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Baseball in Long Beach

By: Tom Meigs

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Organized baseball in Long Beach dates to 1910, when the Long Beach Clothiers of the Southern California Trolley League played opponents wherever a streetcar could take them. Exhibition games later featured Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Joe DiMaggio, Bob Feller, and other Major League barnstormers. Homegrown talent includes Baseball Hall of Famers Bob Lemon and Tony Gwynn. Pioneering entrepreneur Bill Feistner built the first accommodating baseball park in 1922 at Redondo Avenue and Stearns Street in the shadow of oil-rich Signal Hill. When ballplayers werent on the Shell Park diamond, they worked the derricks.

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Arcadia Publishing

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143962058X

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Eva and Otto

Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler

By: Tom Pfister,Kathy Pfister,Peter Pfister

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Eva and Otto

Resistance, Refugees, and Love in the Time of Hitler

By: Tom Pfister,Kathy Pfister,Peter Pfister

Eva and Otto is a true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister (1910–1991) and Otto Pfister (1900–1985). It is an intimate and epic account of two Germans—Eva born Jewish, Otto born Catholic—who worked with a little-known German political group that resisted and fought against Hitler in Germany before 1933 and then in exile in Paris before the German invasion of France in May 1940. After their improbable escapes from separate internment and imprisonment in Europe, Eva obtained refuge in America in October 1940 where she worked to rescue other endangered political refugees, including Otto, with the help of Eleanor Roosevelt. As revealed in recently declassified records, Eva and Otto later engaged in different secret assignments with the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in support of the Allied war effort. Despite their vastly different backgrounds, Eva and Otto gave each other hope and strength as they acted upon what they understood to be an ethical duty to help others threatened by fascism. The book provides a sobering insight into the personal risks and costs of a commitment to that duty. Their unusually beautiful writing—directed to each other in diaries and correspondence during two long periods of wartime separation—also reveals an unlikely and inspiring love story.

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Purdue University Press

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1612496156

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9781612496153

Pindar's Library

Performance Poetry and Material Texts

By: Tom Phillips

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Pindar's Library

Performance Poetry and Material Texts

By: Tom Phillips

Pindar's Library is the first volume to analyse the role played by Pindar's literary, cultic, and scholarly reception in affecting readers' engagement with his poetry, considering the continuities between reading and attending performances, and highlighting elements of readers' experiences which were distinctive to Hellenistic culture.

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Oxford University Press

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0198745737

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Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases E-Book

By: Edward T Ryan,David R Hill,Tom Solomon,Naomi Aronson,Timothy P Endy

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Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases E-Book

By: Edward T Ryan,David R Hill,Tom Solomon,Naomi Aronson,Timothy P Endy

New emerging diseases, new diagnostic modalities for resource-poor settings, new vaccine schedules ... all significant, recent developments in the fast-changing field of tropical medicine. Hunter's Tropical Medicine and Emerging Infectious Diseases, 10th Edition, keeps you up to date with everything from infectious diseases and environmental issues through poisoning and toxicology, animal injuries, and nutritional and micronutrient deficiencies that result from traveling to tropical or subtropical regions. This comprehensive resource provides authoritative clinical guidance, useful statistics, and chapters covering organs, skills, and services, as well as traditional pathogen-based content. You'll get a full understanding of how to recognize and treat these unique health issues, no matter how widespread or difficult to control. - Includes important updates on malaria, leishmaniasis, tuberculosis and HIV, as well as coverage of Ebola, Zika virus, Chikungunya, and other emerging pathogens. - Provides new vaccine schedules and information on implementation. - Features five all-new chapters: Neglected Tropical Diseases: Public Health Control Programs and Mass Drug Administration; Health System and Health Care Delivery; Zika; Medical Entomology; and Vector Control – as well as 250 new images throughout. - Presents the common characteristics and methods of transmission for each tropical disease, as well as the applicable diagnosis, treatment, control, and disease prevention techniques. - Contains skills-based chapters such as dentistry, neonatal pediatrics and ICMI, and surgery in the tropics, and service-based chapters such as transfusion in resource-poor settings, microbiology, and imaging. - Discusses maladies such as delusional parasitosis that are often seen in returning travelers, including those making international adoptions, transplant patients, medical tourists, and more. - Enhanced eBook version included with purchase, which allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323625509

