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A History of German Literature

From the Beginnings to the Present Day

By: Wolfgang Beutin,Klaus Ehlert,Wolfgang Emmerich,Helmut Hoffacker,Bernd Lutz,Volker Meid,Ralf Schnell,Peter Stein,Inge Stephan

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A History of German Literature

From the Beginnings to the Present Day

By: Wolfgang Beutin,Klaus Ehlert,Wolfgang Emmerich,Helmut Hoffacker,Bernd Lutz,Volker Meid,Ralf Schnell,Peter Stein,Inge Stephan

Since the appearance of its first edition in Germany in 1979, A History of German Literature has established itself as a classic work used by students and anyone interested in German literature. The volume chronologically traces the development of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day. Throughout this chronology, literary developments are set in a social and political context. This includes a final chapter, written for this latest edition, on the consequences of the reunification of Germany in 1990. Thoroughly interdiscipinary in method, the work also reflects recent developments in literary criticism and history. Highly readable and stimulating, A History of German Literature succeeds in making the literature of the past as immediate and engaging as the works of the present. It is both a scholary study and an invaluable reference work for students.

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1134928165

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9781134928163

Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo Morandi

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

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Bernd & Hilla Becher at Museo Morandi

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

To the present day, Bernd & Hilla Becher have published 15 books with Schirmer/Mosel, and there is no end in sight since the archive of industrial buildings the Düsseldorf-based photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher compiled over more than 50 years still contains many undiscovered treasures. Documenting buildings of the industrial age threatened with dereliction or demolition, they created a hitherto unique photographic inventory in individual "portraits" and typological series. The photographers received international recognition with various prizes and awards, as well as held exhibitions of their works in galleries and museums all over the world. The latest exhibition project is a small, carefully compiled show at Museo Morandi in Bologna, which will open on January 23, 2009. Alongside 14 duotone plates, the accompanying catalog will contain an interview with Hilla Becher (Bernd Becher died in 2007), conducted by Gianfranco Maraniello, Director of Museo Morandi.

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Schirmer/Mosel

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3829604068

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9783829604062

Basic forms

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher,Susanne Lange

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Basic forms

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher,Susanne Lange

Celebrating Hilla Becher's 80th birthday, we offer again the title Basic Forms presenting the range of industrial buildings documented by the artists."--Publisher website.

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382960694X

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9783829606943

Industrial Façades

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

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Industrial Façades

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

The more than two hundred striking duotone plates in Hilla and Bernd Becher's Industrial Facades continue the famousD?orf photographers' formal investigation of industrial structures, in this case the frontal elevations of factory buildings. Like the Bechers' earlier books on water towers, blast furnaces, and gas tanks, Industrial Facades once again clearly displays their serenely cool, rigorous approach to the structures they photograph as vaariations on an ideal form. The Bechers make no attempt to analyze or explain their subjects. Captions contain only the barest of information: time and place. Industrial Facades covers the whole range of periods and designs representing this building type: from austere brick buildings of the early industrial age and the arched windows and turrets decorating historicist facades, to the concrete and glass functionalist constructions of the 1950s and 1960s, to today's rectangular, windowless halls. These photographs give the lie to Louis Sullivan's often misunderstood motto, "form follows function," for the external appearance of the factory buildings shown here are hardly determined by their internal working processes. For this reason, the Bechers' photographs do not really illustrate the development of modern industrial architecture, nor the achievements of functionalist building, but rather the achievements of banal, everyday architecture, produced by builders trained in crafts or by engineers trained in the necessities of the industrial process. * Not for sale in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Austria

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MIT Press (MA)

