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Distinguished Outsider

Robert Musil and His Critics

By: Christian Rogowski

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Distinguished Outsider

Robert Musil and His Critics

By: Christian Rogowski

A study of the shifts of critical opinion on Musil, with special reference to The Man Without Qualities. Austrian writer Robert Musil (1880-1942) ranks with Proust, Joyce, Kafka and Thomas Mann as a master of the modern prose narrative; his works encompass a wide range of theoretical and aesthetic impulses, ranging from Nietzsche toMach, from Gestalt theory to Freudian psychoanalysis. This volume traces the scholarly reception of Musil's works, marked by discontinuities and abrupt shifts of perception. At the beginning of his career, Musil was stereotyped asan author primarily interested in morally questionable 'psychological' issues, before being plunged into near oblivion by his exile, forced by National Socialism. After the Second World War he was 'rediscovered', but the development of Musil studies was severely hampered by the inability to determine an authoritative edition of his unfinished masterpiece, Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften (The Man without Qualities), 1930-43. Professor Rogowski shows howsuccessive generations of scholars have appropriated Musil for their own ends, constructing a bewildering and often contradictory array of images of the author according to their own ideological and methodological biases, and howthis multitude of different perspectives corresponds with changes in German studies and historical developments over the past four decades. In so doing, he sheds new light on Musil's paradoxical status as, in the words of Frank Kermode, 'the least read of the great twentieth-century novelists'. CHRISTIAN ROGOWSKI is assistant professor of German at Amherst College.

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1879751526

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Wings of Desire

By: Christian Rogowski

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Wings of Desire

By: Christian Rogowski

A guide through the many aspects of Wenders's groundbreaking film, employing archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings. Filmed in 1986/87 in still-divided Berlin, Wim Wenders's Wings of Desire is both a utopian fairy tale and a fascinating time capsule of that late Cold War moment. Together with legendary French cinematographer Henri Alekan(who had worked on Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête of 1946, among many other films) and Austrian author Peter Handke (with whom he had collaborated before), Wenders created a multilayered filmic poem of dazzling complexity: the skies over Berlin are populated with angels bearing witness to its inhabitants' everyday concerns. One falls in love with a beautiful young woman, a trapeze artist in a traveling circus, and decides to forfeit his immortality. Wenders's groundbreaking film has been hailed as a paean to love, a rumination on the continued presence in Berlin of the troubled German history, as well as an homage to the life-affirming power of the cinematic imagination.Christian Rogowski guides the reader through the film's many aspects, using archival research to bring out new insights into its making and its meanings. Christian Rogowski is G. Armour Craig Professor in Language andLiterature in the Department of German at Amherst College.

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1640140379

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Means, Motives, and Opportunities

How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy

By: Christian Breunig,Chris Koski

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Means, Motives, and Opportunities

How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy

By: Christian Breunig,Chris Koski

Means, Motives, and Opportunities illuminates how states spend public money through the lens of governmental structure, executive power, and interest group competition. Christian Breunig and Chris Koski argue that policymaking is a function of not only policymakers' means (powers), but of their motives (issues) and opportunities (interest group competition) for change. Using over twenty-five years of data across all fifty US states, four in-depth case studies, and multiple examples of budget battles, the book describes a budget-making environment in which governors must balance the preferences of interest groups with their own, all while attempting to build a budget that roughly balances. While governors are uniquely powerful, the range of changes they can make is largely impacted by interest group competition. By showing how means, motives, and opportunities matter, the book shows how spending decisions at the state level influence nearly every aspect of American life.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009428578

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Economic Liberalization and Authoritarianism

A Comparative Political Economy of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco, 1950-2011

By: Christian Neugebauer

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Economic Liberalization and Authoritarianism

A Comparative Political Economy of Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco, 1950-2011

By: Christian Neugebauer

Contrary to other world regions, political regimes in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remain largely authoritarian. While the search for explanations is still ongoing, Christian Neugebauer draws attention to a hitherto underresearched factor: economic liberalization. Being part of a global shift from state-led development towards structural adjustment in the economy, these policies also deeply affected the countries of the MENA region. This makes the resilience of authoritarianism in the region all the more puzzling, as a large part of the scientific community expected economic liberalization to undermine authoritarian regimes. Neugebauer strives to solve the puzzle with a comparative case study that covers four countries (Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, and Morocco) and their political regimes, from independence in the 1950s to the Arab Spring in 2011. He shows that two specific policies of economic liberalization might in fact have been relevant for regime stability: consumer-price liberalization and privatization.