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Pathos and Anti-Pathos

Ruptured Affections in the Writing of the Shoah

By: Tom Vanassche

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Pathos and Anti-Pathos

Ruptured Affections in the Writing of the Shoah

By: Tom Vanassche

Scholarship often presumes that texts written about the Shoah, either by those directly involved in it or those writing its history, must always bear witness to the affective aftermath of the event, the lingering emotional effects of suffering. Drawing on the History of Emotions and on trauma theory, this monograph offers a critical study of the ambivalent attributions and expressions of emotion and “emotionlessness” in the literature and historiography of the Shoah. It addresses three phenomena: the metaphorical discourses by which emotionality and the purported lack thereof are attributed to victims and to perpetrators; the rhetoric of affective self-control and of affective distancing in fiction, testimony and historiography; and the poetics of empathy and the status of emotionality in discourses on the Shoah. Through a close analysis of a broad corpus centred around the work of W. G. Sebald, Dieter Schlesak, Ruth Klüger and Raul Hilberg, the book critically contextualises emotionality and its attributions in the post-war era, when a scepticism of pathos coincided with demands for factual rigidity. Ultimately, it invites the reader to reflect on their own affective stances towards history and its commemoration in the twenty-first century.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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311075858X

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Quotative Indexes in African Languages

A Synchronic and Diachronic Survey

By: Tom Güldemann

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Quotative Indexes in African Languages

A Synchronic and Diachronic Survey

By: Tom Güldemann

The book represents the results of a synchronic and diachronic cross-African survey of quotative indexes. These are linguistic expressions that signal in the ongoing discourse the presence of a quote (often called "direct reported speech"). For this purpose, 39 African languages were selected to represent the genealogical and geographical diversity of the continent. The study is based primarily on this language sample, in particular on the analysis of quotative indexes and related expressions from a text corpus of each sample language, but also includes a wide range of data from the published literature on other African as well as non- African languages. It is the first typological investigation of direct reported discourse of this magnitude in a large group of languages. The book may thus serve as a starting point of similar studies in other geographical areas or even with a global scope, as well as stimulate more detailed investigations of particular languages. The results of the African survey challenge several prevailing cross-linguistic generalizations regarding quotative indexes and reported discourse constructions as a whole, of which two are of particular interest. In the syntactic domain, where reported discourse has mostly been dealt with under so- called sentential complementation, the study supports the minority view that direct reported discourse and also a large portion of indirect reported discourse show hardly any evidence for the claim that the reported clause is a syntactic object complement of some matrix verb. With respect to grammaticalization, the work concludes that speech verbs are, against common belief, not a frequent source of quotatives, complementizers, and other related markers. Far more frequent sources are markers of similarity and manner; generic verbs of equation, inchoativity, and action; and pronominals referring to the quote or the speaker. Another more general conclusion of the study is that especially direct reported discourse can be fruitfully analyzed as part of a larger linguistic domain called "mimesis". This comprises expressions which represent a state of affairs by means of enactment/ performance rather than with the help of "canonical" linguistic signs and includes, besides reported discourse, world-referring bodily gestures, ideophone-like signs, and non-linguistic sound.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110211459

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Art and Truth after Plato

By: Tom Rockmore

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Art and Truth after Plato

By: Tom Rockmore

Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato’s famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato’s challenge was resolved long ago. In Art and Truth after Plato, Tom Rockmore argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered—and to demonstrate that, he offers a comprehensive account of Plato’s influence through nearly the whole history of Western aesthetics. Rockmore offers a cogent reading of the post-Platonic aesthetic tradition as a series of responses to Plato’s position, examining a stunning diversity of thinkers and ideas. He visits Aristotle’s Poetics, the medieval Christians, Kant’s Critique of Judgment, Hegel’s phenomenology, Marxism, social realism, Heidegger, and many other works and thinkers, ending with a powerful synthesis that lands on four central aesthetic arguments that philosophers have debated. More than a mere history of aesthetics, Art and Truth after Plato presents a fresh look at an ancient question, bringing it into contemporary relief.

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University of Chicago Press

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022604002X

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Heirs of Flesh and Paper

A European History of Dynastic Knowledge around 1700

By: Tom Tölle

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Heirs of Flesh and Paper

A European History of Dynastic Knowledge around 1700

By: Tom Tölle

Heirs of Flesh and Paper" tells the story of early modern dynastic politics through subjects’ practical responses to royal illness, failing princely reproduction, and heirs’ premature deaths. It treats connected dynastic crises between 1699 and 1716 as illustrative for early modern European political regimes in which the rulers’ corporeality defined politics. This political order grappled with the endemic uncertainties induced by dynastic bodies. By following the day-to-day practices of knowledge making in response to the unpredictability of royal health, the book shows how the ruling family’s mortal coils regularly threatened to destabilize the institutionalized legal fiction of kingship. Dynastic politics was not only as a transitory stage of state formation, part of elite cooperation, or a cultural construct. It needs to be approached through everyday practices that put ailing dynastic bodies front and center. In a period of intensifying political planning, it constituted one of the most important sites for changing the political itself.

