springer netherlands jan 1975 (23 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -As the central event of modern times, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 remains a major focus of historical investigation and controversy. Unavoidably, the conception of the historical problems and the evidence presented are shaped by the historian's view on both the desirability and the inevitability of the Bolshevik Revolution. The years 1890-1917 are particularly important as the crucible in which revolutionary forces developed. In the nineties, Finance Minister Sergei Witte laid the groundwork for a modern economy. While he achieved many of his economic goals, the stresses and strains of forced draft industrialization contributed to the revival of the revolutionary movement; political instability was their immediate effect. By the turn of the century the peasants were in open revolt, an alienated and militant urban proletariat was emerging, and a cohesive liberal opposition was beginning to develop. All these groups demanded fundamental reforms including full political rights for all citizens. By 1905 they had gathered sufficient strength to force the government to issue a constitution and a legislature called the Duma. Neither side, however, was satisfied. The Imperial government tried to take back what it had granted under duress and the opposition parties attempted to discredit the system as 'sham constitutionalism. ' Only a small center was willing to work with the government and the government was not always willing to work with them. 260 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -It is one of the ironies of our times that, as the practise of religion wanes, a theoretical interest in it on the part of many anthropologists, psychologists, sociologists and philosophers waxes. Among these, only philosophers bring to their task a long history of theological and reli gious relations. Hence their renewed interest has been hailed as a break down of isolationism, heralding, perhaps, a new era of interdisciplinary peace. To celebrate this new ecumenism, a Chicago seminary, consis tently with its purpose, sponsored a colloquium to explore the future of philosophical theology. If some of its participating professional philosophers initially felt a twinge of embarrassment over their presence at an ostensibly theological meeting, they soon were at ease. No one was called upon to define the topic, or even to suggest its relationship to a philosophy of religion. Conveniently, everyone could role up his sleeves and get to work on a job he personally felt needed doing. Can we wonder that the lay observer appeared somewhat confused Was the purpose to analyze 'God talk,' or to find a place for 'God' in a metaphysical scheme Or if not these, something else It soon became evident that the participants in the colloquium ranged from the free swinger to the severely inhibited, depending upon the role each assigned to dogma and creed. 200 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -I. Confirming Answers to Moral Questions.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The Right and the Good According to Lewis.- 3. Evaluative Sentences Analyzed.- 4. Ambiguities in Moral Questions.- II. Toward an Approach to Ethical Justification.- 5. Lewis¿ Approach to Ethical Justification.- 6. Rationality as More Than Consistency.- 7. An Initial Look at Another Approach.- 8. What is Intrinsically Good and Why: The Outline of an Argument.- 9. Justification and Morality Enforcement.- III. The Fundamental Imperative of Rationality.- 10. Absolute, Objective, and Subjective Rationality.- 11. The Ideal Observer Standpoint.- 12. Rationality Where Probabilities Differ.- 13. The Rationale.- 14. Rationality, Prudential Goodness, and an Alleged Paradox.- IV. The Maximum Social Goodness Imperative.- 15. The Golden Rule.- 16. ¿Social Goodness¿ Defined.- 17. What Counts as an Act.- 18. The General Use.- 19. The General Use as Morally Fundamental.- V. The Ideal Observer Moral Code.- 20. The Ideal Observer Criterion.- 21. The Need for Simplicity, Ease of Application, and Uniformity.- 22. Exceptions to the Rules.- 23. Borderline Cases.- 24. Conflicting Rules.- 25. A Comparison with Classical Utilitarianism.- 26. A Comparison with the ¿Ideal Moral Code¿ Criterion.- VI. The Plausibility of Justification.- 27. A Foreword on Justice.- 28. The Ideal Observer Moral Code vs. a Discriminatory Moral Code.- 29. Final Formulation of the Approach to Justification.- 30. Conclusion.- Works Referred To. 204 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The present work is the product of several years study of the various aspects of Kant's Critical Philosophy and Hume's naturalism. During that time many individuals have helped with this work and it is hardly possible to set down the names of all of them. One name does deserve special mention - Prof. Dr. H. Heimsoeth with whom the author has discussed some of the very knotty problems of Kantian Philosophy. Although Hume has been - as Karrt freely admits in the Preface to his 'Prolegomena' - one of the most decisive influences and turning points in the philosophical development of Karrt, the author does not thematize in this work the age-old problem of whether Kant really read, understood and refuted Hume. That it has been, ever since Hume wrote, a favorite pursuit among philosophers to answer him, to refute him, arrd to refute Kant's attempt at refutation of hirn, irrespective of its being convincing or not, must be mentioned with special respect. 