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« L'Auteur » demeure une notion problématique qui émerge lentement dans l'histoire, qui reste indécise, recule, disparaît. Auctor, il est d'abord celui qui augmente, accroît, puis le garant de l'œuvre que le génie humain ajoute à la création. Il est aussi celui qui, par son œuvre, détient l'autorité. Aujourd'hui, la notion d'auteur reste mouvante et polysémique, incontournable et protéiforme, et c'est bien imprudemment qu'on avait annoncé naguère « la mort de l'auteur ». Reste toujours l'œuv...

This open access book provides fascinating insights into the incredible changes that Vietnam underwent in the long twentieth century as it transformed from an early modern kingdom to a European colony, to a divided land with opposing ideologies, and to a unified country in a globalized world. At each stage in this long century of changes, there were Vietnamese who sought to mold their society into some vision of “modernity.” The book looks at multiple, rather than one form of modernity, and links those forms with the different political moments that Vietnam experienced, in tandem with the outside interlocutors that were maintained during those periods. As such, this book provides a holistic view of the many forms of modernity and their global links that can be found in Vietnam over the course of the long twentieth century. These multiple modernities are documented in this book, and the authors do so by bringing together the strengths of “traditional” language-based area studies scholarship with the insights that an awareness of trans-national and global perspectives provides. Relevant to historians and researchers in the broader arena of Southeast Asian studies with a particular interest in Vietnam—its journey from past to present—this book is a must-read engagement with a country that has undergone and continues to experience, rapid transformation.

Der Band »Postwachstumsgeographien« untersucht die Raumbezüge diverser und alternativer Ökonomien im Spannungsfeld von wachstumsorientierten Institutionen und multiplen sozialökologischen Krisen. Die Beiträge greifen diesen Ansatz erstmals umfassend auf und eröffnen mit konzeptionellen und empirischen Fachbeiträgen aus der Geographie und deren Nachbardisziplinen verschiedene Perspektiven auf die Möglichkeiten, Forderungen und Kritiken einer sozialökologischen Transformation. Aktuelle Diskussionen zu Postwachstumsökonomien werden aus geographischer Sicht präzisiert und mit Fallstudien und Interviews aus Zivilgesellschaft, Planung und Politik ergänzt.

Marine power systems have been designed to be a safer alternative to stationary plants in order to adhere to the regulations of classification societies. Marine steam boilers recently achieved 10 MPa pressure, in comparison to stationary plants, where a typical boiler pressure of 17 MPa was the standard for years. The latest land-based, ultra-supercritical steam boilers reach 25 MPa pressure and 620 °C temperatures, which increases plant efficiency and reduces fuel consumption. There is little chance that such a plant concept could be applied to ships. The reliability of marine power systems has to be higher due to the lack of available spare parts and services that are available for shore power systems. Some systems are still very expensive and are not able to be widely utilized for commercial merchant fleets such as COGAS, mainly due to the high cost of gas turbines. Submarine vehicles are also part of marine power systems, which have to be reliable and accurate in their operation due to their distant control centers. Materials that are used in marine environments are prone to faster corrosive wear, so special care also should be taken in this regard. The main aim of this Special Issue is to discuss the options and possibilities of utilizing energy in a more economical way, taking into account the reliability of such a system in operation.

Diverse musical cultures of migrant and minority communities have existed in Europe for centuries and shaped its countries significantly. As part of an EU-funded project this volume deals with the musical activities of minorities and their impact on musical traditions in Europe. It also raises questions such as: How are musical traditions of minorities integrated in education and the public music life? Can music facilitate transcultural dialogue? And to what extent do musical practice and performance reassert the own cultural tradition in a foreign environment? Answers to those and similar questions as well as a review on what can be observed in the 21st century Europe are gathered in various thematic approaches. The book also provides model projects with a practical insight into the life and work with music of migrant and minority cultures across Europe.

