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10 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die, Vol.5

The Odyssey, The Republic, Meditations, The Divine Comedy, Faust and others

by Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Marcus Aurelius, Niccolo Machiavelli, Dante Alighieri, Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Leo Tolstoy ...

Narrated by Peter Coates, Stacey M. Patterson, Douglass Scott, Joe Phoenix, Luana Marantz, Mark Bowen ...

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10 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the ... Read more

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10 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the
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Mountain and High-Altitude Medicine

Edited by Marc Moritz Berger, Franz Berghold, Hermann Brugger, Martin Burtscher, Rainald Fischer, Peter Paal, Wolfgang Schobersberger, Guenther Sumann ...

Series series Medicine (R0)
The standard reference work on Mountain and High-Altitude MedicineRenowned mountain and high-altitude medicine experts from the German-speaking area and beyond provide a comprehensive overview of mountain sports, emergency medicine in the mountains and high-altitude medicine with this specialised book. The book covers all content for the 'International Diploma in Mountain Medicine' (DIMM) of the ... Read more

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The standard reference work on Mountain and High-Altitude MedicineRenowned mountain and high-altitude medicine experts from the German-speaking area and beyond provide a comprehensive overview of mountain sports, emergency medicine in the mountains and high-altitude medicine with this specialised book. The book covers all content for the 'International Diploma in Mountain Medicine' (DIMM) of the
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Thirty Years After the Berlin Wall

German Unification and Transformation Research

Edited by Ayline Heller, Peter Schmidt ...

Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and transformation research.Transformation and unification processes in East and West Germany are still ... Read more

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This book examines the increasing body of research dedicated to the lasting differences between the former separate states of the Federal German Republic (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it takes a broad view on German unification and transformation research.Transformation and unification processes in East and West Germany are still
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The Merit Myth

How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America

by Anthony P. Carnevale, Peter Schmidt, Jeff Strohl ...

An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call—and a vision—for changeColleges fiercely defend America's deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions ... Read more

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An eye-opening and timely look at how colleges drive the very inequalities they are meant to remedy, complete with a call—and a vision—for changeColleges fiercely defend America's deeply stratified higher education system, arguing that the most exclusive schools reward the brightest kids who have worked hard to get there. But it doesn't actually work this way. As the recent college-admissions
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Amelia Erroway: Castaway Commander: A Graphic Novel

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Being lost can sometimes be the first step toward finding your destiny.A Junior Library Guild SelectionForbidden to become a pilot by her overprotective father, Amelia Erroway yearns to command her own airship. To prove her worth, she sets off alone on her father's prized craft. But disaster strikes: A fierce storm crashes her ship in uncharted lands and Amelia, now a castaway, must use her wits ... Read more

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Being lost can sometimes be the first step toward finding your destiny.A Junior Library Guild SelectionForbidden to become a pilot by her overprotective father, Amelia Erroway yearns to command her own airship. To prove her worth, she sets off alone on her father's prized craft. But disaster strikes: A fierce storm crashes her ship in uncharted lands and Amelia, now a castaway, must use her wits
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Sprache – Kultur – Kommunikation

Festschrift fuer Christopher Schmidt zum 65. Geburtstag

Edited by Nikola Vujčić, Hanna Acke ...

Series Book 39 - Finnische Beitraege zur Germanistik
In einer Welt, die zunehmend von globalen Interaktionen und kulturellem Austausch geprägt ist, bleibt die Bedeutung von Sprache, Kultur und Kommunikation zentral. Diese Festschrift zu Ehren von Christopher M. Schmidt vereint 23 Beiträge, die das breite Spektrum der Sprach-, Kultur- und Kommunikationswissenschaft abdecken. Christopher M. Schmidts Wegbegleiter*innen, Schüler*innen und Kolleg*innen – ... Read more

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In einer Welt, die zunehmend von globalen Interaktionen und kulturellem Austausch geprägt ist, bleibt die Bedeutung von Sprache, Kultur und Kommunikation zentral. Diese Festschrift zu Ehren von Christopher M. Schmidt vereint 23 Beiträge, die das breite Spektrum der Sprach-, Kultur- und Kommunikationswissenschaft abdecken. Christopher M. Schmidts Wegbegleiter*innen, Schüler*innen und Kolleg*innen –
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Cultural Policy Yearbook 2022–2023 Resilience in the Ecosystem of Theatre

New Perspectives for the Independent Performing Arts

Edited by Wolfgang Schneider, Hatice Gokce Okandan ...

