At the height of its power in the summer of 1942, Hitlerite Germany had enslaved four hundred million people; its empire stretched from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, from the English Channel to the Black Sea and almost to the Caspian. Between the Ukrainian steppes and the Pyrenees only Switzerland remained free. Even Mussolini, whom Hitler once...
This volume is planned as a companion to the Routledge History of Islamic Philosophy,
and both take their place in the Routledge History of World Philosophies, a series
designed to supplement and amplify the Routledge History of Philosophy. The idea of
placing histories of Islamic and Jewish philosophy in such close proximity to a...
Botanical remedies, used successfully for centuries in the Orient and routinely used as natural alternatives for prescription drugs in Europe, are currently gaining wide popularity in the United States.
Now the publishers of the most accurate reference for FDA-approved drug information brings you the complete, authoritative...
The migration of immersive media towards telecommunication applications is advancing rapidly. Impressive progress in the field of media compression, media representation, and the larger and ever increasing bandwidth available to the customer, will foster the introduction of these services in the future. One of the key components for the...
This supplementary introductory tutorial treats the following subjects: the basic characteristics of industrial robot mechanisms; the pose and movement of an object, which are described by homogenous transformation matrices; a geometric model of robot mechanism; a short introduction into kinematics and dynamics of robots; robot sensors and the...
By the end of the 1970s, it was clear that all the known forces of nature (including, in a sense, gravity) were examples of gauge theories, characterized by invariance under symmetry transformations chosen independently at each position and each time. These ideas culminated with the finding of the W and Z gauge bosons (and perhaps also the...
A large-format book containing all the grammar from "A Basic English Grammar", and most of the exercises from "BEG: Exercises" together with some new ones, all integrated into the relevant grammar sections. The book has a key and is designed for self-study, resource centres...
This is a full and authoritative account of the history of private banking, beginning with its development in conjunction with the world markets served by and centred on a few European cities, notably Amsterdam and London. These banks were usually partnerships, a form of organization which persisted as the role of private banking changed in...
This volume contains 37 invited contributions, collected to celebrate one hundred volumes of the "NNFM Series". After a general introduction, overviews are given in five parts of the developments in numerical fluid mechanics and related fields. In the first part information about the series is given, its origins are discussed, as well as...
Comprehensive and easy to understand this introductory text on superconductivity was especially written for the nonspecialist. The author, an active researcher in the field for more than forty years, presents the fundamental considerations (without too much mathematics), describes the various phenomena connected with the superconducting state,...
The use of medicinal plants to treat everyday complaints and illnesses is becoming
ever more popular. This pocket guide is aimed not only at doctors and members
of the various healing professions interested in phytotherapy, but also in particular
at interested lay people, for whom this book is intended as a...
