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The Triumph of Ethernet

Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard

By: Urs von Burg

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The Triumph of Ethernet

Technological Communities and the Battle for the LAN Standard

By: Urs von Burg

One of the most important elements in the computer revolution has been agreement on technological standards. This book tells the complete story of the battle between several competing technologies in the late 1970s and early 1980s to become the compatibility standard in one high-tech arena, the LAN (local area network) industry.

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Stanford University Press

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080474095X

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9780804740951

Tragedy Under Grace

Reinhold Schneider on the Experience of the West

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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Tragedy Under Grace

Reinhold Schneider on the Experience of the West

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

In Tragedy Under Grace, Hans Urs von Balthasar presents a magisterial portrait of one of the most fascinating figures of the European Catholic renaissance, the historian and man of letters, Reinhold Schneider, whose response to the spiritual collapse of the West led him to Christ and to an interpretation of history in the light of the cross. Balthasar's painstaking reconstruction of Schneider's spiritual and intellectual itinerary, which traces the author's discovery of the presence of grace in the tragic conflicts of history, will be valuable for those desiring to understand the historical experience of the West, the relationship between faith and culture, or the role of the Catholic layman in the world. Anyone looking for a profound - and costly - response to the cultural crisis of our own day will also find in this book a source of understanding and inspiration.

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Ignatius Press

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1681496003

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9781681496009

Theo-Drama

Theological Dramatic Theory

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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Theo-Drama

Theological Dramatic Theory

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The first volume of this series surveyed the great world dramatists to gather concepts and ideas to apply to the real stage, which is the universe God has made and centered into himself as an actor. This volume describes the actors, the dramatis personae. This is his theological anthropology concerning man, his freedom and destiny in the light of biblical revelation. Von Balthasar is concerned here with the dramatic character of existence as a whole, approaching the topic through a consideration of the various conditions and situations of mankind as a drama that involves both the Creator and his creatures.

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1681495767

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First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr

2nd Edition

By: Hans Urs von Balthasar

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First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr

2nd Edition

By: Hans Urs von Balthasar

This second edition of von Balthasar's book is a personal introduction to Adrienne von Speyr, a contemporary Swiss convert, mystic, wife, medical doctor, prolific spiritual writer, and co-foundress with Balthasar of a secular institute. Fr. von Balthasar, her spiritual director for 27 years, includes an appraisal of her contributions to theology and spirituality, a complete bibliography, her prayers, and passages from her more than sixty books. This book contains three main sections. In the first, three subdivisions offer: 1) a short account of Adrienne's life; 2) a description of her charism and of her most important theological concerns; 3) an overview of her published and unpublished works. The second section presents a collection of some enlightening statements that Adrienne made about herself which illuminate and vivify her exterior as well as her hidden, interior life from varying angles and which also clearly indicate where she herself put the greatest emphasis and how she herself wished to be understood. A third section contains prayers she herself wrote which best reveal her spirit.

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Ignatius Press

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1621641805

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Mary

The Church at the Source

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar,Joseph Ratzinger

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Mary

The Church at the Source

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar,Joseph Ratzinger

Two great theologians endeavor to recover the centrality of Marian doctrine and devotion for the contemporary Church, offering a spiritually rich approach to Mariology that brings into new relief the Marian contours of ecclesial faith. Ratzinger and von Balthasar show that Mary is both the embodiment of the Church, and the mother who co-operates in giving birth to the Church in the souls of believers. At once profound and yet readily accessible, Mary: The Church at the Source offers a theologically balanced and biblically grounded presentation of traditional and contemporary thought on Marian doctrine and spirituality.

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Ignatius Press

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1681493314

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9781681493312

To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar,Adrienne Von Speyr

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To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar,Adrienne Von Speyr

