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Landscapes of Desire

Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles

By: William Alexander McClung

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Landscapes of Desire

Anglo Mythologies of Los Angeles

By: William Alexander McClung

An imaginative and provocative interpretation of the meaning of Los Angeles, carefully thought out and beautifully written."—Robert Winter, editor of Toward a Simpler Way of Life: The Arts and Crafts Architects of California "McClung's sharp eye, and his ability to be both critic and analyst, combine to make this a book of real timeliness. It is unusual, and it is smart."—William Deverell, author of Railroad Crossing: Californians and the Railroad, 1850-1910

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Treating the Criminal Offender

By: Alexander B. Smith,Louis Berlin

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Treating the Criminal Offender

By: Alexander B. Smith,Louis Berlin

The second edition of Treating the Criminal Offender was written in an atmosphere of disillusionment and severe criticism of the traditionalist ap proach to treatment. As crime rates soared, the voices of the critics rose in volume and intensity. And so, this third edition-revised toward the end of the decade of the 1980s-embodies the shift in emphasis from rehabilitating the offender to protecting the community. This shift, in our opinion, does not reject the goal of changing the of fender so as to effect his reintegration into society; it uses the strategy of intensive supervision and surveillance only to effect the desired goal. The use of electronics to monitor the offender's whereabouts and the swift ap plication of punitive measures following. the awareness of any violation are extrinsic techniques of control. It is our opinion that for the deep, more lasting changes in behavior, some form of casework, counseling, and/or psy chotherapeutic intervention is essential. We are the cohorts who believe in the effectiveness of such treatment modalities when and if applied to the right target population at the appropriate time.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489921036

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9781489921031

The Psychology Of Philosophers

By: Herzberg, Alexander

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The Psychology Of Philosophers

By: Herzberg, Alexander

First Published in 1999. This is Volume XIII of thirty-eight in the General Psychology series. Written in 1929, the purpose of this book is to supply the deficiency and to answer the question why anyone constructs an outlook on life for himself or, to be more precise, becomes a philosopher.

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Advanced Reconstruction: Foot and Ankle 2

By: Ian J. Alexander, MD

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Advanced Reconstruction: Foot and Ankle 2

By: Ian J. Alexander, MD

Confer with leading surgeons on the most effective way to solve complex surgical problems. 110+ pioneering surgeons share tips, pearls, and strategies Step-by-step guidance for 65+ challenging techniques 600+ illustrations demonstrate crucial details

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1975122690

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The TRIBES and CLANS of MONTENEGRO

The studies in the ethnogenesis of Montenegro by V. Alexander Stefan and the Stefan University Press editors

By: Vladislav Alexander Stefan

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The TRIBES and CLANS of MONTENEGRO

The studies in the ethnogenesis of Montenegro by V. Alexander Stefan and the Stefan University Press editors

By: Vladislav Alexander Stefan

The TRIBES and CLANS of MONTENEGRO The studies in the ethnogenesis of Montenegro by V. Alexander Stefan and the Stefan University Press editors.

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1889545872

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Individualism

An Essay on the Authority of the European Union

By: Alexander Somek

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Individualism

An Essay on the Authority of the European Union

By: Alexander Somek

This innovative study examines the authority constituting the European Union. It claims that the type of power constituting a transnational regime transcends traditional forms of constitutional legality. It argues that the European constitutional project is out of step with the normative make-up of such a regime. It is to be feared, indeed, that the adoption of a Constitution for Europe would create a smokescreen obscuring a new and disturbing reality. Drawing on the ancient tradition of linking different types of political power with the composition of the citizen's soul, the book explains that a transnational regime is based on an understanding of citizenship that is different from that underlying a constitutional democracy. Citizens are deemed to be essentially separate from one another. They abandon the larger society to itself and pursue their good in the private sphere. In place of trust and reliance in their own power to bring about change through common action, they hope to benefit from entrusting "problem-solving" to international networks of expertise. Essentially, citizens of this kind exhibit a strong commitment to individualism. The book shows how individualism is reflected in the regulatory authority that the Union claims for itself, in particular as regards the regulation of the internal market.

