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*Weitere Angaben Inhalt: Der vorliegende Sammelband bietet Porträts von hohen Offizieren mit besonderer Bedeutung für die Militärgeschichte der DDR. Ausgewiesene Autoren beschreiben in biografischen Skizzen erstmals ostdeutsche Generale und Admirale, die aufgrund ihrer herausgehobenen Positionen die Kasernierte Volkspolizei und die Nationale Volksarmee zwischen 1949 und 1990 nachhaltig geprägt haben. Anhand neuester Forschungsergebnisse werden der Weg dieser Männer in die Streitkräfte, ihre politischen Überzeugungen, ihr Führungsverhalten, ihre militärischen Leistungen, aber auch ihr Arrangement mit der SED-Diktatur, ihre persönlichen Konflikte sowie Brüche in ihren Lebensläufen ...
This volume explores the main aspects of Maria Montessori's theory of education, focusing primarily on the learning materials that are so critical to carrying out her philosophy. The book features original photographs of Montessori schools.
Connects the earliest applications of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent applications in law, medicine, polling, and baseball as well as their impact on biology, physics and psychology.
Includes subject section, name section, and 1968-1970, technical reports.
First multi-year cumulation covers six years: 1965-70.
One of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the roots of his monumental Tractatus are explored in this imaginative work. Oxaal picks up on themes developed in an earlier work of his on Jews, Anti-Semitism and Culture in Vienna, adding to it special issues concerning Wittgenstein's experiences in Norway in 1913-14, where he worked on ideas that were completed during the war. Oxaal situates the great philosopher in time, place, and attitude, showing how his personal background came to bear on the writing of the Tractatus. Wittengenstein has often been criticized for traces of solipsism and even mysticism, and Oxaal also examines these issues in a...
For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still very much with us today, as heated debates over genetically modified organisms and human cloning testify. The Moral Authority of Nature offers a wide-ranging account of how people have used nature to think about what counts as good, beautiful, just, or valuable. The eighteen essays cover a diverse array of topics, including the connection of cosmic and human orders in ancient Greece, medieval notions of sexual disorder, early modern contexts for categorizing individuals and judging acts as "against nature," race and the origin of hum...