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简介：The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Huckleberry Finn, you follow the Mississippi River adventures of Mark Twain's mischief-making protagonist Huck Finn and the runaway slave Jim. Just like Huck's makeshift raft, this study guide carries you along on his incredible journey by providing chapter summaries and critical analyses on life in the late-19th-century American south. You'll also gain insight into the man behind this American classic - Mark Twain, a.k.a. Samuel Clemens. Other features that help you study include Character analyses of major players A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters Critical essays A review section that tests your knowledge A Resource Center full of books, articles, films, and Internet sites Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure - you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 American democracy is in many ways more vital than ever before. Advocacy groups proliferate and formerly marginalized groups enjoy new opportunities. But worrisome trends exist. Millions of Americans are drawing back from involvements with community affairs and politics. Voters stay home; public officials grapple with distrust or indifference; and people are less likely to cooperate on behalf of shared goals. Observers across the spectrum of opinion agree that it is vital to determine what is happening and why鈥攕o that Americans can take well-informed, effective steps to revitalize our national community.The book opens with an eagle-eye look at the roots of America's special patterns of civic engagement, examining the ways social groups and government and electoral politics have influenced each other. Other chapters examine the impact of advocacy groups and socioeconomic inequalities on democratic processes and probe the influence of long-term social and cultural changes on voluntary associations and civic participation. The book concludes by asking why social liberation has been accompanied by new inequalities and the erosion of many important forms of citizen leverage and participation.Coming together from several disciplines, contributors include Jeffrey M. Berry, Henry E. Brady, John Brehm, Steven Brint, Elisabeth S. Clemens, Peter Dobkin Hall, Wendy M. Rahn, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Robert Wuthnow.Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation   Publisher Summary 2 This book examines the roots of America's special patterns of civic engagement, the impact of advocacy groups and socioeconomic inequalities on the democratic process, and the long-term influence of social and cultural changes on voluntary associations and civic participation.   Publisher Summary 3 American democracy is in many ways more vital than ever before. Advocacy groups proliferate and formerly marginalized groups enjoy new opportunities. But worrisome trends exist. Millions of Americans are drawing back from involvements with community affairs and politics. Voters stay home; public officials grapple with distrust or indifference; and people are less likely to cooperate on behalf of shared goals. Observers across the spectrum of opinion agree that it is vital to determine what is happening and why 鈥攕o that Americans can take well-informed, effective steps to revitalize our national community.The book opens with an eagle-eye look at the roots of America's special patterns of civic engagement, examining the ways social groups and government and electoral politics have influenced each other. Other chapters examine the impact of advocacy groups and socioeconomic inequalities on democratic processes and probe the influence of long-term social and cultural changes on voluntary associations and civic participation. The book concludes by asking why social liberation has been accompanied by new inequalities and the erosion of many important forms of citizen leverage and participation.Coming together from several disciplines, contributors include Jeffrey M. Berry, Henry E. Brady, John Brehm, Steven Brint, Elisabeth S. Clemens, Peter Dobkin Hall, Wendy M. Rahn, Kay Lehman Schlozman, Sidney Verba, and Robert Wuthnow.Copublished with the Russell Sage Foundation  