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3110744651

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Narratology Beyond Literary Criticism

Mediality, Disciplinarity

By: Tom Kindt

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Narratology Beyond Literary Criticism

Mediality, Disciplinarity

By: Tom Kindt

The Narratologiaseries publishes state-of-the-art monographs and collective volumes devoted to modern narrative theory and its historical reconstruction in all the philological disciplines. It is the first narratological forum of its kind in Germany. In addition to literary texts, the series focuses on narration in everyday contexts, in pictorial media, in film and in the new media as well as on narration in historiography, ethnology, medicine, and the law. The series publishes in German and English. All volumes are peer reviewed by two anonymous assessors.

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3110183528

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Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics

With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

By: Tom Lissauer,Graham Clayden

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Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics

With STUDENT CONSULT Online Access

By: Tom Lissauer,Graham Clayden

A concise, colourfully illustrated and highly informative textbook of paediatrics. Written primarily for medical students for their course in clinical paediatrics (6-10 weeks in duration in the UK and worldwide), the book has found a wider audience among nurses, trainee paediatricians preparing for the MRCPCH, and general practitioners preparing for the DCH. Throughout, there is an emphasis on the core fundamentals of paediatrics practice throughout the world, which has contributed to its success in Europe, Asia, Australia and the Middle East. In the book: Summary boxes to help learning/revision Additional diagrams and photographs to assist learning Bringing book up to date and expanding topical items such as immunisations, obesity, child protection, ethics, medicines in children New chapters on Allergy and Adolescent Medicine Improved navigation by means of: Chapter summaries at the beginning of chapters using main headings and page numbers Colour-coding of chapters Differentiation of types of boxes by colour and numbering On www.studentconsult.com: Full text Self-assessment questions and answers using different formats: multiple choice questions; best of five and best of many; extended matching Photographs/illustrations Selected additional background information e.g. relevant embryology, basic science

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0723435863

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Aesthetics, Poetics and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Tom Marshall

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Aesthetics, Poetics and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By: Tom Marshall

This book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by providing an extended comparison between his work and the phenomenological theory of Edmund Husserl. Examining Coleridge’s accounts of the imagination, perception, poetic creativity and literary criticism, it draws a systematic and coherent structure out of a range of Coleridge’s philosophical writing. In addition, it also applies the principles of Coleridge’s philosophy to an interpretation of his own poetic output.

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Springer Nature

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3030527301

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Countdown: M Day

By: Tom Kratman

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Countdown: M Day

By: Tom Kratman

War is brutal. Colonel Wes Stauer gets it. He ought to. He was once one of war's most brutal practitioners¾not to mention one of its most effective and least bloody. Brutal yes; stupid no. Now, not only must Stauer command his crack outfit of former comrades and pull off yet another miracle mission, he must also harness and direct the brute within himself¾a beast he will need in order to destroy an intelligent enemy who is as implacable as Stauer himself. Okay, almost as implacable. There will be war. And there will be warriors like Wes Stauer who have the know-how and, once set in motion, the unstoppable professional drive, to see the bad guys to their graves and destroy every last earthly piece of their nasty legacies. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

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Baen Publishing Enterprises

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1618248294

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Neonatology at a Glance

By: Tom Lissauer,Avroy A. Fanaroff,Lawrence Miall,Jonathan Fanaroff

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Neonatology at a Glance

By: Tom Lissauer,Avroy A. Fanaroff,Lawrence Miall,Jonathan Fanaroff

Neonatology at a Glance provides a concise, illustrated overview of neonatal medicine. Written by leading international experts, it provides essential information on perinatal medicine, delivery, the normal newborn infant and neonatal problems encountered in neonatal intensive care units and their management. Each topic is supported by excellent illustrations, diagrams, and, for the first time, video clips to show neonatal resuscitation and stabilizing the sick newborn, normal examination, the baby with hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy, recognition of seizures and practical procedures. Neonatology at a Glance: • Provides up to date coverage of the important conditions you will encounter • Covers challenging topics including pain, ethical issues, quality improvement, evidence based medicine and palliative care • Features new sections on fetal medicine, respiratory support, therapeutic hypothermia, amplified EEG and perinatal neuroimaging • Integrates invaluable details about practical procedures including neonatal resuscitation and transport • Supplemented by video materials and artwork which can be viewed via the companion website at www.ataglanceseries.com/neonatology Neonatology at a Glance is the perfect guide for all health professionals looking after newborn infants, including pediatric trainees, medical students, neonatal nurse practitioners and neonatal nurses, therapists and midwives. For neonatologists, pediatricians and nurse tutors it is a valuable resource to assist with teaching.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118767322

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The Two Sides of the Business Family

Governance and Strategy Across Generations

By: Arist von Schlippe,Tom A. Rüsen,Torsten Groth

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The Two Sides of the Business Family

