The Antarctic represents the last of the world's still unexplored continents. Since 1985, Italy has sent 10 expeditions to this region, three of those have been exclusively devoted to research on the marine ecology of the Ross Sea region. This volume presents a global picture of this research. It includes contributions on water mass characteristics, particulate organic matter and nutrient utilization, and physiological aspects of primary production. Further topics are zooplankton, krill and top predator interactions in relation to physical and biological parameters, ecological features of coastal fish communities and the spatio-temporal variability of benthic biocenoses.
English summary: This study on political iconography examines the continuing afterlife of the equestrian statue as an expression of power. Focussing on the period since the toppling of absolutist monuments, it explores the creation of "democratic" equestrian statues and paintings, their re-modelling during the Restauration, and the automobile as the horse's successor when it comes to symbolizing power. German description: Das barocke Reiterstandbild reprasentierte die Macht des absolutistischen Herrschers, basierend auf einer Bildtradition, die in die Antike zuruckreicht. Nach der Franzosischen Revolution hatte diese Bildformel ausgedient. Doch dann erlebten die Reiterportrats im burgerlichen Zeitalter eine Umdeutung. Wofur standen Reiterbilder von Mannern und Frauen besonders in der nachrevolutionaren Zeit und in der restaurativen Phase der napoleonischen Herrschaft? Renate Prochno-Schinkel geht den sich wandelnden Bedeutungen nach. Dabei spielt die Kulturgeschichte der Pferde eine wichtige Rolle in diesen Ikonographien der Macht. Und so manches politische Portrat ersetzt seit dem 20. Jahrhundert das Attribut des Pferdes durch das Auto. Untersucht werden skulptierte und gemalte Darstellungen vor allem in Europa und den USA.
Ross Lovegrove is an internationally renowned designer and visionary, whose works are celebrated as the new aesthetic expression of the twenty-first century. His industrial design is inspired by the logic and beauty of nature. It connects technology and innovative production methods with new materials and an intelligent, organic vocabulary of forms, in an inimitable way. By carefully selecting, combining, and composing these elements he succeeds in inventing a completely unique language of his own. A very human vision and a sustainable, inventive approach form the basis for all of his work. His philosophy is rooted in elegant functionalism. Despite all of the imaginativeness and pleasure in experimentation revealed in his body of work, he considers himself a thinker whose interest is not in the pretentious, but in the development of sensible, useful things. At the heart of this monograph, therefore, is a lasting combination of high standards and creativity, design and nature, and the latest technologies from the fields of physics, biology, anthropology, and ecology.
My German Prisons; Being the Experiences of an Officer During Two and a Half Years as a Prisoner of War, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
