J Fischer: 72 books

Book cover of Instilling Ethics
by Stephen Salkever, Cary Nederman, Jeff Macy
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2000

Instilling Ethics casts a fresh light on both the historical sources and the contemporary issues of a major preoccupation of our time: ethics. Norma Thompson has compiled essays from prominent scholars in a wide-range of disciplines to address the problems, pretensions, and positive potentialities...
Book cover of Ordinary Genomes

Ordinary Genomes

Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities

by Karen-Sue Taussig, Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009

Ordinary Genomes is an ethnography of genomics, a global scientific enterprise, as it is understood and practiced in the Netherlands. Karen-Sue Taussig’s analysis of the Dutch case illustrates how scientific knowledge and culture are entwined: Genetics may transform society, but society also transforms...
Book cover of Networking Futures

Networking Futures

The Movements against Corporate Globalization

by Jeffrey S. Juris, Michael M. J. Fischer, Joseph Dumit
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2008

Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global Action (PGA)—including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate globalization activists have staged direct action protests against multilateral institutions in cities...
Book cover of Alsace to the Alsatians?

Alsace to the Alsatians?

Visions and Divisions of Alsatian Regionalism, 1870-1939

by Christopher J. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010

The region of Alsace, located between the hereditary enemies of France and Germany, served as a trophy of war four times between 1870–1945. With each shift, French and German officials sought to win the allegiance of the local populace. In response to these pressures, Alsatians invoked regionalism—articulated...
Book cover of Generalized Hyperbolic Secant Distributions

Generalized Hyperbolic Secant Distributions

With Applications to Finance

by Matthias J. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2013

​Among the symmetrical distributions with an infinite domain, the most popular alternative to the normal variant is the logistic distribution as well as the Laplace or the double exponential distribution, which was first introduced in 1774. Occasionally, the Cauchy distribution is also used. Surprisingly,...
Book cover of Virginia Woolf: Ihre sechs besten Kurzgeschichten
by Virginia Woolf, Armin J. Fischer
Language: German
Release Date: February 12, 2018

Virginia Woolf: Ihre sechs besten Kurzgeschichten || Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu übersetzt, neu lektoriert, und mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung. Voll verlinkt und mit eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis || Virginia Woolf, bekannt durch große Romane wie Mrs Dalloway oder To the Lighthouse, schätzte die kleine...
Book cover of The Powers of the Mind
by Ronald J. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2015

Twenty-seven-year-old Steven Thomas works hard as a professor of mathematics and engineering and plays hard at tennis in his spare time, playing professionally but without making much money. Everything in his life seems normaluntil strange things begin to happen around him, like lamps that suddenly...
Book cover of Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Band 2: Im Schatten junger Mädchenblüte
by Marcel Proust, Bernd-Jürgen Fischer
Language: German
Release Date: May 28, 2014

Im September 2013, 100 Jahre nach dem Erscheinen des ersten Bandes der "Recherche", begann bei Reclam mit "Auf dem Weg zu Swann" eine neue Übersetzung des Romanwerks zu erscheinen, die erste komplett aus einer Hand, die erste auch, die von dem erst in den 80er Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts...
Book cover of Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Mayas in Postwar Guatemala

Harvest of Violence Revisited

by David Stoll, Brenda Rosenbaum, Timothy J. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009

Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
Book cover of Lexikon Raumphilosophie
by Stephan Günzel, Franziska Kümmerling, Kurt Röttgers
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Der Raum und das Verständnis des Raums sind als große neue Themen der Philosophie im Gespräch. Die damit zusammenhängenden Fragen gewinnen derart an Bedeutung, dass von einem ›spatial turn‹ der Wissenschaft gesprochen wird, in Entsprechung zum ›linguistic turn‹, der das Gesicht der Philosophie...
Book cover of It Happened in a Flash: An Anthology of 64 Bite-Sized Stories
by Katharina Gerlach, Ava Fairhall, K.V. Moffet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018

Solve a mermaid's problem… Step off the edge of a roof… Dig up a grave at midnight… Take advice from a fortune cookie… Visit the last library… Meet a bridge troll… And more… In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...
Book cover of Diabolical Plots Year Five
by David Steffen, Matt Dovey, D.A. Xiaolin Spires
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019

This anthology collects 26 original stories that will run in the fifth year of Diabolical Plots, an online magazine of science fiction and fantasy. A metrics-driven approach for utopia, a fantastical YouTube challenge, a Lovecraftian Millennial thinkpiece, correspondence with a professor at a magical...
Book cover of Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Gesamtausgabe

Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Gesamtausgabe

Bände 1–8: Vollständige Textausgabe mit Kommentarband

by Marcel Proust, Bernd-Jürgen Fischer
Language: German
Release Date: September 29, 2017

Gesamtausgabe mit Kommentarband in einem E-Book! Im Herbst 2016 erschien der siebte, abschließende Band der Neuübersetzung von "Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit" bei Reclam – die erste Gesamtübersetzung des Romans aus einer Hand. Jetzt hat Bernd-Jürgen Fischer seiner Übersetzung...
Book cover of Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Band 4: Sodom und Gomorrha
by Marcel Proust, Bernd-Jürgen Fischer
Language: German
Release Date: May 26, 2015

In Band 4 der neuen Proust-Übersetzung von Bernd-Jürgen Fischer erkennt der Erzähler endlich die Homosexualität des Baron de Charlus (die dem Leser nicht so neu sein dürfte) und die Doppelrolle der verfemten und zugleich etablierten "Invertierten", die Marcel wie eine "Rasse"...
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