116 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -One Life, Background and Views.- I. The Symbol and the Man.- II. Moral Lessons in Aeschylean Drama.- III. Tim¿nd Time.- Two The Oresteia.- IV. Agamemnon.- V. Crime, Punishment and Judgment.- Three The Rhythm of Morality.- VI. Prometheus Bound.- VII. The Danaid Trilogy.- VIII. Plays with odd endings: Persians and Seven Against Thebes.- References. 224 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Space exploration is a development which began with the launching of the first artificial satellite in 1957. Since then an incredible progress has been made, leading to the landing of man on the moon. A quick look at the number of launchings which have been registered with the United Nations will show the influence of space science and technology on human endeavours. For example, satellites can be used for com munication, weather forecasting, education, and remote sensing of the resources of the Earth. The United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space is the focal point of international co-operation in space activities. The Committee regulates these activities through its Legal Sub-Committee. The setting up of the Committee was preceded by an Ad Hoc Committee which was established on 31 December 1958. The initial difficulty which confronted the Ad Hoc Committee was the issue of its member ship. The USSR, Czechoslovakia and Poland decided not to participate in its work because they were dissatisfied with the composition of the Ad Hoc Committee. Later, both the UAR and India also decided not to participate in its work. Although the Ad Hoc Committee succeeded in producing a report in 1959 (UN document A/4141), the progress of work of the Main Committee was in limbo for a while. It was not until 1961 that the disagreements were resolved. The Committee conducts its business without voting -the Chairman simply states the consensus of views which have been expressed. 300 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -I Jurisdiction.- I: Political Jurisdiction.- Section I: Jurisdiction of the Principal Organs of The United Nations.- 1. The United Nations as summa of its organs.- 2. The eminently political character of the United Nations.- 3. Composition of the United Nations organs.- 4. Interests pursued by States.- 5. Expediency characterizing the jurisdiction of the United Nations political organs.- 6. Legality and expediency in the activities of the United Nations political organs.- 7. The public policy character of the jurisdiction possessed by the United Nations political organs.- Section 2: Jurisdiction of the Subsidiary Organs of the United Nations.- 8. Concept of ¿subsidiary organ¿.- 9. Relationship between the principal organ and its subsidiary.- 2: Distribution and Concurrence of Jurisdictions in International Law.- Section I: Distribution Of Jurisdictions.- 10. Fundamental function of contemporary international law.- 11. Definition of jurisdiction of the United Nations qua international person.- 12. Delimitation of jurisdiction of the United Nations from the ¿reserved domain¿ of member States.- 13. Separation of jurisdiction among the organs of the United Nations.- Section 2: Concurrent Jurisdiction.- 14. Negative and positive conflicts of jurisdiction.- 15. Concurrent jurisdiction between the United Nations taken as a whole and States.- 16. Concurrent jurisdiction between the United Nations and other international bodies.- 17. Concurrent jurisdiction between the United Nations political organs and the International Court of Justice.- 18. Concurrent jurisdiction between the political organs of the United Nations.- II Preliminary Objections.- 3: Categories of Preliminary Objections and their Legal Foundation.- Section 1: Concept, Function and Categories of Preliminary Objections.- 19. Preliminary objections to jurisdiction and arguments on the merits.- 20. Preliminary objections to the jurisdiction of organs and to the admissibility of the complaint.- Section 2: Legal Foundation Of Preliminary Objections.- 21. Legal doctrines as a source of the law of the United Nations.- 22. Character of the legal doctrines related to the jurisdiction of the United Nations political organs.- 4: Objection Ultra Vires.- Section 1: Doctrine of Ultra Vires.- 23. Source of jurisdiction.- 24. Principle of speciality.- 25. Definition of powers.- Section 2: Objection Ultra Vires.- 26. Concept and legal basis of the objection.- 27. Difficulties in raising the objection.- 28. Legal nature and effects of the objection.- 5: Objection Conditio Sine Qua Non.- Section I: Doctrine of Conditio Sine Qua Non.- 29. Conditio sine qua non in general international law.- 30. Conditio sine qua non in the law of the United Nations.- 31. Nature of the ¿priority clause¿ contained in Article 33, paragraph 1, of the Charter.- Section 2: Objection Conditio Sine Qua Non.- 32. Character and effects of the objection.- 6: Objection Electa Una Via.- Section I: Doctrine of Electa Una Via.- 33. Electa una via in general international law.- 34. Doctrine of electa una via in the law of the United Nations.- Section 2: Objection Electa Una Via.- 35. Function of the objection.- 36. Objection electa una via based on Article 52, paragraph 2, of the Charter.