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Ellis O. Briggs (1899-1976) entered the U.S. Foreign Service in 1925. During the next thirty-seven years he had thirteen foreign assignments, seven (a career record) as ambassador - to the Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Czechoslovakia, Korea, Peru, Brazil, and Greece. An eighth ambassadorial appointment, to Spain, was cancelled when he retired because of illness. His memoirs are an exuberant record of a gifted diplomat, spanning the pre-World Wa...

Nutrients have been recognized as essential for maximum growth, successful reproduction, and infection prevention since the 1940s, since that time, the lion's share of nutrient research has focused on defining their role in these processes. Around 1990, however, a major shift began in the way that researchers viewed some nutrients­ particularly the vitamins. This shift was motivated by the discovery that modest declines in vitamin nutritional ...

This book is a systematic history of one of the oldest problems in the philosophy of space and time: How is the change from one state to its opposite to be described? To my knowledge it is the first comprehensive book providing information about and analysis of texts on this topic throughout the ages. The target audience I envisaged are advanced students and scholars of analytic philosophy and the history of philosophy who are interested in th...

»Es gibt Leute, in deren Leben spielt Musik eine völlig nebensächliche Rolle, er kenne Leute, die hören nicht mal Klassik. Er kenne Menschen, in Mjunik lebende Menschen, sagt Roman, die sich in dieser musikbesessenen Epoche weder für Popmusik noch für irgendeine andere Art von Musik interessieren. Seltsam, sagt Roman, Zeitgenossen, scheinbare Zeitgenossen, die bei dem Wort Kraftwerk einfach nur an banale Stromerzeugung denken, machen ihn krank...