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This book presents the resulting design proposals.
A catalog of artists/printers and printing places for the birth and baptismal certificates used by the Pennsylvania Germans. Family names given on the certificates are indexed.
The English translation of the letters of Heinrich Himmler and his wife, recently authenticated by the Bundesarchiv and serialized in Die Welt At the end of World War II, it was assumed that the letters of Heinrich Himmler were lost. Yet sixty years after Himmler's capture by British troops and subsequent suicide, the letters mysteriously turned up in Tel Aviv and, in early 2014, excerpts were published for the first time by the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot providing a rare, if jarring, glimpse into the family life of one of Hitler's top lieutenants while he was busy organizing the mass extermination of the Jews. It was generally held that Himmler, once appointed head of the SS, blended...
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Krisen haben (zyklische) Konjunktur – Pandemie, Migration, militärische Konflikte, Rezession und nicht zuletzt die vielfach beschworene globale Krise der Demokratie sind nur die markantesten Symptome der scheinbar aus den Fugen geratenen Gegenwart. Mit dem Band wird das Potenzial der Krisendiskurse für literatur- wie kulturwissenschaftliche Fragestellungen erkundet. Zur Debatte stehen sowohl aktuelle als auch historische Auseinandersetzungen mit sozialen wie ökologischen, individuellen und kollektiven Krisenbefunden bzw. Notständen, sich aus diesen ergebende Zukunftschancen sowie Bewältigungsstrategien. Die Zeitspanne der versammelten Analysen reicht bis ins 18. Jahrhundert zurück, d...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA 2011, held in Reykjavik, Island, in September 2011. The 18 revised full papers and 27 revised short papers presented together with 25 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on social and dramatic interaction; guides and relational agents; nonverbal behavior; adaptation and coordination; listening and feedback; frameworks and tools; cooperation and copresence; emotion; poster abstracts.
The Third Reich's Elite Schools tells the story of the Napolas, Nazi Germany's most prominent training academies for the future elite. This deeply researched study gives an in-depth account of everyday life at the schools, while also shedding fresh light on the political, social, and cultural history of the Nazi dictatorship.
This reference work explores the history of the documentary film. It discusses individual films and filmmakers; examines national and regional filmmaking traditions; elaborates on production companies, organizations, festivals, and institutions; explores themes, issues, and representations; and describes various styles, techniques, and technical issues.
The 1990s in Japan have been a period of far-reaching changes in Japanese society, which have not come to an end yet. These developments demand a reexamination of our accumulated knowledge of Japan. This volume looks at them from different perspectives; the contributions deal with issues from the fields of economy, education, political and social science. The volume is a collection of papers from the 2002 meeting of the German Association of Social Scientific Research of Japan (VSJF) at Halle-Wittenberg University.