- 7: Objection Lis Pendens.- Section I: Doctrine of Lis Pendens.- 37. General considerations.- 38. Characteristics of the doctrine of litispendence in inter-State relations.- Section 2: Doctrine of Litispendence in the Law of the United Nations.- 39. Introductory remark.- 40. ¿Political¿ litispendence provided for in Article 12, paragraph 1, of the Charter.- 41 ¿Special¿ litispendence provided for in Article 36, paragraph 2, of the Charter.- Section 3: Objection Lis Pendens.- 42. Concept, legal nature, and effects of the objection.- 43. Comparison of the objection lis pendens with the objections electa una via and res judicata.- 8: Objection Res Judicata.- Section I: Doctrine of Res Judicata.- 44. Concept and conditions of res judicata.- 45. Characteristics of the doctrine in the law of the United Nations.- Section 2: Objection Res Judicata.- 46. Objection res judicata in the law of the United Nations.- 47. Categories of res judicata.- 48. Rule non ultra petita.- III Final Determination.- 9: Determination of the Validity of Preliminary Objections.- Section I: Judicial Determination.- 49. Final determination of the validity of the objections.- 50. Judicial determination at the request of member States.- 51. Advisory jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice.- Section 2: Political Determination.- 52. Recourse to ad hoc committees of jurists or joint conferences.- 53. Determination made by the political organ in which the objections have been raised (the theory of ¿la comp¿nce de la comp¿nce¿).- 54. Determination made by States (the right of last resort).- 10: Procedural Questions Related to Preliminary Objections.- Section I: Raising the Objections.- 55. Subjects entitled to raise the objections.- 56. Legal means and procedures by which the objections can be raised.- 57. Time for raising the objections.- 58. Burden of proof.- Section 2: Decisions On Objections.- 59. Questions of priority of decisions on preliminary objections and reservation of jurisdiction.- 60. Judicial redress.- Table of cases.- Index of subjects.- Index of countries and other territories.- Index of names.- Articles.- Resolutions.- Commissions and committees.- Reports. 244 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The object of this study is to provide a guide to an understanding of the relationship between the European Economic Community and the Developing Countries. On 1 January, 19 3, the United Kingdom, Denmark and Ireland became Members of the European Economic Community, thus stepping up the number of Member States to nine. This enlargement of the Community opened a new phase of the relationship between the Community and the Developing Countries. In order to elaborate upon the evolution of this relationship, reliance must be placed on Part IV of the EEC Treaty, the provisions of the two Yaounde Conventions and the new ACP-EEC Convention of Lom~. The study is conceived of in six Chapters. The first Chapter deals with the background and early developments of the European Economic Community in relation to the concept of Association. The second considers a comparative analysis of the institutional provisions of the Yaounde Conventions. Chapter III is devoted to a historiaal study of certain provisions of Yaounde II Convention as a basis for the interpretation of the ACP-EEC Convention of LomA. The fourth Chapter deals with political and economic considerations - topics of considerable importance to the Contracting Parties, more particularly, the Developing Countries. A synoptic analysis of the ACP-EEC Convention of Lom6 is taken up in Chapter V, while Chapter VI sums up general conclusions based on Chapters I - V. 560 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -We live in a time of functionalism, operationalism and technologism with all its levelling, depersonalising and dehumanising effects. In such an age, the question arises of philosophy as critical, reflective theory about the world, man's position and purpose in the world and the relationship between philosophy and man as a free individual. This book makes an attempt to give an answer to this question. It has been written from great concern as to the future destiny of mankind, in the light of various contemporary attempts at the abolition of philosophy and at merging it in practice, as this practice is seen by the respective thinker or school of thought. This work may be seen as representing an answer to such attempts, as they are made, for instance, by the advocates of linguistic analysis or by representatives of the so-called Frankfurt School respectively. By an analysis of Western thought in general with emphasis on the present, the author of this book seeks to show that the abdication of philosophy as critical, reflective theory leads to the abdication of man as a critical, reflective individual, one that is free to dissent and to say No to the system. Man is perverted and alienated from his true nature. He is forced to conform and to lead an 'unauthentic existence' within the system. 