Im Juni 1937 eröffnete Jacob Zeitlin in seiner Buchladen-Galerie in Los Angeles eine Ausstellung mit Grafiken von Käthe Kollwitz. Es war die erste Ausstellung von Kollwitz’ Werk in Südkalifornien. Co-Sponsor der Ausstellung und der glamourösen Vernissage war die Hollywood Anti-Nazi League for the Defense of American Democracy. Die Redner des Abends waren der deutsche Schriftsteller und Aktivist Ernst Toller und der amerikanische Komponist George Antheil. Zu den illustren Gästen gehörten Fritz Lang, Richard Neutra, Arnold Schönberg, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill und andere Berühmtheiten der Filmindustrie und der deutschösterreichischen Exilgemeinde. Die Kollwitz-Ausstellung wurde zum Dreh- und Angelpunkt der zentralen Konfliktfelder der Stadt: Sie war nicht bloß ein kulturelles Ereignis in Zeitlins Buchladen-Galerie, sondern vor allem eine gezielte politische Aktion der Hollywood Anti-Nazi League. Kollwitz’ Schaffen geriet damit ins Kreuzfeuer der Auseinandersetzungen zwischen dem antifaschistischen Kampf der Anti-Nazi League und den gewalttätigen Aktionen nationalsozialistischer Gruppen in Los Angeles. In diesem politischen Spannungsfeld wurde Käthe Kollwitz als »anti-Nazi artist« wahrgenommen und ihrer Ausstellung eine aktive Rolle im Kampf gegen Hitler zugeschrieben. Die Kapitel des Buches zeichnen nach, wie die Ausstellung zum Kreuzungspunkt von vier Biografien wurde: Käthe Kollwitz, Jacob Zeitlin, Ernst Toller und George Antheil.

Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the culmination of over twenty years of research and development by the authors. The Simplified Sign System has been developed and tested for ease of sign comprehension, memorization, and formation by limiting the complexity of the motor skills required to form each sign, and by ensuring that each sign visually resembles the meaning it conveys.Volume 1 outlines the research underpinning and informing the project, and places the Simplified Sign System in a wider context of sign usage, historically and by different populations. Volume 2 presents the lexicon of signs, totalling approximately 1000 signs, each with a clear illustration and a written description of how the sign is formed, as well as a memory aid that connects the sign visually to the meaning that it conveys. While the Simplified Sign System originally was developed to meet the needs of persons with intellectual disabilities, cerebral palsy, autism, or aphasia, it may also assist the communication needs of a wider audience – such as healthcare professionals, aid workers, military personnel , travellers or parents, and children who have not yet mastered spoken language. The system also has been shown to enhance learning for individuals studying a foreign language. Lucid and comprehensive, this work constitutes a valuable resource that will enhance the communicative interactions of many different people, and will be of great interest to researchers and educators alike.

Cellular solids and porous metals have become some of the most promising lightweight multifunctional materials due to their superior combination of advanced properties mainly derived from their base material and cellular structure. They are used in a wide range of commercial, biomedical, industrial, and military applications. In contrast to other cellular materials, cellular metals are non-flammable, recyclable, extremely tough, and chemically stable and are excellent energy absorbers. The manuscripts of this Special Issue provide a representative insight into the recent developments in this field, covering topics related to manufacturing, characterization, properties, specific challenges in transportation, and the description of structural features. For example, a presented strategy for the strengthening of Al-alloy foams is the addition of alloying elements (e.g., magnesium) into the metal bulk matrix to promote the formation of intermetallics (e.g., precipitation hardening). The incorporation of micro-sized and nano-sized reinforcement elements (e.g., carbon nanotubes and graphene oxide) into the metal bulk matrix to enhance the performance of the ductile metal is presented. New bioinspired cellular materials, such as nanocomposite foams, lattice materials, and hybrid foams and structures are also discussed (e.g., filled hollow structures, metal-polymer hybrid cellular structures).

This unique and attractive open access textbook combines the beauty of macroscopic pictures of plant stems with the corresponding colorfully stained images of anatomical micro-structures. In contrast to most botanical textbooks, it presents all the stem characteristics as photographs and shows the microscopic reality. The amount of text is reduced to a minimum, and the scientific information is highlighted with short legends and labeled photographs, allowing readers to focus on the pictures to easily understand how the anatomical structures relate to genetic, ecological, decomposition and technical influences. It includes a chapter devoted to simple anatomical preparation techniques, and further chapters showing the cell content, cell walls, meristematic tissues and stem structures of all major taxonomic units and morphological growth forms in various ecological and climatic regions from subarctic to equatorial latitudes, as well as structures of fossil, subfossil and technically altered wood. This textbook appeals to students and researchers in the fields of plant anatomy, taxonomy, ecology, dendrochronology, history, plant pathology, and evolutionary biology as well as to technologists.