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Springer Nature

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3658356391

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Discovering Tuberculosis

A Global History, 1900 to the Present

By: Christian W. McMillen

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Discovering Tuberculosis

A Global History, 1900 to the Present

By: Christian W. McMillen

Tuberculosis is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing nearly two million people every year, now more than at any other time in history. While the developed world has nearly forgotten about TB, it continues to wreak havoc across much of the globe. In this interdisciplinary study of global efforts to control TB, Christian McMillen examines the disease's remarkable staying power by offering a probing look at key locations, developments, ideas, and medical successes and failures since 1900. He explores TB and race in east Africa, in South Africa, and on Native American reservations in the first half of the twentieth century, investigates the unsuccessful search for a vaccine, uncovers the origins of drug-resistant tuberculosis in Kenya and elsewhere in the decades following World War II, and details the tragic story of the resurgence of TB in the era of HIV/AIDS. Discovering Tuberculosis tells the story of why controlling TB has been, and continues to be, so difficult.

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Yale University Press

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0300190298

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No Ordinary War

The Eventful Career of U-604

By: Christian Prag

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No Ordinary War

The Eventful Career of U-604

By: Christian Prag

U-604 was a standard Type VIIC of which over 600 were built, and at first glance her six war patrols might seem typical - but they were far from ordinary.Using the official war diary and the eyewitness testimony of survivors this book weaves a detailed but vivid tapestry of life and action during some of the fiercest convoy battles of the Atlantic war. Often counter-attacked, but seeming to bear a charmed life, U-604 had her successes, including inflicting the largest single loss of US mercantile personnel in one attack. However, the drama of her career pales alongside the epic story of her loss. After repeated bombing by American aircraft, Hltring, the boat's CO, organised an amazing rescue attempt by two other U-boats and finally scuttled U-604. This rescue itself went badly wrong, leading to the loss of one more U-boat and Hltring's suicide in controversial circumstances. Based on interviews with survivors and illustrated with previously unpublished photos, it is simply an extraordinary story.

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Pen and Sword

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1783830131

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Online Location of Faults on AC Cables in Underground Transmission Systems

By: Christian Flytkjær Jensen

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Online Location of Faults on AC Cables in Underground Transmission Systems

By: Christian Flytkjær Jensen

This book reports on various techniques for fault location on cross bonded cables, identifies the best method and describes the construction of a full fault locator system. The developed system is able of pinpointing the fault location on long cross-bonded cable systems and will be installed in Danish substations for monitoring the coming cable-based transmission grid. The work was conducted as part of a collaborative project between the department of energy technology at Aalborg University and the Danish transmission system operator for electricity and natural gas, Energinet.dk.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3319053981

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Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

A Global Data Analysis

By: Christian Aspalter

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Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

A Global Data Analysis

By: Christian Aspalter

This book presents a new step farther into the twenty-first century, for the first time truly combining a comprehensive global data analysis with social policy theory development. The theory of global ideal-typical welfare regimes, also known as the “Ten Worlds of Welfare Regime Theory”, as set forth earlier by Christian Aspalter, is now in this book tested empirically using a quantitative global data analysis for the first time. The strong and rich results fully vindicated the Ten Worlds Theory. All in all, about 150 countries are included in this test, measuring numerous variables on two main dimensions, i.e., povertization and inequality. The innovative approach of using a new indicator, Aspalter’s Standardized Relative Performance Index, is applied, which facilitated the exact measurements of distances between relative performances of each variable, each dimension, each country, and each ideal-typical welfare regime (in relation to one another, respectively). In addition, one explanative and one normative meta-study is added to the book, to point to ways to understand and deal with the global culprit of inequality and, hence, poverty. “On the backdrop of decades of comparative theoretical and empirical research we now, for the first time, have a truly global analysis of welfare regimes.” ---- Peter Abrahamson, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen

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9811978638

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Democracy and Its Alternatives

Understanding Post-Communist Societies

By: Richard Rose,William Mishler,Christian Haerpfer,Christian W. Haerpfer

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Democracy and Its Alternatives

Understanding Post-Communist Societies

By: Richard Rose,William Mishler,Christian Haerpfer,Christian W. Haerpfer

The collapse of Communism has created the opportunity for democracy to spread from Prague to the Baltic and Black Seas. But the alternatives—dictatorship or totalitarian rule—are more in keeping with the traditions of Central Europe. And for many post-Communist societies, democracy has come to be associated with inflation, unemployment, crime, and corruption. Is it still true, then, as Winston Churchill suggested a half-century ago, that people will accept democracy with all its faults—because it is better than anything else? To find out, political scientists Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Christian Haerpfer examine evidence from post-Communist societies in eastern Europe. Drawing on data from public opinion and exit polls, election results, and interviews, the authors present testable hypotheses regarding regime change, consolidation, and prospects for stabilization. The authors point out that the abrupt transition to democracy in post-Communist countries is normal; gradual evolution in the Anglo-American way is the exception to the rule. While most recent books on democratization focus on Latin America and, to some extent, Asia, the present volume offers a unique look at the process currently under way in nine eastern European countries: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania, Belarus, and Ukraine. Despite the many problems these post-Communist societies are experiencing in making the transition to a more open and democratic polity, the authors conclude that a little democracy is better than no democracy at all.

