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Colour is everywhere. From blue skies to red sunsets, from the
first flowers in spring to the blazing leaves of autumn. But what
is the nature of colour? Scientific books present a variety of
mechanical explanations but this approach leaves colour as a whole
unexplained. In the nineteenth century, the German poet and
scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe investigated a wide range of
colour phenomena and discovered the underlying principles that
govern colour itself. This lavishly illustrated book brings
Goethe's pioneering research up to date. Through descriptions of
simple observations and ingenious experiments, the reader will
discover a series of colour phenomena that includes afterimages,
coloured shadows, colour mixing, and prismatic and polarisation
colours. Seeing Colour is a thought-provoking read for colour
enthusiasts and experts alike, and an accessible route to a new way
of seeing colour.
On the night of 30 January 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a
spotlit window of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin, bursting with
joy. The moment seemed unbelievable, even to Hitler. After an
improbable political journey that came close to faltering on many
occasions, his march to power had finally succeeded. While the
story of Hitler's rise has been told in books covering larger
portions of his life, no previous work has focused on his
eight-year climb to rule: 1925-1933. Renowned author Peter Ross
Range brings this period back to startling life with a narrative
history that describes brushes with power, quests for revenge,
nonstop electioneering and underhand campaign tactics. For Hitler,
moments of gloating triumph were followed by abject humiliation.
This is the tale of a school dropout's climb from the infamy of a
failed coup to Germany's highest office. It is a saga of personal
growth and lavish living, a melodrama rife with love affairs and
even suicide attempts. But it is also the definitive account of
Hitler's unrelenting struggle for control over his raucous movement
as he fought off challenges, built and bullied coalitions, quelled
internecine feuds and neutralised his enemies - all culminating in
the creation of the Third Reich and the world's descent into
darkness. One of the most dramatic and important stories of the
twentieth century, Hitler's ascent spans Germany's wobbly recovery
from the First World War through years of growing prosperity and,
finally, into crippling depression. Masterfully woven into an
unforgettable and urgent narrative, The Unfathomable Ascent will
remind us of what we should never forget.
The chilling and little-known story of Adolf Hitler's eight-year
march to the pinnacle of German politics. On the night of 30
January 1933, Adolf Hitler leaned out of a spotlit window of the
Reich Chancellery in Berlin, bursting with joy. Even to Hitler
himself, the moment seemed unbelievable. After an improbable,
serpentine political journey that came close to faltering on many
occasions, his march to power had finally succeeded. Until now, no
single work has focused on the precise eight-year run of his climb
to rule from 1925 to 1933. Peter Ross Range brings this period back
to startling life, giving readers a necessary story of brushes with
power and quests for revenge, non-stop electioneering and underhand
campaign tactics. For Hitler, moments of gloating triumph were
followed, shockingly, by abject humiliation. Masterfully woven into
one unforgettable and urgent narrative, The Unfathomable Ascent,
will make us remember what we should never forget.
In this thought-provoking portrait of AIDS Healthcare Foundation,
the world s largest HIV/AIDS medical care provider, award-winning
journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals the nonprofit s unlikely
rise from a feisty grassroots organization during the 1980s AIDS
crisis in Los Angeles to its position today as an aggressive,
global leader in the ongoing fight to control HIV and AIDS. This
riveting story highlights the motivations behind AHF s life-saving
efforts, its battles against (and alliances with) governments and
various political establishments, and its work today to provide
free HIV treatment and prevention services to vulnerable,
lower-income people in more than thirty countries. With
unrestricted, insider access, McDonald follows AHF for a year as it
clashes with the Obama administration, the state of Nevada, and the
World Health Organization. He interviews AHF s key players,
including firebrand president Michael Weinstein, and he travels to
AHF outposts around the globe, from Miami to Uganda, Cambodia to
Russia, Estonia to South Africa. Along the way, McDonald discovers
that AHF is a passionate, smart, and tenacious people power
organization that brings hope and change to nearly all corners of
the world. Beyond its work as a highly effective global AIDS
organization, the AHF story also provides a blueprint for every
kind of righteous rebel who wants to make the world a better
place."
In a riveting portrait of the world's largest HIV/AIDS medical-care
provider, award-winning journalist Patrick Range McDonald reveals
AIDS Healthcare Foundation's unlikely rise from a feisty grassroots
organization during the height of 1980s AIDS crisis to its position
today as a global leader in the fight to control HIV and AIDS. This
untold story highlights AHF's bold history of activism, its
hard-charging advocacy on the behalf of vulnerable people, and its
heroic efforts to provide free HIV drug treatment around the world.
