This international technology assessment study has focused on the emerging global trend toward the miniaturization of manufacturing processes, equipment and systems for microscale components and products, i.e., Small Equipment for Small Parts. It encompasses the creation of miniaturized units or hybrid processes integrated with metrology, material handling and assembly to create microfactories capable of producing microprecision products in a fully automated manner at low cost.The study has investigated both the state-of-the-art as well as emerging technologies from the scientific, technological, and commercialization perspectives across key industrial sectors in the U.S., Asia and Europe including medical, electronics, aerospace, and consumer products.

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band's varied reception in online and offline media. Radiohead's work combines traditional rock sounds with a unique and experimental approach towards genre that sets the band apart from the contemporary mainstream. A play with diverse styles and audience expectations has shaped Radiohead's musical output and opened up debates about genre amongst critics, fans, and academics alike. Interpretations speak of a music that is referential of the past but also alludes to the future. Applying both music- and discourse-analytical methods, the book discusses how genre manifests in Radiohead's work and how it is interpreted amongst different audience groups. It explores how genre and generic flexibility affect the listeners' search for musical meaning and ways of discussion. This results in the development of a theoretical framework for the study of genre in individual popular music oeuvres that explores the equal validity of widely differing forms of reception as a multidimensional network of meaning. While Radiohead's music is the product of an eclectic mixture of musical influences and styles, the book also shows how the band's experimental stance has increasingly fostered debates about Radiohead's generic novelty and independence. It asks what remains of genre in light of its past or imminent transgression. Offering new perspectives on popular music genre, transgression, and the music and reception of Radiohead, the book will appeal to academics, students, and those interested in Radiohead and matters of genre. It contributes to scholarship in musicology, popular music, media, and cultural studies.

Radiohead and the Journey Beyond Genre traces the uses and transgressions of genre in the music of Radiohead and studies the band's varied reception in online and offline media. Radiohead's work combines traditional rock sounds with a unique and experimental approach towards genre that sets the band apart from the contemporary mainstream. A play with diverse styles and audience expectations has shaped Radiohead's musical output and opened up debates about genre amongst critics, fans, and academics alike. Interpretations speak of a music that is referential of the past but also alludes to the future. Applying both music- and discourse-analytical methods, the book discusses how genre manifests in Radiohead's work and how it is interpreted amongst different audience groups. It explores how genre and generic flexibility affect the listeners' search for musical meaning and ways of discussion. This results in the development of a theoretical framework for the study of genre in individual popular music oeuvres that explores the equal validity of widely differing forms of reception as a multidimensional network of meaning. While Radiohead's music is the product of an eclectic mixture of musical influences and styles, the book also shows how the band's experimental stance has increasingly fostered debates about Radiohead's generic novelty and independence. It asks what remains of genre in light of its past or imminent transgression. Offering new perspectives on popular music genre, transgression, and the music and reception of Radiohead, the book will appeal to academics, students, and those interested in Radiohead and matters of genre. It contributes to scholarship in musicology, popular music, media, and cultural studies.

"Terrorists have seized the airport"
"Eighty year old grandmother strip searched by airport security"
"Flight 4820 has been cancelled" (sorry, your travel plans have been cancelled, too)
"Frontier Airlines has declared bankruptcy ... Delta and Northwest are merging"
"Venezuela's President Chavez nationalizes the oil industry"
"Murder in the streets of Nairobi"
"U.S. Dollar takes another dip in the world market"
Terrorism, seemingly senseless and lengthy airport security procedures, frequent flight cancellations and airline bankruptcies and reorganizations, civil unrest, fluctuating currency values ... Has travel become a burden, fearful or something to just be endured?
Secrets for Travel Survival is just what you need, just what you're looking for...and maybe didn't even know it! Contained within you will discover some simple steps to take that will increase your travel experience, even elevate it beyond your expectations.

George R.R. Martin drew on Tolkien, who was inspired by William Morris, Medieval epics, and Norse mythology. This new collection of epic fantasy tales explores the classic themes of good vs evil, the low-born hero, and the arrogant overlord, and laced them with a taste of sorcery that reaches back to the early sources, and stirs them in with the brand new storytellers of today. This new title in our successful Gothic Fantasy Short Stories collection contains a fabulous mix of classic and brand new writing, with contemporary authors from the US, Canada, and the UK. Contemporary authors include Brian Bogart, Ramsey Campbell, Evey Brett, Leah Cypess, Kate Dollarhyde, Lucinda Gunnin, Joshua K. Haarstad, Anne Leonard, E.H. Mann, Alison McBain, Emily McCosh, Dan Micklethwaite, Wendy Nikel, Mary O'Donnell, Aimee Ogden, Cassandra Taylor, M. Elizabeth Ticknor and Nemma Wollenfang. Classic stories by William Beckford, Ernest Bramah, Eric Rucker Eddison, Richard Garnett, Robert E. Howard, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Andrew Lang, George MacDonald, William Morris, Edith Nesbit, Howard Pyle, Clark Ashton Smith, Chretien de Troyes.

This international technology assessment study has focused on the emerging global trend toward the miniaturization of manufacturing processes, equipment and systems for microscale components and products. The study has investigated both the state-of-the-art as well as emerging technologies from the scientific, technological, and commercialization perspectives across key industrial sectors in the USA, Asia and Europe.

