Trains, Literature and Culture: Reading and Writing the Rails delves into the rich connections between rail travel and the creation of cultural products from short stories to novels, from photographs to travel guides, and from artistic manifestos of the avant-garde to Freud's psychology. Each of the contributions engages in critical readings of textual or visual representations of trains across a wide spectrum of time periods and traditions-from English and American to Mexican, West African and European literary cultures. By turns trope, metaphor, and emblem of technological progress, these textual and visual representations of the train serve at times to index racial and gender inequalities, to herald the arrival of a nation's independence, and at still others to evince the trauma of industrialization. In each instance, the figure of the train emerges as a complex narrative form engaged by artists who were "Reading & Writing the Rails" as a way of assessing the competing discursive investments of cultural modernity.

The book provides a comprehensive overview of the characterizations of real normed spaces as inner product spaces based on norm derivatives and generalizations of the most basic geometrical properties of triangles in normed spaces. Since the appearance of Jordan-von Neumann's classical theorem (The Parallelogram Law) in 1935, the field of characterizations of inner product spaces has received a significant amount of attention in various literature texts. Moreover, the techniques arising in the theory of functional equations have shown to be extremely useful in solving key problems in the characterizations of Banach spaces as Hilbert spaces.This book presents, in a clear and detailed style, state-of-the-art methods of characterizing inner product spaces by means of norm derivatives. It brings together results that have been scattered in various publications over the last two decades and includes more new material and techniques for solving functional equations in normed spaces. Thus the book can serve as an advanced undergraduate or graduate text as well as a resource book for researchers working in geometry of Banach (Hilbert) spaces or in the theory of functional equations (and their applications).

Upon its initial publication more than fifteen years ago, this book broke new ground with its comprehensive coverage of the biology and ecology, distribution and dispersal mechanisms, physiology, monitoring, negative and positive impacts, and control of aquatic invasive species of mussels, clams, and snails. Building on this foundation, the second edition of Monitoring and Control of Macrofouling Mollusks in Fresh Water Systems includes completely revised information on species such as the zebra mussel while also covering up-and-coming nuisance species such as the quagga mussel, Conrad s false mussel, the Asian clam, and the fast-spreading golden mussel.

The Second Edition includes:

• Ten new species of mussels and snails
• International case studies on mussel fouling problems and how to cope with them
• New control and monitoring techniques
• Discussions of the latest threats and possible future scenarios

The book contains brief descriptions of the external and internal structures, examining only those features relevant to the monitoring and control of the invasive species. It discusses why the mollusks are pests, distinguishing nuisance species from native species, their habits and habitat, reproductive potential, and life cycles and population dynamics. The authors also explain how efficient dispersal mechanisms employed by the nuisance mollusks not only help them spread so rapidly to inland lakes and rivers across continents, but how they can invade virtually every part of a facility.

While many other resources contain segments of this information, none cover all areas and link them in a cohesive fashion. It is this approach that makes the understanding of potential impacts on ecosystems, industries and utilities, as well as the many human-made physical and chemical mitigants for controlling the mollusks supplied by this book so crucial for preserving the health of raw water supplies.

In 1896, a young Genevan medium named Hélène Smith perceived in trance the following words from a Martian inhabitant: "michma michtmon mimini thouainenm mimatchineg." Those attending her séance dutifully transcribed these words and the event marked the beginning of a series of occult experiences that transported her to the red planet. In her state of trance, Smith came to produce foreign conversations, a new alphabet, and paintings of the Martian surroundings that captured the popular and scientific imagination of Geneva. Alongside her Martian travels, she also retrieved memories of her past lives as a fifteenth-century "Hindoo" princess and as Queen Marie Antoinette. Today, Smith's séances may appear to be nothing more than eccentric practices at the margins of modernity. As author Claudie Massicotte argues, however, the medium came to embody the extreme possibilities of a new form of subjectivity, with her séances becoming important loci for pioneering authors' discoveries in psychology, linguistics, and the arts. Through analyses of archival documents, correspondences, and publications on the medium, Massicotte sheds light on the role of women in the construction of turn-of-the-century psychological discourses, showing how Smith challenged traditional representations of female patients as powerless victims and passive objects of powerful doctors. She shows how the medium became the site of conflicting theories about subjectivity—specifically one's relationship to embodiment, desire, language, art, and madness—while unleashing a radical form of creativity that troubled existing paradigms of modern sciences. Massicotte skillfully retraces the story of this prolific figure and the authors, scientists, and artists she inspired in order to bring to light a forgotten chapter in modern intellectual history.

A Panoply of Polygons presents and organizes hundreds of beautiful, surprising and intriguing results about polygons with more than four sides. (A Cornucopia of Quadrilaterals, a previous volume by the same authors, thoroughly explored the properties of four-sided polygons.) This panoply consists of eight chapters, one dedicated to polygonal basics, the next ones dedicated to pentagons, hexagons, heptagons, octagons and many-sided polygons. Then miscellaneous classes of polygons are explored (e.g., lattice, rectilinear, zonogons, cyclic, tangential) and the final chapter presents polygonal numbers (figurate numbers based on polygons). Applications, real-life examples, and uses in art and architecture complement the presentation where many proofs with a visual nature are included. A Panoply of Polygons can be used as a supplement to a high school or college geometry course. It can also be used as a source for group projects or extra-credit assignments. It will appeal, and be accessible to, anyone with an interest in plane geometry. Claudi Alsina and Roger Nelsen are, jointly and individually, the authors of thirteen previous MAA/AMS books. Those books, and this one, celebrate and illuminate the power of visualization in learning, teaching, and creating mathematics.

