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From Old Regime to Industrial State

A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I

By: Richard H. Tilly,Michael Kopsidis

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From Old Regime to Industrial State

A History of German Industrialization from the Eighteenth Century to World War I

By: Richard H. Tilly,Michael Kopsidis

In From Old Regime to Industrial State, Richard H. Tilly and Michael Kopsidis question established thinking about Germany’s industrialization. While some hold that Germany experienced a sudden breakthrough to industrialization, the authors instead consider a long view, incorporating market demand, agricultural advances, and regional variations in industrial innovativeness, customs, and governance. They begin their assessment earlier than previous studies to show how the 18th-century emergence of international trade and the accumulation of capital by merchants fed commercial expansion and innovation. This book provides the history behind the modern German economic juggernaut.

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University of Chicago Press

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022672557X

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9780226725574

Between Witness and Testimony

The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation

By: Michael Bernard-Donals,Richard Glejzer

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Between Witness and Testimony

The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation

By: Michael Bernard-Donals,Richard Glejzer

The Holocaust presents an immense challenge to those who would represent it or teach it through fiction, film, or historical accounts. Even the testimonies of those who were there provide only a glimpse of the disaster to those who were not. Between Witness and Testimony investigates the difficulties inherent in the obligation to bear witness to events that seem not just unspeakable but also unthinkable. The authors examine films, fictional narratives, survivor testimonies, and the museums at Yad Vashem and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in order to establish an ethics of Holocaust representation. Traversing the disciplines of history, philosophy, religious studies, and literary and cultural theory, the authors suggest that while no account adequately provides access to what Adorno called "the extremity that eludes the concept," we are still obliged to testify, to put into language what history cannot contain.

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State University of New York Press

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0791489671

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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night

The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850

By: John Michael Cooper

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Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night

The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700-1850

By: John Michael Cooper

Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night is a book about tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that centered around the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains. After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca. 710-79), John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His book situates those works in their immediate personal and professional contexts, as well as among treatments by a wide array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers, including Voltaire, Lessing, Shelley, Heine, Delacroix, and Berlioz. In an age of decisive political and religious conflict, Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it offer new insights into its role in European cultural history, as well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity -- and the relations between cultural groups -- in today's world. John Michael Cooper (Southwestern University) is the author of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony (Oxford University Press).

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University Rochester Press

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1580462529

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Na Klar! 1 - Resource and Assessment File

By: Geoff Brammall

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Na Klar! 1 - Resource and Assessment File

By: Geoff Brammall

Na klar! is the German course for the Key Stage 3 National Framework. Na klar! is a three-stage course covering all requirements up to Key Stage 4. At Key Stage 4 the course is particularly appropriate for the AQA specifications.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748778454

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Lecture Slides for Programming in C++ (Version 2021-04-01)

By: Michael D. Adams

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Lecture Slides for Programming in C++ (Version 2021-04-01)

