Dieses Wörterbuch dient zur Erleichterung der Arbeit für den Personenkreis, der mit englischen bzw. deutschen Fachausdrücken aus dem Bereich der KFZ-Technik konfrontiert wird. Falls nötig, werden zu den einzelnen Begriffen Hintergrundinformationen, Beispiele sowie umgangssprachliche Hinweise geliefert. Als zusätzliche Informationsebene sind nach Gruppen aufgeteilte schematische Darstellungen integriert, womit die Terminologie typischer Systeme erfasst und visualisiert ist. Bei dem vorliegenden Nachschlagewerk mit seinen circa 40.000 Stichworteintragungen handelt es sich nicht um ein Wörterbuch im üblichen Sinne, sondern um ein weit darüberhinausgehendes lexikonähnliches Fachwörterbuch. The purpose of this dictionary is to facilitate the work of persons who are confronted with English or German technical terms from the field of automotive engineering. In cases where it is necessary, background information, examples and colloquial references are provided for the individual terms. Additionally, this book includes information on schematic representations and divides them into groups, which means that it covers and visualizes terminology of typical systems. This reference work, with its approximately 40,000 keyword entries, is not a dictionary in the usual sense, but rather a technical dictionary that goes far beyond the scope of a lexicon.

Since its publication in 1995, the German Technical Dictionary has established itself as the definitive resource for anyone who needs to translate technical documents between German and English. This new edition has been substantially revised to reflect the technological environment of the 21st century. The revised edition contains over 75,000 entries, of which over 5,000 are new, with many new entries in the areas of: * the internet and telecommunications * bio-technology and the new genetics * new developments in health technology Throughout this dictionary continues to benefit from the features that made the first edition so valuable, including accurate translations in British and American English and an attractive, durable and easy to use layout.

Anthropologists have written a great deal about the coastal adaptations and seafaring traditions of Pacific Islanders, but have had much less to say about the significance of rivers for Pacific island culture, livelihood and identity. The authors of this collection seek to fill that gap in the ethnographic record by drawing attention to the deep historical attachments of island communities to rivers, and the ways in which those attachments are changing in response to various forms of economic development and social change. In addition to making a unique contribution to Pacific island ethnography, the authors of this volume speak to a global set of issues of immense importance to a world in which water scarcity, conflict, pollution and the degradation of riparian environments afflict growing numbers of people. Several authors take a political ecology approach to their topic, but the emphasis here is less on hydro-politics than on the cultural meaning of rivers to the communities we describe. How has the cultural significance of rivers shifted as a result of colonisation, development and nation-building? How do people whose identities are fundamentally rooted in their relationship to a particular river renegotiate that relationship when the river is dammed to generate hydro-power or polluted by mining activities? How do blockages in the flow of rivers and underground springs interrupt the intergenerational transmission of local ecological knowledge and hence the ability of local communities to construct collective identities rooted in a sense of place?