Michael N : 270 books

Postcolonialism has greatly influenced biblical and theological criticism but has not yet entered the realm of church worship and practice. 'Christian Worship' brings the insights of postcolonial thinking to the rituals of religious life. The book critically analyses liturgical theology through the...

The Rotterdam Rules represent the most comprehensive overhaul of the law of carriage of goods by sea in more than fifty years. To coincide with the signing ceremony, six members of the Institute of Maritime Law have written a detailed commentary on the Rules. The Rotterdam Rules: A Practical Annotation...

New Research and Developments of Water-Soluble Vitamins, Volume 83, provides updated knowledge about nutrients in foods and how to avoid their deficiency, especially for those essential nutrients that should be present in the diet to reduce disease risk and optimize health. The book provides the latest...

GIS (geographic information system) is a totally cool technology that has been called “geography on steroids.” GIS is what lets you see the schools in your neighborhood or tells you where the nearest McDonald’s is. GIS For Dummies tells you all about mapping terminology and digital mapping,...

This book presents essential algorithms for the image processing pipeline of photo-printers and accompanying software tools, offering an exposition of multiple image enhancement algorithms, smart aspect-ratio changing techniques for borderless printing and approaches for non-standard printing modes....

Tallinn Manual 2.0 expands on the highly influential first edition by extending its coverage of the international law governing cyber operations to peacetime legal regimes. The product of a three-year follow-on project by a new group of twenty renowned international law experts, it addresses such...

The increasing demand for healthy foods has resulted in the food industry developing functional foods with health-promoting and/or disease preventing properties. However, many of these products bring new challenges. While drugs are taken for their efficacy, functional foods need to have tastes that...

Jud Userle, a poor potato farmers son from northern Maine, became the hapless victim of a war in which he never really participated. Three decades of his life had been taken from him, and, in that time, it is ironic that the only real freedom he experienced was a prisoner in northern Vietnam. His...

Apollonius’s Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity.  The work comprised eight books, of which four have come down to us in their original Greek and three in Arabic.  By the time the Arabic translations were produced, the eighth book had already been lost. In...

This book continues first one of the same authors “Adaptive Image Processing Algorithms for Printing” and presents methods and software solutions for copying and scanning various types of documents by conventional office equipment, offering techniques for correction of distortions and enhancement...

"Die von ihrer materiellen und politischen Last befreite Kirche kann sich besser und auf wahrhaft christliche Weise der ganzen Welt zuwenden, wirklich weltoffen sein ... Um so mehr ist es wieder an der Zeit, die wahre Entweltlichung zu finden, die Weltlichkeit der Kirche beherzt abzulegen."...

In diesem Buch seigt der Autor, wie man mit wenig Aufwand und etwas handwerklichem Geschick sogenannte Monoblockklimaanlagen effizient umbaut und sogar eine Wärmepumpe daraus gestalten kann. Aus einem Luftentfeuchter wird eine günstige und effiziente Klimaanlage für ein Wohnmobil oder Wohnwagen.

Haben Sie nicht auch schon einmal davon geträumt, sich Ihr eigenes Wohnmobil auszubauen? Dieses Buch beschreibt Schritt für Schritt den Ausbau eines Kastenwagens zum günstigen Wohnmobil. Neben den Themen Gebrauchtwagenkauf, Planung, Grundrisse, Wasserversorgung, Strom- und Gasinstallation, Heizung,...

Energiekriese, Klimawandel und steigende Strompreise? Nicht mit dem Energieheimwerker! Bauen Sie sich jetzt Ihr eigenes, günstiges Blockheizkraftwerk im Inselbetrieb! Erzeugen Sie in Zukunft hocheffizient und umweltfreundlich Strom und Wärme für den eigenen Bedarf! Dieses Buch zeigt anhand eines selbst...