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Crossing Hitler

The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

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Crossing Hitler

The Man Who Put the Nazis on the Witness Stand

By: Benjamin Carter Hett

During a 1931 trial of four Nazi stormtroopers, known as the Eden Dance Palace trial, Hans Litten grilled Hitler in a brilliant and merciless three-hour cross-examination, forcing him into multiple contradictions and evasions and finally reducing him to helpless and humiliating rage (the transcription of Hitler's full testimony is included.) At the time, Hitler was still trying to prove his embrace of legal methods, and distancing himself from his stormtroopers. The courageous Litten revealed his true intentions, and in the process, posed a real threat to Nazi ambition. When the Nazis seized power two years after the trial, friends and family urged Litten to flee the country. He stayed and was sent to the concentration camps, where he worked on translations of medieval German poetry, shared the money and food he was sent by his wealthy family, and taught working-class inmates about art and literature. When Jewish prisoners at Dachau were locked in their barracks for weeks at a time, Litten kept them sane by reciting great works from memory. After five years of torture and hard labor-and a daring escape that failed-Litten gave up hope of survival. His story was ultimately tragic but, as Benjamin Hett writes in this gripping narrative, it is also redemptive. "It is a story of human nobility in the face of barbarism." The first full-length biography of Litten, the book also explores the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic and the terror of Nazi rule in Germany after 1933. [in sidebar] Winner of the 2007 Fraenkel Prize for outstanding work of contemporary history, in manuscript. To be published throughout the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0199708592

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The God Who Is with Us

Theology of Mission in the Doctrine of Revelation

By: Benjamin H. Kim

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The God Who Is with Us

Theology of Mission in the Doctrine of Revelation

By: Benjamin H. Kim

Contemporary theologies of mission rely on the central concept of the missio Dei, which states that mission properly belongs to the triune God over the church. However, present accounts fail to establish any corresponding link between God’s trinitarian economy and ontology. In other words, the problem of the missio Dei is the problem of the break between the act and being of God. Benjamin H. Kim argues that a repair is needed for missio Dei theology, and this repair is found in reexamining Barth’s doctrine of revelation. In doing so, the locus of mission moves from God’s trinitarian sending to his trinitarian revealing. The repair is further advanced by Dietrich Bonhoeffer through his concept of person, which functions as the unity of act and being. This account returns mission to its original definition, which was intended to describe the inner-trinitarian being of God in relation to humanity. The concept of person recovers this meaning of mission by locating it first in the person of Christ and second, in the collective person of the church existing as the Christ community. Thus, Bonhoeffer’s description of revelation in terms of personhood provides and account that is more faithful to the missio Dei’s core insights.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1978715315

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9781978715318

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History and Culture

By: Benjamin Blech

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Jewish History and Culture

By: Benjamin Blech

An updated and revised edition of one of The Complete Idiot's Guidespopular religion and history titles. Additional information about Jews in early American history through the 19th century. Expanded coverage of Jewish history and culture in the places you might least expect - Asia and South America. Jewish history and culture brought up to date to 2004.

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Penguin

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1592572405

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9781592572403

Contested Commemorations

Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture

By: Benjamin Ziemann

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Contested Commemorations

Republican War Veterans and Weimar Political Culture

By: Benjamin Ziemann

An innovative study of remembrance in Weimar Germany and how war experiences and memories were transformed along political lines.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107028892

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Algebra and Number Theory

A Selection of Highlights

By: Benjamin Fine,Anja Moldenhauer,Gerhard Rosenberger,Annika Schürenberg,Leonard Wienke

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Algebra and Number Theory

A Selection of Highlights

By: Benjamin Fine,Anja Moldenhauer,Gerhard Rosenberger,Annika Schürenberg,Leonard Wienke

In the two-volume set ‘A Selection of Highlights’ we present basics of mathematics in an exciting and pedagogically sound way. This volume examines fundamental results in Algebra and Number Theory along with their proofs and their history. In the second edition, we include additional material on perfect and triangular numbers. We also added new sections on elementary Group Theory, p-adic numbers, and Galois Theory. A true collection of mathematical gems in Algebra and Number Theory, including the integers, the reals, and the complex numbers, along with beautiful results from Galois Theory and associated geometric applications. Valuable for lecturers, teachers and students of mathematics as well as for all who are mathematically interested.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110790289

