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Elizabeth Smith Shortt was one of the first three women to obtain a medical degree in Canada, and her husband, Adam Shortt, enjoyed a successful career as a professor of politics and economics at Queen's University in Kingston. In 1908 Adam Shortt relocated his family to Ottawa to take up a commission to oversee civil service reform under Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. There he convinced his superiors that an onsite investigation of four European countries would expedite his effort to improve Canada's bureaucracy, and in June 1911 he and Elizabeth embarked on their trip. This book...

This book presents the first comprehensive approach integrating WCET considerations into the code generation process. Based on the proposed reconciliation between a compiler and a timing analyzer, a wide range of novel optimization techniques is provided.

This is the moving story of how Jackie Robinson became the first black player on a Major League baseball team when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in the 1940s, and how on a fateful day in Cincinnati, Pee Wee Reese took a stand and declared Jackie his teammate. Illustrated with a blend of historic photographs and eloquent watercolors by Paul Bacon.

The automotive industry is still one of the world's largest manufacturing sectors, but it suffers from being very technology-focused as well as being relatively short-term focused. There is little emphasis within the industry and its consultancy and analyst supply network on the broader social and economic impacts of automobility and of the sector that provides it.

The Global Automotive Industry addresses this need and is a first port of call for any academic, official or consultant wanting an overview of the state of the industry. An international team of specialist...

Das Diabolische war der englischen Literatur stets ein groeres Problem als der Anglistik; so ist die Forschung kaum uber Einzelbetrachtungen und bruchstuckhafte Motivgeschichten hinausgekommen. Die vorliegende Studie unternimmt hingegen eine diachrone Schau vom 16. bis zum Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts aus funktionsgeschichtlicher Perspektive: Welche Funktionen und Wirkungen hatte das Teuflische innerhalb und auerhalb von Texten? Wem nutzten solche Wirkungen? So richtet sich das Augenmerk auf einschlagig bekannte Werke wie die morality plays, Marlowes Doctor Faustus, Miltons Paradise...