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0262023881

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9780262023887

Blast Furnaces

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

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Blast Furnaces

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

Typological, repetitive, at times oddly humorous, Bernd and Hilla Becher's photographs of industrial structures are, in their cumulative effect, profoundly moving. The Becher's serenely cool, disarmingly objective, and notoriously obsessive images of watertowers, gas tanks, grain elevators, blast furnaces, and mine heads have been taken over a period of almost thirty years, under overcast skies, with a view camera that captures each detail and tonality of wood, concrete, brick, and steel. Blast Furnaces represents a continuation of, but also a counterpoint to the Bechers' earlier book Watertowers. There basic functional elements were hidden or clothed in disguises, whereas the 256 duotone prints included here record a purely functional and exposed architecture, built to contain heat, pressure, and accumulations of gases and unhindered by any outside constraints. The blast furnace is the symbol of the steel industry. Like other building types which attract the Bechers, it is also an endangered industrial species. Essentially giant, cone-shaped circular stoves, blast furnaces dominate the cityscapes of Pittsburgh, Youngstown, and Birmingham much as religious structures dominated medieval cities. These photographs, taken between 1961 and 1989, convey the unique characteristics, physical complexity, and eerie presence in the landscape of blast furnaces in Great Britain, Belgium, France, Austria, Germany, and the United States. Bernd and Hilla Becher teach at the Dusseldorf Art Academy. They began their collaborative photographic enterprise in 1957, when they did a study of workers' houses in their native Germany. The Bechers follow in a distinguished line of German photographers that includes August Sander, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and Werner Manz, all of whom contributed in different ways to the definition of "objective" photography. A selection of their photographs is on view throughout 1990 at the Dia Art Foundation galleries in New York, and they will represent Germany in the 1990 Venice Biennale.

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0262023113

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9780262023115

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Boron Compounds

By: Heinrich Nöth,Bernd Wrackmeyer

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Boron Compounds

By: Heinrich Nöth,Bernd Wrackmeyer

The revolutionary impetus of the NMR methods in organic chemistry has parallels in the field of boron chemistry. lIB NMR spectroscopy provided a basis for the elucida tion of structures and reactions of the boron hydrides. However, although many studies have been carried out with the higher boranes, carboranes, metalloboranes, etc. , and although certain patterns have emerged, the correlation between the observed chemical shift and the assigned structural unit is still not fully understood. Therefore, predictions in this area are still rather limited, and semiquantitative interpretations are not yet pos sible. Several years ago Eaton and Lipscomb sUpImarized the status in this field in their book "NMR Studies of Boron Hydrides and Related Compounds" and a plethora of new data has accumulated since then. The book also contained material on simple bo rane derivatives, but they were not discussed in any detail. On the other hand many systematic studies, both synthetic and spectroscopic, have been conducted on these simple boron materials in the last decade. Thus a large amount of NMR information is available, not only on lIB but also on 1 H, 1 3 C, and 14 N. However, this information is widely scattered in the literature, and often the data are not discussed at all. It see med appropriate, therefore, to collect these data and to present them in one volume.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642667570

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9783642667572

The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989

By: Bernd Schäfer

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The East German State and the Catholic Church, 1945-1989

By: Bernd Schäfer

From 1945 to 1989, relations between the communist East German state and the Catholic Church were contentious and sometimes turbulent. Drawing on extensive Stasi materials and other government and party archives, this study provides the first systematic overview of this complex relationship and offers many new insights into the continuities, changes, and entanglements of policies and strategies on both sides. Previously undiscovered records in church archives contribute to an analysis of regional and sectoral conflicts within the Church and various shades of cooperation between nominal antagonists. The volume also explores relations between the GDR and the Vatican and addresses the oft-neglected communist “church business” controversially made in exchange for hard Western currency.

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Berghahn Books

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1845457374

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9781845457372

Arguing with God

A Theological Anthropology of the Psalms

By: Bernd Janowski

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Arguing with God

A Theological Anthropology of the Psalms

By: Bernd Janowski

This is the first English translation of Bernd Janowski's incisive anthropological study of the Psalms, originally published in German in 2003 as Konfliktgespr_che mit Gott. Eine Anthropologie der Psalmen (Neukirchener). Janowski begins with an introduction to Old Testament anthropology, concentrating on themes of being forsaken by God, enmity, legal difficulties, and sickness. Each chapter defines a problem and considers it in relation to anthropological insights from related fields of study and a thematically relevant example from the Psalms, including how a central aspect of this Psalm is explored in other Old Testament or Ancient Near Eastern texts. Each chapter concludes with an "Anthropological Keyword," which explores especially important words and phrases in the Psalms. The book also includes reflections on reading the Psalms from a New Testament perspective, focusing on themes of transience, praising God, salvation from death, and trust in God. Janowski's study demonstrates how the Psalms have important theological implications and ultimately help us to understand what it means to be human.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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0664233236