By: Michael D. Adams

This document, which consists of approximately 2900 lecture slides, offers a wealth of information on many topics relevant to programming in C++, including coverage of the C++ language itself, the C++ standard library and a variety of other libraries, numerous software tools, and an assortment of other programming-related topics. The coverage of the C++ language and standard library is current with the C++20 standard. C++ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE. Many aspects of the C++ language are covered from introductory to more advanced. This material includes: the preprocessor, language basics (objects, types, values, operators, expressions, control-flow constructs, functions, namespaces, and comparison), classes, templates (function, class, variable, and alias templates, variadic templates, template specialization, and SFINAE), concepts, lambda expressions, inheritance (run-time polymorphism and CRTP), exceptions (exception safety and RAII), smart pointers, memory management (new and delete operators and expressions, placement new, and allocators), rvalue references (move semantics and perfect forwarding), coroutines, concurrency (memory models, and happens-before and synchronizes-with relationships), modules, compile-time computation, and various other topics (e.g., copy elision and initialization). C++ STANDARD LIBRARY AND VARIOUS OTHER LIBRARIES. Various aspects of the C++ standard library are covered including: containers, iterators, algorithms, ranges, I/O streams, time measurement, and concurrency support (threads, mutexes, condition variables, promises and futures, atomics, and fences). A number of Boost libraries are discussed, including the Intrusive, Iterator, and Container libraries. The OpenGL library and GLSL are discussed at length, along with several related libraries, including: GLFW, GLUT, and GLM. The CGAL library is also discussed in some detail. SOFTWARE TOOLS. A variety of software tools are discussed, including: static analysis tools (e.g., Clang Tidy and Clang Static Analyzer), code sanitizers (e.g., ASan, LSan, MSan, TSan, and UBSan), debugging and testing tools (e.g., Valgrind, LLVM XRay, and Catch2), performance analysis tools (e.g., Perf, PAPI, Gprof, and Valgrind/Callgrind), build tools (e.g., CMake and Make), version control systems (e.g., Git), code coverage analysis tools (e.g., Gcov, LLVM Cov, and Lcov), online C++ compilers (e.g., Compiler Explorer and C++ Insights), and code completion tools (e.g., YouCompleteMe, and LSP clients/servers). OTHER TOPICS. An assortment of other programming-related topics are also covered, including: data structures, algorithms, computer arithmetic (e.g., floating-point arithmetic and interval arithmetic), cache-efficient algorithms, vectorization, good programming practices, software documentation, software testing (e.g., static and dynamic testing, and structural coverage analysis), and compilers and linkers (e.g., Itanium C++ ABI).

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Michael Adams

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0987919741

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Lecture Slides for Programming in C++ (Version 2020-02-29)

The C++ Language, Libraries, Tools, and Other Topics

By: Michael D. Adams

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Lecture Slides for Programming in C++ (Version 2020-02-29)

The C++ Language, Libraries, Tools, and Other Topics

By: Michael D. Adams

This document, which consists of approximately 2500 lecture slides, offers a wealth of information on many topics relevant to programming in C++, including coverage of the C++ language itself, the C++ standard library and a variety of other libraries, numerous software tools, and an assortment of other programming-related topics. The coverage of the C++ language and standard library is current with the C++17 standard.

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Michael Adams

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1550586645

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9781550586640

Compact Oxford German Dictionary

By: Michael Clark

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Compact Oxford German Dictionary

By: Michael Clark

A compact, intermediate-level dictionary covering over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations ideal for the home, office, or school.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199663122

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Untersuchungen zur verbalen Valenz im biblischen Hebräisch

By: Michael Malessa

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Untersuchungen zur verbalen Valenz im biblischen Hebräisch

By: Michael Malessa

Im biblischen Hebräisch bestimmt wie in anderen Sprachen die Valenz eines Verbs die Zahl und die Form der Ergänzungen. Die Form verbaler Ergänzungen kann jedoch variieren. Wichtige Aspekte dieser Variation werden im vorliegenden Band umfassend beschrieben und erklärt, wobei syntaktische, semantische und sprachgeschichtliche Gesichtspunkte berücksichtigt werden. Im einzelnen werden die Markierung direkter Objekte und der Wechsel zwischen direkten Objekten und Präpositionalobjekten beziehungsweise zwischen verschiedenen Präpositionen bei Präpositionalobjekten untersucht. Der Gebrauch der Präposition Lamed bei Infinitiven und unterschiedliche Konstruktionen zum Ausdruck der Wahrnehmung von Sachverhalten werden ebenfalls behandelt. Das Buch liefert dadurch einen Beitrag zum Verständnis der althebräischen Syntax, der Semantik bestimmter syntaktischer Konstruktionen und der geschichtlichen Entwicklung des biblischen Hebräisch. Es richtet sich an Alttestamentler, Hebraisten und andere sprachwissenschaftlich Interessierte.

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BRILL

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9004358781

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The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965

By: Michael Phayer

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The Catholic Church and the Holocaust, 1930-1965

By: Michael Phayer

Phayer explores the actions of the Catholic Church and the actions of individual Catholics during the crucial period from the emergence of Hitler until the Church's official rejection of antisemitism in 1965. 20 photos.