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简介：When Confederate Forces Fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, thousands of patriotic southerners rushed to enlist for the Confederate cause. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who grew up in the border state of Missouri in a slave-holding family, was among them. Clemens, who later achieved fame as the writer Mark Twain, served as second lieutenant in a Confederate militia, but only for two weeks, leading many to describe his loyalty to the Confederate cause as halfhearted at best. After all, Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) and his numerous speeches celebrating Abraham Lincoln, with their trenchant call for racial justice, inspired his crowning as "the Lincoln of our Literature." In The Reconstruction of Mark Twain, Joe B. Fulton challenges these long-held assumptions about Twain's advocacy of the Union cause, arguing that Clemens traveled a long and arduous path, moving from pro-slavery, secession, and the Confederacy to pro-union, and racially enlightened. Scattered and long-neglected texts written by Clemens before, during, and immediately after the Civil War, Fulton shows, tout pro-southern sentiments critical of abolitionists, free blacks, and the North for failing to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act. These obscure works reveal the dynamic process that reconstructed Twain in parallel with and in response to events on American battlefields and in American politics. Beginning with Clemens's youth in Missouri, Fulton tracks the writer's transformation through the turbulent Civil War years as a southern-leaning reporter in Nevada and San Francisco to his raucous burlesques written while he worked as a Washington correspondent during the impeachment crises of 1867-1868. Fulton concludes with the writer's emergence as the country's satirist-in-chief in the postwar era. By explaining the relationship between the author's early pro-southern writings and his later stance as a champion for racial justice throughout the world, Fulton provides a new perspective on Twain's views and on his deep involvement with Civil War politics. A deft blend of biography, history, and literary studies, The Reconstruction of Mark Twain offers a bold new assessment of the work of one of America's most celebrated writers. --Book Jacket.

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简介：Biographies of seven important nineteenth century American authors: Cooper, Irving, Bryant, Poe, Melville, Whitman, and Clemens.

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简介：This volume covers important subjects in the field of piezoelectric devices and applications with the latest research on piezoelectricity, acoustic waves, manufacturing technology, and design techniques. It includes up-to-date research and information on materials, new products, technological trends, and design methods of benefit to academics and researchers in the piezoelectric device industry. Contributors to this volume include prominent experts such as Clemens Ruppel of Epcos, Daining Fang of Tsinghua University, Tong-Yi Zhang of University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, and CS Lam of TXC Corporation. A number of papers have been dedicated to Professor Harry F Tiersten of Resselear Polytechnic Institute, who passed away in 2006, for his contributions to the fundamental theory of piezoelectricity and methods for acoustic wave device analysis.

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简介：This books gathers the papers presented at the international conference held at the Jan van Eyck Acadenie in Maastricht in December 2009. Essays by J??rg Volbers, Justin Clemens, Diogo Sardinha, Vanessa Brito, Dominiek Hoens, Katja Diefenbach and others. Edited by Vanessa Brito and Emiliano Battista.

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简介：William Mann konzentriert sich hier bewusst auf die fünfzehn gro?en abgeschlossenen Opern. Das Werk bietet eine bei aller wissenschaftlichen Gründlichkeit gut lesbare Einführung in die Entstehungsgeschichte der einzelnen Opern, sowie eine oft bis ins Detail gehende, durch zahlreiche Notenbeispiele erl?uterte Analyse und Interpretation der einzelnen Werke. Dabei zeigt der Autor zugleich die künstlerische Entwicklung des Komponisten auf. Er schildert die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Strauss und Hofmannsthal in ihrer Einmaligkeit und künstlerischen Tragweite und weist auf die Bedeutung hin, die die Begegnung mit Stefan Zweig, Joseph Gregor und Clemens Krauss für Strauss und sein Opernwerk hatte. Aber auch von Orchesterproben und Premieren, von berühmten Straussdirigenten und -s?ngern, von Erfolg und Kritik wei? William Mann fesselnd zu erz?hlen. Er l??t so den Leser einen Blick hinter die Kulissen der gro?en Opernh?user werfen. Der Text wird durch zahlreiche Zitate aus Briefen, Tagebüchern, Memoiren und zeitgen?ssischen Rezensionen belebt. Ein weiterer Reiz des Buches liegt in seinem Bildteil, der ausschlie?lich Szenenfotos und Bühnenbildentwürfe der jeweiligen Uraufführungen zeigt. In diesem Band wird nicht nur ein wichtiges Kapitel Musikgeschichte dargestellt, sondern auch ein interessantes Stück Zeit- und Kulturgeschichte.

