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Mario Vargas Llosa erschließt in der spannend entfalteten Handlung dieses Romans, der von dem »Geschichtenerzähler« der Machiguengas und einem verschollenen Studienfreund erzählt, ein brennendes Thema Lateinamerikas: die Kultur der Indios im Amazonasgebiet. Welchen Platz lassen wir dem ganz anderen, wie es sich in der Welt der »Primitiven« zeigt und entzieht, in unserer »modernen« Gesellschaft? Welche Rolle kann der »aufgeklärte« Intellektuell...

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Hannes Flühler Das Symposium "Die Alpen- Naturpark oder Opfer des künftigen Europas" und die hier ver­ öffentlichten Referate sollen die Diskussion über die künftigen Auswirkungen der europäischen Verträge und Absprachen auf unsere Umwelt in eine breitere Öffentlichkeit hinaustragen. Wich­ tige Umweltfragen aus der Sicht der Wissenschaft aufzugreifen und sichtbar zu machen, ist eine der Aufgaben des ETHZ Forums für Umweltfragen. Dass wir die A...

Through the work of the Schools Council and other national agencies, the difficulties of achieving effective curriculum change through centralized initiatives and directives have been well documented. At the same time the importance of teacher involvement in such activities, and the advantages of curriculum development over revolutionary innovation, have become plain. This knowledge and the understandings it has generated are important today, ...

A monument to the literary genius of women throughout the ages, A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now is an invaluable collection. Here in one volume are the works of three hundred poets from six different continents and four millennia. This revised edition includes a newly expanded section of American poets from the colonial era to the present."[A] splendid collection of verse by women" (TIME) throughout the ages and around the world, n...

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The doppelganger, the ghostly double infecting the soul, was a popular fictional subject for late nineteenth-century writers, and it found its most brilliant realization in Robert Louis Stevenon's story of Dr Jekyll, whose reckless genius allows him to bring his own appalling double to life. The finest horror story in our language, Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde is also a metaphysical fairy-tale of stunning perspicacity. Also included in this collectio...

This is the story of L'Abri, the Swiss community founded by Francis and Edith Schaeffer as a place where Christian truth could be lived and demonstrated as well as discussed and debated, a place where hundreds of seekers found the "God who is there.

These essays on L'Etranger celebrate its continuing influence throughout the world. Contributors come from Algeria, Samoa, India, Russia, France, Britain and the United States. Included are essays by prominent French and English-language authors for whom the novel has been an influential expression of contemporary sensibility. Other essays include feminist interpretations of Meursault, studies of Camus's narrative form, and explorations of the...

The most complete collection of Greek and Roman myths specially arranged to be read aloud to children aged five to twelve. "Every child deserves this book. Those who do the reading aloud will be enlightened and rewarded, too."--Edwin Newman Line drawings.

A remarkably vivid depiction of village life provides the backdrop to George Eliot's first novel, a story of love and betrayal invested with social realism of unprecedented sensitivity. Adam Bede is an upstanding young carpenter whose greatest weakness is his infatuation with the self-absorbed village beauty, Hetty Sorrel. Hetty has secretly set her sights on Captain Arthur Donnithorne, heir to the local squire's estate, his abandonment of h...

These lecture notes are based on the joint work of the author and Arthur Fischer on Teichmiiller theory undertaken in the years 1980-1986. Since then many of our colleagues have encouraged us to publish our approach to the subject in a concise format, easily accessible to a broad mathematical audience. However, it was the invitation by the faculty of the ETH Ziirich to deliver the ETH N achdiplom-Vorlesungen on this material which provided the...

Der soziale Umbruch in Ost-Mitteleuropa stellte schnell die Weichen für das Einschwenken der vormals staatssozialistischen Gesellschaften auf den westlichen Entwicklungsweg. Damit ist mehr verbunden als die Übernahme neuer Verfassungs- und Wirtschaftsordnungen. Die noch weitgehend unerforschte Größe in dem Tranformationsprozeß ist der Umbau der Menschen selbst, ihrer Persönlichkeitsstrukturen. Dieser Seite des gegenwärtigen Geschehens wendet s...