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OUP Oxford

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0191562157

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The German Liberation War of 1813

The Memoirs of a Russian Artilleryman

By: Alexander Mikaberidze,Peter G A Phillips

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The German Liberation War of 1813

The Memoirs of a Russian Artilleryman

By: Alexander Mikaberidze,Peter G A Phillips

The second of three volumes, this book represents the first English translation of the memoirs that rank among the best in the vast Napoleonic memoir literature. The author, Ilya Timofeyevich Radozhitskii, served with distinction during the wars against Napoleon and wrote down his reminisces shortly after the war based on the notes that he kept while campaigning. Born in 1788, Radozhitskii studied at the Imperial Orphanage, enlisted in the artillery unit in 1806, and steadily rose through the ranks, earning a reputation of a capable officer. Napoleon’s invasion of Russia in 1812 changed his life. Serving as an artillery lieutenant, he saw action in virtually every major battle of that historic campaign. In 1813-1814, Radozhitskii took part in the War of the German Liberation and the invasion of France, serving with distinction at Bischofswerde, Bautzen, Katzbach, and Leipzig before finishing the war as a staff captain in Paris in 1814. Upon Napoleon’s return in 1815, Radozhitskii was assigned to the Russian Expeditionary Corps that was dispatched to France but arrived too late to confront Napoleon. Radozhitskii offers fresh insight into the life and daily experiences of Russian officers during the Napoleonic Wars. This volume follows Radozhitskii across Germany as the Russian army, buoyed by the victory over Napoleon in 1812, marched on to liberate German states. Radozhitskii’s narrative contains striking descriptions of the wartime experiences of soldiers and officers, vivid accounts of the battles, and heartrending stories from the French retreat. When published in Russia, these memoirs garnered considerable public attention and Leo Tolstoy consulted them extensively while writing his famous “War and Peace”. The first volume, entitled The Russian Campaign of 1812, was published by Pen & Sword in 2023. Volume 3, The Invasion of France 1814, will follow in 2024.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1399042173

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Travels in North America, 1832–1834

A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied

By: Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied

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Travels in North America, 1832–1834

A Concise Edition of the Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied

By: Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied

The journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied rank among the most important firsthand sources documenting the early-nineteenth-century American West. Published in their entirety as an annotated three-volume set, the journals present a complete narrative of Maximilian’s expedition across the United States, from Boston almost to the headwaters of the Missouri in the Rocky Mountains, and back. This new concise edition, the only modern condensed version of Maximilian’s full account, highlights the expedition’s most significant encounters and dramatic events. The German prince and his party arrived in Boston on July 4, 1832. He intended to explore “the natural face of North America,” observing and recording firsthand the flora, fauna, and especially the Native peoples of the interior. Accompanying him was the young Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, who would document the journey with sketches and watercolors. Together, the group traveled across the eastern United States and up the Missouri River into present-day Montana, spending the winter of 1833–34 at Fort Clark, an important fur-trading post near the Mandan and Hidatsa villages in what is now North Dakota. The expedition returned downriver to St. Louis the following spring, having spent more than a year in the Upper Missouri frontier wilderness. The two explorers experienced the American frontier just before its transformation by settlers, miners, and industry. Featuring nearly fifty color and black-and-white illustrations—including several of Karl Bodmer’s best landscapes and portraits—this succinct record of their expedition invites new audiences to experience an enthralling journey across the early American West.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806158565

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

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Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1852-1856

By: Benjamin Disraeli,John Alexander Wilson Gunn,Melvin George Wiebe

The latest volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series contains or describes 952 letters (778 perviously unpublished) written by Disraeli between 1852 and 1856.

