Author: Connie Kirchberg
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Keywords: basketball, association, national, history, lore, hoop
Number of Pages: 347
Published: 2007-01-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 078642673X
ISBN-13: 9780786426737

In an age where teenage hoop stars sign multimillion-dollar endorsement deals before their first professional tip-offs, it’s hard to imagine a time when basketball was among the least publicized of all professional sports. After the game’s creation in 1891, establishing a viable professional league was an intense struggle, requiring decades of hard work and dedication from players, owners, coaches and fans. While the game evolved from two-handed set shots, fruit baskets, short-shorts and tiny gyms to slam dunks, shoe endorsements, global popularity and massive urban arenas, the NBA

Authors:Christian Kanzian, Edmund Runggaldier,
Publisher: Ontos Verlag
Keywords: wittgenstein, ludwig, austria, kirchberg, publicatins, society, series, new, symposium, conflict, proceedings, dialogue, 29th, international, cultures, analysis
Number of Pages: 431
Published: 2007-12-28
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 393879366X
ISBN-13: 9783938793664

What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? This question was the general theme of the twenty-ninth international symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society in Kirchberg (Austria). Worldwide leading philosophers accepted the invitation to come to the conference, whose results are published in this volume, edited by Christian Kanzian and Edmund Runggaldier. The sections are dedicated to the philosophy of Wittgenstein, logics and philosophy of language, decision and action theory, ethical aspects of the intercultural dial

Authors:Nicolas Guelfi, Gianna Reggio, Alexander Romanovsky,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: luxembourg, engineering, kirchberg, november, programming, software, fidji, workshop, distributed, java, applications, international, scientific
Number of Pages: 127
Published: 2005-04-06
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 3540250530
ISBN-13: 9783540250531

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Scientific Engineering of Distributed Java Applications, FIDJI 2004, held in Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg in November 2004. The 11 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of 2 keynote talks and 1 tutorial were carefully selected during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. Among the topics covered are the design of distributed applications; development of reliable and secure distributed systems; software architectures, frameworks, and design patterns; formal methods; m

Authors:Sven Hartmann, Xiaofang Zhou, Markus Kirchberg,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: web, workshops, wise, hci, proceedings, lecture, applications, september, internet, incl, new, systems, information, engineering, international, auckland, zealand
Number of Pages: 185
Published: 2008-09-25
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 3540851992
ISBN-13: 9783540851998

This book constitutes the joint refereed proceedings of three workshops held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2008 in Auckland, New Zealand, September, 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions for presentation in the following workshops: The First International Workshop on Web Information Systems Engineering for Electronic Businesses and Governments (E-BAG 2008), The Second International Workshop on Web Usability and Accessibility (IWWUA 2008), and The First International