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简介：Clemens Pirker addresses the frequent doubt among researchers on how to deal with extreme and outlying observations in data analysis. He draws on various scientific domains to explore possible handling alternatives and the relevance of the phenomenon. In the empirical section, a published segmentation study on international tourists using sample censoring is replicated and the effects on the results are discussed. The dissertation concludes that authors may leverage their insights from given data by reporting those cases and their influence on the results.

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简介：Summary: Publisher Summary 1 This book introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Introduces Mark Twain through close readings of his seven major works, including Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Connecticut Yankee and Pudd'nhead Wilson. Investigates the tension between the real-life person, Samuel Clemens, and the fictional person, Mark Twain. Provides an original reading of Twain's obsession with performance and popularity. Analyses the significance of Twain's books for American culture and identity. Illustrated with images from first editions of Twain's works. A short appendix directs readers to the author's award-winning website on 'Mark Twain in his Times'.  

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简介：Includes essays by E.B. White, Dee Brown, Maxine Hong Kingston, Calvin Trillin, Dennis Troute, Willie Morris, Martin Hoffman, Roy J. Harris Jr., Solomon Northrup, Nora Ephron, Robert Coles, Adam Smith, James Willwerth, Studs Terkel, Richard W. Brown, Alvin Toffler, John McPhee, Jessica Mitford, Charles Kuralt, Malcolm X, Irving Howe, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Eric Sevareid, Ruth Benedict, James Michener, Michael Arlen, Arthur L. Campa, Samuel Clemens, Jane Jacobs, Joseph Wood Krutch, Andrew Malcolm, Marie Winn, Louie Crew, John Ciardi, Wayne Davis, Parker Barss Donham, Robert O. Taunt III, Bernard Baruch, Albert Einstein, Norman Mailer, Norman Cousins, Larry Woiwode, Joyce Maynard, Martin Luther King Jr., and Lewis Thomas.

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简介：Moving through the elegiac ruins of the Berlin Wall and the Yugoslav disintegration, Writing Postcommunism explores literary evocations of the pervasive disappointment and mourning that have marked the postcommunist twilight. With particular reference to the writings of Croatian emigre Dubravka Ugresic, and those of Milan Kundera, Clemens Meyer, Ingo Schulze, Jachym Topol, Christa Wolf, and others, it is argued that a significant body of postcommunist literature is underpinned and scarred by the semantic field of ruins: melancholia and nostalgia, presence and absence, pride and shame, and not least, remembering and forgetting. Taken together, the writings considered suggest a post-1989 'literature of the ruins', an amorphous, anti-formative framework that also dramatically illuminates the post-1989 ruins of east European literature itself - what remains when, as Gyorgy Konrad put it, 'something is over'.

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简介：The thirteen essays in this collection combine to offer a complex and deeply nuanced picture of Samuel Clemens. With the purpose of straying from the usual notions of Clemens (most notably the Clemens/Twain split that has ruled Twain scholarship for over thirty years), the editors have assembled contributions from a wide range of Twain scholars. As a whole, the collection argues that it is time we approach Clemens not as a shadow behind the literary persona but as a complex and intricate creator of stories, a creator who is deeply embedded in the political events of his time and who used a mix of literary, social, and personal experience to fuel the movements of his pen. The essays illuminate Clemens's connections with people and events not usually given the spotlight and introduce us to Clemens as a man deeply embroiled in the process of making literary gold out of everyday experiences. From Clemens's wonderings on race and identity to his looking to family and domesticity as defining experiences, from musings on the language that Clemens used so effectively to consideration of the images and processes of composition, these essays challenge long-held notions of why Clemens was so successful and so influential a writer. While that search itself is not new, the varied approaches within this collection highlight markedly inventive ways of reading the life and work of Samuel Clemens.