Governance and Strategy Across Generations

By: Arist von Schlippe,Tom A. Rüsen,Torsten Groth

This book focuses on a central success factor for family businesses: maintaining the decision-making ability over generations while not jeopardizing the business due to family conflict, inefficient governance structures, or lack of identification. The authors identify that this is not as easy as the endeavor to bring two social systems together with contradicting logic (family and business) leads to many dangerous pitfalls. This book presents outcomes of a unique research project in which family managers of eleven of the oldest and largest German family businesses, at least the fourth generation, met for more than three years on a regular basis and presented the essence of their family governance structures to each other and to the authors. It was a joint “learning journey” that admits identifying twelve core questions that these families had been answering to keep up the relationship between family and business successfully over generations. Obviously, there is no “right” answer to these questions. The key to success is rather engaging the families in a process to find out their own answers and make them aware of the “two sides”: being a family is different from being a business family.

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Springer Nature

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3030602001

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Comrades in Arms

Military Masculinities in East German Culture

By: Tom Smith

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Comrades in Arms

Military Masculinities in East German Culture

By: Tom Smith

Without question, the East German National People’s Army was a profoundly masculine institution that emphasized traditional ideals of stoicism, sacrifice, and physical courage. Nonetheless, as this innovative study demonstrates, depictions of the military in the film and literature of the GDR were far more nuanced and ambivalent. Departing from past studies that have found in such portrayals an unchanging, idealized masculinity, Comrades in Arms shows how cultural works both before and after reunification place violence, physical vulnerability, and military theatricality, as well as conscripts’ powerful emotions and desires, at the center of soldiers’ lives and the military institution itself.

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Berghahn Books

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1789205557

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The Virtual Haydn

Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist

By: Tom Beghin

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The Virtual Haydn

Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist

By: Tom Beghin

This is a highly original book about Haydn s keyboard music, about 18th-century keyboard practices and culture, and about performance. Written in the first person by the author, himself a professional keyboard player, the study places the performer, both historical and contemporary, at the center of the scholarly inquiry and explores in exquisite detail the process by which a modern performer arrives at a historically-informed interpretation of Haydn s sonatas. The veiled reference to Diderot s "Paradox of an Actor "in the title explicitly situates the study within the context of 18th-century debates on performancea crucial issue in the period, with the rapid expansion of music publishing, of concert culture, of amateur music making, especially among aristocratic women performers, and with rapid changes in the technology and the physical properties of the instruments themselves. The reference to Diderot also hints at the way in which Beghin s text itself performs in the manner of many 18th-century critical texts: like them, it has a tendency to be personal and idiosyncratic. Discussing a group of Viennese sonatas, for example, the author explores the contemporary fascination with physiognomy and goes on to try out facial gestures in his own performance of the music, which he documents in photographs reproduced in the book vis-a-vis Messerschmidt s grimacing busts of the same period. Introducing the female dedicatees and performers of sonatas written for both Vienna and London, he links rhetoric and gender showing how femininity was encoded into the music through rhetorical gestures comparable to those Haydn employed in letters to female friends and patrons. Using wit and imagination to illuminate and bridge the gulf between 18th-century and 21st-century concepts of performance, this book helps define a fresh approach to keyboard studies and performance studies today.

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University of Chicago Press

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022615677X

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E-Book - WSAVA Standards for Clinical and Histological Diagnosis of Canine and Feline Liver Diseases

By: WSAVA Liver Standardization WSAVA Liver Standardization Gr,Tom J. van Winkle,Robert J. Washabau,Jan Rothuizen,Susan E. Bunch,Jennifer A. Charles,John M. Cullen,Valeer J. Desmet,Viktor Szatmari,David C. Twedt,Ted S.G.A.M. van den Ingh

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E-Book - WSAVA Standards for Clinical and Histological Diagnosis of Canine and Feline Liver Diseases

This title is the product of an initiative of the World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA). The aim is to describe a world standard of guidelines for diagnosis of liver diseases in dogs and cats, using both histological and clinical criteria. - standard reference for pathologists and specialists, as well as general vets in practice - only available standard for making well defined diagnosis based on histological and clinical criteria for liver diseases in small animals - describes world standardization of guidelines for diagnosis of liver diseases in dogs and cats, using both histological and clinical criteria. - supported by WSAVA giving it a worldwide appeal

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0702032778

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The Periodic Table: Nature's Building Blocks

An Introduction to the Naturally Occurring Elements, Their Origins and Their Uses

By: J. Theo Kloprogge,Concepcion P. Ponce,Tom Loomis

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The Periodic Table: Nature's Building Blocks

An Introduction to the Naturally Occurring Elements, Their Origins and Their Uses

