Archive for February, 2009
Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria
Susan A. Stephens “Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria”
University of California Press | 2003-01-06 | ISBN: 0520229738 | 304 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB
When, in the third century B.C.E., the Ptolemies became rulers in Egypt, they found themselves not only kings of a Greek population but also pharaohs for the Egyptian people. Offering [...]
The Economist January 31st – February 6th 2009
The Economist (January 31st – February 6th 2009)
138 Pages | English | PDF2,5 MB |Audio135 MB | MP3
Asia’s shock
The slump in East Asia was made at home as well as in the West:
For Asian governments trying to fix their countries’ problems, the temptation is to reach for familiar tools—mercantilist currency policies to boost exports. But [...]
Women in Business (Penguin Readers Level 4)
David Evans, Andy Hopkins, “Women in Business (Penguin Readers, Level 4)”
Pearson ESL | 2002-01-11 | ISBN: 0582453275 | 58 pages | PDF | 2,7 MB
In Women in Business, we see how five women made it to the top in the twentieth century. These women are famous all over the world. They are each from very [...]
50 Activities for Conflict Resolution
50 Activities for Conflict Resolution
HRD Press | 2000 | ISBN: 0874254981 | Pages: 300 | PDF | 1.01 MB
This collection of activities, self-assessments, and exercises is especially useful as a resource to introduce the issue of conflict and its resolution as a part of workshops on management, leadership, communication, negotiation and diversity.
The book is fully [...]
Kushiel’s Mercy (Kushiel’s Legacy)
Jacqueline Carey, “Kushiel’s Mercy (Kushiel’s Legacy)”
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing | 2008-06-12 | ISBN: 0446500046 | 672 pages | PDF | 1.21 MB
From Jacqueline Carey, New York Times bestselling author of Kushiel’s Scion and Kushiel’s Justice, comes the final adventure in the Imriel Trilogy.
Having paid dearly for ignoring Elua’s edict to love as thou wilt, Imriel [...]
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy
David Sedley, “The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy”
Cambridge University Press | 2003-09-15 | ISBN: 0521772850 | 416 pages | PDF | 1,6 MB
This wide-ranging introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world surveys the period’s developments and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. Tables, [...]
Modernism and World War II
Marina MacKay “Modernism and World War II”
Publisher:Cambridge University Press 2007 | 200 Pages | ISBN: 0521872227 | PDF | 1.2 MB
The Second World War marked the beginning of the end of literary modernism in Britain. However, this late period of modernism and its response to the War have not yet received the scholarly attention they [...]
Terry Haydn: History ICT and Learning in the Secondary School
History, ICT and Learning in the Secondary School
RoutledgeFalmer | 2003-04-18 | ISBN: 0415305314 | Pages 224 | PDF | 4.76 MB
Despite the high profile of ICT in education, finding practical and meaningful ways to integrate ICT into lessons can be a difficult and overwhelming task. This book explore the current use and potential of ICT [...]
Sharing a Vision: Systems and Algorithms for Collaboratively-Teleoperated Robotic Cameras
Product Description
The monograph written by Dezhen Song is focused on a robotic camera simultaneously controlled by multiple online users via the Internet. A challenging match between the collaboratively tele-operated robotic cameras and the needs from nature environment observation is sought, which greatly extends the domain of online robots in both application and technology development directions, [...]
Stephan Hu mann – Kombinatorische Optimierung erleben
Stephan Hu?mann – Kombinatorische Optimierung erleben: Im Studium und Unterricht
Pages:311 | PDF | Vieweg Teubner; Auflage: 1 (27. M?rz 2007) | ISBN: 3528032162 | 3.88 MB
In diesem Buch wird an Beispielen aus der Diskreten Mathematik die Verzahnung von Fachwissenschaft und Fachdidaktik vorgeführt. Es gibt eine Einführung und übersicht über die wichtigsten Themen der Kombinatorischen [...]