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Daniel Dennett's "brilliant" exploration of human consciousness — named one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times — is a masterpiece beloved by both scientific experts and general readers (New York Times Book Review). Consciousness Explained is a full-scale exploration of human consciousness. In this landmark book, Daniel Dennett refutes the traditional, commonsense theory of consciousness and presents a new model, based on a...

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Examines the "quiet revolution" unfolding in Latin America and its likely consequences for US trade and investment with and within the region, where leaders are extricating their economies from debt-laden stagnation by pursuing far-reaching stabilisation and liberalisation reform programmes.

Of all the Caribbean countries, Cuba possesses the most voluminous body of literature on mass communication. Following an introduction to the history of Cuban mass communications, this book is organised into three parts: resources, contemporary perspectives and historical perspectives.

Fast acht Jahre dauerte diese Beziehung, Benns Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus, »Innere Emigration« und die Militärarzt-Jahre in Hannover fallen in diese Zeit. Benns menschliche und künstlerische Isolierung wird aus diesen Briefen deutlich, Skepsis und Melancholie mischen sich in ihnen, einige später im Gedicht verwendete Formulierungen tauchen hier zum ersten Mal auf.

John Irvings Auseinandersetzung mit einem halben Jahrhundert amerikanischer Geschichte, mit der Frage nach dem Glauben in einer chaotischen Welt: die bewegende Geschichte der einzigartigen Freundschaft zwischen Owen Meany und John Wheelwright. Man schreibt den Sommer 1953, die beiden elfjährigen Freunde Owen und John spielen Baseball, als ein fürchterliches Unglück passiert...

Der Briefwechsel zwischen Albert Schweitzer und Helene Bresslau, seiner späteren Frau, musste lange als verschollen gelten. Vor einigen Jahren wurde er wieder entdeckt, hier wird er zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht. Er ist ein großartiges menschliches Zeugnis aus der Zeit, in der sich diese beiden Menschen, denen berufliche Erfüllung und Erfolg in Europa offengestanden hätten, zur Arbeit in Afrika entschlossen - ein Lebensdokument aus den "Jahren...

This is the second in the series of annual editions. The period covered here coincided with the collapse of communism and the wider decline of collectivist ideas, the fall of the Soviet Union, and the Gulf War.

To teachers of African-American history, August Meier is well respected as a first-rank scholar and editor. But few people are aware of his formative experiences in the two decades following World War II, as a white professor teaching at black colleges and as an activist in the civil rights movement. This volume brings together sixteen of his essays written between 1945 and 1965. Meier has added a substantial introduction, reflecting on those ...

Dieser Band enthält 15 Aufsätze zu bevölkerungswissenschaftlichen Themen wie Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in der EG, sozialer Status der Frauen in England und in den Niederlanden, demographische Krisen, die Hungerkatastrophe um 1860 in Finnland und in den 30er Jahren in der Ukraine, nicht-lineare demographische Prozesse, Migration und Öffentliche Güter, Mortalitäts-Vorausschätzungen für Österreich, Fertilität in der DDR. Die Acta Demographica ist ei...

The volume presents a comprehensive overview of rotation effects on fluid behavior, emphasizing non-linear processes. The subject is introduced by giving a range of examples of rotating fluids encountered in geophysics and engineering. This is then followed by a discussion of the relevant scales and parameters of rotating flow, and an introduction to geostrophic balance and vorticity concepts. There are few books on rotating fluids and this vo...

State-of-the-art nonlinear computational analysis of shells, nonlinearities due to large deformations and nonlinear material behavior, alternative shell element formulations, algorithms and implementational aspects, composite and sandwich shells, local and global instabilities, optimization of shell structures and concepts of shape finding methods of free from shells. Furthermore, algorithms for the treatment of the nonlinear stability behavio...

This volume strives to give complete information about the main aspect of the stability behaviour of steel structures and their members. In following this objective, the volume presents a complete scientific background (profiting from the fact that the authors of the individual parts of the publication have personally been very active in the corresponding field of research for an extended period of time now), but also establishes recommendatio...

Contains extensive plot summaries and critical overviews each of Behrman's 51 plays and provides a record of his work, published and unpublished, including plays, filmscripts, fiction and essays. The book also examines the critical response, both reviews and analytical studies.

This volume is the 14th in a series of studies begun in 1945 which have chronicled every postwar election. The historical background, the party preparation and the events of the campaign are recorded, together with analyses of the polls, the press, broadcast coverage and the candidates.

Whenever illness is associated with loss of soul, " writes Shaun McNiff, "the arts emerge spontaneously as remedies, soul medicine." The medicine of the artist, like that of the shaman, arises from his or her relationship to "familiars"-the themes, methods, and materials that interact with the artist through the creative process. Art As Medicine demonstrates how the imagination heals and renews itself through this natural process. The author d...

The Latin sound called salsa, or, more correctly, Afro-Hispanic music of the Antilles, is a vital force on the international contemporary music scene. Having followed the same path as did other popular music genres, such as jazz, from ethnic origins to urban underground and on to worldwide acceptance, salsa has recently also become a subject of academic study. Here Figueroa presents materials about salsa and related musical genres that are acc...

In the 1990s the UN's potential has been reborn. Now the world must find ways to incorporate elements of that success into the UN system. No single reform or even expansion of UN military power can achieve the necessary changes, rather a series of political and military innovations are needed soon to develop a UN peace and security system. The authors make specific recommendations in the areas of the Security Council, the Military Staff Commit...

The papers in this volume were presented to the tenth annual meeting of the Society for Economic Anthropology. The meeting was conceived as a decennial review of some of the central issues explored in recent studies of economic process in market and non-market societies.