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Introduction: The well-known, poorly understood ghetto -- 1. "The overorganized ghetto:" administering Terezin -- 2. A society based on inequality -- 3. The age of pearl barley: food and hunger -- 4. Medicine and illness -- 5. Cultural life: leisure time activities -- 6. Transports to the East.
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Nach dem Erfolg der ersten Aufgabensammlung bringt nun der Mathematische Korrespondenzzirkel Göttingen den zweiten Band mit 100 kniffligen Problemen aus 25 Aufgabenblättern heraus. In bewährter Weise werden zumeist reizvoll verpackte Fragestellungen aus - unter anderem - Zahlentheorie, Kombinatorik und Geometrie, aber auch Denksport- und Experimentieraufgaben präsentiert. Diese bunte Mischung in verschiedenen Schwierigkeitsgraden und immer wieder überraschende Ergebnisse machen das Buch nicht nur für Schülerinnen und Schüler ab etwa Klasse 8, sondern auch für Erwachsene interessant.
NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS A riveting study of the intersections between Jewish and Latin American culture, this immigrant family memoir recounts history with psychological insight and the immediacy of a thriller. In Nuestra América, eminent anthropologist and historian Claudio Lomnitz traces his grandparents’ exile from Eastern Europe to South America. At the same time, the book is a pretext to explain and analyze the worldview, culture, and spirit of countries such as Peru, Colombia, and Chile, from the perspective of educated Jewish emigrants imbued with the hope and determination typical of those who escaped Europe in the 1920s. Lomnitz’s grandparent...
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From a base of research on laboratory animals in the 1930s, Skinner built a committed and influential following as well as a utopian movement for social reform. His radical ideas attracted much public attention and generated heated controversy. By the mid-1970s, he had become the most widely recognized scientist in America, surpassing even Margaret Mead and Linus Pauling.