How does the interplay of form and time shape Goethe’s dramatic, lyrical and narrative texts? This volume provides answers to this question. Johann Wolfgang Goethe transcends the understanding of form prevalent in his time. In his scholarly and literary works, he takes established forms, transforms them and modernises them. The authors examine how the interplay of form and time shapes dramatic, lyrical and narrative texts. The backdrop to this is a new formalism, which no longer conceives of form as the opposite of content, but rather as the possibility of content, idea, function or freedom. Whilst form and time have already received considerable attention, the interplay of form and genre has been less extensively researched. Although literary forms are almost always identified with generic forms, the theoretical premises for this still require clarification. It is at this point, if not before, that Goethe comes into play. The points of connection for the relationship between form and genre are numerous. They range from the ‘natural forms of poetry’ to the long list of genres that Goethe employs.

Through a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary approach, this introductory textbook focuses on critical issues of development, environment, and cultural conflicts facing most area of the non-Western world. Areas covered include China, Japan, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Middle East, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Taste usually occupies the bottom of the sensorial hierarchy, as the quintessentially hedonistic sense, too close to the animal, the elemental and the corporeal, and for this reason disciplined and moralised. At the same time, taste is indissolubly tied to knowledge. To taste is to discriminate, emit judgement, enter an unstable domain of synaesthetic normativity where the certainty of metaphysical categories begins to crumble. This second title in the ‘Law and the Senses’ series explores law using taste as a conceptual and ontological category able to unsettle legal certainties, and a promising tool whereby to investigate the materiality of law’s relation to the world. For what else is law’s reduction of the world into legal categories, if not law’s ingesting the world by tasting it, and emitting moral and legal judgements accordingly? Through various topics including coffee, wine, craft cider and Japanese knotweed, this volume explores the normativities that shape the way taste is felt and categorised, within and beyond subjective, phenomenological and human dimensions. The result is an original interdisciplinary volume – complete with seven speculative ‘recipes’ – dedicated to a rarely explored intersection, with contributions from artists, legal academics, philosophers, anthropologists and sociologists.

This open access book delves deep into the heart of efficient energy storage and transportation of energy, addressing a pressing energy challenge. With a rising global demand for sustainable energy solutions, this book provides a timely exploration of sustainable energy carriers, emphasizing the comprehensive sustainability assessment from technical, economic and environmental dimensions. Expanding beyond the familiar realm of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG), the book casts a wider net to explore energy carriers like hydrogen, ammonia, methanol, dimethyl-ether, and formic acid. It doesn't just identify the problem but proposes practical solutions underpinned by comprehensive research and sensitivity analysis, thereby revealing the dynamics of sustainability across various energy carriers. Authored by seasoned professionals in the energy sector, this book combines academic rigor with real-world insights. It is an invaluable guide for industry professionals, researchers, and students, offering a clear roadmap for production, storage, transportation, and utilization of energy carriers more effectively and sustainably.

Au XIXe siècle, les productions sur l'architecture qui émanent de la presse générale et spécialisée se comptent en millions de volumes et en dizaines de millions d'images. Cette masse énorme d'imprimés a marqué certainement l'art de bâtir, sans qu'on puisse davantage apprécier le phénomène. Elle défie, en effet, la curiosité de l'historien : comment l'exploiter, pour quels objectifs le faire, qu'en retenir ? Une rencontre de jeunes chercheurs et d'historiens du livre, de la critique d'art et de l'architecture a tenté, lors d'une journée d'étude au Collège de France, de répondre à ces questions. Une conclusion : placer les méthodes quantitatives de l'histoire du livre au service de la problématique de l'historien de l'architecture et de ses soucis qualitatifs. Aux actes de cette rencontre a été joint ici, le répertoire des périodiques d'architecture en langue française publiés entre 1800 et 1970. Pour la première fois, le chercheur dispose d'une liste de 606 revues : un indispensable outil de travail.

Nel suo complesso il volume Interdisciplinarietà della traduzione, curato da tukasz Jan Berezowski, offre una rassegna ricca e aggiornata di studi che analizzano, dalle prospettive più diverse, i risvolti interdisciplinari della traduzione e della traduttologia. Si tratta di una pubblicazione utile non solo per gli specialisti di traduttologia, ma anche per i letterati, i linguisti e i culturologi interessati al dialogo e al confronto tra le culture. Tra i meriti del libro, che presenta contributi in varie lingue, c’è anche l’ampio spettro dei testi e dei contesti presi in considerazione che rendono questa pubblicazione preziosa per una ideale biblioteca europea. La pubblicazione è stata finanziata con i fondi del preside della Facoltà di Lingue e Lettere dell’Università di Łódź e del direttore dell’Istituto di Romanistica del medesimo ateneo