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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'

By: Balázs Trencsényi,Maciej Janowski,Monika Baar,Maria Falina,Michal Kopecek

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A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the 'Long Nineteenth Century'

By: Balázs Trencsényi,Maciej Janowski,Monika Baar,Maria Falina,Michal Kopecek

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe is a two-volume project, authored by an international team of researchers, and offering the first-ever synthetic overview of the history of modern political thought in East Central Europe. Covering twenty national cultures and languages, the ensuing work goes beyond the conventional nation-centered narrative and offers a novel vision especially sensitive to the cross-cultural entanglement of discourses. Devising a regional perspective, the authors avoid projecting the Western European analytical and conceptual schemes on the whole continent, and develop instead new concepts, patterns of periodization and interpretative models. At the same time, they also reject the self-enclosing Eastern or Central European regionalist narratives and instead emphasize the multifarious dialogue of the region with the rest of the world. Along these lines, the two volumes are intended to make these cultures available for the global 'market of ideas' and also help rethinking some of the basic assumptions about the history of modern political thought, and modernity as such. The first volume deals with the period ranging from the Late Enlightenment to the First World War. It is structured along four broader chronological and thematic units: Enlightenment reformism, Romanticism and the national revivals, late nineteenth-century institutionalization of the national and state-building projects, and the new ideologies of the fin-de-siècle facing the rise of mass politics. Along these lines, the authors trace the continuities and ruptures of political discourses. They focus especially on the ways East Central European political thinkers sought to bridge the gap between the idealized Western type of modernity and their own societies challenged by overlapping national projects, social and cultural fragmentation, and the lack of institutional continuity.

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Oxford University Press

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0191056952

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9780191056956

Environmental Management in Ski Areas

Procedure—Requirements—Exemplary Solutions

By: Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider,Monika Brom,Claudia Dorsch,Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer

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Environmental Management in Ski Areas

Procedure—Requirements—Exemplary Solutions

By: Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider,Monika Brom,Claudia Dorsch,Alexandra Jiricka-Pürrer

This book raises awareness of environmentally friendly and resource-sparing management of winter sports areas, in order to increase the number of certified ski areas. Many ski areas today are advertised with seals of approval, titles and awards. Often, however, it is unclear which institutions and criteria are behind these appraisals. This practice is widely criticized as “green-washing”, since a cautious use of ecologically and scenically sensitive mountain areas is more important now than ever. An environmental management system based on international or European standards ensures “real” improvements and external evaluation, but relies on the personal responsibility of the providers rather than on regulations imposed by authorities. This book contributes to developing a trustworthy and unified system for such evaluation, and one that can be applied internationally.

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107

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Springer

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3319750615

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9783319750613

Neobaroque in the Americas

Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film

By: Monika Kaup

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Neobaroque in the Americas

Alternative Modernities in Literature, Visual Art, and Film

By: Monika Kaup

In a comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of modern and postmodern literature, film, art, and visual culture, Monika Kaup examines the twentieth century's recovery of the baroque within a hemispheric framework embracing North America, Latin America, and U.S. Latino/a culture. As "neobaroque" comes to the forefront of New World studies, attention to transcultural dynamics is overturning the traditional scholarship that confined the baroque to a specific period, class, and ideology in the seventeenth century. Reflecting on the rich, nonlinear genealogy of baroque expression, Neobaroque in the Americas envisions the baroque as an anti-proprietary expression that brings together seemingly disparate writers and artists and contributes to the new studies in global modernity.

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434

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University of Virginia Press

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0813933145

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9780813933146

Naturally Slim and Powerful

By: Philip Lipetz,Monika Pichler

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Naturally Slim and Powerful

By: Philip Lipetz,Monika Pichler

Naturally Slim and Powerful introduces a revolutionary diet program--proven to produce up to 65 percent more weight loss in women than conventional diets--which incorporates more foods that naturally boost serotonin levels--the chemical that controls emotion, intellect, and appetite--in the brain. Radio drive-time tour.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0836227662

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9780836227666

Goscelin of St. Bertin

The Book of Encouragement and Consolation

By: Goscelin (of Saint-Bertin),Monika Otter

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Goscelin of St. Bertin

The Book of Encouragement and Consolation

By: Goscelin (of Saint-Bertin),Monika Otter

Goscelin of St Bertin's 'Book of Encouragement and Consolation' (Liber Confortatorius) is extraordinary both as an example of high-medieval spiritual practice and as a record of a personal relationship. Written in about 1083 by the monk Goscelin to a protegee and personal friend, the recluse Eva, it takes up the tradition of St Jerome's letters of spiritual guidance to women, and anticipates medieval advice literature for anchoresses. As a compendious treatise, incorporating numerous exempla, excerpts from theological discussions, and advice on meditative practice, it has much to tell us about the intellectual interests and preoccupations of religious people in the late eleventh century. As a personal document, it allows a fascinating and uncommonly intimate insight into the psychology of religious life, the sense of self, the construction of gender, and the relationships between men and women in the high middle ages.

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DS Brewer

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1843840154

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9781843840152

Methods of the Alignment-Relay Technique for Nanosystems

Optimization and Innovation

By: Monika Snowdon

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Methods of the Alignment-Relay Technique for Nanosystems

Optimization and Innovation

By: Monika Snowdon

This thesis addresses the problem of improving the alignment of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in transistor applications, taking a unique approach using iptycenes acting as molecular tweezers in combination with a liquid crystal solvent. As part of a project to test the effectiveness of a multi-step method, the so-called Alignment Relay Technique (ART), this work contributed evidence for the selectivity and stability of ART, as well as providing the first proof-of-concept that ART can be used to create CNT field-effect transistors (FETs). The thesis effectively explains and illustrates the chemical synthesis of the tweezers, the concept and actualization of the technique, the various factors observed to influence deposition and selectivity, along with material fabrication using both photolithography and electron beam lithography. This research advances knowledge of transistors and expands the applications of small organic molecules in the field of materials science. Particular highlights of this thesis include: an extensive review of ART, its advantages, and limitations; development of new material chemistry methods for the optimization of semiconducting CNT selectivity; and a comprehensive exploration of fabrication and characterization of CNTFETs for future applications.

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Springer Nature

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3030844137

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9783030844134

Book's by Monika Pichler

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe

Environmental Management in Ski Areas

Environmental Management in Ski Areas

Neobaroque in the Americas

Neobaroque in the Americas

Naturally Slim and Powerful

Naturally Slim and Powerful

Goscelin of St. Bertin

Goscelin of St. Bertin

Methods of the Alignment-Relay Technique for Nanosystems

Methods of the Alignment-Relay Technique for Nanosystems

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