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The Strange Death of Marxism seeks to refute certain misconceptions about the current European Left and its relation to Marxist and Marxist-Leninist parties that existed in the recent past. Among the misconceptions that the book treats critically and in detail is that the Post-Marxist Left (a term the book uses to describe this phenomenon) springs from a distinctly Marxist tradition of thought and that it represents an unqualified rejection of American capitalist values and practices. Three distinctive features of the book are the attempts to dissociate the present European Left from Marxism, the presentation of this Left as something that developed independently of the fall of the Soviet em...
This handbook provides the student, practising architect or interested layman with a well-illustrated and readable comparative guide to proportion systems in architecture.
Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of the First World War offers a history of the war from a predominantly political angle and concerns itself with the story of the state. It explores the multifaceted history of state power and highlights the ways in which different political systems responded to, and were deformed by, the near-unbearable pressures of war. Every state involved faced issues of military-civilian relations, parliamentary reviews of military policy, and the growth of war economies; and yet their particular form and significance varied in every national case. Written by a global team of historical experts, this volume sets new standards in the political history of the waging of war in an authoritative new narrative which addresses problems of logistics, morale, innovation in tactics and weapons systems, the use and abuse of science; all of which were ubiquitous during the conflict.
The first Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (PCSMGE) was held in Mexico in 1959. Every 4 years since then, PCSMGE has brought together the geotechnical engineering community from all over the world to discuss the problems, solutions and future challenges facing this engineering sector. Sixty years after the first conference, the 2019 edition returns to Mexico. This book, Geotechnical Engineering in the XXI Century: Lessons learned and future challenges, presents the proceedings of the XVI Pan-American Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (XVI PCSMGE), held in Cancun, Mexico, from 17 – 20 November 2019. Of the 393 full papers submitt...
Diese Fotokamera macht keine normalen Bilder, sie ollopafiert. Wer ihren unglaublichen Lichtzauber nutzen will, braucht ganz besondere Eigenschaften, wie zum Beispiel Ehrlichkeit und Hilfsbereitschaft. Genau das zeichnet die zehnjährige Hannah aus. In ihrem Gutetatenbuch notiert sie, was sie Sinnvolles für andere macht. Als sie mit ihrem besten Freund Leo versucht, den seltsamen Fotoapparat zu testen, landen die beiden auf einer Insel voller Hollywoodstars, Comicfiguren, Videospielhelden und seltsamer Lichtwesen. Lumeria: Hier leben Hologramme, die nicht nur Hannah kennt. Und hier hat Hannahs Augenpflaster plötzlich eine ganz andere Bedeutung. Es beginnt ein Abenteuer, das Hannah und Leo zeigt, welche Kraft wirklich in einem Herzen voller Liebe und in der mächtigen Zauberkamera mit den vielen Auslösern steckt. Die Geschichte von Hannah Halblicht in Lumeria! Mit Zeichnungen von Stefan Reinmann.
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