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Mission to Saint Petersburg

By: CARL G. SCHOTT, Ph.D.

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MISSION TO SAINT PETERSBURG is a detailed account of the diplomatic history of Europe in the 1870 ́s. It centers on the career of the French Ambassador to Russia during that period. It relies upon extensive research in unpublished French, German, and Russian diplomatic correspondence.

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146539253X

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Seeking the Compassionate Life

The Moral Crisis for Psychotherapy and Society

By: Carl Goldberg,Virginia Crespo

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Seeking the Compassionate Life

The Moral Crisis for Psychotherapy and Society

By: Carl Goldberg,Virginia Crespo

Morality is a subject most ignored and little understood by modern psychological investigation. Why a person acts honorably, or heinously, is one of the most puzzling and least answered questions regarding human behavior. Here the authors posit that despite the fact that hatred and arrogance continually battle compassion and decency as humanity's driving force, people continue to develop altruism, empathy, and concern for others. Goldberg and Crespo demonstrate seven factors crucial to achieving a compassionate life. Goldberg and Crespo take us inside their treatment rooms, through history, across cultures and into their own personal worlds-at-large to meet clients and acquaintances including a would-be rapist, a virtuous stalker, an adulterous minister, and a young boy with little more than a matchbook and some pride to call his own. Together, the stories of these clients and historical figures including Nazis at Nuremberg reflect a vital theme: Virtuous behavior should not be a mystery. Morality is a subject most ignored and little understood by modern psychological investigation. Why a person acts honorably or heinously is one of the most puzzling and least answered questions regarding human behavior. The authors demonstrate that although within every human breast hatred and arrogance battle compassion and decency as a driving force, people do indeed develop altruism, empathy, and concern for others. Goldberg and Crespo outline seven crucial factors in the achievement of a compassionate life. This book addresses two audiences. First, it questions modern psychological scientists who have ignored the importance of compassion, virtue, and morality, focusing instead on contrived experimental situations rather than pursuing investigations in—as part of—the actual world in which we live. Yet it is also written for all people concerned with the moral crisis in comtemporary society, and all people seeking personal and social solutions to deal with this crisis.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313057834

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The Origins of Music

By: Carl Stumpf

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The Origins of Music

By: Carl Stumpf

Carl Stumpf was one of the founding fathers of Gestalt psychology. In this volume, first published in German in 1911 he discusses the origin and forms of musical activity as well as various theories on the origin of music.

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Oxford University Press

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0199695733

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Carl Einstein

A Defense of the Real

By: David Quigley,Carl Einstein

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A Defense of the Real

By: David Quigley,Carl Einstein

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3851600835

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The Viennese Secession

By: Victoria Charles,Klaus Carl

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The Viennese Secession

By: Victoria Charles,Klaus Carl

A symbol of modernity, the Viennese Secession was defined by the rebellion of twenty artists who were against the conservative Vienna Künstlerhaus' oppressive influence over the city, the epoch, and the whole Austro-Hungarian Empire. Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a “total art”, without any political or commercial constraint, the Viennese Secession represented the ideological turmoil that affected craftsmen, architects, graphic artists, and designers from this period. Turning away from an established art and immersing themselves in organic, voluptuous, and decorative shapes, these artists opened themselves to an evocative, erotic aesthetic that blatantly offended the bourgeoisie of the time. Painting, sculpture, and architecture are addressed by the authors and highlight the diversity and richness of a movement whose motto proclaimed “for each time its art, for each art its liberty” – a declaration to the innovation and originality of this revolutionary art movement.

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Parkstone International

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1783103949

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My Mind Me

Coping with a Traumatic Brain Injury

By: Carl D. Schultz

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My Mind Me

Coping with a Traumatic Brain Injury

By: Carl D. Schultz

Carl D. Schultz, who served in the U.S. Army, shares a moving collection of autobiographical stories and poetry inspired and strongly colored by the traumatic brain injury he suffered while in West Germany in 1987 in My Mind Me. His poetic, visceral voice is vivid and compelling, and the stories he shares are deeply intimate and evocative. He wrote this book partly as an exercise to understand his past after waking up from a six-month coma. In the process, however, he discovered that his life is not as tragic as it is confused. While he has little recollection of the two years before and twelve months after the horrific event, those three years that included graduating from college, jumping from airplanes, and sitting under the Eiffel Tower have no doubt played a critical role in making him the man he is today. Join Schultz as he sorts through confused memories to share an inspiring story of survival, grit, and courage.

