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Fegelein's Horsemen and Genocidal Warfare

The SS Cavalry Brigade in the Soviet Union

by H. Pieper ...

Series series History (R0)
The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front. ... Read more

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The SS Cavalry Brigade was a unit of the Waffen-SS that differed from other German military formations as it developed a 'dual role': SS cavalrymen both helped to initiate the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and experienced combat at the front.
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Leisure

The Basis of Culture

by Josef Pieper ...

One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act.Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the ... Read more

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One of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure, the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared more than fifty years ago. This edition also includes his work The Philosophical Act.Leisure is an attitude of the mind and a condition of the soul that fosters a capacity to perceive the
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Happiness and Contemplation

by Josef Pieper ...

“The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation.” In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom in order to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological problems. What, in fact, does one pursue in pursuing happiness? What, in the consensus of the wisdom of the early Greeks, of Plato and Aristotle, of the New ... Read more

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“The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation.” In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom in order to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological problems. What, in fact, does one pursue in pursuing happiness? What, in the consensus of the wisdom of the early Greeks, of Plato and Aristotle, of the New
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Ann Browne

The Lady Warrior

by Ken Pieper ...

The seamless process of presenting Ann's life is uncanny yet becomes one of deep and personal involvement for the reader.This is a story of a strong lady who would hold anyone accountable and fight against any injustice she encountered. Racism and bigotry were very prevalent throughout our country during the eras that she lived.During those eras, corrupt politicians were abundant, much like today, ... Read more

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The seamless process of presenting Ann's life is uncanny yet becomes one of deep and personal involvement for the reader.This is a story of a strong lady who would hold anyone accountable and fight against any injustice she encountered. Racism and bigotry were very prevalent throughout our country during the eras that she lived.During those eras, corrupt politicians were abundant, much like today,
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Faith, Hope, Love

by Josef Pieper ...

This volume, three separate books in one edition, is a collection of Josef Pieper's famous treatises on the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. Each of these treatises was originally published as a separate work over a period of thirty-seven years, and here they are brought together in English for the first time.The first of the three that he wrote, On Hope, was written in 1934 in ... Read more

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This volume, three separate books in one edition, is a collection of Josef Pieper's famous treatises on the three theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. Each of these treatises was originally published as a separate work over a period of thirty-seven years, and here they are brought together in English for the first time.The first of the three that he wrote, On Hope, was written in 1934 in
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Ann Browne

by Ken Pieper ...

The seamless process of presenting Ann's life is uncanny yet becomes one of deep and personal involvement for the reader.This is a story of a strong lady who would hold anyone accountable and fight against any injustice she encountered. Racism and bigotry were very prevalent throughout our country during the eras that she lived.During those eras, corrupt politicians were abundant, much like today, ... Read more

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The seamless process of presenting Ann's life is uncanny yet becomes one of deep and personal involvement for the reader.This is a story of a strong lady who would hold anyone accountable and fight against any injustice she encountered. Racism and bigotry were very prevalent throughout our country during the eras that she lived.During those eras, corrupt politicians were abundant, much like today,
... Read more
Cursive Writing the Easy Way

by Barbara Pieper Walding ...

This is Barbara's first published book. She has a BS and MS in education and almost 30 years of elementary school teaching in Connecticut, Morocco, Iran, but mostly in Texas.When Barbara was teaching, her students were recognized in the next grade. The teachers could always spot which students came from her because of their handwriting. Some people say cursive writing is becoming a lost art, but ... Read more

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This is Barbara's first published book. She has a BS and MS in education and almost 30 years of elementary school teaching in Connecticut, Morocco, Iran, but mostly in Texas.When Barbara was teaching, her students were recognized in the next grade. The teachers could always spot which students came from her because of their handwriting. Some people say cursive writing is becoming a lost art, but
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The Four Cardinal Virtues

Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge

by Josef Pieper ...

In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues. ... Read more

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In The Four Cardinal Virtues, Joseph Pieper delivers a stimulating quartet of essays on the four cardinal virtues. He demonstrates the unsound overvaluation of moderation that has made contemporary morality a hollow convention and points out the true significance of the Christian virtues.
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Safety Engineering

Fundamentals, Methods, Research topics

Edited by Stefan Bracke, Ralf Pieper ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
Safety engineering is an engineering discipline with an interdisciplinary and application-oriented focus. The main focus is on the knowledge-based development and application of methods for the analysis and prevention of hazards and the minimization of remaining hazards to human safety and health and to the environment, particularly in connection with technically complex products, systems and ... Read more

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Safety engineering is an engineering discipline with an interdisciplinary and application-oriented focus. The main focus is on the knowledge-based development and application of methods for the analysis and prevention of hazards and the minimization of remaining hazards to human safety and health and to the environment, particularly in connection with technically complex products, systems and
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The Human Wisdom of St. Thomas

A Breviary of Philosophy from the Works of St. Thomas Aquinas

by Josef Pieper ...

Translated by Drostan MacLaren ...

Josef Pieper has attached no commentary to the texts brought together in this breviary of the philosophy of St. Thomas, preferring that the reader should encounter them, "on his own". His work has been one of selection, in which he has sought to assemble such passages as will provide an introduction to the form and design of the whole Thomistic system. Yet he has so ordered his texts as to impress ... Read more

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Josef Pieper has attached no commentary to the texts brought together in this breviary of the philosophy of St. Thomas, preferring that the reader should encounter them, "on his own". His work has been one of selection, in which he has sought to assemble such passages as will provide an introduction to the form and design of the whole Thomistic system. Yet he has so ordered his texts as to impress
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In Tune With The World

by Josef Pieper ...

In this stimulating and still-timely study, Josef Pieper takes up a theme of paramount importance to his thinking – that festivals belong by rights among the great topics of philosophical discussion. As he develops his theory of festivity, the modern age comes under close and painful scrutiny. It is obvious that we no longer know what festivity is, namely, the celebration of existence under ... Read more

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In this stimulating and still-timely study, Josef Pieper takes up a theme of paramount importance to his thinking – that festivals belong by rights among the great topics of philosophical discussion. As he develops his theory of festivity, the modern age comes under close and painful scrutiny. It is obvious that we no longer know what festivity is, namely, the celebration of existence under
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Reinventing Cicero

The Afterlife of the Speeches, Letters and Dialogues between 60 and 50 BCE

Edited by Leanne Jansen, Christoph Pieper ...

Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Exploring the reception of an influential phase in the life of the orator and politician Cicero, this volume focuses on the legacy of his public speeches, letters and political writings between 60-50 BCE. Faced with mounting public challenges, he developed an elaborate self-fashioning programme, reinventing himself as a republican statesman and political philosopher in works which have been ... Read more

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Exploring the reception of an influential phase in the life of the orator and politician Cicero, this volume focuses on the legacy of his public speeches, letters and political writings between 60-50 BCE. Faced with mounting public challenges, he developed an elaborate self-fashioning programme, reinventing himself as a republican statesman and political philosopher in works which have been
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