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Indiana University Press

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0253214718

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Verstehen

The Uses of Understanding in the Social Sciences

By: Michael Martin

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Verstehen

The Uses of Understanding in the Social Sciences

By: Michael Martin

Originating in 19th-century Germany, "verstehen" (literally understanding) theory argues that social phenomena must be understood from the point of view of the social actor. This work appraises "verstehen" as a method of verification and discovery as well as a necessary condition for understanding.

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Transaction Publishers

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141284102X

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Desert Winter

A Claire Gray Mystery

By: Michael Craft

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Desert Winter

A Claire Gray Mystery

By: Michael Craft

After 30-plus years of a largely peaceful existence in Manhattan, Claire Graymoves to Palm Springs and is surprised to find herself enmeshed in her secondmurder investigation in a matter of months.

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031230501X

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9780312305017

The Road Taken

By: Michael Buerk

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The Road Taken

By: Michael Buerk

Dawn, and as the sun breaks through the piercing chill of night on the plain outside Korem it lights up a biblical famine, now, in the Twentieth Century.' Those words opened Michael Buerk's first report on the Ethiopian famine for the 6 o'clock news on October 24th 1984. His reports sent shock waves round the world. The Live Aid concert, a direct consequence of Bob Geldof watching that broadcast, was watched by half the planet. Michael Buerk has reported on some of the biggest stories in our lifetime: the Flixborough chemical plant fire, the Birmingham pub bombing, Lockerbie. He was in Buenos Aires at the start of the Falklands War; he reported the death throes of apartheid in South Africa. He was the face of the BBC flagship evening news for many years and has fronted everything from the popular BBC1 series 999 to the erudite Radio 4 programme The Moral Maze. He has won every major award and is universally admired and respected for his intelligent and honest journalism. Here, he also reveals the private Michael Buerk, his bigamist father, his long and happy marriage to Christine and his delight at fatherhood.

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Random House

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1446409899

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Beyond Totalitarianism

Stalinism and Nazism Compared

By: Michael Geyer,Sheila Fitzpatrick

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Beyond Totalitarianism

Stalinism and Nazism Compared

By: Michael Geyer,Sheila Fitzpatrick

These essays rethink the nature of Stalinism and Nazism and establish a new methodology for viewing their histories that goes well beyond outdated twentieth-century models of totalitarianism, ideology, and personality. They offer a new understanding of the intertwined trajectories of socialism and nationalism in European and global history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521897963

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9780521897969

The Fascists and the Jews of Italy

Mussolini's Race Laws, 1938–1943

By: Michael A. Livingston

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The Fascists and the Jews of Italy

Mussolini's Race Laws, 1938–1943

By: Michael A. Livingston

From 1938 until 1943 - before the German occupation and accompanying Holocaust - Fascist Italy drafted and enforced a comprehensive set of anti-Semitic laws. Notwithstanding later rationalizations, the laws were administered with a high degree of severity and resulted in serious damage to the Italian Jewish community. Written from the perspective of an American legal scholar, this book constitutes the first truly comprehensive survey of the Race Laws in the English language. Based on an exhaustive review of Italian legal, administrative and judicial sources, together with archives of the Italian Jewish community, Professor Michael A. Livingston demonstrates the zeal but also the occasional ambivalence and contradictions with which the Race Laws were applied by the Italian legal order and ordinary citizens. Although frequently depressing, the history of the Race Laws contains numerous examples of personal courage and idealism, providing a useful and timely study of what happens when otherwise decent people are confronted with an evil and unjust legal order.

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1107244927

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The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod

Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-century Italy

By: Michael Syrimis

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The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-kneed Tripod

Reflections of Cinema in Early Twentieth-century Italy

By: Michael Syrimis

The emergence of cinema as a predominant form of mass entertainment in the 1910s inspired intellectuals to rethink their definitions of art. The Great Black Spider on Its Knock-Kneed Tripod traces the encounter of Italy's writers with cinema, and in doing so offers vibrant new perspectives on the country's early twentieth-century culture. This comparative study focuses on the immediate responses to this cultural phenomenon of three highly influential intellectuals, each with a competing aesthetic vision Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, founder of Futurism; Gabriele D'Annunzio, leader of Italian Decadentism; and Luigi Pirandello, a father of modern European theatre and theorist of humour. Along with demonstrating how the popularization of the feature-length narrative influenced each author's outlook and theories, Michael Syrimis unravels the extent to which cinema enforced or neutralized the ideological and aesthetic differences between them.

