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简介：The influence of the Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann (1870-1956) is extraordinary. For a period of over 60 years he kept up an aesthetic dialog with Modernism, the International Style, and Art Deco. Before being rediscovered in the 1980s by the Post-Modernists, his work was nearly forgotten but now his importance is unquestioned.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This collection of thirteen articles on gay and lesbian issues presents current comparative scholarship on the relationships between sexual minority rights movements and the state. The essays are divided by country and explore key strengths and weaknesses of particular governments and societies in dealing with gender and sexual orientation problems. Topics discussed include Belgium and the paradoxical strength of disunion, Austrian parties, federalism and the rights agenda, the depoliticization of homosexuality in the Netherlands, gay rights in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia, and multi-institutional political and social movements in the United States. The contributors are academics in sociology and public policy from universities around the world. Annotation 漏2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介："This book draws creatively from the New Institutional Theories developed primarily in the United States, from Austrian economics, and from urban politics. [The author] lead a serious effort to re-examine processes and outcomes that occur in urban areas of the United States and elsewhere."--Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University

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简介：This volume appears as the product of efforts made by the executive committee of the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association over a period of several years to enhance the prestige of the organization and the quality of the program of the annual meetings. Essays include: Psychoanalyzing the Psychoanalyst: Writing the Freud Biography, Peter Gay; Allied Psychological Interpretations of Germans and Nazis During and After World War II, Louise E. Hoffman; London Quakers and the Business of Abolition: A Case for Collective Biography, Judith Jennings; The Experience of Motherhood in Early-Victorian England, Nancy Fix Anderson; Bertha von Suttner, Gender, and the Representation of War, Anne O. Dzamba; Toynbee and the Historical Profession, William H. McNeill; The Austrian Military Response to the French Revolution and Napoleon: The Problem of Popular Participation in War, Gunther E. Rothenberg; Italy's Peculiar Institution: Internal Police Exile, 1861-1914, Richard Bach Jensen; From Theory to Practice: The Reorientation in Mechanical Engineering Education and Bourgeois Society in Germany, 1873-1914, C. W. R. Gispen; Gertrud B,umer and the Weimar Republic: 'New Jerusalem' or 'Politics as Usual?', Catherine E. Boyd; Entering the Corridors of Power: English Women and the High Civil Service, 1925-1945, Gail L. Savage; The Politics of Opposition: German Socialists and the Tirpitz Plan, 1898-1912, Dennis Sweeney. Co-published with the Southern Historical Association.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 William Bateson (1861-1926) began his academic career working on variation in animals in the light of evolutionary theory. He was inspired by the rediscovery in 1900 of the 1860s work on plant hybridisation by the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel to pursue further experimental work in what he named `genetics'. He realised that Mendel's results could help to solve difficult biological questions and controversies which others had glossed over, and to challenge the status quo in evolutionary studies. Annoyed by the `apathetic' stance of his evolutionist colleagues, and incensed by the Oxford professor Raphael Weldon's scathing critique of Mendel in a journal article, Bateson incorporated an English translation of Mendel's work into this 1902 book along with a thorough defence of Mendel's statistical experiments and the principles of heredity derived from them. His book is an impassioned appeal for scientists to adopt this `brilliant method' which he felt could revolutionise both scholarship and industry. This volume also contains, in an appendix, the original German texts of Mendel's Versuche iiber Pflanzenhybriden, as published in Leipzig in 1901.   Publisher Summary 2 Gregor Mendel's work on heredity in plants, a translation, and a passionate defence of it by 'the first geneticist'.   Publisher Summary 3 William Bateson (1861-1926) began his academic career working on variation in animals in the light of evolutionary theory. He was inspired by the rediscovery in 1900 of the 1860s work on plant hybridisation by the Austrian monk Gregor Mendel (included here as an appendix) to pursue further experimental work in what he named 'genetics'. He realised that Mendel's results could help to solve difficult biological questions and controversies and to challenge the status quo in evolutionary studies. Annoyed by the 'apathetic' stance of his evolutionist colleagues, and incensed by a scathing critique of Mendel by the Oxford professor Raphael Weldon, Bateson incorporated an English translation of Mendel's work into this 1902 book along with a defence of Mendel's statistical experiments and the principles of heredity derived from them. His book is an impassioned appeal for scientists to adopt this 'brilliant method' which he felt could revolutionise both scholarship and industry.  

