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Dog Heroes

A Poster Book

By: Karl Meyer

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Collects stories and full-color photographs of dogs who have performed heroic actions to save the lives of humans, and describes dogs that have rescued drowning sailors, saved a family from a fire, and more.

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Storey Publishing

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1603421165

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The Open Society and Its Enemies

By: Karl R. Popper

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The Open Society and Its Enemies

By: Karl R. Popper

A landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first published, Karl Popper’s monumental achievement has attained legendary status on both the Left and Right. Tracing the roots of an authoritarian tradition represented by Plato, Marx, and Hegel, Popper argues that the spirit of free, critical inquiry that governs scientific investigation should also apply to politics. In a new foreword, George Soros, who was a student of Popper, describes the “revelation” of first reading the book and how it helped inspire his philanthropic Open Society Foundations.

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Princeton University Press

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0691212066

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9780691212067

The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians

an Exegetical and Doctrinal Commentary

By: Karl Braune

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The Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians

an Exegetical and Doctrinal Commentary

By: Karl Braune

Presented here, in paperback for the first time, is John Peter Lange's Theologischhomiletisches Bibelwerk. Intended to help preachers prepare sermons the commentary series is essentially biblical and evangelical catholic. This 19th century commentary has served as a standard reference for more than a century. Many early reviewers regarded Schaff's edition with his additional material as superior to the original. It has proven to be a complete and useful Commentary and continues to prove especially valuable to ministers. It contains critical annotations of the text and its translation, and a threefold commentary, exegetical, doctrinal, and homiletical. Under these three heads the text is viewed from every aspect.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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155635410X

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9781556354106

The Political Writings

By: Karl Marx

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The Political Writings

By: Karl Marx

All of Marx’s essential political writing in one volume Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism. He was also a superb journalist, politician, and historian. This book brings together all of his essential political and historical writings in one volume for the first time. These works allow us to see the depth and range of thought in the mature Marx, covering a period from the tumultuous revolutions of 1848 that rocked Europe through to the end of his life. With a foreword by Tariq Ali, and including The Communist Manifesto, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, The Class Struggles in France, and The Critique of the Gotha Programme, this volume shows Marx at his most astute, analysing the forces of global capitalism as they played out in the world around him.

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Verso Books

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1788736885

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Handbook of the Physics of Thin-Film Solar Cells

By: Karl W. Böer

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Handbook of the Physics of Thin-Film Solar Cells

By: Karl W. Böer

This handbook is a compendium giving a comprehensive description of the basics of semiconductor physics relevant to the design and analysis of thin film solar cell materials. It starts from the basics of material science, describing the material and its growth, defect and electrical properties, the basics of its interaction with photons and the involved statistics, proceeding to space charge effects in semiconductors and pn-junctions. Most attention is given to analyze homo- and hetero-junction solar cells using various models and applying the field-of-direction analysis for discussing current voltage characteristics, and helping to discover the involvement of high-field effects in solar cells. The comprehensive coverage of the main topics of - and relating to - solar cells with extensive reference to literature helps scientists and engineers at all levels to reach a better understanding and improvement of solar cell properties and their production. The author is one of the founders of thin film solar cell research.

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Springer Science & Business

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3642367488

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9783642367489

Waking the Dictator

Veracruz, the Struggle for Federalism and the Mexican Revolution, 1870-1927

By: Karl B. Koth

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Waking the Dictator

Veracruz, the Struggle for Federalism and the Mexican Revolution, 1870-1927

By: Karl B. Koth

Waking the Dictator is a study of federalism in late nineteenth century Veracruz State. It is also a politico-military analysis and an evaluation of social-revolutionary relations in the epoch of the Porfiriato and the Mexican Revolution. This study is the first modern, comprehensive, and analytical history of the Porfiriato and Mexican Revolution in Veracruz.