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JHU Press

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0801860385

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Sleep Medicine, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

By: Christian Guilleminault

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Sleep Medicine, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

By: Christian Guilleminault

This issue of Medical Clinics of North America is guest edited by Dr. Christian Guilleminault, one of the world's leading experts in the field of sleep medicine. He is attributor of the Christian Guilleminault Award for Research in Sleep Medicine bestowed by the World Association of Sleep Medicine. He has put together an outstanding issue that provides the most essential information for the internist on diagnosis and treatment. Topics such as insomnia, excessive sleepiness, REM behavior disorder, restless legs syndrome, obstructive sleep apnea, narcolepsy, pediatric sleep disorders, cognitive behavior therapy, pharmacologic therapy, sleep as it relates to various major medical disorders, and more.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437718361

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Intellectuals and their Publics

Perspectives from the Social Sciences

By: Christian Fleck

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Intellectuals and their Publics

Perspectives from the Social Sciences

By: Christian Fleck

How do intellectuals engage with and affect their publics? What is the role of the public intellectual in the new age of political uncertainties? What challenges face female intellectuals and those speaking from an ethnic, national or class position? This exciting collection responds to these questions by offering a broad-ranging account of the changing role of intellectuals in public life. The volume opens with provocative essays on the idea and role of the public intellectual from Alexander, Evans and Zulaika. Chapters from Rabinbach on intellectuals' responses to totalitarianism, Outhwaite on what it means to be a European intellectual, and Auer’s discussion of the dissident intellectual in the collapse of communism lead onto vigorous debate of earlier points discussed through specific intellectual case studies from Tocqueville to Hayek. Intellectuals and their Publics will attract a broad readership interested in the role of the intellectual, with particular appeal for sociologists, political theorists and historians of ideas.

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Routledge

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1317114884

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Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry

By: Gregory Choppin,Jan-Olov Liljenzin,Jan Rydberg,Christian Ekberg

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Radiochemistry and Nuclear Chemistry

By: Gregory Choppin,Jan-Olov Liljenzin,Jan Rydberg,Christian Ekberg

Radiochemistry or nuclear chemistry is the study of radiation from an atomic and molecular perspective, including elemental transformation and reaction effects, as well as physical, health and medical properties. This revised edition of one of the earliest and best-known books on the subject has been updated to bring into teaching the latest developments in research and the current hot topics in the field. To further enhance the functionality of this text, the authors have added numerous teaching aids, examples in MathCAD with variable quantities and options, hotlinks to relevant text sections from the book, and online self-grading tests. - New edition of a well-known, respected text in the specialized field of nuclear/radiochemistry - Includes an interactive website with testing and evaluation modules based on exercises in the book - Suitable for both radiochemistry and nuclear chemistry courses

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Academic Press

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0123978688

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9780123978684

Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks

By: Christian La Borderie,Thierry Reess,Wen Chen,Olivier Maurel,Franck Rey-Berbeder,Antoine de Ferron

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Electrohydraulic Fracturing of Rocks

By: Christian La Borderie,Thierry Reess,Wen Chen,Olivier Maurel,Franck Rey-Berbeder,Antoine de Ferron

This book presents a new fracturing technique that should be considered as a potential alternative, or a companion technique, to hydraulic fracturing of tight gas reservoirs and low permeability rock masses. As opposed to hydraulic fracturing which generates a few numbers of large cracks, electro-hydraulic fracturing induces diffuse micro-cracking and fragmentation of rocks. Laboratory tests demonstrate that increases of permeability by two orders of magnitude can be reached, without major cracking in tested specimens. This book discusses the principles of this new technique, reports experiments which have been developed is order to prove the concept and finally describes the numerical model from which the potentialities of this technique in representative reservoir conditions can be assessed.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111903552X

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Motor design for maximum material exploitation and magnetization procedure with in-line quality check for mass production

By: Dinca, Christian

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Motor design for maximum material exploitation and magnetization procedure with in-line quality check for mass production