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080204137X

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The Napoleonic Wars

A Global History

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

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The Napoleonic Wars

A Global History

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

The first truly global history of the Napoleonic Wars, arguably the first world war.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199951063

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Kutuzov

A Life in War and Peace

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

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Kutuzov

A Life in War and Peace

By: Alexander Mikaberidze

A Russian war hero who defeated Napoleon and became a mythic military figure. Alexander Mikaberidze's latest book is the first modern English-language biography of Mikhail Golenischev-Kutuzov, the famed Russian Field Marshal and central character of Leo Tolstoy's epic War and Peace. One of the most important military minds of the period, he is credited with defeating Napoleon and saving Russia, though his fame is not limited to the Napoleonic wars. As it often happens with national heroes, Kutuzov gradually became larger than life, a messianic character who led Holy Russia against the evils of the Revolution and anarchy; the Soviet leaders later exploited his personality for even more grandiose schemes. The real Kutuzov was gradually replaced by a mythical character who appeared at a time of great danger to save Russia. The impact of this propaganda can be still seen in modern Russia: In 2000, the public opinion poll showed that majority of the Russians consider Kutuzov as the Person of the 19th Century, far ahead of famous writers Alexander Pushkin and Leo Tolstoy, composer Peter Tchaikovsky or scientist Dmitry Mendeleyev, while the 2017 public opinion poll placed Kutuzov in the top twenty of the most distinguished historical personalities in world history (slightly behind Napoleon). As much as Kutuzov is venerated in Russia, he remains an overlooked figure in the West, with Western historiography comprising of just a handful of titles in English, French or German, the vast majority of them translations of older Soviet works or derived from them. This book provides a new biography of the field marshal, examining his personal life and military/diplomatic accomplishments, and relying on a wide range of primary and secondary sources as well as Russian archival material. Mikaberidze offers a fresh look at the historical figure whose character remains elusive but whose accomplishments are irrefutable.

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Oxford University Press

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0197546730

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Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

By: Liane Lefaivre,Alexander Tzonis

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Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization

Peaks and Valleys in the Flat World

By: Liane Lefaivre,Alexander Tzonis

This book remains the definitive introductory text on the theory and history of regionalist architecture in the context of globalization. It addresses issues of identity, diversity, community, inequality, geopolitics, and sustainability. From the authors who coined the concept of Critical Regionalism, this new edition enhances the understanding of the complex evolution of regionalism and its rival, unchecked globalization. Covering a rich selection of the most outstanding examples of design from all over the world, Liane Lefaivre and Alexander Tzonis, who introduced the concept of Critical Regionalism to architecture, present an enlightening, concise historical analysis of the endurance of regionalism and the ceaseless drive for globalization. New case studies include current cutting-edge projects in Japan, Africa, China, and the United States. Architecture of Regionalism in the Age of Globalization offers undergraduate and graduate students of architecture, geography, history, environmental studies, and other related fields an accessible, vivid, and scholarly perspective of this major conflict as it relates to the design and to the future of the human-made environment.

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Routledge

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1000221067

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Exorbitant Enlightenment

Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations

By: Alexander Regier

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Exorbitant Enlightenment

Blake, Hamann, and Anglo-German Constellations

By: Alexander Regier

Exorbitant Enlightenment compels us to see eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture in new ways. This book reveals a constellation of groundbreaking pre-1790s Anglo-German relations, many of which are so radical so exorbitant that they ask us to fundamentally rethink the ways we grasp literary and intellectual history, especially when it comes to Enlightenment and Romanticism. Regier presents two of the great, untold stories of the eighteenth century. The first story uncovers a forgotten Anglo-German network of thought and writing in Britain between 1700 and 1790. From this Anglo-German context emerges the second story: about a group of idiosyncratic figures and institutions, including the Moravians in 1750s London, Henry Fuseli, and Johann Caspar Lavater, as well as the two most exorbitant figures, William Blake and Johann Georg Hamann. The books eight chapters show how these authors and institutions shake up common understandings of British literary and European intellectual history and offer a very different, much more counter-intuitive view of the period. Through their distinctive conceptions of language, Blake and Hamann articulate in different yet deeply related ways a radical critique of instrumental thought and institutional religion. They also argue for the irreducible relation between language and the sexual body. In each case, they push against some of the most central cultural and philosophical assumptions, then and now. The book argues that, when taken seriously, these exorbitant figures allow us to uncover and revise some of our own critical orthodoxies.

