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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.
The crisis~ of the "project of modernity" (Habermas) is, at the
same time, a crisis of critical theories of society and culture
that have radically questioned bourgeois culture and capitalist
society and economy from the perspective of a utopia of enlightened
rationality. A number of parallel recent social and political
problems, developments, and
Zooplankton is a major work of reference for researchers in
plankton biology, physiology and behavior, which combines
behavioral and psychological approaches to the study of plankton on
present and interdisciplinary investigation of sensory processes in
pelagic environments. The breadth of perspective thus achieved
provides valuable insights into the larger scale ecological
processes of biological productivity, community structure and
population dynamics.
Technological advances in almost all aspects of biological research
have opened up opportunities for a re-examination of the sensory
ecology of planktonic organisms. In this wide-ranging collection,
leading researchers in planktonic behavior and physiology address
the rapidly developing interface between these two major areas. The
studies presented range from the laboratory to the field and from
the cell to the whole organism, but share the common goal of
understanding the special sensory world of organisms that live in
pelagic environments and how their behavior and physiology relate
to it.
This is the concluding volume of the second edition of the standard
text on design theory. Since the first edition there has been
extensive development of the theory and this book has been
thoroughly rewritten to reflect this. In particular the growing
importance of discrete mathematics to many parts of engineering and
science have made designs a useful tool for applications, and this
fact has been acknowledged here with the inclusion of an additional
chapter on applications. It is suitable for advanced courses and as
a reference work, not only for researchers in discrete mathematics
or finite algebra, but also for those working in computer and
communications engineering and other mathematically oriented
disciplines. Exercises are included throughout, and the book
concludes with an extensive and updated bibliography of well over
1800 items.
Starting in 2005, Gunter H. Lenz began preparing a book-length
exploration of the transformation of the field of American Studies
in the crucial years between 1970 and 1990. As a commentator on,
contributor to, and participant in the intellectual and
institutional changes in his field, Lenz was well situated to offer
a comprehensive and balanced interpretation of that seminal era.
Building on essays he wrote while these changes were ongoing, he
shows how the revolution in theory, the emergence of postmodern
socioeconomic conditions, the increasing globalization of everyday
life, and postcolonial responses to continuing and new forms of
colonial domination had transformed American Studies as a
discipline focused on the distinctive qualities of the United
States to a field encompassing the many different "Americas" in the
Western Hemisphere as well as how this complex region influenced
and was interpreted by the rest of the world. In tracking the shift
of American Studies from its exceptionalist bias to its
unmanageable global responsibilities, Lenz shows the crucial roles
played by the 1930s' Left in the U.S., the Frankfurt School in
Germany and elsewhere between 1930 and 1960, Continental
post-structuralism, neo-Marxism, and post-colonialism. Lenz's
friends and colleagues, now his editors, present here his final
backward glance at a critical period in American Studies and the
birth of the Transnational.
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