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As Hitler proceeded on his way, he made offers of mutual disarmament to the other powers: was this merely the smile on the face of the tiger? Was Hitler the portent of a new war, or merely a sign that the work of Versailles needed recasting? Chamberlain saw no gains for Britain in another war, and despite the pious assumptions of British historians, it is by no means clear that the results of the Second World War were commensurate with the sac...

After defeating the Philippine Republic's conventional forces in 1899, the US Army was broken up into small garrisons to prepare Luzon for colonial rule. The Filipino nationalists transformed their resistance into a guerrilla warfare that varied greatly from region to region. The study offers new insights for counterinsurgency theory and for the study of America's military experience in Asia.

Vor 15 Jahren war der Erstautor dieser Zeilen als Assistenzarzt Chronist der ersten in Deutschland durchgeführten Mammarekonstruktionen. Aufwendige Verfahren mit Rollstielplastiken aus dem Unterbauch führ­ ten nach multiplen Eingriffen zu ersten Erfolgen. Die von den Frauen akzeptierten Belastungen lehrten uns den Leidensdruck der Betroffenen zu wägen und die Bedeutung verstümmelnder Eingriffe auf die Psyche der Frau einzuschätzen. In diesen 1...

This treatise on narrative and narrative theory uses all of the analytic tools developed in the last 20 years. It defines narrative discourse, distinguishing it from other discourses, and analyzes what it entails.

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Der Bericht präsentiert die Ergebnisse der Heidelberger Männer-Studie, der Heidelberger Frauen-Studie und der Ernährungs- und Gesundheitsstudie. Ausführlich wird die Eisenversorgung für repräsentative Bevölkerungsgruppen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland analysiert. Die Autoren kommen zu einer überraschend günstigen Beurteilung der Eisenversorgung in der Bevölkerung. Potentielle und reale Risikogruppen werden identifiziert. Weiterhin werden Ei...

Dieses Buch gibt einen hervorragenden Überblick über den Stand der wissenschaftlichen Forschungen auf dem Gebiet der Pharmakologie der Calcium-Antagonisten. Die Pharmakokinetik der verschiedenen Calcium-Antagonisten wird ebenso beschrieben, wie die Anwendung in der Praxis bei den verschiedensten Erkrankungen des Herz-Kreislauf-Systems. Nebenwirkungen, Risiken und Kontraindikationen sind ein weiteres wichtiges Thema. Zum Schluß wird ein Ausblic...

This classic text is a comparative political study, based on extensive survey data that defined and analysed the Greek concept of civic virtuelture: the political and social attitudes that are crucial to the success of modern democracy in Western nations. Cited extensively, the book was origionall published in 1963.

Although the themes of women's complicity in and resistance to war have been part of literature from early times, they have not been fully integrated into conventional conceptions of the war narrative. Combining feminist literary criticism with the emerging field of feminist war theory, this collection explores the role of gender as an organising principle in the war system and reveals how literature perpetuates the ancient myth of "arms and t...

Argues that Catholic culture was transformed when products of the "immigrant church”, largely inspired by converts like Dorothy Day, launched a variety of spiritual, communitarian, and literary experiments. James Fisher also explores the life and works of Thomas A. Dooley and Jack Kerouac to show that their experiences signaled a new Catholic appreciation of the American tradition of creative freedom.

A ''thought-provoking and probing (book) which forces the reader to consider critically the lot of a large segment of our population today" (Stephen C. Reingold).

From the early daguerreotype to the rise of the motion picture, "Images and Enterprise" explores the business, technical, and social factors that transformed the American photographic industry between 1839 and 1925. Reese Jenkins's prize-winning history traces the technical changes that culminated in George Eastman's creation of the Kodak system of amateur photography in the 1880s. Its compact, simply operated cameras would revolutionize an en...

The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born, by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture...

This streamlined grammar is intended as both a text and a reference book for university level Spanish language courses starting at the junior level. The aim is to simplify and to present cognitive devices for understanding Spanish structures.

In 1961 Jean Gottmann published his pioneering study of urban sprawl along the Boston-Washington corridor. The book's title soon became a household word, and its author gained worldwide acclaim for his insights into the dimensions of urbanism. Since writing "Megalopolis, " Gottmann has published more than eighty articles on the urban scene. Now, for the first time, the best of that work is available in a single volume. "Since Megalopolis" trea...

This volume brings together all of Berryman’, s poetry, except for his epic "The Dream Songs, " ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America’, s most distinguished poets.

This unique collection of over fifty prayers, written in a poetic style, will attract people of all faiths.

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