180 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this volume, I have given attention to what I consider to be some of the central problems and topics in the philosophical thought of SjiSren Kierkegaard. Some of the chapters have been previously publish ed but were revised for their appearance here. Others were written expressly for this book. I have tried to focus on issues which have not been customarily dealt with or emphasized in the scholarship on Kierkegaard with the exception of the writings of David Swenson and Paul L. Holmer to which (and to whom) I am greatly indebted. Some of the positions for which I have argued in this volume (especially in Chapters IV and V) may be controversial. I am grateful to all those who enabled me to carry out or influenced me in my studies of Kierkegaard or who assisted with regard to the research for or preparation of this volume. Among these are: Professors Paul L. Holmer, F. Arthur Jacobson, and Dennis A. Rohatyn; Dean Wallace A. Russell and Vice President Daniel J. Zaffarano of Iowa State University. 92 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This Festschrift is dedicated to Prof. Dr. J. van Baal on the occasion of his retirement from the chair of cultural anthropology at the University of Utrecht. The essays presented here are written by fellow scholars in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of anthropology. In order to arrange the papers araund a theme that has never ceased to fascinate van Baal, we have asked the contributors to concentrate on a rel igious subject. Within this broad area no specific topics have been solicit ed, and the authors-- mainly fellow anthropologists and students of relig ion-- have been able to pursue their own personal interests in the articles. Nevertheless, when the papers were collected, we found it possible to group them under three headings, each of which represents a facet of 1an Baal's enduring interests. Of course, some overlap is inevitable, as it is in any categorisation of heterogeneaus items. The topics of the three sections by no means represent an exhaustive inventory of all fields van Baal has successfully explored. The focus on religion necessarily leaves out many problems van Baal has actively occ- ied hirnself with during his many-sided career. Thus the academic stance of the Festschrift in no way pays tribute to his prolonged concern with admi. 316 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The Scope of the Work The main purpose of this work is to give a critical edition of a Javanese text - the Serat Cabolek - together with an Introduction, an English trans lation of the text, and Notes. The present publication is a slighdy revised version of a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Australian National Univer sity in 1967. The Introduction to the text begins with a brief description of each of the extant MSS of the Serat Cabolek to be found in the Manuscript Sections of the Jakarta Museum Library and the Lembaga Kebudayaan Indonesia and in the Griental Manuscripts Section of the Leiden University Library. In addition, a description is given of a printed version of the Serat Cabolek. The eleven MSS and the printed text are compared with one another on the points of form, structure and content, in order to discover their mutual relationship. From this comparison it becomes clear that no matter how much these eleven MSS and the printed text of theSerat Cabolek may differ the one from the other, they all share a common core and all ultimately derive from a single source. The kernel of the Serat Cabolek in all probability comprised only the following sections: (1) the story dealing with the trial of Haji Mutamakin by the Kartasura tribunal; (2) the teaching of Dewa Ruci to Bhima; and (3) a commentary on Dewa Ruds counsel to Bhima. 248 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Although the novel, Voyages el avantures de Jaques Masse, caused some thing of a stir during the first half of the eighteenth century, its author, Simon Tyssot de Patot (1655-1738), remained largely unknown in his lifetime, and it is only in this century that he has been recognized as one of the countless soldiers in the vast army of philosophes that assaulted the bastions of religious, political and sodallife in Europe of the late seven 1 teenth and early eighteenth centuries. Tyssot was a Huguenot who lived most of his life in Holland where he pursued a career as professor of mathematics in the sodal and cultural 1 Tyssot and his work seem to have been first brought to the attention of modem writers by the German critics during their investigation of the type of desert island or robinsonade literature that preceded and followed Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. The earliest reference I have found occurs in A. Kippenberg, Robinson in Deutschland bis zur Insel Felsenburg (1713-43), Hanover, 1892, pp. 66-67. Tyssot's name and work appear to have been first linked with the development of socialism in A. Lichtenberger, Le Socialisme au XVIIIe siecle, Paris, 1895, p. 44. Tyssot's Voyages et avantures de ]aques Masse was discussed for its literary merits in A. LeBreton, Le Roman au dix huitieme siecle, Paris, 1898. LeBreton did not know that Tyssot was the author. 