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THE KILLER

By: Max Galli

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London, 1967. Frantz is a cynical and ruthless killer. He moves with great ease between one murder and another, waiting for the money that is due to a professional like him. With his victims doesnÕt establish any relationship. Never. Then, after finishing each and every ÔjobÕ, he takes away a piece of karma from the people he killed, like a sort of ÔsouvenirÕ a fountain pen, a jacket button, a tie-bar. His life is marked by fixed times and frightfully regular habits. The routine. One day his routine is upset. A mysterious girl suddenly appears in his life. She is very young and very attractive. She also has two disturbing eyes, a perpetually sad expression and a rather obscure past. Between the killer and the girl a strange feeling is born, an attraction much more physical than sentimental, an overwhelming, sexually driven passion. From that moment on, Frantz's life takes an unexpected turn, and his habits begin to change dramatically. But a terrible secret is hidden behind the sad eyes of the girl...

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0244420106

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Lectures on the Science of Language

Vol. II

By: F. Max Muller

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Lectures on the Science of Language

Vol. II

By: F. Max Muller

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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3382161370

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The Museum of the Wood Age

By: Max Adams

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The Museum of the Wood Age

By: Max Adams

A passionate and imaginative exploration of wood – the material that shaped human history. As a material, wood has no equal in strength, resilience, adaptability and availability. It has been our partner in the cultural evolution from woodland foragers to engineers of our own destiny. Tracing that partnership through tools, devices, construction and artistic expression, Max Adams explores the role that wood has played in our own history as an imaginative, curious and resourceful species. Beginning with an investigation of the material properties of various species of wood, The Museum of the Wood Age investigates the influence of six basic devices – wedge, inclined plane, screw, lever, wheel, axle and pulley – and in so doing reveals the myriad ways in which wood has been worked throughout human history. From the simple bivouacs of hunter-gatherers to sophisticated wooden buildings such as stave churches; from the decorative arts to the humble woodworking of rustic furniture; Max Adams fashions a lattice of interconnected stories and objects that trace a path of human ingenuity across half a million years of history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1788543491

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Towards Continental Philosophy

Reason and Imagination in the Thought of Max Deutscher

By: Max Deutscher

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Towards Continental Philosophy

Reason and Imagination in the Thought of Max Deutscher

By: Max Deutscher

Through a curated selection of papers written over four decades by one of Australia’s leading philosophers, this collection demonstrates the impact of Continental philosophy on philosophical thought in Australia. The development of specific philosophical problems, over a period of more than forty years by a philosopher whose first training was ‘pre-continental’, shows that it is possible to achieve interaction between ‘continental’ and ‘pre-continental’ methods in philosophy, even while recognizing their distinctiveness. These essays ‘work towards’ continental philosophy in the ways they pay attention to language, to how we experience things and are experienced by others, and to the structures of language and power that frame what it is possible to say and to hear, to write and to read.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538147777

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9781538147771

Hesitant Fire

Selected Prose of Max Jacob

By: Max Jacob

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Hesitant Fire

Selected Prose of Max Jacob

By: Max Jacob

A serious artist and a literary clown nonpareil, Max Jacob was born in Brittany in 1876 and died in a Nazi prison camp in 1944. His influence on modern French poetry was profound, and his modernist lyrical verse is still widely read. Much of hisøother work is equally exciting and original, but has waited decades for capable translators. Hesitant Fire makes available for the first time in English some of his best prose. The translators, Moishe Black and Maria Green, have succeeded in catching his gift for linguistic innovation, for mimicry and buffoonery often a millimeter away from melancholy. This anthology displays Jacob?s versatility, for he wrote in a dozen styles. The Story of King Kabul the First and Gawain the Kitchen-Boy is a fable populated by Balibridgians and Bouloulabassians. Excerpts from In Defense of Tartufe reveal the poet?s mysticism and aestheticism. Those from The Flowering Plant offer brilliant social analysis behind a mask of the Absurd. Flim-Flam studies such characters as ?The Lawyer Who Meant to Have Two Wives Instead of One? and ?The Unmarried Teacher at the High School in Cherbourg.? The Dullard Prince blends autobiography and fiction. Letters to Mrs. Goldencalf and other imaginary members of the bourgeoisie are taken from The Dark Room. Never before published, ?The Maid? was inspired by a contemporary murder case. Also included here are portions of The Bouchaballe Property, Jacob?s favorite of his own novels; entries from A Traveler?s Notebook; personal letters; and four religious meditations. For many English-language readers, Hesitant Fire will be in introduction to a writer who was an immediate precursor of Surrealism, who was a close friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, who converted to Catholicism but retained an intensely Jewish outlook, and who produced work that is still vivid nearly a half-century after his death.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803225741