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Oxford University Press

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0192561995

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The Internal Structure of Periglacial Landforms

Assessments of Subsurface Variations in Permafrost-related and Frost-related Phenomena by Multi-dimensional Geophysical Investigations

By: Adrian Alexander Emmert

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The Internal Structure of Periglacial Landforms

Assessments of Subsurface Variations in Permafrost-related and Frost-related Phenomena by Multi-dimensional Geophysical Investigations

By: Adrian Alexander Emmert

Periglacial environments are facing dramatic changes. Warming air temperatures and strong snow cover variations fundamentally affect landforming processes in this hotspot region of Climate Change. But before we can assess the response of landform development to a changing climate, we need to enhance our understanding of the internal structure of those landforms. Within this study, a broad scope of landform types from alpine and subarctic regions is investigated: rock glaciers, solifluction lobes, palsas and patterned ground. By using the geophysical methods 2-D and 3-D ERI, as well as GPR surveying, structural differences and similarities between landform units of different or the same landform types are highlighted. This enables a reconstruction of their past and a projection of their future development.

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3958261388

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A Widening Sphere

Evolving Cultures at MIT

By: Philip N. Alexander

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A Widening Sphere

Evolving Cultures at MIT

By: Philip N. Alexander

How MIT's first nine presidents helped transform the Institute from a small technical school into a major research university. MIT was founded in 1861 as a polytechnic institute in Boston's Back Bay, overshadowed by its neighbor across the Charles River, Harvard University. Harvard offered a classical education to young men of America's ruling class; the early MIT trained men (and a few women) from all parts of society as engineers for the nation's burgeoning industries. Over the years, MIT expanded its mission and ventured into other fields—pure science, social science, the humanities—and established itself in Cambridge as Harvard's enduring rival. In A Widening Sphere, Philip Alexander traces MIT's evolution from polytechnic to major research institution through the lives of its first nine presidents, exploring how the ideas, outlook, approach, and personality of each shaped the school's intellectual and social cultures. Alexander describes, among otherthings, the political skill and entrepreneurial spirit of founder and first president, William Rogers; institutional growing pains under John Runkle; Francis Walker's campaign to broaden the curriculum, especially in the social sciences, and to recruit first-rate faculty; James Crafts, whose heart lay in research, not administration; Henry Pritchett's thwarted effort to merge with Harvard (after which he decamped to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching); Richard Maclaurin's successful strategy to move the institute to Cambridge, after considering other sites (including a golfclub in Brighton); the brilliant, progressive Ernest Nichols, who succumbed to chronic illness and barely held office; Samuel Stratton's push towards a global perspective; and Karl Compton's vision for a new kind of Institute—a university polarized around science and technology. Through these interlocking yet independent portraits, Alexander reveals the inner workings of a complex and dynamic community of innovators.

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MIT Press

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0262543990

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The Departure of an Apostle

Paul's Death Anticipated and Remembered

By: Alexander N. Kirk

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The Departure of an Apostle

Paul's Death Anticipated and Remembered

By: Alexander N. Kirk

What was Paul's attitude toward his own death? How did he act and what did he say and write in view of it? What hopes did he hold for himself beyond death? Alexander N. Kirk explores these questions through a close reading of four Pauline letters that look ahead to Paul's death and other relevant texts in the first two generations after Paul's death (AD 70-160). The author studies portraits of the departed Paul in Acts, 1 Clement, the letters of Ignatius, Polycarp's letter To the Philippians, and the Martyrdom of Paul. He also examines portraits of the departing Paul in 1 and 2 Corinthians, Philippians, and 2 Timothy, arguing that Paul's death did not primarily present an existential challenge, but a pastoral one. Although touching upon several areas of recent scholarly interest, Alexander N. Kirk sets forth a new research question and fresh interpretations of early Christian and Pauline texts.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161543114

