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This textbook deals with the basics and methods of photogrammetry and laser scanning which are used to determine the form and location of objects, with measurements provided by sensors placed in air planes as well as on terrestrial platforms. Many...

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Effective team work is essential if innovation projects are to succeed. How to create high-performing innovation teams provides practical guidance and advice on how to create high-performing teams regardless of type or size of company, organizatio...

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Two questions often shape our view of the world. On the one hand, we ask what there is, on the other hand, we ask what there ought to be. Empirical research and normative theory, the methodological traditions concerned with these questions, entere...

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Eine Burganlage an der Stelle des heutigen Schlosses Gottorf, strategisch gnstig gelegen auf einer Insel in der Schlei, wurde erstmals 1161 als Sitz des Schleswiger Bischofs Occo erwhnt. Das Anwesen gelangte 1268 durch Tausch in die Hnde der Herzg...

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This book puts cognition back at the heart of the language learning process and challenges the idea that language acquisition can be meaningfully understood as a purely linguistic phenomenon. For each domain placed under the spotlight - memory, at...

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English edition Villa Silberblick where a mentally deranged Friedrich Nietzsche spent the final years of his life, was originally a middle-class home. Nietzsches sister Elisabeth Frster-Nietzsche not only looked after her ill brother but also expl...

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Die reich illustrierte Publikation stellt Knstlerinnen und Knstler vor, die in der DDR der 1950er- und 1960er-Jahre wiederholt dem Vorwurf des Formalismus" ausgesetzt waren. Die Darstellung dieser frhen Kunstopposition fhrt eindringlich vor A...

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This four volume set covers the entire spectrum of pulp and paper chemistry and technology from starting material to processes and products including market demands. This work is essential for all students of wood science and a useful reference fo...

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This four volume set covers the entire spectrum of pulp and paper chemistry and technology from starting material to processes and products including market demands. This work is essential for all students of wood science and a useful reference fo...

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Bilingual edition German / Italian Glimmering glass beads can be threaded onto thin wire and shaped into flowers - a historical handcraft based in Venice and its famous Murano glass. In this lavishly illustrated book, Georg Ragnar Levi tells the f...

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Recent years have seen a wealth of new scholarship on the history of photography, cinema, digital media, and video games, yet less attention has been devoted to earlier forms of visual culture. The nineteenth century witnessed a dramatic prolifera...

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Volume 53 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry covers the most important aspects of zircon-related research over the past twenty-years and highlight possible future research avenues. The chapters review the structure of zircon and other miner...

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Libraries, archives and museums have traditionally been a part of the public sphere's infrastructure. They have been so by providing public access to culture and knowledge, by being agents for enlightenment and by being public meeting places in th...

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Eine Burganlage an der Stelle des heutigen Schlosses Gottorf, strategisch gnstig gelegen auf einer Insel in der Schlei, wurde erstmals 1161 als Sitz des Schleswiger Bischofs Occo erwhnt. Das Anwesen gelangte 1268 durch Tausch in die Hnde der Herzg...

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As Scandinavian societies experience increased ethno-religious diversity, their Christian-Lutheran heritage and strong traditions of welfare and solidarity are being challenged and contested. This book explores conflicts related to religion as the...

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The interdisciplinary study investigates the relationship between Norse and Saami peoples in the medieval period and focuses on the multifaceted portrayal of Saami peoples in medieval texts. The investigative analysis is anchored in postcolonial m...

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This is the first study to characterize the architectural patronage of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667-1740), and to identify twelve architects during his half century of patronage in his Ecclesiastical court of the Cancelleria. Most eminent among ...

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This textbook introduces the reader to basic problems in the philosophy of science and ethics, mainly by means of examples from medicine. It is based on the conviction that philosophy, medical science, medical informatics, and medical ethics are o...

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Confrontation instead of representation The Austrian cultural sector is facing its greatest existential crisis of the Second Republic. The conceptual foundations of Austrian cultural policy date from the 1970s and are approaching their limits due ...

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The sweetness of music is something that has puzzled Christian theologians for centuries. In this study, Luther's theology of music is approached from the point of view of pleasure. It examines the significance of joy, beauty and pleasure in relat...

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Finalist in the Leadership - Think Differently category of the Goody Business Book Awards 2023 Experts increasingly recognise that our volatile, complex, and fragile world requires a new type of leadership. More than ever, we need leaders who unde...

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Ranging from Antiquity to contemporary analytic philosophy, it provides a concise but thorough analysis of the arguments developed by some of the most outstanding philosophers of all times. Besides the aesthetics of music proper, the volume touche...

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Frontmatter -- Förord -- Kurt Richter -- Innehåll -- I. Mänskligt -- II. Intressant -- III. Lärorikt -- IV. Njutbart -- V. Kuriöst

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This volume contains the proceedings of the Social Ontology, Normativity, and Philosophy of Law conference, which took place on May 30-31, 2019 at the University of Glasgow. At the invitation of the Social Ontology Research Group, a panel of promi...

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In a first, this anthology presents essays by art historians and cultural scientists from both sides of the Atlantic to rediscover, analyze and contextualize the rich and largely unknown art of Winold Reiss, opening up a new, previously untapped a...

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Distinguishing the graphic novel from other types of comic books has presented problems due to the fuzziness of category boundaries. Against the backdrop of prototype theory, the author establishes the graphic novel as a genre whose core feature i...

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The life and work of Carl Maria von Weber, the eminent composer and creator of German opera, are inseparable from the city of Dresden. The museum exhibits furniture, artwork, and unique artifacts from the Weber era in original period rooms. In 181...

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This Reader is a comprehensive text outlining primary approaches to multimodality. In the Theory and Methodology section, the scholars who are responsible for the approaches developments give some personal insight into how and/or why these approac...

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Mit seinem posthum publizierten Spätwerk, der Ästhetischen Theorie (1970), hat Theodor W. Adorno die letzte Ästhetik der Moderne vorgelegt, die zugleich mehr ist als eine philosophische Ästhetik: Reflexion über die gesellschaftliche Möglichkeit re...

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This handbook represents the interdisciplinary and international field of "cultural memory studies" for the first time in one volume. Articles by renowned international scholars offer readers a unique overview of the key concepts of cult...

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