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The Green and the Brown

A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany

By: Frank Uekötter

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The Green and the Brown

A History of Conservation in Nazi Germany

By: Frank Uekötter

This study provides the first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany. Looking at Germany in an international context, it analyses the roots of conservation in the late 19th century, the gradual adaptation of racist and nationalist thinking among conservationists in the 1920s and their indifference to the Weimar Republic. It describes how the German conservation movement came to cooperate with the Nazi regime and discusses the ideological and institutional lines between the conservation movement and the Nazis. Uekoetter further examines how the conservation movement struggled to do away with a troublesome past after World War II, making the environmentalists one of the last groups in German society to face up to its Nazi burden. It is a story of ideological convergence, of tactical alliances, of careerism, of implication in crimes against humanity, and of deceit and denial after 1945. It is also a story that offers valuable lessons for today's environmental movement.

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250

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Cambridge University Press

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0521612772

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9780521612777

Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models

By: Edward P. Herbst,Frank Schorfheide

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Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models

By: Edward P. Herbst,Frank Schorfheide

Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models have become one of the workhorses of modern macroeconomics and are extensively used for academic research as well as forecasting and policy analysis at central banks. This book introduces readers to state-of-the-art computational techniques used in the Bayesian analysis of DSGE models. The book covers Markov chain Monte Carlo techniques for linearized DSGE models, novel sequential Monte Carlo methods that can be used for parameter inference, and the estimation of nonlinear DSGE models based on particle filter approximations of the likelihood function. The theoretical foundations of the algorithms are discussed in depth, and detailed empirical applications and numerical illustrations are provided. The book also gives invaluable advice on how to tailor these algorithms to specific applications and assess the accuracy and reliability of the computations. Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models is essential reading for graduate students, academic researchers, and practitioners at policy institutions.

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295

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Princeton University Press

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0691161089

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9780691161082

Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems

By: Aaron M. Ellison,Frank S. Gilliam

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Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems

By: Aaron M. Ellison,Frank S. Gilliam

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems that was published in Forests

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274

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MDPI

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3039213091

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9783039213092

The Greenest Nation?

A New History of German Environmentalism

By: Frank Uekotter

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The Greenest Nation?

A New History of German Environmentalism

By: Frank Uekotter

An account of German environmentalism that shows the influence of the past on today's environmental decisions. Germany enjoys an enviably green reputation. Environmentalists in other countries applaud its strict environmental laws, its world-class green technology firms, its phase-out of nuclear power, and its influential Green Party. Germans are proud of these achievements, and environmentalism has become part of the German national identity. In The Greenest Nation? Frank Uekötter offers an overview of the evolution of German environmentalism since the late nineteenth century. He discusses, among other things, early efforts at nature protection and urban sanitation, the Nazi experience, and civic mobilization in the postwar years. He shows that much of Germany's green reputation rests on accomplishments of the 1980s, and emphasizes the mutually supportive roles of environmental nongovernmental organizations, corporations, and the state. Uekötter looks at environmentalism in terms of civic activism, government policy, and culture and life, eschewing the usual focus on politics, prophets, and NGOs. He also views German environmentalism in an international context, tracing transnational networks of environmental issues and actions and discussing German achievements in relation to global trends. Bringing his discussion up to the present, he shows the influence of the past on today's environmental decisions. As environmentalism is wrestling with the challenges of the twenty-first century, Germany could provide a laboratory for the rest of the world.

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248

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MIT Press

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026253469X

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9780262534697

Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse

Man and beast in an age of human warfare

By: Frank Westerman

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Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse

Man and beast in an age of human warfare

By: Frank Westerman

"When you touch a Lipizzaner, you're touching history," Westerman was once told. His elegant book offers fascinating proof' Financial Times Frank Westerman explores the history of Lipizzaners, an extraordinary troop of pedigree horses bred as personal mounts for the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. Following the bloodlines of the stud book, he reconstructs the story of four generations of imperial steed as they survive the fall of the Habsburg Empire, two world wars and the insane breeding experiments conducted under Hitler, Stalin and Ceausescu. But what begins as a fairytale becomes a chronicle of the quest for racial purity. Carrying the reader across Europe, from imperial stables and stud farms to the controversial gene labs of today, Westerman asks, if animal breeders are so good at genetic engineering, why do attempts to perfect the human strain always end in tragedy?

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324

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Random House

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1409019322

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9781409019329

Nuremberg's Voice of Doom

The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History's Greatest Trials

By: Wolfe Frank

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Nuremberg's Voice of Doom

The Autobiography of the Chief Interpreter at History's Greatest Trials

By: Wolfe Frank

The memoirs of Wolfe Frank, which lay hidden in an attic for twenty-five years, are a unique and highly moving behind-the-scenes account of what happened at Nuremberg the greatest trial in history seen through the eyes of a witness to the whole proceedings. They include important historical information never previously revealed. In an extraordinarily explicit life story, Frank includes his personal encounters, inside and outside the courtroom, with all the war criminals, particularly Hermann Goering. This, therefore, is a unique record that adds substantially to what is already publicly known about the trials and the defendants.Involved in proceedings from day one, Frank translated the first piece of evidence, interpreted the judges opening statements, and concluded the trials by announcing the sentences to the defendants (and several hundred million radio listeners) which earned him the soubriquet Voice of Doom.Prior to the war, Frank, who was of Jewish descent, was a Bavarian playboy, an engineer, a resistance worker, a smuggler (of money and Jews out of Germany) and was declared to be an enemy of the State to be shot on sight. Having escaped to Britain, he was interned at the outbreak of war but successfully campaigned for his release and eventually allowed to enlist in the British Army in which he rose to the rank of Captain. Unable to speak English prior to his arrival, by the time of the Nuremberg trials he was described as the finest interpreter in the world.A unique character of extreme contrasts Frank was a playboy, a risk taker and an opportunist. Yet he was also a man of immense courage, charm, good manners, integrity and ability. He undertook the toughest assignment imaginable at Nuremberg to a level that was satisfactory alike to the bench, the defence and the prosecution and he played a major role in materially shortening the enormously difficult procedures by an estimated three years.

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328

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Casemate Publishers

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1526737523

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9781526737526

Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models

By: Edward P. Herbst,Frank Schorfheide

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Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models

By: Edward P. Herbst,Frank Schorfheide

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Princeton University Press

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1400873738

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9781400873739

Book's by Frank Schorfheide

The Green and the Brown

The Green and the Brown

Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models

Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models

Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems

Causes and Consequences of Species Diversity in Forest Ecosystems

The Greenest Nation?

The Greenest Nation?

Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse

Brother Mendel's Perfect Horse

Nuremberg's Voice of Doom

Nuremberg's Voice of Doom

Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models

Bayesian Estimation of DSGE Models

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