The Institute for Advanced Study in essays and photos This beautifully illustrated anthology celebrates eighty years of history and intellectual inquiry at the Institute for Advanced Study, one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research. Featuring essays by current and former faculty and members along with photographs by Serge J-F. Levy, the book captures the spirit of curiosity, freedom, and comradeship that is a hallmark of this unique community of scholars. Founded in 1930 in Princeton, New Jersey, the institute encourages and supports fundamental research in the sciences and humanities—the original, often speculative thinking that can transform how we understand our world. Albert Einstein was among the first in a long line of brilliant thinkers to be affiliated with the institute. They include Kurt Gödel, George Kennan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Erwin Panofsky, Homer A. Thompson, John von Neumann, and Hermann Weyl. This volume offers an intimate portrait in words and images of a storied institution that might best be described as a true academic village. The personal reflections collected here—written by leading figures from across the disciplines—bring this exceptional academic institution and its history vibrantly to life. The contributors to this anthology are Michael Atiyah, Chantal David, Freeman Dyson, Jane F. Fulcher, Peter Goddard, Barbara Kowalzig, Wolf Lepenies, Paul Moravec, Joan Wallach Scott, and David H. Weinberg.
Die Welt aus dem Blickwinkel unserer Kinder zu sehen, ist das Ziel dieses Buches. Unempfänglich für die Probleme und Sorgen der Welt, leben Kinder in den Tag hinein und können in den kleinsten, alltäglichen Dingen faszinierende Wunder erkennen. Während wir Erwachsene in der Realität leben und nur selten fantasieren, benutzen Kinder noch sehr häufig ihr Vorstellungsvermögen, um sich imaginäre Orte zu schaffen. Trotz allem sind sie aber aufmerksame Beobachter und kopieren die guten, wie auch die schlechten Angewohnheiten ihrer Mitmenschen. Achtsamkeit und Rücksicht auf die Wahrnehmung unserer Kinder sind also der Schlüssel zu einem harmonischen Umgang miteinander.
Singing for the Gods develops a new approach towards an old question in the study of religion - the relationship of myth and ritual. Focusing on ancient Greek religion, Barbara Kowalzig exploits the joint occurrence of myth and ritual in archaic and classical Greek song-culture. She shows how choral performances of myth and ritual, taking place all over the ancient Greek world in the early fifth century BC, help to effect social and political change in their own time. Religious song emerges as integral to a rapidly changing society hovering between local, regional, and panhellenic identities and between aristocratic rule and democracy. Drawing on contemporary debates on myth, ritual, and performance in social anthropology, modern history, and theatre studies, this book establishes Greek religion's dynamic role and gives religious song-culture its deserved place in the study of Greek history.
Basia is an emotional journey of a woman through childhood and adolescence into a turbulent adulthood full of revelations and deceptions. As a teenager, Basia observes the complete deterioration of her parents marriage and her mothers struggle to keep her family and kids together. She knows her mother desperately hangs on to the memories of her first love, but the memories are too painful to share. When her mother dies when Basia is just twenty years old and her father goes through a selfish stage, she is forced to grow up quickly. She leaves her family home and the small town she grew up in and vows to never return. Within the layers of self-discovery lies the profound need to be loved. She makes mistakes and bad decisions, but she never loses the clarity of her aim; to never end up like her parents and marry only for love.
In ihrem dritten Story.one Buch schreibt die Autorin sehr bewegende Geschichten über die Sehnsucht, die Liebe, den Verlust und die Hoffnung. Gefühle, die das Leben begleiten und untrennbar miteinander verbunden sind. Dabei ist sie wieder sehr beobachtend. Sich selbst gegenüber und auch nach außen hin. 17 berührende Barfußpfade, seelentief und herzensnah geschrieben.
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