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简介：Pretty story by Francis Hopkinson -- Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving -- Peter Rugg, the missing man by William Austin -- Grey champion by Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Big bear of Arkansas by T.B. Thorpe -- Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allen Poe -- Bartleby the scrivener by Herman Melville -- Tennessee's partner by Bret Harte -- Captain Kidd's money by Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Marjorie Daw by Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Lady or the tiger? by Frank Stockton -- Over on the t'other mounting by Charles Egbert Craddock -- Revolt of mother by Mary Wilkins Freeman -- One of the missing by Ambrose Bierce -- Return of a private by Hamlin Garland -- Real thing by Henry James -- Courting of Sister Wisby by Sarah Orne Jewett -- Open boat by Stephen Crane -- Man that corrupted Hadleyburg by Samuel Langhorne Clemens -- Furnished room by O. Henry -- To build a fire by Jack London -- Strength of God and the teacher by Sherwood Anderson -- Diamond as big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Haircut by Ring Lardner -- Double birthday by Willa Cather -- Spring evening by James T. Farrell -- Masses of men by Erskine Caldwell -- Gilded six-bits by Zora Neale Hurston -- Silent snow, secret snow by Conrad Aiken -- Odor of verbena by William Faulkner -- Daring young man on the flying trapeze by William Saroyan -- Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway -- Tooth for Paul Revere by Stephen Vincent Benet -- Noon wine by Katherine Anne Porter -- Leader of the people by John Steinbeck -- Lily Daw and the three ladies by Eudora Welty -- Fire and cloud by Richard Wright -- Patterns of love by William Maxwell -- Ballad of the sad cafe by Carson McCullers -- Cass Mastern's wedding ring by Robert Penn Warren -- Wedding: Beacon Hill by Jean Stafford -- Rain in the heart by Peter Taylor -- Gunners' Passage by Irwin Shaw -- Lottery by Shirley Jackson -- February 1999: Ylla by Ray Bradbury -- Country husband by John Cheever -- Good man is hard to find by Flannery O'Connor -- Mexican girl by Jack Kerouac --浮喔膏笖 喔佮覆喔｀笣

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简介：Historical Overview of (Mini)emulsion Polymerizations and Preparation of Hybrid Latex Particles, by A.M. van Herk; * Physical Methods for the Preparation of Hybrid Nanocomposite Polymer Latex Particles, by R. F.A. Teixeira and S. A.F. Bon; * Organic/Inorganic Composite Latexes: The Marriage of Emulsion Polymerization and Inorganic Chemistry, by Elodie Bourgeat-Lami and Muriel Lansalot; * Preparation of Hybrid Latex Particles and Core鈥揝hell Particles Through the Use of Controlled Radical Polymerization Techniques in Aqueous Media, by Bernadette Charleux, Franck D鈥橝gosto, and Guillaume Delaittre; * Miniemulsion Polymerization as a Means to Encapsulate Organic and Inorganic Materials, by Clemens K.Weiss and Katharina Landfester; * Organic鈥揑norganic Hybrid Magnetic Latex, by Md Mahbubor Rahman and Abdelhamid Elaissari

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简介：Surveys the life of Samuel Clemens, who grew up in Missouri, was a river pilot on the Mississippi, became a journalist, and achieved fame as a writer under the pen name Mark Twain.

