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Vom Leben, vom Tod, von Geburt, Spiel, Kunst, Arbeit, Liebe usw. ist in diesen >Propos< die Rede, kurz: vom Allgemeinsten, Alltäglichsten und auch vom Privatesten. Zum Thema des Buches heißt es bei Alain: »Vor allem scheint mir klar, daß man unmöglich glücklich sein kann, wenn man es nicht sein will. Man muß sein Glück wollen und es machen.«

Tran Van Nao (Editor) The last decade has witnessed a seriously increasing incidence of forest fires in many countries. Substantial economic and ecological losses have been incurred, although the estimation of total damage This has been due to the lack assessment has often been inaccurate. of standardized methods for collecting data on fire occurrence and area burnt, as well as information such as the value of the vegetation destroyed and rest...

The greatest challenge facing mankind today is the immense disparity in the levels of income among people in different parts of the globe. The growth rate of income of the poor countries is consistantiy far below the rate of the advanced, industrialized nations. Due to low income and a high propensity to consume, there is very little left in these countries for investment. A major portion of the resources available is devoted to military expen...

There is a remarkable unity to the work of Edmund Husserl, but there are also many difficulties in it. The unity is the result of a single personal and philo­ sophical quest working itself out in concrete phenomenological analyses, the difficulties are due to the inadequacy of initial conceptions which becomes felt as those analyses become progressively deeper and more extensive. ! Anyone who has followed the course of Husserl's work is struck...

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A history of women in the Western world

Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages, and are sure to educate and entertain children of all ages.

The seventh volume of Water-in-Plants Bibl iography includes papers in al I fields of plant water relations research which appeared during the year 1981 - from theoreti­ cal considerations about the state of water in cel Is and its membrane transport to drought resistance of plants or physiological significance of irrigation. In addition to papers devoted entirely to plant water relations, papers on other topics are in­ cluded if they contain ...

Seine bedeutenderen Werke sind neben dem >Dictionary< die Essays in den moralischen Wochenschriften »The Rambler« (1750-52) und The Idler (1758-62), der Roman »Rasselas« (1759), die »Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland« (1775) sowie die »Lives of the English Poets« (1781). In der englischsprachigen Welt ist Johnson nach Shakespeare der meistzitierte englische Autor. In Deutschland hatte er es immer schwer. Die Reisen nach Schottland ers...

Juan Goytisolo konfrontiert in seinem Essay die in ganz Europa verbreiteten Vorstellungen über Spanien, die Mythen und Selbsttäuschungen, die die Spanier im Lauf der Jahrhunderte sich und der Mitwelt eingeredet haben, mit der historischen Wahrheit und der spanischen Lebenswirklichkeit, die noch in vielem die Spuren der verhängnisvollen Fehler der Vergangenheit zeigt: der Verdrängung des maurischen und jüdischen Erbes, das Kreuzzugsdenken und d...

Possibly more than any other field of education, early child­ hood education has been an international phenomenon. The great pioneers of the field--Friedrich Froebel of Germany, Maria Montessori of Italy, Margaret McMillan and Susan Isaacs of England--all saw their influence expand weIl beyond the borders of their native lands. Froebelian kindergartens, Montessorischools, and nursery schools designed along the English model have flourished in ...

This is both a modest and a presumptuous work. It is presumptuous because, given the vast literature on just one of its themes, it attempts to discuss not only the philosophies of both Hume and Hegel but also something of their intellectual milieu. Moreover, though the study has a delimiting perspective in the relation­ ship between a theory of human nature and an account of the various aspects that make up social experience, this itself is so...

It is an established fact that we must continually increase and improve agricultural production if we are to meet even the minimum requirements of a growing popu­ lation for food, shelter, and fuel. In recent years, the introduction of new plant varieties and the extensive use of fertilizers have effectively increased crop yields, but intensifying agricultural methods has often led to depleting soil fertility. Two examples of the harmful conse...

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Taktile Sensoren gewinnen zunehmend an Bedeutung für eine feinfühligere Steuerung von Handhabungseinrichtungen. Dabei erschließen sie vor allem bei räumlichen Problemen Anwen­ dungsbereiche, die bislang mit Hilfe visueller Sensorsysteme nur unzureichend genau oder mit sehr hohem Verarbei­ tungsaufwand für die Sensordaten bearbeitet werden konnten. Während gegenwärtig die Mehrzahl taktiler Sensorsysteme noch relativ einfache Überwachungs- oder ...

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