Control Reconfiguration of Dynamical Systems
Reconfiguration, an approach for fault-tolerant control, involves changing the control structure in response to the fault. This monograph extends this idea to actuator faults and studies in detail the so-called virtual actuator approach. "Con...
Mediating Mobility
Images have become an integral part of the political regulation of migration: they help produce categories of legality versus illegality, foster stereotypes, and mobilize political convictions. Yet how are we to understand the relationship between...
Social Transnationalism
In recent decades, the rise of world markets and the technological revolutions in transportation and communication have brought what was once distant and inaccessible within easy reach of the individual. The territorial and social closure that cha...
Enacting the Worlds of Cinema
Enacting the Worlds of Cinema offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes of communicating its stories and embedding its audience in atmos...
Sorting Machines
It is commonly thought that, thanks to globalization, nation-state borders are becoming increasingly porous. Steffen Mau shows that this view is misleading: borders are not getting more permeable today, but rather are being turned into powerful so...
Locked Out of Development
This Element argues that the low dynamism of low- to mid-income Arab economies is explained with a set of inter-connected factors constituting a 'segmented market economy'. These include an over-committed and interventionist state with limited fis...
Low Carbon Cities
Low Carbon Cities is a book for practitioners, students and scholars in architecture, urban planning and design. It features essays on ecologically sustainable cities by leading exponents of urban sustainability, case studies of the new directions...
Philosophy of Football
Human beings are the only creatures known to engage in sport. We are sporting animals, and our favourite pastime of football is the biggest sport spectacle on earth. The Philosophy of Football presents the first sustained, in-depth philosophical i...
C# für Dummies
C# ist eine der am meisten genutzten Programmiersprachen, doch wie den Ein- oder Umstieg schaffen? Genau dabei hilft Ihnen dieses Buch. Nachdem Sie sich zunächst die notwendigen Grundlagen erarbeitet haben, lernen Sie auch alles Notwendige über LINQ, XML und ADO.NET. Anschließend werden Sie sicher durch das Schreiben Ihrer ersten eigenen .NET-Anwendung geleitet. Noch nicht genug? Kapitel zu fortgeschrittenen .NET-Techniken wie die dynamische Programmierung oder die Task Parallel Library runden das Buch ab.
Learn SpriteBuilder for iOS Game Development
SpriteBuilder is the fun and versatile game development environment that is a natural successor to Cocos2D, Cocos3D, and Chipmunk2D. In Learn SpriteBuilder for iOS Game Development, experienced game developer and author Steffen Itterheim shows you...
Kreative Übungen in der Ergotherapie
Dieses Praxisbuch liefert Ergotherapeuten kreative Übungen für den Einsatz in der Psychiatrie. Aus dem Inhalt: Differenzierung von ausdruckszentrierter, kompetenzzentrierter, interaktioneller Methode, Hirnleistungstraining und Arbeitstraining; Arb...
Medienskandale
Die Arbeit entwickelt ein Modell zur Untersuchung von Medienskandalen. Als Medienskandale werden Skandale in den Medien verstanden, die per se inszenierte Skandale sind und sich im 20. Jahrhundert als ein fester Bestandteil moderner Gesellschaften...
Reimagining the Library of the Future
The study Reimagining the Library of the Future investigates the various models of public buildings and civic space through the lens of the library. It takes a critical look at the history, present, and future transformation of this significant bu...
Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment
Reassessing the Radical Enlightenment comprises fifteen new essays written by a team of international scholars. The collection re-evaluates the characteristics, meaning and impact of the Radical Enlightenment between 1660 and 1825, spanning Englan...
Manufacturing Simulation with Plant Simulation and Simtalk
Based on the competition of international production networks, the pressure to - crease the efficiency of production systems has increased significantly. In ad- tion, the number of technical components in many products and as a consequence also th...
Tecnomatix Plant Simulation
This book systematically introduces readers to the development of simulation models as well as the implementation and evaluation of simulation experiments with Tecnomatix Plant Simulation. Intended for all Plant Simulation users whose work involve...