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The Case of Paul Kammerer
The case of Paul Kammerer is a well researched and highly readable historical account of one of the biggest, till today unsolved scientific scandals. Paul Kammerer, 'the father of epigenetic, ' was a talented and idealistic biologist, whose ground-breaking research made headlines worldwide. Vienna at the turn of the 20th century, where Kammerer lived and worked, was at its creative peak yet already declining toward Nazism. The book that reads like a detective story, provides new evidence for the events that led to Kammerer's tragic end while exposing the implicit yet dangerous links between science and politics. AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY: With a background in the sociology of science, political science and philosophy, Klaus Taschwer lives in Vienna and is the science editor of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard. He is the founding editor of the science magazine heureka!, the co-author of Konrad Lorenz. A Biography and recipient of the 2016 Austrian State Award for Scientific Journalism. AUTHOR HOME: Vienna, Austri
Patterns of Behavior
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Hochburg des Antisemtismus
Zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts war die Universität Wien eine der weltweit führenden Universitäten, heute rangiert sie in so gut wie allen Hochschulrankings jenseits der ersten hundert. Vieles ist über den Niedergang der Universität Wien nach dem »Anschluss« 1938 bekannt, als es zur größten rassistischen und politischen Vertreibungswelle kam, die es je an einer Hochschule gab. Weitgehend unerforscht blieben dabei bis jetzt allerdings der intellektuelle Aderlass und die antisemitische Gewalt, die bereits nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg an der Universität einsetzten. Jüdische und linke Studierende wurden regelmäßig verprügelt, Wissenschafter jüdischer Herkunft hatten keine Chance auf K...
Experimental Biology in the Vienna Prater
English summary: The Institute for Experimental Biology (Biologische Versuchsanstalt, or BVA) in the Vienna Prater was one of the world's leading research institutes for experimental biology until the Anschluss of Austria in 1938. The Austrian Academy of Sciences, which was given the BVA in 1914, organised several events in 2014 and 2015 to commemorate Austria's first privately founded research institute and its groundbreaking findings. This catalogue documents the turbulent history of this unique institute and its retrieval to collective memory. German description: Die Biologische Versuchsanstalt (BVA) im Wiener Prater war bis zum "Anschluss" Osterreichs 1938 eines der weltweit fuhrenden Forschungsinstitute fur Experimentalbiologie. Die Osterreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, der die BVA 1914 geschenkt worden war, erinnerte 2014 und 2015 in mehreren Veranstaltungen an diese erste privat gegrundete Forschungseinrichtung des Landes und ihre bahnbrechenden Erkenntnisse. Der Katalog dokumentiert die bewegte Geschichte des einzigartigen Instituts und seine Ruckholung ins kollektive Gedachtnis.
Konrad Lorenz
Der österreichische Verhaltensforscher Konrad Lorenz war einer der einflussreichsten und zugleich umstrittensten Wissenschaftler des 20. Jahrhunderts. Vor genau 50 Jahren erhielt der »Vater der Graugänse« den Medizinnobelpreis – trotz seiner NS-Vergangenheit. Daneben war Lorenz, der wie kaum ein anderer Forscher sein eigenes Fach verkörperte, einer der Gründerväter der Umweltschutzbewegung in Österreich und Deutschland. Konrad Lorenz war ein Mann der Widersprüche. Charismatisch und unterhaltsam, zugleich mahnender Prediger wider die »acht Todsünden der zivilisierten Menschheit«. Mit seinen äußerst erfolgreichen Büchern weckte er die Emotionen der Leser, begeisterte die Massen und polarisierte mit seinen Analogien zwischen menschlichem und tierischem Verhalten. In ihrer facettenreichen Biografie über den Mann, der mit den Tieren sprach, skizzieren Klaus Taschwer und Benedikt Föger ein differenziertes Bild des Verhaltensforschers. Mit neuen Erkenntnissen, bisher unveröffentlichtem Material und spannenden Einsichten zeigen sie, warum Lorenz und sein Werk bis heute für Kontroversen sorgen.
My Brother's Keeper
In My Brother's Keeper: A Memoir and a Message, one of America's most admired public figures tells the story of his life. Born in Germany in 1929, Amitai Etzioni escaped the Nazi regime and as a teenager dropped out of high school to fight as a commando in the Israeli War of Independence. He went on to earn his doctorate at Berkeley, teach at Columbia University and Harvard Business School, and serve as senior advisor to the Carter White House. Although he has authored or edited over 20 books, Dr. Etzioni's influence extends beyond academic circles as the founder of the communitarian social movement. In his own words, Dr. Etzioni reflects on his vision of a society whose members care profoundly about one another, assume responsibilities and do not just demand rights, and attend not merely to themselves, but also to the common good. He traces how this message spread and is playing a significant role in the public life of the United States, United Kingdom, and many other free and liberated societies. Clearly and engagingly written, Dr. Etzioni's vision and story are at once compelling and inspiring.
The Sociology of the Sciences
This two-volume set maps the broad range of contemporary studies covered in the transdisciplinary research field of the sociology of the sciences. The 58 articles included date from 1939 to 1995.
Jewish Soldiers in the Collective Memory of Central Europe
World War I marks a huge break in Central European Jewish history. Not only had the violent wartime events destroyed Jewish life and especially the living space of Eastern European Jews, but the impacts of war, the geopolitical change and a radicalization of anti-Semitism also led to a crisis of Jewish identity. Furthermore, during the process of national self-discovery and the establishing of new states the societal position of the Jews and their relationship to the state had to be redefined. These partially violent processes, which were always accompanied by anti-Semitism, evoked Jewish and Gentile debates, in which questions about Jewish loyalty to the old and/or new states as well as concepts of Jewish identity under the new political circumstances were negotiated. This volume collects articles dealing with these Jewish and gentile debates about military service and war memory in Central Europe.
Niko's Nature
A charismatic naturalist, bird-watcher, teacher, artist, photographer, film-maker, and winner of the Nobel Prize, Niko Tinbergen was a prominent and influential scientist. Jointly with Konrad Lorenz, he laid the foundation for a new science, the biological study of animal behaviour. 'Ethology', and his talent for devising behaviour-testing experiments, provided an outlet for Niko's enthusiasm for gulls and sticklebacks, snow-buntings and foxes, wasps and falcons, and even children. This first full-length biography of Niko Tinbergen, lavishly illustrated with many of Niko's own drawings, describes his background in Holland, a naturalists' paradise, and the beginnings of his investigations int...
