Authors:Guy Pluvinage, Aleksandar Sedmak,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: security, science, peace, series, environmental, nato, materials, reliability, damaged, structures, defective
Number of Pages: 426
Published: 2009-08-18
List price: $119.00
ISBN-10: 9048127912
ISBN-13: 9789048127917

Structures that are essential for economy and security such as energy production, transportation and supply, water supply, buildings, are susceptible to failure, because of defects already present in the material, or created at fabrication, or appearing during service. Methods of assesment of the nocivity of these defects are needed, to predict the remaining service life and the eventual emergency of stopping service and repairing, if possible. To reach this objectives, this book presents the last methods derived from the classical linear, non-linear fracture mechanics concepts, including fati

Author: Aleksandar Jakir
Publisher: Oldenbourg
Keywords: und, jugoslawischen, der, integration, sudosteuropaische, german, arbeiten, scheitern, lebenswelt, den, zwischen, weltkriegen, agrarische, dalmatien, urbane, das
Number of Pages: 534
Published: 1999
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 3486564471
ISBN-13: 9783486564471

Author: Aleksandar Jokic
Publisher: Broadview Press
Keywords: intervention, humanitarian, dangers, kosovo, lessons
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2003-02-26
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 155111545X
ISBN-13: 9781551115450

International law makes it explicit that states shall not intervene militarily of otherwise in the affairs of other states; it is a central principle of the charter of the United Nations. But international law also provides an exception; when a conflict within a state poses a threat to international peace, military intervention by the UN may be warranted. (Indeed, the UN Charter provides for an international police force, though nothing has ever come of this provision.) The Charter and other UN documents also assert that human rights are to be protected – but in the past the responsibilit

Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher: Picador USA
Keywords: bruno, question
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2009-08
List price: $14.45
ISBN-10: 0330393480
ISBN-13: 9780330393485

’You will go a long way to find anything better than this’ - Edward Docx. ’There is simply more history and more drama in Hemon’s stories than in a shelf and a half of the usual dayglo Anglo-American entertainment’ - "Guardian". "The Question of Bruno" is an elegy for the vanished Yugoslavia and a journey through the intertwined history of a family and a nation, written in prose of unparalleled daring, invention and wit. ’Amazing. The personal fall-out of political failure has never been so searing’ - "Time Out". ’Like Nabokov, Hemon writes with

Author: Aleksandar Ivic
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: applications, theory, function, zeta, riemann
Number of Pages: 562
Published: 2003-06-16
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0486428133
ISBN-13: 9780486428130

"A thorough and easily accessible account."--MathSciNet, Mathematical Reviews on the Web, American Mathematical Society. This extensive survey presents a comprehensive and coherent account of Riemann zeta-function theory and applications. Starting with elementary theory, it examines exponential integrals and exponential sums, the Voronoi summation formula, the approximate functional equation, the fourth power moment, the zero-free region, mean value estimates over short intervals, higher power moments, and omega results. Additional topics include zeros on the critical line, zero-density estima

Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: man, nowhere
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-01-06
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0375727027
ISBN-13: 9780375727023

A native of Sarajevo, where he spends his adolescence trying to become Bosnia’s answer to John Lennon, Jozef Pronek comes to the United States in 1992—just in time to watch war break out in his country, but too early to be a genuine refugee. Indeed, Jozef’s typical answer to inquiries about his origins and ethnicity is, “I am complicated.” And so he proves to be—not just to himself, but to the revolving series of shadowy but insightful narrators who chart his progress from Sarajevo to Chicago; from a hilarious encounter with the first President Bush to a somewhat more grave one wi

Author: Aleksandar Hemon
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Keywords: fiction, european
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-12-15
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 1564785432
ISBN-13: 9781564785435

The start of the most ambitious editorial project in Dalkey Archive’s history. Historically, English-language readers have been great fans of European literature, and names like Franz Kafka, Gustave Flaubert, and Thomas Mann are so familiar we hardly think of them as foreign at all. What those writers brought to English-language literature was a wide variety of new ideas, styles, and ways of seeing the world. Yet times have changed, and how much do we even know about the richly diverse literature being written in Europe today? Best European Fiction 2010 is the inaugural installment of wh