Samuel Herrmann's Books

Origins of the Other

Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics

By: Samuel Moyn

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Origins of the Other

Emmanuel Levinas Between Revelation and Ethics

By: Samuel Moyn

In Origins of the Other, Moyn offers new readings of the work of a host of crucial thinkers, such as Hannah Arendt, Karl Barth, Karl Lowith, Gabriel Marcel, Franz Rosenzweig, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jean Wahl, who help explain why Levinas's thought evolved as it did."--Jacket.

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Cornell University Press

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0801443946

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Pastor Tillich

The Justification of the Doubter

By: Samuel Andrew Shearn

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Pastor Tillich

The Justification of the Doubter

By: Samuel Andrew Shearn

Pastor Tillich: The Justification of the Doubter tells the story of Paul Tillich's early theological development from his student days until the end of the First World War, set against the backdrop of church politics in Wilhelmine Germany and with particular reference to his early sermons. The majority of scholarship understands Tillich primarily as a philosophical theologian. But before and during the First World War, Tillich was Pastor Tillich, studying to become a pastor, leading a Christian student group, working periodically as a pastor in Berlin churches, and preaching to soldiers. Arriving in Berlin after the war, Tillich pursued religious socialism and a theology of culture through the 1920s. But the theological basis of these programmes was what Tillich considered his main concern in 1919: the theology of doubt. Using a wealth of untranslated German sources largely unknown to English-language scholarship, Pastor Tillich presents the stations of Tillich's theological development of the notion of the justification of the doubter up to 1919. Distinguishing between Tillich's later autobiographical statements and the witness of archival sources, a significantly original, contextualised account of Tillich's early life in Germany emerges. From his days as the conservative son of a conservative Lutheran pastor to the battle-worn chaplain who could even talk about 'faith without God', Tillich underwent considerable change. The book should therefore speak to any interested in the history of modern theology, as an example of how biography and theology are intertwined.

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Oxford University Press

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0192672495

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9780192672490

Rewriting Franco’s Spain

Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory

By: Samuel O’Donoghue

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Rewriting Franco’s Spain

Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory

By: Samuel O’Donoghue

Rewriting Franco’s Spain: Marcel Proust and the Dissident Novelists of Memory proposes a new reading of some of the most culturally significant and closely studied works of Spanish memory fiction from the past seventy years. It examines the influence of French writer Marcel Proust on fiction concerning the Spanish Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship by Carmen Laforet, Juan Goytisolo, Juan Benet, Carmen Martín Gaite, Jorge Semprún, and Javier Marías. It explores the ways in which À la recherche du temps perdu has been instrumental in these authors’ works, galvanizing their creative impetus, shaping their imaginative act, and guiding their adversarial stance toward Franco’s regime. This book illustrates how these writers use Proustian themes and techniques and thereby enhances our understanding of the function of memory and fictional creation in some of the most important milestones in contemporary Spanish literature. Rewriting Franco’s Spain argues that an appreciation of Proust’s pervasive influence on Spanish memory writing obliges us to reconsider the notion that Franco’s regime maintained a rigid stranglehold on imported culture. Capturing the richness of Spanish novelists’ contact with literature produced outside of Spain, it challenges the prevailing scholarly tendency to focus on the novelists’ immediate sociopolitical concerns. There is more to these texts than a simple testimony of the brutality and hardship of the civil war and life under Franco. By illuminating the subversive nature of Spanish novelists’ use of a Proust-inspired practice of self-writing, Rewriting Franco’s Spain seeks to readjust some of the ways we view the role of novelists living during the regime and in its wake. It advocates a conception of novelists as dissidents, teasing out the seditious undercurrent of their cultivation of self-writing and examining how they disputed the regime’s ideas about what culture should look like. The preconception that the development of Spanish literature under Franco was stunted because Spaniards were prevented from reading works considered an affront to National-Catholic sensibilities is cast aside, as is the notion that Spain was isolated from narrative developments elsewhere. Rewriting Franco’s Spain ultimately reveals the centrality of Proust’s monumental novel in the evolution of contemporary Spanish literature.