256 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This study is based upon the concept of nations with history and nations without history which was advanced in 1848/1849 in the pages of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung, a Cologne based German newspaper under the editorship of Karl Marx. This theory is presented in this study as a model of opposites ; historic nations and non-historic nations, respec tively revolutionary nations and counter-revolutionary national groups which Engels and Marx associated with the philosophy of Hegel. As Marx and Engels saw it, Hegel had taught that nature and history abounded in opposites, and this was believed to be the essence of his dialectic. Marx liked this dialectic better than anything else in Hegel's thought and modified it to fit his own economic theory of history. In reality, however, there are no categories of opposites; certainly not in nature; no two colors are opposites; nor are any two times of the day, indeed nothing temporal, nothing living, nothing that is in process of becoming. ! It is only in human understanding that opposites are intro duced. In the history of ideas what has been a misunderstanding of Hegel's teachings has exerted a greater influence upon subsequent generations than Hegel's philosophy as he himself understood it. With Marx's development of the materialistic concept of history, the Volksgeist (Spirit of the Age), so pronounced in Hegel's work lost ground rapidly; first, because it was difficult to understand and second, because its mastery was hardly rewarding to anyone save scholars and philosophers. 148 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -I. In some periods of the past Netherlands medicine has played a major role in the evolution of European medicine; today its history still enjoys much in terest even at the other side of the Ocean. In this bibliography it has been my endeavour to compile references for all that has been written on the history of Dutch medicine in our country and elsewhere in our age. The main concern of this work is with the medicine of the Northern Nether lands. However, before the end of the sixteenth century the Northern and South ern Netherlands were not yet divided into two separate countries; they were still politically one and for the greater part spoke the same Flemish language. So be fore their separation the present-day Belgium and Netherlands also had a com mon medical history. Therefore many entries have been included which bear on early (and sometimes later) Flemish medicine, but it has not been the inten tion to strive for completeness in this respect. 704 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a slightly emended version of a dissertation presented at the University of Hull in 1972. I realise only too well the deficiencies of style, presentation and material which this involves. The title implies a more final note than I had intended in my treatment of Porphyry. On reflexion, however, it seemed the most suited to convey the general purpose of my enquiries. A more rounded assessment of Porphyry can come only after some more basic work has been completed. An edition of his philosophical fragments, to which I am now turning my attention, is a prerequisite. lowe, of course, a great deal to all those who have written on Neo platonism. I am particularly indebted to Prof. Willy Theiler under whose guidance I studied in Bern. Conversation with him always resulted in new directions of enquiry and I was constantly stimulated by his breadth of knowledge. I must also thank Prof. A. H. Armstrong who has constantly encouraged me and helped me to look more deeply into a number of problems. Welcome, too, was a detailed criticism of Part Two by Dr. R. T. Wallis. Their criticism and advice have not always been followed and the responsibility for the faults and weak nesses of this book rests on myself. 196 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This is a study of the histories of the English Civil War or some aspects of it written in England or by Englishmen and Englishwomen or publish ed in England up to 1702, the year of the publication of the first volume of Clarendon's History of the Rebellion. By the terms of this definition, Clarendon is himself, of course, one of the historians studied. Clarendon's History is so formidable an achievement that all historians writing about the war before its publication have an air of prematureness. Nevertheless, as I hope the following pages will show, they produced a body of writing which may still be read with interest and profit and which anticipated many of the ideas and attitudes of Clarendon's History. I will even go so far as to say that many readers who have only a limited interest or no in terest in the Civil War are likely to find many of these historians interest ing, should their works come to their attention, for their treatment of the problems of man in society, for their psychological acuteness, and for their style. But while I intend to show their merits, my main concern will be to show how the Civil War appeared to historians, including Clarendon, who wrote within one or two generations after it, that is to say, at a time when it remained part of the experience of people still alive. A word is necessary on terminology. 