Modern Murders is the first comprehensive study of murder representations during the turn of the century, drawing on previously neglected archival material to explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic contexts of the period. Most studies view the abundance of murder representations throughout the nineteenth century as an indicator of a supposedly typical Victorian appetite for sensation and melodrama. Modern Murders, however, demonstrates the turn of the century's backlash against melodramatic and sensational representations of murder and reads them as an important component in the struggles for better aesthetic standards in art and entertainment, and as a dominant feature in the debates on mass culture. Through a plethora of visual and written texts, representations of fictional and actual "real life" murders, and "high" and "popular" forms of writing, the volume considers the importance of murder in the elite claim to cultural authority versus its perception of plebian taste, in the context of the democratization of culture. This book will be of value to scholars and graduate students in a variety of research areas, as well as general readers interested in the role of murder as a central trope in modern art and culture.

The "greening" of industry processes, i.e. making them more sustainable, is a popular and often lucrative trend which has emerged over recent years. The 4th volume of Green Chemical Processing considers sustainable chemistry in the context of education and explores didactic approached. The American Chemical Society's 12 Principles of Green Chemistry are woven throughout this text as well as the series to which this book belongs.

The first detailed study of a major but neglected work by Thoreau. Until very recently, only a handful of Thoreau specialists knew of the existence of 'The Dispersion of Seeds', an ecological treatise written during the last years of Thoreau's life, which has been reconstructed and edited, and was published for the first time in 1993. Thoreau's Late Career and the Dispersion of Seeds, the first full-length study of this important late work by Thoreau, analyzes literary features of 'The Dispersion of Seeds' that make it an accomplished work of the imagination, and applies interdisciplinary scholarship in order to relate Thoreau's prescient ecology to scientific issues of his day and ours. Thus it demonstrates that in his late career Thoreauwas working as scientist and poet simultaneously. Berger further explores how Thoreau managed the philosophical and rhetorical tensions involved in bridging the supposed gap between science and poetry, and how, in his later career, he embraced the empirical method of scientific discovery while challenging the reductive assumptions of scientific materialism. In these specific ways Berger's study advances new understandings of Thoreau's purposes and accomplishments during his post-Walden career. Michael Berger, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of English and Communications at The Christ College of Nursing and Health Sciences in Cincinnati. He is on the Board of Directors ofThe Thoreau Society.

Dieses Fachbuch befasst sich eingehend mit dem Thema der internationalen Vertragsgestaltung, insbesondere in mittelstandischen Unternehmen. Die richtige Vertragsgestaltung ist essentiell fur die erfolgreiche Geschaftsabwicklung und erfordert speziell bei grenzuberschreitenden Vertragen, bei denen erschwerende Faktoren wie unterschiedliche Rechtsauffassungen eine wichtige Rolle spielen, ein fundiertes Know-how. Die Autoren sind Experten auf dem Gebiet der internationalen Vertragsgestaltung und vermitteln gut strukturierte und praxisbezogene Hilfestellungen fur die internationale Vertragsgestaltung. Mustervertrage und Export-Checklisten, welche eine schnelle und effiziente Einarbeitung in die jeweilige Problematik erlauben, runden dieses Werk ab. Ein nutzliches und verstandlich geschriebenes Nachschlagewerk nicht nur fur Exportleiter und ihre Mitarbeiter, sondern fur alle, die mehr uber das komplexe Thema internationale Vertragsgestaltung erfahren wollen.

While our five senses are doing a reasonably good job at representing the world around us on a macro-scale, we have no existing intuitive representation of the nanoworld, ruled by laws entirely foreign to our experience. This is where molecules mingle to create proteins; where you wouldn't recognize water as a liquid; and where minute morphological changes would reveal how much 'solid' things, such as the ground or houses, are constantly vibrating and moving. Following in the footsteps of Nano-Society and Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny, this title introduces a new collection of stories demonstrating recent research in the field of nanotechnology. This drives home the fact that a plethora of nanotechnology R&D will become an integral part of improved and entirely novel materials, products, and applications yet will remain entirely invisible to the user. The book gives a personal perspective on how nanotechnologies are created and developed, and will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the research and future of nanotechnology. Reviews of Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny: 'The book is recommended not only to all interested scientists, but also to students who are looking for a quick and clear introduction to various research areas of nanotechnology' Angew. Chem., 2017, 56(26), 7351-7351 'Once you start reading you will find it very difficult to stop' Chromatographia, 2017, 80, 1821

Nanotechnology: The Future is Tiny introduces 176 different research projects from around the world that are exploring the different areas of nanotechnologies. Using interviews and descriptions of the projects, the collection of essays provides a unique commentary on the current status of the field. From flexible electronics that you can wear to nanomaterials used for cancer diagnostics and therapeutics, the book gives a new perspective on the current work into developing new nanotechnologies. Each chapter delves into a specific area of nanotechnology research including graphene, energy storage, electronics, 3D printing, nanomedicine, nanorobotics as well as environmental implications. Through the scientists' own words, the book gives a personal perspective on how nanotechnologies are created and developed, and an exclusive look at how today's research will create tomorrow's products and applications. This book will appeal to anyone who has an interest in the research and future of nanotechnology.

