'Dearly beloved Child of my Heart, we are probably standing at the end of our beautiful and rich life together. Because tomorrow the People's Court intends to sit in judgment on me and others. I hear that we have been expelled from the army. They can take the uniform from us, but not the spirit in which we acted' - Peter Yorck von Wartenburg, in a ...
This book examines the extraordinary personality of Claus Count Stauffenberg, a key figure in the 1944 coup attempt against Hitler. Stauffenberg's personality is thrown into relief by a study of his two brothers and other family members and friends. The three Stauffenberg brothers, Berthold, Alexander, and Claus, were inseparable both emotionally ...
Hydrogen is the quintessential eco-fuel. This invisible, tasteless gas is the most abundant element in the universe. It is the basic building block and fuel of stars and an essential raw material in innumerable biological and chemical processes. As a completely nonpolluting fuel, it may hold the answer to growing environmental concerns about ...
The hero of Yoel Hoffman's novel is deserted by his wife. After a period of depressed drifting, he meets Batya, and finds that his life seems once again to be worth living.
Now available in paper, this stimulating book concentrates on evolutionary change under environmental stress at levels ranging from the molecular to the biogeographic, with an emphasis on genetic aspects. This approach contrasts with most of the literature of evolutionary biology, as the emphasis here is upon the extreme end of the stress gradient ...
- Stylistically elegant, rhyming Latin translation, accessible to the non-scholarly reader - Facing page original German text and popular English translation - Hoffmann's original color illustrations, plus detailed enlargements of them - Appendix with new, never before published contemporary English translation, Scruffypete, by Ann Elizabeth Wild ...
Most natural populations intermittently experience extremely stressful conditions. This book discusses how such conditions can cause periods of intense selection, increasing both phenotypic and genetic variation, and allowing organisms with novel characteristics to be first generated and then established in the population. The authors argue that ...
The Maillard reaction is at the crossroads of food and biomedical sciences: it contributes to the natural and normal aging of tissues, but, when accelerated, it contributes to the development of pathologic conditions in a number of age-related chronic diseases, including arthritis, atherosclerosis, diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases. This ...
Within the light-skinned population worldwide, skin cancer has the highest or second-highest rate of increase in all cancers. Worse still, there are at this point in time no appropriate strategies to reverse or even limit this trend. In recent years, the media has reported extensively and aggressively on the topic. The population in all countries ...
By introducing a new national currency in November 1993, the Republic of Kazakstan took a decisive step towards establishing its political and economic independence. In the following years, Kazakstan made great efforts to lay the institutional foundation for econonmic policy in line with a free market system. The cooperation between Kazak experts ...
The world of a young boy growing up in Israel is the background for this experimental novel--a series of short chapters. We see him as a boy, then as a man, as he recalls the sometimes realistic and vivid, sometimes lyrically surreal events of his life and the people around him--his parents, his grandfather, his schoolmates, and the beautiful ...
Most of us are aware of the attempt to assassinate Hitler but few know about those behind it. In this family history Peter Hoffmann reveals the tragic and heroic life of Claus, Count Stauffenberg, South German aristocrat and would-be assassin of Adolph Hitler. He details Stauffenberg's formative years, showing how his relationship with his ...
Amongst the last generation of continental philosophers Derrida stands out as the most jurisprudential of thinkers. His early work on literary texts was already focused on laws of genre, on being before the law, and upon the legality of speech acts. His later work on the violent foundations of authority and on the force of law further propelled ...
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Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann, Peter Noever, Oswald Oberhuber, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Austria) Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst (Vienna, Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien
Keramik ist nicht nur der Alteste synthetische Werkstoff der Menschheit, sondern auch SchlA1/4ssel zur ErschlieAung neuer Technologien. Ohne Keramik sind gepflegtes Wohnen und Tischkultur ebenso undenkbar wie moderne Elektronik, Fertigungstechnik und Maschinenbau, Metallurgie und Energietechnik, Medizintechnik oder Luft- und Raumfahrt. Das wieder ...
Coverings are efficient ways to exhaust Euclidean N-space with congruent geometric objects. Discrete quasiperiodic systems are exemplified by the atomic structure of quasicrystals. The subject of coverings of discrete quasiperiodic sets emerged in 1995. The theory of these coverings provides a new and fascinating perspective of order down to the ...
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