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Goethe's great love for the ancient classics once prompted him to write ('Gespriiche mit Eckerman,' April 1, 1827), 'Man studiere nicht die Mitgeborenen und Mitstrebenden, sondern grosse Menschen der Vorzeit, deren Werke seit Jahrhunderten gleichen Wert und gleiches Ansehen behalten haben . . . Man studiere Moliere, man studiere Shakespeare, aber vor allen Dingen die alten Griechen und immer die alten Griechen. ' Anyone examining the history of Western ideas has found this statement to prove eminently true: one must study above all others the ancient Greeks. This book, by its study of the Greeks and others, seeks to fill in a small way the large gap which has obtained in the history of rhetoric in the Eastern Mediterranean area: the rhetoric (formal spoken discourse) of the courtroom, street corner, classroom, and legislative hall. Scholars have long investigated, and with considerable success, the figures and movements in Rome and Athens until Con stantine, or even later, but for some reason they have neglected the role and impact of oratory in most Asian and North African centers (Antioch excepted). If this monograph can provide outlines of its activity in Greco-Roman Alexandria to approximately A. D. 400 and encourage further scholarship in Pergamum, Tarsus, and elsewhere, it will have fulfilled its purpose. At the same time, it is not intended as a history of the city, nor an economic, political, or religious account of its life. 184 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Several formerly independent trends including the in creasing rate of technological change, the demand for greater efficiency and productivity in R&D and innovation, and the need for applying technology to the solution of pressing social and economic problems have recently begun to reinforce each other resulting in renewed interest in technology trans fer activities and research. The proliferation of research efforts in the U. S. and Western Europe, increased corporate and governmental efforts to develop mechanisms and incentives for transfer and the growing closeness between transfer and innovation studies led to the decision to convene a meeting with representatives from both research and practice in trans fer and innovation in order to establish a 'state-of-the-art' baseline and to promote discussion between the researchers and practioners from all sectors in the hope that new research will better reflect the realities of current practice and new mechanisms created by practioners might be improved through the use of knowledge generated from research. How close we came~to the second goal is a question which must be left to the fut~re. The proceedings which follow re flect the first goal. If the papers and conclusions occasional ly appear to be contradictory or repetitive, or naive, or over ly pessimistic or simply based upon too narrow a base or re search or experience, they are an accurate reflection of both the state-of-the-art and the lack of communications among in dividuals and organizations involved in similar activities. 676 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On 18 August 1572, Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles IX, was married in Paris to Henri de Navarre, 'first prince of the blood' and a Protestant. This union, which was to cement the provisions of the Peace of St. Germain (1570) ending the third of the French wars of religion, was the occasion of an extraordinary influx of French Calvin ists into the notoriously Catholic capital. Hundreds of Huguenots had journeyed to Paris to honor their titular leader and participate in the wedding celebrations. Tensions were already running high when the court made the fatal decision to take advantage of the situation and assassinate the admiral of France, Gaspard de Coligny, the recognized leader of the Huguenot armies which had helped plunge the country into ten years of intermittent civil war, and who now threatened to embroil the kingdom in a full-scale foreign war with Spain. On Friday the twenty-second, as he returned from the Louvre to his lodgings, Coligny paused in the street - some say to receive a letter, others to doff his hat to an acquaintance or to adjust his hose - and was fired on by a hired assassin hidden in a house known to belong to one of the ultra-Catholic Guise faction. The arquebus shot missed its mark and succeeded only in wounding the admiral in his hand and arm, where upon he was carried by his followers to his bed. 286 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condition: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The title 'Integral equations' covers many things which have very little connection with each other. However, they are united by the following important feature. In most cases, the equations involve an unknown function operated on by a bounded and often compact operator defined on some Banach space. The aim of the book is to list the main results concerning integral equations. The classical Fredholm theory and Hilbert-Schmidt theory are presented in Chapters II and III. The preceding Chapter I contains a description of the most important types of integral equations which can be solved in 'closed' form. Chapter IV is an important addition to Chapters II and III, as it contains the theory of integral equations with non-negative kernels. The development of this theory is mainly due to M. G. Krein. The content of the first four chapters is fairly elementary. It is well known that the Fredholm theory has been generalized for equations with compact operators. Chapter V is devoted tothis generalization. In Chapter VI one-dimensional (i.e. with one dependent variable) singular integral equations are considered. The last type of equations differ from that considered in the preceding chapters in that singular integral operators are not compact but only bounded in the usual functional spaces. 464 pp. Englisch.