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9783110790283

Dada and Existentialism

The Authenticity of Ambiguity

By: Elizabeth Benjamin

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Dada and Existentialism

The Authenticity of Ambiguity

By: Elizabeth Benjamin

Offering new critical approaches to Dada as quintessential part of the Avant-Garde, Dada and Existentialism: the Authenticity of Ambiguity reassesses the movement as a form of (proto-) Existentialist philosophy. Dada is often dismissed as an anti-art movement with a merely destructive theoretical impetus. French Existentialism is often condemned for its perceived quietist implications. However, closer analysis reveals a preoccupation with philosophy in the former and with art in the latter. Moreover, neither was nonsensical or meaningless; both reveal a rich individualist ethics aimed at the amelioration of the individual and society. The first major comparative study of Dada and Existentialism, this text contributes new perspectives on Dada as movement, historical legacy, and field of study. Analysing Dada works through Existentialist literature across the themes of choice, alienation, responsibility, freedom and truth, the text posits that Dada and Existentialism both advocate the creation of a self that aims for authenticity through ambiguity.

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Springer

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1137563680

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9781137563682

Marc Chagall and His Times

A Documentary Narrative

By: Benjamin Harshav,Marc Chagall,Barbara Harshav

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Marc Chagall and His Times

A Documentary Narrative

By: Benjamin Harshav,Marc Chagall,Barbara Harshav

Renowned Israeli-American scholar Harshav presents the first comprehensive investigation of Marc Chagall's life and consciousness after the classic 1961 biography by Chagall's son-in-law Franz Meyer.

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Stanford University Press

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0804742146

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What Government Can Do

Dealing with Poverty and Inequality

By: Benjamin I. Page,James R. Simmons

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What Government Can Do

Dealing with Poverty and Inequality

By: Benjamin I. Page,James R. Simmons

At the same time, Page and Simmons show how even more could be - and should be - accomplished."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226644820

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9780226644820

Franz Rosenzweig's Conversions

World Denial and World Redemption

By: Benjamin Pollock

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Franz Rosenzweig's Conversions

World Denial and World Redemption

By: Benjamin Pollock

Franz Rosenzweig's near-conversion to Christianity in the summer of 1913 and his subsequent decision three months later to recommit himself to Judaism is one of the foundational narratives of modern Jewish thought. In this new account of events, Benjamin Pollock suggests that what lay at the heart of Rosenzweig's religious crisis was not a struggle between faith and reason, but skepticism about the world and hope for personal salvation. A close examination of this important time in Rosenzweig's life, the book also sheds light on the full trajectory of his philosophical development.

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Indiana University Press

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025301316X

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9780253013163

Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten

By: Benjamin Britten

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Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946-1951)

The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten

By: Benjamin Britten

The third volume of the annotated selected letters of composer Benjamin Britten covers the years 1946-51, during which he wrote many of his best-known works, founded and developed the English Opera Group and the Aldeburgh Festival, and toured widely in Europe and the United States as a pianist and conductor.Correspondents include librettists Ronald Duncan (The Rape of Lucretia), Eric Crozier (Albert Herring, Saint Nicolas, The Little Sweep) and E. M. Forster (Billy Budd); conductor Ernest Ansermet and composer Lennox Berkeley; publishers Ralph Hawkes and Erwin Stein of Boosey & Hawkes; and the celebrated tenor Peter Pears, Britten's partner. Among friends in the United States are Christopher Isherwood, Elizabeth Mayer and Aaron Copland, and there is a significant meeting with Igor Stravinsky.This often startling and innovative period is vividly evoked by the comprehensive and scholarly annotations, which offer a wide range of detailed information fascinating for both the Britten specialist and the general reader.Donald Mitchell contributes a challenging introduction exploring the interaction of life and work in Britten's creativity, and an essay examining for the first time, through their correspondence, the complex relationship between the composer and the writer Edward Sackville-West.