By: J. Theo Kloprogge,Concepcion P. Ponce,Tom Loomis

The Periodic Table: Nature’s Building Blocks: An Introduction to the Naturally Occurring Elements, Their Origins and Their Uses addresses how minerals and their elements are used, where the elements come from in nature, and their applications in modern society. The book is structured in a logical way using the periodic table as its outline. It begins with an introduction of the history of the periodic table and a short introduction to mineralogy. Element sections contain their history, how they were discovered, and a description of the minerals that contain the element. Sections conclude with our current use of each element. Abundant color photos of some of the most characteristic minerals containing the element accompany the discussion. Ideal for students and researchers working in inorganic chemistry, minerology and geology, this book provides the foundational knowledge needed for successful study and work in this exciting area. Describes the link between geology, minerals and chemistry to show how chemistry relies on elements from nature Emphasizes the connection between geology, mineralogy and daily life, showing how minerals contribute to the things we use and in our modern economy Contains abundant color photos of each mineral that bring the periodic table to life

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0128215380

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9 Short Stories

By: Tom Willison

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9 Short Stories

By: Tom Willison

A boxer on a street corner, Confederate soldiers skidoo from Gettysburg, a chess prodigy from Mars, a masked man with a bull whip that hunts down Civil War bushwhackers, a broken heart, and other fast-moving short stories comprise the contents of this book.

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1504906292

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Between Two Chairs

By: Helmut (Tom) Mueller

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Between Two Chairs

By: Helmut (Tom) Mueller

Who are you if you have lived half your life in one culture and the other half in another? This is the question that Helmut (Tom) Mueller dealt with, often feeling caught between the two cultures. In his memoir, Between Two Chairs, Tom details his life from coming of age in Nazi Germany to a successful life in the United States. This is his story. Born into an affluent family in Brandenburg, Germany in 1925, Tom became fascinated with flying in his youth and eventually joined the Luftwaffe where he saw action as a fighter pilot during WWII. At war's end, he surrendered to the American forces, but was turned over to the Russians the next day. His escape, the search for family, and the attempt to create a normal life dominated the decade after the war. Then came an opportunity to pursue the American Dream where Tom learned to appreciate the values of his new country. In the end, who was he? Helmut the German or Tom the American?

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1329025628

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Practical Guide to the Care of the Surgical Patient E-Book

The Pocket Scalpel

By: Tom C. Nguyen,Oscar J. Abilez

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Practical Guide to the Care of the Surgical Patient E-Book

The Pocket Scalpel

By: Tom C. Nguyen,Oscar J. Abilez

If you need a practical, portable resource to get you through the day-to-day management of surgical patients, this new title in the Practical Guide series is the answer! Written by residents with practice-proven guidance and input from attending surgeons, this “Pocket Scalpel zeroes in on the differential diagnoses, clinical findings, lab values, and treatment guidelines you need...all in an intuitive and user-friendly format that fits comfortably in your scrubs or white coat pocket. Offers current clinical information on all facets of surgical patient management—from bedside procedures and operation guidelines to the latest drug therapies and lab tests—to promote effective, state-of-the-art care. Provides diagrams, algorithms, comparative tables, lists, key images—and more—to facilitate quick and rapid review of high-yield information. Features a chapter of “Skeletons that provides convenient access to guidance on commonly used patient care management protocols—from admit and transfer orders, history and physical examination, and procedures...to intensive care unit progress and discharge summaries. Includes a section on pharmacotherapy for addressing specific antimicrobial conditions, enabling you to choose the most effective treatment options. Covers medical terms in Spanish, equipping you to handle an increasingly diverse patient population. Uses a convenient spiral binding so the book lays flat for easy reference and at-a-glance searching.

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0323078559

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The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560

Between Accommodation and Aggression

By: Tom Scott

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The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560

Between Accommodation and Aggression

By: Tom Scott

Renewed interest in Swiss history has sought to overcome the old stereotypes of peasant liberty and republican exceptionalism. The heroic age of the Confederation in the fifteenth century is now seen as a turning-point as the Swiss polity achieved a measure of institutional consolidation and stability, and began to mark out clear frontiers. The Swiss and their Neighbours, 1460-1560 questions both assumptions. It argues that the administration of the common lordships by the cantons collectively gave rise to as much discord as co-operation, and remained a pragmatic device not a political principle. It argues that the Swiss War of 1499 was an avoidable catastrophe, from which developed a modus vivendi between the Swiss and the Empire as the Rhine became a buffer-zone, not a boundary. It then investigates the background to Bern's conquest of the Vaud in 1536, under the guise of relieving Geneva from beleaguerment, to suggest that Bern's actions were driven not by predeterminate territorial expansion but by the need to halt French designs upon Geneva and Savoy. The geopolitical balance of the Confederation was fundamentally altered by Bern's acquisition of the Vaud and adjacent lands. Nevertheless, the political fabric of the Confederation, which had been tested to the brink during the Reformation, proved itself flexible enough to absorb such a major reorientation, not least because what held the Confederation together was not so much institutions as a sense of common identity and mutual obligation forged during the Burgundian Wars of the 1470s.