Dieses Buch ist eine kompakte Einfuhrung in alle erfolgsentscheidenden Aspekte der Pressearbeit konkret fur den Mittelstand. Nutzlicher Content, aktuelle Themen, gut aufbereitete Infos und zielfuhrende Wissensvermittlung werden von Redaktionen und Journalisten stets dankbar angenommen und veroeffentlicht. Nina Claudy zeigt in ihrem Buch, wie Sie vorgehen mussen, um die Presse effektiv zu erreichen. Von der Konzeption uber verschiedene Handlungsfelder, Instrumente, Kanale und die konkrete Zielgruppenarbeit bis hin zu Massnahmen, Evaluation und Umgang mit Dienstleistern - dieser Quick Guide deckt alles ab, was Verantwortliche in KMU fur die Arbeit mit den Medien beachten mussen. Ein pragmatischer Leitfaden fur die tagliche Anwendung in der Praxis, der Ihnen helfen wird, eine Strategie und einen konkret umsetzbaren Plan fur Ihre Pressearbeit zu entwickeln. Mit zahlreichen Beispielen und Transferaufgaben. Neu in der aktualisierten zweiten Auflage: Testen Sie Ihr Wissen mit den exklusiven Fragen und Antworten zum Buch in der kostenlosen Springer-Nature-Flashcards-App.

Schwangerschaft bei Diabetes? Dank neuer Therapien konnen sich Diabetikerinnen heutzutage ihren Kinderwunsch erfullen. Voraussetzung ist allerdings die kompetente, luckenlose Begleitung der Schwangerschaft. Experten bieten hierfur alle notwendigen Informationen (inkl. Gestationsdiabetes) - praxisbezogen, ubersichtlich und verstandlich. Exakt erlautern sie welche Massnahmen, wann und wie einzusetzen sind. Alles rund um die Pravention sowie Begleit- und Folgeerkrankungen: wichtige Parameter und deren Uberwachung, Diagnose, Therapie, medikamentose Intervention. Ein hilfreicher Ratgeber fur werdende Mutter sowie alle Fachleute, die sie betreuen."

Lernt Patrick Cleary kennen: Nachtschwärmer, Versager, Spastiker. Patrick versucht verzweifelt, sich zu ändern. Das Ergebnis ist so eindrucksvoll, dass es ihn fast umbringt. Lernt Wes „Whiskey" Keenan kennen: Ein Biologe auf Dauer-Exkursion, der sich fragt, wann es wohl Zeit wird, sesshaft zu werden. Als der schlimmste Tag in Patricks Leben damit endet, dass Whiskey ihm das Leben rettet, fangen die beiden an, ihr Leben und eine winzig kleine Koje in dem heruntergekommensten Hausboot, das die Welt je gesehen hat, zu teilen. Patrick will sein Leben auf die Reihe bekommen und Whiskey will ihm dabei helfen. Doch Patrick ist sich nicht sicher, ob das überhaupt möglich ist. Er ist davon überzeugt, dass er eine Anomalie der Natur ist. Aber Whiskey, der mit echten Anomalien arbeitet, glaubt, dass alles, was Patrick braucht, ein klein wenig Hilfe ist, um die Schönheit unter seiner spastischen Hülle zu sehen, und Whiskey bietet sich gerne dafür an. Zwischen ungewöhnlichen Fröschen, einem lebensbedrohlichen Ex-Freund und Patricks eigenen Blockaden, benötigt Whiskey seine gesamte Geduld, damit Patrick das Gute in sich findet, bevor die beiden in klarem Wasser schwimmen können.

Organ transplantation has been successfully performed over the last 35 years and the number of organ allograft recipients is steadily increasing. Long-term immunosuppression, necessary for good graft function, inevitably induces undesired effects (particularly infectious and neoplastic ones) among which cutaneous ones are very frequent and potentially life-threatening. This book deals with all aspects of cutaneous disorders that may be encountered in the setting of organ transplantation. It reflects the pioneering work performed since long by Dermatologists in Lyon, in collaboration with teams specialised in kidney, heart, lung, liver and pancreas transplantation.

Satze und ihre Beweise bilden das Herz der Mathematik.

Diese Sammlung bezaubernder Beweise, verbluffender Argumente und uberzeugender bildlicher Darstellungen ladt den Leser ein, sich an der Schonheit der Mathematik zu erfreuen, seine Entdeckungen mit anderen zu teilen und bei dem Finden neuer Beweise mitzumachen.

Das Buch umfasst folgende Themen: naturliche Zahlen, besondere reelle Zahlen, Punkte in der Ebene, Dreiecke, Quadrate, andere Vielecke, Kurven, Ungleichungen, ebene Parkettierungen, Origami, Beweise mit Farbungen, dreidimensionale Geometrie, usw.

Jedes Kapitel endet mit einigen Aufgaben, die den Leser in die Kunst des Auffindens vonbezaubernden Beweisen einbezieht. Es gibt insgesamt uber 130 solcher Aufgaben. "

Ausgehend von den gescheiterten Reformen unter Gorbatschow analysiert Peter Claudy ausfuhrlich die sich daran anschliessende Privatisierung und die Zusammenhange mit anderen Teilreformen."