Die Medizingeschichte durfte wohl wenige Beispiele fur eine derart wechselvolle und kontroverse Einschatzung einer grundlegenden therapeutischen Massnahme bie- ten, wie dasjenige der Diatbehandlung des Diabetes Mellitus. In den letzten zwei- hundert Jahren sind auf diesem Bereich wohl alle theoretisch uberhaupt nur denk- baren Empfehlungen und Therapiekonzepte entwickelt und jeweils mit Nachdruck und Verve vertreten worden. In der Zeit vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg wurden diese Auseinandersetzungen zwischen einzelnen Arbeitsgruppen und Wissenschaftlern sehr haufig ausserordentlich persoenlich und verletzend ausgetragen und man kann uber die Jahrzehnte mit Genugtuung verfolgen, wie viel zivilisierter die Diskussio- nen um den Stellenwert und die Zusammensetzung der geeigneten Diatformen fur den Diabetes Mellitus doch geworden sind. Moeglicherweise sind die Diskussionen um die Diabetes Diat auch deswegen uber lange Zeit so kontrovers gefuhrt worden, weil insbesondere vor der Einfuhrung der Insulintherapie kaum eine Moeglichkeit bestand, die Effektivitat der unterschiedlichen Diaten miteinander zu vergleichen. In spateren Jahren sind derartige Moeglichkeiten zur naturwissenschaftlichen Nach- prufung der Wirkung von diatetischen Behandlungskonzepten nur recht selten ge- sucht und genutzt worden. Die Grunde dafur durften vielfaltig sein. Sicher ist, dass die Durchfuhrung von aussagekraftigen, kontrollierten Studien zum Nachweis des Langzeiteffektes einer definierten Diat ausserordentlich aufwendig und schwierig ist. Vielleicht liegt es insbesondere an diesem Umstand, dass es in dem gesamten Bereich der Ernahrungswissenschaften so viele Thesen mit so wenig gesicherten Fakten gibt.

The author passionately believes that everyone can improve as a writer, a conviction earned through twenty years of empowering young writers. This handy guidebook explains in an accessible way the keys to writing well, providing valuable insight into the fundamentals of the writing process and seventy incisive pieces of advice. It can help teachers inspire students' engagement and guide their development. A student reading this concise book will be encouraged by realizing that writing well is not a magical gift some people have and others don't, but a skill she or he can develop. It clarifies that writing is thinking and that vigorous revision as the heart of the writing process empowers students to express themselves clearly and precisely, making writing an engaging activity reflecting their most vibrant intellectual experience, valuable not just for assessing learning but as an essential means to foster deep learning and critical thinking. As a resource for faculty development, it provides many insights and activities to help instructors across the curriculum support student writing. It makes a powerful case for establishing a writing center in schools that do not yet have one. This concise guidebook is useful for secondary and post-secondary students, for educators in training, for advocates of and consultants in writing across the curriculum, for high school teachers and college faculty in professional development, and for all people who are eager to improve their writing skills and take pleasure in an activity essential to modern life that has not yet proved satisfying to them. For instructor exam copies and bulk discounts (30% on purchases of eight or more), email request to: [email protected]

Ubersichtlich und aktuell fasst dieses Taschenbuch die praktischen Aspekte der Insulinbehandlung zusammen: Fur viele Arzte ist dieses Buch zum wichtigsten Leitfaden der Insulintherapie geworden. Die 4. Auflage wurde vollstandig uberarbeitet. Der Leser kann sicher sein, alle neueren fur die praktischen Belange notwendigen Fakten in diesem Buch zu finden. Bald wird es in der Bundesrepublik ca. eine halbe Million Menschen geben, die Insulin spritzen - von Arzten aller Fachgebiete erwartet der Patient, dass sie mit dieser Therapie vertraut sind. Auch fur Medizinstudenten ist dieses Buch sehr gut geeignet.

Unterlassen die Vorstande deutscher Unternehmen wirtschaftlich sinnvolle Investitionen, um einer auf Quartalszahlen fokussierten Financial Community befriedigende Ergebnisse prasentieren zu konnen? In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird die Frage nach der Existenz von solch kurzfristigem Verhalten, bezeichnet als Managermyopie bzw. Managerial Myopia, sowie den Einflussfaktoren auf dieses Verhalten gestellt. Der Autor Michael Berger stellt einfuhrend die Bedingungen fur Managermyopie dar und kategorisiert die Auspragungsformen dieses kurzfristigen Verhaltens. Nach einem Literaturuberblick wird die Methodik der Untersuchung vorgestellt - es wurden eine postalische, anonymisierte Fragbogenumfrage unter den Finanzvorstanden der CDAX-Unternehmen sowie eine Serie von teilstrukturierten Interviews durchgefuhrt. Die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung liefern deutliche Hinweise auf die Existenz von kurzfristigem Verhalten. Gleichzeitig ergeben sich auf Basis inferenzstatistischer Untersuchungen Erkenntnisse zu dessen Einflussfaktoren. Das Buch richtet sich an Kapitalanleger, Manager und Studenten der Wirtschaftswissenschafte