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Bucknell University Press

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1611488613

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9781611488616

Music for the IB MYP 4&5: MYP by Concept

By: Samuel Wright

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Music for the IB MYP 4&5: MYP by Concept

By: Samuel Wright

A concept-driven and assessment -focused approach to Music teaching and learning. - Approaches each chapter with statements of inquiry framed by key and related concepts, set in a global context. - Supports every aspect of assessment using tasks designed by an experienced MYP educator. - Differentiates and extends learning with research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities. - Applies global contexts in meaningful ways to offer an MYP Music programme with an internationally-minded perspective. Also available Student eTextbook 9781510475533 Whiteboard eTextbook 9781510475540 Teacher's Pack 9781510478145

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Hodder Education

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1510475516

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Learning about Learning

An A-Z of Training and Development Tools and Techniques

By: Samuel A. Malone

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Learning about Learning

An A-Z of Training and Development Tools and Techniques

By: Samuel A. Malone

Coverage includes educational psychology, personal development, accelerated learning, study skills, memory, the brain, nutrition, and training and development.

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CIPD Publishing

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0852929897

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9780852929896

Interpreting Quoted Speech in Prophetic Literature

A Study of Jeremiah 2.1-3.5

By: Samuel Hildebrandt

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Interpreting Quoted Speech in Prophetic Literature

A Study of Jeremiah 2.1-3.5

By: Samuel Hildebrandt

In Interpreting Quoted Speech, Samuel Hildebrandt analyzes the literary phenomenon of one speaker quoting the words of another speaker within prophetic discourse. Challenging approaches that categorize these speech quotations and use them as direct windows into Israel’s past, Hildebrandt makes a compelling case for reading quoted speech in its literary context. He presents a substantial method for such an interpretive approach, demonstrates its value in a detailed analysis of Jeremiah 2.1-3.5, and highlights the significance of quoted phrases in Jeremiah and other prophetic texts. Interpreting Quoted Speech marks an important contribution to the exploration of Jeremiah’s discourse and polyphony and, due to its accessible methodology and exegesis, offers a model for further research in prophetic literature.

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BRILL

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9004351744

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The Moral Economy

Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

By: Samuel Bowles

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The Moral Economy

Why Good Incentives Are No Substitute for Good Citizens

By: Samuel Bowles

Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire. But incentives per se are not really the culprit. Bowles shows that crowding out occurs when the message conveyed by fines and rewards is that self-interest is expected, that the employer thinks the workforce is lazy, or that the citizen cannot otherwise be trusted to contribute to the public good. Using historical and recent case studies as well as behavioral experiments, Bowles shows how well-designed incentives can crowd in the civic motives on which good governance depends.

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Yale University Press

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0300221088

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9780300221084

A Text-Book of Church History

Vol. 4

By: John C. L. Gieseler,Samuel Davidson,John Winstanley Hull,Henry B. Smith

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A Text-Book of Church History

Vol. 4

By: John C. L. Gieseler,Samuel Davidson,John Winstanley Hull,Henry B. Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368720910

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9783368720919

Tantric Revisionings

New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion

By: Geoffrey Samuel

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Tantric Revisionings

New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion

By: Geoffrey Samuel

Tantric Revisionings presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies. Geoffrey Samuel adopts an historically and textually informed anthropological approach, seeking to locate and understand religion in its social and cultural context. The question of the relation between 'popular' (folk, domestic, village, 'shamanic') religion and elite (literary, textual, monastic) religion forms a recurring theme through these studies. Six chapters have not been previously published; the previously published studies included are in publications which are difficult to locate outside major specialist libraries.

