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The Nightmare of Reason

A Life of Franz Kafka

By: Ernst Pawel

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The Nightmare of Reason

A Life of Franz Kafka

By: Ernst Pawel

A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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142993333X

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9781429933339

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

Updated Edition

By: Ernst Cassirer

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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

Updated Edition

By: Ernst Cassirer

In this classic work of intellectual history, Ernst Cassirer provides both a cogent synthesis and a penetrating analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the diverse strands of thought of this period, he shows how Enlightenment philosophers drew upon the ideas of the preceding centuries even while radically transforming them to fit the modern world. In Cassirer's view, the Enlightenment liberated philosophy from the realm of pure thought and restored it to its true place as an active and creative force through which knowledge of the world is achieved. In a new foreword, Peter Gay considers The Philosophy of the Enlightenment in the context in which it was written--Germany in 1932, on the precipice of the Nazi seizure of power and one of the greatest assaults on the ideals of the Enlightenment. He also argues that Cassirer's work remains a trenchant defense against enemies of the Enlightenment in the twenty-first century.

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387

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Princeton University Press

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1400833639

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9781400833634

The Birds of Northern Melanesia

Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography

By: Ernst Mayr,Jared Diamond

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The Birds of Northern Melanesia

Speciation, Ecology, and Biogeography

By: Ernst Mayr,Jared Diamond

Speciation is the process by which co-existing daughter species evolve from one ancestral species - e.g., humans, chimpanzees, and gorillas arising from a common ancestor around 5,000,000 years ago. However, many questions about speciation remain controversial. The Birds of Northern Melanesia provides by far the most comprehensive study yet available of a rich fauna, composed of the 195 breeding land and fresh-water bird species of the Bismarck and Solomon Archipelagoes east of New Guinea. This avifauna offers decisive advantages for understanding speciation, and includes famous examples of geographic variation discussed in textbooks of evolutionary biology. The book results from 30 years of collaboration between the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr and the ecologist Jared Diamond. It shows how Northern Melanesian bird distributions provide snapshots of all stages in speciation, from the earliest (widely distributed species without geographic variation) to the last (closely related, reproductively isolated species occurring sympatrically and segregating ecologically). The presentation emphasizes the wide diversity of speciation outcomes, steering a middle course between one-model-fits-all simplification and ungeneralizable species accounts. Questions illuminated include why some species are much more prone to speciate than others, why some water barriers are much more effective at promoting speciation than others, and whether hypothesized taxon cycles, faunal dominance, and legacies of Pleistocene land bridges are real. These years of study have resulted in a huge database, complete with distributions of all 195 species on 76 islands, together with their taxonomy, colonization routes, ecological attributes, abundance, and overwater dispersal. Color plates depict 88 species and allospecies, many of which have never been seen before. For students of speciation, Northern Melanesian birds now constitute a model system against which other biotas can be compared. For population biologists interested in other problems besides speciation, this rich database can now be mined for insights.

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550

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Oxford University Press

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0195349660

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9780195349665

The History of Creation

Volume 1

By: Ernst Haeckel

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The History of Creation

Volume 1

By: Ernst Haeckel

Reproduction of the original: The History of Creation by Ernst Haeckel

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246

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BoD – Books on Demand

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375238736X

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9783752387360

Natural Law and Human Dignity

By: Ernst Bloch

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Natural Law and Human Dignity

By: Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch was one of the most original and influential of contemporary European thinkers, leaving his mark in fields ranging from philosophy and social theory to aesthetics and theology. This book represents a unique attempt to reconcile the traditional oppositions of the natural law and social utopian traditions, providing basic insights into the meaning of human rights in a socialist society.

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390

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MIT Press

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0262521296

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9780262521291

Thinking About Psychology Mini Book

The Science of Mind and Behavior

By: Charles T. Blair-Broeker,Randal M. Ernst

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Thinking About Psychology Mini Book

The Science of Mind and Behavior

By: Charles T. Blair-Broeker,Randal M. Ernst

Special Consultant: David G. Myers, Hope College, Holland, Michigan Appropriate Course: High school-level psychology [not Advanced Placement] In a convenient and effective modular format, Thinking About Psychology offers a rigorous presentation of psychological science in a non-threatening way with numerous and immediate examples that help high school students bridge the abstract to the familiar. This book closely follows the American Psychological Association (APA) National Standards for the Teaching of High School Psychology, for which both Blair-Broeker and Ernst served as Task Force members.