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The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied

May 1832–April 1833

By: Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied

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The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied

May 1832–April 1833

By: Prince Alexander Philipp Maximilian of Wied

Made famous through the paintings of Swiss artist Karl Bodmer, the North American expedition of German naturalist Prince Maximilian of Wied in 1832–34 was the first scientific exploration of the Missouri River’s upper reaches since the epic journey of Lewis and Clark almost thirty years earlier. Maximilian’s journal has never been presented fully in English—until now. This collector’s-quality, oversized volume, the first of a three-volume set, draws on the Maximilian-Bodmer Collection at Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska. The North American Journals offer an incomparable view of the upper Missouri and its Native peoples at a pivotal moment in the history of the American West. This meticulous account, newly translated with extensive modern annotation, faithfully reproduces Maximilian’s 110 drawings and watercolors as well as his own notes, asides, and appendices. Volume I, which covers May 1832 to April 1833, documents Maximilian’s voyage to North America and his first encounters with Indians upon reaching the West. This is an essential resource for nineteenth-century western American history and a work of lasting value. This book is published with the assistance of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806185988

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Explorations and Extrapolations

Applying English and American Studies

By: Alexander Brock,Uwe Küchler

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Explorations and Extrapolations

Applying English and American Studies

By: Alexander Brock,Uwe Küchler

This volume continues the tradition in the seriesÃ?Â Hallenser Studien zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik of representing the full thematic diversity of research in English and American studies. The articles - mainly written by young researchers in their postgraduate or postdoctoral phases - span the areas of English and American literature, culture studies and linguistics as well as the teaching of English as a foreign language (Fachdidaktik). At the same time they represent various theoretical approaches adopted by young German researchers and the interplay of theoretical and applied issues.

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LIT Verlag Münster

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3825818659

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Dialogue on the Threshold

Heidegger and Trakl

By: Ian Alexander Moore

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Dialogue on the Threshold

Heidegger and Trakl

By: Ian Alexander Moore

In the early 1950s, German philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl to be the poet of his generation and of the hidden Occident. Trakl, a guilt-ridden lyricist who died of a cocaine overdose in the early days of World War I, thus became for Heidegger a redemptive successor to Hölderlin. Drawing on Derrida's Geschlecht series and substantial archival research, Dialogue on the Threshold explores the productive and problematic tensions that pervade Heidegger's reading of Trakl and reflects more broadly on the thresholds that separate philosophy from poetry, gathering from dispersion, the same from the other, and the native from the foreigner. Ian Alexander Moore examines why Heidegger was reluctant to follow Trakl's invitation to cross these thresholds, even though his encounter with the poet did compel him to take up, in astounding ways, many underrepresented topics in his philosophical corpus such as sexual difference, pain, animality, and Christianity. A contribution not just to Heidegger and Trakl studies but also, more modestly, to the old quarrel between philosophy and poetry, Dialogue on the Threshold concludes with new translations of eighteen poems by Trakl.

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State University of New York Press

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1438490682

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9781438490687

Kinaesthetic Knowing

Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

By: Zeynep Çelik Alexander

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Kinaesthetic Knowing

Aesthetics, Epistemology, Modern Design

By: Zeynep Çelik Alexander

Introduction: a peculiar experiment -- Kinaesthetic knowing: the nineteenth-century biography of another kind of knowledge -- Looking: Wölfflin's comparative vision -- Affecting: Endell's mathematics of living feeling -- Drawing: the Debschitz school and formalism's subject -- Designing: discipline and introspection at the Bauhaus -- Epilogue

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University of Chicago Press

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022648520X

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Investor State Arbitration in a Changing World Order

By: Alexander W. Resar,Tai-Heng Cheng

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Investor State Arbitration in a Changing World Order

By: Alexander W. Resar,Tai-Heng Cheng

Investor State Arbitration In A Changing World Order addresses challenges and reform proposals that dominate contemporary discussion of investor state arbitration. The authors argue that, although important for the institution’s development, current reforms are insufficient to guarantee investor state arbitration’s survival. Instead, if international investment arbitration is to survive and flourish, national governments must distribute more equally the benefits of international investment and trade.

