The political and symbolic centrality of capital cities has been challenged by increasing economic globalization. This is especially true of secondary capital cities; capital cities which, while being the seat of national political power, are not the primary economic city of their nation state. David Kaufmann examines the unique challenges that these cities face entering globalised, inter-urban competition while not possessing a competitive political economy.Varieties of Capita...

This book examines Uncreative Writing—the catch-all term to describe Neo-Conceptualism, Flarf and related avant-garde movements in contemporary North American poetry—against a decade of controversy. David Kaufman analyzes texts by Kenneth Goldsmith, Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman, Ara Shirinyan, Craig Dworkin, Dan Farrell and Katie Degentesh to demonstrate that Uncreative Writing is not a revolutionary break from lyric tradition as its proponents claim. Nor is it a racist, reactionary cap...

Die öffentliche Debatte über Migration ist heute ebenso geprägt von Ängsten und Befürchtungen wie von Idealisierung. Was fehlt, sind Perspektiven für die Zukunft - kritische Analysen und optimistische Entwürfe, die von der Öffentlichkeit aufgenommen und diskutiert werden können. Das vorliegende Buch versammelt 15 Vorschläge von Personen aus Wissenschaft, Kultur und Politik. Ausgehend von ihrer Kenntnis, Forschung und Erfahrung formulieren die Autoren konstruktive Handlungsmöglichkeiten. Si...

This book explores cities and the intra-regional relational dynamics often overlooked by urban scholars, and it challenges common representations of urban development successes and failures.Gathering leading international scholars from Europe, Australia and North America, it explores the secondary city concept in urban development theory and practice and advances a research agenda that highlights uneven development concerns.By emphasising the subordinate status of secondary...

Capital cities that are not the dominant economic centers of their nations – so-called ‘secondary capital cities’ (SCCs) – tend to be overlooked in the fields of economic geography and political science. Yet, capital cities play an important role in shaping the political, economic, social and cultural identity of a nation. As the seat of power and decision-making, capital cities represent a nation’s identity not only through their symbolic architecture but also through their economies and ...

A Warhammer Horror anthologyDo you love Warhammer and hate getting a good night’s sleep without the promise of nightmares? These 12 stories will batter your psyche with some of the most chilling places, people, and creatures in the Mortal Realms and the 41st Millennium.READ IT BECAUSEThis collection of terrifying tales will show you how menacing life in the worlds of Warhammer can be. The horrors of the battlefield pale next to what...

Computer Organization and Design, Fourth Edition, has been updated with new exercises and improvements throughout suggested by instructors teaching from the book. It covers the revolutionary change from sequential to parallel computing, with a chapter on parallelism and sections in every chapter highlighting parallel hardware and software topics. It includes an appendix by the Chief Scientist and the Director of Architecture of NVIDIA covering the emergence and importance of the modern GPU...

Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface, Sixth Edition, the leading, award-winning textbook from Patterson and Hennessy used by more than 40,000 students per year, continues to present the most comprehensive and readable introduction to this core computer science topic. Improvements to this new release include new sections in each chapter on Domain Specific Architectures (DSA) and updates on all real-world examples that keep it fresh and relevant for a new generat...

"TCP/IP sockets in C# is an excellent book for anyone interested in writing network applications using Microsoft .Net frameworks. It is a unique combination of well written concise text and rich carefully selected set of working examples. For the beginner of network programming, it's a good starting book; on the other hand professionals could also take advantage of excellent handy sample code snippets and material on topics like message parsing and asynchronous programming."Adarsh Khare, S...

Sind die sogenannten sächsischen Verhältnisse mit der Pegida-Bewegung und den vielen rechten Gewalttaten ein auf den Freistaat begrenztes Phänomen? Oder muss die zunehmende Radikalisierung der gesellschaftlichen Mitte als Vorbote künftiger politischer Veränderungen in ganz Deutschland verstanden werden?Die Frage »Warum Sachsen?« wird von vielen gestellt. In diesem Buch begeben sich über 40 Autorinnen und Autoren auf die Suche nach Antworten. In Analysen, Interviews, literarischen Te...

In recent years, companies and government agencies have come to realize that the data they use represent a significant corporate resource, whose cost calls for management every bit as rigorous as the management of human resources, money, and capital equipment. With this realization has come recognition of the importance to integrate the data that has traditionally only been available from disparate sources.An important component of this integration is the management of the “metadat...

The Practitioner's Guide to Data Quality Improvement offers a comprehensive look at data quality for business and IT, encompassing people, process, and technology. It shares the fundamentals for understanding the impacts of poor data quality, and guides practitioners and managers alike in socializing, gaining sponsorship for, planning, and establishing a data quality program. It demonstrates how to institute and run a data quality program, from first thoughts and justifications to maintena...