Filter by
Harmonic and Geometric Analysis
This book contains an expanded version of lectures delivered by the authors at the CRM in Spring of 2009. It contains four series of lectures. The first one is an application of harmonic analysis and the Heisenberg group to understand human vision. The second and third series of lectures cover some of the main topics on linear and multilinear harmonic analysis. The last one is a clear introduct…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-0348-0407-3
- Collation
- IX, 170
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 510 CIT h
Research in the Archival Multiverse
Over the past 15 years, the field of archival studies around the world has experienced unprecedented growth within the academy and within the profession, and archival studies graduate education programs today have among the highest enrolments in any information field. During the same period, there has also been unparalleled expansion and innovation in the diversity of methods and theories being…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781876924676
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 001 GIL r
Non-Perturbative Field Theory
Providing a new perspective on quantum field theory, this book gives a pedagogical exposition of non-perturbative methods in relativistic quantum field theory and introduces the reader to modern research in theoretical physics. After describing non-perturbative methods in detail, it uses these methods to explore two-dimensional and four-dimensional gauge dynamics. The book concludes with a summ…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009401654
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Spatial Transformations
This book examines a variety of subjective spatial experiences and knowledge production practices in order to shed new light on the specifics of contemporary socio-spatial change, driven as it is by inter alia, digitalization, transnationalization and migration. Considering the ways in which emerging spatial phenomena are conditioned by an increasing interconnectedness, this book asks how space…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781000462715
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Into the woods
At the centre of concerns related to curbing the decline in forest biodiversity caused by increasing anthropogenic pressure and global change, old-growth forests are mainly characterised by the continuity of their tree cover. This has been defined mainly by their appearance on historical maps and by ecological criteria dating back to certain temporal cut-off points (about two centuries). Inheri…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9782759229079
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Regulating Transitions from School to Work : An Institutional Ethnography of …
How are activation programs for the young unemployed implemented? How do street-level bureaucrats deal with competing rationalities and demands for action? Transition policies increasingly aim at promoting self-regulation and constructing employable subjects. Stephan Dahmen explores the practical regulation of biographical transitions in activation programs for the young unemployed by focusing …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783839457061
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 100 DAH r
The Orientalist Semiotics of Dune
Frank Herbert’s »Dune« (1965) is considered to be one of the most successful Science Fiction novels of the 20th century. It introduces its readers to a future universe, in which the production of the most valuable resource of the universe – ›spice‹ – is only possible on one vast desert planet called Arrakis. »Dune« offers many different motifs, including a hero that eventually tur…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783963178511
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Artistic Research and Literature
What is practice-based literary research? While literature as a discipline is currently not represented in the artistic research discourse, individual writers and scholars have ties to a variety of institutional constellations in which overlaps between literature, art, and research become manifest. 16 of them expand on their methodological approaches as well as their practice, and they analyse …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- -
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Russian Monarchy
This new volume from the author of Scenarios of Power explores the effect of the symbolic and mythical representations of the Russian imperial government on law, administrative practice, and concepts of national and imperial identities throughout centuries of monarchical rule. Richard Wortman demonstrates how the ideologies behind such representations shaped the thought patterns not only of the…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781618118547
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Dictionary of British Arms
This is the second of a four-volume collection of British heraldic arms, arranged alphabetically according to their designs and covering the period before 1530. Listed within this volume are entries from Bend to Chevron. This book will help readers to identify the arms that were widely displayed in the Middle Ages and which can now be found not only on tombs, monuments and seals, but also on te…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780854312689
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography