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Discussing many results and studies from the literature, this work illustrates the value of Fourier series methods in solving difficult nonlinear PDEs. Using these methods, the author presents results for stationary Navier-Stokes equations, nonlinear reaction-diffusion systems, and quasilinear elliptic PDEs and resonance theory. He also establishes the connection between multiple Fourier series and number theory, presents the periodic Ca-theory of Calderon and Zygmund, and explores the extension of Fatou's famous work on antiderivatives and nontangential limits to higher dimensions. The importance of surface spherical harmonic functions is emphasized throughout.

Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every form of media and entertainment in the early twentieth century's rapidly expanding consumer society. Through vaudeville, the Ziegfeld Follies and Broadway, syndicated newspaper and magazine writing, the lecture circuit, radio, and Hollywood movies, Rogers built his reputation as a folksy humorist whose wit made him a national symbol of common sense, common decency, and common people. Though a friend of presidents, movie stars and industrial leaders, it was his bond with ordinary people that endeared him to mass audiences. Making his fellow Americans laugh and think while honoring the past and embracing the future, Rogers helped ease them into the modern world and they loved him for it.

Among Golden Age Hollywood film stars of European heritage known for playing characters from the East--Chinese, Southeast Asians, Indians and Middle Easterners--Anglo-Indian actor Boris Karloff had deep roots there. Based on extensive new research, this biography and career study of Karloff's'eastern'films provides a critical examination of 41 features, including many overlooked early roles, and offers fresh perspective on a cinematic luminary so often labeled a'horror icon.'Films include The Lightning Raider (1919), 14 silent films from the 1920s, The Unholy Night (1929), The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932), The Mummy (1932), John Ford's The Lost Patrol (1934), the Mr. Wong series (1938-1940), Targets (1968), and Isle of the Snake People (1971), one of six titles released posthumously.

This book “decodes” 1930s Hollywood movies and explains why they looked and behaved in the way they did. Organized through a series of related case studies, the book exposes Classical Hollywood movies to a detailed analysis of their historical, industrial and cultural contexts. In the process it utilizes industry data, aesthetic analysis and the insights of New Cinema History to explain why and how these movies assumed their familiar forms. The book represents the summation of Richard Maltby's four decades of scholarship in the field of Hollywood cinema. The essays presented here share an assumption that has increasingly informed the author's critical method over the years: that any historical understanding of the films of this period requires a deep contextualization in the social circumstances surrounding both their production and consumption. In this way, the book introduces an innovative, overarching research methodology that synthesizes branches of research that are typically employed in isolation, including production, distribution, reception, film aesthetics, and cultural and historical context. Of the book's nine chapters, three are presented here for the first time, and four have been substantially revised and extended from their original publication.

Beautifully printed with 24 pages of full color. Ideal for Math Clubs, Math Horizons is a magazine that celebrates the people and ideas which are mathematics. Containing the editor's selections from the first ten years of the magazine's existence, this volume features exquisite expositions of undergraduate-level mathematics. Broad and appealing, the coverage also includes fiction with mathematical themes; literary, theatrical, and cinematic criticism; humor; history; and social history. Mathematics is shown as a human endeavor through biographies and interviews of mathematicians and users of mathematics including artists, writers, and scientists. The puzzles, games, and activities throughout make it a valuable resource for student math clubs. Though especially appealing to students of mathematics from high school to graduate school and their teachers, this collection is an eclectic and wide-ranging look at the culture of mathematics and offers enjoyable reading for anyone with an interest in mathematics.

Manuel war es gelungen, von der Schönheitsfarm zu fliehen! Er stemmte sich hoch und rutschte auf den Knien einige Meter vorwärts, dann brach er erneut zusammen. Doch sein eiserner Wille trieb ihn wieder hoch. Schwankend taumelte er weiter. Seine Augen tränten, sein Körper schien völlig gefühllos zu sein. Weit vor sich sah er endlich eine alte Hütte. Aus dem winzigen Schornstein stieg ein dünner Rauchfaden in den grauen Himmel. Manuel schien es, als würde es Stunden dauern, bis er die Hütte erreichte. Er lehnte sich an die Tür und schlug mit der rechten Faust dagegen, dann brach er in die Knie. Die Tür wurde geöffnet, und ein uralter Mann steckte den Kopf heraus. Sein Gesicht verzog sich zu einem Grinsen.'Manuel!''Sie kennen mich?''Natürlich. Ich bin es, dein Freund Alfonso.'Aber das war unmöglich! Der Mann vor Manuel war mindestens achtzig Jahre alt...

Das spärliche Licht in der Sauna reichte nicht aus, um Norman Sciff letzte Gewissheit zu geben. Er schob sich dicht an die Wand ­heran, schlug den Wasserdampf mit den Händen beiseite und schreckte zurück. Ein Irrtum war ausgeschlossen: Die Wand der Sauna ­bestand aus schwarzem Gusseisen, das ihm auf einmal glühend heiß erschien. Von irgendwoher war ein spöttisches Lachen zu hören. Er schöpfte neue Hoffnung und redete sich ein, das alles sei nur ein übler Scherz.'Hilfe!', schrie er mit kreischender Stimme.'Hilfe! Hört mich denn keiner?'Der dichte Wasserdampf quirlte durcheinander und gab den Blick auf die Wand frei, die plötzlich nach oben gebogen erschien. Norman Sciff vergaß für einen kurzen Moment die Schmerzen. Er hatte den Eindruck, sich in einem riesigen Kessel zu befinden - wie ein Tier, das geschmort werden sollte!

DER TÄTOWIERTE TOD'Wie heißt du?', fragte die Fremde mit tiefer, kehliger Stimme.'Paul Fisher.''Ruhig, Paul! Nur ruhig!', redete sie ihm zu, während Meze mit der Tätowierungsprozedur fortfuhr.'Ja, ganz ruhig bleiben', murmelte Meze beschwörend.'Und blicke zu Aysha. Ist sie nicht ein wunderschönes Geschöpf? Sieh sie dir an, Paul, und um dich versinkt die Welt.'In Pauls Ohren war plötzlich ein Rauschen. Die Tätowierung schien sich in seine Haut zu brennen. Da war nur noch das Feuer, das ihn bei lebendigem Leib aufzuzehren schien - und der Wunsch, noch einmal Ginger zu sehen, um in ihren Armen zu sterben zu können...

DER SCHWARZE HENGST Der Tierarzt durchtrennte die Nabelschnur, und einer der Helfer beugte sich über das neugeborene Vollblutpferd und griff nach der schillernden Haut, die das Fohlen umhüllte. Krachend zerriss die Haut, und die kräftigen Beine und der Leib des Tieres waren zu sehen. Dann zerbarst knirschend die Haut über dem Kopf. Arnod stieß einen Entsetzensschrei aus. Der Arzt und seine Helfer wichen von Grauen geschüttelt zurück. Das Fohlen bewegte sich langsam und versuchte aufzustehen, eine ganz normale Reaktion.'Was ist das?', fragte jemand mit versagender Stimme. Das Fohlen stand auf und bewegte den abscheulich hässlichen Tigerkopf mit den rotglühenden Augen. Es riss weit das Maul auf, das Raubtierzähne zeigte. Arnod war wie gelähmt. Etwas Ähnliches hatte er nie zuvor gesehen. Ein Fohlen mit einem Tigerkopf! Das konnte es einfach nicht geben!

