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Clarissa on the Continent

Translation and Seduction

By: Thomas O. Beebee

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Clarissa on the Continent

Translation and Seduction

By: Thomas O. Beebee

Clarissa" on the Continent defines and explores two strategies of literary translation—creative vs. preservative and strong vs. weak—as they transform one of the most influential English novels. Thomas Beebee compares the two opposing strategies as they influence the French translation of Clarissa by the novelist Antione François de Prévost and the German translation by the Göttingen Orientalist Johann David Michaelis, and in doing so he demonstrates that each translator found authority for his procedure within the text itself. Each translation is also examined in light of Richardson's other writings and placed in its literary and cultural context. This study uses translations in order to interpret Clarissa, to show how the basis for the novel's reception on the Continent was laid, and to explore the differences and interactions among three literary and cultural systems of the eighteenth century. The close examination of these two important translations enable the formulation of not only a theory of creative vs. preservative translation but also the interconnections between literary theory and translation theory. Beebee also looks at later translations of Clarissa as products of literary and historical change and at Prévostian strategies of the novel.

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Penn State Press

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0271039558

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An Anthology of German Literature

By: Calvin Thomas

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An Anthology of German Literature

By: Calvin Thomas

Reproduction of the original.

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3732629066

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The Last Witch of Langenburg

Murder in a German Village

By: Thomas Willard Robisheaux

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The Last Witch of Langenburg

Murder in a German Village

By: Thomas Willard Robisheaux

Exploring one of Europe's last witch panics, historian Thomas Robisheaux brings to life the story of an entire world caught between superstition and modernity in a high-stakes drama that led to charges of sorcery and witchcraft against an entire family.

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438

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393065510

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9780393065510

Development of a Methodology for the Evaluation of Active Safety using the Example of Preventive Pedestrian Protection

By: Thomas Helmer

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Development of a Methodology for the Evaluation of Active Safety using the Example of Preventive Pedestrian Protection

By: Thomas Helmer

The book reports on a new methodology for optimization and evaluation of traffic safety, which simulates the processes involved in traffic conflicts on the basis of detailed dynamical, human, and technical models. The models incorporate the whole spectrum of human cognitive functions and responses, the responses of an active safety system and the interactions between the human and the system as they occur in a sample of relevant traffic contexts. Using the developed method, the author was able to assess the reduction in accidents and injuries as well as the possible side effects resulting from a preventive pedestrian-protection system. The book provides practical solutions in the area of active safety systems. It represents an interesting source of information for researchers and professionals as well as all stakeholders, including policy makers and consumer advocates, with the common goal of promoting the implementation and adoption of highly efficient systems for preventing accidents and injuries.

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207

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Springer

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3319128892

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9783319128894

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia

Vol. 9

By: Thomas Carlyle

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History of Friedrich II. of Prussia

Vol. 9

By: Thomas Carlyle

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

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326

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3368190598

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Underground Mathematics

Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe

By: Thomas Morel

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Underground Mathematics

Craft Culture and Knowledge Production in Early Modern Europe

By: Thomas Morel

Thomas Morel tells the story of subterranean geometry, a forgotten discipline that developed in the silver mines of early modern Europe. Mining and metallurgy were of great significance to the rulers of early modern Europe, required for the silver bullion that fuelled warfare and numerous other uses. Through seven lively case studies, he illustrates how geometry was used in metallic mines by practitioners using esoteric manuscripts. He describes how an original culture of accuracy and measurement paved the way for technical and scientific innovations, and fruitfully brought together the world of artisans, scholars and courts. Based on a variety of original manuscripts, maps and archive material, Morel recounts how knowledge was crafted and circulated among practitioners in the Holy Roman Empire and beyond. Specific chapters deal with the material culture of surveying, map-making, expertise and the political uses of quantification. By carefully reconstructing the religious, economic and cultural context of mining cities, Underground Mathematics contextualizes the rise of numbered information, practical mathematics and quantification in the early modern period.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009267280

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9781009267281

Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies

Military Service in France and Germany, 1789–1830

By: Thomas Hippler

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Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies

