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41. Der Trip nach L.A. (1) Jerry ist nach Los Angeles eingeladen - und er darf eine Begleitperson mitbringen. Da die Reise umsonst ist, willigt George auf der Stelle ein. Kaum angekommen, geht alles schief: Jerry verliert einen wichtigen Zettel, auf dem er sich einen Witz für die Show notiert hatte - und George verstrickt einige Berühmtheiten in peinliche Gespräche... 42. Der Trip nach L.A. (2) In Los Angeles erfahren Jerry und George, ...

A volume in the Principles and Applications in Engineering series, Clinical Engineering focuses on managing the deployment of medical technology and integrating it appropriately with desired clinical practices. It provides a description of the wide range of responsibilities clinical engineers encounter, describes technology management and assessment in detail, and reviews the standards and regulatory agencies of interest. Then the book details...

SOME FOURTEEN BILLION YEARS AGO SOMETHING WONDERFUL HAPPENED, EXACTLY WHERE WHO KNOWS?, SOME SAY THAT IT WAS EVERYWHERE AT ONCE, BUT NEVERTHELESS A MIRACULOUS EVENT WAS TAKING PLACE. IT WAS MINUTE IN SIZE, BUT IMMENSE IN ENERGY! IT WAS THE 'BIG BANG', OR 'AND GOD SAID', ..."LET THERE BE"...AND THE UNIVERSE WAS BORN, AND IT CONTINUED TO GROW, AND IT HAS GROWN EXPIDENTIALLY EVER SINCE, AND NOW IT HAS BECOME A HOME FOR US, AND THE MIRIAD OF STARS...

The first comparative examination of the communist system of science and higher learning in Russia and East Central Europe, focusing on the succession of great upheavals that accompanied the rise and fall of communism. This book brings together the work of an international group of scholars and new archival materials from the region itself.

Deconstructs contemporary theories of Soviet history from the revolution through the Stalin period, and offers new interpretations based on a transnational perspective. Michael David-Fox reexamines conceptions of modernity, ideology, and cultural transformation, challenging the polarizing camps of Soviet exceptionalism and shared modernity and instead striving for a theoretical and empirical middle ground.

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Since its founding, the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History has led the way in exploring the East European and Soviet experience of the Holocaust. This volume combines revised articles from the journal and previously unpublished pieces to highlight the complex interactions of prejudice, power and publicity. It offers an examination of the complicity of local populations in the mass murder of Jews and analyses Soviet r...

Before the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent archival revolution, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's famous "literary investigation" The Gulag Archipelago was the most authoritative overview of the Stalinist system of camps. This volume develops a much more thorough and nuanced understanding of the Gulag. It brings a greater awareness of the wide variety of camps, many not isolated in far-off Siberia, prisoners often intermingled with loca...

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Michael David-Fox is Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History at Georgetown University and a founding and executive editor of Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian Studies. He is the author of several books, most recently Crossing Borders: Modernity, Ideology, and Culture in Soviet Russia.

Thi book will be of interest to specialists and students of politics and economic policy making.

Alexandra David-Neel was born in 1868 in Paris. In her youth she wrote an incendiary anarchist treatise and was an acclaimed opera singer, then she decided to devote her life to exploration and the study of world religions, including Buddhist philosophy. She traveled extensively to in Central Asia and the Far East, where she learned a number of Asian languages, including Tibetan. In 1914, she met Lama Yongden, who became her adopted son, teach...

MARSWALK ONE: First Steps on a New Planet addresses the question of why we should embark on a journey to Mars, documenting what the first human crew will do when they place their feet in the red dust of the planet. The book also addresses why we need to carry out these tasks and, more importantly, what a human crew could achieve that an automated mission could not. Understanding the clear benefits of sending a human crew to the surface of Mars...