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Zusatztext Als Fortführung und Erweiterung des 1989 erschienenen Buches "GIS-Technologie"beleuchtet dieses Werk die Grundlagen der Modellierung von Geoinformationin Datenbanken und informationsverarbeitenden Systemen. Damit spricht eseinen breiten Personenkreis aus der Geographie! dem Vermessungswesen! denangewandten Geowissenschaften und auch aus den Informationswissenschaftenan! der sich ein Bild vom aktuellen Wissensstand der Geoinformatik machenwill. Der Bogen der behandelten Themen spannt sich vom Modellieren vonGeo-Objekten im Raum bis zu ihrer Schematisierung in Datenbanken vor demHintergrund typischer GIS-Applikationen. Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Lethem was born in New York and attended Bennington College. He is the author of seven novels including Fortress of Solitude and Motherless Brooklyn , which was named Novel of the Year by Esquire and won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Salon Book Award, as well as the Macallan Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger. He has also written two short story collections, a novella and a collection of essays, edited The Vintage Book of Amnesia , guest-edited The Year's Best Music Writing 2002 , and was the founding fiction editor of Fence magazine. His writings have appeared in the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, McSweeney's and many other periodicals. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Klappentext The hero of this novel is one Lionel Essrog! otherwise known as the Human Freakshow. Essrog is a victim of Tourette's Syndrome; hapless and veering out of control! he fights himself and his disease. Zusammenfassung SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN IS RELEASED IN CINEMAS NOVEMBER 2019 Lionel Essrog, a.k.a. the Human Freakshow, is a victim of Tourette's syndrome (an uncontrollable urge to shout out nonsense, touch every surface in reach, rearrange objects). Local tough guy Frank Minna hires the adolescent Lionel and three other orphans from St Vincent's Home for Boys and grooms them to become the Minna Men, a fly-by-night detective-agency-cum-limoservice. Then one terrible day Frank is murdered, and Lionel must become a real detective. With crackling dialogue, a dazzling evocation of place, and a plot which mimics Tourette's itself in its freshness and capacity to shock, Motherless Brooklyn is a bravura performance: funny, tense, touching, and extravagant. ...