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0191038393

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9780191038396

Modern Approach to Benign Esophageal Disease

Diagnosis and Surgical Therapy

By: Cedric G. Bremner,Tom R. DeMeester

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Modern Approach to Benign Esophageal Disease

Diagnosis and Surgical Therapy

By: Cedric G. Bremner,Tom R. DeMeester

This work focuses on the physiologic approach to the understanding and management of oesophageal disease. This is coupled with the utilization of minimally invasive thoracoscopic and laparoscopic surgery as a first option in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. oesophageal motility disorders, oesophageal diverticula, and benign oesopha

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Ghostletters Vienna

Spuren urbaner Identiät - Traces of Urban Identity

By: Tom Koch

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Ghostletters Vienna

Spuren urbaner Identiät - Traces of Urban Identity

By: Tom Koch

Sie sind flüchtige Zeitzeugen, ständig von Demontage und Übermalung bedroht: Ghostletter entstehen überall da, wo Schriftzüge von Portalen demontiert werden und ihre Spuren hinterlassen. Viele von ihnen sind noch jahrelang, einige sogar jahrzehntelang im

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Falter Verlag

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3854396112

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German Idealism as Constructivism

By: Tom Rockmore

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German Idealism as Constructivism

By: Tom Rockmore

German Idealism as Constructivism is the culmination of many years of research by distinguished philosopher Tom Rockmore—it is his definitive statement on the debate about German idealism between proponents of representationalism and those of constructivism that still plagues our grasp of the history of German idealism and the whole epistemological project today. Rockmore argues that German idealism—which includes iconic thinkers such as Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel—can best be understood as a constructivist project, one that asserts that we cannot know the mind-independent world as it is but only our own mental construction of it. Since ancient Greece philosophers have tried to know the world in itself, an effort that Kant believed had failed. His alternative strategy—which came to be known as the Copernican revolution—was that the world as we experience and know it depends on the mind. Rockmore shows that this project was central to Kant’s critical philosophy and the later German idealists who would follow him. He traces the different ways philosophers like Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel formulated their own versions of constructivism. Offering a sweeping but deeply attuned analysis of a crucial part of the legacy of German idealism, Rockmore reinvigorates this school of philosophy and opens up promising new avenues for its study.

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University of Chicago Press

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022635007X

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The Sixth Scottish University

The Scots Colleges Abroad: 1575 to 1799

By: Tom McInally

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The Sixth Scottish University

The Scots Colleges Abroad: 1575 to 1799

By: Tom McInally

This book deals with an area of Scotland’s intellectual history which previously has been neglected. The alumni of the Scots Colleges abroad gave a distinctive Catholic voice to the Enlightenment with major achievements in Arts, Architecture and scientific experimentation.

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

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The Rough Guide to Film

By: Jessica Winter,Lloyd Hughes,Richard Armstrong,Tom Charity

The Rough Guide to Film is a bold new guide to cinema. Arranged by director, it covers the top moguls, mavericks and studio stalwarts of every era, genre and region, in addition to lots of lesser-known names. With each film placed in the context of its director’s career, the guide reviews thousands of the greatest movies ever made, with lists highlighting where to start, arranged by genre and by region. You’ll find profiles of over eight hundred directors, from Hollywood legends Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to contemporary favourites like Steven Soderbergh and Martin Scorsese and cult names such as David Lynch and Richard Linklater. The guide is packed with great cinema from around the globe, including French New Wave, German giants, Iranian innovators and the best of East Asia, from Akira Kurosawa to Wong Kar-Wai and John Woo. With overviews of all major movements and genres, feature boxes on partnerships between directors and key actors, and cinematographers and composers, this is your essential guide to a world of cinema.

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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish

Essays

By: Tom McCarthy

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Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish

Essays

By: Tom McCarthy

Essays on literature, pop culture, and more from the cult novelist and critic Tom McCarthy Fifteen brilliant essays written over as many years provide a map of the sensibility and critical intelligence of Tom McCarthy, one of the most original and challenging novelists at work today. Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish explores a wide range of subjects, from the weather considered as a form of media, to the paintings of Gerhard Richter and the movies of David Lynch, to Patty Hearst as revolutionary sex goddess, to the still-radical implications of established masterpieces such as Ulysses (how do you write after it?), Tristram Shandy, and the unsung junky genius Alexander Trocchi’s darkly beautiful Cain’s Book. The longer “Recessional” examines the place of time in writing—how writing makes a new time of its own, a time apart from institutional time—while the startling “Nothing Will Have Taken Place” moves from Mallarmé and Don DeLillo to the ball mastery of Zidane to look at how art, whether that of a poet, novelist, or athlete, destroys given codes of meaning and behavior, returning them to play. Certain points of reference recur with dreamlike insistence—among them the artist Ed Ruscha’s Royal Road Test, a photographic documentation of the roadside debris of a Royal typewriter hurled from the window of a traveling car; the great blooms of jellyfish that are filling the oceans and gumming up the machinery of commerce and military domination—and the question throughout is: How can art explode the restraining conventions of so-called realism, whether aesthetic or political, to engage in the active reinvention of the world?