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University of Toronto Press

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144264401X

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European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance

By: Larry J. Reynolds,Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayon Professor of Liberal Arts Larry J Reynolds,W. Michael Reynolds

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European Revolutions and the American Literary Renaissance

By: Larry J. Reynolds,Professor of English and Thomas Franklin Mayon Professor of Liberal Arts Larry J Reynolds,W. Michael Reynolds

Political issues and events have always acted as a catalyst on thought and art. In this pioneering study, Larry J. Reynolds argues that the European revolutions of 1848-49 quickened the American literary imagination and shaped the characters, plots, and themes of the American renaissance. He traces the impact of the revolutions on Emerson, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Thoreau, showing that the upheavals abroad both inspired and disturbed. Extraordinarily well informed and creative treatment of the influences of the 1848-49 European revolutions on writers of the American Renaissance...The book is especially effective in providing a historical context for reading major writings. It demonstrates influences at work at a number of levels and presents historical narrative and subtle readings of literary texts with equal clarity. Highly recommended.- Choice

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Yale University Press

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0300042426

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Social Ontology of Whoness

Rethinking Core Phenomena of Political Philosophy

By: Michael Eldred

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Social Ontology of Whoness

Rethinking Core Phenomena of Political Philosophy

By: Michael Eldred

How are core social phenomena to be understood as modes of being? This book offers an alternative approach to social ontology. Recent interest in social ontology on the part of mainstream philosophy and the social sciences presupposes from the outset that the human being can be cast as a conscious subject whose intentionality can be collective. By contrast, the present study insistently poses the crucial question of who the human being is and how they sociate as whos. Such whoness is a clean-cut departure from the venerable tradition of questioning whatness (quidditas, essence) in philosophical thinking. Casting human being hermeneutically as whoness opens up new insights into how human beings sociate in interplays of mutual estimation that are simultaneously social power plays. Hitherto, the ontology of social power in all its various guises, has only ever been implicit. This book makes it explicit. The kind of social power prevalent in capitalist societies is that of the reified value embodied in commodities, money, capital, & co. Reified value itself is constituted through an interplay of mutual estimation among things that reflects back on the power interplay among whos. In this way a new critique of capitalism becomes possible.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110617501

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9783110617504

Wisconsin Death Trip

By: Michael Lesy

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Wisconsin Death Trip

By: Michael Lesy

Consists chiefly of excerpts from the Badger State banner, Black River Falls, Wis., for the years 1885-1900 and of photos. taken by Charles Van Schaick from 1890 to 1910.

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UNM Press

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0826321933

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Substance Use and Addiction Medicine, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

By: Jeffrey H. Samet,Patrick G O'Connor,Michael D Stein

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Substance Use and Addiction Medicine, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America

By: Jeffrey H. Samet,Patrick G O'Connor,Michael D Stein

This issue of Medical Clinics, guest edited by Drs. Jeffrey H. Samet, Patrick G. O'Connor, and Michael D. Stein, is devoted to Substance Use and Addiction Medicine. Articles in this outstanding issue include: Making Unhealthy Substance Use a Part of Behavioral Health Integration in Primary Care; The Inpatient Addiction Consult Medical Service: Expertise for Hospitalized Patients with Complex Addiction Problems; The Addiction Physician Workforce: Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine Collaboration in a New Age; Preventing Opioid Overdose in the Clinic and Hospital: Analgesia and Opioid Antagonists; The Role of Non-Traditional Maintenance Treatments: Injectable Opioid Agonist Therapies and Managed Alcohol Programs; Office-Based Addiction Treatment (OBAT) in Primary Care: Models that Work; Alcohol Use Disorder Pharmacotherapy: the Use of FDA and non-FDA Approved Medications; When and How to Treat Possible Cannabis Use Disorder; Clinical Presentations of New Drugs with Abuse Potential; Use of Technology in Addiction Therapy; Sleep Management Among Patients with Substance Use Disorders; Pain Management Among Patients with Substance Use Disorders; E-Cigarettes: A Path to Recovery or a Road to Hell?; Are Adolescent and Young Adults Different When Addressing Substance Use Disorders?; and Smoking Cessation for Those in Recovery from Substance Use Disorders.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323610676

