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Motley Stones

by Adalbert Stifter ...

Translated by Isabel Fargo Cole ...

The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas.For Kafka he was “my fat brother”; Thomas Mann called him “one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature.” Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of “beetles and buttercups,” the nineteenth-century Austrian ... Read more

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The first complete English translation of the nineteenth-century Austrian innovator's evocative, elemental cycle of novellas.For Kafka he was “my fat brother”; Thomas Mann called him “one of the most peculiar, enigmatic, secretly audacious and strangely gripping storytellers in world literature.” Often misunderstood as an idyllic poet of “beetles and buttercups,” the nineteenth-century Austrian
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Rock Crystal

by Adalbert Stifter ...

Translated by Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Mayer ...

Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature" is among the most unusual, moving, and memorable of ... Read more

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Seemingly the simplest of stories—a passing anecdote of village life— Rock Crystal opens up into a tale of almost unendurable suspense. This jewel-like novella by the writer that Thomas Mann praised as "one of the most extraordinary, the most enigmatic, the most secretly daring and the most strangely gripping narrators in world literature" is among the most unusual, moving, and memorable of
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The Apostle of South Africa

by Adalbert Ludwig Balling ...

The Monastery of Mariannhill was governed by a man who combined German genius for leadership and German energy with a powerful and deep religious idealism. Dom Franz Pfanner looked like an Old Testament prophet. The eyes that burned in that long, aquiline countenance flamed like the eyes of a visionary, and the sensitive lips that quivered in that prophetic beard were ready to command no one knew ... Read more

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The Monastery of Mariannhill was governed by a man who combined German genius for leadership and German energy with a powerful and deep religious idealism. Dom Franz Pfanner looked like an Old Testament prophet. The eyes that burned in that long, aquiline countenance flamed like the eyes of a visionary, and the sensitive lips that quivered in that prophetic beard were ready to command no one knew
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Rock Crystal

by Adalbert Stifter ...

Rock Crystal is an exquisite novella by a master, a writer of lucid serenity whose sublime tales have established themselves as classics of short fiction.As the story opens, it is the day before Christmas, and Conrad and Susanna (nicknamed Sanna) are paying a holiday visit to their grandmother in Millsdorf.Although the action takes place on Christmas Eve, (what Stifter's villagers call Holy Eve), ... Read more

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Rock Crystal is an exquisite novella by a master, a writer of lucid serenity whose sublime tales have established themselves as classics of short fiction.As the story opens, it is the day before Christmas, and Conrad and Susanna (nicknamed Sanna) are paying a holiday visit to their grandmother in Millsdorf.Although the action takes place on Christmas Eve, (what Stifter's villagers call Holy Eve),
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The Interplay of Civic Engagement and Institutionalised Politics

In Search of Intermediating Capacities

Edited by Adalbert Evers, Johan von Essen ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This volume focusses on the interplay of civic engagement and institutionalised politics and its role in both the erosion and retrieval of intermediate capabilities and procedures. Rather than discussing democracy as a relationship between citizens as individual voters and state power, the book studies the relationship between citizens engaged in or through organisations, movements and networks in ... Read more

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This volume focusses on the interplay of civic engagement and institutionalised politics and its role in both the erosion and retrieval of intermediate capabilities and procedures. Rather than discussing democracy as a relationship between citizens as individual voters and state power, the book studies the relationship between citizens engaged in or through organisations, movements and networks in
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Recent Trends and Future Challenges in Learning from Data

Edited by Cristina Davino, Francesco Palumbo, Adalbert F. X. Wilhelm, Hans A. Kestler ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book collects together selected peer-reviewed contributions presented at the European Conference on Data Analysis, ECDA 2022, held in Naples, Italy, September 14-16, 2022. Highlighting the role of statistics in discovering novel and interesting patterns in the era of big data, it follows the motto of the conference: “Avoiding drowning in the data: recent trends and future challenges in ... Read more

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This book collects together selected peer-reviewed contributions presented at the European Conference on Data Analysis, ECDA 2022, held in Naples, Italy, September 14-16, 2022. Highlighting the role of statistics in discovering novel and interesting patterns in the era of big data, it follows the motto of the conference: “Avoiding drowning in the data: recent trends and future challenges in
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Computational Conflict Research

Edited by Emanuel Deutschmann, Jan Lorenz, Luis G. Nardin, Davide Natalini, Adalbert F. X. Wilhelm ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis.Empirical cases range from migration ... Read more

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This open access book brings together a set of original studies that use cutting-edge computational methods to investigate conflict at various geographic scales and degrees of intensity and violence. Methodologically, this book covers a variety of computational approaches from text mining and machine learning to agent-based modelling and social network analysis.Empirical cases range from migration
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Developing Quality in Personal Social Services

Concepts, Cases and Comments

Edited by Adalbert Evers, Riitta Haverinen, Kai Leichsenring, Gerald Wistow ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 1997, this volume is about the challenge of introducing business-originated concepts of quality assurance, personal social services are currently confronted with all over Europe. Undoubtedly, the new orientation towards a more business-like approach in social welfare settings will raise professionalism, "client-orientation" and controlling (instead of mere inspection). There is ... Read more

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First published in 1997, this volume is about the challenge of introducing business-originated concepts of quality assurance, personal social services are currently confronted with all over Europe. Undoubtedly, the new orientation towards a more business-like approach in social welfare settings will raise professionalism, "client-orientation" and controlling (instead of mere inspection). There is
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Analysis of Large and Complex Data

Edited by Adalbert F.X. Wilhelm, Hans A. Kestler ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
This book offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in classification at the interface between statistics, computer science and application fields. The contributions span a broad spectrum, from theoretical developments to practical applications; they all share a strong computational component. The topics addressed are from the following fields: Statistics and Data Analysis; Machine Learning and ... Read more

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This book offers a snapshot of the state-of-the-art in classification at the interface between statistics, computer science and application fields. The contributions span a broad spectrum, from theoretical developments to practical applications; they all share a strong computational component. The topics addressed are from the following fields: Statistics and Data Analysis; Machine Learning and
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Fono

The Contest for the Governance of Samoa

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Fono: The Contest for the Governance of Samoa tells the story of the development of Samoa' s unique system of governance, and of those who have fought for power and shaped the development of the Independent State of Samoa, from first settlement through German colonisation and New Zealand' s administration, to indigenous governance, including the hard-fought 2021 General Election and its dramatic ... Read more

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Fono: The Contest for the Governance of Samoa tells the story of the development of Samoa' s unique system of governance, and of those who have fought for power and shaped the development of the Independent State of Samoa, from first settlement through German colonisation and New Zealand' s administration, to indigenous governance, including the hard-fought 2021 General Election and its dramatic
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The The Martyr of the Baltic: Adalbert of Prague

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The Martyr of the Baltic: Adalbert of PragueBorn into the noble Slavník dynasty of tenth-century Bohemia, Adalbert of Prague lived one of the most consequential and contradictory lives in the history of medieval Europe. Formed by the finest intellectual minds of the Ottonian world at Magdeburg, where he witnessed the philosophical debates of the future Pope Sylvester II, he returned home carrying ... Read more

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Rock Crystal (Unabridged)

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Lovely story of two children who get lost in a hazardous winter crossing of an Alpine pass after visiting their grandparents in a neighboring village. Full of beautiful details about the lives of the hardy villagers, and their love for their families and their mountain home. ... Read more

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