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Industrial Collaboration in Nazi-Occupied Europe: Norway in Context
This book brings together leading experts to assess how and whether the Nazis were successful in fostering collaboration to secure the resources they required during World War II. These studies of the occupation regimes in Norway and Western Europe reveal that the Nazis developed highly sophisticated instruments of exploitation beyond oppression and looting. The authors highlight that in compar…
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- 1
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- 978-1-137-53422-4
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- XXII, 465
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- Palgrave Studies in Economic History
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- 330 IND
Optimal Sequence-Based Control of Networked Linear Systems
In Networked Control Systems (NCS), components of a control loop are connected by data networks that may introduce time-varying delays and packet losses into the system, which can severly degrade control performance. Hence, this book presents the newly developed S-LQG (Sequence-Based Linear Quadratic Gaussian) controller that combines the sequence-based control method with the well-known LQG ap…
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- 978-3-7315-0305-7
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- XI, 156 S.
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- Karlsruhe Series on Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems / Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Intelligent Sensor-Actuator-Systems Laboratory ; 15
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- 003.74 FIS o
Agency : The Entrepreneurial Self in Narratives of Transformation : Debuting …
Which forms of agency does literature offer to the reader in the twenty-first century? This study investigates migrant lives in contemporary fiction published by young British Asian writers. Examining the protagonists’ ideas of ›success‹ in becoming a full member of their society, Jessica Fischer carves out the naturalised model of homo economicus in these texts and in contemporary fictio…
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- 9783826070365
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- 800 FIS a
Nature Inc.
With global wildlife populations and biodiversity riches in peril, it is obvious that innovative methods of addressing our planet’s environmental problems are needed. But is “the market” the answer? Nature™ Inc. brings together cutting-edge research by respected scholars from around the world to analyze how “neoliberal conservation” is reshaping human–nature relations.
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- 9780816539215
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Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business 12th International Conferenc…
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business, TrustBus 2015, held in Valencia, Spain, in September 2015 in conjunction with DEXA 2015. The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: access control; t…
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- 978-3-319-22906-5
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Precedence: Social Differentiation in the Austronesian World
This collection of papers is the sixth volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers that comprise this volume examine the concept of precedence as a form of local discourse and as a mechanism for ordering status, at different levels, within specific Austronesian-speaking societies. This is the first volume of its kind to focus entirely on precedence and to provide an explication of…
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Animal History in the Modern City Exploring Liminality
Assembling an impressive cast of contributors, this volume employs liminality as a lens through which to study the social and cultural history of animals in the modern city. It includes a variety of case studies, such as the horse-human relationship in the towns of New Spain, hunting practices in 17th-century France, the birth of the zoo in Germany and the role of the stray dog in the Victorian…
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- 9781350054059
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A Concise History of Albania
A Concise History of Albania charts the history of Albania and its people, within their Balkan and European contexts. It shows the country's journey from its ancient past, still shrouded in mystery and controversy, through its difficult transition from a particularly brutal form of communism to an evolving form of democracy and a market economy. Bernd Fischer and Oliver Schmitt challenge some o…
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- 9781139084611
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A Companion to the Works of Heinrich von Kleist
For over 150 years, Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) has been one of the most widely read and performed German authors. His status in the literary canon is firmly established, but he has always been one of Germany's most contentiously discussed authors. Today's critical debate on his unique prose narratives and dramas is as heated as ever. Many critics regard Kleist as a lone presager of the aes…
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- 9781571136176
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A Companion to the Works of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
One of the most independent thinkers in German intellectual history, the Enlightenment author Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-1781) contributed in decisive and lasting fashion to literature, philosophy, theology, criticism, and drama theory. Lessing invented the bürgerliches Trauerspiel (bourgeois tragedy) and wrote one of the first successful German tragedies as well as one of the finest Germa…
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- 9781571136602
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