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The Greeks Who Made Us Who We Are
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 35.00Hellenic contributions to Western Civilization are acknowledged by all, but the details of their endowment are under-appreciated. This volume seeks to disclose two distinctive features of Western culture uniquely attributable to the ancient Greeks: A human-centered worldview that elevated humans to the threshold of divinity and a philosophical temperament... more...
The Lahu Minority in Southwest China
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 44.95The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social system, with the highest suicide rate in the world,... more...
Memory and Power in Post-War Europe
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 34.00How has memory - collective and individual - influenced European politics in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Cold War? How has the past been used in domestic and foreign policy? This book is the first to examine the connection between memory and politics directly. more...
German Ideologies Since 1945
Palgrave Macmillan 2003; US$ 100.00The contributors of this volume seek to answer such questions as: 'How did the Germans overcome 'Germanic Ideology', or did they?' 'Why is there no libertarianism in Germany?' 'What do German conservatives wish to conserve?'. Emphasizing shared patterns of thought, the contributors trace the contours of political thought in a divided nation with a... more...
Zwischenbetriebliches Stammdatenmanagement
Springer 2008; US$ 54.99Die effiziente Abwicklung zwischenbetrieblicher Marketing- oder Logistikprozesse setzt unternehmensübergreifend abgestimmte Stammdaten zu Produkten, Geschäftspartnern und Konditionen voraus. Der Autor entwickelt organisatorische und informationstechnische Lösungsbausteine für das Stammdatenmanagement und liefert konkrete Empfehlungen für deren Umsetzung.... more...
Constitutional Patriotism
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 31.95Constitutional Patriotism offers a new theory of citizenship and civic allegiance for today's culturally diverse liberal democracies. Rejecting conventional accounts of liberal nationalism and cosmopolitanism, Jan-Werner Müller argues for a form of political belonging centered on universalist norms, adapted for specific constitutional cultures.... more...
The Dark Road
Random House Group Ltd 2013; US$ 22.67Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant descendant of Confucius. They have a daughter, but desperate for a son to carry on his illustrious family line, Kongzi gets Meili pregnant again without waiting for official permission. When family planning officers storm... more...
Principles of Financial Economics
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 34.00This book introduces graduate students to the subfield of financial economics. It stresses the link between financial economics and equilibrium theory, devoting less attention to purely financial topics such as calculation of derivatives. Emphasis is placed on detailed study of two-date models. more...
Geotechnik
Wiley 2008; US$ 49.95Das Buch vermittelt alle wichtigen Aspekte über den Aufbau und die Eigenschaften des Bodens, die bei der Planung und Berechnung sowie bei der Begutachtung von Schäden des Systems Bauwerk-Baugrund zu berücksichtigen sind. Schwerpunkte sind die Baugrunderkundung, die Ermittlung von Bodenkennwerten im Labor, sowie die Behandlung von Setzungs-... more...
Geotechnik
Wiley 2012; US$ 47.95Das komplexe und technisch hoch spezialisierte Gebiet der Geotechnik bildet ein Fundament des Bauingenieurwesens, dessen Herausforderungen heute u. a. im innerstädtischen Infrastrukturbau, im Bauen im Bestand oder in der Gestaltung tiefer, in das Grundwasser hineinreichender Baugruben liegen. Das vorliegende Buch befähigt Bauingenieure, grundbauspezifische... more...