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Faber & Faber

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0571279937

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9780571279937

Securing Sex

Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil

By: Benjamin A. Cowan

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Securing Sex

Morality and Repression in the Making of Cold War Brazil

By: Benjamin A. Cowan

In this history of right-wing politics in Brazil during the Cold War, Benjamin Cowan puts the spotlight on the Cold Warriors themselves. Drawing on little-tapped archival records, he shows that by midcentury, conservatives--individuals and organizations, civilian as well as military--were firmly situated in a transnational network of right-wing cultural activists. They subsequently joined the powerful hardline constituency supporting Brazil's brutal military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. There, they lent their weight to a dictatorship that, Cowan argues, operationalized a moral panic that conflated communist subversion with manifestations of modernity, coalescing around the crucial nodes of gender and sexuality, particularly in relation to youth, women, and the mass media. The confluence of an empowered right and a security establishment suffused with rightist moralism created strongholds of anticommunism that spanned government agencies, spurred repression, and generated attempts to control and even change quotidian behavior. Tracking how limits to Cold War authoritarianism finally emerged, Cowan concludes that the record of autocracy and repression in Brazil is part of a larger story of reaction against perceived threats to traditional views of family, gender, moral standards, and sexuality--a story that continues in today's culture wars.

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UNC Press Books

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1469627515

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9781469627519

Indian Country

Telling a Story in a Digital Age

By: Victoria L. LaPoe,Benjamin Rex LaPoe

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Indian Country

Telling a Story in a Digital Age

By: Victoria L. LaPoe,Benjamin Rex LaPoe

Storytelling has always been an important part of Native culture. Stories play a part in everyday Native life—they are often oral and rich in detail and language and serve as a form of recording history. Digital media now allow for the extension of this storytelling. This necessary text evaluates how digital media are changing the rich cultural act of storytelling within Native communities, with a specific focus on Native newsroom norms and routines. The authors argue that the non-Native press often leave consumers with a stereotypical view of American Indians, and aim to give a more authentic representation to Native journalism. With interviews from more than forty Native journalists around the country, this book is essential to understanding how digital media possibly advances the distribution of storytelling within the American Indian community.

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MSU Press

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1628952822

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Amistad's Orphans

An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

By: Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance

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Amistad's Orphans

An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

By: Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revisionist history, Benjamin N. Lawrance reconstructs six entwined stories and brings them to the forefront of the Amistad conflict. Through eyewitness testimonies, court records, and the children’s own letters, Lawrance recounts how their lives were inextricably interwoven by the historic drama, and casts new light on illegal nineteenth-century transatlantic slave smuggling.

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Yale University Press

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0300210434

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9780300210439

Biomechanical Aspects of Soft Tissues

By: Benjamin Loret,Fernando Manuel Fernandes Simoes

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Biomechanical Aspects of Soft Tissues

By: Benjamin Loret,Fernando Manuel Fernandes Simoes

Biomechanics applies the laws and techniques of mechanics in the study of biological systems and related phenomena. Biomechanics uses mathematical and computational tools such as model construction of musclo-skeletal system, body fluid circulation, to aid medical diagnosis, therapeutics and surgery planning, designing of prostheses and implants or in tissue engineering. Present book targets specific topics pertaining to the biomechanics of soft tissues. Subjects addressed includes solids and multi-species mixtures as open systems: a continuum mechanics perspective; electro-chemo-mechanical couplings: tissues with a fixed electric charge and growth of biological tissues.

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CRC Press

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1351617095

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The Most Musical Nation

Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire

By: James Benjamin Loeffler

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The Most Musical Nation

Jews and Culture in the Late Russian Empire

By: James Benjamin Loeffler

At a time of both rising anti-Semitism and burgeoning Jewish nationalism, how and why did Russian music become the gateway to Jewish modernity in music? Loeffler offers a new perspective on the emergence of Russian Jewish culture and identity.

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Yale University Press

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0300137133

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9780300137132

Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian London

By: Benjamin Weinstein

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Liberalism and Local Government in Early Victorian London

By: Benjamin Weinstein

This is an exploration of the conflict between Whig politicians and London radicals in metropolitan government.

