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Photometric and Spectroscopic Binary Systems
Our conference - opening today - has two aims in view: first, to commemorate some milestones in the development of the studies of close binary systems whose anniversaries fall in these years, as well as to take stock of our present knowledge accumulated through out preceding decades, in order to consider where do we go from here. This summer, 310 years will have elapsed since the first ec lipsing binary - Algol - was discovered in Bologna by Geminiano Montanari (1633-1687) to be a variable star; and 198 years have gone by since John Goodricke of York (1764-1786) established the fact that Algol's light changes were periodic. Moreover, it is al most exactly (to a month) now 100 years since Edw...
Tax Aspects of Fiscal Federalism
This book examines the extreme complexity and the evolution of taxing authority towards a progressive increase in the local governments’ taxing powers. - IBFD website
Trials and Tribulations of Life on an Active Subduction Zone:
"Nine field guides explore diverse topics such as urban geology and geoheritage in Metro Vancouver, the processes and postglacial adjustments of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, and human interaction and adaptation to geological and climate changes in British Columbia"--
Desired Language
National linguistic ideology has been at the base of most historical processes that –whether they are complete or not – have brought us to the current reality: a world of languages that represent, with greater or lesser exactitude, the diversity – and convergences – of human groups. Various of today’s thinkers have predicted the decline or even the end of national ideologies. In the area of language, postmodernism would make the linguistic affiliation of the community individuals irrelevant, de-ideologise language use, and extend plurilingualism and language alternation in association with a new distribution of (physical or functional) spaces of linguistic practice. But is this tru...
Zentrum und Peripherie in den slavischen und baltischen Sprachen und Literaturen
Dieses Buch zum 70. Geburtstag von Jan Peter Locher (Bern) vereinigt Beiträge von renommierten Wissenschafterinnen und Wissenschaftern sowie jungen Forscherinnen und Forschern aus verschiedenen europäischen Ländern, die das breite Forschungsgebiet des Geehrten widerspiegeln. Ihr gemeinsamer Fokus liegt auf der Stellung des Peripheren und Marginalen innerhalb einer sprachlichen Norm und eines ideologischen Dogmas. Die literaturwissenschaftlichen Beiträge sind einer Reihe von Autoren gewidmet, die von Andrej Platonov, F. D. Kniaźnin und Bruno Schulz über Borislav Pekić, Bohumil Hrabal und Richard Weiner bis zu Kazyz Bynkis reicht. Die linguistischen Untersuchungen, die z.T. Ergebnisse aus jüngster Feldforschung sind, konzentrieren sich auf Fragen des Sprachkontaktes und der dialektalen Ausprägung im Südwesten und Nordwesten des russischen Sprachgebietes, auf grammatische Aspekte des Litauischen und Lettischen sowie auf die Kodifizierung und die Beschreibung der Sprachnorm und ihrer Varianten im Bereich des Tschechischen und Serbokroatischen.
Reflective Laughter
The end of the Cold War brought new opportunities to explore the long tradition and myriad uses of humour through over two centuries of Russian literature and culture. 'Reflective Laughter' is the first book devoted to an overview of this subject. Bringing together contributions from a number of distinguished scholars from Russia, Europe and North America, this volume ranges from the classics of nineteenth-century literature through to the intellectual and popular comedic culture, both state-sponsored and official, of the twentieth-century, taking in journalism, propaganda, scholarly discourse, jokes, films and television. In doing so, it explores how our understanding remains distorted by the polarization of the East and West during the Cold War.
Literature 1975, Part 1
Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts, which has appeared in semi-annual volumes since 1969, is de voted to the recording, summarizing and indexing of astronomical publications throughout the world. It is prepared under the auspices of the International Astronomical Union (according to a resolution adopted at the 14th General Assembly in 1970). Astronomy and Astrophysics Abstracts aims to present a comprehensive documentation of literature in all fields of astronomy and astrophysics. Every effort will be made to ensure that the average time interval between the date of receipt of the original literature and publication of the abstracts will not exceed eight months. This time interval is near ...
An Archaeology of Asian Transnationalism
In the early twentieth century, an industrial salmon cannery thrived along the Fraser River in British Columbia. Chinese factory workers lived in an adjoining bunkhouse, and Japanese fishermen lived with their families in a nearby camp. Today the complex is nearly gone and the site overgrown with vegetation, but artifacts from these immigrant communities linger just beneath the surface. In this groundbreaking comparative archaeological study of Asian immigrants in North America, Douglas Ross excavates the Ewen Cannery to explore how its immigrant workers formed a new cultural identity in the face of dramatic displacement. Ross demonstrates how some homeland practices persisted while others changed in response to new contextual factors, reflecting the complexity of migrant experiences. Instead of treating ethnicity as a bounded, stable category, Ross shows that ethnic identity is shaped and transformed as cultural traditions from home and host societies come together in the context of local choices, structural constraints, and consumer society.
