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Affine flag manifolds and principal bundles
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ISBN: 3034602871 9786613076212 303460288X 1283076217 Year: 2010 Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Springer Basel AG,

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Affine flag manifolds are infinite dimensional versions of familiar objects such as Graßmann varieties. The book features lecture notes, survey articles, and research notes - based on workshops held in Berlin, Essen, and Madrid - explaining the significance of these and related objects (such as double affine Hecke algebras and affine Springer fibers) in representation theory (e.g., the theory of symmetric polynomials), arithmetic geometry (e.g., the fundamental lemma in the Langlands program), and algebraic geometry (e.g., affine flag manifolds as parameter spaces for principal bundles). Novel aspects of the theory of principal bundles on algebraic varieties are also studied in the book.


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Flag varieties : an interplay of geometry, combinatorics, and representation theory
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ISBN: 9811313938 9811313946 9789811313936 Year: 2018 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,

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This book discusses the importance of flag varieties in geometric objects and elucidates its richness as interplay of geometry, combinatorics and representation theory. The book presents a discussion on the representation theory of complex semisimple Lie algebras, as well as the representation theory of semisimple algebraic groups. In addition, the book also discusses the representation theory of symmetric groups. In the area of algebraic geometry, the book gives a detailed account of the Grassmannian varieties, flag varieties, and their Schubert subvarieties. Many of the geometric results admit elegant combinatorial description because of the root system connections, a typical example being the description of the singular locus of a Schubert variety. This discussion is carried out as a consequence of standard monomial theory. Consequently, this book includes standard monomial theory and some important applications—singular loci of Schubert varieties, toric degenerations of Schubert varieties, and the relationship between Schubert varieties and classical invariant theory. The two recent results on Schubert varieties in the Grassmannian have also been included in this book. The first result gives a free resolution of certain Schubert singularities. The second result is about certain Levi subgroup actions on Schubert varieties in the Grassmannian and derives some interesting geometric and representation-theoretic consequences.


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Witness to extinction : how we failed to save the Yangtze River dolphin
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ISBN: 1282346709 9786612346705 0191563595 9780191563591 9780199549474 0199549478 9780199549481 1383045445 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,

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'Witness to Extinction' tells the story of the plight of the Yangtze River dolphin. It is both a celebration of a remarkable animal that once graced China's greatest river, and a personal, eyewitness account of the failures of policy and the struggle to get funds that led to the tragic demise of a species.

Cycle spaces of flag domains : a complex geometric viewpoint
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ISBN: 1280611278 9786610611270 0817644792 0817643915 Year: 2006 Publisher: Boston : Birkhauser,

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This monograph, divided into four parts, presents a comprehensive treatment and systematic examination of cycle spaces of flag domains. Assuming only a basic familiarity with the concepts of Lie theory and geometry, this work presents a complete structure theory for these cycle spaces, as well as their applications to harmonic analysis and algebraic geometry. Key features: * Accessible to readers from a wide range of fields, with all the necessary background material provided for the nonspecialist * Many new results presented for the first time * Driven by numerous examples * The exposition is presented from the complex geometric viewpoint, but the methods, applications and much of the motivation also come from real and complex algebraic groups and their representations, as well as other areas of geometry * Comparisons with classical Barlet cycle spaces are given * Good bibliography and index Researchers and graduate students in differential geometry, complex analysis, harmonic analysis, representation theory, transformation groups, algebraic geometry, and areas of global geometric analysis will benefit from this work.

