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Unser Bild von Antiochia am Orontes, eine der Metropolen der romischen Welt, wird im wesentlichen von den Berichten antiker Autoren gepragt. Gemessen daran ist die spatantike Stadt archaologisch weitgehend gestaltlos geblieben. Doch zeichnet sich immer deutlicher ab, dass die Stadt als Folge von Eroberungen und Naturkatastrophen, aber auch von demographischem und wirtschaftlichem Wandel seit dem 4. Jh. einschneidende Stadtumbauten erlebte.

As paper-based communication and transaction mechanisms are replaced by automated ones, traditional forms of security such as photographs and handwritten signatures are becoming outdated. Most security experts believe that digital certificates offer the best technology for safeguarding electronic communications. They are already widely used for authenticating and encrypting email and software, and eventually will be built into any device or piece of software that must be able to communicate securely. There is a serious problem, however, with this unavoidable trend: unless drastic measures...

Dieses Lehrbuch vermittelt sehr detailliert die zentralen Konzepte der Programmierung in C++. Dabei wird anhand vielfaltiger, komplexer Problemstellungen die Entwicklung korrekten und wiederverwendbaren Codes gezeigt und zudem eine Programmiertechnik vorgestellt, die typische Fehler und Inkonsistenzen zu vermeiden hilft.

In den einzelnen Kapiteln werden Grundlagen und fortgeschrittene Themen zu fast allen Gebieten der Programmierung unter C++ betrachtet. Der Leser wird schrittweise anhand praktischer Aufgaben an die Problemstellungen herangefuhrt. Besonderer Wert wird auf den...

On November 9, 1989, a mob of jubilant Berliners dismantled the wall that had divided their city for nearly forty years; this act of destruction anticipated the momentous demolition of the European communist system. Within two years, the nations of the former Eastern Bloc toppled their authoritarian regimes, and the Soviet Union ceased to exist, fading quietly into the shadows of twentieth century history and memory. By the end of 1991, the United States and other Western nations celebrated the demise of their most feared enemy and reveled in the ideological vindication of capitalism and...

Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring and so elusive to those who make American statecraft. He explores what grand strategy is, why it is so essential, and why it is so hard to get right amid the turbulence of global affairs and the chaos of domestic politics. At a time when grand strategy is very much in vogue, Brands critically appraises just how feasible that endeavor really is.

Brands takes a historical approach to this...

In the late 1970s, the United States often seemed to be a superpower in decline. Battered by crises and setbacks around the globe, its post-World War II international leadership appeared to be draining steadily away. Yet just over a decade later, by the early 1990s, America's global primacy had been reasserted in dramatic fashion. The Cold War had ended with Washington and its allies triumphant; democracy and free markets were spreading like never before. The United States was now enjoying its -unipolar moment---an era in which Washington faced no near-term rivals for global power and...

Grand strategy is one of the most widely used and abused concepts in the foreign policy lexicon. In this important book, Hal Brands explains why grand strategy is a concept that is so alluring and so elusive to those who make American statecraft. He explores what grand strategy is, why it is so essential, and why it is so hard to get right amid the turbulence of global affairs and the chaos of domestic politics. At a time when grand strategy is very much in vogue, Brands critically appraises just how feasible that endeavor really is.

Brands takes a historical approach to this...