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9780803225749

Einstein and Religion

Physics and Theology

By: Max Jammer

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Einstein and Religion

Physics and Theology

By: Max Jammer

The philosophy of religion and the quest for spiritual truth preoccupied Albert Einstein--so much that it has been said "one might suspect he was a disguised theologian." Nevertheless, the literature on the life and work of Einstein, extensive as it is, does not provide an adequate account of his religious conception and sentiments. Only fragmentarily known, Einstein's ideas about religion have been often distorted both by atheists and by religious groups eager to claim him as one of their own. But what exactly was Einstein's religious credo? In this fascinating book, the distinguished physicist and philosopher Max Jammer offers an unbiased and well-documented answer to this question. The book begins with a discussion of Einstein's childhood religious education and the religious atmosphere--or its absence--among his family and friends. It then reconstructs, step by step, the intellectual development that led Einstein to the conceptions of a cosmic religion and an impersonal God, akin to "the God of Spinoza." Jammer explores Einstein's writings and lectures on religion and its role in society, and how far they have been accepted by the general public and by professional theologians like Paul Tillich or Frederick Ferré. He also analyzes the precise meaning of Einstein's famous dictum "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind," and why this statement can serve as an epitome of Einstein's philosophy of religion. The last chapter deals with the controversial question of whether Einstein's scientific work, and in particular his theory of relativity, has theologically significant implications, a problem important for those who are interested in the relation between science and religion. Both thought-provoking and engaging, this book aims to introduce readers, without proselytizing, to Einstein's religion.

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Princeton University Press

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1400840872

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9781400840878

Plant Variation and Evolution

By: David Briggs,S. Max Walters

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Plant Variation and Evolution

By: David Briggs,S. Max Walters

We are in the midst of a biological revolution. Molecular tools are now providing new means of critically testing hypotheses and models of microevolution in populations of wild, cultivated, weedy and feral plants. They are also offering the opportunity for significant progress in the investigation of long-term evolution of flowering plants, as part of molecular phylogenetic studies of the Tree of Life. This long-awaited fourth edition, fully revised by David Briggs, reflects new insights provided by molecular investigations and advances in computer science. Briggs considers the implications of these for our understanding of the evolution of flowering plants, as well as the potential for future advances. Numerous new sections on important topics such as the evolutionary impact of human activities, taxonomic challenges, gene flow and distribution, hybridisation, speciation and extinction, conservation and the molecular genetic basis of breeding systems will ensure that this remains a classic text for both undergraduate and graduate students in the field.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316546365

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9781316546369

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

By: S. Max Edelson

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Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

By: S. Max Edelson

This impressive scholarly debut deftly reinterprets one of America's oldest symbols--the southern slave plantation. S. Max Edelson examines the relationships between planters, slaves, and the natural world they colonized to create the Carolina Lowcountry. European settlers came to South Carolina in 1670 determined to possess an abundant wilderness. Over the course of a century, they settled highly adaptive rice and indigo plantations across a vast coastal plain. Forcing slaves to turn swampy wastelands into productive fields and to channel surging waters into elaborate irrigation systems, planters initiated a stunning economic transformation. The result, Edelson reveals, was two interdependent plantation worlds. A rough rice frontier became a place of unremitting field labor. With the profits, planters made Charleston and its hinterland into a refined, diversified place to live. From urban townhouses and rural retreats, they ran multiple-plantation enterprises, looking to England for affirmation as agriculturists, gentlemen, and stakeholders in Britain's American empire. Offering a new vision of the Old South that was far from static, Edelson reveals the plantations of early South Carolina to have been dynamic instruments behind an expansive process of colonization. With a bold interdisciplinary approach, Plantation Enterprise reconstructs the environmental, economic, and cultural changes that made the Carolina Lowcountry one of the most prosperous and repressive regions in the Atlantic world.