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University of Calgary Press

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1552380319

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9781552380314

The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610

By: Karl A.E. Enenkel

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The Invention of the Emblem Book and the Transmission of Knowledge, ca. 1510–1610

By: Karl A.E. Enenkel

This study reexamines the invention of the emblem book and discusses the novel textual and pictorial means that applied to the task of transmitting knowledge. It offers a fresh analysis of Alciato’s Emblematum liber, focusing on his poetics of the emblem, and on how he actually construed emblems. It demonstrates that the “father of emblematics” had vernacular forebears, most importantly Johann von Schwarzenberg who composed two illustrated emblem books between 1510 and 1520. The study sheds light on the early development of the Latin emblem book 1531–1610, with special emphasis on the invention of the emblematic commentary, on natural history, and on advanced methods of conveying emblematic knowledge, from Junius to Vaenius.

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BRILL

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9004387250

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9789004387256

Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

By: Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels

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Delphi Collected Works of Karl Marx (Illustrated)

By: Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels

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Delphi Classics

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1786560623

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The Place of the Gospels in the General History of Literature

By: Karl Ludwig Schmidt

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The Place of the Gospels in the General History of Literature

By: Karl Ludwig Schmidt

Karl Ludwig Schmidt’s classic Die Stellung der Evangelien der allgemeinen Literaturgeschichte was one of a handful of twentieth-century essays on the New Testament to set the agenda for an entire generation of New Testament scholars. First published in 1923, the text laid out Schmidt’s contention that the gospels represent a literary genre that does not derive from others in the ancient world. In portraying the gospels as the written record of an oral tradition rather than as biographical or historical text, the German scholar found points of comparison with Sayings of the Desert Fathers and the later collections of Faust legends. Schmidt’s powerful argument has commanded attention in Germany for decades but has never before been fully available in English. In recent years the question of gospel genre has reemerged as an issue of debate. With this translation, Byron R. McCane enables a new generation of English-speaking scholars to engage with Schmidt’s classic perspective on an enduring question. In an introduction to the volume, John Riches places Schmidt’s landmark study in its context. He locates the text among the writings of the form critics, with whom Schmidt allied himself, and relates it to Schmidt’s own still untranslated study of the topography and chronology of the gospels. He documents the essay’s reception in the English-speaking world and critically examines the way Schmidt is understood in present-day discussion of the genre of the gospels. Riches also explores how recent efforts to classify the gospels as ancient biographies have in many ways misread and misrepresented Schmidt’s views - errors that this translation will help rectify.

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172528541X

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9781725285415

The Open Society and its Enemies

By: Karl Popper

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The Open Society and its Enemies

By: Karl Popper

Written in political exile in New Zealand during the Second World War and published in two volumes in 1945, The Open Society and its Enemies was hailed by Bertrand Russell as a 'vigorous and profound defence of democracy'. This legendary attack on the philosophies of Plato, Hegel and Marx prophesied the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and exposed the fatal flaws of socially engineered political systems. It remains highly readable, erudite and lucid and as essential reading today as on publication in 1945. It is available here in a special centenary single-volume edition.

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Routledge

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1136749772

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Food Microbiology

An Introduction

By: Karl R. Matthews,Kalmia E. Kniel,Thomas J. Montville

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Food Microbiology

An Introduction

By: Karl R. Matthews,Kalmia E. Kniel,Thomas J. Montville

Authoritative coverage presented in a format designed to facilitate teaching and learning.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1555819397

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9781555819392

Beaches and Dunes of Developed Coasts

By: Karl F. Nordstrom

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Beaches and Dunes of Developed Coasts

By: Karl F. Nordstrom

Volume on coastal management aimed at consulting engineers, research scientists, developers and students.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521545765

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9780521545761

The History of the Theory of Structures

From Arch Analysis to Computational Mechanics

By: Karl-Eugen Kurrer

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The History of the Theory of Structures

From Arch Analysis to Computational Mechanics

By: Karl-Eugen Kurrer

This book traces the evolution of theory of structures and strength of materials - the development of the geometrical thinking of the Renaissance to become the fundamental engineering science discipline rooted in classical mechanics. Starting with the strength experiments of Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo, the author examines the emergence of individual structural analysis methods and their formation into theory of structures in the 19th century. For the first time, a book of this kind outlines the development from classical theory of structures to the structural mechanics and computational mechanics of the 20th century. In doing so, the author has managed to bring alive the differences between the players with respect to their engineering and scientific profiles and personalities, and to create an understanding for the social context. Brief insights into common methods of analysis, backed up by historical details, help the reader gain an understanding of the history of structural mechanics from the standpoint of modern engineering practice. A total of 175 brief biographies of important personalities in civil and structural engineering as well as structural mechanics plus an extensive bibliography round off this work.