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Routledge

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1351896172

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Historical Dictionary of Chad

By: Mario J. Azevedo,Samuel Decalo

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Historical Dictionary of Chad

By: Mario J. Azevedo,Samuel Decalo

Having achieved its independence from France in 1960, Chad has run into a serious crises of national building, which have continued to haunt it to the present day, making it one of the poorest and most politically unstable countries on the globe. Chad is a country with sharp geographic and climatic contrasts that puzzle and fascinate the visitor, displaying first a monotonous but majestic portion of the Saharan Desert in the north, punctuated by plains and high altitudes displayed by the Tibesti mountains, where the highest point, Emi Koussi, reaches 11,204 ft.; the middle Central Sahelian zone, where pastoral transhumance lifestyle predominates but where and nut cultivation and harvesting is possible; and an endowed southern tropical zone where the forest and the savanna meet, blessed by several long-running rivers, most notably, the Logone and the Chari that empty their waters into centuries-old Lake Chad. Even though things in Chad seem to have improved during the past 10 years, most observers agree that the path to peace, reconstruction, and economic progress is still long and arduous. This fourth edition of Historical Dictionary of Chad contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1300 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Chad.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538114372

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9781538114377

Herod's Judaea

A Mediterranean State in the Classical World

By: Samuel Rocca

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Herod's Judaea

A Mediterranean State in the Classical World

By: Samuel Rocca

Samuel Rocca analyzes the Herodian society. The most important facet of his analysis is the relationship between Herod as ruler and the Jewish subjects over whom he ruled. The author contends that Herod, though a Jewish ruler, regarded both Alexander the Great - the embodiment of the Hellenistic ruler - and Augustus as ideal models who were worthy of imitation. In fact, Herod pushed Judaea towards major Hellenization, albeit with many elements more akin to Rome." "The author's research, therefore, is not a biographical study of King Herod. Instead, it deals with Herod as the head of Jewish society in Judaea. It is first and foremost a study of Herodian society. Thus the author analyzes the Herodian ideology of rule, the court, the army, the administration, the economy, the ruling political bodies, the city as microcosm, the religion, and the burial customs." --Book Jacket.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161497171

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9783161497179

Ching Ling Foo: America’s First Chinese Superstar

By: Samuel D. Porteous

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Ching Ling Foo: America’s First Chinese Superstar

By: Samuel D. Porteous

On the eve of the 20th century, Chinese magician Ching Ling Foo, one of the greatest illusionists ever seen on American soil, along with his talented family of musicians and acrobats overcomes deportation attempts, homeland tragedy, crooked managers and a diabolically clever American copycat to make an indelible impact on American culture becoming one of the highest paid and most popular acts in the United States twice. First, between 1898 and 1900 then once more between 1912 and 1915. Foo's story is indeed a magical one but, it is also so much more. With its focus on the interplay between Chinese and Western culture, celebrity, intercultural teen singing sensations, geopolitics, international intrigue, nativism, and disruptive technology, careful readers will discover "Foo" may hold many lessons for our own increasingly unruly era.

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Hybrid Global Publishing

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195194321X

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9781951943219

Interpretive Quantification

Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Laura Sjoberg

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Interpretive Quantification

Methodological Explorations for Critical and Constructivist IR

By: J. Samuel Barkin,Laura Sjoberg

Countering the growing divide between positivists who embrace quantitative, numerical approaches and post-positivist scholars who favor qualitative, interpretive approaches, J. Samuel Barkin and Laura Sjoberg argue that both methods are more widely adaptable than is commonly assumed by either camp. In Interpretive Quantification, ten highly regarded scholars in the field of International Relations apply quantitative methods and formal models to specific constructivist and critical research questions. In this way, each chapter serves not only as evidence that methods can productively be applied across paradigms, but also as a guide as to how this may be done. In sum, the contributors make a compelling case that when researchers cordon off particular methods for merely ideological reasons, they circumscribe their own paradigms and hinder their own research agenda.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472122657

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9780472122653

Mind Skills for Managers

By: Samuel A. Malone

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Mind Skills for Managers

By: Samuel A. Malone

Sam Malone mixes down-to-earth ideas with techniques such as Mind Maps, checklists, step-by-step rules, acronyms and mnemonics to provide an entertaining, easy-to-use guide to improving your management techniques by unleashing the full power of your mind. The skills in this book need to be practised. The best approach is to take one idea at a time and apply it. By following the book you will learn a whole range of 'mind skills' and be rewarded by measurable improvements in your performance.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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0566078171