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简介：Mozart's unfinished Requiem has long been shrouded in mystery. Mozart undertook the commission for an Austrian nobleman, little knowing that he was to write a requiem for himself. Inevitably, the secrecy surrounding the anonymous commission, the circumstances of Mozart's death, the unfinished state of the work, and its completion under the direction of Mozart's widow, Constanze, have precipitated two centuries of romantic speculation and scholarly controversy. Christoph Wolff provides a critical introduction to the Requiem in its many facets. Part I of his study focuses on the tangled genesis and completion of the work and its fascinating early reception history until Constanze's death. Wolff summarizes the current state of research on the subject, provides new perspectives on Mozart's conception of the whole work, and surveys his contributions to the movements composed posthumously by his assistant, Süssmayr. Part II provides a musical analysis of Mozart's composition, including contextual, structural, and interpretive aspects. Part III consists of an annotated collection of the principal literary documents (1791-1839) that illuminate the fascinating early history of the Requiem. The book concludes with a complete edition of the work that is at the center of Wolff's study, the authentic score of the Requiem--Mozart's fragment--supplemented by crucial excerpts from Süssmayr's 1792 Requiem completion.

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简介："Henry Friedlander explores in chilling detail how the Nazi program of secretly exterminating the handicapped and disabled evolved into the systematic destruction of Jews and Gypsies. Tracing the rise of racist and eugenic ideologies in Germany, he describes how the so-called euthanasia of the handicapped provided a practical model for mass murder, thereby initiating the Holocaust." "Based on extensive research in American, German, and Austrian archives as well as Allied and German court records, the book also analyzes the involvement of the German bureaucracy and judiciary, the participation of physicians and scientists, the motives of the killers, and the nature of popular opposition. Friedlander also sheds light on the special plight of handicapped Jews, who were the first singled out for murder."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Focusing primarily on discourse arising out of the work of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Committee (TRC), six papers presented by Anthonissen (U. of Stellenbosch, South Africa) and Blommaert (London School of Economics, UK) explore aspects of how language functions in the process of mediating reconciliation, amnesty, and restitution. Topics include the range of academic discourses generated in anticipation of the TRC, narrative inequality in the TRC hearings, sociolinguistic analysis of techniques of rephrasing painful memories, precursors of TRC concerns of remembrance and forgetting found in the works of South African novelists, and the limitations of language when relating pain in an institutional space that is not necessarily safe. Also included is a comparative chapter investigating Austrian linguistic memories of World War II atrocities of the German Wehrmacht Annotation 漏2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 Explores the common ethical themes of these influential Hollywood filmmakers and their influence on American culture.   Publisher Summary 2 Henry (German and Russian, Pomona College) provides biographical material as a backdrop for discussion of the ethical and social orientation of her subjects, German and Austrian filmmakers Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder. Issues explored include the intellectual and cultural influences on their work, their political and social beliefs and pedagogical aims, and the public and critics' reactions to their films. A selection of each director's individual films are also individually analyzed. Includes b&w film stills. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)   Publisher Summary 3 This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these German and Austrian emigres and their influence on American culture. Aware of the influential power of their films, these filmmakers strove to raise the intellectual standard and the positive educational value of the American film. Brief individual biographies describe their heritage, major influences, and goals and draw connections among the three filmmakers in their preference for German and Austrian literature and philosophy, which focuses on social criticism, ethics, and the problem of identity. Detailed analyses of their individual styles of filmmaking and readings of selected films reveal how they put their philosophies into practice and to what extent they influenced one another. Films analyzed include The Merry Widow, The Wedding March, Heaven Can Wait, To Be or Not To Be, Sunset Boulevard, and The Fortune Cookie among others. By delineating their contributions to the development of modern film, this research explores the filmmakers' impact on film and cultural history.  

