By R. G. C. Bathurst (auth.), German Müller, Gerald M. Friedman Ph. D. (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3642880525

ISBN-13: 9783642880520

ISBN-10: 3642880541

ISBN-13: 9783642880544

In the sector of sedimentary study, ever expanding emphasis has been wear the investigations of carbonates and carbonate rocks prior to now 30 years. it's therefore really ordinary that during crucial Europe - the place c1assical carbonate in­ vestigations have already been conducted a hundred years in the past - a number of students became to the examine of this accretion variety. at the social gathering of a vacationing professorship of G. M. FRIEDMAN on the Labora­ torium für Sedimentforschung, Heidelberg collage, a seminar on "Recent advancements of Carbonate Sedimentology in principal Europe" used to be held in July 1967. ninety people inquisitive about carbonate investigations participated, and 35 lectures have been held. the current quantity includes 30 papers summarizing different matters of the seminar. in fact those contributions purely symbolize a small a part of the paintings truly played within the box of carbonate examine in valuable Europe. We think, notwithstanding, that they provide a basic survey of the paintings and the operating tools hired within the varied sectors of carbonate investigations. one of many reasons of the current symposium is to acquaint the English conversing nations with our fresh effects which generally - as a result of the language barrier - usually are not obtainable to them.

By Charles Grant

By Lex Heerma van Voss

ISBN-10: 0521013224

ISBN-13: 9780521013222

This ebook seems at petitions over the past 5 centuries to reconstruct the lives and critiques of "humble" petitioners. on account that Pharaonic instances, governments have allowed their topics to voice critiques within the kind of petitions, that have demanded a want or the redressment of an injustice. To be potent, a petition needed to point out the request, frequently a motivation and continuously the identify or names of the petitioners. accordingly, grievances of standard humans that have been no longer written down at any place else are actually saved appropriately within the records of the professionals to which the petitions have been addressed. The petitions thought of during this publication, which come from all around the globe, supply wealthy and beneficial assets for social historians.

By Shannon N. Kile

ISBN-10: 0191516171

ISBN-13: 9780191516177

ISBN-10: 0199290873

ISBN-13: 9780199290871

ISBN-10: 0199290881

ISBN-13: 9780199290888

By George Winter

ISBN-10: 0921991207

ISBN-13: 9780921991205

An commonly illustrated account of the activities of components of two. SS-Panzer-Division Das Reich and «Task strength Kane» of the third (US) Armored department in the course of the bloody struggling with within the Ardennes - The conflict of the Bulge - in the course of December 1944. the booklet is particularly good documented with plenty of information, good written and wonderful. the photographs are fascinating too.

By Norman Stone

ISBN-10: 0631213775

ISBN-13: 9780631213772

ISBN-10: 0631228055

ISBN-13: 9780631228059

This ebook offers readers with an advent to the complicated period from 1878 to the tip of worldwide battle I.

By Elbert Dijkgraaf, Raymond H. J. M. Gradus

ISBN-10: 1402087101

ISBN-13: 9781402087103

ISBN-10: 140208711X

ISBN-13: 9781402087110

The Waste marketplace undertakes the attention-grabbing job of reading the artistic ways that a handful of ecu international locations, particularly Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, and Sweden, have controlled their waste assortment marketplace. for example, the Netherlands experimented much with festival and varieties of possession. It indicates that festival is extra vital than possession. using public enterprises, remarkable in different ecu international locations, appears a strong device to reinforce pageant. the inability of those corporations may possibly clarify why deepest construction isn't consistently more affordable than personal assortment via municipalities in Sweden. rather than public organizations, cooperation is far extra utilized in Spain and Norway to take advantage of economies of scale. This insightful paintings additionally discusses variable charging that motivates buyers to lessen waste. varied kinds of variable charging have gotten extra frequent in Belgium and the Netherlands and are very powerful in decreasing the quantity of waste and aid encourage clients to recycle their waste larger. within the Netherlands assorted structures in response to weight, bag, quantity or frequency are used, which vary in effectiveness and implementation expenditures. The Flemish event indicates that variable charging could be much more potent, whether it is mixed with different coverage tools.

By Joe Foweraker

ISBN-10: 0511528981

ISBN-13: 9780511528989

ISBN-10: 0521354064

ISBN-13: 9780521354066

ISBN-10: 0521522811

ISBN-13: 9780521522816

This e-book explores the making of democracy in Spain through the twenty lengthy years earlier than the dying of Franco. the writer seeks out the beginnings of democratic fight on the grassroots of civil society, recounting the tale of the numerous unsung heroes who ready the political terrain of this transition. the tale means that it used to be social wishes and monetary calls for that spawned person discontent and political dissent, yet that the fight itself required continuous political association and calculation. the writer explores the private networks and political techniques that sustained the fight, and divulges that their contribution to the making of democracy used to be usually contradictory and continuously piecemeal. by means of regularly connecting grassroots political job on the neighborhood point to the nationwide trajectory of prepared democratic fight, the writer demonstrates intimately the preferred contribution to democratic strategy in Franco's Spain.

By Róisín Healy

ISBN-10: 3319434306

ISBN-13: 9783319434308

ISBN-10: 3319434314

ISBN-13: 9783319434315

This ebook explores the assertions made via Irish nationalists of a parallel among eire below British rule and Poland less than Russian, Prussian and Austrian rule within the lengthy 19th century. Poland loomed huge within the Irish nationalist mind's eye, regardless of the low point of direct touch among eire and Poland as much as the twenty-first century. Irish women and men took a prepared curiosity in Poland and lots of believed that its adventure reflected that of eire. This view rested totally on a historic coincidence—the lack of sovereignty suffered by means of Poland within the ultimate partition of 1795 and by means of eire within the Act of Union of 1801, following unsuccessful rebellions. It additionally drew on a standard dedication to Catholicism and a shared event of spiritual persecution. This research exhibits how this parallel proved politically major, permitting Irish nationalists to problem the legitimacy of British rule in eire through arguing that British governments have been hypocritical to sentence in Poland what they themselves practised in Ireland.

By Arthur H. Landis

Born at Birmingham, Alabama, to a family members of vaudeville performers, Landis later travelled through the American West operating at various jobs. In 1937 he enlisted within the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion of the foreign Brigade in Spain through the civil conflict, serving as a scout and artillery spotter. He served within the battles of Aragon and Teruel and, sooner than departing Spain, he was once in a position to load his unit's documents onto a boat that left the country.

In 1965 Landis wrote a myth novel a global referred to as Camelot.

In 1967 Landis released his non fiction e-book The Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the results of a long time of study and interviews with survivors of the Brigade

In 1972 he released Spain the incomplete Revolution via Camelot publishing. He used to be presented the Order of Friendship of Peoples via the Soviet Union.