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This collection celebrates the resurgence of Native Americans within the cultural landscape of the United States. During the past quarter century, the Native American population in the United States has seen an astonishing demographic growth reaching beyond all biological probability as increasing numbers of Americans desire to admit or to claim Native American ancestry. This volume illustrates a unique moment in history, as unprecedented numb...

Die Neuausgabe des "Lucidarius" ersetzt den "unzureichenden Textabdruck" (J. Bumke) von Felix Heidlauf aus dem Jahr 1915, dem wesentliche Passagen des ursprünglichen Textes, z.B. über die Antipoden, fehlen. Sie erstellt einen autornahen Text aus der Kenntnis der gesamten erhaltenen handschriftlichen Überlieferung, worüber eine ausführliche Einleitung Rechenschaft gibt, und sie bietet zudem ein vollständiges Wörterbuch (von D. Gottschall), das ...

This work examines what it means to be a philosopher and attacks the sterility of modern philosophy. Part One explores the nature and scope of philosophy and its relation to social and economic development. Part Two considers other forms of thought: science, art, literature and music.

While contemporary academia has successfully exposed the negative effects of power - wars, expansionism, ideological impositions, exportation of domestic economic constraints - less attention is paid to the legitimacy of power exercised exclusionarily to reward only allies, even if not aggressively aimed to harm others. This book explores the exclusionary dimensions of the postwar liberal economic system created under US hegemonic leadership, ...

In the 1980s, a decade of economic expansion, the rich grew richer but the poor poorer. These essays explore the disparities in wealth and income comparing the fortunes of American households with those in other industrialized nations. Demographic and structural changes, saving behaviouir, earning gaps, gender, education and race are analysed in these essays and methodological and measurement issues explored. Policies to counteract growing ine...

Die ATB ist die traditionsreichste Editionsreihe der germanistischen Mediävistik. Begründet 1881 von Hermann Paul, wurde sie von führenden Fachvertretern, Georg Baesecke, Hugo Kuhn, Burghart Wachinger, betreut. Seit 2001 liegt die Verantwortung in den Händen von Christian Kiening. Die mittlerweile etwa 120 Bände verknüpfen exemplarisch Handschriftennähe und Lesbarkeit, wissenschaftliche Arbeit am Text und Blick auf die akademische Lehre. Sie ...

Management of knee trauma has changed rapidly over the past decade, with the acquisition of additional knowledge and new surgical techniques. At present, the optimal management of knee injuries requires the synthesis of multiple approaches drawn from orthopaedics and related surgical fields. The goal of this work is to comprehensively discuss the current state of the art in management of all types of knee trauma, including soft tissue and oste...

Designed to help in locating and evaluating print and non-print "sci-tech" information sources, this book contains articles covering such topics as channels of communication, publishing of information and cost of literature. An extensive, annotated bibliography of sources completes the text.

Dellweg, einer der Pioniere auf dem Gebiet, erklärt in einer gelungenen Mischung aus Lesebuch und Lexikon die wichtigsten Begriffe und Zusammenhänge der Biotechnologie. Sein Buch wendet sich an interessierte Leser, die sich unter Begriffen wie "TNF" oder "Enzymtechnologie" wenig Konkretes vorstellen können. Nach der Lektüre wird klar, warum die Forschungsförderung in der Biotechnologie ihren hohen Stellenwert hat. Concise text: Was versteht ma...

this book is a collection of poems by John Bensko.Bensko's first collection of poetry, Green Soldiers, won the Yale series of Younger Poets Award.

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