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New York Review of Books

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1681370867

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9781681370866

Ballard's War

By: Tom Holzel

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Ballard's War

By: Tom Holzel

In the midst of bombing raids on Berlin, the Abwehr the German Secret Service-- receives an anonymous letter describing in incredible detail top secrets of the German and Allied war plans. Claiming to be an embittered American, Robert Ballard produces a stream of top secret information from both sides of the conflict that can only come from the very highest levels. Embraced by the Abwehr, his extraordinary success in thwarting Allied attacks soon arouses the suspicions of the Gestapo. How can an foreigner be operating a massive spy ring right under their noses? Oskar Faulheim of the Gestapo discovers Ballards infatuation with Sabina Pergolesi, a beautiful Italian widow. He quickly resettles her mother in a seedy pension next to the Ravensburg concentration camp. Find out everything you can about your Herr Ballard, Faulheim warns Sabina, or shell be moved into the campwith you to quickly follow. If Ballard remains a mystery, Sabina Pergolesi is also not what she seems. When Ballard mentions they cannot return to America where he would be branded a traitor, she flees him in tears.

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iUniverse

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146201724X

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Self-Assessment in Paediatrics E-BOOK

By: Tom Lissauer,Will Carroll

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Self-Assessment in Paediatrics E-BOOK

By: Tom Lissauer,Will Carroll

This is an indispensable companion to the 'Sunflower book' – the highly acclaimed Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics (6th Edition). It is essential for those who wish to test or improve their learning, or for exam revision for undergraduate or early postgraduate speciality exams. It includes high quality questions, some including images or diagrams, on important topics covering the paediatrics and child health curriculum. Explanations about both correct and incorrect answers are provided. The authors are highly experienced examiners and question writers, ensuring that the questions are similar to those encountered in exams or help explain difficult topics. - Over 250 Single Best Answer questions - Over 200 question stems for Extended Matching questions - Explanations provided not only of the correct but also of incorrect answers - Clinical photographs included to ask questions about clinical signs

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702081868

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What We Have Heard from the Beginning

The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies

By: Tom Thatcher

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What We Have Heard from the Beginning

The Past, Present, and Future of Johannine Studies

By: Tom Thatcher

Written in a conversational and reflective tone, the articles offer an excellent overview of major issues in the study of the Fourth Gospel and 1-2-3 John.

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1602580103

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The Giants of Sales

What Dale Carnegie, John Patterson, Elmer Wheeler, and Joe Girard Can Teach You About Real Sales Success

By: Tom Sant

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The Giants of Sales

What Dale Carnegie, John Patterson, Elmer Wheeler, and Joe Girard Can Teach You About Real Sales Success

By: Tom Sant

This invaluable guide introduces you to the techniques developed by four legendary sales giants, and offers concrete examples of how they still work in the 21st century. Sales theories come and go, but nothing beats learning from the original masters. The Giants of Sales reveals how: In his quest to sell a brand new product known as the cash register, John Henry Patterson came up with a repeatable sales process tailor-made for his own sales force Dale Carnegie taught people how to win friends and influence customers with powerful methods that still work Joe Girard, listed by Guinness as the world’s greatest salesman, didn’t just sell cars, he sold relationships…and developed a successful referral business Elmer Wheeler discovered fundamental truths about persuasion by testing thousands of sales pitches on millions of people, and achieved great success in the middle of the Great Depression Part history and part how-to, The Giants of Sales gives you practical, real-world techniques based on the time-tested wisdom of true sales masters.