A primer on Democratic Socialism for those who are extremely skeptical of it. America is witnessing the rise of a new generation of socialist activists. More young people support socialism now than at any time since the labor movement of the 1920s. The Democratic Socialists of America, a big-tent leftist organization, has just surpassed 50,000 members nationwide. In the fall of 2018, one of the most influential congressmen in the Democratic Party lost a primary to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old socialist who had never held office before. But what does all this mean? Should we be worried about our country, or should we join the march toward our bright socialist future? In Why You Should Be a Socialist, Nathan J. Robinson will give readers a primer on twenty-first-century socialism: what it is, what it isn't, and why everyone should want to be a part of this exciting new chapter of American politics.From the heyday of Occupy Wall Street through Bernie Sanders'2016 presidential campaign and beyond, young progressives have been increasingly drawn to socialist ideas. However, the movement's goals need to be defined more sharply before it can effect real change on a national scale. Likewise, liberals and conservatives will benefit from a deeper understanding of the true nature of this ideology, whether they agree with it or not. Robinson's charming, accessible, and well-argued book will convince even the most skeptical readers of the merits of socialist thought.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini's work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon. This book is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem)—a collaboration of the Association of American Universities, the Association of University Presses, and the Association of Research Libraries. Learn more at the TOME website, available at: openmonographs.org.

Particularly in the humanities and social sciences, festschriften are a popular forum for discussion. The IJBF provides quick and easy general access to these important resources for scholars and students. The festschriften are located in state and regional libraries and their bibliographic details are recorded. Since 1983 regularly published, 1,000 Festschriften from 20 countries with 20,000 articles are added annually. 12,000 articles are analyzed for subject content. You will have instant access to a multiplicity of topics irrespective of the original language of an indexed article.

The New Deal era witnessed a surprising surge in popular engagement with the history and memory of the Civil War era. From the omnipresent book and film Gone with the Wind and the scores of popular theater productions to Aaron Copeland's'A Lincoln Portrait,'it was hard to miss America's fascination with the war in the 1930s and 1940s. Nina Silber deftly examines the often conflicting and politically contentious ways in which Americans remembered the Civil War era during the years of the Depression, the New Deal, and World War II. In doing so, she reveals how the debates and events of that earlier period resonated so profoundly with New Deal rhetoric about state power, emerging civil rights activism, labor organizing and trade unionism, and popular culture in wartime. At the heart of this book is an examination of how historical memory offers people a means of understanding and defining themselves in the present. Silber reveals how, during a moment of enormous national turmoil, the events and personages of the Civil War provided a framework for reassessing national identity, class conflict, and racial and ethnic division. The New Deal era may have been the first time Civil War memory loomed so large for the nation as a whole, but, as the present moment suggests, it was hardly the last.

This book is the second of a two volume series. Covering a range of subjects from operator theory and classical harmonic analysis to Banach space theory, this book features fully-refereed, high-quality papers exploring new results and trends in weighted norm inequalities, Schur-Agler class functions, complex analysis, dynamical systems, and dyadic harmonic analysis. Graduate students and researchers in analysis will find inspiration in the articles collected in this volume, which emphasize the remarkable connections between harmonic analysis and operator theory. A survey of the two weight problem for the Hilbert transform and an expository article on the Clark model to the case of non-singular measures and applications to the study of rank-one perturbations are included. The material for this volume is based on the 13th New Mexico Analysis Seminar held at the University of New Mexico, April 3-4, 2014 and on severalspecial sections of the Western Spring Sectional Meeting at the University of New Mexico, April 4-6,2014. During the event, participants honored the memory of Cora Sadosky—a great mathematician who recently passed away and who made significant contributions to the field of harmonic analysis. Cora was an exceptional scientist and human being. She was a world expert in harmonic analysis and operator theory, publishing over fifty-five research papers and authoring a major textbook in the field. Participants of the conference include new and senior researchers, recent doctorates as well as leading experts in the area.

Concurrenten, leveranciers of ketenpartners zijn vaak op de hoogte van misstanden in organisaties waarmee zij een professionele relatie hebben. Als zij dit melden bij publieke toezichthouders kan dit de handhaving ten goede komen. Dit onderzoek richt zich op beweegredenen en ervaringen van deze externe melders. Er werd reeds veel onderzoek gedaan naar klokkenluiders of insiders in organisaties die van binnenuit op de hoogte zijn van, of zelfs deelnemen aan overtredingen. Naar de vraag wat externe melders beweegt om overtredingen te melden is tot nu toe echter nauwelijks onderzoek gedaan. Dit empirische onderzoek bij drie inspectiediensten gaat voor het eerst de beweegredenen en ervaringen na van concurrenten, leveranciers of ketenpartners die misstanden melden. Veel inspectiediensten stimuleren dit soort meldingen, omdat de informatie waar zij over beschikken vaak moeilijk toegankelijk is. Op basis van de bevindingen worden aanbevelingen gedaan om meldingen te stimuleren.