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简介：Austrian Expressionist Egon Schiele produced a prolific body of work before his early death at the age of twenty-eight in 1918. The oeuvre is comprised of a few hundred oil paintings and thousands of drawings and watercolors. Schiele's oils have often been reproduced and are well recognized. However, limited access to the fragile works on paper and dispersion among several collections have made for an unbalanced representation of his work as a draftsman. This book assembles drawings and watercolors from public and private collections and reproduces work from every year of the artist's career, beginning with the juvenilia and early academic studies. The focus means that work that is rarely reproduced is represented extensively, providing a unique opportunity to study the rapid artistic development of Schiele over the course of his brief twelve-year career. The book is organized chronologically and divided into year-by-year sections. Each section includes a text that discusses the major events in Schiele's life and the interrelation between the artist's drawing and developments in his oil painting. Features a previously unpublished Schiele watercolor and several works that have never been reproduced in color. Over 350 color illustrations.

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简介：Half a century ago, before the discovery of DNA, the Austrian physicist and philosopher Erwin Schr?dinger inspired a generation of scientists by rephrasing the fascinating philosophical question: What is life? Using their expansive understanding of recent science to wonderful effect, acclaimed authors Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan revisit this timeless question in a fast-moving, wide-ranging narrative that combines rigorous science with philosophy, history, and poetry. The authors move deftly across a dazzling array of topics--from the dynamics of the bacterial realm, to the connection between sex and death, to theories of spirit and matter. They delve into the origins of life, offering the startling suggestion that life--not just human life--is free to act and has played an unexpectedly large part in its own evolution. Transcending the various formal concepts of life, this captivating book offers a unique overview of life's history, essences, and future. Supplementing the text are stunning illustrations that range from the smallest known organism (Mycoplasma bacteria) to the largest (the biosphere itself). Creatures both strange and familiar enhance the pages of What Is Life?Their existence prompts readers to reconsider preconceptions not only about life but also about their own part in it.

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简介："This is an expanded second edition of Nicholas Mercuro and Steven Medema's book Economics and the Law, whose publication in 1998 marked the most comprehensive overviewof the various schools of thought in the burgeoning field of Law and Economics. Each of these competing yet complementary traditions has redefined the study of law and exposed the key economic implications of the legal environment. The book remains true to the scope and aims of the first edition, but also takes account of the field's evolution." "At the book's core is an expanded discussion of the Chicago school, Public Choice Theory, Institutional Law and Economics, and New Institutional Economics. A new chapter explores the Law and Economics literature on social norms, today an integral part of each of the schools of thought. The chapter on the New Haven and Modern Civic Republican approaches has likewise been expanded. These chapters are complemented by a discussion of the Austrian school of Law and Economics. Each chapter now includes an "At Work" section presenting applications of that particular school of thought." "By providing readers with a concise, noncritical description of the broad contours of each school, this book illuminates the fundamental insights of a field with important implications not only for economics and the law, but also for political science, philosophy, public administration, and sociology."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介："This work provides a commentary on the OECD Report on Partnerships, which was published in 1999. This report is the first comprehensive analysis on the tax treatment of partnerships and will be the subject of extensive discussion among tax practitioners and academics in the years to come. The OECD Committee has put forward a set ofgeneral principles based on a detailed analysis of practical examples. This book summarises these principles and examines the validity of the premises from which the principles were derived. The critical analysis and in-depth study of practical problems offered here will be of significant value to practitioners and researchers dealingwith this complex subject matter." "The Application of theOECD Model Tax Convention to Partnerships is the result ofextensive research and a number of seminars organised by the Department of Austrian and International Tax Law at the University of Economics and Business Administration inVienna."--BOOK JACKET.