Preface by Henri Cardinal de Lubac Postscript and foreword by Jacques Servais, S.J. In the 1960's, Fr. Hans Urs von Balthasar gave two conferences in Paris on the subject of redemption. One considered the perspective of Christ the Redeemer. The other gave a view of the redemption from the perspective of Mary and the Church, consenting to the sacrifice of Jesus. These two conferences are what Fr. Jacques Servais, S.J., in his foreword calls "a lantern of the Word", shedding light amidst the advancing turmoil of the postconciliar period. These conferences were later collected by the eminent theologian Henri Cardinal de Lubac, S.J., in a single volume along with an anthology of meditations on the Passion by the mystic Adrienne von Speyr, and selected by von Balthasar. In this new edition, prepared for the centenary of the birth of Hans Urs von Balthasar, Fr. Servais, the director of Casa Balthasar in Rome, provides an extensive postscript illuminating the text along with the original preface by de Lubac. "I had the joy of knowing and associating with this renowned Swiss theologian. I am convinced that his theological reflections preserve their freshness and profound relevance undiminished to this day and that they incite many others to penetrate ever further into the depths of the mystery of the Faith, with such an authoritative guide leading them by the hand." - Pope Benedict XVI

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168149597X

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Dare We Hope - 2nd Edition

By: Hans Urs von Balthasar

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Dare We Hope - 2nd Edition

By: Hans Urs von Balthasar

This book is perhaps one of the most misunderstood works of Catholic theology of our time. Critics contend that von Balthasar espouses universalism, the idea that all men will certainly be saved. Yet, as von Balthasar insists, damnation is a real possibility for anyone. Indeed, he explores the nature of damnation with sobering clarity. At the same time, he contends that a deep understanding of God’s merciful love and human freedom, and a careful reading of the Catholic tradition, point to the possibility—not the certainty—that, in the end, all men will accept the salvation Christ won for all. For this all-embracing salvation, von Balthasar says, we may dare hope, we must pray and with God’s help we must work. The Catholic Church’s teaching on hell has been generally neglected by theologians, with the notable exception of von Balthasar. He grounds his reflections clearly in Sacred Scripture and Catholic teaching. While the Church asserts that certain individuals are in heaven (the saints), she never declares a specific individual to be in hell. In fact, the Church hopes that in their final moments of life, even the greatest sinners would have repented of their terrible sins, and be saved. Sacred Scripture states, “God ... desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all” (1 Tim 2:4–5).

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158617942X

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The Madam and the Spymaster

The Secret History of the Most Famous Brothel in Wartime Berlin

By: Urs Brunner,Nigel Jones,Julia Schrammel

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The Madam and the Spymaster

The Secret History of the Most Famous Brothel in Wartime Berlin

By: Urs Brunner,Nigel Jones,Julia Schrammel

This extraordinary story of a high-class Berlin brothel—taken over by the Nazi secret service—is one of the last untold tales of World War II. There is no book in English about the wartime Berlin ‘salon’ run by Kitty Schmidt under the secret control of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the architects of the Final Solution. "Salon Kitty" was the most notorious brothel in the decadent Berlin of the Weimar Republic - the city of "Cabaret." But after the Nazis took power, it became something more dangerous: a spying center with every room wired for sound, staffed by female agents specially selected by the SS to coax secrets from their VIP clients. Masterminded by Reinhard Heydrich, the spymaster whom Hitler himself called "the man with the iron heart," the exclusive establishment turned listening post was patronized by the Nazi leaders themselves, not knowing that hidden ears were listening. The Madam and the Spymaster reveals the sensational true story of this forgotten part of espionage history. The deep research undertaken by Nigel Jones, Urs Brunner and Dr Julia Schrammel sheds new light on Nazi methods of control and coercion, and the way sex was abused for their own perverse purposes.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639364307

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The Office of Peter

And the Structure of the Church

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

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The Office of Peter

And the Structure of the Church

By: Hans Urs Von Balthasar

In this theological masterpiece on the ministry of the Pope (the Petrine Office) and the nature of the Church, the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar examines what he calls the anti-Roman attitude-a widespread hostility toward the Papacy. Unfortunately, this attitude exists even within the Catholic Church. How should we understand this? More importantly, how should we overcome it? Hans Urs von Balthasar answers these questions by providing a balanced discussion of the Papcy's place in the Church. He shows how the Office of Peter is an essential aspect of the ongoing life and mission of Christ's Church. On the one hand, the Papacy is not "above" the Church, the author insists, nor is the mystery of the Church reducible to the Papacy. On the other hand, writes von Balthasar, the Petrine ministry of the Pope is a crucial element among other indispensable, constitutive principles, which include what von Balthasar calls the Johannine and Pauline dimensions, and above all else on the Marian aspect of the Church.

