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Today antitrust law shapes the policy of almost every large company, no matter where headquartered. But this wasn't always the case. Before World War II, the laws of most industrial countries tolerated and even encouraged cartels, whereas American statutes banned them. In the wake of World War II, the United States devoted considerable resources to building a liberal economic order, which Washington believed was necessary to preserving not onl...

This revised and updated edition of Rudolf Geiger's classic text provides a clear and vivid description of the surface microclimate, its physical basis, and its interactions with the biosphere. The book explains the principles of microclimatology and illustrates how they apply to a wide array of subfields. Those new to the field will find it especially valuable as a guide to understanding and quantifying the vast and ever-increasing literature...

Dieser dritte Symposien-Band zur jüngeren Geschichte der Berliner Akademien der Wissenschaften enthält Abhandlungen zur Geschichte der beiden Berliner Wissenschaftsakademien nach 1945: der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Ost-Berlin vom Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs bis zum Ende der DDR und der kurzlebigen West-Berliner Akademie der Wissenschaften der späten 1980er Jahre. Es werden die für den Druck überarbeiteten Referate des Symposiums vom Novem...

Karl Friedrich Köppen (1808-1863) gehörte neben Karl Marx, Bruno und Edgar Bauer sowie Max Stirner zu den bekanntesten Vertretern des Berliner Kreises der Junghegelianer. Nach jahrzehntelangen Forschungen zum Junghegelianismus legt Heinz Pepperle nunmehr die erste repräsentative Auswahl der bislang schwer zugänglichen Schriften Köppens vor, die dessen ideengeschichtliche Entwicklung aufzeigt und nachweist, wie er in die geistigen Auseinanderse...

Poems by perhaps the most widely respected Swedish poet of his generation.

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This book takes a closer look at the perceptions that Americans develop about foreign countries and the role the press plays in creating those perceptions.

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This volume argues that institutional mental health's ever-increasing diseases, disorders, and drugs have diverted us from examining an important rebellion - against an increasingly impersonal and coercive institutional society.

In the decades after 1945, as colonial possessions became independent states, it was widely believed that imperialism as a historical phenomenon was coming to an end. The six essays collected in this volume demonstrate that a new form of imperialism was, in fact, taking shape--imperialism defined not by colonial rule but by the global capitalist market. From the outset, the dominant power in this imperialism without colonies was the United Sta...

Mountains have long inspired the wit and daring of the world's most fascinating explorers. In this definitive collection of mountain lore, Alan Weber exhibits forty-three essays by artists and adventurers to whom climbing was more a mission than a sport. Beginning with the fabled tale of Hannibal's Roman invasion-men, horses, and elephants in tow-through the hitherto impassable Alps, the accounts progress to recent descriptions of high-peaks m...

Fishing is more than catching fish. It is travel, nature, adventure, friendships, and discovery. In Fishing Minnesota, Greg Breining tags along with expert anglers and reports what they have spent years learning. He fishes for Lake Superior steelhead with Shawn Perich, small-stream smallmouth bass with Tim Holschlag, stream trout with Jay Bunke, and north-country muskles with Mark Windels. Along the way, Breining comes to understand not only h...

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When Jason, the team clown, finds that he will be taking the regular goalie's place in an upcoming soccer game, he embarks on a determined plan to learn everything he can about goalkeeping.

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The Only One is a riveting tale with a unique twist on the caveman era. He is the only Homo sapien on planet Earth, forced to breed his own kind. He lives fighting mankind's worst enemy: self destruction.

A worker in the garment industry shows that mistreatment happens in every aspect of the business in every country.

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Lügen mit langen Beinen widerspricht der Volksweisheit, wonach Lügen kurze Beine haben sollen. Dabei können Lügen zuweilen sehr lange Beine haben, wenn uns glauben gemacht werden kann, Lügen seien keine Lügen. Wer will bestreiten, daß wir sind, was wir wissen. Und wir wissen das, was Berufene uns erzählen. Berufene für uns sind: Entdecker, Gelehrte, Aufklärer, Wissenschafter. Die letzten Jahrhunderte sind von ihnen geprägt worden, weil uns g...