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Der Band versammelt eine Auswahl grundlegender Texte, die Antwort auf zwei Fragen geben sollen, die sich mit dem sogenannten cultural turn zwangsläufig stellen: Was ist Kultur? Und: Was ist Kulturwissenschaft? Neben Texten von prominenten Vertretern der sogenannten ersten Kulturwissenschaft und programmatischen Texten der heftig diskutierten...

Until now, novices had to painstakingly dig through the literature to discover how to use Monte Carlo techniques for solving electromagnetic problems. Written by one of the foremost researchers in the field, "Monte Carlo Methods for Electromagnetics" provides a solid understanding of these methods and their applications in electromagnetic...

In the "Book of Revelations", the Four Horsemen herald the arrival of the Apocalypse. When the First Horseman thunders forth, pestilence will spread throughout the land. For the First Horseman is Plague...The Spanish Flu killed thirty million people worldwide in 1918. Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds...

Readers of the Analects of Confucius tend to approach the text asking what Confucius believed; what were the views that comprise the 'ism' appended to his name in English? A Reader's Companion to the Confucian Analects suggests a different approach: he basically taught his students not doctrines, but ways for each of them to find meaning and...

From twice-Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Steve Coll comes "Private Empire", winner of the Ft/Goldman Sachs business book of the year award 2012. The oil giant ExxonMobil makes more money annually than the GDP of most countries; has greater sway than US embassies abroad; and spends more on lobbying than any other corporation. Yet to outsiders it is...

Este relato fue la primera piedra del espacio literario más poderoso de las letras universales de nuestro tiempo: Macondo. Estos relatos tempranos de Gabriel García Márquez fueron escritos y publicados entre 1947 y 1955, aunque, como libro, Ojos de perro azul no aparecería hasta 1974 cuando el escritor ya había publicado otros dos libros de relatos...