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By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal": a power source with the revolutionary economic potential of fossil fuel. In this book, Marc Landry shows how dam-building in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries transformed the Alps into Europe's "battery"—an energy landscape designed to store and produce electricity for use throughout the Continent. These stores of energy played an important role in supplying the war economies of west-central Europe in both world wars as demand for munitions and other factory production...
本书从听、说、读、写四个方面全面考查考生在商务和一般生活环境下使用英语的能力,它包括阅读、写作和听力这些笔试的内容以及口试。
Die Landschaften der Alpen sind wesentlich von ihren Flüssen geprägt; die menschliche Nutzung des Alpenraums ist eng mit den Herausforderungen des Umgangs mit Fließgewässern verbunden. Dieses Buch bietet eine anschauliche und umfassende Dokumentation der vielfältigen Bedeutung der Alpenflüsse aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln. Vierunddreißig Fachkapitel beschreiben Entstehung und Funktionen von Flüssen, ihren ökologischen, gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Stellenwert in Geschichte und Gegenwart, das Ausmaß und die Folgewirkungen menschlicher Nutzungen, sowie den Abstimmungsbedarf von Schutz- und Nutzungsinteressen. Portraits von über fünfzig Flüssen bieten einen raschen Überblick und präsentieren die jeweiligen Besonderheiten. Das Buch liefert Grundlagen für Diskussionen um die Zukunft der Fließgewässer im Alpenraum. Durch die Verbindung von reicher Bebilderung, Kartendarstellungen und gut verständlichen Beschreibungen ist es ein einzigartiges Referenzwerk für natur- und umweltinteressierte Leserinnen und Leser, Fachleute und nicht zuletzt auch für Studierende und Lehrende.
Ecohydraulics: An Integrated Approachprovides a research level text which highlights recent developments of this emerging and expanding field. With a focus on interdisciplinary research the text examines:- the evolution and scope of ecohydraulics interactions between hydraulics, hydrology, fluvial geomorphology and aquatic ecology the application of habitat modelling in ecohydraulic studies state of the art methodological developments and approaches detailed case studies including fish passage design and the management of environmental flow regimes research needs and the future of ecohydraulics research The contributions offer broad geographic coverage to encapsulate the wide range of approa...
New edition! Convenient listing of words arranged alphabetically by rhyming sounds. More than 55,000 entries. Includes one-, two-, and three-syllable rhymes. Fully cross-referenced for ease of use. Based on best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition.
Niels Hemmingsen (1513-1600) is one of the most influential Danish theologians in history. As a professor at the University of Copenhagen, Hemmingsen played an important role in moulding Danish society according to his understanding of Lutheranism during the second half of the sixteenth century. Drawing on sociology of knowledge, cultural memory, and confessional culture, Mattias Skat Sommer examines Hemmingsen's works and life in political and theological contexts. By studying Hemmingsen's role in forming a discourse of social interaction, the author argues that Hemmingsen was the leading agent in shaping post-Reformation Danish confessionalization. In doing so, Sommer emphasises the fluid boundaries of the Danish Reformation and adjusts two prominent theoretical frameworks discussed in contemporary research on early modern Europe, namely those of confessionalization and confessional culture.
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