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Ernest Hemingway: 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'
Incidents and constellations that lead to the self-discovery of Francis Macomber
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Stuttgart (Institut für Literaturwissenschaft: Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Literary Studies - G2-Seminar 'The American Short Story', 11 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract:...
by RG Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
There is writing in them that pleases me. So I have mingled them amongst the short pieces, making the book a gathering of oases that have spurted a little water, or have run out of a proper supply.
Reimagining Society in 18th Century French Literature
Happiness and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
The French revolutionary shift from monarchical to popular sovereignty came clothed in a new political language, a significant part of which was a strange coupling of happiness and rights. In Old Regime ideology, Frenchmen were considered subjects who had no need of understanding why what was prescribed...
The Allied Air War and Urban Memory
The Legacy of Strategic Bombing in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
The cultural legacy of the air war on Germany is explored in this comparative study of two bombed cities from different sides of the subsequently divided nation. Contrary to what is often assumed, Allied bombing left a lasting imprint on German society, spawning vibrant memory cultures that can be...
Free-Electron Lasers in the Ultraviolet and X-Ray Regime
Physical Principles, Experimental Results, Technical Realization
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The main goal of the book is to provide a systematic and didactic approach to the physics and technology of free-electron lasers. Numerous figures are used for illustrating the underlying ideas and concepts and links to other fields of physics are provided. After an introduction to undulator radiation...
The Forgotten Front
The Eastern Theater of World War I, 1914 - 1915
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Although much has been written about the Western Front in World War I, little attention has been given to developments in the east, especially during the crucial period of 1914--1915. Not only did these events have a significant impact on the fighting and outcome of the battles in the west, but all...
Religious Deviance in the Roman World
Superstition or Individuality?
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2016
Religious individuality is not restricted to modernity. This book offers a new reading of the ancient sources in order to find indications for the spectrum of religious practices and intensified forms of such practices only occasionally denounced as 'superstition'. Authors from Cicero in the first...
Religion and AIDS Treatment in Africa
Saving Souls, Prolonging Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book critically interrogates emerging interconnections between religion and biomedicine in Africa in the era of antiretroviral treatment for AIDS. Highlighting the complex relationships between religious ideologies, practices and organizations on the one hand, and biomedical treatment programmes...
by RG Gregory
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Three collections of poems based upon art reproductions, photographs and other card designs. After a visit to the Hiroshige Exhibition at the Royal Academy in London during September 1997, I purchased a pack of ten cards, thinking they were all different, with a view to writing a poem on each to celebrate...
by Wilhelm Kettler, Manfred Binder, Walter Franz
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2016
Was ist Metamerie? Wie erhält man anhand der Farbvorlage die Rezeptur? Was genau sagt die Kubelka-Munk-Theorie aus? Das Buch zur erfolgreichen Seminarreihe "Coloristik" liefert nun den aktuellen Wissensstand der Themengebiete Farbmetrik, Farbmessung und Farbanalyse erstmals in einem Werk....
Crown, Church and Constitution
Popular Conservatism in England, 1815-1867
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Much scholarship on nineteenth-century English workers has been devoted to the radical reform politics that powerfully unsettled the social order in the century’s first decades. Comparatively neglected have been the impetuous patriotism, royalism, and xenophobic anti-Catholicism that countless men...
A Neurophenomenology of Awe and Wonder
Towards a Non-Reductionist Cognitive Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
This book presents a study of the various feelings of awe and wonder experienced by astronauts during space flight. It summarizes the results of two experimental, interdisciplinary studies that employ methods from neuroscience, psychology, phenomenology and simulation technology, and it argues for a non-reductionist approach to cognitive science.
Glauben in Wüstenzeiten
7 Predigten über Abraham, den Pionier Gottes
Language: German
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Jahrtausende trennen uns von Abraham und seiner Welt und dennoch können uns seine Abenteuer dabei helfen, im Glauben zu wachsen. Sieben alltagstaugliche Predigten wollen dazu ermutigen, auch in schwierigen Zeiten an Gott festzuhalten.
Über das Gebet
Predigt über das Wichtigste im Glaubensleben
Language: German
Release Date: February 20, 2018
Wer als Christ nicht betet, ist keiner. Es geht im Glauben an den einen Gott um eine Beziehung. Kann es eine solche geben, ohne daß man miteinander redet und sich in Respekt, Interesse und Liebe begegnet? Beten ist mehr als Bitten oder gar nur eine religiöse Frömmelei. Gott erhört Gebet und will...