This book examines five rhetorical strategies used by the US coal industry to advance its interests in the face of growing economic and environmental pressures: industrial apocalyptic, corporate ventriloquism, technological shell game, hypocrite’s trap, and energy utopia. The authors argue that th...
This book examines the 1930 Supreme Court nomination of John J. Parker, a turning point in American judicial politics. Alarmed by some of his past statements and opinions, labor and civil rights groups mounted a fierce campaign to block his confirmation. Not only was control of the Supreme Court han...
The subject of earth pressure is one of the oldest and most extensive chapters in soil mechanics and foundation engineering and is one of the pillars of structural engineering. First the development of earth pressure theory is comprehensively described. The descriptions range from the first approach...
Wenn sich nackte Männerkörper an Glasscheiben drücken, entstehen neue, überraschende Bilder und Effekte. Mit seinen Bildern schafft Ziolkowski eine Atmosphäre, die metaphorisch mit Körper und Geist, Phantasie und Realismus spielt....
This book examines the 1930 Supreme Court nomination of John J. Parker, a turning point in American judicial politics. Alarmed by some of his past statements and opinions, labor and civil rights groups mounted a fierce campaign to block his confirmation. Not only was control of the Supreme Court han...
The subject of earth pressure is one of the oldest and most extensive chapters in soil mechanics and foundation engineering and is one of the pillars of structural engineering. First the development of earth pressure theory is comprehensively described. The descriptions range from the first approach...
Eine Deadline jagt die andere, schnell noch zum Supermarkt flitzen, die Sporteinheit erledigen und die sieben WhatsApp-Nachrichten beantworten – der Druck, der sich an einem normalen Tag anstaut, kann enorm sein und es ist fordernd, diesen am Abend wieder abzubauen.
Martina Leisten zeigt in diese...
A little bit more than two years after the first edition, we are pleased to publish the second edition of this book. More than half of the chapters have been remodeled and completed as the result of technical improvements and recently acquired clinical data. During these two years, the number of cor...