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9780664233235

Walter Benjamin

An Intellectual Biography

By: Bernd Witte

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Walter Benjamin

An Intellectual Biography

By: Bernd Witte

Expanded and revised, as well as translated, from the 1985 German edition, details the thought of Benjamin (1892-1940), an all-around European intellectual most active between the wars. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Wayne State University Press

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081432018X

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9780814320181

Science and Engineering of Short Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites

By: Shao-yun Fu,Bernd Lauke,Y.-W. Mai

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Science and Engineering of Short Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites

By: Shao-yun Fu,Bernd Lauke,Y.-W. Mai

Science and Engineering of Short Fibre Reinforced Polymer Composites, Second Edition, provides the latest information on the 'short fiber reinforced composites' (SFRP) that have found extensive applications in automobiles, business machines, durable consumer items, sporting goods and electrical industries due to their low cost, easy processing and superior mechanical properties over parent polymers. This updated edition presents new developments in this field of research and includes new chapters on electrical conductivity, structural monitoring, functional properties, self-healing, finite element method techniques, multi-scale SFRCs, and both modern computational and process engineering methods. - Reviews the mechanical properties and functions of short fiber reinforced polymer composites (SFRP) - Examines recent developments in the fundamental mechanisms of SFRP's - Assesses major factors affecting mechanical performance, such as stress transfer and strength - Includes new chapters on electrical conductivity, structural monitoring, functional properties, self-healing, finite element method techniques, multi-scale SFRCs, modern computational methods, and process engineering methods

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Woodhead Publishing

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0081026242

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9780081026243

Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893 - 1933

Expressionism Psychoanalysis Judaism

By: Bernd Bocian

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Fritz Perls in Berlin 1893 - 1933

Expressionism Psychoanalysis Judaism

By: Bernd Bocian

Using Fritz Perls as an example, this book recalls the representatives of an urban avant-garde culture who were driven out of Europe, emigrated, and for the most part found a new homeland in the USA. Many an element of the lost avant-garde spirit later found its way back to Europe in an enriched form. This monograph is the first to focus in greater depth on the German-European roots of Gestalt therapy. It thereby bridges the continents at the same time.

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EHP - Verlag Andreas Kohlhage

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3897976080

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9783897976085

Ach ich fühl's - German for Opera Singers in Three Acts: Studying, Speaking, Singing

By: Bernd Hendricks

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Ach ich fühl's - German for Opera Singers in Three Acts: Studying, Speaking, Singing

By: Bernd Hendricks

Ach ich fühl's - German for opera Singers in Three Acts: Studying, Speaking, Singing" is the first German language book that makes its readers laugh - not from desperation but because they are having fun. This quick, lighthearted guide book immerses singers, vocal students and their teachers in one of the most important languages of their art. They will build their grammar knowledge and their vocabulary through the characters and plots in opera. They will learn to navigate German within the daily routine of a German-language opera house and the world outside. Ultimately they will study 10 important arias. With the help of a new translation and linguistic interpretations, students will achieve a deeper understanding of these arias. Eventually, this book will help its readers to be successful in the increasingly competitive world of opera.

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Lulu.com

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1312463457

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9781312463455

Natural Products in the Chemical Industry

By: Bernd Schaefer

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Natural Products in the Chemical Industry

By: Bernd Schaefer

Natural Products in the Chemical Industry is not a conventional textbook, but rather an invitation to join an entertaining journey that takes you into the fascinating world of natural products. This book features diverse compound classes from a number of areas: colourants, fragrances and flavourings, amino acids, pharmaceuticals, hormones, vitamins and agrochemicals. Whether you are a teacher or a scholar, an undergraduate or graduate student, a professional chemist in industry or academia, or someone just interested in natural sciences, this book allows you to be inspired and entertained by facts and information along with enjoyable anecdotes, historical, economic, political, biological and social considerations. Experts in the field can have a pleasurable time cruising through captivating synthesis methods, which enable the generation of complex molecules on industrial scale. This book · deals with the manufacturing of larger quantities of complex molecules (asymmetric and heterocyclic compounds, polycyclic structures, macrocycles and small rings) · displays all reaction schemes in colour, which makes them easy to read · highlights aesthetics and elegance in modern industrial organic chemistry

