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Gas-insulated transmission lines (GIL) is an established high voltage technology used when environmental or structural considerations restrict the use of overhead transmission lines. With an overview on the technical, economical and environmental impact and power system implications of GIL, this guide...

This handbook is more than a standard introduction to databases; it is a comprehensive set of tools that makes learning basic database and hypermedia concepts much easier. The basic ideas and architecture of relational and object-oriented databases are presented, followed by hypermedia systems, hypermedia...

Although The Class was written in 1927, its themes remain timeless: the struggle of a teacher to regain power over his unruly class and the personal trauma involved in keeping a dying marriage alive. Joseph Blau does not have a good life. His pupils are out of control, his enigmatic wife, Selma, is too...

"The Luftwaffe - the German Air Force - will no longer have a decisive influence on the outcome of World War II, no matter how long it takes to beat Hitler." It is more than two years since I first heard these words. The man who spoke them to me continued: "No doubt, we will hear of the Luftwaffe...

"The reshaping of our cultural and social landscape continues, creating unprecedented opportunities. But one question remains: Is a life of faith worth embracing? A Faith for the Generations explains how a Christian campus, a classroom, or even a simple mentoring relationship can flourish...

This book offers all important industrial communication systems for buildings in one single book! It stimulates a basic understanding of network and bus systems for the automation of buildings. After an introduction to EIB/KNX, LON und BACnet technologies, the authors illustrate how these systems...

In preparing this volume, which contains the greater part of the Agni hymns of the Rig-veda, namely, those of the Mandalas IV, the translator enjoyed the high advantage of Professor Max Müller's assistance, in the way stated in the Introduction to the first volume of Vedic Hymns, Sacred Books of the East, vol. xxxii, p. xxvii.

A valuable learning tool as well as a reference, this book provides students and researchers in surface science and nanoscience with the theoretical crystallographic foundations, which are necessary to understand local structure and symmetry of bulk crystals, including ideal and real single crystal...

The most important work ever produced in the field of physiological optics, this classic is a model of scientific method and logical procedure, and it remains unmatched in its thorough and accessible approach.This is the third in a three-volume republication of the definitive English translation of...

Central Asia offers a large number of rock art sites with similarities in chronology, techniques and iconography. In South Kazakhstan, there are two important sites: Tamgaly and Kulzhabasy, each with approximately 5,000 engravings. Though Tamgaly was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2004, Kulzhabasy...

Im Jahr 2025 entdecken die gefeuerte NASA-Mitarbeiterin Dr. April Reignar und der Hobbyastronom Jimmy MacPeale, was Ufologen schon immer wussten: Wir sind nicht allein! Ein riesiger Schwarm von Flugobjekten nähert sich der Erde. Fieberhaft versuchen sich Regierungsvertreter wie Ufo-Jünger auf den...

Biom Alpha, der biologisch geprägte Alienschwarm, hat vielerorts Chaos gestiftet. In Afrika wurde von den Außerirdischen sogar eine Regierung gestürzt. Ein Spezialkommando der US-Marines erhält den Befehl, eines der auf der Erde gelandeten Raumschiffe unter seine Kontrolle zu bringen. Die menschlichen...

A newspaperman follows a beautiful woman on a search for her father to a marvelous hidden island, where the denizens travel through the fourth dimension, employ perpetual motion and do many other wonderful things. Two charming love affairs, thrilling perils, pervasive humor, most unusual scenes, a...

Berlijn, 1942, een arrestatieronde van de Gestapo dreigt. Maar de twintigjarige Marie Jalowicz wil leven en duikt onder. Pas vijftig jaar later heeft ze voor het eerst haar verhaal verteld. Daar waren meer dan zevenenzeventig geluidsbanden voor nodig, die de basis vormen voor dit unieke tijdsdocument. Openhartig...