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1681495279

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Conrad Gessner (1516–1565)

Universal Scholar and Natural Scientist of the Renaissance

By: Urs B. Leu

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Conrad Gessner (1516–1565)

Universal Scholar and Natural Scientist of the Renaissance

By: Urs B. Leu

The Zurich polymath Conrad Gessner (1516–1565) is known as the founder of zoology and plant geography, the father of bibliography, editor of ancient texts, and author of one of the most important paleontological works of the sixteenth century. While preparing his extensive work on plants, he died unexpectedly and early from the plague. Gessner's interest in the natural sciences was rooted, on the one hand, in the new conception of nature that emerged with the Renaissance, and, on the other hand, in the creation theology of the Reformation, which considered nature as a second book of God's revelation next to the Bible. This richly illustrated and erudite biography is the first biography of Gessner to appear in English. This biography is a translation of Conrad Gessner (1516-1565): Universalgelehrter und Naturforscher der Renaissance (Basel: NZZ Libro, 2016).

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BRILL

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9004541691

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9789004541696

Richard Wagner and Buddhism

By: Urs App

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Richard Wagner and Buddhism

By: Urs App

It is little known that Richard Wagner was among the very first Westerners to appreciate Buddhism and that he was the first major European artist to be inspired by this religion. In 1856, in the prime of his creativity, the 33-year-old artist read his first book about Buddhism. Madly in love with Mathilde Wesendonck, a beautiful but happily married woman, he conceived two deeply connected opera projects: Tristan und Isolde which he went on to compose and stage, and Die Sieger (The Victors), an opera scenario based on an Indian Buddha legend translated from Sanskrit. These two projects mirrored Wagner's burning desire for the consummation of his love and the necessity of renunciation. This Buddhist opera project occupied Wagner's mind for decades until his death in 1883. Indeed, the composer's last words were about the Buddha figure of his scenario and his relationship with women. Urs App, the author of The Birth of Orientalism (University of Pennsylvania Press) and the world's foremost authority on the early Western reception of Buddhism, tells the story of Richard Wagner's creative encounter with Buddhism and explains the composer's last words.

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UniversityMedia

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3906000001

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Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names

By: Urs Eggli,Leonard E. Newton

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Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names

By: Urs Eggli,Leonard E. Newton

Names are important elements to handle the diversity of items in daily life - persons, objects, animals, plants, etc. Without such names, it would be difficult to attach information to such items and to communicate information about them, and names are usually used without giving them much thought. This is not different for plants. When dealing with plants, however, it soon becomes apparent that the situation is somewhat more complex. Botanists use Latin names to bring order into the vast diversity, while everyday usage resorts to vemacular or "popular" names. As practical as these vernacular names are (it is not suggested that you should ask your greengrocer for a kilo gram of Solanum tuberosum or Musa paradisiaca subsp. sapientum), their most important draw back is the fact that they vary widely, not only from one language to another but also from coun try to country, even from region to region within a large country. More importantly, vemacular names in any given language are usually only available for the plants growing locally, or for plants of some special importance, such as crops and vegetables, medicinal plants, or important garden plants. For all other plants, the Latin names used by botanists and other scientists have to be employed. Such names often appear complicated or even awkward to the ears of those not accustomed to them.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3662071258

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9783662071250

Henricus Glareanus’s (1488-1563) Chronologia of the Ancient World

A Facsimile Edition of a Heavily Annotated Copy Held in Princeton University Library

By: Anthony Grafton,Urs Leu

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Henricus Glareanus’s (1488-1563) Chronologia of the Ancient World

A Facsimile Edition of a Heavily Annotated Copy Held in Princeton University Library

By: Anthony Grafton,Urs Leu

The humanists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries took a passionate interest in Livy’s History of Rome. No one studied the text more intensively than the Swiss scholar Henricus Glareanus, who not only held lectures on different Roman historians at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, but also drew up chronological tables for ancient history, which were printed several times in Basle, sometimes together with Livy’s History. Glareanus annotated his personal copy of the chronological tables and invited his students to copy his marginal notes into their own copies of the book. Three of these copies survived, and give new insight into Glareanus’s practices as a scholar and teacher. The notes they contain—and the way in which Glareanus used them as a teacher—are distinctive, and neither has had much attention in the past from historians of reading. This volume presents facsimile reproductions of the tables from one of the surviving copies, now kept in Princeton University Library. The high-quality reproductions include transcriptions of the handwritten notes, unlocking Glareanus’s teachings for a new generation of students and researchers.