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9780566078170

Rescuing the Children

A Holocaust Memoir

By: Vivette Samuel

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Rescuing the Children

A Holocaust Memoir

By: Vivette Samuel

Rescuing the Children is the memoir of Vivette Samuel, who at age twenty-two began working for the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE, or Society for Assistance to Children). The OSE and similar organizations saved 86 percent of Jewish children in France from deportation to Nazi concentration and extermination camps.

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University of Wisconsin Pres

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0299177432

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9780299177430

Neutron Interferometry

Lessons in Experimental Quantum Mechanics, Wave-Particle Duality, and Entanglement

By: Helmut Rauch,Samuel A. Werner

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Neutron Interferometry

Lessons in Experimental Quantum Mechanics, Wave-Particle Duality, and Entanglement

By: Helmut Rauch,Samuel A. Werner

The quantum interference of de Broglie matter waves is probably one of the most startling and fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics. It continues to tax our imaginations and leads us to new experimental windows on nature. Quantum interference phenomena are vividly displayed in the wide assembly of neutron interferometry experiments, which have been carried out since the first demonstration of a perfect silicon crystal interferometer in 1974. Since the neutron experiences all four fundamental forces of nature (strong, weak, electromagnetic, and gravitational), interferometry with neutrons provides a fertile testing ground for theory and precision measurements. Many Gedanken experiments of quantum mechanics have become real due to neutron interferometry. Quantum mechanics is a part of physics where experiment and theory are inseparably intertwined. This general theme permeates the second edition of this book. It discusses more than 40 neutron interferometry experiments along with their theoretical motivations and explanations. The basic ideas and results of interference experiments related to coherence and decoherence of matter waves and certain post-selection variations, gravitationally induced quantum phase shifts, Berry`s geometrical phases, spinor symmetry and spin superposition, and Bell's inequalities are all discussed and explained in this book. Both the scalar and vector Aharonov-Bohm topological interference effects and the neutron version of the Sagnac effect are presented in a self-contained and pedagogical way. Interferometry with perfect crystals, artificial lattices, and spin-echo systems are also topics of this book. It includes the theoretical underpinning as well as connections to other areas of experimental physics, such as quantum optics, nuclear physics, gravitation, and atom interferometry. The observed phase shifts due to the Earth's gravity and rotation indicate a close connection to relativity theory. Neutron interferometry can be considered as a central technique of quantum optics with massive particles. It has stimulated the development of interferometry with atoms, molecules and clusters. The book is written in a style that will be suitable at the senior undergraduate and beginning of graduate level. It will interest and excite many students and researchers in neutron, nuclear, quantum, gravitational, optical, and atomic physics. Lecturers teaching courses in modern physics and quantum mechanics will find a number of interesting and historic experiments they may want to include in their lectures.

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OUP Oxford

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0191021253

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Origins of the Other

Origins of the Other

Pastor Tillich

Pastor Tillich

Rewriting Franco’s Spain

Rewriting Franco’s Spain

Music for the IB MYP 4&5: MYP by Concept

Music for the IB MYP 4&5: MYP by Concept

Learning about Learning

Learning about Learning

Interpreting Quoted Speech in Prophetic Literature

Interpreting Quoted Speech in Prophetic Literature

The Moral Economy

The Moral Economy

A Text-Book of Church History

A Text-Book of Church History

Tantric Revisionings

Tantric Revisionings

Historical Dictionary of Chad

Historical Dictionary of Chad

Herod's Judaea

Herod's Judaea

Ching Ling Foo: America’s First Chinese Superstar

Ching Ling Foo: America’s First Chinese Superstar

Interpretive Quantification

Interpretive Quantification

Mind Skills for Managers

Mind Skills for Managers

Rescuing the Children

Rescuing the Children

Neutron Interferometry

Neutron Interferometry

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