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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914

By: Michael Mann

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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 2, The Rise of Classes and Nation-States, 1760-1914

By: Michael Mann

This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107031184

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The American Biographical Novel

By: Michael Lackey

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The American Biographical Novel

By: Michael Lackey

Before the 1970s, there were only a few acclaimed biographical novels. But starting in the 1980s, there was a veritable explosion of this genre of fiction, leading to the publication of spectacular biographical novels about figures as varied as Abraham Lincoln, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, and Marilyn Monroe, just to mention a notable few. This publication frenzy culminated in 1999 when two biographical novels (Michael Cunningham's The Hours and Russell Banks' Cloudsplitter) were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and Cunningham's novel won the award. In The American Biographical Novel, Michael Lackey charts the shifts in intellectual history that made the biographical novel acceptable to the literary establishment and popular with the general reading public. More specifically, Lackey clarifies the origin and evolution of this genre of fiction, specifies the kind of 'truth' it communicates, provides a framework for identifying how this genre uniquely engages the political, and demonstrates how it gives readers new access to history.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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162892635X

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My iPhone and Me

For iPhone 4S and iOS 5

By: Simone Ochsenkuehn,Michael Krimmer

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My iPhone and Me

For iPhone 4S and iOS 5

By: Simone Ochsenkuehn,Michael Krimmer

This extensive hands-on guide covers all of the new features of the iPhone 4S, including Siri, iCloud, iOS 5, the most useful apps, as well as the indispensable tools. You'll learn how to use your iPhone to connect to the Internet using a Wi-Fi or 3G network, shoot photos using the built-in camera, make FaceTime calls, sync files and content with iCloud, use the message and notification features, and search using Spotlight. Hundreds of full-color images illustrate every point along the way. This practical, approachable guide by experienced iPhone guides Anton Ochsenkuhn and Michael Krimmer will quickly help you get the most out of your iPhone 4S with iOS 5! Table of Contents: Chapter 1: This Is the iPhone 4S Chapter 2: How to Use iOS Chapter 3: The iPhone as Message Center Chapter 4: The Internet in Your Hands Chapter 5: Entertainment with the iPhone Chapter 6: Shopping in the Stores Chapter 7: Address Book and Phone Chapter 8 The iPhone Manages Your Events Chapter 9: The iPhone as Camera Chapter 10: The Other Apps of iOS 5 Chapter 11: The Most Important Settings of iOS 5 Chapter 12: iCloud Chapter 13: Keeping the System Up-to-Date

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0132981289

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A Place in History

Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town

By: Michael Herzfeld

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A Place in History

Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town

By: Michael Herzfeld

Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of history: Who defines the past? To whom does the past belong? What is "traditional" and how is this determined? Exploring the meanings of the built environment for Rethemnos's inhabitants, Herzfeld finds that their interest in it has more to do with personal histories and the immediate social context than with the formal history that attracts the conservators. He also investigates the inhabitants' social practices from the standpoints of household and kin group, political association, neighborhood, gender ideology, and the effects of these on attitudes toward home ownership. In the face of modernity, where tradition is an object of both reverence and commercialism, Rethemnos emerges as an important ethnographic window onto the ambiguous cultural fortunes of Greece.

