Every five years the Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL) organises a world congress for linguists. And every five years the Committee faces the challenge of presenting a programme at the highest possible level. The CIPL Executive Committee decided for the Congress planned for 2003 in Prague to focus on four major topics which play an important role in today's linguistic debate: 1. Typology, 2. Endangered Languages, 3. Methodology and Linguistics (including fieldwork) and 4. Language and the mind. Leading experts have introduced the four themes in their plenary lectures in the course of the congress, which served as a basis for the articles presented in the current volume. This book should be a welcome tool for all linguists wishing to find their way quickly in current developments.
Research at the nanoscale and the new technologies being developed are evolving much too rapidly to provide a complete picture of the field. Instead, the second edition of this enormously popular and bestselling handbook presents a wide snapshot of the current state of the art, including basic concepts, current challenges, and advanced research results. Along with 18 revised chapters, this second edition also features 24 brand new chapters that cover such topics as applications of spintronic devices, optoelectronics, DNA-based computing, ordered carbon nanotube architectures, nanocomposities, and bio-molecular motors.