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Springer

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3642544614

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9783642544613

Quantum Computing Devices

Principles, Designs, and Analysis

By: Goong Chen,David A. Church,Berthold-Georg Englert,Carsten Henkel,Bernd Rohwedder,Marlan O. Scully,M. Suhail Zubairy

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Quantum Computing Devices

Principles, Designs, and Analysis

By: Goong Chen,David A. Church,Berthold-Georg Englert,Carsten Henkel,Bernd Rohwedder,Marlan O. Scully,M. Suhail Zubairy

One of the first books to thoroughly examine the subject, Quantum Computing Devices: Principles, Designs, and Analysis covers the essential components in the design of a "real" quantum computer. It explores contemporary and important aspects of quantum computation, particularly focusing on the role of quantum electronic devices as quantum gates.

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CRC Press

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1420011774

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9781420011777

Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast

By: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Bernd Kortmann

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Cause, Condition, Concession, Contrast

By: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen,Bernd Kortmann

English, today's most important international language, is probably the best-described and most widely studied language in linguistic research. This is because there is an immense body of descriptive and theoretical publications and especially because of the existence of large computer corpora for Present-Day English, as well as for older periods of the language and for regional and social varieties. The strength of current English linguistics therefore is its orientation to solid descriptive empirical research. The future of English linguistics as envisaged by the editors of Topics TOPICS IN.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110166909

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9783110166903

Materialien zur alten islamischen Frömmigkeit

By: Bernd Radtke

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Materialien zur alten islamischen Frömmigkeit

By: Bernd Radtke

Arabic texts dating from the 3rd-4th/9th-10th centuries by the following five authors are here presented: Ab? Shaykh al-Burjul?n?, Ibr?h?m al-Khuttal?, Ibn al-Na???s, Ab? ?Abd All?h al-R?dhab?r? and Ibn ?amak?n. The texts appear in transliteration along with a German translation. Their chains of transmission (isn?ds) are analyzed and parallels with other authors are noted. The subject dealt with throughout is mystical piety. These highly interesting materials throw light on Islamic mysticism's early stage of development.

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BRILL

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9047443667

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9789047443667

Water Towers

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

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Water Towers

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

Gathers photographs of watertowers in the U.S., Great Britain, Germany, and France and describes the authors approach to industrial photography

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Mit Press

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026202277X

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9780262022774

Framework Houses

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

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Framework Houses

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

A new edition of the first book by photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, featuring framework houses of the Siegen region of Germany. Bernd and Hilla Becher have profoundly influenced the international photography world over the past several decades. Their unique genre, which falls somewhere between topological documentation and conceptual art, is in line with the aesthetics of such early-twentieth-century masters of German photography as Karl Blossfeldt, Germaine Krull, Albert Renger-Patzsch, and August Sander. Framework Houses, their first and most famous book, was originally published in Germany in 1977 and quickly went out of print. This new edition of that classic work takes advantage of reproduction and printing technologies not available in 1977. Most of the houses in the book were built between 1870 and 1914 in the Siegen region of Germany, one of the oldest iron-producing areas of Europe. The houses were built by immigrants who came to work in the mines or blast furnace plants. In 1790 a law was enacted to save wood for iron production by preventing its excessive use for house-building. The law prescribed the amount of lumber structurally required and forbade the construction of elements serving only ornamental purposes. It also specified the maximum strength for beams, sills, cornerposts, and studs. A functional framework, combined with neoclassical proportions, determined the new type of house; it was also applied to other buildings such as barns, churches, schools, inns, shops, factories, and mine structures.* Not for sale in France, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and Austria

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National Geographic Books

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0262024993

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9780262024990

Gas Tanks

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

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Gas Tanks

By: Bernd Becher,Hilla Becher

presents four principally different forms of gas holders or gas tanks in 140 photographs taken during the years 1963-1992 in Great Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, and the United States

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