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简介：卡拉维拉斯县驰名的跳蛙 [美国]马克·吐温 雨 宁译 马克·吐温(Mark Twain，1835—1910)真名为萨缪尔、兰亨·克里曼斯 (Samuel Langhorne Clemens)，出身于密苏里州佛罗里达市一个律师家庭。 他十二岁时便因父亲去世开始独自谋生，做过印刷工人、领航员、矿工，后 成为记者，开始文学创作。马克、·吐温是一位富有同情心和正义感的作家 ，对于美国社会的种种黑幕进行了无情的揭露和鞭挞。他的作品富有鲜明的 美国民族特色，内容生动，引人入胜，他不仅继承了美国南方幽默文学的传 统；’而且把现实主义的精心刻画和浪漫主义的抒情描写交织在一起，形成 了一种主题严肃、笔法幽默的独特艺术风格，开辟了口语体的新境界，在美 国文学史上占有举足轻重的地位。他的代表作有长篇小说《汤姆·索耶历险 记》、《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》、《王子与贫儿》，短篇小说《卡拉维拉 斯县驰名的跳蛙》、《竞选州长》、《百万英镑》、《败坏了赫德莱堡的人 》等。 我的一个朋友从东部写信给我，我按照他的嘱咐访问了性情随和、唠唠 叨叨的老西蒙·惠勒，去打听我那位朋友的朋友，利奥尼达斯·斯迈利的下 落，我在此说说结果吧。我暗地里有点疑心这个利奥尼达斯·斯迈利是编出 来的；也许我的朋友从来不认得这么一个人，他不过揣摩着如果我向老惠勒 去打听，那大概会使他回想起他那个丢脸的吉姆·斯迈利，他会鼓劲儿唠叨 着什么关于吉姆的该死的往事，又长又乏味，对我又毫无用处，倒把我腻烦 得要死。如果安的这种心，那可真是成功了。 在古老的矿区安吉尔小镇上那家又破又旧的小客栈里，我发现西蒙·惠 勒正在酒吧间火炉旁边舒舒服服打盹，我注意到他是个胖子，秃了顶，安详 的面容上带着引人欢喜的温和质朴的表情。他惊醒过来，向我问好。我告诉 他我的一个朋友委托我打听一位童年的挚友，名叫利奥尼达斯·斯迈利，也 就是利奥尼达斯·斯迈利牧师，听说这位年轻的福音传道士一度是安吉尔镇 上的居民，我又说，如果惠勒先生能够告诉我任何关于这位利奥尼达斯·斯 迈利牧师的情况，我会十分感激他的。 西蒙·惠勒让我退到一个角落里，用他的椅子把我封锁在那儿，这才让 我坐下，滔滔不绝地絮叨着从下一段开始的单调的情节。他从来不笑，从来 不皱眉，从来不改变声调，他的第一句话就用的是细水长流的腔调，他从来 不露丝毫痕迹让人以为他热衷此道；可是在没完没了的絮叨之中却始终流露 着一种诚挚感人的语气，直率地向我表明，他想也没有 ……

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简介：In scope, this book matches "The History of Cartography", vol. 1 (1987) edited by Brian Harley and David Woodward. Now, twenty years after the appearance of that seminal work, classicists and medievalists from Europe and North America highlight, distill and reflect on the remarkably productive progress made since in many different areas of the study of maps. The interaction between experts on antiquity and on the Middle Ages evident in the thirteen contributions offers a guide to the future and illustrates close relationships in the evolving practice of cartography over the first millenium and a half of the Christian era. The contributors are Emily Albu, Raymond Clemens, Lucy Donkin, Evelyn Edson, Tom Elliott, Patrick Gauthier Dalche, Benjamin Kedar, Maja Kominko, Natalia Lozovsky, Yossef Rapoport, Emilie Savage-Smith, Camille Serchuk, Richard Talbert, and Jennifer Trimble.