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9004261761

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Huldrych Zwingli‘s Private Library

By: Urs Leu,Sandra Weidmann

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Huldrych Zwingli‘s Private Library

By: Urs Leu,Sandra Weidmann

The Swiss theologian Huldrych Zwingli (1484–1531) was one of the most prominent reformers and the founder of the Reformed Protestant Church in the Swiss Confederation. During the last hundred years more than 200 titles from his private library have been discovered. They give an interesting insight into his interests and sources. The present book contains not only an extensive introduction and a catalogue of these books and manuscripts, but also an inventory of the lost works possessed by Zwingli. They open the door to Zwingli’s study and to the intellectual world of an important reformer.

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9004385649

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9789004385641

Jaundice During Pregnancy

With Special Emphasis on Recurrent Jaundice During Pregnancy and Its Differential Diagnosis

By: Urs Peter Haemmerli

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Jaundice During Pregnancy

With Special Emphasis on Recurrent Jaundice During Pregnancy and Its Differential Diagnosis

By: Urs Peter Haemmerli

7 1. THE LIVER IN NORMAL PREGNANCY 9 Liver palpation. ... 9 Spider angiomas and palmar erythema 9 Histological changes in liver biopsies 10 Liver blood flow ... 10 Hemoglobin and serum iron ... 11 Total leucocyte and differential count. 11 Prothrombin time 11 Urinary bile components 11 Serum bilirubin ... 11 Bromsulfalein retention . 12 Galactose tolerance test . 12 Serum alkaline phosphatase 12 Serum transaminases and other enzymes . 13 Serum cholesterol and serum lipids ... 14 Total serum proteins and serum electrophoresis 14 Serum turbidity and flocculation tests 15 Conclusions ... 15 II. JAUNDICE DURING PREGNANCY ... - - 17 1) Incidence of jaundice durip. g pregnancy 17 2) Classification of jaundice during pregnancy 17 3) Frequency distribution of different diseases causing jaundice during pregnancy ... '. 20 4) Review of literature on jaundice during pregnancy . . 23 Infectious hepatitis during pregnancy ... 23 Susceptability of pregnant women to viral hepatitis 23 Incidence of hepatitis in relation to stage of pregnancy 25 Mortality from hepatitis during pregnancy . 26 Clinical course of hepatitis during pregnancy ... 27 Sequellae from hepatitis during pregnancy ... 28 Child survival from mothers with hepatitis during pregnancy 29 Transplacentar infection with hepatitis virus and incidence of malformation in babies of mothers with hepatitis during pr- nancy. ... 30 Jaundice in liver cirrhosis during plegnancy ... 31 Drug-induced intrahepatic cholestasis during pregnancy ... 32 Obstructive jaundice due to choledocholithiasis during pregnancy 33 Effect of pregnancy in chronic idiopathic hyperbilirubinemias (Dubin-Johnson syndrome, Rotor syndrome, Gilbert-Meul- gracht syndrome) ...

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1475756216

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Beautiful Hamburg

By: Anna Brenken,Urs Kluyver

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Beautiful Hamburg

By: Anna Brenken,Urs Kluyver

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3892342938

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The Triumph of Ethernet

The Triumph of Ethernet

Tragedy Under Grace

Tragedy Under Grace

Theo-Drama

Theo-Drama

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr

Mary

Mary

To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption

To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption

Dare We Hope - 2nd Edition

Dare We Hope - 2nd Edition

The Madam and the Spymaster

The Madam and the Spymaster

The Office of Peter

The Office of Peter

Conrad Gessner (1516–1565)

Conrad Gessner (1516–1565)

Richard Wagner and Buddhism

Richard Wagner and Buddhism

Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names

Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names

Henricus Glareanus’s (1488-1563) Chronologia of the Ancient World

Henricus Glareanus’s (1488-1563) Chronologia of the Ancient World

Huldrych Zwingli‘s Private Library

Huldrych Zwingli‘s Private Library

Jaundice During Pregnancy

Jaundice During Pregnancy

Beautiful Hamburg

Beautiful Hamburg

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