Fully revised and restructured, the sixth edition of World War II: A Global History offers students a concise and yet thorough textbook that examines history’s bloodiest conflict. The chapters alternate between chronological chapters on Europe and Asia-Pacific and thematic chapters on innovations, home fronts, brutal regimes, and logistics. This textbook includes the following features:A lively narrative of facts, events, people, and ideas that incorporates thoughtfu...

Richard Ulbrich, is the author of three acclaimed publications of the thoroughbred, “See How They Ran” in 1981, “The Great Stallion Book” in 1984, and the ultimate companion volume “Richard Ulbrich's Peerage of Racehorses” in 1994. As he undertook his research he collected a large number of amusing and interesting snippets of information that are worth repeating independent of context, and which he had thought to publish as a book....

"ICH VERLIERE NIE, CALLIE MCQUEEN." "WENN DU NIE VERLIERST, WO IST DANN DEIN SUPER-BOWL-RING?" So sehr der NFL-Star Saint Alvarez seinen Job als Wide Receiver bei den L.A. Vipers liebt, so sehr hasst er es, in der Öffentlichkeit zu stehen. Doch nach einem medienwirksamen Fehltritt wird er von seinem Verein zu einer Dokumentation verpflichtet, die sein Image aufpolieren soll. Zähneknirschend stimmt Saint zu, schwört sich allerdings, der Journalistin ihre Arbeit nicht leicht zu machen - bis ...

Many of the most challenging problems in the applied sciences involve non-differentiable structures as well as partial differential operators, thus leading to non-smooth distributed parameter systems. This edited volume aims to establish a theoretical and numerical foundation and develop new algorithmic paradigms for the treatment of non-smooth phenomena and associated parameter influences. Other goals include the realization and further advancement of these concepts in the context of robu...

Optimization problems subject to constraints governed by partial differential equations (PDEs) are among the most challenging problems in the context of industrial, economical and medical applications. Almost the entire range of problems in this field of research was studied and further explored as part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) priority program 1253 on “Optimization with Partial Differential Equations” from 2006 to 2013. The investigations were motivated by the fascinat...