Military Service in France and Germany, 1789–1830

By: Thomas Hippler

This book examines the creation of ‘national armies’ through compulsory military service in France and Prussia during the French Revolution and the Prussian Reform Period. The French Revolution tried to establish military and political structures in which the armed forces and society would merge. In order to ensure that the army would never become a means of oppression against the people, the whole population should thus ‘be’ the army. Defeated by the enormous military potential that these new political settings had unchained in France, Prussia adapted the French innovations to its own needs, thus laying the basis for its contributions to the victories of the coalition troops in 1813-15. Conscription had implications that went beyond the purely military sphere and involved assumptions about the nature of the state and its relationship to its citizens. It was the material basis of Napoleon’s campaigns and of the German ‘wars of national liberation’ of 1813-15, before becoming a cornerstone of the Prussian Reforms and the creation of a civil society ‘from above’. Military service has therefore been one of the most essential and contradictory institutions of the modern nation-state. Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies will be of interest to historians of modern Europe, military historians and students of intellectual history in general.

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490

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Routledge

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1134130023

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9781134130023

Pacific Thunder

The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944

By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

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Pacific Thunder

The US Navy's Central Pacific Campaign, August 1943–October 1944

By: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver

On 27 October 1942, four 'Long Lance' torpedoes fired by the Japanese destroyers Makigumo and Akigumo exploded in the hull of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8). Minutes later, the ship that had launched the Doolitte Raid six months earlier slipped beneath the waves of the Coral Sea. Of the pre-war carrier fleet the Navy had struggled to build over 15 years, only three were left: USS Enterprise, which had been badly damaged in the battle of Santa Cruz; USS Saratoga (CV-3) which lay in dry dock, victim of a Japanese submarine torpedo; and the USS Ranger (CV-4), which was in the mid-Atlantic on her way to support Operation Torch. For the American naval aviators licking their wounds in the aftermath of this defeat, it would be difficult to imagine that within 24 months of this event, Zuikaku, the last survivor of the carriers that had attacked Pearl Harbor, would lie at the bottom of the sea. Alongside it lay the other surviving Japanese carriers, sacrificed as lures in a failed attempt to block the American invasion of the Philippines, leaving the United States to reign supreme on the world's largest ocean. Now publishing in paperback, this is the fascinating account of the Central Pacific campaign, one of the most stunning comebacks in naval history, as in just 14 months the US Navy went from the jaws of defeat to the brink of victory in the Pacific.

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330

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472821858

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9781472821850

Crisis and Turnaround in German Medium-Sized Enterprises

An Integrated Empirical Study

By: Thomas Wittig

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Crisis and Turnaround in German Medium-Sized Enterprises

An Integrated Empirical Study

By: Thomas Wittig

Thomas Wittig aims at gaining additional insights into the crisis and turnaround process of SMEs, investigating both, the turnaround success and the impact of turnaround on the family role in family firms. Based on a specifically developed integrated conceptual turnaround model, the author collected a sample of 209 turnaround cases of German medium-sized companies from restructuring experts working for German banks. Employing a variety of carefully selected statistical analyses he identifies key factors for turnaround success and finds specific archetypes of crises and turnaround. The study concludes with an analysis of the impact of a successful turnaround on the family firms within his sample. Based on the study’s insights he provides both, recommendations for future research and a set of practical implications for all relevant stakeholders of a turnaround situation.

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Springer

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3658163860

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Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ

By: Thomas Leitch

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Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ

By: Thomas Leitch

Most books on film adaptation—the relation between films and their literary sources—focus on a series of close one-to-one comparisons between specific films and canonical novels. This volume identifies and investigates a far wider array of problems posed by the process of adaptation. Beginning with an examination of why adaptation study has so often supported the institution of literature rather than fostering the practice of literacy, Thomas Leitch considers how the creators of short silent films attempted to give them the weight of literature, what sorts of fidelity are possible in an adaptation of sacred scripture, what it means for an adaptation to pose as an introduction to, rather than a transcription of, a literary classic, and why and how some films have sought impossibly close fidelity to their sources. After examining the surprisingly divergent fidelity claims made by three different kinds of canonical adaptations, Leitch's analysis moves beyond literary sources to consider why a small number of adapters have risen to the status of auteurs and how illustrated books, comic strips, video games, and true stories have been adapted to the screen. The range of films studied, from silent Shakespeare to Sherlock Holmes to The Lord of the Rings, is as broad as the problems that come under review.

