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Jukeboxes

Segrave, Kerry
Jukeboxes
This work traces the history of the jukebox from its origins in the invention of the phonograph by Thomas Alva Edison in the 1880s up to its relative obscurity in the year 2000. The jukeboxs first twenty years were essentially experimental because of the low technical quality and other limitations. It then practically disappeared for a quarter-century, beaten out by the player piano as the coin-operated music machine of choice. But then, new a...

CHF 68.00

Why the Mind-Body Problem Cannot Be Solved!

Krakow, Irving
Why the Mind-Body Problem Cannot Be Solved!
In Why the Mind-Body Problem CANNOT Be Solved, Irving Krakow shows that a satisfactory scientific explanation of conscious experience isn't possible for methodological and semantic reasons. The reason is that sentences about conscious experience cannot be deduced from sentences about the brain's neurology without using brain-mind correlations.

CHF 92.00

2001

Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa
2001
Das Jahrbuch des Oldenburger Bundesinstituts für ostdeutsche Kultur und Geschichte, dessen erster Band 1993 erschien, legt den Akzent auf Berichte über neue wissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse im Bereich Kultur und Geschichte der historischen deutschen Ostprovinzen. Die Dokumentation von Archivbeständen, thematische Bibliographien und Forschungsberichte bilden die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte, Aufsätze behandeln Einzelaspekte. Das Jahrbuch ent...

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Katherine Mansfield

Meyers, Jeffey
Katherine Mansfield
The works of Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923), one of England's most gifted short story writers, have influenced over eight decades of writers. A friend to Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, and Bertrand Russell, Mansfield left a literary legacy collected in The Garden Party, In a German Pension, and numerous anthologies. Biographies appearing after her death idealized her, but Meyers sets the record straight in his assessment of the author's life...

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Citizen Paine

Kaminski, John P
Citizen Paine
This compilation of over 1, 000 quotations on 450 topics draws exclusively from the genius of Tom Paine. Accompanied by an insightful and concise biography, this totally unique volume broadens and deepens our understanding and appreciation of this quintessential yet enigmatic revolutionary, whose vision of a humane and democratic society shaped a philosophy for his time that still speaks to us today.

CHF 84.00

Seeing

Campbell, Douglas G.
Seeing
Seeing consists of twenty brief essays about the role of contemporary artists of faith, their audience, and Christianity. These essays bring to discussion topics from postmodernism, authenticity and iconoclasm to individualism, beauty, and truth. Each essay focuses on issues that relate to how artists of faith approach their thinking about art, how viewers can enhance their experience of artworks and the relationship between Postmodernism and ...

CHF 94.00

Regarding Equality

Freeberg, Ellen M.
Regarding Equality
Regarding Equality offers an innovative and controversial analysis of the relationship between equality and pluralism. Tackling an issue central to modern political thought, Freeberg highlights the struggle to characterize citizens as equals while respecting their moral, religious, and cultural diversity. The work ably contrasts and critiques the prevailing models for balancing equality with pluralism from thinkers Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum...

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