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简介：An assessment of the relevance and usefulness of various approaches involved in tackling the security challenges that face Europe after the Cold War. Essays examine areas of ambiguity and complexity between war and peace, conflict and cooperation, "hard" and "soft" security, and state and society. The book is the result of a cooperative venture of the Bureau for Military Scientific Studies, the Austrian Institute for International Affairs, and the Austrian Defense Academy. Contributors are policymakers, advisers, and academics from the Euro- Atlantic community. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 The period of the baroque (late sixteenth to mid-eighteenth centuries) saw extensive reconfiguration of European cities and their public spaces. Yet, this transformation cannot be limited merely to signifying a style of art, architecture, and d茅cor. Rather, the dynamism, emotionality, and potential for grandeur that were inherent in the baroque style developed in close interaction with the need and desire of post-Reformation Europeans to find visual expression for the new political, confessional, and societal realities. Highly illustrated, this volume examines these complex interrelationships among architecture and art, power, religion, and society from a wide range of viewpoints and localities. From Krak贸w to Madrid and from Naples to Dresden, cities were reconfigured visually as well as politically and socially. Power, in both its political and architectural guises, had to be negotiated among constituents ranging from monarchs and high churchmen to ordinary citizens. Within this process, both rulers and ruled were transformed: Europe left behind the last vestiges of the medieval and arrived on the threshold of the modern.   Publisher Summary 2 Volume ten of the Austrian and Habsburg Studies series, this title explores the expression of power through baroque buildings in Europe in the late sixteenth though mid-eighteen centuries. Cohen (Center for Austrian Studies and history, U. of Minnesota) and Szabo (Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies and Austrian and Habsburg history, U. of Alberta, Canada) edit ten essays on the topic, including studies of Graz, Innsbruck, Prague, Wroclaw, Vienna, Krak贸w, Dresden, Nuremberg, Munich, Rome, Naples, and Madrid. Annotation 漏2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)  

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Usability Symposium of the Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering Workgroup of the Austrian Computer Society, USAB 2008, held in Graz, Austria, in November 2008.The 7 revised full papers and 26 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cognitive processes and end user experience, social software and collaborative knowledge development, knowledge processing, assessment and human performance, human centered development and design accessibility, user centred information visualization and multimedia, adaptivity and personalization in ubiquitous learning systems, and human centred design for safety critical systems.  

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简介：Presents a series of articles by Austrian School economists. This volume covers a range of economic issues: equilibrium theory, free banking, public choice and the problems of contemporary social reform. It introduces the diversity of contemporary Austrian economics and covers recent research.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This is the first serious appraisal of Metternich's role in the Austrian Empire and beyond. Covering both domestic and international affairs, Sked presents a fresh and convincing description of Metternich's era and argues that despite his battered historical reputation, Metternich was the leading diplomat in Europe over four decades.   Publisher Summary 2 This is the first serious appraisal of Metternich's role in the Austrian Empire and beyond. Covering both domestic and international affairs, Sked presents a fresh and convincing description of Metternich's era and argues that despite his battered historical reputation, Metternich was the leading diplomat in Europe over four decades.  

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简介：This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship. It focuses on the nature and role of the entrepreneur, and of entrepreneurship, as revealed in economic literature as early as the eighteenth c...   more 籩ntury, when Richard Cantillon first coined the term 'entrepreneur'. The authors then trace how Joseph Schumpeter's perspective, among other鈥檚, on entrepreneurship came to dominate the world's understanding of the term. Due to Schumpeter鈥檚 dominant influence, entrepreneurship has come to occupy a primary role in the theory of economic development. In this book H茅bert and Link discuss various key topics including the German Tradition, the Austrian and the English School of thought as well as individuals such as Alfred Marshall and Jeremy Bentham. The historical survey also illustrates the tension that often exists between "theory" and "practice" and how it has been difficult for economic theory to assimilate a core concept that plays a vital role in social and economic change. Finally, the book exposes the many different facets of entrepreneurship as they have been perceived by some of the great economists throughout the ages.   ?less

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简介："Micheler analyses the German, Austrian and English law of securities, addressing the rules governing transfers of securities, including unauthorised transfers, equities arising out of defective issues, and the holding of securities through intermediaries." "The book presents an account of the current English, German and Austrian regimes. It has been written with a view to explaining the German and Austrian regime to readers with a common law background and to explaining the English regime to readers with a civil law background."--BOOK JACKET.