Belmont Castle

This is the final publication of excavations conducted by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem on the Crusader castle of Belmont (Suba) between 1986 and 1989. The account of the excavation is accompanied by specialist reports and concludes with a discussion of the castle's architecture, its military functions, and its economic role. Library of Congress subject headings for this public…

Belly-Rippers, Surgical Innovation and the Ovariotomy Controversy

This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, whil…

Bell Nonlocality

Nonlocality was discovered by John Bell in 1964, in the context of the debates about quantum theory, but is a phenomenon that can be studied in its own right. Its observation proves that measurements are not revealing pre-determined values, falsifying the idea of “local hidden variables” suggested by Einstein and others. One is then forced to make some radical choice: either nature is intri…

Belief State Planning for Autonomous Driving

This work presents a behavior planning algorithm for automated driving in urban environments with an uncertain and dynamic nature. The algorithm allows to consider the prediction uncertainty (e.g. different intentions), perception uncertainty (e.g. occlusions) as well as the uncertain interactive behavior of the other agents explicitly. Simulating the most likely future scenarios allows to find…

Belief and Worship in Native North America

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Belhar Confession

“The subject of the Belhar Confession is an academic one which has enjoyed international attention, with congregations in the West having adopted it as one of their confessions for use. The content of this book is aimed chiefly at a scholarly community with ample knowledge of confessional documents and is a contribution on the subject of the Belhar Confession. The current challenges to the ch…

Belgium and the Holy See from Gregory XVI to Pius IX (1831-1859)

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Belgian Archaeology in a European Setting. Volume 2

De Belgische archeologie heeft in de laatste jaren een sterke ontwikkeling doorgemaakt. Niet alleen is de archeologische problematiek complexer geworden, ook zijn er meer actoren archeologisch actief geworden, provincies, gemeenten en schoorvoetend ook archeologische bedrijven. Meer dan ooit is een systematische aanpak, een doorgedreven structurering, duidelijke taakafspraken en een vlotte door…

American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia

De auteurs van 'American Visions of the Netherlands East Indies/Indonesia bestrijden de idee dat de Amerikaanse regering en haar buitenlandse beleidsmakers onvoorwaardelijk steun verleenden aan de onafhankelijkheidsstrijd van de Indonesische Republiek, zoals vele Nederlandse geloofden gedurende de periode 1945-1949. Ook in de Verenigde Staten zelf leeft de mythe over Amerika's politieke steun a…

American Teaching About Russia

American Teaching about Russia is a handbook for educators-the only one of its kind in existence-which not only examines the status of Russian and other non-Western studiesin American schools but presents many concrete suggestions for development of this crucial areas in the period of educational expansion that lies ahead. The authors discuss methods, teacher training, curriculum content, place…