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484

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Macmillan

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142920687X

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9781429206877

The Problem of Knowledge

Philosophy, Science, and History Since Hegel

By: Ernst Cassirer

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The Problem of Knowledge

Philosophy, Science, and History Since Hegel

By: Ernst Cassirer

Cassirer employs his remarkable gift of lucidity to explain the major ideas and intellectual issues that emerged in the course of nineteenth century scientific and historical thinking. The translators have done an excellent job in reproducing his clarity in English. There is no better place for an intelligent reader to find out, with a minimum of technical language, what was really happening during the great intellectual movement between the age of Newton and our own."-- New York Times. -- Publisher description.

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Yale University Press

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0300010982

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9780300010985

The Evolution of Man

Volume 1

By: Ernst Haeckel

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The Evolution of Man

Volume 1

By: Ernst Haeckel

Reproduction of the original: The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

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226

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3752356499

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Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

On the Evolutionary History of Culture

By: Ernst Kapp

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Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

On the Evolutionary History of Culture

By: Ernst Kapp

The first philosophy of technology, constructing humans as technological and technology as an underpinning of all culture Ernst Kapp was a foundational scholar in the fields of media theory and philosophy of technology. His 1877 Elements of a Philosophy of Technology is a visionary study of the human body and its relationship with the world that surrounds it. At the book’s core is the concept of “organ projection”: the notion that humans use technology in an effort to project their organs to the outside, to be understood as “the soul apparently stepping out of the body in the form of a sending-out of mental qualities” into the world of artifacts. Kapp applies this theory of organ projection to various areas of the material world—the axe externalizes the arm, the lens the eye, the telegraphic system the neural network. From the first tools to acoustic instruments, from architecture to the steam engine and the mechanic routes of the railway, Kapp’s analysis shifts from “simple” tools to more complex network technologies to examine the projection of relations. What emerges from Kapp’s prophetic work is nothing less than the emergence of early elements of a cybernetic paradigm.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452958211

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9781452958217

Serologic Diagnosis of Celiac Diseases

By: Tadeusz P. Chorzelski,Ernst H. Beutner,Tadeusz K. Zalewski,Vijay Kumar

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Serologic Diagnosis of Celiac Diseases

By: Tadeusz P. Chorzelski,Ernst H. Beutner,Tadeusz K. Zalewski,Vijay Kumar

First Published in 1990, this book offers a full, comprehensive guide to the diagnosis of celiac disease. Carefully compiled and filled with a vast repertoire of notes, diagrams, and references this book serves as a useful reference for aspiring plastic surgeons, and other practitioners in their respective fields.

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213

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CRC Press

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1000083497

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9781000083491

Correspondence

By: Karl Ernst von Baer,Anton Dohrn

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Correspondence

By: Karl Ernst von Baer,Anton Dohrn

Spine title: Von Baer-Dohrn correspondence.

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172

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American Philosophical Society

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0871698331

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9780871698339

A History of Chemistry. From Earliest Times to the Present Day

Being also an introduction to the study of the science

By: Ernst von Meyer

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A History of Chemistry. From Earliest Times to the Present Day

Being also an introduction to the study of the science

By: Ernst von Meyer

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311241070X

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9783112410707

Book's by Ernst Wolff

The Nightmare of Reason

The Nightmare of Reason

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

The Philosophy of the Enlightenment

The Birds of Northern Melanesia

The Birds of Northern Melanesia

The History of Creation

The History of Creation

Natural Law and Human Dignity

Natural Law and Human Dignity

Thinking About Psychology Mini Book

Thinking About Psychology Mini Book

The Problem of Knowledge

The Problem of Knowledge

The Evolution of Man

The Evolution of Man

Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

Elements of a Philosophy of Technology

Serologic Diagnosis of Celiac Diseases

Serologic Diagnosis of Celiac Diseases

Correspondence

Correspondence

A History of Chemistry. From Earliest Times to the Present Day

A History of Chemistry. From Earliest Times to the Present Day

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