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As both an extra-terrestrial and a terrestrial migrant, the alien provides a critical framework to help us understand the interactions between cultures and to explore the transgressive force of travel over geographical, cultural or linguistic borders. Offering a perspective on the alien that connects to scholarship on immigration and globalization, Alien Imaginations brings together canonical and contemporary works in the literature and cinema of science fiction and transnationalism. By examining the role of the alien through the themes of language, anxiety and identity, the essays...

High voltage engineering is not only a key technology for a safe, economic and sustainable electric power supply. Furthermore, a broad spectrum of applications includes most of the innovative fields in engineering and science, such as medical engineering, laser technology, industrial production, automotive engineering, food technology, bioengineering, nanotechnology, environmental protection, recycling, electromagnetic compatibility, scientific research or superconductivity.

-High Voltage Engineering: Fundamentals - Technologies - Applications- is based on the 3^rd...

Dieses Buch vermittelt ein solides Grundwissen uber Matheorie, indem es die wichtigsten Teile derselben in detaillierten, gut nachvollziehbaren Schritten darlegt sowie mit zahlreichen Beispielen verbindet. Viele Ubungsaufgaben unterschiedlicher Schwierigkeitsgrade unterstutzen dabei das Verstandnis des Stoffes. Zur Selbstkontrolle werden im Anhang Losungen zu samtlichen Ubungsaufgaben angegeben. Anwendungen der Matheorie in der Stochastik werden in Kapiteln uber bedingte Erwartungen und Likelihood-Funktionen aufgezeigt.

Die benotigten Vorkenntnisse sind auf ein Minimum beschrankt,...

Shortlisted for the Katharine Briggs Folkore Award 2003

Malanggan are among the most treasured possessions in the Pacific, yet they continue to confound anthropologists. Central to funerals in New Ireland, these 'death' figures are intended to decompose as symbolic representations of the dead. Wrapped in images that are conceived of as 'skins', they are both visually complex and intriguing. This book is the first to interpret these mysterious agents of resemblance and connection as having a cognitive rather than a linguistic basis.

Found in nearly every ethnographic...