Gottfried: 352 books

The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are the bankers of the global economy. The World Bank helps impoverished economies become profitable by offering financial assistance. The IMF is the organization that provides international cooperation among the world's economic superpowers....

Conduct disorder is a mental condition involving teenagers who violate basic rights. The disorder can be exhibited at school, home, or in other settings, and there are possible causal factors, including genetic, other disorders, brain damage, and environmental effects. Among the topics studied are...

Teens are big consumers, spending more than 200 billion yearly in the United States alone. But many have scant knowledge and skills for spending money responsibly now and in the future. With the ten secrets for wise spending revealed in this book, readers gain the tools to both afford their expenses...

For teens and adults alike, the modern world is becoming more and more computer based. Many people keep smartphones, tablets, and other handy computerized devices on hand to consult for information and research, keep up with friends and family, and take phone calls. But sometimes all this convenient...

Situado en la encrucijada de la Ilustración y el Romanticismo, el pensamiento de Herder, esencialmente crítico e intempestivo, tiene una complejidad que no puede reducirse a las derivas irracionalistas que poco tenían que ver con el verdadero sentido de sus ideas. Estas reflexiones sobre la estética, a partir de la escultura, permiten aproximarse al pensamiento de un humanista radical.

This book explores how the Erie Railway, in developing a series of sophisticated travel guides, made significant contributions to nineteenth-century visual culture and shaped the social life of Americans. The Erie Railway emerged during a time in which a societal response to the production of landscape...

This book addresses the endangerment of children’s bodies in affluent societies. Bodily integrity is an important part of a child’s physical and mental well-being, but it can also be violated through various threats during childhood; not only affecting physical health but also causing mental damage...

Der Buddhismus ist eine der beiden großen Weltreligionen, die in Indien entstanden sind und von dort den Weg in die ganze Welt gefunden haben. Sein Gründer ist Siddharta Gautama, der im 6. Jh.v. Chr. geboren wurde, im Hinduismus aufwuchs und zum „Buddha" (=der Erleuchtete) wurde. Sein Weg zur Befreiung...

This book contains discussions of radiation theory, quantum statistics and the many-body problem, and more advanced topics in collision theory. It is intended as a text for a first-year graduate quantum mechanics course.

De la perfection divine et que Dieu fait tout de la manière la plus souhaitable. La notion de Dieu la plus reçue et la plus significative que nous ayons, est assez bien exprimée en ces termes que Dieu est un être absolument parfait, mais on n’en considère pas assez...

The Fullerton Longitudinal Study, launched in 1979, chronicled the development of over 100 children and their families from the children's first birthday through their high school completion using a cross-informant/cross-context methodology. In this volume, the developmental course and sequelae of...

This comparative analysis argues that there were four or, more likely, five major turning points of world history, whose lasting effects are being felt to this day. These turning points show striking resemblances to each other: An apparently coherent community of shared convictions and a shared way...

El Cid, eigentlich Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar war ein kastilischer Ritter aus der Zeit der Reconquista, der in der Neuzeit zum spanischen Nationalhelden avancierte. Der Name El Cid ist aus dem arabischen abgeleitet und stammt aus der Zeit, in der er als Söldnerführer in der spanischen Levante operierte. Herders Ballade ist nur eines von vielen Werken, das sich um den Cid ranken.

Dieses Werk umfasst, in sieben Büchern aufgeteilt, die nahezu komplette Lyrik des großen deutschen Philosophen, Schriftstellers, Poeten und Spinozisten.