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Scholarship and Partisanship

Essays on Max Weber

By: Reinhard Bendix,Guenther Roth

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Scholarship and Partisanship

Essays on Max Weber

By: Reinhard Bendix,Guenther Roth

Today, Max Weber appears to many younger academic rebels as the patron sait of "value neutral" social science, yet he too engaged in a furious generational rebellion of his own, and in the end chose science as a vocation. These essays deal with Weber's substantive and methodological contribution and the relation of his life to his place in intellectual and political history. They examine the influences on Weber, as well as his similarities to and differences from Marx, Burckhardt, Nietzsche, Durkheim, and others. The authors also give attention to the ideological background of the modern attack upon the university, and to comparative study of values, authority, and legitimation. Bendix's Presidential Address to the 1970 meeting of the American Sociological Association is included. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

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Univ of California Press

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0520311795

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9780520311794

Max Weber's Vision of History

Ethics and Methods

By: Guenther Roth,Wolfgang Schluchter

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Max Weber's Vision of History

Ethics and Methods

By: Guenther Roth,Wolfgang Schluchter

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1979.

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Univ of California Press

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0520324102

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9780520324107

The Art Dealer's Apprentice

Behind the Scenes of the New York Art World

By: David Guenther

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The Art Dealer's Apprentice

Behind the Scenes of the New York Art World

By: David Guenther

The Art Dealer’s Apprentice tells the story of how the author moved to New York in 1989 as a young Midwesterner, found a job at an Upper East Side gallery, and became the protégé of Carla Panicali, an Italian countess and major international art world figure. From Carla – an extraordinary woman whom he deeply admired – the author learned to navigate the treacherous waters of authenticity, power and money in the art business and his own life. As gallery director, he gradually piloted the gallery through a sea of fakes, frauds, and unscrupulous colleagues, competitors, collectors and experts, until the art market crashed, and in the ensuing crisis, in the increasingly money-driven art world of the 1990s, he came to question even the authenticity of his friendship with Carla. In The Art Dealer’s Apprentice, the author recounts how he learned the New York art business from the inside, including the roles of dealers, auction houses, runners, collectors and experts; the personal histories of famous artists and the art historical importance and salability of their work; and how paintings and sculptures were (or were not) authenticated and sold, often based, surprisingly, on factors having little to do with the artwork itself. The author also details how international business was done, in some cases through illicit transport of artworks, payoffs to experts, and Swiss bank accounts. Increasingly disillusioned, the author ultimately concludes that by the early 1990s, the art business was no longer really about art.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538189682

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9781538189689

Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases

By: Bernard Lewis,Guenther von Elbe

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Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases

By: Bernard Lewis,Guenther von Elbe

Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases, Third Edition provides the chemist, physicist, and engineer with the scientific basis for understanding combustion phenomena.

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764

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Elsevier

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0323138020

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9780323138024

Postcards from the Trenches

A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War

By: Irene Guenther

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Postcards from the Trenches

A German Soldier’s Testimony of the Great War

By: Irene Guenther

German art student Otto Schubert was 22 years old when he was drafted into the Great War. As the conflict unfolded, he painted a series of postcards that he sent to his sweetheart, Irma. During the battles of Ypres and Verdun, Schubert filled dozens of military-issued 4” x 6” cards with vivid images depicting the daily realities and tragedies of war. Beautifully illustrated with full-color reproductions of his exquisite postcards, as well as his wartime sketches, woodcuts, and two lithograph portfolios, Postcards from the Trenches is Schubert's war diary, love journal, and life story. His powerful artworks illuminate and document in a visual language the truths of war. Postcards from the Trenches offers the first full account of Otto Schubert, soldier-artist of the Great War, rising art star in the 1920s, prolific graphic artist and book illustrator, one of the “degenerate” artists defamed by the Nazis, and a man shattered by the Second World War and the Cold War. Created in the midst of enormous devastation, Schubert's haunting visual missives are as powerful and relevant today as they were a century ago. His postcards are both a young man's token of love and longing and a soldier's testimony of the Great War.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350015776

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9781350015777

Making Their Place

Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany

By: Katja Guenther

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Making Their Place

Feminism After Socialism in Eastern Germany

By: Katja Guenther

Offering a comparative analysis of feminist social movements in the aftermath of the collapse of state socialism, this book offers a unique opportunity to examine how shifting gender relations interact with local identities to create new understandings of gender, the state, and strategies for resistance.

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Stanford University Press

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0804770727

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9780804770729

Scholarship and Partisanship

Essays on Max Weber

By: Reinhard Bendix,Guenther Roth

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Essays on Max Weber

By: Reinhard Bendix,Guenther Roth

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Max Weber's Vision of History

Ethics and Methods

By: Guenther Roth,Wolfgang Schluchter

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Ethics and Methods

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Localization and Its Discontents

A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis & the Neuro Disciplines

By: Katja Guenther

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Localization and Its Discontents

A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis & the Neuro Disciplines

By: Katja Guenther

Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding of the mind. Neurologists and neurosurgeons, meanwhile, have used material apparatus—the scalpel, the electrode—to probe the workings of the nervous system, and in so doing have radically reshaped our understanding of the brain. Both operate in vastly different institutional and cultural contexts. Given these differences, it is remarkable that both fields found resources for their development in the same tradition of late nineteenth-century German medicine: neuropsychiatry. In Localization and Its Discontents, Katja Guenther investigates the significance of this common history, drawing on extensive archival research in seven countries, institutional analysis, and close examination of the practical conditions of scientific and clinical work. Her remarkable accomplishment not only reframes the history of psychoanalysis and the neuro disciplines, but also offers us new ways of thinking about their future.