Dyadic (Walsh) analysis emerged as a new research area in applied mathematics and engineering in early seventies within attempts to provide answers to demands from practice related to application of spectral analysis of different classes of signals, including audio, video, sonar, and radar signals. In the meantime, it evolved in a mature mathematical discipline with fundamental results and important features providing basis for various applications. The book will provide fundamentals of the area through reprinting carefully selected earlier publications followed by overview of recent results concerning particular subjects in the area written by experts, most of them being founders of the field, and some of their followers. In this way, this first volume of the two volume book offers a rather complete coverage of the development of dyadic Walsh analysis, and provides a deep insight into its mathematical foundations necessary for consideration of generalizations and applications that are the subject of the second volume. The presented theory is quite sufficient to be a basis for further research in the subject area as well as to be applied in solving certain new problems or improving existing solutions for tasks in the areas which motivated development of the dyadic analysis.

¿Qué significa que un régimen político se vuelva totalitario? ¿Cuándo empieza a hablarse de totalitarismo, y por qué? ¿Podemos tratar el fenómeno totalitario como un trágico episodio del siglo que apenas acaba de terminar, o es algo más complejo que un simple paréntesis histórico? ¿Qué fantasmas totalitarios inquietan todavía nuestro tiempo? Este libro pretende dar respuesta a estas preguntas recuperando no sólo la historia del concepto, sino intentando esclarecer las razones, los enfrentamientos y las polémicas que han animado los debates sobre el totalitarismo. Además de tener en cuenta las teorías politológicas y las discusiones históricas, se concede una atención preferente a la reflexión filosófica. Pensar filosóficamente el concepto de totalitarismo ayuda a revisar algunas antítesis consolidadas que oponen frontalmente democracia y totalitarismo. Esta obra nos invita a formular un sinfín de preguntas sobre la época democrática: las posibilidades que ha abierto, los vacíos que deja, los mecanismos que activa, la'servidumbre voluntaria'que produce. Porque el totalitarismo no puede considerarse una amenaza que pesa desde el exterior sobre la democracia. Es, más bien, una de las posibles respuestas a aquellas cuestiones planteadas por la modernidad que las democracias no han conseguido solucionar.

Cinema and science fiction were made for each other. Science fiction has been at the cutting edge of film technology and the genre has produced some of the most ambitious, imaginative and visually spectacular films ever made. Yet science fiction cinema is about more than just state-of-the-art special effects. It has also provided a vehicle for film-makers and writers to comment on their own societies and cultures. In this new study of the genre, James Chapman and Nicholas Cull examine a series of landmark science fiction films from the 1930s to the present. They include genre classics, including'Things to Come','Forbidden Planet','Planet of the Apes'and'2001: A Space Odyssey', alongside modern blockbusters'Star Wars'and'Avatar'. They consider both screen originals and adaptations of the work of major science fiction authors such as H.G. Wells and Arthur C. Clarke. They range widely across the genre from pulp adventure and space opera to political allegory and speculative documentary- there is even a science fiction musical.Chapman and Cull explore the contexts and document the production histories of each film to show how they made their way to the screen- and why they turned out the way they did. Informed throughout by extensive original research in US and British archives, Projecting Tomorrow will be essential reading for all students and fans of science fiction cinema.

Samuel Goldwyn was the premier dream-maker of his era - a fierce independent force i a time when studios ruled, a producer of silver screen sagas who was, in all probability, the last Hollywood tycoon. In this riveting book, Pulitzer Prize winning biographer A. Scott Berg tells the life story of this remarkable man - a tale as rich with drama as any feature length epic and as compelling as the history of Hollywood itself.