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LifeRich Publishing

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1489711201

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On the Psychology of the Dementia Praecox

By: Carl Jung

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On the Psychology of the Dementia Praecox

By: Carl Jung

On the Psychology of the Dementia Praecox (über die Psychologie der Demerrtia praecox) is an early work by Jung during his clinical days. This work focused on what was then called "dementia praecox," a term coined by Emil Kraepelin that later evolved into what we now know as schizophrenia. This edition is a new translation from the original German manuscript with an Afterword by the Translator, a philosophic index of Jung's terminology and a timeline of his life and works. In this foundational study, Jung analyzes what we now call schizophrenia, focusing on the inner experiences of patients suffering from what was then termed dementia praecox. He offers an early psychological framework for understanding how these individuals experience a breakdown in reality, characterized by cognitive fragmentation and detachment from the external world. This work played a key role in shaping later psychiatric approaches to schizophrenia by emphasizing the importance of subjective psychological experiences over mere symptom observation. Jung’s insights helped move the field of psychiatry beyond external behavior analysis, encouraging a deeper exploration of the internal, subjective worlds of patients with psychosis. His pioneering approach also laid the groundwork for future studies on the collective unconscious, a key element in his later theoretical work. Jung’s study of dementia praecox marks a significant shift from the purely biological or somatic approaches to mental illness that were dominant in psychiatry at the time. Rather than focusing solely on the observable symptoms of the disorder, such as hallucinations or delusions, Jung sought to understand the underlying psychological processes contributing to the disintegration of the patient's personality. He suggested that these symptoms were manifestations of deeper conflicts within the psyche, rooted in the unconscious. One of Jung’s key contributions in this work was his emphasis on subjective, internal experiences, as opposed to only outward symptoms. He examined the patient's psychological landscape, emphasizing that schizophrenia involved a profound disturbance in how individuals related to both their inner worlds and external reality. Jung hypothesized that these patients’ hallucinations and delusions were attempts by the unconscious mind to compensate for the breakdown of normal psychological functioning. In this sense, Jung's interpretation laid the groundwork for understanding psychosis as a form of psychic conflict rather than merely a biological or neurological disorder.

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Livraria Press

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3689384958

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Correspondence (1882–1910)

By: William James,Carl Stumpf

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Correspondence (1882–1910)

By: William James,Carl Stumpf

James and Stumpf first met in Prague in 1882. James soon started corresponding with a “colleague with whose persons and whose ideas alike I feel so warm a sympathy.” With this, a lifelong epistolary friendship began. For 28 years until James’s death in 1910, Stumpf became James’s most important European correspondent. Besides psychological themes of great importance, such as the perception of space and of sound, the letters include commentary upon Stumpf’s (Tonpsychologie) and James’s main books (The Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience), and many other works. The two friends also exchange views concerning other scholars, religious faith and metaphysical topics. The different perspectives of the American and the German (European) way of living, philosophizing and doing science are frequently under discussion. The letters also touch upon personal questions of historical interest. The book offers a critical edition and the English translation of hitherto unpublished primary sources. Historians of psychology and historians of philosophy will welcome the volume as a useful tool for their understanding of some crucial developments of the time. Scholars in the history of pragmatism and of phenomenology will also be interested in the volume.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110525534

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Mapping Class Groups and Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces

Proceedings of Workshops Held June 24-28, 1991, in Göttingen, Germany, and August 6-10, 1991, in Seattle, Washington ...

By: Carl-Friedrich Bödigheimer,Richard Martin Hain

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Mapping Class Groups and Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces

Proceedings of Workshops Held June 24-28, 1991, in Göttingen, Germany, and August 6-10, 1991, in Seattle, Washington ...

By: Carl-Friedrich Bödigheimer,Richard Martin Hain

The study of mapping class groups and moduli spaces of compact Riemann surfaces is currently a central topic in topology, algebraic geometry, and conformal field theory. This book contains proceedings from two workshops held in the summer of 1991, one at the University of G\"ottingen and the other at the University of Washington at Seattle. The papers gathered here represent diverse approaches and contain several important new results. With both research and survey articles, the book appeals to mathematicians and physicists.

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American Mathematical Soc.