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Semisimple Lie groups. --- Flag manifolds. --- Twistor theory. --- Automorphic forms. --- Homogeneous spaces. --- Spaces, Homogeneous --- Lie groups --- Automorphic functions --- Forms (Mathematics) --- Twistors --- Congruences (Geometry) --- Field theory (Physics) --- Space and time --- Flag varieties (Mathematics) --- Manifolds, Flag --- Varieties, Flag (Mathematics) --- Algebraic varieties --- Semi-simple Lie groups --- Global differential geometry. --- Topological Groups. --- Differential equations, partial. --- Global analysis. --- Geometry, algebraic. --- Quantum theory. --- Differential Geometry. --- Topological Groups, Lie Groups. --- Several Complex Variables and Analytic Spaces. --- Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds. --- Algebraic Geometry. --- Quantum Physics. --- Global analysis (Mathematics) --- Analysis, Global (Mathematics) --- Differential topology --- Functions of complex variables --- Geometry, Algebraic --- Quantum dynamics --- Quantum mechanics --- Quantum physics --- Physics --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- Algebraic geometry --- Geometry --- Partial differential equations --- Groups, Topological --- Continuous groups --- Geometry, Differential --- Differential geometry. --- Topological groups. --- Lie groups. --- Functions of complex variables. --- Global analysis (Mathematics). --- Manifolds (Mathematics). --- Algebraic geometry. --- Quantum physics. --- Groups, Lie --- Lie algebras --- Symmetric spaces --- Topological groups --- Topology --- Complex variables --- Elliptic functions --- Functions of real variables --- Differential geometry


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Vakdidactische kennis in Lichamelijke Opvoeding
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ISBN: 9789463440264 Year: 2017 Volume: 34 Publisher: Leuven Acco

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Iserbyt, P. & Coolkens, R. Vakdidactische kennis in Lichamelijke Opvoeding Iserbyt, P. Vanluyten, K., Martens, J. Vakdidactische kennis in Rugslag Leysen, H. & Dehandschutter, T. Vakdidactische kennis in Basketbal Leysen, H. Loockx, J., Michielsen, T., Roels, W. Vakdidactische kennis in Flag Football Pardaens, D. Lenchant, S., Peeters, D. Vakdidactische kennis in Hordelopen Wyckmans, P. & Bloemen, T. Vakdidactische kennis in Oriëntatielopen


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Signifying Europe
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ISBN: 1283610019 9786613922465 1841506575 1841505218 9781841506579 1841504807 9781841504803 9781841505213 Year: 2012 Publisher: Bristol : Intellect,

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This book systematically and consistently analyses a wide range of symbols for Europe, critically interpreting their often contradictory or ambiguous dimensions of meaning and uncovering several astonishing aspects of how Europe is currently identified - from above by the political elites as well as from below in critical arts or everyday life; from the inside by European actors but also from the outside by its surrounding others. The focus is on the European Union's main symbols, but they are interpreted in relation to a diverse range of other alternatives, so as to uncover the main facets of


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Made in britain : nation and emigration in nineteenth-century america
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ISBN: 0520975634 9780520975637 9780520344709 Year: 2020 Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press,

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The United States was made in Britain. For over a hundred years following independence, a diverse and lively crowd of emigrant Americans left the United States for Britain. From Liverpool and London, they produced Atlantic capitalism and managed transfers of goods, culture, and capital that were integral to U.S. nation-building. In British social clubs, emigrants forged relationships with elite Britons that were essential not only to tranquil transatlantic connections, but also to fighting southern slavery. As the United States descended into Civil War, emigrant Americans decisively shaped the Atlantic-wide battle for public opinion. Equally revered as informal ambassadors and feared as anti-republican contagions, these emigrants raised troubling questions about the relationship between nationhood, nationality, and foreign connection. Blending the histories of foreign relations, capitalism, nation-formation, and transnational connection, Stephen Tuffnell compellingly demonstrates that the United States' struggle toward independent nationhood was entangled at every step with the world's most powerful empire. With deep research and vivid detail, Made in Britain uncovers this hidden story and presents a bold new perspective on the nineteenth-century cross-Atlantic relations.


