"A remarkable reconstruction of the extensive and quite exceptional career" of a key WW2 military intelligence officer. ( Royal Air Force Historical Society)Of German stock dating back to 1530 in Saxony, Eric George Ackermann GM was born on the Isle of Wight in 1919 and became a leading figure in the world of signals and electronic intelligence. As a Junior Scientific Officer at the Telecommunication Research Establishment, Boscombe Down, with an honorary c...

Chief Detective Stephen Kiss and his team must find a killer who has crept into the hearts of the public. The city’s worst criminals are being burned alive. It does not take long before the press hails the vigilante killer as a hero. Stephen fears copy-cat killers eager to share in the vigilante’s fame will soon follow suit.While fighting changes in their department, the team must take extra measures not to be side-tracked and keep their focus. The case leaves Stephen and the team ...

**A young woman investigates the disappearance of her beloved piano teacher in the snowy Carpathian mountains.Exploring love and grief, synthetic biology, music and divinity, Ackermann is a dreamlike literary suspense for readers of Donna Tartt, Fleur Jaeggy, and Marilynne Robinson.**Sasha, a dental assistant in a Carpathian mountain town, has fallen in love with her piano teacher, Ackermann. After seven years of lessons, she thinks she knows him well: his preferen...

From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen voluntee...

Over the last half-century, moral philosophy has taken an applied turn, covering practical issues in areas such as medicine, business, the environment, and many others. But it has largely failed to examine itself. In this volume, a range of distinguished contemporary ethicists, representing many different positions, examine what might be the point, if any, of moral philosophy.Given the deep and apparently intransigent basic disagreements between philosophers, is the discipline able...

Director Ingmar Bergman occupies a central place in the history of modern cinema. Credited with igniting a cinematic revolution, his ability to produce work which resonated with audiences globally has brought scholarly attention to the impact of Bergman’s Swedish background on his oeuvre. Ingmar Bergman Out of Focus revises this question of Bergman’s “familiarity” to produce a more expansive understanding of Bergman’s cultural heritage. Considering the impact of Bergman’s films on...

This volume of the series ARENA2036 compiles the outcomes of the first Stuttgart Conference on Automotive Production (SCAP2020).It contains peer-reviewed contributions from a theoretical as well as practical vantage point and is topically structured according to the following four sections: It discusses (I) Novel Approaches for Efficient Production and Assembly Planning, (II) Smart Production Systems and Data Services, (III) Advances in Manufacturing Processes and Material...

Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers.A new edition of this successful and highly regarded Guide, now reorganized and updated with the addition of significant new materialIncludes 21 essays written by an international team of leading philosophersEx...

Chief Detective Stephen Kiss and his team at the newly formed Specialized Combined Taskforce of the NYPD find themselves thrust in the middle of a case as a lunatic serial killer plagues the art world. His victims are being mutilated in what is clear to Stephen as the killer’s twisted renditions of the world’s most acclaimed artists’ canvases.The killer’s masterpieces are strewn across the city at an alarming rate and it is not long before the media and public realize there is a ser...

This book brings together the latest research in the areas of market microstructure and high-frequency finance along with new econometric methods to address critical practical issues in these areas of research. Thirteen chapters, each of which makes a valuable and significant contribution to the existing literature have been brought together, spanning a wide range of topics including information asymmetry and the information content in limit order books, high-frequency return distribution ...

A Companion to Ingmar Bergman"This collective project brilliantly launches Bergman studies forward at least a generation or two. The 35 contributors comprise a Who's Who of prominent and rising-star Bergman scholars diversely and globally."—Arne Lunde, UCLA, author of Nordic Exposures: Scandinavian Identities in Classical Hollywood Cinema (2010)"Bergman’s films are not static. They changed dramatically over the filmmaker’s l...

This volume discusses the transformational role that carbon – both as a concept and as a distinct set of material forms and effects – has come to play in social and cultural life.As a proxy for greenhouse gas emission data, carbon has grown to become a phenomenon that can no longer be accounted for solely within the technoscientific vocabulary of climate scientists. The Cultural Complexity of Carbon examines the extent to which our knowledge of carbon affects the way that ...