Jens: 950 books
Structures and Algorithms
Mathematics and the Nature of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2018
This book explains exactly what human knowledge is. The key concepts in this book are structures and algorithms, i.e., what the readers “see” and how they make use of what they see. Thus in comparison with some other books on the philosophy (or methodology) of science, which employ a syntactic...
Governing Europe
Discourse, Governmentality and European Integration
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004
Governing Europe is the first book to systematically link Michel Foucault's hypotheses on power and 'governmentality' with the study of European integration. Through a series of empirical encounters that spans the fifty-year history of European integration, it explores both the diverse political dreams...
by Jens Henrik Jensen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Language: Dutch
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Niels Oxen, de hoogst gedecoreerde soldaat die ooit diende in het Deense leger, woont en werkt onder een valse identiteit op een viskwekerij in Jutland. Hij is paranoïde en lijdt aan verschrikkelijke nachtmerries. Hij verbergt een persoonlijk geheim dat hem op de been houdt, maar dat hem ook zijn...
by Jens Henrik Jensen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Voor zover iedereen weet is oorlogsveteraan Niels Oxen verongelukt op zee. In werkelijkheid bevindt hij zich op een eiland in de Zweedse archipel, waar hij het dilemma overpeinst dat voor hem ligt.
Als de leiders van het geheime netwerk Danehof ontdekken dat ze er niet in geslaagd zijn Oxen te doden,...
Postcolonial Modernism and the Picaresque Novel
Literatures of Precarity
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
This book is about the contemporary picaresque novel. Despite its popularity, the picaresque, unlike the bildungsroman, is still an undertheorized genre, especially for the context of postcolonial literatures. This study considers the picaresque novel’s traditional focus on poverty and deprivation,...
The Passionate Intellect
Incarnational Humanism and the Future of University Education
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
Too often Christian college students feel they must either downplay their faith or stick to a small circle of like-minded friends and organizations. Somewhere along the way assumptions have taken root that intellectual university life and Christian faith cannot be synthesized.
Klassen and Zimmermann...
Loneliness and Its Opposite
Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2015
Few people these days would oppose making the public realm of space, social services and jobs accessible to women and men with disabilities. But what about access to the private realm of desire and sexuality? How can one also facilitate access to that, in ways that respect the integrity of disabled...
Grundlagen der Logistik
Begriffe, Strukturen und Prozesse
Language: German
Release Date: October 30, 2017
Dieses Buch nimmt eine grundlegende Einführung in die Logistik und eine Einordnung der Logistik in den Wertschöpfungsprozess vor. Dabei wird auch der Frage nachgegangen, in welcher Beziehung Logistik(management) und Supply Chain Management stehen. Neben Begriffen und Strukturen in der Logistik werden...
Metabolic Engineering
Principles and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 1998
Metabolic engineering is a new field with applications in the production of chemicals, fuels, materials, pharmaceuticals, and medicine at the genetic level. The field's novelty is in the synthesis of molecular biology techniques and the tools of mathematical analysis, which allow rational selection...
by Shu-Hong Yu, Vitaliy Budarin, Rafael Luque
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many applications, including renewable energy storage and generation, due to their superior physical properties and availability. The environmentally-friendly production of these materials is crucial for a sustainable future.
This book focuses on the transformation...
Do Historical Matters Matter to Faith?
A Critical Appraisal of Modern and Postmodern Approaches to Scripture
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Is historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible’s storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progressive evangelicals threaten to reduce the Bible’s jurisdiction by undermining its historical claims, every Christian who cares about the integrity of Scripture...
Sudan at the Crossroads - Between Consolidation and a Failing State
Between Consolidation and a Failing State
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2009
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2008 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: 1,0, Helmut Schmidt University - University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg (Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften), course: Staatszerfall und Konfliktökonomien in Afrika, language:...
Guide to Computational Geometry Processing
Foundations, Algorithms, and Methods
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This book reviews the algorithms for processing geometric data, with a practical focus on important techniques not covered by traditional courses on computer vision and computer graphics. Features: presents an overview of the underlying mathematical theory, covering vector spaces, metric space, affine...
The Cultural Career of Coolness
Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term...