Klaus Schmidt-Lorenz Livres

Paradis perdu au sud-est de la Turquie ? Stonehenge en Haute-Mésopotamie ? Depuis sa découverte en 1995, Göbekli Tepe déchaîne les passions. Fouillé sur une infime partie, le site néolithique a livré des bâtiments exceptionnels structurés par des centaines de piliers mégalithiques colossaux en forme de «T». Elevés il y a 12 000 ans, 5 000 ans avant les menhirs de Carnac, 7 000 ans avant les pyramides, ces piliers sont presque tous couverts de fascinants bas-reliefs animaliers (fauves, renards, sangliers, grues, serpents...). Ce gigantesque ensemble bâti par des chasseurs-cueilleurs reste une énigme. Klaus Schmidt, le fouilleur de Göbekli Tepe décédé récemment, nous a laissé ici le passionnant et vivant récit de sa découverte et de son dégagement. Pour lui, après vingt ans de fouilles et d'études, ces enceintes de pierre constituent un «temple», un grand centre cultuel révélateur d'une révolution religieuse qui aurait précédé la révolution agricole. Abondamment illustré, cet ouvrage plonge dans l'imaginaire des bâtisseurs à un moment charnière de l'histoire de l'humanité et à l'endroit même où le monde des chasseurs-cueilleurs bascula pour engendrer celui des agriculteurs-éleveurs. Une introduction vivante et documentée à l'histoire et à l'art du Néolithique au Proche-Orient.

The book explores the critical role of Information Technology in business processes, emphasizing the need for redundancy in IT systems. It covers requirements and concepts for creating robust redundant systems, providing practical examples specifically related to UNIX and Linux environments. This resource is essential for understanding how to ensure IT reliability and continuity in organizational operations.

A re-discovery: At the wishing tree. Urfa, city and region -- Finds, researchers technical terms: The three-age system, the Neolithic and the Jericho shock. The fertile crescent and the hilly flanks. Çatal Höyük, another city from the Stone Age. Çayönü, the early birth of Hephaistos. Nevali Çori, in the valley of the plague. Gurcutepe and the birth of a new research project -- Göbekli Tepe: The belly mountain. Enclosure A, the snake pillars building. Enclosure B, a Mesopotamian Stonehenge in the making, the fox pillars building. Enclosure C, in the circle of the boars. Enclosure D, in the Stone Age zoo -- Between meaning and interpretation, approaching images and world of the Stone Age: Animals and depictions of animals in the Ancient Near East. Cultural memory and the dream paths of the Stone Age -- The more recent layers of Göbekli Tepe and the end of the hunters' sanctuary: The more recent buildings and the lions pillars building. When the hunter needed the farmer, pre-conditions for a sanctuary of the Early Neolithic -- Göbekli Tepe, recent finds and thoughts, an epilogue.

Companies and other organizations depend more than ever on the availability of their Information Technology, and most mission critical business processes are IT-based processes. Business continuity is the ability to do business under any circumstances and is an essential requirement modern companies are facing. High availability and disaster recovery are contributions of the IT to fulfill this requirement. And companies will be confronted with such demands to an even greater extent in the future, since their credit ratings will be lower without such precautions. Both, high availability and disaster recovery, are realized by redundant systems. Redundancy can and should be implemented on different abstraction levels: from the hardware, the operating system and middleware components up to the backup computing center in case of a disaster. This book presents requirements, concepts, and realizations of redundant systems on all abstraction levels, and all given examples refer to UNIX and Linux systems.

The thesis explores the surge of foreign direct investment (FDI) by multinational enterprises amidst global crises, highlighting globalization's role in fostering economic integration. It discusses how advancements in communication and transportation are bridging gaps between nations, while emphasizing the importance of democracy and economic liberalization in optimizing resource utilization. The work also addresses cultural differences as a crucial factor in international relations, advocating for a focus on compatibility rather than divisions among diverse cultures.

Early America Re-Explored is a transatlantic joint venture in which scholars from the United States, England, and Germany re-read and recontextualize American writings from the colonial to the antebellum periods. The authors and topics analyzed range from Winthrop and Puritan rhetorics, the Pynchons and Ha(w)thornes, Puritan missionary discourse, Rowlandson’s captivity narrative in the context of Native American history, Scottish-American self-fashioning, the cultural inscription of Ashbridge’s autobiography, and the transatlantic subtext of Wheatley’s poetry, to the theory and practice of the early American novel, play, and short story, the role of geography books in the construction of American identities, women and Native Americans in Child and Sedgwick, the abolitionist writings of M. Stewart, political dimensions of Bryant’s poetry and of the nineteenth-century rogue narrative, technology in antebellum short stories, and postcolonial aspects of Cooper’s, Poe’s, and Melville’s sea fiction. The contributors include J. Achilles, S. Bercovitch, M. Brückner, V. Carretta, W. Fluck, U. Hebel, F. Kelleter, S. Krause, G. Mackenthun, D. Madsen, S. Matter-Seibel, O. Moore, N. Salisbury, D. Schloss, J. Schöpp, D. Williams, and J. Zanger.

Focusing on a specific class of continuous Zd-actions, the book explores the automorphisms of compact, abelian groups, highlighting their complexity and the novel phenomena arising from the shift from Z to Zd. It provides a systematic approach to studying these actions, making it a valuable resource for understanding the intricate dynamics involved in this mathematical transition.

Diese Dokumentation der Zerstörung Darmstadts in der Brandnacht vom 11./12. September 1944 soll das furchtbarste und schmerzvollste Kapitel in der Geschichte und ihrer Bewohner in einer sachlichen Darstellung für die Zukuft festhalten. 156 Fotos zeigen - nach Straßen geordnet - das Ausmaß der Vernichtung.

Die humorvollen Erlebnisse einer Sheltie-Hündin namens Sandy stehen im Mittelpunkt dieser Sammlung von 34 Kurzgeschichten. Aus der Perspektive ihres Herrchens werden die Gedanken und Abenteuer des kleinen Hundes lebendig und in menschliche Sprache übersetzt. Die Anekdoten zeigen nicht nur die Eigenheiten und den Charme von Sandy, sondern bieten auch einen unterhaltsamen Einblick in das Leben mit einem Hund. Leser können sich auf eine amüsante Reise voller Abenteuer und tierischer Weisheiten freuen.