By: Dinca, Christian

To reduce the amount of Rare-earth Elements in high efficient permanent magnet electric motors, the magnetic stray flux has to be reduced. Additonally, a temperature reduction inside the motor reduces the necessary amount of the so called Heavy Rare-earth Elements, which account for the bulk part of the magnet material costs. In this thesis a permanent magnet motor in wet rotor configuration for an automotive application is designed. It was shown that by simple thermal improvements of the electric insulation system the maximum temperature of the stator can be reduced. Extensive measurements on different combinations of insulation material of the stator and the development of a new thermal model for orthocyclic wound stators were performed. Due to the use of fiber cans eddy current losses could be eliminated and the stray flux minimized. In a second stage a magnetizing fixture was build up, which is able to magnetize the buried magnets inside the rotor. The rotor and the magnetizing fixture was developed, so that the magnets can be optimal magnetized. To check the quality of the magnets the magnetizing coil was developed in a way, such that the hysteresis curve of every single magnet during magnetization can be measured. Different magnets were tested and ways to calculate parasitics are given. Um die Menge an Selten Erden in hoch-effizienten permanent erregten Elektromotoren zu reduzieren, muss der magnetische Streufluss verringert werden. Eine Temperaturreduktion im Motor verringert zudem die nötige Menge an so genannten schweren Selten Erden, welche einen Großteil der Kosten der Magnetmaterialien ausmachen. In dieser Arbeit wird dazu ein permanent erregter Nassläufer für eine automotive Anwendung ausgelegt. Es konnte gezeigt werden, dass durch einfache Maßnahmen im Bereich der elektrischen Isolation die maximale Temperatur im Stator reduziert werden konnte. Umfangreiche Messungen an verschiedenen Kombinationen von elektrischen Isolationen des Stators und die Entwicklung eines neuen thermischen Models für orthozyklisch gewickelte Statoren wurden getätigt. Durch Einsatz von Spaltrohren aus Faserverbundwerkstoffen konnten die Wirbelstromverluste beseitigt werden und der Streufluss minimiert werden. In einem zweiten Schritt wurde eine Magnetisiervorrichtung aufgebaut, mit der die zu Anfang unmagnetisierten eingebetteten Magneten im Rotor aufmagnetisiert werden konnten. Der Rotor wurde zudem zusammen mit der Magnetisierungsspule so ausgelegt, dass die Magnete optimal magnetisiert werden können. Um die Qualität der Magnete zu testen wurde die Magnetisierspule zudem so ausgelegt, dass eine Messung der Hysteresekurve jedes einzelnen Magneten während der Magnetisierung möglich ist. Verschiedene Magnete wurden vermessen und Möglichkeiten zur Bestimmung von parasitären Effekten gegeben.

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Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin

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3798328838

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Anti-Music

Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

By: Mark Christian Thompson

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Anti-Music

Jazz and Racial Blackness in German Thought between the Wars

By: Mark Christian Thompson

Anti-Music examines the critical, literary, and political responses to African American jazz music in interwar Germany. During this time, jazz was the subject of overt political debate between left-wing and right-wing interests: for the left, jazz marked the death knell of authoritarian Prussian society; for the right, jazz was complicit as an American import threatening the chaos of modernization and mass politics. This conflict was resolved in the early 1930s as the left abandoned jazz in the face of Nazi victory, having come to see the music in collusion with the totalitarian culture industry. Mark Christian Thompson recounts the story of this intellectual trajectory and describes how jazz came to be associated with repressive, virulently racist fascism in Germany. By examining writings by Hermann Hesse, Bertolt Brecht, T.W. Adorno, and Klaus Mann, and archival photographs and images, Thompson brings together debates in German, African American, and jazz studies, and charts a new path for addressing antiblack racism in cultural criticism and theory.

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State University of New York Press

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1438469888

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Service Fascination

Gaining Competitive Advantage through Experiential Self-Service Systems

By: Christian Zagel

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Service Fascination

Gaining Competitive Advantage through Experiential Self-Service Systems

By: Christian Zagel

Christian Zagel presents a new way of innovating, measuring, and improving self-service systems for retail environments in the context of Customer Experience Management. He shows that technology is used to evoke positive emotions during the shopping experience to not only satisfy the consumer, but also to stimulate fascination for brands and their products. The author’s findings illustrate that a customer’s experience with a brand is not only determined by the products themselves, but rather by a combination of multiple experiences. Whilst there has been a notable rise in the number of sales channels, the ability to differentiate from competitors is still strongest where the brands have most influence: The physical point of sale.

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3658116730

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Distinguished Outsider

Robert Musil and His Critics

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Robert Musil and His Critics

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