Dieses Buch vermittelt ein umfassendes und vertieftes Verständnis für die Ehe als Rechtsverhältnis und die dynamische Entwicklung des Eherechts. Es enthält eine gründliche Darstellung des geltenden deutschen Rechts einschließlich verfassungsrechtlicher und europarechtlicher Einflüsse, eine kritische Erörterung des gegenwärtigen Standes der Gesetzgebung und Rechtsprechung sowie Stellungnahmen und Lösungsvorschläge zu grundlegenden, häufig diskutierten Fragen.  Meer

Storage and conversion are critical components of important energy-related technologies. "Advanced Batteries: Materials Science Aspects" employs materials science concepts and tools to describe the critical features that control the behavior of advanced electrochemical storage systems.  Meer

Storage and conversion are critical components of important energy-related technologies. "Advanced Batteries: Materials Science Aspects" employs materials science concepts and tools to describe the critical features that control the behavior of advanced electrochemical storage systems.  Meer

Raised from Rhode Island farmers and millworkers in the autumn of 1861, the Union soldiers of Battery G fought in such conflicts as Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Spotsylvania, and Cedar Creek.  Meer

Practitioners in water engineering rely on a thorough understanding of shallow water flows in order to safeguard our habitat, while at the same time sustaining the water environment.  Meer

Originally published in 1989 this study examines some new facets in the development of the iron industry in the USA between 1839 and 1921 through the study of an individaul form, namely the Thoms Iron Company, one of the leading merchant furnace companies.  Meer

Originally published in 1989 this study examines some new facets in the development of the iron industry in the USA between 1839 and 1921 through the study of an individaul form, namely the Thoms Iron Company, one of the leading merchant furnace companies.  Meer

In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms.  Meer

This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. In the pre-colonial era what were the sources of order in societies without states?  Meer

As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. In Beyond the Miracle of the Market, first published in 2005, Bates focuses on Kenya, a country that continued to grow while others declined in Africa, and mounts a prescient critique of the neo-classical turn in development economics.  Meer

As capitalism defeated socialism in Eastern Europe, the market displaced the state in the developing world. In Beyond the Miracle of the Market, first published in 2005, Bates focuses on Kenya, a country that continued to grow while others declined in Africa, and mounts a prescient critique of the neo-classical turn in development economics.  Meer

In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms.  Meer

Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culmination of several decades of work by Robert Bates, among the most respected comparativists in political science, this compact volume seeks to rectify that omission.  Meer

Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culmination of several decades of work by Robert Bates, among the most respected comparativists in political science, this compact volume seeks to rectify that omission.  Meer

In the later decades of the twentieth century, Africa plunged into political chaos. States failed, governments became predators, and citizens took up arms.  Meer

"With his accustomed skill and ingenuity, Graber makes a case for the future unification of the world without the necessity of global war." Robert Carneiro, American Museum of Natural History Can we predict the world's political future?  Meer