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0821851675

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Living with Liszt

From the Diary of Carl Lachmund, an American Pupil of Liszt, 1882-1884

By: Carl Lachmund

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Living with Liszt

From the Diary of Carl Lachmund, an American Pupil of Liszt, 1882-1884

By: Carl Lachmund

Carl V. Lachmund (1857-1928) was an American pupil of Liszt; he studied with the Hungarian master in Weimar between the years 1882-1884. During that time he kept a diary which eventually ran to some 700 pages. This document gives one of the mo st exhaustive accounts of Liszt's keyboard instruction extant. Some time after World War I, and in response toa demand from a number of musicians with an interest in the matter, Lachmund decided to turn his diary into a book about his daily life with Liszt. In order to gather additional background material about a period now long past, he wrote to more than 200 musicians in America and Europe who had had some personal contact with the composer, and invited them to share their personal reminiscences. The book never appeared and his papers came to rest in the New York Public Library, with whose cooperation this book is now being published.The Liszt scholar Alan Walker has undertaken the task of introducing, editing, and annotating the Lachmund papers. He calls the diary an irreplaceable source of first-hand material which throws fresh light on the way Liszt taught the piano. Liszt also emerges from these pages as a great and noble human being. This book will interest all teachers, performers, and students of the period. It represents a major contribution to nineteenth-century studies.

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Pendragon Press

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0945193564

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Refugees of Revolution

The German Forty-Eighters in America

By: Carl Wittke

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Refugees of Revolution

The German Forty-Eighters in America

By: Carl Wittke

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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151280875X

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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Carl E. Schorske

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Fin-De-Siecle Vienna

Politics and Culture (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Carl E. Schorske

A Pulitzer Prize Winner and landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a splendid exploration of several aspects of early modernism in their political context; it is an indicator of how the discipline of intellectual history is currently practiced by its most able and ambitious craftsmen. It is also a moving vindication of historical study itself, in the face of modernism's defiant suggestion that history is obsolete." -- David A. Hollinger, History Book Club Review "Each of [the seven separate studies] can be read separately....Yet they are so artfully designed and integrated that one who reads them in order is impressed by the book's wholeness and the momentum of its argument." -- Gordon A. Craig, The New Republic "A profound work...on one of the most important chapters of modern intellectual history" -- H.R. Trevor-Roper, front page, The New York Times Book Review "Invaluable to the social and political historian...as well as to those more concerned with the arts" -- John Willett, The New York Review of Books "A work of original synthesis and scholarship. Engrossing." -- Newsweek

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Vintage

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0307814513

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Revival: Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. I (1900)

The Art Work of the Future

By: Carl Friedrich Glasenapp

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Revival: Life of Richard Wagner, Vol. I (1900)

The Art Work of the Future

By: Carl Friedrich Glasenapp

This volume brings our story down to 1843, an important era in Richard Wagner’s Life, with his entry, as composer, of two successful operas, upon a so-called "practical" career at one of the principal German theatres.

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Routledge

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1351342398

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Sur’Reality

By: Carl D. Schultz

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Sur’Reality

By: Carl D. Schultz

Existence as such cannot be controlledit can only be observed. And in a sense, reality is not in fact physical, but figural. Yet despite these truths about the elusive nature of reality, a concrete definition of these concepts may provide a way to grasp a wider understanding of our being. For while intangible realities like our thoughts and our imaginations can be considered by skeptics as merely hallucinations or immaterial, in a real sense it is also true that they are rooted in the brain and are thus intermittently physical as well; therefore, given this possibility, even our dreams may become reality. Surreality explores these questions and more through the autobiographical history of an author confronted at once with the challenges of life and the realities of distant memories. Teetering on the boundaries of language and a play on the sometimes surreal landscape of existence that is nevertheless based sur la ralit, or on reality, it likewise offers a window into a mind where the physical and the figurativethe brain and the imagination, consciousness, and memoryconstantly enmesh and decouple to create a perplexing reality. The mind and brain are complex and intricately related, and together they form a reality whose contours can only be traced by our own perceptions. Bending our understanding of memory, perception, and language can open up a space to envision the possibilitythe realityof our imaginations.

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1489707948

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Revival: Life of Richard Wagner Vol. IV (1904)

Art and Politics

By: Carl Francis Glasenapp

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Revival: Life of Richard Wagner Vol. IV (1904)

Art and Politics

By: Carl Francis Glasenapp

Fourth volume of Carl Francis Glasenapp's Life of Richard Wagner.

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1351341804

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Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico

Heloderma, Micruroides, Micrurus, Pelamis, Agkistrodon, Sistrurus

By: Carl H. Ernst,Evelyn M. Ernst

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Venomous Reptiles of the United States, Canada, and Northern Mexico

Heloderma, Micruroides, Micrurus, Pelamis, Agkistrodon, Sistrurus

By: Carl H. Ernst,Evelyn M. Ernst

The first volume contains species accounts of the venomous lizards and elapid and viperid snakes found north of Mexico's twenty-fifth parallel. Volume two covers the twenty-one species of rattlesnakes found in the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico.

