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A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences

Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the Invention of Empirical Social Research

By: Christian Fleck

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A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences

Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the Invention of Empirical Social Research

By: Christian Fleck

From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterised by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic. In this book Christian Fleck explores the invention of empirical social research, which by 1950 had become the binding norm of international scholarship, and he analyses the contribution of German refugee social scientists to its establishment. The major names are here, from Adorno and Horkheimer to Hirshman and Lazarsfeld, but at the heart of the book is a unique collective biography based on original data from more than 800 German-speaking social scientists. Published in German in 2008 to great acclaim, Fleck's important study of the transatlantic enrichment of the social sciences is now available in a revised English-language edition.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849664331

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9781849664332

Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Plant Interactions

An Empirical Modelling Approach

By: Christian Damgaard

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Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Plant Interactions

An Empirical Modelling Approach

By: Christian Damgaard

Concepts and simple empirical models that are useful in the study of the quantitative aspects of evolutionary ecology of plant - plant interactions is discussed and developed, and the use of simple empirical models in the statistical analysis of plant ecological data is exemplified. Special attention is paid to the consequences of the sedentary life form of adult plants and the subsequent strong interactions between neighbouring plants. The monograph provides an overview of different evolutionary and ecological empirical plant population models and conceptual links between different modelling approaches, e.g., spatial individual-based or plant size explicit modelling and the equilibrium conditions of mean-field models. The biological information underlying the discussed models is only briefly discussed. Christian Damgaard is Senior Scientist at the Department of Terrestrial Ecology, the National Environmental Research Institute.

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151

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Aarhus Universitetsforlag

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8779348750

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9788779348752

Damn Dutch

Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg

By: David L. Valuska,Christian B. Keller

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Pennsylvania Germans at Gettysburg

By: David L. Valuska,Christian B. Keller

Highlights the Pennsylvania Dutch regiments and post-1820 immigrant Germans at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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Stackpole Books

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0811700747

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9780811700740

Diffractive Optics for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

By: Christian Stefano Schuster

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Diffractive Optics for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

By: Christian Stefano Schuster

This thesis introduces a figure of merit for light trapping with photonic nanostructures and shows how different light trapping methods compare, irrespective of material, absorber thickness or type of nanostructure. It provides an overview of the essential aspects of light trapping, offering a solid basis for future designs. Light trapping with photonic nanostructures is a powerful method of increasing the absorption in thin film solar cells. Many light trapping methods have been studied, but to date there has been no comprehensive figure of merit to compare these different methods quantitatively. This comparison allows us to establish important design rules for highly performing structures; one such rule is the structuring of the absorber layer from both sides, for which the authors introduce a novel and simple layer-transfer technique. A closely related issue is the question of plasmonic vs. dielectric nanostructures; the authors present an experimental demonstration, aided by a detailed theoretical assessment, highlighting the importance of considering the multipass nature of light trapping in a thin film, which is an essential effect that has been neglected in previous work and which allows us to quantify the parasitic losses.

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Springer

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3319442783

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9783319442785

131 Christians Everyone Should Know

By: Christian History Magazine Editorial Staff

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131 Christians Everyone Should Know

By: Christian History Magazine Editorial Staff

This book offers a succinct yet thorough introduction to 131 of the most intriguing, courageous, inspiring Christians who ever lived. It tells how they lived, what they believed, and how their faith affected the course of world history. Includes a timeline with a historical context for each individual, key quotes from or about each personality, and more than 60 photos.

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B&H Publishing Group

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1433672553

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9781433672552

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A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences

A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences

Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Plant Interactions

Evolutionary Ecology of Plant-Plant Interactions

Damn Dutch

Damn Dutch

Diffractive Optics for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

Diffractive Optics for Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cells

131 Christians Everyone Should Know

131 Christians Everyone Should Know

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