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AMACOM

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Fancy Af Cocktails

Drink Recipes from a Couple of Professional Drinkers

By: Ariana Madix,Tom Sandoval

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Drink Recipes from a Couple of Professional Drinkers

By: Ariana Madix,Tom Sandoval

Trashy and classy cocktails by the ... Vanderpump Rules couple"--

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Harvest

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0358171717

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Weir & Abrahams' Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy E-Book

By: Jonathan Spratt,Lonie R Salkowski,Marios Loukas,Tom Turmezei,Jamie Weir,Peter H. Abrahams

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Weir & Abrahams' Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy E-Book

By: Jonathan Spratt,Lonie R Salkowski,Marios Loukas,Tom Turmezei,Jamie Weir,Peter H. Abrahams

BMA Book Awards - Winner of Basic and Clinical Sciences category! The perfect up-to-date imaging guide for a complete and 3-dimensional understanding of applied human anatomy Imaging is ever more integral to anatomy education and throughout modern medicine. Building on the success of previous editions, this fully revised sixth edition provides a superb foundation for understanding applied human anatomy, offering a complete view of the structures and relationships within the whole body, using the very latest imaging techniques. All relevant imaging modalities are included, from plain radiographs to more advanced imaging of ultrasound, CT, MRI, functional imaging and angiography. Coverage is further enhanced by a carefully selected range of BONUS electronic content, including clinical photos and cases, ultrasound videos, labelled radiograph 'slidelines', cross-sectional imaging stacks and test-yourself materials. Uniquely, key syllabus image sets are now highlighted throughout to aid efficient study, as well as the most common, clinically important anatomical variants that you should be aware of. This superb package is ideally suited to the needs of medical students, as well as radiologists, radiographers and surgeons in training. It will also prove invaluable to the range of other students and professionals who require a clear, accurate, view of anatomy in current practice. - Fully revised legends and labels and new high-quality images–featuring the latest imaging techniques and modalities as seen in clinical practice - Covers the full variety of relevant modern imaging–including cross-sectional views in CT and MRI, angiography, ultrasound, fetal anatomy, plain film anatomy, nuclear medicine imaging and more – with better resolution to ensure the clearest anatomical views - Core syllabus image sets now highlighted throughout–to help you focus on the most essential areas to excel on your course and in examinations - Unique summaries of the most common, clinically important anatomical variants for each body region–reflects the fact that around 20% of human bodies have at least one clinically significant variant - New orientation drawings–to help you understand the different views and the 3D anatomy of 2D images, as well as the conventions between cross-sectional modalities - Ideal as a stand-alone resource or in conjunction with Abrahams' and McMinn's Clinical Atlas of Human Anatomy–where new links help put imaging in the context of the dissection room - Now a more complete learning package than ever before, with superb BONUS electronic enhancements embedded within the accompanying eBook, including: - Labelled image 'stacks'–that allow you to review cross-sectional imaging as if using an imaging workstation - Labelled image 'slidelines'–showing features in a full range of body radiographs to enhance understanding of anatomy in this essential modality - Self-test image 'slideshows' with multi-tier labelling–to aid learning and cater for beginner to more advanced experience levels - Labelled ultrasound videos–bring images to life, reflecting this increasingly clinically practiced technique - Questions and answers accompany each chapter–to test your understanding and aid exam preparation - 34 pathology tutorials–based around nine key concepts and illustrated with hundreds of additional pathology images, to further develop your memory of anatomical structures and lead you through the essential relationships between normal and abnormal anatomy - High-yield USMLE topics–clinical photos and cases for key topics, linked and highlighted in chapters

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702081302

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9780702081309

FloodWorld

By: Tom Huddleston

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FloodWorld

By: Tom Huddleston

FloodWorld is a gripping, action-packed story for 10+ readers. Kara and Joe spend their days navigating the perilous waterways of a sunken city, scratching out a living in the ruins. But when they come into possession of a mysterious map, they find themselves in a world of trouble. Suddenly everyone's after them: gangsters, cops and ruthless Mariner pirates in their hi-tech submarines. The two children must find a way to fight back before Floodworld's walls come tumbling down... With cover illustration by Manuel Sumberac. "An action-packed, edge of the seat thriller" BookTrust

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Nosy Crow

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1788005007

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The Immigrants

By: Tom Richardson,Walter Fredricks

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The Immigrants

By: Tom Richardson,Walter Fredricks

A family History. Our Grandfather made the trip to America before WWI but returned and was drafted into the German Army. After the War he worked his way back to the USA from Hamburg and sent for our Grandmother as soon as he could afford it. Neither of them returned until our Grandmother did in the 1970s. This book tells the family story from just before the war up until the present time.

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Lulu.com

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1387877755

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Kant and Idealism

By: Tom Rockmore

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Kant and Idealism

By: Tom Rockmore

This much-needed book examines one of the great lacunae of contemporary philosophical discussion - idealism. Addressing the widespread confusion about the meaning and use of the term, Tom Rockmore surveys and classifies some of its major forms. He argues that Kant provides the essential link between three main types of idealism associated with Plato, the new way of ideas, and German idealism. The author also makes a case for the contemporary relevance of at least one strand in the tangled idealist web, a strand most clearly identified with Kant. In terms of the philosophical tradition, Rockmore contends, constructivism offers a lively, interesting, and important approach to knowledge after the decline of metaphysical realism.

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Yale University Press

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0300134738

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