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Modern buildings are increasingly equipped with actuators and sensors, communication, visualization and control systems. This textbook provides an overview of industrial communication systems and stimulates a basic understanding of network and bus systems for the automation of buildings. After an introduction to EIB/KNX, LON und BACnet technologies, the authors illustrate how these systems can be utilized for specific applications, like air conditioning or illumination. This book assumes only a basic knowledge of mathematics and thanks to its simple explanations and many examples is ideal for students and professional engineers who require practical solutions.
Nearly a century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed echo still. In this provocative book, historian Ian Beckett turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today. Focusing on episodes both well known and scarcely remembered, Beckett tells the story of the Great War from a new perspective, stressing accident as much as strategy, the small as well as the great, the social as well as the military, and the long term as much as the short term. The Making of the First World War is global in scope. The book travels from the delib...
First published in 1975, The Nationalization of the Masses is George L. Mosse’s major statement about political symbols and the means of their diffusion. Focusing on Germany and, to a lesser degree, France and Italy, Mosse analyzes the role of symbols in fueling mass politics, mass movements, and nationalism in a way that is broadly applicable and as relevant today as it was almost fifty years ago. In this analysis Mosse introduces terms like “secular religion,” “political liturgy,” “national mystique,” “the new politics,” and “the aesthetics of politics” that are now standard in studies of nationalism and fascism, demonstrating the importance of his cultural, anthropologically informed lens to contemporary discourse. This new edition contains a critical introduction by Victoria de Grazia, Moore Collegiate Professor of History at Columbia University, contextualizing Mosse’s research and exploring its powerful influence on subsequent generations of historians.
Caspar Schales (b.1817), son of Johaness Schales (b.1785) and Maria Elisabeth Lindt, immigrated from Germany to Perry County, Indiana in 1838, and married Charlotte Foster in 1845. His parents and their youngest son, Jacob, immigrated to join Caspar in 1846. Descendants lived in Indiana, Ohio, Minnesota, Arkansas, Missouri, Texas, New Mexico, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestors to the early 1700s and their descendants in Germany.
This book offers all important industrial communication systems for buildings in one single book! It stimulates a basic understanding of network and bus systems for the automation of buildings. After an introduction to EIB/KNX, LON und BACnet technologies, the authors illustrate how these systems can be utilized for specific applications, like air conditioning or illumination. This book assumes only a basic knowledge of mathematics and thanks to its simple explanations and many examples is ideal for students and professional engineers who require practical solutions. Numerous practical examples explain basic concepts of industrial communication technology as well as the procedure for the transmission of digital data. All chapters have been thoroughly revised for the 2nd edition and the book includes the latest technical developments and standards.
"Greta przeczuwała, jak to wszystko się skończy. Obsesja jej męża na punkcie niedokończonej opery Wagnera. Mrożący krew w żyłach pamiętnik pewnego Francuza, poprzedniego właściciela domu. Wojna. I dzień, w którym Rosjanie zajęli jej miasto, jej dom, jej życie... I tylko ten młody Polak, przypadkowy współlokator, nie pasuje do przeklętej układanki historii. Jego syn, kilkuletni chłopiec z opowieści Grety, zaczyna na nowo stwarzać świat. Świat, który już dawno przeminął. Przepiękna, misternie skonstruowana powieść o nieistniejącym już wielokulturowym świecie, w którym przenikały się różne tradycje i nacje. O Wolnym Mieście Gdańsku i tajemniczej operze Wagnera, która zmieniła życie pewnego kompozytora i jego żony. O fleciście z Hameln i przemarszu szczurów, które w posępnej ciszy wędrują ulicami Gdańska. O muzyce w cieniu Hitlera, literaturze w cieniu zbrodni, miłości w cieniu wojny i o niezwykłej przyjaźni małego chłopca ze starą Gretą. "
WINNER: OLIVIER AWARD FOR BEST NEW PLAY, 2020WINNER: TONY AWARD FOR BEST PLAY, 2023At the beginning of the 20th Century, Leopoldstadt was the old, crowded Jewish quarter of Vienna. But Hermann Merz, a manufacturer and baptised Jew married to Catholic Gretl, has moved up in the world. Gathered in the Merz apartment in a fashionable part of the city, Hermann's extended family are at the heart of Tom Stoppard's epic yet intimate drama. By the time we have taken leave of them, Austria has passed through the convulsions of war, revolution, impoverishment, annexation by Nazi Germany and - for Austrian Jews - the Holocaust in which 65,000 of them were murdered. It is for the survivors to pass on a story which hasn't ended yet.Tom Stoppard's Leopoldstadt was first performed at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in January 2020.'One of Britain's greatest living playwrights to provide his most personal play yet.' The Times'The news that Tom Stoppard has written a new drama ranks as top-end seismic activity.' Daily Telegraph
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