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Acclaimed as one of the most vivid and evocative autobiographies of the century, Manès Sperber's trilogy All Our Yesterdays concludes in this final volume. Through the eyes of this eminent European intellectual and activist, we witness the years 1934-1984 including hostility between Croats and Serbs in Yugoslavia, the abortive workers' uprising in Vienna, and Stalin's show trials. Alongside his first-hand accounts of those dark days in Europe,...

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As a collective intellectual biography of some of the foremost social science thinkers of the early to mid-century, this book provides perhaps the clearest picture yet of the dilemmas facing the scholar-as-democratic reformer. Smith manages a judicious blend of the personal biography and individual career path with a penetrating account of the subject's main writings and intellectual contributions. His book should be read by a large, interdisc...

Lists all compact disc releases of top 40 hits from the nostalgic era of rock and roll (1955-1981) by performer and song title. The text includes details of song quality, chart performance and catalogue number.

This is the first collection to bring together the major autobiographical narratives by the Native American people from the earliest documents that exist to the present. The narratives included here cover a range of tribes and culture areas, over a span of more than 200 years.

Das Standardwerk über die politische Haltung deutscher Schriftsteller - von der Nachkriegszeit bis zum Ende der Zweistaatlichkeit. Zu allen öffentlichen Angelegenheiten haben sich die Schriftsteller geäußert, oft in einer Deutlichkeit und Schärfe, wie sie heute weder üblich noch erbeten ist. Ein aufregendes und aufschlussreiches Lesebuch in Sachen deutscher Geschichte.

PrefaceAcknowledgments 1: Intentions 2: Authors 3: Protocols 4: Revision 5: Economics 6: Government 7: Religion 8: Law 9: Populism10: Women11: Censorship12: ReadersNotesIndex

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This bibliography documenting Minnesota's rich legacy of left-wing political radicalism includes 921 entries describing unique personal and institutional records and papers, rare leaflets, tracts, pamphlets, oral histories, and films and photographs.

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Figures and TablesPreface and Acknowledgments 1: The Comparative Study of Organizational Paradigms 2: The United States: Economic Transformations, Labor Problems, and Organizational Innovations 3: Germany: Modernism, Traditionalism, and Bureaucracy 4: Spain: Eclecticism, Human Relations, and Managerial Authoritarianism in a Less-Developed Country 5: Great Britain: Industrial Retardation, Religious-Humanist Ideals, and the Rise of Social Scienc...

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction 1: Roosevelt and Taft: The Emergence of Civilization as Policy Principle 2: Woodrow Wilson and the Historical Necessity of Idealism 3: Herbert Hoover: Culture versus Civilization 4: Franklin D. Roosevelt: The Halfway Wilsonian 5: Wilsonian Problems: George F. Kennan and the Definition of the Cold War 6: Wilsonian Solutions: Toward a New Language of Power 7: Eisenhower's Symbolic Cold War 8: John F. Kennedy and the I...

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This work aspires to be a critical introduction to the philosophy of technology. This represents but another step in a continuing concern for the philosophical issues associated with technology.

Chafe demonstrates that understanding the nature of consciousness is essential to understanding many linguistic phenomena, such as pronouns, tense, clause structure, and intonation, as well as stylistic usages, such as the historical present and the free indirect style.

Peers examines the emergence of the western Ojibwa in the context of the historical forces that acted upon Native people and the spirit, determination, and strategies used to cope with those forces. She bases the work on fur-trade-company and government documents, traders' and missionaries' journals and diaries, letters, reminiscences, as well as ethnographic and archaeological data, material culture, and photographic and art images - many sou...

Whatever aspect of China interests the reader, this beautifully illustrated volume will provide a thorough and thought-provoking look at this complex and often volatile country.Said to be the oldest continuous civilization, China is a country full of contradictions, it is at once tranquil and dramatic, unified and diverse. China: Ancient Culture, Modern Land gives the reader the experience of living in China today as well as an overview of anc...

this practical guide to building adobe homes was written from the author's many years of experience with adobe, and it is refreshingly no-nonsense.

Volume 210 in the Civilization of the American Indian Series Durán traces the history of the Aztecs from their mythic origins to the destruction of the empire, when bearded strangers came from the east in "houses floating on the water." He tells of Cortés's alliance with the enemies of the Aztecs, the ensuing battles, and the death of Motecuhzoma II. Durán, a sixteenth-century Dominican friar, was born in Spain but raised in Mexico. His firsth...