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In Munich in 1920, just after the end of the First World War, German officers who had been prisoners of war in England published a book they had written and smuggled back to Germany. Through vivid text and illustrations they describe in detail their experience of life in captivity in a camp at Skipton in Yorkshire. Their work, now translated into English for the first time, gives us a unique insight into their feelings about the war, their captors and their longing to go home. In their own words they record the conditions, the daily routines, the food, their relationship with the prison authorities, their activities and entertainment, and their thoughts of their homeland. The challenges and privations they faced are part of their story, as is the community they created within the confines of the camp. The whole gamut of their existence is portrayed here, in particular through their drawings and cartoons which are reproduced alongside the translation. German Prisoners of the Great War offers us a direct inside of view a hitherto neglected aspect of the wartime experience a century ago.
Einzigartige Sammlung deutschsprachiger Exil-Publikationen. Der Katalog des Exilarchivs der Deutschen Bibliothek verzeichnet insgesamt 6.900 Veröffentlichungen deutschsprachiger Emigranten, deren Bücher zwischen 1933 und 1950 im Ausland erschienen sind. Ausführlich beschrieben werden vor allem von Exilierten verfasste Werke in Erstausgaben, Nachauflagen und Übersetzungen sowie von Exilierten herausgegebene, übersetzte, illustrierte und gestaltete Bücher. Einbezogen sind auch Veröffentlichungen jüdischer Verlage und Organisationen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Tschechoslovakei nach 1933 sowie die gesamte Produktion von Exilverlagen. Die Publikationen stammen überwiegend aus Belletristik, Geistwissenschaft, Politik und Publizistik.
A translation into English of the work of late German Enlightenment thinker Karl Leonhard Reinhold (1757-1823), best known for his interpretations of Kant and whose writings on theoretical philosophy were significant for the development of philosophy after Kant. Roehr prefaces the translation with an approximately 150-page analysis of the relevant moral, religious, political, and philosophical thought of the German Enlightenment. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
In Western democracies, decades of privatization, liberalization and internationalization appear to have reduced the role of states in the economy. But the 2000s have seen states return, only this time as foreign investors. The most prominent have been massive sovereign wealth funds, many from the Middle East or Asia, that have taken stakes worth up to $9 trillion, often encouraged by policy makers in recipient countries. The state is back but in a new form that we call 'internationalised statism'. Why would Western governments welcome these sovereign wealth funds into their economies? Do they see them as benign and useful or as economic and national security threats that should be resisted?...
Tables include: Table of doses, Table of antidotes, Systems of numbering spectacle-glasses, expectation of life, relation of girth of chest to height in men, dimensions of parts and organs of body, weight of organs of human body, dimensions of foetus-comparative scales, table of foods and dietaries.
Light Alloys Directory and Databook is a world-wide directory of the properties and suppliers of light alloys used in, or proposed for, numerous engineering applications. Alloys covered will include aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys, titanium alloys, beryllium. For the metals considered each section will consist of: a short introduction; a table comparing basic data and a series of comparison sheets. The book will adopt standardised data in order to help the reader in finding and comparing different materials and identifying the required information. All comparison sheets are cross-referenced, so that the user will be able to locate data on a specific product or compare properties easily. The book is designed to complement the existing publications on high performance materials.