Dieter Roth was a multi-faceted artist, as is shown in this third volume in a series of books featuring works from the Dieter Roth Foundation. He worked in many media and "Books + Multiples" includes over 200 artist's books, 40 multiples, jewellery, films, videos, tapes, records and posters produced over a 50-year period. Beginning in the 1950s, ...
Whether you are interested in the first unification of the Germanic states in 1871, the late 20th-century reunified Germany, the Weimar Republic, of the Third Reich, here is an English language quick reference guide on this major European power. The encyclopaedia presents a broad spectrum of information that range from essays to brief paragraphs, ...
The statistical analysis of extreme data is important for various disciplines, including hydrology, insurance, finance, engineering and environmental sciences. This book provides a self-contained introduction to the parametric modeling, exploratory analysis and statistical interference for extreme values. The entire text of this third edition has ...
An examination of the effectiveness of material incentives in negotiating arms agreements. It asks whether or not it is sensible to "buy" co-operation from critical states and explores various cases of nuclear non-proliferation diplomacy, including experiences with Ukraine and North Korea.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Foundations of Information and Knowledge Systems, FoIKS 2002, held at Salzau Castle, Germany in February 2002. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 55 submissions. All current issues on the foundations and ...
This volume presents a well balanced combination of state-of-the-art theoretical results in the field of nonlinear controller and observer design, combined with industrial applications stemming from mechatronics, electrical, (bio) chemical engineering, and fluid dynamics. The unique combination of results of finite as well as infinite dimensional ...
Methodological knowledge acquisition and knowledge engineering have achieved increasing attention in recent years due both to active research projects and to successful practical applications. Both aspects have over the years been reflected in the structure of the European Knowledge Acquisition Workshops (EKAW), where a users' forum has always ...
The most famous racing drivers drove it, and, for a long time, it was a guaranteed winner for Porsche. Now, finally, the first comprehensive work about the 908 has been published in the English language. The authors portray the fascinating history of the Porsche 908 racing car, and clearly explain its complex technology. Racing history is fully ...
A central figure of the new wave of German photography that first arrived in the 1970s, Thomas Struth has continued to impact the world of photography with his large-scale museum interiors, portraits, and architectural photography. Struth has emerged as one of the most compelling voices in contemporary art's critique of the subject and the socio ...
A detailed new examination of the initiatives governments are exploring to reform the institutions and procedures of liberal democracy in order to provide more opportunities for political participation and inclusion. Combining theory and empirical case studies, this is a systematic evaluation of the most visible and explicit efforts to engineer ...
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 ...
This book contains selected papers given at an interdisciplinary conference about "The Perceptions of China: Images of a Global Player," which took place in Hong Kong in March 2006. The articles deal with different images and perceptions of China in the past and present, and analyze the power of images, not only from a Western but also from an ...
Equally inspired by photographs, magazines, ads, comics, and his own personal studies and drawings, Thomas Scheibitz's colorful paintings attempt to come to grips with objective representation.
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