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Harvard University Press

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0674263189

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9780674263185

Capital Crimes

Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder

By: Max Decharne

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Capital Crimes

Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder

By: Max Decharne

Over seven centuries London has changed dramatically - from walled medieval settlement to bustling modern metropolis. But throughout its history there has been one inescapable constant: murder. It winds through the heart of the capital as surely as the River Thames. Capital Crimes tells the story of crime and punishment in the city, from the killing of infamous 'questmonger' Roger Legett during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 through to the hanging of Styllou Christofi in 1954. Along the way we encounter such shocking characters as railway murderer Franz Muller, the ‘baby farmers’ of Finchley and the notorious political assassin John Bellingham. Some are well known, some obscure; the lives and fates of all, however, have much to tell us, providing a glimpse into the workings of London’s mysterious underworld and reminding us that dark deeds are not so far removed from everyday life as we would perhaps like to believe.

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Random House

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140902363X

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Lectures on the Science of Language

By: F. Max M. Ller,F. Max Müller

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Lectures on the Science of Language

By: F. Max M. Ller,F. Max Müller

Published 1861-4, these two volumes of lectures on philological topics, reprinted multiple times, enthused Victorian readers, including George Eliot.

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1108063055

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Toward a European Nation?

Political Trends in Europe - East and West, Center and Periphery

By: Max Haller

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Toward a European Nation?

Political Trends in Europe - East and West, Center and Periphery

By: Max Haller

This text presents the work of scholars from all over Europe who examine processes of integration and disintegration at the level of nation states, federations, regions and Europe overall.

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Routledge

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1315483556

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9781315483559

Trans Talmud

Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature

By: Max K. Strassfeld

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Trans Talmud

Androgynes and Eunuchs in Rabbinic Literature

By: Max K. Strassfeld

Trans Talmud places eunuchs and androgynes at the center of rabbinic literature and asks what we can learn from them about Judaism and the project of transgender history. Rather than treating these figures as anomalies to be justified or explained away, Max K. Strassfeld argues that they profoundly shaped ideas about law, as the rabbis constructed intricate taxonomies of gender across dozens of texts to understand an array of cultural tensions. Showing how rabbis employed eunuchs and androgynes to define proper forms of masculinity, Strassfeld emphasizes the unique potential of these figures to not only establish the boundary of law but exceed and transform it. Trans Talmud challenges how we understand gender in Judaism and demonstrates that acknowledging nonbinary gender prompts a reassessment of Jewish literature and law.

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Univ of California Press

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0520397398

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9780520397392

Concepts of Force

By: Max Jammer

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Concepts of Force

By: Max Jammer

This work by a noted physicist traces conceptual development from ancient to modern times. Kepler's initiation, Newton's definition, subsequent reinterpretation — contrasting concepts of Leibniz, Boscovich, Kant with those of Mach, Kirchhoff, Hertz. "An excellent presentation." — Science.

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Courier Corporation

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0486150569

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9780486150567

Chips from a German Workshop

Vol. III

By: F. Max Müller

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Chips from a German Workshop

Vol. III

By: F. Max Müller

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3382169118

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The Effects of Music

A series of Essays

By: Max Schoen

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The Effects of Music

A series of Essays

By: Max Schoen

This is Volume XVIII of twenty-one of collection of works on Cognitive Psychology. Initially published in 1927 it offers a collection of essays on the effects of music on the listerner.The book is at once a response and a challenge. It is a response to the inquiry which any thoughtful listener makes, “ What is this music doing to me ? ” A t the same time it is a challenge to science to explain more adequately than has as yet been done the nature and the mysteries of musical effects.

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1136309691

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THE KILLER

THE KILLER

Lectures on the Science of Language

Lectures on the Science of Language

The Museum of the Wood Age

The Museum of the Wood Age

Towards Continental Philosophy

Towards Continental Philosophy

Hesitant Fire

Hesitant Fire

Einstein and Religion

Einstein and Religion

Plant Variation and Evolution

Plant Variation and Evolution

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

Plantation Enterprise in Colonial South Carolina

Capital Crimes

Capital Crimes

Lectures on the Science of Language

Lectures on the Science of Language

Toward a European Nation?

Toward a European Nation?

Trans Talmud

Trans Talmud

Concepts of Force

Concepts of Force

Chips from a German Workshop

Chips from a German Workshop

The Effects of Music

The Effects of Music

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