Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

This book is a self-contained, practical introduction how to use FeatureIDE for modeling and implementing variable systems. In particular, readers learn how to analyze domains using feature models, specify requirements in form of configurations, and how to generate code based on conditional compilation and feature-oriented programming. Given the interactive style of the book, readers can directly try out the open-source development environment. All code examples are available in the standard distribution on GitHub and can immediately been used for individual modifications. Each part of the book is presented as a step-by-step tutorial and additionally illustrated using an ongoing example of elevator control software written in Java. Written by the core development team of FeatureIDE, this book is suitable for students using a tool for deepening the theoretical foundations of variability modeling and implementation, and as a reference for practitioners needing a stable and scalable tool for industrial applications. FeatureIDE is the most used open-source tool for feature modeling and has been continuously improved since 2004. The success of FeatureIDE is due to being a vehicle for cutting-edge product-line research by still providing an easy-to-use and seamless integration into Eclipse.

Nationalism and Decolonisation in Singapore analyses Singapore’s decolonisation movement between 1953-63 and provides a framework to understand the deepest and most important unresolved conflicts in Singaporean society. This book demonstrates how these conflicts stem from four unresolved schisms dating from the decolonisation period: race, class, language, and the meaning of self-determination. The author argues that these schisms drove the events of decolonisation, the creation of Malaysia, and Singapore’s separation, and continue to actively shape Singapore today. Using contemporary English- and Chinese-language sources from a wide array of perspectives, as well as numerous declassified official documents, this book provides a new approach to the most formative period of Singapore history. It explains in detail the different ideologies, institutions, and conflicts which shaped Singaporean politics and society during decolonisation. In particular, the book focuses on the leaders of the main groups which most heavily influenced Singapore's anti-colonial nationalism – the Chinese-speaking, the working class, and left-wing intellectuals. It looks at Singapore in the context of global movements of nationalism, socialism, and decolonisation, and provides a framework which can offer insight into similar attempts by post-colonial governments to construct new nation-states from plural societies. A novel study of Singapore’s independence struggle that incorporates and analyses multiple linguistic, socioeconomic, and political viewpoints, the book will be of interest to researchers of Southeast Asian History and Politics, and those interested in decolonisation, nationalism, identity, and the politics of race, class, and language.

Der Band widmet sich der Frage, wie sich europäische Romantiken im Zeitraum zwischen ca. 1790 und 1850 mit ökologischen Theoremen und umweltbezogenen Problembereichen auseinandersetzen. Die Aufsätze dieses interdisziplinären Sammelbandes untersuchen dabei insbesondere den spezifischen Beitrag, den die Künste bei der Ausgestaltung und Formierung eines modernen ökologischen Denkens leisten, das seit Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts Gestalt annimmt, in den 1860er Jahren mit Ernst Haeckels Definition der ‚Ökologie‘ terminologisch grundiert wird und bis heute unser Verständnis von ökologischen Zusammenhängen prägt. Der Band bereichert auf diese Weise die bereits lebendige Forschungslandschaft der Environmental Humanities im Allgemeinen, des Romantic Ecocriticism im Speziellen und fragt mit Blick auf die ‚Romantischen Ökologien‘ nicht nur nach der Diversität und den konfliktreichen Bruchlinien ökologischer Denkformen um 1800, sondern auch nach dem Stellenwert, dem Eigen- und möglicherweise Mehrwert des Ästhetischen sowie, damit verknüpft, nach der Rolle des Romantischen für die Entstehung, Reflexion und Transformation eines ökologischen Denkens.

For 250 years, the Turkic Muslims of Altishahr the vast desert region to the northwest of Tibet have led an uneasy existence under Chinese rule. Today they call themselves Uyghurs, and they have cultivated a sense of history and identity that challenges Beijing s official national narrative. Rian Thum argues that the roots of this history run deeper than recent conflicts, to a time when manuscripts and pilgrimage dominated understandings of the past. Beyond broadening our knowledge of tensions between the Uyghurs and the Chinese government, this meditation on the very concept of history probes the limits of human interaction with the past.

Uyghur historical practice emerged from the circulation of books and people during the Qing Dynasty, when crowds of pilgrims listened to history readings at the tombs of Islamic saints. Over time, amid long journeys and moving rituals, at oasis markets and desert shrines, ordinary readers adapted community-authored manuscripts to their own needs. In the process they created a window into a forgotten Islam, shaped by the veneration of local saints.

Partly insulated from the rest of the Islamic world, the Uyghurs constructed a local history that is at once unique and assimilates elements of Semitic, Iranic, Turkic, and Indic traditions the cultural imports of Silk Road travelers. Through both ethnographic and historical analysis, The Sacred Routes of Uyghur History" offers a new understanding of Uyghur historical practices, detailing the remarkable means by which this people reckons with its past and confronts its nationalist aspirations in the present day."

Completely revised and updated third edition of Lee's Ophthalmic Histopathology, this well-illustrated and practically-oriented text has retained its general layout and style and division into specimen-based chapters. The visual image remains key to explaining the pathological processes - facilitated by full colour photography throughout the text. The text and illustrations are also provided as a searchable CD-ROM. The book emphasizes pertinent recent advances, particularly in the molecular basis of disease and in the diagnosis and classification of tumours. including improvements in immunohistochemistry and cytogenetic and molecular biological studies. This book is an invaluable source of reference for ophthalmic pathologists, general pathologists and ophthalmologists.

