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Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany
Seventy-five years after the Holocaust, 100,000 Jews live in Germany. Their community is diverse and vibrant, and their mere presence in Germany is symbolically important. In Rebuilding Jewish Life in Germany, scholars of German-Jewish history, literature, film, television, and sociology illuminate important aspects of Jewish life in Germany from 1949 to the present day. In West Germany, the development of representative bodies and research institutions reflected a desire to set down roots, despite criticism from Jewish leaders in Israel and the Diaspora. In communist East Germany, some leftist Jewish intellectuals played a prominent role in society, and their experience reflected the regime’s fraught relationship with Jewry. Since 1990, the growth of the Jewish community through immigration from the former Soviet Union and Israel have both brought heightened visibility in society and challenged preexisting notions of Jewish identity in the former “land of the perpetrators.”
Navigating Socialist Encounters
This edited volume firmly places African history into global history by highlighting connections between African and East German actors and institutions during the Cold War. With a special focus on negotiations and African influences on East Germany (and vice versa), the volume sheds light on personal and institutional agency, cultural cross-fertilization, migration, development, and solidarity.
Transnational Imaginations of Socialism
Town twinning refers to the postwar phenomenon of administrative exchange between analogous municipalities. Cold War-related research has mostly interpreted it as an instrument to pursue European integration, or to solidify détente "from below". However, municipalities were not only administrative, neutral actors, but also bearers of political content. This is particularly visible in the case of Italian towns located in the Western bloc, guided by socialist-oriented administrations, and their "twin" counterparts in the German Democratic Republic. This volume explores the connections initiated by such towns in the 1960s-1970s, focusing on socialist-specific conceptions which fueled the polic...
A History Shared and Divided
By and large, the histories of East and West Germany have been studied in relative isolation. And yet, for all their differences, the historical trajectories of both nations were interrelated in complex ways, shaped by economic crises, social and cultural changes, protest movements, and other phenomena so diffuse that they could hardly be contained by the Iron Curtain. Accordingly, A History Shared and Divided offers a collective portrait of the two Germanies that is both broad and deep. It brings together comprehensive thematic surveys by specialists in social history, media, education, the environment, and similar topics to assemble a monumental account of both nations from the crises of the 1970s to—and beyond—the reunification era.
A House in the Sky
The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia—a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace. The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity—an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exot...
Grundlagen Verbrennungsmotoren
Für die vorliegende 9. Auflage wurde der Inhalt vollständig neu strukturiert und in kürzere und in sich abgeschlossene Kapitel aufgeteilt. Einleitend beschreibt das Werk die Funktionsweise von Verbrennungsmotoren für Fahrzeuge und stationäre Anwendungen sowie diejenige für alternative Antriebssysteme. Daran anschließend spannen die Autoren einen Bogen von einfachen thermodynamischen Grundlagen des Verbrennungsmotors hin zu komplexen Modellansätzen zur Beschreibung der Gemischbildung, Zündung, Verbrennung und Schadstoffbildung unter Beachtung der Motorperipherie von Otto- und Dieselmotoren. Damit liegt der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt dieses Bandes auf den Simulationsmodellen und deren strömungstechnischen, thermodynamischen und verbrennungschemischen Grundlagen sowie der Messtechnik zur Verifikation dieser Modelle, wie sie für die Entwicklung moderner Verbrennungsmotoren unentbehrlich sind. Für die aktuelle Auflage wurde vor allem das Thema alternative Antriebssysteme durch die Behandlung von Brennstoffzellen und elektrischen Antriebssystemen stark erweitert. Alle Kapitel wurden vollständig überarbeitet und aktualisiert.
Technology and Manufacturing Process Selection
This book provides specific topics intending to contribute to an improved knowledge on Technology Evaluation and Selection in a Life Cycle Perspectives. Although each chapter will present possible approaches and solutions, there are no recipes for success. Each reader will find his/her balance in applying the different topics to his/her own specific situation. Case studies presented throughout will help in deciding what fits best to each situation, but most of all any ultimate success will come out of the interplay between the available solutions and the specific problem or opportunity the reader is faced with.
Workmanship
today, the name RKW Architektur + Städtebau evokes two hundred architects whose work never fails to convince. The reason does not lie in the narrowly defined architectural language of individual leaders of the firm. More than in any other firm, the various teams are given generous latitude for independent initiative. Thus, this documentation of the last ten years, with cross - references to the development of this unique partnership since 1950, doesn’t just present sixty - five structures and projects from an internationally sought - after firm. On the contrary, in its search for the secret of the firm’s success, it looks behind the scenes in numerous interviews and essays. The works considered range from the research facilities for AUDI, the new sciences campus of RWTH Aachen University, and the corporate headquarters of Vodafone, Debitel, and Arag to urban revitalization projects, residential buildings, schools, sports halls, railroad stations, city halls, banks, urban office buildings and shopping centers, and the stadium for the 2012 European Soccer Championship in Gdansk.
Dissident Marxism and Utopian Eco-Socialism in the German Democratic Republic
Rudolf Bahro, Wolfgang Harich and Robert Havemann were probably the best-known critics of the DDR’s ruling Socialist Unity Party. Yet they saw themselves as Marxists, and their demands extended far beyond a democratisation of real socialism. When environmental issues became more important in the West in the 1970s, the Party treated it as an ideological manoeuvre of the class enemy. The three dissidents saw things differently: they combined socialism and ecology, adopting a utopian perspective frowned upon by the state. In doing so, they created political concepts that were unique for the Eastern Bloc. Alexander Amberger introduces them, relates them to each other, and poses the question of their relevance then and now.
Heimat
Der Begriff »Heimat« ist derzeit in aller Munde. Wenig verwunderlich mag noch erscheinen, dass die zuletzt auch in Deutschland mit Aplomb emporgekommene politische Rechte die Notwendigkeit von kultureller Identität, völkischer Gemeinschaft und nationaler Heimat als Arznei gegen das vermeintliche Gift von grenzüberschreitender Globalisierung und wissensgesellschaftlicher Vereinzelung propagiert. Überraschend mutet dagegen die aktuelle Konjunktur des Heimat-Themas im Spektrum links-liberaler Parteien, Literaten, Kulturschaffender an. Besteht die auf den ersten Blick anachronistisch anmutende Attraktivität der Idee der Heimat darin, dass sie sich »am mentalen Verkehrsknotenpunkt von Glo...