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简介：Includes essays by Dylan Thomas, Margaret Laurence, Wallace Stegner, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Richard Hugo, Bruno Bettelheim, Paul Fussell, Alice Walker, Scott Sanders, Joan Didion, Loren Eiseley, E.B. White, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, May Sarton, Woody Allen, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, N. Scott Momaday, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing, William Golding, Carl Sagan, Neil Postman, Jacob Bronowski, Isaac Asimov, Eudora Welty, James Thurber, William Zinsser, Lewis Thomas, H.L. Mencken, Gloria Naylor, Richard Rodriguez, Erich Fromm, George Orwell, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, John Henry Newman, Abraham Lincoln, Matthew Arnold, Walter Pater, Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Cary, William Faulkner, John Updike, Tom Wolfe, Robert Pirsig, John McPhee, Anthony Burgess, Wendell Berry, S.J. Perelman, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Steinem, Betty Rollin, Jessica Mitford, Jonathan Schell, Garrison Keillor, Carol Gilligan, Judith Viorst, Desmond Morris, Oliver Sacks, James Baldwin, Norman Podhoretz, Malcolm Cowley, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Samuel L. Clemens, Tom Regan, Stephen Jay Gould, W.H. Auden, William Blake, Ambrose Bierce, Benjamin Franklin, George Bernard Shaw, Chief Seattle, John Houseman, Hannah Arendt, Michael Arlen, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ralph W. Conant, Martin Luther King Jr., Jonathan Swift, Niccolo Machiavelli, Walter Lippmann, Edward O. Wilson, Konrad Z. Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen, Nigel Calder, Arthur Koestler, Thomas S. Kuhn, John Gardner, Vladimir Nabokov, Northrop Frye, Annie Dillard, Susanne K. Langer, Carl G. Jung, Robert Frost, Robertson Davies, Margaret Atwood, S.I. Hayakawa, Christopher Fry, Aaron Copland, Aesop, Plato, Jesus, Franz Kafka, Robert Graves, E.F. Schumacher, Langston Hughes, Paul Tillich, C.S. Lewis, E.M. Forster, Gilbert Highet, Jean-Paul Sartre, Tom Bethell, Alexander Petrunkevitch, Carl Becker, Kildare Dobbs, Herbert Butterfield, Michael Stone, Thomas Murray, Gilbert Ryle, Willard Gayli n, Edward Hallett Carr, Michael Herr, Frances FitzGerald, Carl Cohen, Judith Martin, Paul West, Robert Finch, Barbara Carson, John McMurtry, Brent Staples, Dan Lacy, Stanley Milgram, Phyllis Rose, Ian Frazier, Robert Burchfield, Wayne C. Booth, Nancy Sommers, John Leo, June Callwood, Daniel Mark Epstein, and others.

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简介：A voracious pack-rat, Mark Twain hoarded his readers' letters as did few of his contemporaries. Dear Mark Twain collects 200 of these letters written by a diverse cross-section of correspondents from around the world - children, farmers, schoolteachers, businessmen, preachers, railroad clerks, inmates of mental institutions, con artists, and even a former president. It is a unique and groundbreaking book - the first published collection of reader letters to any writer of Mark Twain's time. Its contents afford a rare and exhilarating glimpse into the sensibilities of nineteenth-century people while revealing the impact Samuel L. Clemens had on his readers. Clemens' own and often startling comments and replies are also included. R. Kent Rasmussen's extensive research provides fascinating profiles of the correspondents, whose personal stories are often as interesting as their letters. Ranging from gushing fan appreciations and requests for help and advice to suggestions for writing projects and stinging criticisms, the letters are filled with perceptive insights, pathos, and unintentional but often riotous humor. Many are deeply moving, more than a few are hilarious, some may be shocking, but none are dull.

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简介：Acetylcholinesterase? Hypogeusie? Zytosol? Die Biopsychologie ist ein extrem spannendes Fach und wahrscheinlich auch das Fachgebiet mit den meisten Fachbegriffen. Alle kennen muss man als Studdi vielleicht nicht - aber wissen, wo man schnell und einfach nachschlagen kann! Ein Team von 30 Studenten und Studentinnen hat daher einen Pool von 眉ber 2000 biopsychologischen Fachbegriffen definiert, und ein Experte, Clemens Kirschbaum, steht f眉r die Korrektheit der Beschreibungen. Schwerpunkt dabei: Einfache und verst盲ndliche Begriffsdefinitionen, so genau wie n枚tig, so einfach wie m枚glich. Alphabetisch sortiert und mit englischen 脺bersetzungen. Biopsychologie von A bis Z - gewusst wo!