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The Druze and the Maronites, arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon, have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah attempts to gauge the impact of collective memory on determining the course and the nature of the conflict between these communities in Mount Lebanon. He takes as his focus ‘the War of the Mountain’ in 1982, reconstructing the events of this war through the framework of collective remembrance and oral history.He challenges the idea that these group identities were constructed by their respective centres of power within the Maronite and Druze community, providing an alternative to the prevailing meta-narrative. Telling the stories of the many people who took part in these events, or who simply suffered as a consequence, helps to expose the intrinsic motives which led to this conflict and makes a valuable contribution to the field of Lebanese historical scholarship.

The Druze and the Maronites arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah attempts to gauge the impact of collective memory on determining the course and the nature of the conflict between these communities in Mount Lebanon. He takes as his focus 'the War of the Mountain' in 1982, reconstructing the events of this war through the framework of collective remembrance and oral history.He challenges the idea that these group identities were constructed by their respective centres of power within the Maronite and Druze community, providing an alternative to the prevailing meta-narrative. Telling the stories of the many people who took part in these events, or who simply suffered as a consequence, helps to expose the intrinsic motives which led to this conflict and makes a valuable contribution to the field of Lebanese historical scholarship.

Singular perturbations occur when a small coefficient affects the highest order derivatives in a system of partial differential equations. From the physical point of view singular perturbations generate in the system under consideration thin layers located often but not always at the boundary of the domains that are called boundary layers or internal layers if the layer is located inside the domain. Important physical phenomena occur in boundary layers. The most common boundary layers appear in fluid mechanics, e.g., the flow of air around an airfoil or a whole airplane, or the flow of air around a car. Also in many instances in geophysical fluid mechanics, like the interface of air and earth, or air and ocean. This self-contained monograph is devoted to the study of certain classes of singular perturbation problems mostly related to thermic, fluid mechanics and optics and where mostly elliptic or parabolic equations in a bounded domain are considered. This bookis a fairly unique resource regarding the rigorous mathematical treatment of boundary layer problems.  The explicit methodology developed in this book extends in many different directions the concept of correctors initially introduced  by J. L. Lions, and in particular the lower- and higher-order error estimates of asymptotic expansions are obtained in the setting of functional analysis. The review of differential geometry and treatment of boundary layers in a curved domain is an additional strength of this book. In the context of fluid mechanics, the outstanding open problem of the vanishing viscosity limit of the Navier-Stokes equations is investigated in this book and solved for a number of particular, but physically relevant cases.This book will serve as a unique resource for those studying singular perturbations and boundary layer problems at the advanced graduate level in mathematics or applied mathematics and may be useful for practitioners in other related fields in science and engineering such as aerodynamics, fluid mechanics, geophysical fluid mechanics,  acoustics and optics.

Im Mittelpunkt des Buches stehen folgende Fragestellungen: grundlegende Aspekte internationaler Arbeitsteilung, internationale Arbeitsteilung in aufstrebenden Volkswirtschaften, internationale Arbeitsteilung und Verteilung, besondere Problembereiche internationaler Arbeitsteilung.

Kaum eine Entwicklung hat in den letzten Jahrzehnten den Strukturwandel, die Konjunkturverläufe, das wirtschaftliche Wachstum und die weltwirtschaftliche Integration so beeinflußt, wie die massive Expansion der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien, d.h. der sogenannten Neuen Ökonomie. Diese Arbeit analysiert in hervorrragender Weise die Funktionsgrundlagen, die Wirkungen und die sich durch die New Economy ergebenden Herausforderungen für die Wirtschafts- bzw. Ordnungspolitik. Der Autor beeindruckt vor allem durch die Fülle neuer Überlegungen, wie nicht zuletzt die Betrachtung des Humankapitals im Kontext der Property-Rights-Problematik der New Economy, die Erklärung der Volatilität in der New Economy und auch die Analyse möglicher Spekulationssteuern zeigen. Der Band bietet somit erstklassige neue Ideen und deckt zwischen bekannten Theorien neuartige Zusammenhänge auf - eine Pflichtlektüre für jeden an Fragen der New Economy Interessierten.