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9004390596

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John Jacob Astor and the First Great American Fortune

By: Alexander Emmerich

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John Jacob Astor and the First Great American Fortune

By: Alexander Emmerich

This biography analyzes Astor's rise from poor German immigrant in 1784 to the first modern millionaire--he was one before the term "millionaire" entered the English language. Many consider him to be the fourth wealthiest American of all times. After his death in 1848, the public began to discuss the "responsibility" of a millionaire. Some argued that he must have been greedy and cold. Some voices demanded that he should have given all his money back to the United States. More liberal thinkers praised him for his genius and vision. This biography presents a balanced picture. Astor was the founder of the first American settlement on the Pacific (Astoria, Oregon) and of New York's fine hotels the Astor House and the Waldorf-Astoria, as well as a developer of the American West and a fur trader. Many American cities and sites are named after him. He donated the Astor Library to the city of New York (it became the first public library of the city), now part of the New York Public Library.

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McFarland

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1476603820

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A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Culture and Society in Transition

By: Jeffrey Alexander,Jeffrey C. Alexander,Kenneth Thompson,Laura Desfor Edles,Moshoula Capous-Desyllas

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A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology

Culture and Society in Transition

By: Jeffrey Alexander,Jeffrey C. Alexander,Kenneth Thompson,Laura Desfor Edles,Moshoula Capous-Desyllas

The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. The authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the physical and social environments seem uncertain. As culture rapidly changes in the 21st century, the authors have successfully incorporated these nuances with many important updates on race and racism, Black Lives Matter, the rise of populist politics, ISIS, new social media, feminist perspectives on sex work, trans and non-gender conforming identities, and more. New to this edition: New data, text box examples, photos, exercises, study questions, and glossary terms appear throughout. New discussions added of arts-based and participatory approaches to research, historical changes in the perception of deviance, legalization of marijuana; Islam vs. secularism in France, new forms of socialization, heteronormative and essentialist language related to sex and gender, intersections of social class and other identities, the prison industrial complex, informal sharing economies, atheism, and more. New text boxes include: Young Saudis Find Freedom in their Phones; How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life; School-to-Prison Pipeline; India’s Reproductive Assembly Line; Workers Feel Pain of Layoffs; Like Prohibition, the fight over guns is about something else; and Micro-aggression and Changing Moral Cultures.

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1000938867

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History that Never Happened

A Treatise on the Question, what Would Have Happend If...?

By: Alexander Demandt

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History that Never Happened

A Treatise on the Question, what Would Have Happend If...?

By: Alexander Demandt

What would have happened if--Alexander had not died in 323 B.C., Pontius Pilate had pardoned Jesus, Hitler had died in 1938...? The ramifications of these and many other hypothetical historical changes are explored in this newly revised version of the original German Ungeschehene Geschichte: Ein Traktat uber die Frage: Was ware geschen, wenn..... The author examines provocative questions in the context of actual events, using the accepted flow of historical succession to reach new conclusions. Also discussed are the obstacles for thinking about history that never happened and a discussion of how these alternative possibilities are instructive in the understanding of actual events.

