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Katerina's Windows

Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun

By: Katerina Lemmel,Corine Schleif,Volker Schier

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Katerina's Windows

Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun

By: Katerina Lemmel,Corine Schleif,Volker Schier

Examines 58 letters written by Katerina Lemmel, a wealthy Nuremberg widow, who in 1516 entered the abbey of Maria Mai in south Germany, and rebuilt the monastery using her own resources and the donations she solicited from relatives"--Provided by publisher.

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Penn State Press

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0271048395

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9780271048390

Culture and Politics in Economic Development

By: Volker Bornschier

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Culture and Politics in Economic Development

By: Volker Bornschier

In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries. The book is a significant contribution to the burgeoning literature on social capital, trust and democracy and will be of interest to those in the fields of economics, sociology, politics and development studies.

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Routledge

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1134326106

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9781134326105

Conflicts and New Departures in World Society

By: Volker Bornschier

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Conflicts and New Departures in World Society

By: Volker Bornschier

This third volume in the World Society Studies series focuses on a central theme: how market mechanisms can correct the world welfare deficit and also resolve the environmental crisis through processes of sustainable development. The two editors trace how such objectives have been addressed since the 1960s, and describe the parameters of the debate. Conflicts and New Departures in World Society contains original research on confluences and fissures in emerging world society, in both international and domestic arenas.The sixteen contributors offer an unusually wide range of perspectives. Topics include peace and war, core-periphery situations, and social and labor conflicts. Marek Thee traces the quest for a demilitarized and nuclear-free world. Johan Kauf-mann analyzes the role of the United Nations in the post-cold war era. Jill Crystal concentrates on the human rights environment in the Arab World. H.C.F. Mansilla comments on the destruction of the tropical forests in Bolivia. Other contributors include Bruce Russett, Christian Suter, John Foran, Beverly Silver, and Georg Kohler.Conflicts and New Departures in World Society gives intellectual substance to the still nebulous notion of a world society. It does so not by advocacy, but by indicating parallel social, economic, and political conditions that compel new interactions between advanced and developing lands. This books will be of interest to sociologists, environmentalists, and political theorists and scientists.

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Routledge

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1351526685

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9781351526685

Western Society in Transition

By: Volker Bornschier

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Western Society in Transition

By: Volker Bornschier

An enormous acceleration of history has occurred in the current decade, thereby radically changing world society in many respects. The core countries - grouped around the triad formed by the United States, Japan, and the European Union - have experienced successive waves of change marked by phases of ascent, unfolding, and decay of societal models. What seemed stable and predictable in past decades came close to collapse or broke down entirely. As a result, we are now living through a crisis of legitimation characterized by acute contradictions. A new order, with a fresh, basic consensus around an overarching set of norms that allows problems to be solved efficiently, has not yet crystallized.Western Society in Transition examines the succession of societal models of the Western world and indications of its probable shape in the future. Bornschier characterizes the 1985-1995 period as a decade of Third World debt and depression; continued economic decline in the United States; a steady ascent of Japan; Western Europe's move toward political union, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. Against this background, he sketches various elements of a theoretical perspective he calls evolutionary conflict theory. The primary focus of interest of this theory is not on single societies, but on measures of social transformation at the core of world society. Western Society in Transition deals with fundamental questions: How does social order arise and why does it dissolve? What provides social cohesion? What makes society progress? Institutional spheres of Western society such as technology, firms, the market, state building, education, power, conflict, and social movements are analyzed in detail.Peter Lengyel, editor emeritus of the International Social Science Journal says of Western Society in Transition, "I have never seen such a succinct, clear, and persuasive treatment which adroitly draws together elements from economics, history, sociology, and technology into a strictly contemporary kind of political economy." This timely assessment of the Western world will be of interest to social scientists, historians, economists, and international relations scholars.