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University of Chicago Press

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022628834X

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9780226288345

Hosea, Amos

Believers Church Bible Commentary

By: Allen R. Guenther

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Hosea, Amos

Believers Church Bible Commentary

By: Allen R. Guenther

Allen R. Guenther brings an evangelical believers church perspective to the study of two eighth-century B.C. prophets. He explores theological and practical implications of their message, which he applies to the contemporary church. This work compares Israel’s distinctive religion, influenced by Baal-worshiping Phoenician neighbors, with faith in Judah. In his own marriage, Hosea dramatizes God’s redeeming love. Amos’s exposure of shallow piety and injustice brings him into confrontation with the official priest at Bethel. For both prophets, the Lord’s judgment is to lead on to repentance and restoration.

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369

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MennoMedia, Inc.

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0836198174

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9780836198171

The Practice of Prayer

By: Margaret Guenther

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The Practice of Prayer

By: Margaret Guenther

In this down-to-earth book on the essentials of prayer, Margaret Guenther answers many of the common questions of the spiritual life.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1561011525

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9781561011520

Matrix of Mystery

Scientific and Human Aspects of rDzogs-chen Thought

By: Herbert V. Guenther

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Matrix of Mystery

Scientific and Human Aspects of rDzogs-chen Thought

By: Herbert V. Guenther

World-renowned Buddhist scholar Herbert V. Guenther here offers the first comprehensive study of the rDzogs-chen or Ati tradition of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism. Matrix of Mystery explores man's ability to preserve as well as transmit essential insights into the structure of reality. Utilizing a key root Buddhist scripture, the Guhyagarbha ("Matrix of Mystery"), along with dozens of commentarial Tibetan textual sources, Guenther presents the most profound teachings of the Buddhist tradition, which represent the culmination of religious thought and practice in Tibet. In relating these teachings in modern scientific and humanistic perspectives, he demonstrates how, in many cases, the traditional religious and modern secular perspectives on the nature of reality interface. Professor Guenther discusses the mandala and the deities that reside therein; the organizing principles of body, speech, mind, quality, and action, the three bodies of the buddha (trikaya); the inseparability of prajna and skillful means; and the complex field of Buddhist iconography. Throughout, quotations from numerous Tibetan sources are used to illustrate various teachings. His book will appeal to any serious student of Tibetan Buddhism.

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Shambhala Publications

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1570626499

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9781570626494

Toward Holy Ground

By: Margaret Guenther

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Toward Holy Ground

By: Margaret Guenther

The second half of life—which we can enter at any age—is that time when we begin the process essential to a mature faith: discovering who we are, exploring our relationship with God, and beginning to let go. This part of life has a depth and spirituality all its own—a need for structure and rule, a tolerance of ambiguity, an exploration of limitation and mortality, and the deep work of discipline and detachment. Margaret Guenther brings her insights as a spiritual director to the gifts and opportunities of those of us who are on this journey to “holy ground.” In each chapter, Toward Holy Ground explores the practical aspects of spirituality in midlife: intercessory prayer, a sense of community, a rule of life, lightheartedness, detachment, and stripping down, preparing for “a good death.” A final chapter discusses practical aspects of ministry to the frail aged.

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Cowley Publications

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1461660793

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9781461660798

Neural Control of Speech

By: Frank H. Guenther

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Neural Control of Speech

By: Frank H. Guenther

A comprehensive and unified account of the neural computations underlying speech production, offering a theoretical framework bridging the behavioral and the neurological literatures. In this book, Frank Guenther offers a comprehensive, unified account of the neural computations underlying speech production, with an emphasis on speech motor control rather than linguistic content. Guenther focuses on the brain mechanisms responsible for commanding the musculature of the vocal tract to produce articulations that result in an acoustic signal conveying a desired string of syllables. Guenther provides neuroanatomical and neurophysiological descriptions of the primary brain structures involved in speech production, looking particularly at the cerebral cortex and its interactions with the cerebellum and basal ganglia, using basic concepts of control theory (accompanied by nontechnical explanations) to explore the computations performed by these brain regions. Guenther offers a detailed theoretical framework to account for a broad range of both behavioral and neurological data on the production of speech. He discusses such topics as the goals of the neural controller of speech; neural mechanisms involved in producing both short and long utterances; and disorders of the speech system, including apraxia of speech and stuttering. Offering a bridge between the neurological and behavioral literatures on speech production, the book will be a valuable resource for researchers in both fields.

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MIT Press

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0262336995

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9780262336994

Book's by Guenther Roth

Scholarship and Partisanship

Scholarship and Partisanship

Max Weber's Vision of History

Max Weber's Vision of History

The Art Dealer's Apprentice

The Art Dealer's Apprentice

Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases

Combustion, Flames and Explosions of Gases

Postcards from the Trenches

Postcards from the Trenches

Making Their Place

Making Their Place

Scholarship and Partisanship

Scholarship and Partisanship

Max Weber's Vision of History

Max Weber's Vision of History

Localization and Its Discontents

Localization and Its Discontents

Hosea, Amos

Hosea, Amos

The Practice of Prayer

The Practice of Prayer

Matrix of Mystery

Matrix of Mystery

Toward Holy Ground

Toward Holy Ground

Neural Control of Speech

Neural Control of Speech

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