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JHU Press

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0801898757

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9780801898754

Glory to God: A Companion

By: Carl P. Jr. Daw

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Glory to God: A Companion

By: Carl P. Jr. Daw

This informative resource provides a brief history of each hymn in the popular hymnal Glory to God. Written by one of the foremost hymn scholars today, the Companion explains when and why each hymn was written and provides biographical information about the hymn writers. Church leaders will benefit from this book when choosing hymn texts for every worship occasion. Several indexes will be included, making this a valuable reference tool for pastors, worship planners, scholars, and students, as well as an interesting and engaging resource for music lovers.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611646529

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In Search of Human Nature

The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought

By: Carl N. Degler

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In Search of Human Nature

The Decline and Revival of Darwinism in American Social Thought

By: Carl N. Degler

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1972, and a past president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, Carl Degler is one of America's most eminent living historians. He is also one of the most versatile. In a forty year career, he has written brilliantly on race (Neither Black Nor White, which won the Pulitzer Prize), women's studies (At Odds, which Betty Friedan called "a stunning book"), Southern history (The Other South), the New Deal, and many other subjects. Now, in The Search for Human Nature, Degler turns to perhaps his largest subject yet, a sweeping history of the impact of Darwinism (and biological research) on our understanding of human nature, providing a fascinating overview of the social sciences in the last one hundred years. The idea of a biological root to human nature was almost universally accepted at the turn of the century, Degler points out, then all but vanished from social thought only to reappear in the last four decades. Degler traces the early history of this idea, from Darwin's argument that our moral and emotional life evolved from animals just as our human shape did, to William James's emphasis on instinct in human behavior (then seen as a fundamental insight of psychology). We also see the many applications of biology, from racism, sexism, and Social Darwinism to the rise of intelligence testing, the eugenics movement, and the practice of involuntary sterilization of criminals (a public policy pioneered in America, which had sterilization laws 25 years before Nazi Germany--one such law was upheld by Oliver Wendell Holmes's Supreme Court). Degler then examines the work of those who denied any role for biology, who thought culture shaped human nature, a group ranging from Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, to John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner. Equally important, he examines the forces behind this fundamental shift in a scientific paradigm, arguing that ideological reasons--especially the struggle against racism and sexism in America--led to this change in scientific thinking. Finally, Degler considers the revival of Darwinism without the Social Darwinism, racism, and sexism, led first by ethologists such as Karl von Frisch, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Konrad Lorenz, and Jane Goodall--who revealed clear parallels between animal and human behavior--and followed in varying degrees by such figures as Melvin Konner, Alice Rossi, Jerome Kagen, and Edward O. Wilson as well as others in anthropology, political science, sociology, and economics. What kind of animal is Homo sapiens and how did we come to be this way? In this wide ranging history, Carl Degler traces our attempts over the last century to answer these questions. In doing so, he has produced a volume that will fascinate anyone curious about the nature of human beings.

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Oxford University Press

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0199729018

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Laws and Models

Science, Engineering, and Technology

By: Carl W. Hall

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Laws and Models

Science, Engineering, and Technology

By: Carl W. Hall

The "laws" that govern our physical universe come in many guises-as principles, theorems, canons, equations, axioms, models, and so forth. They may be empirical, statistical, or theoretical, their names may reflect the person who first expressed them, the person who publicized them, or they might simply describe a phenomenon. However they may be named, the discovery and application of physical laws have formed the backbone of the sciences for 3,000 years. They exist by thousands. Laws and Models: Science, Engineering, and Technology-the fruit of almost 40 years of collection and research-compiles more than 1,200 of the laws and models most frequently encountered and used by engineers and technologists. The result is a collection as fascinating as it is useful. Each entry consists of a statement of the law or model, its date of origin, a one-line biography of the people involved in its formulation, sources of information about the law, and cross-references. Illustrated and highly readable, this book offers a unique presentation of the vast and rich collection of laws that rule our universe. Everyone with an interest in the inner workings of nature-from engineers to students, from teachers to journalists-will find Laws and Models to be not only a handy reference, but an engaging volume to read and browse.

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CRC Press

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1420050540

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German Painting

By: Klaus H. Carl

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German Painting

By: Klaus H. Carl

In a country only unified since 1871, German culture and art is derived from ancient tradition. Studying German painting requires viewing it on a different scale, larger than the current geographical frontiers. From the Middle Ages through to the New Objectivity of the 20th century, we introduce you to the German artists who have marked history: Albrecht Dürer, the Romantic Caspar David Friedrich, and the Expressionist Otto Dix. Original in its themes, German painting always seeks harmony whilst remaining inquisitive.

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