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Change they can't believe in : the Tea Party and reactionary politics in America
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ISBN: 1400852315 1400846021 9781400852314 9781400899098 1400899095 0691163618 9780691163611 0691151830 9780691151830 9781400846023 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxfordshire, England : Princeton University Press,

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Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not white? Change They Can't Believe In offers an alternative argument-that the Tea Party is driven by the reemergence of a reactionary movement in American politics that is fueled by a fear that America has changed for the worse. Providing a range of original evidence and rich portraits of party sympathizers as well as activists, Christopher Parker and Matt Barreto show that the perception that America is in danger directly informs how Tea Party supporters think and act. In a new afterword, Parker and Barreto reflect on the Tea Party's recent initiatives, including the 2013 government shutdown, and evaluate their prospects for the 2016 election.

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Protest movements --- Government, Resistance to --- Political participation --- Tea Party movement. --- Tea Baggers movement --- Teabaggers movement --- Populism --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Civil resistance --- Non-resistance to government --- Resistance to government --- Political science --- Political violence --- Insurgency --- Nonviolence --- Revolutions --- Social movements --- History --- Tea Party movement --- Political resistance --- African Americans. --- America. --- American citizenship. --- American flag. --- American identity. --- American politics. --- Asian Americans. --- Barack Obama. --- Catholics. --- Gadsden flag. --- Jews. --- Ku Klux Klan. --- Latinos. --- Obamaphobia. --- Protestants. --- Tea Party. --- U.S. president. --- activism. --- bigotry. --- blacks. --- conservatism. --- conservative principles. --- conservatives. --- equal rights. --- equality. --- evangelicals. --- freedom. --- immigrants. --- intolerance. --- middle-class males. --- minority. --- out-group hostility. --- patriotic imagery. --- patriotism. --- political mobilization. --- public policy. --- racism. --- reactionary conservatives. --- reactionary conservativism. --- reactionary movement. --- right wing. --- social change. --- social movements. --- white males.


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Special External Effects on Fluvial System Evolution
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ISBN: 3039215450 3039215442 Year: 2019 Publisher: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

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Rivers are an excellent witness of the dynamics affecting Earth’s surface due to their sedimentary products and morphological expression, which may be considered as fluvial archives. Until now, the focus has been on evaluating the general impact of individual external factors. However, the importance of the specific environmental characteristics of these factors has become increasingly recognized, as highlighted in recent case studies. For example, the effects of regional climate, differentiated topography and vegetation, and frozen ground appear to play an essential role in the evolution of the fluvial system. Integration of such environmental conditions in the processes that were active within the complex fluvial system will open new perspectives in our progressive understanding of the evolution of landscape form, ecology, sediment fluxes, and hydrology of the system within the framework of the external drivers such as tectonics, general climate, and human activity. This is an appealing challenge that we wish to address in the present Special Issue under the aegis of the Fluvial Archives Group (FLAG).


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Flag Fen, Peterborough : excavation and research 1995-2007
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ISBN: 1842177680 1842177702 9781842177709 9781842177686 9781842174142 1842174142 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford, England ; Oakville, Connecticut : Oxbow Books,

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The site at Flag Fen lies at the centre of a once-wet Fenland bay, immediately east of Peterborough. In the Bronze Age a huge alignment of posts crossed a kilometer of wetland to link the two sides of one of the most important and intensively studied prehistoric landscapes in Britain. This volume discusses work carried out at Flag Fen since the completion, in 1995, of the comprehensive Flag Fen Basin Report (EH Archaeology Report, 2001). That monograph published results from the excavations of the Bronze Age platform and the western (Fengate) landfall of the post alignment. Picking up where the last publication left off, this volume looks at the risk to the waterlogged, in-situ prehistoric remains on the site in the context of ongoing de-watering of the Fengate area. In addition it includes detailed investigations of the post alignment's previously unpublished eastern (Northey Island) landfall. New research including oxygen isotope analyses of animal teeth provides interesting, and at times surprising, insights into the economy and the complex role played by domestic animals. The volume also includes a re-assessment of the role that large timbers played at Flag Fen, and elsewhere in Bronze Age Britain.

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