With insider access, McDonald follows AHF for a year as it clashes
with the Obama administration, the state of Nevada, and the World
Health Organization. He interviews AHF's key players, including
firebrand president Michael Weinstein, and travels to AHF outposts
around the globe. Along the way, McDonald discovers that AHF is a
tenacious "people power" organization that brings hope and change
to nearly all corners of the world.
Coronations are the grandest of all state occasions. This is the
first comprehensive in-depth study of the music that was performed
at British coronations from 1603 to the present, encompassing the
sixteen coronations that have taken place in Westminster Abbey and
the last two Scottish coronations. Range describes how music played
a crucial role at the coronations and how the practical
requirements of the ceremonial proceedings affected its structure
and performance. The programme of music at each coronation is
reconstructed, accompanied by a wealth of transcriptions of newly
discovered primary source material, revealing findings that lead to
fresh conclusions about performance practices. The coronation
ceremonies are placed in their historical context, including the
political background and the concept of invented traditions. The
study is an invaluable resource not only for musicologists and
historians, but also for performers, providing a fascinating
insight into the greatest of all Royal events.
Frustrated with slow performance in SAP Analytics Cloud? This guide
is your answer! Learn the basics of solution performance and
optimization and then start making your adjustments: get the story
builder and analytics designer apps running smoothly, fine-tune
your backend settings, and follow best practices for viewing
dashboards. With detailed examples of performance improvements
throughout, this book has everything you need for an optimal SAP
Analytics Cloud experience! Highlights include: 1) User experience
2) Dashboards 3) Performance analysis 4) Story building 5) Model
building 6) Analytics designer 7) Backend and tenant optimization
8) Viewing optimizations 9) Acquired data 10) Live data connections
11) Best practices
Rigorous operational testing (OT) of weapon systems procured by the
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is fundamental to ensuring that
these sophisticated systems not only meet their stated
requirements, but also perform under realistic operational
conditions when faced by determined adversaries employing their own
highly capable offensive and defensive weaponry. DoD's test and
training range enterprise provides the geography, infrastructure,
technology, expertise, processes, and management that make safe,
secure, and comprehensive OT possible. The challenges facing the
nation's range infrastructure are both increasing and accelerating.
Limited test capacity in physical resources and workforce, the age
of test infrastructure, the capability to test advanced
technologies, and encroachment impact the ability to inform system
performance, integrated system performance and the overall pace of
testing. Necessary DoD Range Capabilities to Ensure Operational
Superiority of U.S. Defense Systems assesses the physical and
technical suitability of DoD test and evaluation ranges,
infrastructure, and tools for determining the operational
effectiveness, suitability, survivability, and lethality of
military systems. This report explores modernization, sustainment,
operations, and resource challenges for test and evaluation ranges,
and makes recommendations to put the DoD range enterprise on a
modernization trajectory to meet the needs of OT in the years
ahead. Table of Contents Front Matter Executive Summary 1
Introduction 2 An Envisioned Future of Operational Test and
Evaluation 3 Testing for Future Combat: Multi-Domain Operations,
Connected Concurrent Kill Chains, and Mitigating Encroachment 4
Digital Infrastructure Needs for Operational Testing 5
Speed-to-Field: Restructuring the Requirements and Resources
Processes for DoD Test Ranges 6 Conclusion and Summary of
Recommendations by Actor Appendixes Appendix A: Statement of Task
and Completion Matrix Appendix B: Site Visit Summaries Appendix C:
Committee Member Biographies Appendix D: Disclosure of Unavoidable
Conflicts of Interest Appendix E: Abbreviations and Acronyms
Various parallels have been drawn between wolves and humans from
the perspective of their social organisation. Therefore, studying
wolves may well shed light on the evolutionary origins of complex
human cognition and, in particular, on the role that cooperation
played in its development. Humans closely share their lives with
millions of dogs – the domesticated form of wolves. Biologically,
wolves and dogs can be considered to be the same species; yet only
dogs are suitable living companions in human homes, highlighting
the importance of cognitive and emotional differences between the
two forms. The behaviour of wolves and dogs largely depends on the
environment the animals grew up and live in. This book reviews more
than 50 years of research on the differences and similarities of
wolves and dogs. Beyond the socio-ecology, the work explores
different theories about when and how the domestication of wolves
might have started and which behaviours and cognitive abilities
might have changed during this process. Readers will discover how
these fascinating animals live with their conspecifics in their
social groups, how they approach and solve problems in their daily
lives and how they see and interact with their human partners.
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