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Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas
Essays on the History of Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year 2000. This book, which builds on six canonical Koolhaas projects, traces the discursive practice behind the design methods used by Koolhaas and his...
by Vassilis Sgoutas
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Through speeches, articles and interviews, this book highlights some of the more significant considerations that have run parallel with Vassilis Sgoutas’ own steps in architecture. It also includes a Random Diary, where the focus is not on what was said or written, but rather on experiences and...
Small Satellite Missions for Earth Observation
New Developments and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2010
This book was compiled from contributions given at the 7th IAA Symposium on Small Satellites for Earth Observation, May 4–8, 2009, Berlin (IAA – International Academy of Astronautics). From the 15 sessions for oral presentations and two poster sessions, 52 contributions were selected which are...
by Matti Leppäranta
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
A large number of boreal lakes are ice-covered in winter. However, research and literature of these lakes concerns by far only the open water season. In particular, no textbook on physics of ice-covered lakes exists, and now it would be a proper time to prepare such.
Winter limnology has become...
Der Letzte macht das Licht aus ...: Zu Lande, zu Wasser und in der Luft - 250 Fluchtgeschichten aus der DDR
Zu Lande, zu Wasser und in der Luft - 250 Fluchtgeschichten aus der DDR
Language: German
Release Date: February 7, 2012
"Der Letzte macht das Licht aus", spottete das DDR-Volk und niemand ahnte, dass dieser Letzte einmal der Staatschef höchstpersönlich sein würde. Als Flüchtling aus dem Osten Deutschlands hatte Erich Honecker am 13. März 1991 das gleiche Motiv wie Millionen seiner Landsleute vor ihm: Er wollte und...
by Pavlos Lefas
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Dieses Buch vermittelt Geschichte durch Theorie und Theorie durch Geschichte. Es begreift die überwältigende Vielfalt der Architektur der Welt von den Anfängen bis heute als integralen Bestandteil der menschlichen Zivilisation und fragt unter anderem nach der Bedeutung von Konzept und Form, nach...
World in Transition: Ways Towards Global Environmental Solutions
Annual Report 1995
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
At the first Conference of the Parties of the Climate Convention in Berlin in Spring 1995 it became evident once again: To counteract anthropogenic climate changes, individuals as well as societies have to change their way of thinking and behavior. This accounts for other areas of global environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
This book celebrates the bicentenary of Schleiermacher’s famous Berlin conference "On the Different Methods of Translating" (1813). It is the product of an international Call for Papers that welcomed scholars from many international universities, inviting them to discuss and illuminate...
Progestins and the Mammary Gland
From Basic Science to Clinical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Progestins play a key role in reproductive endocrinology and as pharmaceutical drugs for contraception and in combined hormone therapy. To further our understanding of progestin action in the mammary gland, an international symposium, attended by leading researchers from academia and industry, was...
Nitrates III
Cardiovascular Effects
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Pharmacological and clinical research on nitrates continues to be of growing interest in many centers. This is surprising in view of the fact that their favorable effects in angina pectoris were described by Brunton and by Murrell in the Lancet more than 100 years ago. As expected, a host of new information...
Critical Leg Ischaemia
Its Pathophysiology and Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Jean Natali The pathophysiology and management of chronic critical limb -ischaemia (CLI) has always been a problematic area, at least partly because it involves doc tors from a wide range of the traditional medical specialities including vascular surgery, angiology, diabetology, haematology and...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2007
This book offers an insight into the approaches taken by industry and academia to address GPCRs and depict how mature this target class-oriented research has become in the last decade. Coverage also reflects the actual trends in the fast-emerging field of GPCR research in academia and industry. It...
Tissue-Specific Estrogen Action
Novel Mechanisms, Novel Ligands, Novel Therapies
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2007
Current molecular understanding of estrogen action has greatly profited from advances in molecular cell biology. These advances, and their implications for clinical use, were discussed by leading researchers from industry and academia during an international symposium held in Berlin, 1-3 March 2006 and are featured in this volume.
Future Trends in Production Engineering
Proceedings of the First Conference of the German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP), Berlin, Germany, 8th-9th June 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
To meet and adapt to the current and future trends and issues in technology and society, the science committee of The German Academic Society for Production Engineering (WGP) continues to define future topics for production technology.
These themes represent not only the key focus for the scientific...