Focusing on the physical layer, Networking Fundamentals provides essential information on networking technologies that are used in both wired and wireless networks designed for local area networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs). The book starts with an overview of telecommunications followed by four parts, each including several chapters. Part I explains the principles of design and analysis of information networks at the lowest layers. It concentrates on the characteristics of the transmission media, applied transmission and coding, and medium access control. Parts II and III are devoted to detailed descriptions of important WANs and LANs respectively with Part II describing the wired Ethernet and Internet as well as cellular networks while Part III covers popular wired LANs and wireless LANs (WLANs), as well as wireless personal area network (WPAN) technologies. Part IV concludes by examining security, localization and sensor networking. The partitioned structure of the book allows flexibility in teaching the material, encouraging the reader to grasp the more simple concepts and to build on these foundations when moving onto more complex information. Networking Fundamentals contains numerous illustrations, case studies and tables to supplement the text, as well as exercises with solutions at the end of each chapter. There is also a companion website with password protected solutions manual for instructors along with other useful resources.

Over the past several decades knowledge regarding the pathobiology of vascular disease has substantially increased. The crux of ischemic vascular disease is well established to be a complex interplay of atherosclerosis and thrombosis. The understanding of venous thrombosis, hypercoagulable syndromes, and atrial fi brillation has also witnessed impressive progress, and these disorders have become important areas of investigation with translation into several aspects of clinical medicine. At the same time, the number of therapeutic agents that have become available has dramatically increased, in parallel with the discovery of new biologic targets and receptors. We have undertaken this textbook edition keeping in mind the marked evolution in our understanding of the pathobiology of thrombosis as well as the tremendous growth in therapeutic options. The expansion in the number of available intravenous and oral antithrombotic agents has been particularly remarkable: direct and specifi c coagulation factor inhibitors as well as new antiplatelet agents have been developed and are quickly fi nding their place in daily practice. This has required a substantial rewriting of chapters. As with our previous thrombosis textbook, such chapters address virtually all aspects of venous and arterial disease and the corresponding therapies. We have made strong efforts to present contemporary data on each of these topics. We are very rateful to all the contributors who have made this book possible. Their commitment to scholarly activity and education allowed us to put forth this comprehensive overview of thrombosis and therapeutic interventions.

Age of Entanglement explores patterns of connection linking German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century to the years after the Second World War. Kris Manjapra traces the intersecting ideas and careers of a diverse collection of individuals from South Asia and Central Europe who shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another's worlds. Moving beyond well-rehearsed critiques of colonialism toward a new critical approach, this study recasts modern intellectual history in terms of the knotted intellectual itineraries of seeming strangers. Collaborations in the sciences, arts, and humanities produced extraordinary meetings of German and Indian minds. Meghnad Saha met Albert Einstein, Stella Kramrisch brought the Bauhaus to Calcutta, and Girindrasekhar Bose began a correspondence with Sigmund Freud. Rabindranath Tagore traveled to Germany to recruit scholars for a new Indian university, and the actor Himanshu Rai hired director Franz Osten to help establish movie studios in Bombay. These interactions, Manjapra argues, evinced shared responses to the cultural and political hegemony of the British empire. Germans and Indians hoped to find in one another the tools needed to disrupt an Anglocentric world order. As Manjapra demonstrates, transnational intellectual encounters are not inherently progressive. From Orientalism and Aryanism to socialism and scientism, German-Indian entanglements were neither necessarily liberal nor conventionally cosmopolitan, often characterized as much by manipulation as by cooperation. Age of Entanglement underscores the connections between German and Indian intellectual history, revealing the characteristics of a global age when the distance separating Europe and Asia seemed, temporarily, to disappear.

Книга одной из самых известных современных французских философов Юлии Кристевой "Силы ужаса: эссе об отвращении" (1982) посвящается темам материальной семиотики, материального и любви, занимающим ключевое место в ее творчестве и оказавшим исключительное влияние на развитие феминистской теории и философии. В книге на материале творчества Ф. Селина анализируется, каким образом искоренение низменного, грязного, отвратительного выступает необходимым условием формирования человеческой субъективности и социальности, и насколько, в то же время, оказывается невозможным их окончательное устранение. Книга предназначена для специалистов - философов, филологов, культурологов, так и для широкой читательской аудитории.