This book is a compilation of Gerhard Heinrich Dieke's term values and emission wavenumbers for molecular Hydrogen, compiled after Dieke's death by H. M. Crosswhite. This is an essential reference source for anyone working on the excited states of H2. It incorporates over 600 pages of transitions (60 transitions/page) with intensity information and assignments for those lines which are assigned. The term values derived from these assignments are also given in tables in the first section of the book. This data is not available in any other source. Unfortunately the tables suffer from several defficiencies: 1. +/- symmetry labels are not given. 2. Hundreds of inconsistencies exist, with partial assignments, mis-assignments, and even multiple assignments for the same transition. 3. The term value tables do not reflect all the states for which transitions are reported. These problems, however, represent only a tiny fraction of the tens of thousands of spectral lines given. Another work of similar detail but of more limited scope is the "Atlas of the Vacuum Ultraviolet Emission Spectrum of Molecular Hydrogen" by Jean-Yves Roncin and Francoise Launay which presents a detailed analysis of the Lyman and Werner bands of H2.

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By its nature, what's most obvious can easily escape our attention, so it may be worth noting that Beethoven's era is beyond the recall of any living person. Theoretically, there might now be some living centenarian whose grandfather could have known him, or at least been in his presence and spoken with him - but this is conceptual, and though conjecture is fruitless it's still fascinating. We can't talk with Beethoven or his intimates, none of whom lived into the 20th century - but here one of them operatively speaks to us, if not literally then surely effectively.

Edited by Maynard Solomon and translated for the first time from the original German by him and Henry Mins, the book FROM THE HOUSE OF THE BLACK SPANIARD - REMEMBRANCES OF BEETHOVEN FROM MY YOUTH was authored by Dr. Gerhard von Breuning and first published in Vienna in 1874.

The title is fitting. As a 12-year-old, the author (whose father was a close friend of the composer) was privy to Beethoven's inner circle and played a small but important role in the composer's daily existence during the last year and a half of his life. He helped him in various ways by assisting with his correspondence, running special errands, helping him keep order in his dwelling, and doing what he could during Beethoven's last illness. The boy eventually developed for the composer a feeling approaching worship. Beethoven reciprocated this devotion by guiding some of the boy's musical education. When the young Gerhard eventually asked the older man's permission to address him with the familiar Du (rather than the formal Sie), the boy was overjoyed when Beethoven consented.

Dr. Solomon says in the book's introduction, "Like many children, Gerhard was a keen observer of small details..." This boy, who became a respected Viennese physician, evidently was the early 19th-century counterpart of today's "kid who doesn't miss a thing" (even pinpointing in his book such details as the exact location and number of windows of Beethoven's street-facing top floor apartment). His precision was fortunate and significant for posterity: it extended even to the minutest specifics about Beethoven's dwelling, personality and character, mood swings, daily conversations about his circumstances, personal preferences and other matters now irretrievably beyond our reach and forever lost. Often even the smallest details, about any subject, can be keys to opening large doors behind which are answers to some important questions. Beethoven's life was dramatic enough without the need for embellishment a-la-Hollywood, and von Breuning illuminates his subject from the real-world viewpoint.

His book takes its name from the building, the Schwarzspanierhaus (House of the Black Spaniard) - Beethoven's last residence, and where he died on Monday, March 26, 1827. In Vienna today, the site of the house (demolished ca.1904) is Schwarzspanierstrasse 15, marked with a memorial plaque and the characteristic red and white Austrian banner. In his day the address was 200 Alsergrund am Glacis. Because of its Beethoven connection the street was later renamed Schwarzspanierstrasse: the composer's swarthy complexion in his youth prompted some to call him The Black Spaniard - which in turn might have been what induced a few revisionist claims in our day that the composer was negro.

When Gerhard von Breuning died in 1892 he was the last survivor of those who had personally known Beethoven. Though his accounts were written late in life, he was there to witness the events of the composer's last years. This gives us not only a more immediate picture, but perhaps more importantly, bottom-line details which shed a bright light on what transpired more than a century and a half ago. This proximity gives special value to accounts like these.

Among the book's photographs are Beethoven's desk, the entrance hall and main door to the very apartment he occupied in the Schwarzspanierhaus, the building's exterior, an intriguiging floor plan of the actual dwelling, and Gerhard von Breuning himself in old age.