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451

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Routledge

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1351293117

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9781351293112

Recurrent Hernia

Prevention and Treatment ; [this Meeting in 2006 on "Recurrent Hernia" is the Fourth in a 11-year-tradition] ; with 97 Tables

By: Volker Schumpelick

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Recurrent Hernia

Prevention and Treatment ; [this Meeting in 2006 on "Recurrent Hernia" is the Fourth in a 11-year-tradition] ; with 97 Tables

By: Volker Schumpelick

The tradition of Suvretta meetings has always been to talk about failures and mistakes in order to learn for the future. This book, the result of the meeting in 2006, elaborates precise recommendations, to help the surgeon avoid mistakes and to treat recurrences after different types of non-mesh or mesh-repain in inguinal, incisional and hiatal hernia.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540375457

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9783540375456

Stefan Wewerka : architect, designer, object artist ; Architekt, Designer, Objektkünstler

By: Volker Fischer,Stefan Wewerka,Andrea Gleiniger

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Stefan Wewerka : architect, designer, object artist ; Architekt, Designer, Objektkünstler

By: Volker Fischer,Stefan Wewerka,Andrea Gleiniger

Text in English and German. The oeuvre of Stefan Wewerka occupies a unique position in post-war art because of the way in which he mixes different genres. Wewerka is an 'uomo universale', an uncomfortable pedagogue, a bringer of enlightenment. In addition to his practical work as an architect -- his competition entries have had a lasting effect on architectural discourse -- he has alienated architecture photographically or with the aid of traditional artistic techniques, has written books, has painted pictures, has made films and object art. In the early 50s Wewerka involved himself in earth architecture -- early attempts to build with nature and not against it -- and this at a time when no one was talking about ecology or even green building. Wewerka became known to a wider public in the 60s by the artistic allenation of chairs and other everyday objects, which he sawed up or distorted in order to undermine familiar images subversively. He also did not leave architectural 'high culture' untouched. Triumphal arches like the Arc de Triomphe in Paris or Gothic cathedrals heel over or buckle to form surreal structures and thus make their ideological claims questionable. In the late 70s Wewerka also started to design furniture which had high utility value despite its free form and which emanate an almost Bauhaus-like dignity. All this furniture, like the Fan Desk, the three-legged chair or the One-Swinger, and also his Kitchen Tree and the programmatic Cella furniture system stand like sculptures in the space and always derive a new and surprising variant from subjects and genres that seemed to be closed. The internationally known architecture and design historian Volker Fischer was vice director of the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt for over 10 years. For some time now he has been building up a new design department in the Museum fur Kunsthandwerk in Frankfurt; in addition to his museum work he teaches history of architecture and design at the Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Offenbach. Like Volker Fischer, architectural historian Andrea Gleiniger worked for many years in the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt; she now teaches at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Karisruhe. Her principal working fields are the history of housing estates in the 20th century and the relationship between architecture, art and the new media.

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Edition Axel Menges

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393256507X

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9783932565076

Die Funken Des Freien Geistes

Neuere Aufsätze Zu Nietzsches Philosophie Der Zukunft

By: Volker Gerhardt,Jan-Christoph Heilinger

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Die Funken Des Freien Geistes

Neuere Aufsätze Zu Nietzsches Philosophie Der Zukunft

By: Volker Gerhardt,Jan-Christoph Heilinger

The writings of Volker Gerhardt have had substantial influence on recent Nietzsche research. This volume collects a variety of his influential essays and makes them available to scholars and causal readers alike. The present collection takes stock of Nietzsche's most prominent ideas. Gerhardt investigates which of these ideas still offer solutions for the problems of today. In the process, it becomes clear what sort of inspiration a future-oriented philosophizing can draw from Nietzsche.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110246627

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9783110246629

Katerina's Windows

Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun

By: Katerina Lemmel,Corine Schleif,Volker Schier

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Katerina's Windows

Donation and Devotion, Art and Music, as Heard and Seen Through the Writings of a Birgittine Nun

By: Katerina Lemmel,Corine Schleif,Volker Schier

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Katerina's Windows

Katerina's Windows

Culture and Politics in Economic Development

Culture and Politics in Economic Development

Conflicts and New Departures in World Society

Conflicts and New Departures in World Society

Western Society in Transition

Western Society in Transition

Recurrent Hernia

Recurrent Hernia

Stefan Wewerka : architect, designer, object artist ; Architekt, Designer, Objektkünstler

Stefan Wewerka : architect, designer, object artist ; Architekt, Designer, Objektkünstler

Die Funken Des Freien Geistes

Die Funken Des Freien Geistes

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