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Ingenieurwissenschaften - Bauingenieurwesen, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 1,0, Technische Universiat Wien (Institut fur interdisziplinares Bauprozessmanagement - Bauwirtschaft), Veranstaltung: Bauwirtschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit der Thematik Ortliche Bauaufsicht." Im ersten Kapitel wird der Begriff ortliche Bauaufsicht" ausfuhrlich erklart. Es folgt eine Erklarung der gesetzlichen Einschrankungen sowie eine Betrachtung des Prozesses Beschaffung von OBA Leistungen." Mit dem Vergleich der unterschiedlichen Organisationsformen und einer Aufstellung von Projektphasen endet das erste Kapitel. Im Zweiten Teil der Arbeit wird das Leistungsbild einer ortlichen Bauaufsicht erklart. Dabei erfolgt eine Betrachtung nach dem Leitfaden zur Kostenschatzung von Planungsleistungen und nach dem Leistungsbild Architektur. Im Anhang befinden sich erganzende Tabellenwerke, die das Leistungsbild einer ortlichen Bauaufsicht genau abgrenzen.

Major technology shifts do not happen overnight and rarely are they the result of a single breakthrough discovery. Nowhere is this more true than for the broad set of enabling technologies that we have come to simply call "nanotechnology." Rather than standing on the shoulders of a few intellectual giants, nanotechnologies are created by tens of thousands of researchers and scientists working on minute and sometimes arcane aspects of their fields of expertise in areas as diverse as medicine, telecommunications, solar cells, filtration, coatings, or ever smaller transistors for electronic devices. They come from different sciences, live in different parts of the world and work for different organizations (government laboratories, industry laboratories, universities, private research facilities) and follow their own set of rules - get papers reviewed and published; achieve scientific recognition from their peers; struggle to get funding for new ideas; look to make that breakthrough discovery that leads to the ultimate resumU item - a nobel prize; get pushed by their funders to secure patent rights and commercialize new discoveries. This book puts a spotlight on some of the scientists who are pushing the boundaries of technology and it gives examples of their work and how they are advancing knowledge one little step at a time. The book shatters the monolithic term "nanotechnology" into the myriad of facets that it really is. It is a journey through the world of nanotechnology research and development, taking a personal look at how nanotechnologies get created today and by whom. The book covers 122 specific research projects that are happening in laboratories around the world and provides commentaries from the scientists in their own words. However, the collection of stories in this book barely scratches the surface of the vast and growing body of research that leads us into the nanotechnology age. The selection presented in the book is not meant to rank some laboratories and scientists higher than others, nor to imply that the work introduced in the book is more important or valuable than all the work that is not covered. The intention is to give the interested reader an idea of the incredibly diverse aspects that make up nanotechnology research and development - the results of which will bring about a new era of industrial and medical technologies. Nanoscience and nanotechnology research is a truly multidisciplinary and international effort. Each of the chapters is based on a particular scientific paper that has been published in a peer-reviewed journal and, while each story revolves around one or two scientists who were interviewed for this book, many, if not most, of the scientific accomplishments covered in the book are the result of collaborative efforts by several scientists and research groups, often from different organizations and from different countries. The book is different to other books in this field because it provides a novel human touch to nanotechnology research by not only covering a wide range of research topics but also the (often nameless) scientists behind this research. The book is a collection of Spotlight articles from the popular Nanowerk website and each article has been crafted with the author(s) of a scientific paper and signed off by them prior to being posted on Nanowerk. The book is intended for two broad groups of audiences - scientists and nanoscience students who want a bite-size, quick read to get a good first impression of what nanotechnologies are about and how they affect not only their own field but also neighbouring fields and other scientific disciplines further away. And a non-scientific readership that needs to (because it affects their organization and they have to acquaint themselves with nanotechnology) or wants to get a 'non-threatening' (i.e. no formulas, complex diagrams, or unexplained scientific terms) introduction, written by a non-scientist for non-scientists."

Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world-it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is misguided, and that rationalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new. Chronologically organized, the book shows religiously motivated violence across a variety of historical periods and cultures, moving from the ancient to medieval to the modern world, ending with an essay comparing the speeches of an ancient king to the speeches of the current U.S. President.

Intended for students as well as scholars of religion and violence, Belief and Bloodshed discusses how the relationship between religion and violence is not unique to a post-9/11 world_it has existed throughout all of recorded history and culture. The book makes clear the complex interactions between religion, violence, and politics to show that religion as always innocent or always evil is misguided, and that rationalizations by religion for political power and violence are not new. Chronologically organized, the book shows religiously motivated violence across a variety of historical periods and cultures, moving from the ancient to medieval to the modern world, ending with an essay comparing the speeches of an ancient king to the speeches of the current U.S. President.