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JHU Press

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0801891876

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9780801891878

Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

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Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

The Business, Bankruptcy and Resilience of the Höchstetters of Augsburg

By: Thomas Max Safley

This fascinating study follows the fortunes of the Höchstetter family, merchant-manufacturers and financiers of Augsburg, Germany, in the late-fifteenth and early-sixteenth centuries, and sheds light on the economic and social history of failure and resilience in early modern Europe. Carefully tracing the chronology of the family’s rise, fall and transformation, it moves from the micro- to the macro-level, making comparisons with other mercantile families of the time to draw conclusions and suggest insights into such issues as social mobility, capitalist organization, business techniques, market practices and economic institutions. The result is a microhistory that offers macro-conclusions about the lived experience of early capitalism and capitalistic practices. This book will be valuable reading for advanced students and researchers of economic, financial and business history, legal history and early modern European history.

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Routledge

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042964793X

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9780429647932

Italian Popular Tales

By: Thomas Frederick Crane

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Italian Popular Tales

By: Thomas Frederick Crane

An important reintroduction to this literature, this compilation of Thomas Crane's original translations of Italian folk stories includes new critical analysis. For 19th-century folklorist Thomas Crane, the value of collecting, translating, and reproducing folktales lay in their "internationalism"—their capacity to reveal how the customs of a particular group, no matter how unique, are linked to many others. In his classic collection, edited and updated by contemporary folklorist Jack Zipes, Crane traces the roots of Italian folktales to their origins, often in the Orient, then shows how they diffused in unpredictable and marvelous ways throughout Italy and over the centuries. A contemporary of the brothers Grimm, Crane offers a richer, more complex selection of oral and literary tales. Unlike the Grimms, he doesn't edit or modify the tales, which deal openly with surprisingly contemporary subjects: murder, adultery, incest, child abuse, and brutal vengeance.

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388

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576075532

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9781576075531

North German Opera in the Age of Goethe

By: Thomas Bauman

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North German Opera in the Age of Goethe

By: Thomas Bauman

This book is the first study of the development of German opera in northern Germany from the first comic operas of Johann Adam Hiller at Leipzig in 1766 to the end of the century. Intellectually and historically, the period witnessed the flowering of the German stage and German letters. German opera was an inseparable part of the new aspirations of the German stage during the Enlightenment. Thomas Bauman stresses the vital role of the mixed repertories of German companies in effecting changes in the genre. North German opera began as a basically literary genre. It then changed dramatically in response to two major trends: first, the contact with the serious elements and styles of tragedy and secondly, the triumph on German stages of Italian, French, and Viennese comic operas. The book is generously illustrated with music examples. There is also a complete catalogue of texts of North German opera: those composed for performance and unset published librettos both cross-indexed under the librettists' names.

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464

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Cambridge University Press

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0521260272

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9780521260275

The Software Industry

Economic Principles, Strategies, Perspectives

By: Peter Buxmann,Diefenbach,Thomas Hess

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The Software Industry

Economic Principles, Strategies, Perspectives

By: Peter Buxmann,Diefenbach,Thomas Hess

Whether ERP software, office applications, open-source products or online games: In terms of its economic characteristics, software differs fundamentally from industrial goods or services. Based on the economic principles and rules of the software industry, the book reveals strategies and business models to software vendors that comprise cooperation, distribution, pricing and production and industrialization strategies, as well as software as a service and platform concepts. Further aspects including the outsourcing behavior of software vendors and users; providing business software as open source software; selecting software; and the value chains in the software industry are also addressed. Based on a number of expert meetings, it contains numerous case studies and new empirical findings. Target audience of the book are professionals and executives from the software, consulting and IT branches as well as students and scholars of business administration, computer science, business and industrial engineering.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3642315097

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Book's by Thomas Weiber

Clarissa on the Continent

Clarissa on the Continent

An Anthology of German Literature

An Anthology of German Literature

The Last Witch of Langenburg

The Last Witch of Langenburg

Development of a Methodology for the Evaluation of Active Safety using the Example of Preventive Pedestrian Protection

Development of a Methodology for the Evaluation of Active Safety using the Example of Preventive Pedestrian Protection

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia

History of Friedrich II. of Prussia

Underground Mathematics

Underground Mathematics

Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies

Citizens, Soldiers and National Armies

Pacific Thunder

Pacific Thunder

Crisis and Turnaround in German Medium-Sized Enterprises

Crisis and Turnaround in German Medium-Sized Enterprises

Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

Film Adaptation and Its Discontents

Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Family Firms and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe

Italian Popular Tales

Italian Popular Tales

North German Opera in the Age of Goethe

North German Opera in the Age of Goethe

The Software Industry

The Software Industry

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