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Princeton University Press

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1400843316

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Movement and Time in the Cyberworld

Questioning the Digital Cast of Being

By: Michael Eldred

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Movement and Time in the Cyberworld

Questioning the Digital Cast of Being

By: Michael Eldred

The cyberworld fast rolling in and impacting every aspect of human living on the globe today presents an enormous challenge to humankind. It is taken up by the media following current events through to all kinds of natural- and social-scientific discourses. Digitized technoscience develops at a breakneck pace in all areas accompanied by sociological analysis. What is missing is a philosophical response genuinely posing the basic ontological question: What is a digital being's peculiar mode of being? The present study offers a digital ontology that analyzes the dissolution of beings into bit-strings, driven by mathematized science. The mathematization of knowledge reaches back to Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle, and continues with Descartes, Galileo, Newton, Leibniz. Western knowledge from its inception has always been driven by an unbridled will to efficient-causal power over all kinds of movement and change. This historical trajectory culminates in the universal Turing machine that enables efficient, automated, algorithmic control over the movement of digital beings through the cyberworld. The book fills in the ontological foundations underpinning this brave new cyberworld and interrogates them, especially by questioning the millennia-old conception of 1D-linear time. An alternative ontology of movement arises, based on a radically alternative conception of 3D-time.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3110657562

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A Study of Crisis

By: Michael Brecher,Jonathan Wilkenfeld

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A Study of Crisis

By: Michael Brecher,Jonathan Wilkenfeld

As the twentieth century draws to a close, it is time to look back on an epoch of widespread turmoil, including two world wars, the end of the colonial era in world history, and a large number of international crises and conflicts. This book is designed to shed light on the causes and consequences of military-security crises since the end of World War I, in every region, across diverse economic and political regimes, and cultures. The primary aim of this volume is to uncover patterns of crises, conflicts and wars and thereby to contribute to the advancement of international peace and world order. The culmination of more than twenty years of research by Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld, the book analyzes crucial themes about crisis, conflict, and war and presents systematic knowledge about more than 400 crises, thirty-one protracted conflicts and almost 900 state participants. The authors explore many aspects of conflict, including the ethnic dimension, the effect of different kinds of political regimes--notably the question whether democracies are more peaceful than authoritarian regimes, and the role of violence in crisis management. They employ both case studies and aggregate data analysis in a Unified Model of Crisis to focus on two levels of analysis--hostile interactions among states, and the behavior of decision-makers who must cope with the challenge posed by a threat to values, time pressure, and the increased likelihood that military hostilities will engulf them. This book will appeal to scholars in history, political science, sociology, and economics as well as policy makers interested in the causes and effects of crises in international relations. The rich data sets will serve researchers for years to come as they probe additional aspects of crisis, conflict and war in international relations. Michael Brecher is R. B. Angus Professor of Political Science, McGill University. Jonathan Wilkenfeld is Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland. They are the coauthors of Crises in the Twentieth Century: A Handbook of International Crisis, among other books and articles.

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0472903128

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Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship

Place, Time and Ideology in Global Perspective

By: Michael Radu

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Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship

Place, Time and Ideology in Global Perspective

By: Michael Radu

The phenomenon of globalization applies to political violence as well as to more benign aspects of life. Most people in the West, as well as the Third World, politicians and media included, are still missing this point. As a result, they are failing to adapt to the new realities--unlike their enemies. Dilemmas of Democracy and Dictatorship is a collection of essays Radu has published over the past decade. Some are opinion pieces; others are academic articles. The topics include political violence and terrorism in general, and in specific areas--Latin America, the Balkans, Turkey, Sub-Saharan Africa, Western and Eastern Europe. Radu discusses the causes and methods of contemporary terrorism, the process of state decay in some African countries, and mentalities and absurdities in Latin and Balkan politics. He also points out Western European illusions, delusions, and attitudes, and reviews American policy and confusion in dealing with the Third World. At times the analysis is political, other times military, and often it is sociological or psychological. In the author's words he is "always politically incorrect." The approach is multidisciplinary. What ties these disparate essays together is Radu's personal experience--both as a field researcher and in a few cases as a participant in ongoing events, and his personal idiosyncrasies, opinions, and perception of areas visited. These essays clearly demonstrate that in the face of globalization the world is not a village but a conglomerate of differences. This volume will be of particular interest to students of political violence, insurgency/guerrilla warfare, and Third World politics, journalists, and policymakers. Michael S. Radu is senior fellow and co-chairman of the Center on Terrorism at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Educated in communist Romania and at Columbia University, he has taught in the United States and South Africa. He has traveled to over forty countries doing research on local politics and political violence and has served as electoral observer in four countries, including as a UN observer in Cambodia. He is the author or editor of ten books.