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0861933125

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The Theory of Capital Structure - How theory meets practice in the German market

By: Benjamin Friedrich

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The Theory of Capital Structure - How theory meets practice in the German market

By: Benjamin Friedrich

The theory of capital structure is one of the most exciting and complex topics in corporate finance. After many years of debate it is still extremely difficult to provide a conclusive answer to the question which capital structure maximises the value of a company and what factors determine the optimal mix of debt and equity capital.This book provides a comprehensive introduction to capital structure theory and investigates its practical relevance in the German market. The main objectives are to explore the link between capital structure theory and corporate practice and to test determinants of capital structure choice empirically.The book has been written for students, researchers, and academics, but also for practitioners seeking empirical evidence of capital structure theory and an empirical model that can be used to estimate the optimal level of debt for an individual company in relation to an existing industry optimum.

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ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press

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3838255399

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Forging the Sword

Doctrinal Change in the U.S. Army

By: Benjamin Jensen

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Forging the Sword

Doctrinal Change in the U.S. Army

By: Benjamin Jensen

As entrenched bureaucracies, military organizations might reasonably be expected to be especially resistant to reform and favor only limited, incremental adjustments. Yet, since 1945, the U.S. Army has rewritten its capstone doctrine manual, Operations, fourteen times. While some modifications have been incremental, collectively they reflect a significant evolution in how the Army approaches warfare—making the U.S. Army a crucial and unique case of a modern land power that is capable of change. So what accounts for this anomaly? What institutional processes have professional officers developed over time to escape bureaucracies' iron cage? Forging the Sword conducts a comparative historical process-tracing of doctrinal reform in the U.S. Army. The findings suggest that there are unaccounted-for institutional facilitators of change within military organizations. Thus, it argues that change in military organizations requires "incubators," designated subunits established outside the normal bureaucratic hierarchy, and "advocacy networks" championing new concepts. Incubators, ranging from special study groups to non-Title 10 war games and field exercises, provide a safe space for experimentation and the construction of new operational concepts. Advocacy networks then connect different constituents and inject them with concepts developed in incubators. This injection makes changes elites would have otherwise rejected a contagious narrative.

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Stanford University Press

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0804797382

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Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Parametrized Partial Differential Equations

By: Jan S Hesthaven,Gianluigi Rozza,Benjamin Stamm

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Certified Reduced Basis Methods for Parametrized Partial Differential Equations

By: Jan S Hesthaven,Gianluigi Rozza,Benjamin Stamm

This book provides a thorough introduction to the mathematical and algorithmic aspects of certified reduced basis methods for parametrized partial differential equations. Central aspects ranging from model construction, error estimation and computational efficiency to empirical interpolation methods are discussed in detail for coercive problems. More advanced aspects associated with time-dependent problems, non-compliant and non-coercive problems and applications with geometric variation are also discussed as examples.

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Springer

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3319224700

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9783319224701

On Photography

By: Walter Benjamin

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On Photography

By: Walter Benjamin

Walter Benjamin’s 1931 essay “A Short History of Photography” is a landmark in the understanding and criticism of the medium, offering surprising new takes on such photographic pioneers as David Octavius Hill and Nicéphore Niépce and their aesthetic and technical achievements. On Photography presents a new translation of that essay along with a number of other writings by Benjamin, some of them presented in English for the first time. Translator and editor Esther Leslie sets Benjamin’s work in context with prefaces to each piece and contributes a substantial introduction that considers Benjamin’s engagement with photography in all its forms, including early commercial studio photography, the uses of photography in science, and much more.

