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Two exciting worlds of science and technology - the nano and micro dimensions. The former is a booming new field of research, the latter the establ...

This volume contains the contributions of the 1st French Brazilian Symposium on "Advanced Polymeric Materials", held at Florianopolis, Brazil, on A...

With its assessment and linking of study reports into a coherent narrative, this book accurately describes the technological and economic opportuni...

On the cutting edge of medical diagnostics, plasma proteomics promises to generate a new wave of technologies to help identify many different disea...

Many physicists are not aware of the fact that they can solve their problems by applying optimization algorithms. Since the number of such algorith...

Professor Skripov obtained worldwide recognition with his monograph "Metastable liquids", published in English by Wiley and Sons. Based upon this w...

The goal of visualization is the accurate, interactive, and intuitive presentation of data. Complex numerical simulations, high-resolution imaging ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Declarative Agent Languages and Techno...

The LNCS Journal Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development is devoted to all facets of aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) techn...

This book could have been entitled "Analysis and Geometry." The authors are addressing the following issue: Is it possible to perform some harmonic...

This book presents an enterprise modeling language that allows the construction of integrated enterprise architecture models. It also details techn...

Capturing the state of the art of the interplay between partial differential equations, functional analysis, maximal regularity, and probability th...

Product Description In numerous civilizations throughout world history city walls were an indispensable part of every city. In China they can ...

Claude Lorrain (c. 1600/1604-1682) is justifiably referred to as the father of European landscape painting. Basing his work on carefully observed s...

Sasha Waltz is a pioneer of the so-called "turn to the installation". She is expanding the field of the installation to include actions and people....

Discover the captivating world of art and creativity with this stunning book that invites you to explore the depths of human expression. Perfect fo...

In 1955, Mercedes-Benz wins the sports car world championship with the racing car 300 SLR (W 196 S). In addition to the titles achieved that same y...

In his singular paintings, Niklaus Manuel Gudel (*1988 in Delemont, Switzerland) assigns a void to the actual pictorial subject. The people or anim...

For Stefan Hanke (*1961 in Regensburg), each new day harbored the danger of being able to meet one less person who had survived one of the greatest...

What began as an academic initiative to improve the quality of life of poor strata of the population has meanwhile become a professional "do tank" ...

Difficult to categorize and branded as "naive"-art history had and still has a hard time with works by the great autodidacts: artists such as Henri...

The Swiss artist Christoph Hansli (*1963) gained international recognition a few years ago for his epic work, Mortadella (2006-08), a series of 332...

Ashley Hans Scheirl overcomes the limitations of media as easily as she deals with gender and cultural norms. Born Angela Scheirl, the artist achie...

The work of Angela Bulloch (*1966, Rainy River, Canada, currently based in Berlin) spans many media, manifesting her interest in systems, patterns ...

Sigmund Freud himself was certainly aware of the significance of psychoanalysis when he founded it: he saw it on the same level as the Copernican r...

Summer in Siberia? What does that feel like? Is Siberia perhaps a new travel destination we didn't know about? How is climate change making itself ...

Two of the most important Spanish sculptors of the sixteenth century and their work in Naples can be found here together in an opulent art book. Du...

The publication presents Joan Miro's (1893- 1983) mural art in the context of his life's work. Miro's ideas for large-scale mural art can be traced...

Rapunzel, the famous fairy - tale character of the Brothers Grimm, comes from the world of magic. She is the girl, lover, woman and mother who e...

At a time when extreme climatic phenomena, air quality, and industrial impact are among the most pressing issues on the public agenda, the dramatic...

Emigration, being lost in a strange world, the search for a new identityand longing for things and people that have been lost form the central topi...

The iF product design award was introduced in 1954 and is annually conferred by iF Industrie Forum Design of Hanover, Germany. Each year the iF awa...

Discover the hidden treasures of literature with this used book, a gem that has stood the test of time! Perfect for avid readers and collectors ali...

Product Description The most important book on Richard Hamilton’s life and work Richard Hamilton (1922 – 2011) was an English painter and col...

Product Description One of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) creates immersive environments and spectacul...

Discover the transformative power of self-discovery and personal growth in this compelling guide that will inspire you to unlock your true potentia...

Text in English and German. Shortly after the navy had given up its Flensburg Fjord base a group of developers acquired the site which comprises 7 ...

Product Description In the summer of 1955 a relatively naive and uninformed John Cohen crossed thestraits of Gibraltar. He arrived in Tangier with...

Product Description The origins of this book lie in David Goldblatt’s simple observation that many of his fellow South Africans, regardless of...

The Spirit of Lagaan is the extraordinary story of a thousand days in the lives of Aamir Khan, Ashutosh Gowarikar and their mammoth team which made...

The principal characteristics of the achitectural works presented in this book relate to different types of buildings: infrastructure and urban dev...

The natural framework of high-energy physics is relativistic quantum ?eld theory. This is a complex subject, and it is di?cult to illustrate it in ...

Product Description The first monograph of a contemporary artist, whose work offers a look at the world from a different glance, refusing to be bl...

The works by the architect and designer Federico Delrosso (1964) constantly reflect a passing of the torch between past and present that, far from ...

The Peruvian artist Jorge Eielson is a pivotal figure in the twentieth century art, whose importance is gradually garnering international attention...

Product Description Born in Camaguey, Cuba in 1955, Demi depicts a vibrant and intimate universe centered upon children, but hers is neither a sug...

This monograph includes Eric Maillet entire body of personal photographic work. Water and nature occupy a very important place in Maillet's work wi...

Product Description At 80 feet high, 40 feet wide and 35 feet deep, Albert Paleys most recent sculpture is the latest work by this monumental arti...