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1412821711

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Zionism and the Fin de Siecle

Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky

By: Michael Stanislawski

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Zionism and the Fin de Siecle

Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism from Nordau to Jabotinsky

By: Michael Stanislawski

Michael Stanislawski's provocative study of Max Nordau, Ephraim Moses Lilien, and Vladimir Jabotinsky reconceives the intersection of the European fin de siècle and early Zionism. Stanislawski takes up the tantalizing question of why Zionism, at a particular stage in its development, became so attractive to certain cosmopolitan intellectuals and artists. With the help of hundreds of previously unavailable documents, published and unpublished, he reconstructs the ideological journeys of writer and critic Nordau, artist Lilien, and political icon Jabotinsky. He argues against the common conception of Nordau and Jabotinsky as nineteenth-century liberals, insisting that they must be understood against the backdrop of Social Darwinism in the West and the Positivism of Russian radicalism in the fin de siècle, as well as Symbolism, Decadence, and Art Nouveau. When these men turned to Zionism, Stanislawski says, far from abandoning their aesthetic and intellectual preconceptions, they molded Zionism according to their fin de siècle cosmopolitanism. Showing how cosmopolitanism turned to nationalism in the lives and work of these crucial early Zionists, this story is a fascinating chapter in European and Russian, as well as Jewish, cultural and political history.

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0520935756

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Michael J. Shapiro

Discourse, Culture, Violence

By: Michael J. Shapiro,Terrell Carver,Samuel Allen Chambers

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Michael J. Shapiro

Discourse, Culture, Violence

By: Michael J. Shapiro,Terrell Carver,Samuel Allen Chambers

Michael Shapiro has been one of the most important thinkers and writers over the past two decades whose work has been extremely influential in fields as varied as political theory, international relations and cultural studies. This collection contains his seminal writings on such topics as discourse, culture and violence.

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041578347X

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Habitat, Population Dynamics, and Metal Levels in Colonial Waterbirds

A Food Chain Approach

By: Joanna Burger,Michael Gochfeld

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Habitat, Population Dynamics, and Metal Levels in Colonial Waterbirds

A Food Chain Approach

By: Joanna Burger,Michael Gochfeld

This book is a result of the authors' more than 40 years of study on the behavior, populations, and heavy metals in the colonial waterbirds nesting in Barnegat Bay and the nearby estuaries and bays in the Northeastern United States. From Boston Harbor to the Chesapeake, based on longitudinal studies of colonial waterbirds, it provides a clear pictu

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1482251140

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City of Order

Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35

By: Michael Boudreau

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City of Order

Crime and Society in Halifax, 1918-35

By: Michael Boudreau

Interwar Halifax was a city in flux, a place where citizens debated adopting new ideas and technologies but agreed on one thing – modernity was corrupting public morality and unleashing untold social problems on their fair city. In this context, citizens, policy makers, and officials turned to the criminal justice system to create a bulwark against further social dislocation. Officials modernized the city’s machinery of order – courts, prisons, and the police force – and placed greater emphasis on crime control, while residents supported tough-on-crime measures and attached little importance to rehabilitation. These initiatives gave birth to a constructed vision of a criminal class that singled out ethnic minorities, working-class men, and female and juvenile offenders as problem figures in the eternal quest for order. Michael Boudreau’s in-depth study of crime and culture in interwar Halifax, the first of its kind, shows how tough-on-crime measures can compound, rather than resolve, social inequalities and dislocations.