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Reaktion Books

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1780235615

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9781780235615

The Sabermetric Revolution

Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball

By: Benjamin Baumer,Andrew Zimbalist

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The Sabermetric Revolution

Assessing the Growth of Analytics in Baseball

By: Benjamin Baumer,Andrew Zimbalist

From the front office to the family room, sabermetrics has dramatically changed the way baseball players are assessed and valued by fans and managers alike. Rocketed to popularity by the 2003 bestseller Moneyball and the film of the same name, the use of sabermetrics to analyze player performance has appeared to be a David to the Goliath of systemically advantaged richer teams that could be toppled only by creative statistical analysis. The story has been so compelling that, over the past decade, team after team has integrated statistical analysis into its front office. But how accurately can crunching numbers quantify a player's ability? Do sabermetrics truly level the playing field for financially disadvantaged teams? How much of the baseball analytic trend is fad and how much fact? The Sabermetric Revolution sets the record straight on the role of analytics in baseball. Former Mets sabermetrician Benjamin Baumer and leading sports economist Andrew Zimbalist correct common misinterpretations and develop new methods to assess the effectiveness of sabermetrics on team performance. Tracing the growth of front office dependence on sabermetrics and the breadth of its use today, they explore how Major League Baseball and the field of sports analytics have changed since the 2002 season. Their conclusion is optimistic, but the authors also caution that sabermetric insights will be more difficult to come by in the future. The Sabermetric Revolution offers more than a fascinating case study of the use of statistics by general managers and front office executives: for fans and fantasy leagues, this book will provide an accessible primer on the real math behind moneyball as well as new insight into the changing business of baseball.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812209125

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Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy

By: Benjamin Pollock

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Franz Rosenzweig and the Systematic Task of Philosophy

By: Benjamin Pollock

Pollock argues that Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption is devoted to the philosophical task of grasping 'the All' - the whole of what is - as a system.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521517095

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England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages

Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680-1073

By: Benjamin Savill

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England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages

Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680-1073

By: Benjamin Savill

England and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages: Papal Privileges in European Perspective, c. 680-1073 provides the first dedicated, book-length study of interactions between England and the papacy throughout the early middle ages. It takes as its lens the extant English record of papal privileges: legal diplomas drawn-up on metres-long scrolls of Egyptian papyrus, acquired by pilgrim-petitioners within the city of Rome, and then brought back to Britain to negotiate local claims and conflicts. How, why, and when did English petitioners choose to invoke the distant authority of Rome in this way, and how did this compare to what was taking place elsewhere in Europe? How successful were these efforts, and how were they remembered in later centuries? By using these still-understudied papal documents to reassess what we know of the worlds of Bede, the Mercian Supremacy, the West Saxon 'Kingdom of the English', and the Norman Conquest—locating them in the process within a comparative, Europe-wide setting—this book offers important new contributions to Anglo-Saxon studies, legal and documentary history, papal history, and the study of early medieval Europe more widely. It also includes an annotated handlist of the corpus of English papal privileges up to 1073—a critical reference work for future research in the field.

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Oxford University Press

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0198887108

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Presidential Power

Unchecked and Unbalanced

By: Matthew A. Crenson,Benjamin Ginsberg

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Presidential Power

Unchecked and Unbalanced

By: Matthew A. Crenson,Benjamin Ginsberg

This book explores how American presidents--especially those of the past three decades--have increased the power of the presidency at the expense of democracy.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393064883

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9780393064889

The Instructional Leader’s Guide to Implementing K-8 Science Practices

By: Rebecca Lowenhaupt,Katherine L. McNeill,Rebecca Katsh-Singer,Benjamin R. Lowell,Kevin Cherbow

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The Instructional Leader’s Guide to Implementing K-8 Science Practices

By: Rebecca Lowenhaupt,Katherine L. McNeill,Rebecca Katsh-Singer,Benjamin R. Lowell,Kevin Cherbow

