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Azores
Everyone has heard about the Azores high – here is its home. A 3½ hour flight from London, the nine islands of the Azores – Santa Maria, São Miguel, Pico, Faial, São Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Flores and Corvo – are situated in the middle of the Atlantic. Still free from mass tourism, the archipelago, belonging to Portugal, is a Mecca for nature-lovers and individualists. The Azorean landscape is the very picture of extremity. Enchanting forests fuse with heavenly rolling hills and deep-blue crater lakes. Extinct volcanoes tower to the heavens and countless cleft valleys have been deeply cut through the volcanic stratum. The areas lying directly on the coast, often difficult to reac...
The Ingenious and the Colour of Life
From a beguiling new voice in YA literary sci-fi/contemporary fantasy comes an astonishing novel about a group of mysterious teenagers with the power to change lives... Ever since young adult Milly Bythaway can remember, she’s had to hide who she really is – dumbing down an extraordinary genius in order to blend into the background. 14-year-old Tai Jones has been abandoned by his mother and forced to live as a homeless wanderer on the streets of London, but the appearance of a stray cat helps him realise he has a special gift: he can see thoughts and emotions of others in stunningly beautiful colours. A gift that is both wonderful and awful. When the teenagers are brought together by a m...
A New Generation of High-Power, Waveform Controlled, Few-Cycle Light Sources
This thesis presents first successful experiments to carrier-envelope-phase stabilize a high-power mode-locked thin-disk oscillator and to compress the pulses emitted from this laser to durations of only a few-optical cycles. Moreover, the monograph introduces several methods to achieve power-scalability of compression and stabilization techniques. All experimental approaches are compared in detail and may serve as a guideline for developing high-power waveform controlled, few-cycle light sources which offer tremendous potential to exploit extreme nonlinear optical effects at unprecedentedly high repetition rates and to establish table-top infrared light sources with a unique combination of brilliance and bandwidth. As an example, the realization of a multi-Watt, multi-octave spanning, mid-infrared femtosecond source is described. The thesis starts with a basic introduction to the field of ultrafast laser oscillators. It subsequently presents additional details of previously published research results and establishes a connection between them. It therefore addresses both newcomers to, and experts in the field of high-power ultrafast laser development.
Fruit from the Sands
"A comprehensive and entertaining historical and botanical review, providing an enjoyable and cognitive read.”—Nature The foods we eat have a deep and often surprising past. From almonds and apples to tea and rice, many foods that we consume today have histories that can be traced out of prehistoric Central Asia along the tracks of the Silk Road to kitchens in Europe, America, China, and elsewhere in East Asia. The exchange of goods, ideas, cultural practices, and genes along these ancient routes extends back five thousand years, and organized trade along the Silk Road dates to at least Han Dynasty China in the second century BC. Balancing a broad array of archaeological, botanical, and ...
Atlantic Islands
Atlantic Islands is a long-established cruising guide to the five island groups of the North Atlantic, commonly visited by those sailing the popular Atlantic crossing routes but increasingly enjoyed as cruising destinations in their own right. From the sun-baked lagoons of Bemuda to the verdant slopes of the Azores and Madeira, from the fiery landscapes of the Canaries to the less visited coastlines of the Cape Verdes, this seventh edition has thoroughly updated text and plans and is illustrated with numerous new photographs. Co-authors of the sixth edition, Anne Hammick and Hilary Keatinge, have been joined by Linda Lane Thornton who lives on and cruises in the Azores. Together they enrich ...
Handbook of Alien Species in Europe
Biological invasions by alien (non-native) species are widely recognized as a significant component of human-caused global environmental change and the second most important cause of biodiversity decline. Alien species threaten many European ecosystems and have serious environmental, economic and health impacts. The DAISIE (Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe) project has now brought together all available information on alien species in Europe (terrestrial, aquatic and marine) and from all taxa (fungi, plants, animals). Thus for the first time, an overview and assessment of biological invasions in the Pan-European region is finally possible. The Handbook of Alien Specie...
Hermann Hesse's Global Impact
"A timely collection of new essays arguing for the continuing relevance and impact of Hesse's works around the world. Hermann Hesse remains one of the great figures of world literature. He is the world's 35th most translated author, with more than 1,500 translations of his works currently listed on UNESCO's Index Translatorium. Our understanding of the reciprocal transcultural reception of literature has been radically transformed in the last two decades,starting with David Damrosch's What is World Literature? (2003). Meanwhile, some forty years have passed since Martin Pfeifer's anthology Hermann Hesses weltweite Wirkung (Hermann Hesse's Worldwide Impact) was published, which means it is ti...
Un continente da favola
L'America Latina è una miniera inesauribile di storie impossibili, romanzesche, drammatiche, incredibili, epiche. Storie di persone comuni che la vita, la geografia, la cultura di quel mondo, sconvolto dalla Conquista e arricchito dai tanti meticciati, ha trasformato in vite spesso leggendarie, contribuendo a creare e alimentare un mito che ancora oggi resiste vivissimo nell'immaginario. Il volume presenta trenta ritratti di personaggi noti o sconosciuti, dal mondo della musica, della cucina e delle telenovelas, ai rivoluzionari ed eroi di ieri e di oggi, fino alle figure più folli o inquietanti. Con la prefazione di Bruno Arpaia, scrittore e giornalista, esperto italiano per eccellenza del mondo latinoamericano.
Azoren
Urlaub machen beim Wettergott! Im Bereich der Azoren, mitten im Atlantik, braut sich die beliebteste Wetterlage Mitteleuropas zusammen: das Azorenhoch. In Hochstimmung versetzen die neun Inseln – Santa Maria, São Miguel, Pico, Faial, São Jorge, Terceira, Graciosa, Flores und Corvo – auch ihre Besucher. Bislang vom Massentourismus verschont, ist der zu Portugal gehörende Archipel ein Natur- und Wanderparadies. Der Rother Wanderführer »Azoren« bietet mit 86 Touren eine breite Auswahl der schönsten Küsten- und Bergwanderungen. Gemütliche Spaziergänge führen entlang der Küste, durch eine unberührte Natur mit ungeahnter Pflanzenvielfalt. Auf anspruchsvollen Bergtouren geht es hoc...