Perhaps the most compelling illustration is a superb photograph of Beethoven's life-mask, made by Franz Klein in 1812. It's compelling because it offers a literal glimpse into the past: Beethoven lived before the advent of photography, but this life mask represents him effectively as he looked at 42 and gives us the most accurate rendering we have of his physical features. Artists might disagree - but this illustration, by its very immediacy, seems to enlarge and strengthen the links in the chain that binds us to our own musical history.

Von Breuning's reports range from the humorous and fascinating - about Beethoven's fondness for puns and sarcasm - to the exasperating and even heartbreaking: Gerhard was devastated when as a young adult the numerous handwritten notes he had received from Beethoven were inadvertently discarded by a servant who thought they were trash.

This book is for those who want to know about Beethoven from someone who truly knew him. Historians compile and present an amalgam of data; author von Breuning via editor Solomon takes us into a courtroom and displays primary evidence unsullied by the traditional legendary gloss, the ghosts of myth, and the passage of more than 17 decades. Though no-one's memory is infallible, he still places before us, devoid of cosmetic veneer, the raw material from which we can experience our own reactions, form our own opinions, and draw our own conclusions.

The editor of this work has prepared a book that can be read and enjoyed by both reader and scholar. It's content is authentic, not synthetic - a treasury of material taken from a primary source: someone who literally knew Beethoven and who reports from this distinctive perspective. There are few if any substitutes for accounts like these, and a more superlative book of this type would be hard to imagine.

There's no other book quite like it so its singularity makes it quite special. About Beethoven there are countless tomes, perhaps more than about any other composer, but this book provides something rather unique, which adds to its value: a compendium of fascinating details that would be difficult, if not altogether impossible, to find in any other single volume. The book is, in a word, superb and for both the reader and researcher can be enjoyable, even fascinating and, perhaps more importantly, enlightening reading.

JEFFREY DANE

This edited volume is a collection of papers prepared for the International Conference on Multimedia and Regional Economic Restructuring, held at the Center of Technology Assesment in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart in October 1997. The overall theme of the book is the impact and challenge of the information society for regional economies. The book focuses on empirical observations of the most recent evolution of the multimedia segment of the global information society. The empirical case-studies of regions are put into a common framework elaborated by the editors Braczyk, Fuchs and Wolf in a helpful introduction which gives a short definition of the term multimedia, discuss the process of the formation of the multimedia industry theoretically, and summarize the main links between multimedia and industrial clusters. Contributions are devided into three main parts. The first part addresses regions which host multimedia industries which can be classified as pioneers. These pioneer clusters are located without exception in the US, California and New York. In the second part emerging multimedia clusters are described which do not command the pioneer status of the American regions. Case studies of such routine producers are located in Canada and Europe. The third part analyses regions which try to establish multimedia clusters. In the first part Edmund Egan and Annalee Saxenian, exploring the multimedia cluster of the bay area in San Fransisco, ask some basic questions on the dynamics of agglomeration and dispersal in multimedia industries. The paper of Allen Scott on the southern california's multimedia industry lies emphazise on the form and logic of the local labour market. Scott shows that the multimedia industry is one of the driving forces behind the continued growth of urban cultural industries and that Los Angeles is a major centre of this industry. The remarkable case study of multimedia networks of Silicon Alley by Wolf Heydebrand describes the evolution and present processes of multimedia networks in New York. Through emphasizing the historical trajectories and the significance of the communicative capacity of networks their dual role of being part of economic globalization and at the same time constituting the backbone of reactive regional development strategies in the face of global competition is highlighted. The development of the new media industry of New York's Silicon Alley is also described by John Pavlik. He focuses on the institutional development and the innovations networks within the multimedia industry. The second part of the book contains six case studies of emerging multimedia clusters. The Toronto multimedia industry is analysed by Shauna Brail and Meric Gertler. The implications of their research are twofold: First, it supports and reinforces that industries based on information and communication technology rely heavily on interpersonal networks and strong backward linkages leading to agglomeration in urban centres. Second, the research demonstrates that the industry in Toronto has developed despite lacking local depth or institutional thickness that might engender inter-firm cooperation. The industry's growth has been largely a function of favourable policies supporting cultural industries nationally and provincially rather than strong institutional structures. The next two chapters include analysis of German multimedia clusters. The case of North Rhine-Westphalia, notable Cologne, is described by Josef Hilbert, Jürgen Nordhause-Janz and Dieter Rehfeld. By presenting data of the whole state the authors demonstrate that together with Bavaria North Rhine-Westphalia can be regarded as one of the German multimedia centres. Further the emerging clusters in Cologne and in the Ruhr Area are analysed in initial stages. Detlev Sträter describes in his paper the profiling and regional restructering of Munich as a cluster of the media and telecommunication industry. The paper of Richard Naylor on the Internet industry in the Netherlands is a reflection of this industry in a whole country. It gives an overview of the distribution of Internet suppliers and possible factors influencing agglomeration. The particular reasons for the growth of the South-east England high-tech corridor in the Sussex region are analysed by Puay Tang. After an interesting overview of the British multimedia sector Tang describes the main activities undertaken by local organizations and councils in the south-east part of the region, the fastest growing segment of the corridor. Further she discusses the main entry barriers to the sector and the resources required for sustaining market presence and concludes with some policy implications. The findings of this article are primarily based on several interviews. Therefore beside structural characteristics of the industry the paper makes also statements on social networks and its impacts on the development of multimedia firms in the region. The last case study of emerging clusters is the paper of Åke Sandberg on the multimedia industry in Stockholm. The last part analyses regions which try to establish a multimedia cluster. Most of the cases included (Cardiff/Wales, Scotland, Stuttgart, Tampere) concern the intensive support from public agencies. The book ends with a discussion of political efforts in the multimedia industry in Japan and Singapore. Overall the book is a valuable collection of papers. Most of the articles are interesting and worthwhile to read. Among the weaknesses we find some case studies which only give a broad socioeconomic description of the cluster in question. Therefore there is too little room for an explicit analysis of processes, politics and networks.