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0899507026

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New Dimensions in Women's Health

By: Linda Lewis Alexander,Judith H. LaRosa,Helaine Bader,Susan Garfield

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New Dimensions in Women's Health

By: Linda Lewis Alexander,Judith H. LaRosa,Helaine Bader,Susan Garfield

Revised and update to keep pace with changing issues that affect all women, the new Ninth Edition of the best-selling New Dimensions in Women's Health continues to provide a modern look at the health of women of all cultures, races, ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and sexual orientations. Written for undergraduate students within health education, nursing, and women's studies programs, the text provides readers with the critical information needed to optimize their well-being, avoid illness and injury, and support their overall health. The authors took great care to provide in-depth coverage of important aspects of women's health and to examine the contributing epidemiological, historical, psychosocial, cultural, ethical, legal, political, and economic influences. The Ninth Edition includes: • The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on many aspects of women’s health, from the workplace to violence, substance abuse and more. •Updates related to the Affordable Care Act and post-Med

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1284302822

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Attrition in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Reasons, Implications, and Pathways Forward

By: Alexander Alex,C. John Harris,Dennis A. Smith

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Attrition in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Reasons, Implications, and Pathways Forward

By: Alexander Alex,C. John Harris,Dennis A. Smith

With a focus on case studies of R&D programs in a variety of disease areas, the book highlights fundamental productivity issues the pharmaceutical industry has been facing and explores potential ways of improving research effectiveness and efficiency. Takes a comprehensive and holistic approach to the problems and potential solutions to drug compound attrition Tackles a problem that adds billions of dollars to drug development programs and health care costs Guides discovery and development scientists through R&D stages, teaching requirements and reasons why drugs can fail Discusses potential ways forward utilizing new approaches and opportunities to reduce attrition

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118819446

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9781118819449

Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe

By: Alexander Grab

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Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe

By: Alexander Grab

Creating a French Empire and establishing French dominance over Europe constituted Napoleon's most important and consistent aims. In this fascinating book, Alexander Grab explores Napoleon's European policies, as well as the response of the European people to his rule, and demonstrates that Napoleon was as much a part of European history as he was a part of French history. Napoleon and the Transformation of Europe: - Examines the formation of Napoleon's Empire, the Emporer's impact throughout Europe, and how the Continent responded to his policies - Focuses on the principal developments and events in the ten states that comprised Napoleon's Grand Empire: France itself, Belgium, Germany, the Illyrian Provinces, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland - Analyses Napoleon's exploitation of occupied Europe - Discusses the broad reform policies Napoleon launched in Europe, assesses their success, and argues that the French leader was a major reformer and a catalyst of modernity on a European scale

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350317411

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Infusion Nursing

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Infusion Nurses Society,Mary Alexander,Ann Corrigan,Lisa Gorski,Judy Hankins,Roxanne Perucca

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Infusion Nursing

An Evidence-Based Approach

By: Infusion Nurses Society,Mary Alexander,Ann Corrigan,Lisa Gorski,Judy Hankins,Roxanne Perucca

With a new focus on evidence-based practice, the 3rd edition of this authoritative reference covers every aspect of infusion therapy and can be applied to any clinical setting. Completely updated content brings you the latest advances in equipment, technology, best practices, guidelines, and patient safety. Other key topics include quality management, ethical and legal issues, patient education, and financial considerations. Ideal as a practical clinical reference, this essential guide is also a perfect review tool for the CRNI examination. - Authored by the Infusion Nurses Society, this highly respected reference sets the standard for infusion nursing practice. - Coverage of all 9 core areas of INS certification makes this a valuable review resource for the examination. - Material progresses from basic to advanced to help new practitioners build a solid foundation of knowledge before moving on to more advanced topics. - Each chapter focuses on a single topic and can serve as a stand-alone reference for busy nursing professionals. - Expanded coverage of infusion therapy equipment, product selection, and evaluation help you provide safe, effective care. - A separate chapter on infusion therapy across the continuum offers valuable guidance for treating patients with infusion therapy needs in outpatient, long-term, and home-care, as well as hospice and ambulatory care centers. - Extensive information on specialties addresses key areas such as oncology, pain management, blood components, and parenteral nutrition. - An evidence-based approach and new Focus on Evidence boxes throughout the book emphasize the importance of research in achieving the best possible patient outcomes. - The user-friendly design highlights essential information in handy boxes, tables, and lists for quick access. - Completely updated coverage ensures you are using the most current infusion therapy guidelines available.

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