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0774822074

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Defining Community in Early Modern Europe

By: Michael J. Halvorson

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Defining Community in Early Modern Europe

By: Michael J. Halvorson

Numerous historical studies use the term "community'" to express or comment on social relationships within geographic, religious, political, social, or literary settings, yet this volume is the first systematic attempt to collect together important examples of this varied work in order to draw comparisons and conclusions about the definition of community across early modern Europe. Offering a variety of historical and theoretical approaches, the sixteen original essays in this collection survey major regions of Western Europe, including France, Geneva, the German Lands, Italy and the Spanish Empire, the Netherlands, England, and Scotland. Complementing the regional diversity is a broad spectrum of religious confessions: Roman Catholic communities in France, Italy, and Germany; Reformed churches in France, Geneva, and Scotland; Lutheran communities in Germany; Mennonites in Germany and the Netherlands; English Anglicans; Jews in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands; and Muslim converts returning to Christian England. This volume illuminates the variety of ways in which communities were defined and operated across early modern Europe: as imposed by community leaders or negotiated across society; as defined by belief, behavior, and memory; as marked by rigid boundaries and conflict or by flexibility and change; as shaped by art, ritual, charity, or devotional practices; and as characterized by the contending or overlapping boundaries of family, religion, and politics. Taken together, these chapters demonstrate the complex and changeable nature of community in an era more often characterized as a time of stark certainties and inflexibility. As a result, the volume contributes a vital resource to the ongoing efforts of scholars to understand the creation and perpetuation of communities and the significance of community definition for early modern Europeans.

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135194567X

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An Intelligent Career

Taking Ownership of Your Work and Your Life

By: Michael Bernard Arthur,Svetlana N. Khapova,Julia Richardson

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An Intelligent Career

Taking Ownership of Your Work and Your Life

By: Michael Bernard Arthur,Svetlana N. Khapova,Julia Richardson

An Intelligent Career is a playbook for the modern knowledge worker, with clear guidance and support on taking charge of your own destiny, seeking continuous learning, collaborating with others, recognizing and acting on fresh opportunities, determining when it is time to move on, and much more.

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0190866314

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The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home

By: Nick Zukin,Michael Zusman

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The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home

By: Nick Zukin,Michael Zusman

Easily enjoy Jewish deli classics and modern updates at home with this collection of recipes that is sure to make you kvell. If you don’t happen to live near one of the new wave of artisan-style Jewish delis that have sprung up around North America over the last few years, not to worry. With this book, the world of Jewish deli, in all its unsubtle splendor, can be yours in the comfort (and privacy) of your own kitchen. And it’s not that hard. Really. On top of all the Jewish deli classics, The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home offers updates and new angles on the old ways that are bound to thrill the palates of a modern generation of eaters focused on quality ingredients and a lighter-handed approach to a traditionally heavy cuisine. The chapters are organized into Starters and Sides; Soups and Salads; Eggs, Fish, and Dairy; Beef; Bagels, Bialys, and Breads; and Pastries, Desserts, and Drinks. The range of favorite recipes include: Crispy Potato Latkes with Chunky Ginger Applesauce; Summer Chicken Salad with Tomatoes, Cucumber and Cracklings; Wise Sons’ Chocolate Babka French Toast; Home Oven Pastrami; and Celery Soda. Added cultural context comes from quick-hitting interviews with Joan Nathan and other Jewish food luminaries; histories of a few deli stalwarts such as bagels and pastrami; and first-hand reports from within the walls of the authors’ favorite temples of modern Jewish gastronomy located across the country including: Mile End Delicatessen in New York City; Wise Sons Delicatessen in San Francisco; Kenny & Zuke’s Delicatessen in Portland, Oregon; Stopsky’s Delicatessen in Mercer Island, Washington; and Caplansky’s Delicatessen in Toronto. Praise for The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home “If my grandmother, the greatest Jewish deli–style cook I’ve ever known, were alive she’d be kvelling over this book.” —Ed Levine, founder of Seriouseats.com “Michael and Nick’s handsome book brings some of your favorite deli recipes and memories into your home kitchen. Their pickles, knishes, and pastrami are just like you remember, only better!” —Joan Nathan, author of Jewish Cooking in America “The Artisan Jewish Deli at Home will turn any house into a delicatessen worth its weight in knishes.” —David Sax, author of Save the Deli

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1449441327

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