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Politics and Bureaucracy in the EU ExecutiveExamines the nature and functions of the EU Commission and analyses how it is has evolved from an international organization to a political executive and the way in which executive relationships have been 'normalized.'...

Kingship and Narrative Artistry in a Mediaeval Irish SagaThis book explores the strange world of Irish sagas and is the first monograph to offer systematic literary analysis of any single native Irish saga. It presents an analysis of the finest of the sagas, The Destruction of Da Derga&'s Hostel, and invites the reader not only to understand this...

Work, Economy, and Society in Roman ItalyThis volume takes a detailed look at the craftsmen who dealt with high-quality garments in Roman Italy. Using a qualitative analysis of material remains related to economic activities, with a combined study of epigraphic and literary records, it portrays an insightful view of the socio-economic history of...

A posteriori error estimation techniques are fundamental to the efficient numerical solution of PDEs arising in physical and technical applications. This book gives a unified approach to these techniques and guides graduate students, researchers, and practitioners towards understanding, applying and developing self-adaptive discretization methods....

The Experiment that Reshuffled European UtilitiesThis book offers a careful scrutiny of energy and telephony reforms and their social impact on households in 15 countries across Western Europe. It concludes that the benefits for consumers are limited and it discusses the reasons why the European reform experiment of network industries is not living...

Combinatorics is the branch of discrete mathematics that studies (and counts) permutations, combinations, and arrangements of sets of elements. This book constitutes the first book-length survey of the history of combinatorics and uniquely assembles research in the area that would otherwise be inaccessible to the general reader....