innovation of new tariffs and reaction time of the operators will be analysed. Afterwards the German mobile market will be evaluated by an international comparison. Altogether each topic that is worked out should be finally interpreted towards the measurement of competition within the market for mobile services. 1.2 Price-competition as an indicator to determine the intensity of competition As aforementioned the action parameters are divided into four main categories. This is done to isolate the effect of each action parameter concerning towards the process of competition. However, for each single company and the competition on the mobile market it is important to know about the success of the combination of all action parameters, concerning the payoff of the company, as the case may be the result on competition. Here I want to focus on the price-competition to determine the intensity of competition. Price-competition mainly guarantees the orientation of business operations, all based on the economic principal. A market with functioning price-competition can be seen as a necessary precondition to achieve all goals of competition. In reality price-competition does not contain as much relevancy as in theory, which can be explained by the analysis of different market forms (e.g. homogen polypol, heterogen polypol...). Different market forms cause particular situations, where the prices for mobile services are determined. For instance, if there is a high degree of possible cost reduction, the price is influenced by that. Within other market forms the latitude of possible prices, which are generated by the operators, determine the prices of mobile services. Whereas in some cases prices can be found as a result of solidary behaviour of the operators. Furthermore, the action parameter price is not only influenced by the product itself, the phase of the market, the type of company and the market form, including barriers the market offers. It is further influenced by the amount of using this action parameter, which depends on the objectives and the behaviour of the company. Concerning the current situation of the mobile market there are only four main operators, which provide mobile services to the consumer. Because of that it seems to be logical, that the price-competition is not a sufficient precondition to measure the total degree of competition. The amplitude of possible prices for several mobile services is very low as we will see in the following analysis. Thus, an operator with very expensive services would be less competitive and loose business. Nevertheless, prices for mobile services can differ between the four operators because it is no perfect market and very difficult for the consumer to find the cheapest contract for themselves.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

GRIN Verlag

Published Date

ISBN 10

3638719324

ISBN 13

9783638719322

Book's by Volker Schmidt

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email