Pearls in graph theory begins informally and at an elementary level, suitable for a substantial freshman-sophomore course. After intuitive introductions, concepts and theory are developed with increasing depth, leading into material for a good intermediate-level course. Included also are appropiate open conjetures on, for example the Oberwohlfach problem, magic and antimagic graphs, and colorings of "earth-moon" maps. In addition, for me the final three chapters are a splendid, enticingly elementary yet comprehensive introduction to topological graph theory. Essentially no othr introductory text presents the depth, breadth, and fun of topological graph theory as does this book.

Peter Gerhard's "Pirates of the Pacific" constitutes a serious, well documented study on the most daring, but less studied, of all pirates and privateers: those who were brave enough to cross the Isthmus of Panama, the jungles of Central America, the Straits of Magellan and the Cape Horn, to plunder the Spanish Colonies in the Pacific Coast. There were aproximately twenty five plundering expeditions during a period of two hundred years. Gerhard covers the Elizabethan Privateers, such as Francis Drake and Thomas Cavendish. Also the notorious expeditions of the "Pechelingües" or Dutch Privateers who menaced to conquer the Viceroyalty of Peru for the Prince of Orange. It reviews the exploits of the Buccaneers, late English Privateers and Smugglers. And ends with the first expedition of the Royal Navy during the "War of Jenkin's Ear". Gerhard emphasizes and gives detailed accounts of the exploits in the Coast of Mexico, but lacks to explain in detail the adventures of these pirates in the Pacific Coast of South America. Even though, this book constitutes a good source of information in this theme, and one of the few studies on the Pacific Pirates.

This is a must have if you are building a Lutzow/Deutschland Class model and need good picture references. Fairly good text and statistics. The only drawback are the line drawings which are far too small in scale (you need a magnifying glass) to be of any use and the camouflage drawings which are done in black and white and are also of limited use. Otherwise, tons of very useful black and white photos...

The author appears to reflect upon his 90+ years of life and experience to provide us with a survival guide for the 21st century. I found Mr Miller's approach refreshing as he renames words for the Creator and shares his thoughts on how Jesus learned to do his Father's will in the desert. God tells Jesus he is supreme intelligence, energy, and love. The author then explains how this perspective applies to each of us today and how we might approach the new century. The author appared to be strong on our need to pray as he speaks of "God being our best friend. Keep up the friendship. Take time to pray daily." as well as sharing his belief that faith needs strength. Faith is a positive mind set/positive energy and as faith can not be taught one can be taught to handle the energy found in one's life. Although I may not have agreed with all that was written, overall I found this to be a good book, especially if you are a person who enjoys a book that makes you think.

Complete theory of hydraulic structures: gates, stoplogs, etc.
Contain tables, diagrams, drawing and formulas.
Necessary for all engineer who do hydraulic projetcs. The only problem is it is written in Germany

I read this book in the late 1970s and my trying to find a copy of it. The author is as I recall a wave theorist. He analyzes the technological growth of the late 19th C and predicted that in the late 1980s there would be a series of breakthroughs of comparable magnitude. If anyone out there would like to converse on this subject, reach me at prf@world.std.com.