Series Book 24 - Studien zur Kulturpolitik / Cultural Policy
The Cultural Policy Yearbook is an international, peer-reviewed publication, producing high-quality, original research published by Istanbul Bilgi University. The 2022–2023 edition is published in English, with a Turkish version available exclusively as an e-book, supported by the University of Hildesheim. The "Focus" theme for 2022–2023 is "New Perspectives for the Independent Performing Arts. ... Read more

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The Cultural Policy Yearbook is an international, peer-reviewed publication, producing high-quality, original research published by Istanbul Bilgi University. The 2022–2023 edition is published in English, with a Turkish version available exclusively as an e-book, supported by the University of Hildesheim. The "Focus" theme for 2022–2023 is "New Perspectives for the Independent Performing Arts.
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Mozart: Letters

Introduction by Lady Wallace

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

Series series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together a fascinating selection, giving us a detailed portrait of the composer's life and times.Here are letters to and from Mozart's domineering father, Leopold, the earliest of which, addressed to a friend, describes the six-year-old Mozart's accomplishments ... Read more

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Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together a fascinating selection, giving us a detailed portrait of the composer's life and times.Here are letters to and from Mozart's domineering father, Leopold, the earliest of which, addressed to a friend, describes the six-year-old Mozart's accomplishments
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Numerical Methods

by Wolfgang Boehm, Hartmut Prautzsch ...

This book is written for engineers and other practitioners using numerical methods in their work and serves as a textbook for courses in applied mathematics and numerical analysis. ... Read more

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This book is written for engineers and other practitioners using numerical methods in their work and serves as a textbook for courses in applied mathematics and numerical analysis.
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Terra Preta

How the World's Most Fertile Soil Can Help Reverse Climate Change and Reduce World Hunger

by Ute Scheub, Haiko Pieplow, Hans-Peter Schmidt, Kathleen Draper ...

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Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties. The newspapers are flooded with reports about black gold,” scientists believe that two of the greatest problems facing the world climate change and the hunger crisis - can be solved by it. The beauty of it is that everyone can do something about it because since 2005 the secret of producing ... Read more

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Terra preta is the Portuguese name of a type of soil which is thought to have almost miraculous properties. The newspapers are flooded with reports about black gold,” scientists believe that two of the greatest problems facing the world climate change and the hunger crisis - can be solved by it. The beauty of it is that everyone can do something about it because since 2005 the secret of producing
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Color and Money

How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action

by Peter Schmidt ...

What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and to solicit support from the big corporations they steer minority students toward;* conservatives have used ... Read more

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What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how:* colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and to solicit support from the big corporations they steer minority students toward;* conservatives have used
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Making and Unmaking Whiteness in Early New South Fiction After the Civil War

by Peter Schmidt ...

This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-specialists—examines how popular fiction contributed to and contested new forms of white racial dominance, collectively known as Jim Crow or the "color-line," in the U.S. in the 1880s and after. I focus in particular on the cultural work undertaken by the "command performance" scene in these texts, in ... Read more

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This essay—a work of literary criticism and critical race studies written to be accessible to non-specialists—examines how popular fiction contributed to and contested new forms of white racial dominance, collectively known as Jim Crow or the "color-line," in the U.S. in the 1880s and after. I focus in particular on the cultural work undertaken by the "command performance" scene in these texts, in
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