Michael Ulrich: 46 books
The Weimar Moment
Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community” – or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race” – cannot but appeal to us today. This...
Do More Great Work
Stop the Busywork. Start the Work That Matters.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2010
You work hard. You put in the hours. Yet you feel like you are constantly treading water with "Good Work" that keeps you going but never quite moves you ahead. Or worse, you are mired in "Bad Work"—endless meetings and energy-draining bureaucratic traps.
Do More Great...
by Anita Konstandin, Peter Wark, Christian Sußner
Language: German
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Von B wie Blutstreiflinge, Breschdlingsgsälz und Buebespitzle bis Z wie Zwiebelrostbraten – 24 Krimiautoren servieren deftige schwäbische Spezialitäten in skurril-heiteren, schwarzhumorigen und mörderisch spannenden Geschichten. Von der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart bis zur Schwäbischen Alb und...
Eigensinn und Bindung
Katholische Intellektuelle im 20. Jahrhundert
Language: German
Release Date: January 5, 2012
Ob in Philosophie, Literatur, Bildenden Künsten, Publizistik oder Politik - katholische deutsche Intellektuelle haben die geistige Landschaft des 20. Jahrhunderts wesentlich mitgeprägt. Sie stellten Fragen an die Zeit und ihre Mitmenschen, die anderen nicht einfielen oder die sie nicht zu stellen...
by Volker Leppin, Rita Voltmer, Stefan Weinfurter
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: German
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Die Reformation brach - nach Vorankündigungen im Spätmittelalter - die religiöse Einheit Europas auf. In der Folge entwickelten sich in Böhmen, in der calvinistischen Schweiz, in Skandinavien, den Generalstaaten der Niederlande oder in England unterschiedlichste Ausprägungen von Kirchen und Religion....
"Der Name der Jungfrau war Maria" (Lk 1,27)
Neue exegetische Perspektiven auf die Mutter Jesu
Language: German
Release Date: June 8, 2018
Die Beiträge dieses Bandes richten neue und ungewohnte Perspektiven auf die Mutter Jesu, ohne das Thema auf dürre historische Fragestellungen oder auf religionsgeschichtliche Ableitungen engzuführen. Statt dessen wird die Jungfrau Maria konsequent von ihren literarischen Kontexten und von deren...
Antisemitismus und Gesellschaft
Zur Diskussion um Auschwitz, Kulturindustrie und Gewalt
Language: German
Release Date: May 5, 2014
»Antisemitismus als Orientierungsprinzip ist tatsächlich in der europäischen Gesellschaftsgeschichte verankert. Von Europa aus hat der dynamische Kapitalismus als einziges universales Gesellschaftsmodell seinen Siegeszug angetreten und mit ihm hat sich auch der Antisemitismus weltweit verbreitet....
by David Mr. Hoelscher, Michael Mr. Taylor, Ulrich Mr. Klueh
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2006
This paper describes recently established deposit insurance systems, identifying emerging trends. In line with previous IMF work on the subject, it argues against the development of "best practices" applicable to all systems. Rather, it stresses the importance of incorporating each country’s individual...
Factor Five
Transforming the Global Economy through 80% Improvements in Resource Productivity
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
When first published in 1997, Factor Four: Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use by renowned economic and engineering experts Ernst von Weizsäcker, Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, transformed how economists, policy makers, engineers, entrepreneurs and business leaders thought about innovation...
by Bjoern Bartels, Ulrich Ermel, Peter Sandborn
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
Supply chains for electronic products are primarily driven by consumer electronics. Every year new mobile phones, computers and gaming consoles are introduced, driving the continued applicability of Moore's law. The semiconductor manufacturing industry is highly dynamic and releases new, better and...
Planetary Politics
Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2005
Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this...
by Mark Allison, Laura Beer, Michael Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2018
That Thomas Carlyle was influential in his own lifetime and continues to be so over 130 years after his death is a proposition with which few will disagree. His role as his generation’s foremost interpreter of German thought, his distinctive rhetorical style, his approach to history via the “innumerable...
Matter and Form
From Natural Science to Political Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009
Matter and Form explores the relationship that has long existed between natural science and political philosophy. Plato's Socrates articulates the Ideas or Forms as an account of the ultimate source of causality in the cosmos. Aristotle's natural philosophy had a significant impact on his political...
Advances in Biological Solid-State NMR
Proteins and Membrane-Active Peptides
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2014
The complexity and heterogeneity of biological systems has posed an immense challenge in recent years. An increasingly important tool for obtaining molecular and atomic scale information on a range of large biological molecules and cellular components is solid-state NMR. This technique can address...