Modern Methods of Plant Analysis When the handbook Modern Methods of Plant Analysis was first introduced in 1954 the considerations were: 1. the dependence of scientific progress in biology on the improvement of existing and the introduction of new methods; 2. the difficulty in finding many new analytical methods in specialized journals which are normally not accessible to experimental plant biologists; 3. the fact that in the methods sections of papers the description of methods is frequently so compact, or even sometimes so incomplete that it is difficult to reproduce experiments. These considerations still stand today. The series was highly successful, seven volumes appearing between 1956 and 1964. Since there is still today a demand for the old series, the publisher has decided to resume publication of Modern Methods of Plant Analysis. It is hoped that the New Series will be just as acceptable to those working in plant sciences and related fields as the early volumes undoubtedly were. It is difficult to single out the major reasons for success of any publication, but we believe that the methods published in the first series were up-to-date at the time and presented in a way that made description, as applied to plant material, complete in itself with little need to consult other publications. Contributing authors have attempted to follow these guidelines in this New Series of volumes.

This collection of essays offers a critical assessment of Labour in a Single Shot, a groundbreaking documentary video workshop. From 2011 to 2014, curator Antje Ehmann and film- and video-maker Harun Farocki produced an art project of truly global proportions. They travelled to fifteen cities around the world to conduct workshops inspired by cinema history's first film, Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory, shot in 1895 by the Lumiere brothers in France. While the workshop videos are in colour and the camera was not required to remain static, Ehmann and Farocki's students were tasked with honouring the original Lumiere film's basic parameters of theme and style. The fascinating result is a collection of more than 550 short videos that have appeared in international exhibitions and on an open-access website, offering the widest possible audience the opportunity to ponder contemporary labour in multiple contexts around the world.

From weekend homes to get-away cabins in the mountains, by the sea, or in the woods, this architecture embodies our longing for lounging in nature. For the first time in the history of humankind, more people live in cities than in the country. Yet, at the same time, more and more city dwellers are yearning for rural farms, mountain cabins, or seaside homes. These kinds of refuges offer modern men and women a promise of what urban centers usually cannot provide: quiet, relaxation, being out of reach, getting back to basics, feeling human again. Rock the Shack is a survey of such contemporary refuges from around the world--from basic to luxury. The book features a compelling range of sparingly to intricately furnished cabins, cottages, second homes, tree houses, transformations, shelters, and cocoons. The look of the included structures from the outside is just as important as the view from inside. What these diverse projects have in common is an exceptional spirit that melds the uniqueness of a geographic location with the individual character of the building's owner and architect.

An vielen Orten in Deutschland gibt es inzwischen Gedenkstatten fur die Opfer des Nationalsozialismus, Geschichte und Verbrechen werden nicht (mehr) totgeschwiegen - und dennoch besteht Anlass zur Sorge um unsere politische Kultur: Ein grosser Teil der Bundesburger ist offenbar nicht an einer weiteren Auseinandersetzung mit der nationalsozialistischen Vergan genheit interessiert. Allzu oft wird versucht, die Geschehnisse dieser Zeit zu nivellieren, geschichtlich "einzuordnen" und endlich einen Schlussstrich zu ziehen. Vergessen, Verdrangen, Nicht-wahrhaben-wollen, Relativieren, aber auch Vertuschen sind Elemente eines Syndroms der gesellschaftlichen Ein stellung im Umgang mit der Vergangenheit. Die Herausgeber dieses Sammelbandes gehoren einer "nachgeborenen" Generation an, fur die gilt, was der ehemalige Bundesprasident Richard von Weizsacker in seiner Rede zum 40. Jahrestag der Befreiung vom deutschen Faschismus ausfuhrte: "Die Jungen sind nicht verantwortlich fur das, was da mals geschah, aber sie sind verantwortlich fur das, was in der Geschichte daraus wird." In diesem Sinne halten wir es fur notwendig, uns selbst, un seren Kindern und Kindeskindern die Konfrontation mit dem, was die Gross eltern getan haben und wofur diese verantwortlich sind, zuzumuten. Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Rassismus und Rechtsextremismus gibt es nach wie vor. Es gibt sie nicht nur in Deutschland, sie haben aber in diesem Land ein besonderes Gewicht; stehen sie doch in einer ideologisch-politischen Traditi on, aus der das industriell-effektive System des Mordens im "Dritten Reich," das in der Geschichte der Menschheit kein Beispiel hat, hervorgegangen ist."

In diesem Buch erfahren Personaler kompakt und auf den Punkt gebracht, was agiles Arbeiten bedeutet, wie konkrete Anwendungsmoeglichkeiten im HR-Management aussehen und weshalb "agil" nicht die Loesung fur alles ist. Design Thinking, Business Model Canvas, Lean Startup, Scrum, Kanban - Was genau steckt hinter diesen Buzz-Words agilen Arbeitens? Welche Voraussetzungen braucht es, damit Digital Leadership und agile Unternehmenskultur gelingen? Und wie kann das HR-Management diese Tools sinnvoll nutzen und den Wandel in die agile Arbeitswelt proaktiv begleiten? Die Autorin liefert Antworten auf diese Fragen, bietet zahlreiche Praxisbeispiele und klart uber die zehn Mythen agiler Arbeitsweisen auf. Das Buch dient als Ideengeber und als Inspirationsquelle. Daruber hinaus soll es Mut machen, motivierende und effektive Arbeitsmoeglichkeiten auszuprobieren, zu implementieren und damit das eigene Unternehmen erfolgreicher zu machen.

A collection of poems by Bili S. Ehmann. Seasonal observations, personal views, and humor - expressed simply and beautifully. Her insight is delightful.