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John Wiley & Sons

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3433601348

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9783433601341

Crossing the Boundaries of Life

Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology

By: Karl S. Matlin

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Crossing the Boundaries of Life

Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology

By: Karl S. Matlin

A close look at Günter Blobel’s transformative contributions to molecular cell biology. The difficulty of reconciling chemical mechanisms with the functions of whole living systems has plagued biologists since the development of cell theory in the nineteenth century. As Karl S. Matlin argues in Crossing the Boundaries of Life, it is no coincidence that this longstanding knot of scientific inquiry was loosened most meaningfully by the work of a cell biologist, the Nobel laureate Günter Blobel. In 1975, using an experimental setup that did not contain any cells at all, Blobel was able to target newly made proteins to cell membrane vesicles, enabling him to theorize how proteins in the cell distribute spatially, an idea he called the signal hypothesis. Over the next twenty years, Blobel and other scientists were able to dissect this mechanism into its precise molecular details. For elaborating his signal concept into a process he termed membrane topogenesis—the idea that each protein in the cell is synthesized with an "address" that directs the protein to its correct destination within the cell—Blobel was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999. Matlin argues that Blobel’s investigative strategy and its subsequent application addressed a fundamental unresolved dilemma that had bedeviled biology from its very beginning—the relationship between structure and function—allowing biology to achieve mechanistic molecular explanations of biological phenomena. Crossing the Boundaries of Life thus uses Blobel’s research and life story to shed light on the importance of cell biology for twentieth-century science, illustrating how it propelled the development of adjacent disciplines like biochemistry and molecular biology.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226819353

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9780226819358

The Formation of the German Chemical Community 1720-1795

By: Karl Hufbauer

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The Formation of the German Chemical Community 1720-1795

By: Karl Hufbauer

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 1982.

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Univ of California Press

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0520323378

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9780520323377

Progress in Botany

Genetics. Physiology. Ecology

By: Karl Esser

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Progress in Botany

Genetics. Physiology. Ecology

By: Karl Esser

With one volume each year, this series keeps scientists and advanced students informed of the latest developments and results in all areas of the plant sciences. The present volume includes reviews on genetics, cell biology, physiology, comparative morphology, ecology and vegetation science.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642562760

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9783642562761

The Bass Player Book

By: Karl Coryat

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The Bass Player Book

By: Karl Coryat

(Book). This is the right-hand man for players who live and breathe bass, or for beginners who want an all-in-one guide to the instrument that "shakes the low end" of rock, pop, jazz and more. This handbook details the ins and outs of buying basses and equipment; provides set-up and electronics tips; and explores unique characteristics of landmark bass models. Chapters on technique cover bass basics, theory, fretless playing, acoustic bass, the essentials of various music styles, recording, gigging, and more. Seminal interviews with great bassists include Jeff Berlin, Stanley Clarke, John Pattitucci, Bill Wyman, and many others.

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Backbeat Books

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1617131504

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9781617131509

After The Open Society

Selected Social and Political Writings

By: Karl Popper

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After The Open Society

Selected Social and Political Writings

By: Karl Popper

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994. After The Open Society: Selected Social and Political Writings reveals the development of Popper's political and philosophical thought during and after the Second World War, from his early socialism through to the radical humanitarianism of The Open Society. The papers in this collection, many of which are available here for the first time, demonstrate the clarity and pertinence of Popper's thinking on such topics as religion, history, Plato and Aristotle, while revealing a lifetime of unwavering political commitment. After The Open Society illuminates the thought of one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers and is essential reading for anyone interested in the recent course of philosophy, politics, history and society.

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