Wissenschaftler und Stottertherapeuten stellen gemeinsam die aktuellen und gesicherten Erkenntnisse zu Redeflussstoerungen (Stottern und Poltern) vor. Sie zeigen, dass Stottern in hohem Masse erblich ist, mit strukturellen und funktionellen Hirnveranderungen einhergeht und ein neurologisches Stoerungsbild darstellt. Sie raumen auf mit der Vorstellung, dass Stottern durch fruhkindliche Erfahrungen hervorgerufen wird: Eltern eines stotternden Kindes haben in der sprachlichen Erziehung nichts falsch gemacht. Die Autoren benennen Therapien, die Stottern beseitigen oder zumindest mindern koennen, und Therapien, die popular sein moegen, aber nicht wirken. Das Buch ist ein hilfreicher Ratgeber fur Betroffene, ein umfangreiches Nachschlagewerk fur Stottertherapeuten und eine massgebliche Leitlinie fur AErzte.

In "Healing Lyme Disease Naturally, "anthropologist Wolf D. Storl shares his own success in overcoming a difficult, sometimes deadly disease that is reaching epidemic proportions. When he was diagnosed, Dr. Storl refused standard treatments because of antibiotic intolerance. Instead, he researched healing systems of various cultures including Traditional Chinese Medicine, American Indian healing practices, homeopathy, and traditional Western herbal lore and discovered the teasel root. Teasel, a flowering plant that grows throughout Europe and Asia, tonifies the liver and kidneys, promotes blood circulation, and strengthens the bones and tendons. The plant has been documented to help cure chronic conditions marked by arthritis, sore, stiff muscles, and eventual incapacitation--all symptoms associated with Lyme disease. Dr. Storl's approach consists of flushing out toxins and inhibiting bacteria by using teasel root as tincture, powder, or tea (available for purchase online and in natural foods stores); stimulating the immune system and detoxifying the body by exposing it to extreme heat (sweat lodges and Japanese baths); and dietary and naturopathic measures, including fresh natural food, exercise, and sufficient sleep. Written in an encouraging, personal tone but based in science and clinical studies, "Healing Lyme Disease" "Naturally "offers hope in combating a condition that has stubbornly resisted conventional medical treatment.

Socializing ist so bedeutsam geworden wie nie zuvor. Menschlich miteinander "zu koennen", ist wichtiger denn je, da der Wettbewerb immer starker und die Nischen immer kleiner werden. Trotz des Wunsches, es moege "leicht und locker" sein, gilt es, Eindruck zu machen, sich zu prasentieren und Geschafte abzuschliessen. Worauf kommt es nun wirklich an? Was vom alten Knigge, den bisherigen Umgangsformen und Erfolgsfaktoren gilt noch? Wie bespielt man die moderne Berufswelt im Sinne von Socializing und Networking? In diesem informativen und unterhaltsamen Ratgeber von der Psychologie-Professorin Lioba Werth und dem Gastronomiefachmann Christopher Thum wird Ihnen gezeigt, wie Sie berufliches Socializing sowohl klassisch, modern und smart verstehen und bespielen koennen. Smalltalk, Networking und Etikette werden nicht als Selbstzweck, sondern als eine Art Methode dargestellt, mit der Sie in vielen unausgesprochenen Botschaften signalisieren koennen, wie Sie auch ausserhalb der Buroumgebung mit anderen Menschen umgehen.

Philosophische und kulturelle Aspekte.- Padagogische und didaktische Aspekte.

Die in dem diesem Band vereinten UEberlegungen, Aufsatze und Beitrage prasentieren anhand konkreter Beispiele die unterschiedlichen Forschungsperspektiven zu gemeinschaftlichen Wohnformen.Wohnen ist nicht nur Schutz vor Kalte und Regen oder ein Platz zum Schlafen. Wohnen vermittelt auch Gemeinschaft - sei dies primar im Bereich der Familie oder erweitert in der Nachbarschaft und Gemeinschaft. Nicht uberall werden diese Funktionen aber gleich gut erfullt. Anhand verschiedener Fallstudien soll untersucht werden, unter welchen Bedingungen gutes, resonantes Wohnen gelingt und wann es eher zu entfremdeten Wohnformen kommt.

With the stroke of a pen at the Potsdam Conference following the Allied victory in 1945, Breslau, the largest German city east of Berlin, became the Polish city of Wroclaw. Its more than six hundred thousand inhabitants--almost all of them ethnic Germans--were expelled and replaced by Polish settlers from all parts of prewar Poland. "Uprooted" examines the long-term psychological and cultural consequences of forced migration in twentieth-century Europe through the experiences of Wroclaw's Polish inhabitants.

In this pioneering work, Gregor Thum tells the story of how the city's new Polish settlers found themselves in a place that was not only unfamiliar to them but outright repellent given Wroclaw's Prussian-German appearance and the enormous scope of wartime destruction. The immediate consequences were an unstable society, an extremely high crime rate, rapid dilapidation of the building stock, and economic stagnation. This changed only after the city's authorities and a new intellectual elite provided Wroclaw with a Polish founding myth and reshaped the city's appearance to fit the postwar legend that it was an age-old Polish city. Thum also shows how the end of the Cold War and Poland's democratization triggered a public debate about Wroclaw's "amputated memory." Rediscovering the German past, Wroclaw's Poles reinvented their city for the second time since World War II.

"Uprooted" traces the complex historical process by which Wroclaw's new inhabitants revitalized their city and made it their own.

Dieses Buch gibt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele wertvolle Anregungen fur eine Ertragssteigerung durch langfristige Kundenzufriedenheit und bietet Losungsansatze fur eine potenzialorientierte Kundenwertanalyse.