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Forestry Economics introduces students and practitioners to the economics of managing forests and forest enterprises.

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Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget - a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active correspondent who included many well-known figures among her circle. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from more than 30 archives worldwide.

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Mit Konrad II. (1024-1039) beginnt das Jahrhundert der Salier. Unter seiner Herrschaft triumphiert der Reichsgedanke, die "deutsche Kaiserherrlichkeit" erreicht ihren Höhepunkt. Er fügt dem Reichsgebiet Burgund hinzu und wird so der erste Kaiser dreier Reiche. Zugleich hat er die innenpolitischen Grundlagen der kaiserlichen Macht erweitert und auch in der Kirchenpolitik gegenüber Papst, Klerus und Äbten das volle Gewicht seiner Stellung zur Ge...

Erfurt ist seit jeher das "Haupt des Thüringer Landes", wie es in Hartmann Schedels Weltchronik 1493 heißt. Der Historiker Dr. Steffen Raßloff stellt herausragende Ereignisse und Persönlichkeiten aus dreizehn Jahrhunderten vor und erinnert an die Höhen und Tiefen in der Entwicklung Erfurts. Das Buch bietet einen kompetenten und unterhaltsamen Schnelldurchlauf durch die Stadtgeschichte, wie es ihn lange nicht gegeben hat.

Für wen haltet ihr mich?'' Fragt Jesus. Petrus antwortet: ''Du bist der Messias, der Sohn des lebendigen Gottes!'' (nach Matthäus 16, 15f). Als einer der zwölf Jünger Jesu ist Petrus Augenzeuge der bedeutenden Ereignisse dieser Zeit. Nach dessen Tod und Auferstehung erzählt er als Apostel überall von Jesus und dem, was er für die Menschen bedeutet selbst im Gefängnis. In den Kerkern Roms teilt er seine Erlebnisse auch mit dem Kerkermeister Mar...

Brings the actual situation in the dialogue - Athens and its intellectuals engaged in spirited debate - alive. Equally alive is the discussions of ideas, which are brought to bear on contemporary experience and made to prove the perennial validity of Socratic wisdom, and its power to excite the mind. The main thesis - that in poetry and in love man is "beside himself, " that is, divinely inspired - is discussed with reference to modern poets, ...

A three-pack of our Spring 2015 Poetry Pamphlets, featuring: A Hermit's Guide to Home Economics, by Robert Lax Dirt Poem, by Ferreira Gullar Hospital Series, by Amelia Rosselli

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This volume supplements the Facets of Culture textbook for advanced-level students of Japanese language. The textbook's six thematic units focus on diversity and boundary-crossing in contemporary Japanese society, topics include popular culture, translation, cross-cultural communication, bioethics, changing work patterns, and individualized learning. The Tasks, Vocabulary, and Sentence Patterns volume provides grammatical information, vocabula...

This volume contains a translation into English of Averroes's Middle Commentary on Aristotle's Poetics, an introduction to the translation in which the arguments of both Averroes and Aristotle are sketch out and their differences from Plato and other important thinkers explored, an outline analysis of the order of Averroes's commentary, annotations to the text, a bibliography, and a glossary of important terms with their English translations.H...

The author of seven full-length novels, several plays, and numerous short fictions, John Hawkes over the course of two and a half decades has won international acclaim. Death, Sleep & The Traveler is about a middle-aged Dutchman, his dissolving marriage, his involvement in two sexual triangles, his obsession with the murder he is accused of having committed on a pleasure cruise. "It is an exceptionally concise and beautiful work, " writes the ...

Die Philippinen, ein exotisches Reich aus über 7100 Inseln sind zweifelsohne einzigartig in der Welt. Hier begegnet uns als Ergebnis eines jahrhundertlangen kulturellen Verschmelzungsprozesses von Orient und Okzident eine abenteuerliche Welt voller aufregender Gegensätze, eine faszinierende Mischung aller denkbarer Völker und Kulturen und eine vielseitige natürliche Verbindung von unberührter Wildnis, unruhigen Vulkanen, beeindruckenden Wasser...

Called by some the French Borges, by others the creator of le nouveau roman a generation ahead of its time, Raymond Queneau's work in fiction continues to defy strict categorization. The Flight of Icarus (Le Vol d'lcare) is his only novel written in the form of a play: seventy-four short scenes, complete with stage directions. Consciously parodying Pirandello and Robbe-Grillet, it begins with a novelist's discovery that his principal character...

The six long stories of A Party for the Girls present H.E. Bates at his finest. A crack shot at understated tragedy, Bates is perhaps at his best with comedy and character.