An accessible, engaging primer on the eight science practices at the heart of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), providing K–8 instructional leaders with the grounding they need to ensure excellent science instruction in every classroom. The NGSS reconceptualize science instruction by redefining the teacher as someone who helps students construct their own knowledge by "thinking like scientists" and engaging in discrete science practices. However, with STEM teachers in short supply and generalists often feeling underprepared to teach elementary and middle school science, what can instructional leaders do to ensure students get a strong start in this critical area and learn to love science? Although a content-neutral approach to supervision—one that emphasizes general pedagogical features such as student engagement, cognitive load, or classroom management—is undoubtedly beneficial, the best instructional leaders know that content-specific approaches are necessary to achieve real excellence. We therefore need to go deeper if we want to engage both teachers and students with the science practices. We need science-specific supervision. With that in mind, the authors provide vignettes and examples of the science practices in use, advice on observing science classrooms, concrete look-fors, and guidance on fostering ongoing teacher learning. They also offer a rich compendium of research- and evidence-based resources, including sample lessons, FAQs, and more than a dozen downloadable tools to facilitate classroom observation, feedback sessions, and professional development. This is an essential guide for any K–8 instructional leader who wants to empower all teachers to provide all students with rich science experiences and develop the cognitive and noncognitive skills students will need to thrive in more advanced courses, work, and society.

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ASCD

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1416630961

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9781416630968

American Music Documentary

Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology

By: Benjamin J. Harbert

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American Music Documentary

Five Case Studies of Ciné-Ethnomusicology

By: Benjamin J. Harbert

Documentary filmmakers have been making films about music for a half-century. American Music Documentary looks at five key films to begin to imagine how we might produce, edit, and watch films from an ethnomusicological point of view. Reconsidering Albert and David Maysles's Gimme Shelter, Jill Godmilow's Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman, Shirley Clarke's Ornette: Made in America, D.A. Pennebaker's and Chris Hegedus's Depeche Mode: 101, and Jem Cohen's and Fugazi's Instrument, Harbert lays the foundations for the study and practice of "ciné-ethnomusicology." Interviews with directors and rich analysis from the disciplinary perspectives of film studies and ethnomusicology make this book a critical companion to some of the most celebrated music documentaries of the twentieth century. Hardcover is un-jacketed.

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Wesleyan University Press

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0819578029

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Cerebral Cortex

Architecture, Connections, and the Dual Origin Concept

By: Deepak N. Pandya,Benjamin Seltzer,Michael Petrides,Patsy Benny Cipolloni

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Cerebral Cortex

Architecture, Connections, and the Dual Origin Concept

By: Deepak N. Pandya,Benjamin Seltzer,Michael Petrides,Patsy Benny Cipolloni

This unique book provides a new view of the organization of the cerebral cortex. It explores the underlying principle of the organization of the cerebral cortex using the dual nature of the origin of the cerebral cortex. Cerebral Cortex provides a different way of understanding the current behavioral studies, neuroimaging observations, and promises a new approach to future studies.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195385152

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The Death of Communal Liberty

A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton

By: Benjamin R. Barber

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The Death of Communal Liberty

A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton

By: Benjamin R. Barber

Switzerland today is faced with a profound dilemma—its village life is dying, a casualty of the collision between communal norms and the need for national survival in an industrial, urbanizing world. Benjamin Barber traces the origins and evolution of communal liberty in the group of alpine villages that make up modern Canton Graubunden, and recreates their poignant thousand-year struggle to maintain this tradition in the face of a hostile environment, hierarchical feudal institutions, and European power polities. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Basic Concepts in Computational Physics

By: Benjamin A. Stickler,Ewald Schachinger

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Basic Concepts in Computational Physics

By: Benjamin A. Stickler,Ewald Schachinger

This new edition is a concise introduction to the basic methods of computational physics. Readers will discover the benefits of numerical methods for solving complex mathematical problems and for the direct simulation of physical processes. The book is divided into two main parts: Deterministic methods and stochastic methods in computational physics. Based on concrete problems, the first part discusses numerical differentiation and integration, as well as the treatment of ordinary differential equations. This is extended by a brief introduction to the numerics of partial differential equations. The second part deals with the generation of random numbers, summarizes the basics of stochastics, and subsequently introduces Monte-Carlo (MC) methods. Specific emphasis is on MARKOV chain MC algorithms. The final two chapters discuss data analysis and stochastic optimization. All this is again motivated and augmented by applications from physics. In addition, the book offers a number of appendices to provide the reader with information on topics not discussed in the main text. Numerous problems with worked-out solutions, chapter introductions and summaries, together with a clear and application-oriented style support the reader. Ready to use C++ codes are provided online.

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